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Zero999:

--- Quote from: dunkemhigh on July 09, 2020, 08:13:56 pm ---
--- Quote ---People used to keep all this stuff much longer, when I was growing up it was not uncommon to see 15-20 year old white goods and TV sets and such in active use.
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How old is your phone? Still doing OK on that 8086-based PC browsing t'web?

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No, but at home I use an Intel dueo of 2007 vintage, for browsing the web. Imagine using a 13 year old machine to browse the web, back in 2007. It's no longer necessary to upgrade every three years, like it was in the 1990s/2000s.


--- Quote from: tom66 on July 10, 2020, 12:48:04 pm ---I'm just waiting for the second wave in the UK.  It's not gone away.

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I expect that will happen during the run up to Christmas.

Interestingly many governments will be ramping flu vaccinations this year, as flu+COVID-19 = really bad disease, but there's some evidence to suggest having a flu jab may increase the risk of getting more severe COVID-19. I don't have the research links handy, but will post them later and edit this post, if necessary.

EDIT Research papers:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3404712/
https://www.bmj.com/content/369/bmj.m1932/rr-15
https://www.bmj.com/content/368/bmj.m810/rr-0

Nothing definitive, but more research is required, before flu vaccination is rolled out to everyone.

Syntax Error:
Here's a thing for our UK members and others. I learned today of a family friend who was hospitalised with Covid-like symptoms in mid-December last year. He lives and works in Liverpool, and recently tested positive for Corana virus antibodies. So did he have Covid19 before xmas 2019? No-one is willing to say because this would kind of blow a hole in the official timeline. Suffice to say, when he originally went to his doctor with breathing problems, he was given antibiotics (sic). A few days later he was in the ICU. He made a full recovery, but is rightly sceptical of his 'pneumonia' diagnosis.

bd139:
Yeah we lost a huge number of staff at the start of Jan to a similarly defined mystery illness. Everyone recovered.

Syntax Error:

--- Quote from: bd139 on July 10, 2020, 04:34:17 pm ---Yeah we lost a huge number of staff at the start of Jan to a similarly defined mystery illness. Everyone recovered.

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There now seems to be an overwhelming dataset of anecdotal evidence to suggest that in the UK in December 2019, a Covid19-like pathogen was established and circulating widely. Any inquiry would have to consider this but, this as a conclusion might suggest certain medical agencies and goverment departments were asleep on watch. Allegedly.

paulca:
What is troubling me right now is "They think it's all over".  The UK is dropping quarantine for travellers, relaxing lock down even more.  Northern Ireland had it under control, but they too are relaxing traveller quarantine.

However globally the virus is accelerating not dropping.  It will not end well.

We went into lock down when there was 20k new cases per day.  Now there are 200k and we open the borders and tell people to come on in and mix, go to the pub have parties.

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