Yes, although I will admit that I am quite curious myself. If people wanted others to know who they were, they'd pick a more revealing handle and avatar (like Mr Meeks).
I hope you don't mind, but I looked at your email address in the system. Are you who your email address says you are?
I think so Feel free to drop me a message.
This reminds me of a story: I have a friend called Mark Taylor. From around 1995 to 1999. The Austrailian Test cricket captain was also called Mark Taylor. Back then my friend used to regularly get emails from Australia asking "Are you THE Mark Taylor?". Of course the relpy was "Yes. But probably notTHE Mark Taylor you're thinking of"
It does include betting shops - well, that does clarify the situation somewhat. Bad news for the Irish racing industry which will get nothing in media rights for tomorrow's Thurles meeting but a huge boost for online bookmakers who are now the only game in town.
Most of these can be replaced by online options, and if the close down is sustained we are probably seeing an irreversible shift in our lifestyle.
I dunno. People will still want to go to museums and art galleries, to see live music, go to the cinema etc. Even more so after 12 weeks stuck watching the TV.
We've had to close our museum, sadly, to the public for the duration of the show.
What's more depressing is that we doubled our charitable grants to help organisations manage the crisis (plus converted all restricted grants into unrestricted) but when we asked our partners to do the same [very big firms who could easily afford it] they all said no.
So hard to make assessments as the testing, reporting, and much more have no consistent relationship between countries.
Should be more consistent for deaths than for cases, but yes, one of the main things I get out of that chart is that the US is unlikely to be recording even half of its coronavirus deaths, since its response has certainly not been stronger than that of continental Europe.
The same is true of Iran, probably, but that possibility has already been well covered in the news.
Looking at that, most of the lines have lumps and bumps in these from daily variation.
China's looks remarkably smooth.
I'm guessing this is a result of the log scale more than anything else. China is wiggly upt about 500 but is obsured by all the other curves, and Italy and Iran both have smooth curves above 500.
I suspect it may be a difficult day for the FTSE on Monday but we'll see.
Hope you and yours are well.
Thank you.
It was interesting today that I have been fighting a nasty infection (not covid 19) for a while and my consultation with my GP practice has been entirely through e mail and telephone triage. Ultimately I was asked to come to the surgery today but to wait in my car and the nurse would phone me and I had to walk straight through the surgery, up the stairs, and directly into the treatment room
The nurse was so kind and confirmed that because of my high risk status I must keep to the self isolation that my wife and I have put in place, but also keep clear of our grandchildren. She has arranged another appointment for me for next week with the same procedure
She also gave me a prescription and there was this long queue of people keeping apart and the pharmacy was calling each one as they had the prescription ready. I decided to call at my local village pharmacy and handed in my prescription. There were two others waiting miles apart from each other but when I was told it would be 20 minutes I left telling them my son would pick the prescription up and put it through our porch letterbox
Re JM1 - I have been in e mail correspondence when he/she offered to send a bottle of hand santiser to us and I cannot understand why he is banned when he/she is so kind, is due to marry in July, and has connections with North Wales
Am I missing something, especially from someone who has been so kind to my wife and I
Thanks for the supportive messages about my situation a couple of threads back. Although I disagree with at least half of the people here at least half of the time, it's still the best place to come on the internet. I've learnt so much here from the collective wisdom and I feel a real affinity with all who post here, even if am a minor player in that respect. I hope that I'll be able to continue to enjoy PB as a sane refuge over what are bound to be a few crazy months coming up. Thank you all.
Whatever is coming down the line for us, the horrific situation in Italy and now Spain makes one weep. My Spanish daughter-in-law's father died yesterday on Spanish Father's Day, not of CV but of another serious condition. The disruption to the hospital in Madrid caused by CV surely did not help. His daughter managed to see him before he passed away by going by the AVE train from Barcelona to Madrid where she was the only person on the train!
Looking at that, most of the lines have lumps and bumps in these from daily variation.
China's looks remarkably smooth.
I'm guessing this is a result of the log scale more than anything else. China is wiggly upt about 500 but is obsured by all the other curves, and Italy and Iran both have smooth curves above 500.
Another problem with this graph is that its origin is the day of the 10th death. That origin is necessarily rather variable.
If the origin was the date of the first death you get a slightly different result...
Comparing the UK with Italy: Italy reached 197 deaths 14 days after their first death; UK had reached 144 deaths on day 14. Day 15 Italy = 233, UK = 177 (that's today for the UK).
So you could easily draw a graph that shows the UK's death rate on a given day is running at 75% of Italy's.
Whatever is coming down the line for us, the horrific situation in Italy and now Spain makes one weep. My Spanish daughter-in-law's father died yesterday on Spanish Father's Day, not of CV but of another serious condition. The disruption to the hospital in Madrid caused by CV surely did not help. His daughter managed to see him before he passed away by going by the AVE train from Barcelona to Madrid where she was the only person on the train!
So sorry to hear that.. Condolences to all the family
Thanks for the supportive messages about my situation a couple of threads back. Although I disagree with at least half of the people here at least half of the time, it's still the best place to come on the internet. I've learnt so much here from the collective wisdom and I feel a real affinity with all who post here, even if am a minor player in that respect. I hope that I'll be able to continue to enjoy PB as a sane refuge over what are bound to be a few crazy months coming up. Thank you all.
In fairness, conservativism has provision for that - Tories say they are pragmatic, altering their policies to the circumstances.
Arguably conservatism helped get us into this mess.
Utter nonsense
This was foreseen, we were warned, we did nothing.
So every government worldwide were warned of this pandemic and did nothing
Pretty much. Before the outbreak we were warned. When it spread in China. When it spread in Italy. All took a conservative approach. Sadly no safety in numbers.
Thanks for the supportive messages about my situation a couple of threads back. Although I disagree with at least half of the people here at least half of the time, it's still the best place to come on the internet. I've learnt so much here from the collective wisdom and I feel a real affinity with all who post here, even if am a minor player in that respect. I hope that I'll be able to continue to enjoy PB as a sane refuge over what are bound to be a few crazy months coming up. Thank you all.
Thanks for the supportive messages about my situation a couple of threads back. Although I disagree with at least half of the people here at least half of the time, it's still the best place to come on the internet. I've learnt so much here from the collective wisdom and I feel a real affinity with all who post here, even if am a minor player in that respect. I hope that I'll be able to continue to enjoy PB as a sane refuge over what are bound to be a few crazy months coming up. Thank you all.
Mate, best wishes to you and good luck. Horrible to hear what happened to you at work.
I have massive respect for you given you were the guy to crack the puzzle inside Anazina.
After Emmerdale tonight they referred to HMG advice re pubs and safe spacing and urged everyone to follow the advice, but went on to say their episodes are filmed six weeks in advance so they will continue to show pub scenes and close contact, (or words to that effect)
It's pretty grim right now isn't it? That phrase from Lord Grey that Eadric posted a fortnight ago has been haunting me:
"The lamps are going out all over Europe, we shall not see them lit again in our life-time"
I don't think it's that extreme, but it's a sobering thought that not all of us may make it through this. And we may know people who don't.
In the meantime we are entering collective purdah and that, in itself, is a heavy pall over our mood.
We need some humour.
Grey's remark was a play on the much more positive comment by Latimer: "We shall this day light such a candle in England, as I hope, by God's grace, shall never be put out"
After Emmerdale tonight they referred to HMG advice re pubs and safe spacing and urged everyone to follow the advice, but went on to say their episodes are filmed six weeks in advance so they will continue to show pub scenes and close contact, (or words to that effect)
I assume every Emmerdale broadcast from now on will have "DO NOT TRY THIS YOURSELF" in large letters at the bottom?
Things are starting to get seriously bad now....Gary Barlow has started live streaming himself playing Take That tunes!
Just thank your lucky starts that Radiohead haven't started doing that.
Yeah them doing Take That tunes would be terrible. If they did OK Computer and the Bends, I might listen. My Iron Lung might be considered in poor taste though.
It's pretty grim right now isn't it? That phrase from Lord Grey that Eadric posted a fortnight ago has been haunting me:
"The lamps are going out all over Europe, we shall not see them lit again in our life-time"
I don't think it's that extreme, but it's a sobering thought that not all of us may make it through this. And we may know people who don't.
In the meantime we are entering collective purdah and that, in itself, is a heavy pall over our mood.
We need some humour.
Grey's remark was a play on the much more positive comment by Latimer: "We shall this day light such a candle in England, as I hope, by God's grace, shall never be put out"
Keep the candle burning
I can never think of that quote from Latimer without feeling sick to the core, I'm afraid. I don't find it uplifting, I just think of the inhumanity of the circumstances. Sorry.
After Emmerdale tonight they referred to HMG advice re pubs and safe spacing and urged everyone to follow the advice, but went on to say their episodes are filmed six weeks in advance so they will continue to show pub scenes and close contact, (or words to that effect)
I think they should can those episodes. Too many people struggle to separate soaps from real life.
Thanks for the supportive messages about my situation a couple of threads back. Although I disagree with at least half of the people here at least half of the time, it's still the best place to come on the internet. I've learnt so much here from the collective wisdom and I feel a real affinity with all who post here, even if am a minor player in that respect. I hope that I'll be able to continue to enjoy PB as a sane refuge over what are bound to be a few crazy months coming up. Thank you all.
Just caught up on your difficulties. Sounds like you acted wonderfully and the boss awfully. Well done you.
Also, missed it but wishing the best to @Charles and his Father.
After Emmerdale tonight they referred to HMG advice re pubs and safe spacing and urged everyone to follow the advice, but went on to say their episodes are filmed six weeks in advance so they will continue to show pub scenes and close contact, (or words to that effect)
I think they should can those episodes. Too many people struggle to separate soaps from real life.
In fairness, conservativism has provision for that - Tories say they are pragmatic, altering their policies to the circumstances.
I disagree.
We are all communitarians.
Socialism involves compulsion
Some versions do, some don't. The problem with the word "socialism" is that it covers such a broad range of ideas that one person (e.g. me) can treat it as obvious basic human decency, and another person with the same values can regard it as a threat to civilised society.
Are Costa Coffee, Starbucks etc going to be closed or takeaway only?
Starbucks have closed all outlets.
Drastic way of backing out of their offer (in Glasgow anyway) of a free coffee to all emergency service, NHS and council employees. At their prices that's the GDP of a small African nation.
Thanks for the supportive messages about my situation a couple of threads back. Although I disagree with at least half of the people here at least half of the time, it's still the best place to come on the internet. I've learnt so much here from the collective wisdom and I feel a real affinity with all who post here, even if am a minor player in that respect. I hope that I'll be able to continue to enjoy PB as a sane refuge over what are bound to be a few crazy months coming up. Thank you all.
Wow. Good luck. My sister is an employment lawyer so am sure we can get you some recommendations if you need.
After Emmerdale tonight they referred to HMG advice re pubs and safe spacing and urged everyone to follow the advice, but went on to say their episodes are filmed six weeks in advance so they will continue to show pub scenes and close contact, (or words to that effect)
I assume every Emmerdale broadcast from now on will have "DO NOT TRY THIS YOURSELF" in large letters at the bottom?
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Sorry folks, it was the only way.
John Major?
Julianne Moore?
Jackie Mason?
https://www.theguardian.com/football/video/2020/mar/20/toilet-roll-keepie-uppies-sports-stars-coronavirus-lockdown-challenge-video
What's more depressing is that we doubled our charitable grants to help organisations manage the crisis (plus converted all restricted grants into unrestricted) but when we asked our partners to do the same [very big firms who could easily afford it] they all said no.
Is it going sub 19000
The same is true of Iran, probably, but that possibility has already been well covered in the news.
China's looks remarkably smooth.
Hope you and yours are well.
"The lamps are going out all over Europe, we shall not see them lit again in our life-time"
I don't think it's that extreme, but it's a sobering thought that not all of us may make it through this. And we may know people who don't.
In the meantime we are entering collective purdah and that, in itself, is a heavy pall over our mood.
We need some humour.
It was interesting today that I have been fighting a nasty infection (not covid 19) for a while and my consultation with my GP practice has been entirely through e mail and telephone triage. Ultimately I was asked to come to the surgery today but to wait in my car and the nurse would phone me and I had to walk straight through the surgery, up the stairs, and directly into the treatment room
The nurse was so kind and confirmed that because of my high risk status I must keep to the self isolation that my wife and I have put in place, but also keep clear of our grandchildren. She has arranged another appointment for me for next week with the same procedure
She also gave me a prescription and there was this long queue of people keeping apart and the pharmacy was calling each one as they had the prescription ready. I decided to call at my local village pharmacy and handed in my prescription. There were two others waiting miles apart from each other but when I was told it would be 20 minutes I left telling them my son would pick the prescription up and put it through our porch letterbox
Re JM1 - I have been in e mail correspondence when he/she offered to send a bottle of hand santiser to us and I cannot understand why he is banned when he/she is so kind, is due to marry in July, and has connections with North Wales
Am I missing something, especially from someone who has been so kind to my wife and I
Other indices have not had that peak, and are down over the same period. In part perhaps less marked when looking at total returns.
In fairness, conservativism has provision for that - Tories say they are pragmatic, altering their policies to the circumstances.
It is Authoritarianism.
And today we got some.
If the origin was the date of the first death you get a slightly different result...
Comparing the UK with Italy: Italy reached 197 deaths 14 days after their first death; UK had reached 144 deaths on day 14. Day 15 Italy = 233, UK = 177 (that's today for the UK).
So you could easily draw a graph that shows the UK's death rate on a given day is running at 75% of Italy's.
Traditional Chinese food practices.
Good grief ! ... And good luck.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-8136531/Fiona-Phillips-confirms-coronavirus-struck-sore-throat-dry-cough.html
I have massive respect for you given you were the guy to crack the puzzle inside Anazina.
These plots will get smoother at high values, because variability tends to scale with the square root of the absolute quantity. No conspiracy needed.
Keep the candle burning
We are all communitarians.
Socialism involves compulsion
I think they should can those episodes. Too many people struggle to separate soaps from real life.
Also, missed it but wishing the best to @Charles and his Father.
https://twitter.com/JamesMilner/status/1239283281297903616?s=20
https://twitter.com/JamesMilner/status/1241028104363139072?s=20
Hope you and he get the justice it sounds like is deserved.
Devon x 2, Wimbledon, Bristol x2, Nothern Ireland, Sussex, Derby all hooked up playing games.
And no red wine spilt on the sofa, Carrie...
Just some ghosts in other people's comments
But him... pooof! gone!