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Chinese "Devil Virus" - anyone worried?

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Thanks for the advice @FoxForceFive and @Athens

If I can't replicate pretty much what is there already then I am not planning to go any further. I have no shame in admitting defeat in these kind of things! And yes, the whole electrics in the house will be going off.
 
As long as you take a photograph of all the wires before you start the job, you can always reset everything once it fucks up, possible death notwithstanding.
 
These covid sniffer dogs sound useful. Six of them. Each will go round and smell 10 million of our bumholes for science.
 
dantes said:
As long as you take a photograph of all the wires before you start the job, you can always reset everything once it fucks up, possible death notwithstanding.
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This is good advice, I take a photo of wiring for everything, just in case, even the oven element which I swear I've done every 12 months for the past decade.
 
FoxForceFive said:
I've never understood using imperial for small measurements. Trying using 5/8's of an inch when cutting wood is a fucking nightmare compared to using millimetres.

On the other hand, pint makes sense, measuring in feet for longer measurements seems to be easier for the brain than metres.

Going back the other way though, temperatures in Fahrenheit are MENTAL. Celcius makes logical sense. Freezing is 0. Boiling is 100. You couldn't get simpler if you tried.

Overall I much prefer the metric system, but having a mish mash of the two pisses me off. The amount of times I've advertised stuff for sale on ebay & had replies saying "what does it measure in inches?". Obv I just reply with a link to Google cm to inch converter to the stupid cunts.
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Absolutely my concept on the argument...

Pint I can live with, shoe size, chest and waist.. I guess..

Everything else Metric...

The ebay thing.. yeh I do exactly the same, cos you could guarantee if you did measurement in imperial you would get the same response from Buyers requesting Metric.. my head would just then explode over the stupidity coming from the buyer...

1760 in 1 mile ? er.... wot ?

Miles and Yards I find the most ridiculous.. wtf that even about.. it makes absolutely no sense..

a Yard is a single stride...so that 'should' mean the like of Usain bolt who has longer legs than most and longer stride will take less Yards to complete a mile..

1760 in 1 mile ? er.... wot ?

though to be fair MPH does have a better ring to it than KPH

Decimalisation and Metric so much simpler
 
Engineers often have no choice but to use pounds per square inch for pressures, inches for pipe bores, cubic feet per second for flow rates, even fucking mm of mercury. Largely because the graphs you need to read off design parameters were plotted in the 60's by geniuses, so they're more reliable than you being a smart arse and using python scripts to calculate the answer.
 
FoxForceFive said:
I've never understood using imperial for small measurements. Trying using 5/8's of an inch when cutting wood is a fucking nightmare compared to using millimetres.

On the other hand, pint makes sense, measuring in feet for longer measurements seems to be easier for the brain than metres.

Going back the other way though, temperatures in Fahrenheit are MENTAL. Celcius makes logical sense. Freezing is 0. Boiling is 100. You couldn't get simpler if you tried.

Overall I much prefer the metric system, but having a mish mash of the two pisses me off. The amount of times I've advertised stuff for sale on ebay & had replies saying "what does it measure in inches?". Obv I just reply with a link to Google cm to inch converter to the stupid cunts.
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I don't agree about Fahrenheit, at least not when it comes to the weather. Because it's more extensively subdivided it gives a far more precise idea of temperature than the much less discriminating Centigrade scale.
 
Judge Jules said:
I don't agree about Fahrenheit, at least not when it comes to the weather. Because it's more extensively subdivided it gives a far more precise idea of temperature than the much less discriminating Centigrade scale.
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Above 20, book the day off work & make sure you have bbq stuff in.
Above 15, shorts & t shirt.
Below 10, may need a jacket if you're out for a while.
Below 5, think about gloves.
0, stay in the fucking house.

Works for me.
 
Smart@rse. 😀 Don't agree anyway - that's less practical than having a longer scale of whole numbers, witness the fact that no weather forecast on TV or radio ever uses the decimal zit.
 
Do you really go out and think, it's not quite 18 degrees, but more than 17? They're pretty much the same, wind, humidity etc all matter more than having more accuracy on temperature.
 
Your first sentence makes my very point. The answer to your question is "no" but the reason for it is that, when readings were given in Fahrenheit, the difference between e.g.71 and 79 was immediately noticeable (to me at any rate, as I don't much like heat) whereas their equivalent Centigrade readings now would be a fair bit less distinguishable.

Your second sentence I just don't agree with. Those other things are also important but not more so than basic temperature, IMHO of course.
 
Judge Jules said:
Your first sentence makes my very point. The answer to your question is "no" but the reason for it is that, when readings were given in Fahrenheit, the difference between e.g.71 and 79 was immediately noticeable (to me at any rate, as I don't much like heat) whereas their equivalent Centigrade readings now would be a fair bit less distinguishable.

Your second sentence I just don't agree with. Those other things are also important but not more so than basic temperature, IMHO of course.
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Tbh I rarely look at the actual temperature now, I look at the 'feels like/real feel' temperature instead cos its much better, it was 19c the other day but was actually pretty nippy cos the wind was cold & was whipping at a fair rate, the feels like was 13 which was more accurate.
 
Fair enough but (to state the obvious), if the basic temperature had been higher or lower to begin with, that would have made a difference as well.

Weather's not much cop round here at the moment as it happens and I'd been hoping to get out for my daily exercise. Oh well.
 
It's bloody roasting here, it's going to be the hottest it's been in May in 50 years. It's like a day you would see in July.
 


I admire her in a way, at least she doesn't pretend to be caring like the rest of her party. Thanks for the dying, now pay me or fuck off...
 
The conspiracy nuts are going to have a field day with this one:

China’s Ambassador to Israel, Du Wei, has died in his apartment in a suburb of Tel Aviv, Israeli media report.
Mr Du, 58, was found dead in his bed and the cause of his death has not yet been reported.
He was only appointed ambassador in February having previously served as China's envoy to Ukraine.
 
There's a lot of posturing going on around this issue from both sides and it's shedding more heat than light on the whole thing. As a primary school reading volunteer I'm thinking ahead to a possible request to consider going back into school for that month or so before the summer holidays start, so I took advice on the subject by phoning into our fellow Red Colin Murray's show on Five Live yesterday evening to ask the studio doc about it. Turns out that, providing social distancing is maintained, the risk of catching the virus in school is tiny, no greater than when you make your weekly trip to the supermarket to get supplies. Gove should clearly not have answered that question the way he did, but equally clearly the request for a guarantee is silly in such circs.and was unnecessary. If you ask a silly question don't be surprised if the answer follows suit.
 
Judge Jules said:
There's a lot of posturing going on around this issue from both sides and it's shedding more heat than light on the whole thing. As a primary school reading volunteer I'm thinking ahead to a possible request to consider going back into school for that month or so before the summer holidays start, so I took advice on the subject by phoning into our fellow Red Colin Murray's show on Five Live yesterday evening to ask the studio doc about it. Turns out that, providing social distancing is maintained, the risk of catching the virus in school is tiny, no greater than when you make your weekly trip to the supermarket to get supplies. Gove should clearly not have answered that question the way he did, but equally clearly the request for a guarantee is silly in such circs.and was unnecessary. If you ask a silly question don't be surprised if the answer follows suit.
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The problem with radio is you can't see the studio doc with your eyes.

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Is maintaining social distancing in schools logistically possible? To do it, I imagine there'd have to be massively reduced hours staggered by age group or something for it to be possible, which is very difficult for parents if multiple kids.
 
Judge Jules said:
There's a lot of posturing going on around this issue from both sides and it's shedding more heat than light on the whole thing. As a primary school reading volunteer I'm thinking ahead to a possible request to consider going back into school for that month or so before the summer holidays start, so I took advice on the subject by phoning into our fellow Red Colin Murray's show on Five Live yesterday evening to ask the studio doc about it. Turns out that, providing social distancing is maintained, the risk of catching the virus in school is tiny, no greater than when you make your weekly trip to the supermarket to get supplies. Gove should clearly not have answered that question the way he did, but equally clearly the request for a guarantee is silly in such circs.and was unnecessary. If you ask a silly question don't be surprised if the answer follows suit.
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I think if you go to the supermarket five days a week doing your shopping while surrounded by kids and spend hours at it each time, that would probably be pretty risky wouldn't it?
 
Nah, I'm sure it'll be fine. The doc says the risk is tiny. Maybe 0.1%. So in a school of 1000 pupils, only one unlucky fucker will catch it from the carrier. So the next day your risk is still only 0.2%. By the end of the week it's 6.4%, the week after fuck it, who looks that far into the future anyway, live in the moment man. YOLO!
 
Judge Jules said:
There's a lot of posturing going on around this issue from both sides and it's shedding more heat than light on the whole thing. As a primary school reading volunteer I'm thinking ahead to a possible request to consider going back into school for that month or so before the summer holidays start, so I took advice on the subject by phoning into our fellow Red Colin Murray's show on Five Live yesterday evening to ask the studio doc about it. Turns out that, providing social distancing is maintained, the risk of catching the virus in school is tiny, no greater than when you make your weekly trip to the supermarket to get supplies. Gove should clearly not have answered that question the way he did, but equally clearly the request for a guarantee is silly in such circs.and was unnecessary. If you ask a silly question don't be surprised if the answer follows suit.
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interesting and good to know.

I can obviously see how people can have mistrust of what politicians say, but personally I think it is fairly safe ground to believe that trained experts such as scientists and medics won’t be putting their reputations on the line by saying something like this, especially when they can easily say ‘we don’t know’.

Having unions, councillors, mayors etc saying that they are not satisfied it is safe is curious really, as you do have to ask what WOULD make them satisfied?

That said, I can of course also understand the point of those opposed, purely on the question of whether it is actually necessary at this point. There’s a risk to any worker, and we accept that police, doctors, supermarket workers, delivery drivers, bin men, and various others take that risk. So if there is a NEED for teachers, then surely that would include them to? Question is, approaching June, for like a month of school with parents not even be obliged to send their kids, is it needed?
 
Richey said:
interesting and good to know.

I can obviously see how people can have mistrust of what politicians say, but personally I think it is fairly safe ground to believe that trained experts such as scientists and medics won’t be putting their reputations on the line by saying something like this, especially when they can easily say ‘we don’t know’.

Having unions, councillors, mayors etc saying that they are not satisfied it is safe is curious really, as you do have to ask what WOULD make them satisfied?

That said, I can of course also understand the point of those opposed, purely on the question of whether it is actually necessary at this point. There’s a risk to any worker, and we accept that police, doctors, supermarket workers, delivery drivers, bin men, and various others take that risk. So if there is a NEED for teachers, then surely that would include them to? Question is, approaching June, for like a month of school with parents not even be obliged to send their kids, is it needed?
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I don't think you understand what it is that these trained experts do under the pretence of science. It will be our undoing.
 
When you walk into a room, your brain instantly processes millions of factors and tells you whether it is safe. A scientist looks at the room, measures four factors at most, plots a graph, and then a few studies later is a preeminent expert in the safety of rooms. Then you're going to listen to them to determine which rooms you should walk into, and I'd give it half a dozen events and you end up getting killed. I'm afraid all the scientists who could put their brain onto paper and account for things correctly within their models have all died decades ago. Only their retarded progeny remain.
 
Gerry_A_Trick said:
Is maintaining social distancing in schools logistically possible? To do it, I imagine there'd have to be massively reduced hours staggered by age group or something for it to be possible, which is very difficult for parents if multiple kids.
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It's a puzzler for schools, no doubt about it, and even the doc wondered aloud about how they might arrange things. The way some of the unions have been going on about it, though, they don't seem to think schools should even be making the attempt, and that plainly goes beyond the available evidence.
 
Woland said:
450 people died in the uk yesterday. We've never been over any peak and people think we're ok to just crack on. I wonder what's going on in your heads.

Please don't fall for this bullshit.
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It's just not headline grabbing anymore. Like when the second twin tower fell.
 
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