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Testing being carried out in Hong Kong regarding the effectiveness of face masks......on hamsters https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/health-environment/article/3084779/coronavirus-hamster-research-proof-effectiveness Interesting but surely this means that artificially infected hamsters can pass on the infection to just about any living creature. I hope they keep the cages well secured. Another point would be that the infected hamsters were passing on the virus by respiration alone doubt there was any coughing and sneezing involved.

Tests carried out on persons not displaying symptoms ate unreliable according to Sturgeon. Persons displaying symptoms are supposed to self isolate until they are really ill anyway and then they give you a number to call. https://www.eveningexpress.co.uk/news/scotland/fm-urged-to-ensure-patients-tested-for-covid-19-before-returning-to-care-homes/ If that is correct then a full on testing regime in the UK is kind of pointless because a leakage rate of 10 or even 20% of failed tests is not a lot of help in removing infected subjects from the general population. And yet testing in Germany and South Korea, just for two, has been a major weapon in their campaigns. So is it the type of tests being carried out in these countries, more competent staff or a lot more lab facilities giving a faster turnaround on the testing? Seems a waste of time pushing out 100,000 tests a day if you have 20,000 leakers.

Are any of these Nightingale hospitals actually in use yet? Unless there is a vaccine then just about everybody will eventually catch it, if not this year then in years to come it is not just going away. Then you have the other problems of potentially catching it again or if it mutates again. Far to many unknowns here and the much vaunted anti-body test announced about a month ago is essentially useless because it detects anti-bodies from other corona viruses. Racking up big numbers just means that the virus runs out of fuel eventually. If you can do that while keeping those on the vulnerable list safe then it could work but the whole social structure of the UK will change forever. If we keep allowing potential carriers in to the UK with no enforced checks then we will continue to have infections regardless of lockdowns. South Korea and Germany appear to be doing it right IMO, test, track and isolate, that does not mean go home and self isolate for two weeks but put people in a controlled isolation with immediate medical care if they develop symptoms.

Sorry my perception of what exactly? Just to correct you more than 4000 were fined on the first day not none https://www.france24.com/en/20200318-france-coronavirus-lockdown-violation-attestation-epidemic-christophe-castaner-public-health Totally agree with the fact that a far more stringent lockdown should have been imposed from day one in the UK but Boris decided to try asking the population nicely, didn't that work well. Traffic on our roads must be at a record low even lorry drivers delivering essential goods have been saying how much easier their journeys are, I guess I have done somewhat less than 20 miles in the last month but then I started my own lockdown early. Keeping a close eye on the horrors happening in Italy and then Spain you would be very foolish to consider yourself anything but at extreme risk. Thank you your last paragraph kind of explains it all doesn't it? No need for any further discussion about "holes" is there? There will be no changes to the lockdown in the UK other than to make it more stringent and France is at least a month away from any loosening.

I can assure you that nothing racist was intended in what I posted I just get kind of fed up with somebody telling the UK we are doing it all wrong and just look at us doing it all right. Sure there are people in the UK who are in breach of the lockdown but the majority are doing what they are told and behaving themselves. How many have been fined so far I do not know but the majority do not want to catch Covid-19 both to stay alive and protect those essential workers in the NHS and elsewhere. Thousands? Well perhaps but as at the 1st of April more than 350,000 French citizens had been fined for breaking the lockdown over there. https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/coronavirus-france-fines-update-christophe-castaner-a9440146.html and those are just the ones who have been caught. Definitely measures at UK airports and sea ports should have been beefed up long ago with tests and automatic two weeks in controlled isolation but it hasn't happened. It's not the numbers that our border forces do catch that worries me but those they don't and the risk of infection the border force itself is exposing itself to. The numbers I quoted that had been detained was for just one day I could dig out the figure for a whole week but it would be pointless. With such stringent measures in force just how is this being allowed to happen? It is a global fight and most certainly not a competition so perhaps you can tell me what is causing these "holes". This is a potential threat to the fight against Covid-19 both in France and in the UK kind of a waste of time locking your population away if numerous unknowns are wandering the countryside.

Can you please tell me why a post relating to what amounts to a breach of the UK lockdown procedures constitutes being OT. J.R. is continually posting about how effective the French lockdown is and yet it appears to be full of holes to the possible detriment of the UK if not France itself. Running a charabanc outing down to Brighton would be a thoroughly stupid thing to do and the persons involved would quite rightly get arrested. And yet?

I use a mask designed for preventing you inhaling fumes when you are spraying nasties like cellulose thinners. Fits snug as a glove and I definitely can not detect any odor from the thinners when I am wearing it. Those little strands of virus in the air will be enclosed in droplets as when somebody sneezes or coughs and probably only a problem when you are in close proximity to somebody or in an enclosed space. Gets cleaned with 75% IPA mix after every use and my hands are sterilized before putting it on and after taking it off. If you keep wearing a mask of any type then you have to sterilize it after use. How effective this is I do not know but it makes me feel better on the rare occasion I have to go to the shops.

Far better to overestimate and isolate than not to carry out any test until you are carted off to hospital. Dread to think how many infected persons are carrying on as normal in the UK. Low death rate in Germany should also serve as a model because they are doing something right

Reuters https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-germany/german-coronavirus-cases-rise-by-4764-cases-to-27436-robert-koch-institute-idUSKBN21B0L1 Intensive efforts with testing will give a far more honest figure than not bothering. Germany is to be commended for taking a good hard look at countries like S Korea.

Flu jabs are all very well unless you encounter the wrong sort of flu. Two good friends of mine both have their yearly flu jabs and both ended up with a bad case of flu over the Xmas period. Not recommending you don't have one but carrying out the personal hygiene procedures recommended for Covid 19 could quite possibly reduce the incidence of flu and colds.

Quite right and I walk mine early and late to avoid the bunches of youngsters for whom life continues as normal. I take to the fields or will cross the road to avoid everybody. Government says two metres I stick to upwind and a lot more than that.

Doctors still do not know if you can catch it again. Sorry I don't have a link it was a Doctor speaking on the news.

If you can't get Calpol, but have got paracetamol tablets. https://www.medicines.org.uk/emc/product/1484/smpc If you have paracetamol 500mg tablets and fruit juice or fruit cordial. Grind a paracetamol tablet up in a mortar and pestle or between 2 spoons as fine as you can get it. A paracetamol tablet is normally 500mg per tablet. If you are wanting Calpol 6 plus its 250mg in 5ml, (as above link) so mix one ground 500mg tablet into 10ml of fruit juice. The 10ml is important. Use a syringe to measure it not a kitchen teaspoon. This will give you 250mg in 5ml as a suspension. It is a suspension so it needs shaking up well before dosing as the paracetamol will settle out. https://www.medicines.org.uk/emc/product/6634/smpc Calpol infant suspension is 120mg in each 5ml. 125mg in 5ml is still ok. Use the dosing guidelines on the link. If you have paracetamol 500mg tablets and fruit juice or fruit cordial. Grind a paracetamol tablet up in a mortar and pestle or between 2 spoons as fine as you can get it. A paracetamol tablet is normally 500mg per tablet. If you are wanting Calpol infant its 120mg in 5ml, (as above link) so mix one ground 500mg tablet into 20ml of fruit juice which will give you 125mg in 5ml. The 20ml is important. Use a syringe to measure it not a kitchen teaspoon. It is a suspension so it needs shaking up well before dosing as the paracetamol will settle out. If you haven't got fruit juice try milkshake mix dissolved in water or honey or syrup. Remember to administer as per the instructions for Calpol and is only for young children and babies, good for reducing high temperatures.

Keep in contact with as many people as you can via the simple telephone if you have nothing else. Buy what you need and not what you want, I think shops and supermarkets will soon stop selling anything other than basic necessities and they will be rationed and policed. If you go shopping then sanitise your hands before and after and do it properly, sanitise the handle on the shopping basket. A simple solution made of bleach will be effective, keep a soaked microfibre cloth in a ziplock bag for just this purpose. Disinfectant like Dettol has not been certified for killing Corvid 19 simply because they have no samples for test purposes. Recommended that you wash all goods as soon as you get them home, soap and water or 70 % alcohol solution will do the job. I walk my dog three times a day and exercise is most important but I avoid people and just give them a wave, If I lived in a less rural environment then I would have to rethink this. I think you can make a form of Calpol out of paracetamol tablets and I will find and post this for those of you with youngsters in the home. Help others wherever you can.

No sign of social distancing there then. Buying gold rather than bog rolls seems like a good idea but you can't eat either of them.