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Coronavirus - how is it/has it affected you?

funkycoldmedina said:
Good idea, got one for my birthday last month and haven't cracked it open yet.
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Was just thinking of things I could use without having to buy one (as things are hard to get hold ATM) I did have another snood but think I threw it.

I have old leather gloves in the car to get into the work car park which I Dettol when I get home

I gave the wife a pair of throw out gloves and a mask I had left over from painting. Put her mind at rest when she goes hospital for her visits .. hasn't worn it yet but if she gets uncomfortable she has the option lol
 
Lord Tyrion said:
Incidentally, another big part of the relaxation of movement in China was that pretty much every shop you entered had a temperature checking machine that you had to pass through in order to enter. I don't know if they were airport style machines to walk through or a person stood with a temp gauge on the forehead. Anyway, if you showed up as hot you didn't get in, if you were fine you got in. These were in all shops, as soon as you showed red you knew you had to isolate. I've not heard that being mentioned here but is that another thing worth looking at?
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There was a documentary on the BBC six weeks ago (March 14th) that showed the extreme measures the Chinese were going to in Wuhan to contain the spread of the virus. What we have done in the UK is pretty easy-oasy by comparison.
 
SwingsitlikeHogan said:
There was a documentary on the BBC six weeks ago (March 14th) that showed the extreme measures the Chinese were going to in Wuhan to contain the spread of the virus. What we have done in the UK is pretty easy-oasy by comparison.
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you mean a camera crew followed around by government officials telling them what they can and can't film?
 
pauljames87 said:
Was just thinking of things I could use without having to buy one (as things are hard to get hold ATM) I did have another snood but think I threw it.

I have old leather gloves in the car to get into the work car park which I Dettol when I get home

I gave the wife a pair of throw out gloves and a mask I had left over from painting. Put her mind at rest when she goes hospital for her visits .. hasn't worn it yet but if she gets uncomfortable she has the option lol
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There's a video on you tube making one from a sock...let me see if I can find it.
 
Old Skier said:
Wonder how many will worry about the security issues on a possible life saving solution but are willingly going to have the new score entry app running when they play golf, have no security on the phones or their social media and regularly have google running in the background on their smart phones.
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It's like when people avoid things like Alexa devices or smart phones because the gov can listen in on you

Only should worry you if you are doing something illegal .. feel free to listen in here.. would just hear random stuff or my daughter announce she needs a poo

People worry far far too much about things they have zero control over
 
pauljames87 said:
It's like when people avoid things like Alexa devices or smart phones because the gov can listen in on you

Only should worry you if you are doing something illegal .. feel free to listen in here.. would just hear random stuff or my daughter announce she needs a poo

People worry far far too much about things they have zero control over
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To be honest, if you have a smartphone unprotected and your able to hook up to the ether it's not the government you need to worry about. Most of the people I know who still work stick to the old flip phones which are just phones.
 
Traminator said:
Ha ha that made me laugh ?

In reality that sums it up for the vast majority of us.
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Today they would have heard me tell my wife to fornicate off (in a jokey way) in front of little one as I didn't want to swear

Queue laughing for 10 mins as she didn't know what it meant and even asked Alexa
 
From some reading I understand the tracking app there's a discreet reference in the code you download, say 1234567. You are identified as 1234567.

It then uses location tech to tell if you are close to anyone with C19.

So if you, 1234567, go stand next to 7654321 who's infected, you get an alert saying something like "You may have been in contact with someone who has had C19", not "Rodney from Farnborough stood next to you and he's infected".

The discreet reference does not have any personal data attached to it, unless you count location.

There's less privacy risk with this than any of you with a smartphone already carry.

No doubt the tin hat brigade will still bitch and moan about it though. Both Apple & Google are understood to be building this into their OS's too. Admirable social responsibility that will no doubt be spun as another tech conspiracy

Off now to my Flat Earth Society zoom meeting :alien:
 
huds1475 said:
From some reading I understand the tracking app there's a discreet reference in the code you download, say 1234567. You are identified as 1234567.

It then uses location tech to tell if you are close to anyone with C19.

So if you, 1234567, go stand next to 7654321 who's infected, you get an alert saying something like "You may have been in contact with someone who has had C19", not "Rodney from Farnborough stood next to you and he's infected".

The discreet reference does not have any personal data attached to it, unless you count location.

There's less privacy risk with this than any of you with a smartphone already carry.

No doubt the tin hat brigade will still bitch and moan about it though. Both Apple & Google are understood to be building this into their OS's too. Admirable social responsibility that will no doubt be spun as another tech conspiracy

Off now to my Flat Earth Society zoom meeting :alien:
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Heard of a flat earthers "theory" once that the earth has to be flat that if they get on a plane and fly "around" the world laying a sprite level on the floor it remains level

Just wow
 
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