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Coronavirus - how is it/has it affected you?

Kaz said:
Yes but had you stuck in during your statistics classes you would have been able to construct a model to accurately predict how many would show up for training on a rainy Wednesday evening when Fulham v West Ham is on the telly.
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1 apple and 1 orange should do it then...:whistle:
 
pauljames87 said:
Doesn't matter of their cancelled that's just a headline

They still have to go to uni on those results and if they don't get taught what they need they will struggle at uni
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This may have changed since my uni days but this was not much of an issue. As A levels were done over a number of examining boards etc with some even being new to the subject, the first part of the course was more of an A level refresher for the parts that would be relevant going forward rather than it being a case of dropping people in at the deed end.
 
SwingsitlikeHogan said:
Are we not being told continuously that the education of our children is the most important thing that a society can provide and ensure? And we are told that that is why decisions on schooling and school closure have been, and continue to be, left to the very last minute. Well that's what I think I've been hearing - though of course I might simply not be fully understanding a Yorkshire accent. You get my drift as I try to avoid being political as I would be if I personalised my observation.

And so - if education is society's most important responsibility then what the teaching union leaders are saying is indeed 100% consistent.
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I find most of your posts have a political twist. Maybe it’s me not understanding your Surrey accent ?
 
Kaz said:
Yes but had you stuck in during your statistics classes you would have been able to construct a model to accurately predict how many would show up for training on a rainy Wednesday evening when Fulham v West Ham is on the telly.
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Correct. And in your model you'd assign a level of uncertainty/certainty around your statistical estimate of the most likely number attending; and as you will probably assume a normal distribution for the numbers likely to attend you get oranges to meet the needs of the 95% probability level. Quite sophisticated statistical estimation really - all being done in our head.
 
Del_Boy said:
I find most of your posts have a political twist. Maybe it’s me not understanding your Surrey accent ?
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Unfortunately almost everything about the coronavirus pandemic and how we are experiencing and coping with it can be deemed to have a political slant/bent/twist - but that is only because it is politicians who are (ultimately) in charge of it all.

Of late I have not noticed any comments in respect of differences of opinions as held by politicians of different parties - now that would certainly be political debate - though there is clearly plenty of discussion about different approaches to dealing with the greatest medical/social/economic issue the country has had to deal with in a very long time - and that discussion is not political.

But back to your 'criticism' of my post. Does barely disguised criticism of what leaders of teaching unions think have a political slant? Well I suggest that f my response to the post was deemed to have a political twist then so I suggest was the initial comment, and indeed your comment on mine.

And yes - you'd be very confused by my Surrey accent :)
 
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BiMGuy said:
Call me callous if you want. But I'd much rather continue the education of millions of children. Especially the most vulnerable, over extending the lives of the elderly who may only have a few months to live anyway. Shield the vulnerable, vaccinate front line NHS, and teaching staff and let's get back on with life.
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You're Callous!
It's not extending people's lives who MAY have a few months to live, someone in their sixties or seventies may have twenty years to live and they should be as entitled to live them as you are. Your comments are disgusting and you should be ashamed of your casual disregard of life.
 
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BiMGuy said:
Call me callous if you want. But I'd much rather continue the education of millions of children. Especially the most vulnerable, over extending the lives of the elderly who may only have a few months to live anyway. Shield the vulnerable, vaccinate front line NHS, and teaching staff and let's get back on with life

Ok, Callous. You are either not thinking this through too much, or you aren't understanding the information given on air and in this forum, about what happens when the NHS is overwhelmed.
It is not only the Covid old sods who die, it is many others , young , middle aged, who have non Covid conditions which cannot then be treated effectively.
Now, maybe you are also in favour of those also to die and get out of the way of achieving your utopia of fully healthy young Adonises to enjoy the Nation's assets?
And with such a programme underway, you can get back on with your life as you seem confident that Covid for you will just be a cough or two of a nuisance.
Aren't you the lucky one?
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SwingsitlikeHogan said:
I bet you use aspects of one or more of these subjects - if not them all - each and every day. And if perchance you never studied any of them through schooling then you'd have had to do some learning of the basics of each to cope with everyday life. I have £10 - apples cost 25p each; oranges 30p. What combination of apples and oranges can I buy so that I can give each member of my football club a piece of fruit after training when I know that the apple/oranges preference is likely to be 1:2 . Algebra :)
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SwingsitlikeHogan said:
I bet you use aspects of one or more of these subjects - if not them all - each and every day. And if perchance you never studied any of them through schooling then you'd have had to do some learning of the basics of each to cope with everyday life. I have £10 - apples cost 25p each; oranges 30p. What combination of apples and oranges can I buy so that I can give each member of my football club a piece of fruit after training when I know that the apple/oranges preference is likely to be 1:2 . Algebra :)
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Is that what your Boss used with his five loaves and two fishes???
 
pauldj42 said:
Awful daily figures posted today, I’m getting desperate to see these figures starting to drop!
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Today’s deaths number is one third of that for the USA. The USA has a population of 331m...

looking where we live the infections number is 998 and it’s over a 1000 almost everywhere around us - and 1750 just 2miles up the road. very worrying...
 
118 covid cases at work this week :eek::poop:

Message is carry on as normal....
 
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