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Penguin68 Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I'm not sure what the solution is... so, I'm > curious to hear other peoples' ideas, as I'm a > full-time pedestrian and can't get anywhere > (including to buy food) unless I walk... which is > a nightmare. > > One simple solution to suburban pavement use would > be to make pavements one-way - that is that > progress along any one pavement would all be in > the same direction (so no need to dodge out of the > way of incoming traffic). If you always walked so > that the houses were on your left that would > achieve this - you would actually be walking on > the same side of the street as cars drive - so for > drivers this would come naturally. Only if you > needed to overtake would you then have to move > into the road to do so. More difficult to do on > shopping streets, of course, where the location of > the shop (that you need) is key - but you could > cross the road when you need to, I suppose. I suggested this a couple of weeks ago...??.. /forum/read.php?20,2109366 /forum/read.php?32,2103350,2109376#msg-2109376 Contacted James McCash about it also,

I might suggest you mention the word SCAM more prominently and delete the actual account reference numbers.

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Blah Blah Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Yes, no evidence yet that warmer temperatures stop > the virus. And that won't be known for some time > yet. Respiratory viruses are not flu viruses, so > making assumptions that they behave in the same > way is premature. Some of the first places to show > spread outside of China are warm climates. I was referring to higher temperatures and sunshine, NOT climate. High temperatures have been used to sterilise items for centuries hence the use of boiling water or autoclaves. Nothing get sterilised in a fridge or freezer. In the case of direct sunshine, it is the ultra violet rays that destroy bacteria and viruses.The sunlight that reaches the earth has ultraviolet A and ultraviolet B (UVA and UVB) rays. These ultraviolet rays are the main causes of damage to the skin from the sun. Just as UV damages ones skin, so it damages the membrane of the virus. It's nothing to do with climate,per se, either cold or warm. Conversely, with lower temperatures, as found in ones fridge, this will preserve the virus for much longer than normal - in the same way it preserves your food. Hence cleaning packaging before placing the item in the fridge is crucial to reducing the spread of the virus. You don't sterilise anything just by placing it in the fridge or the freezer. Hence also why we are advised to wash our hands with soap and hot water.

Yes, Ebay in particular has been swamped by scams recently - every thing from masks, gloves etc to isopropyl alcohol. Thankfully there are several pointers as to which are the scams but these scammers work on percentages so someone gullible enough will buy. Most are located overseas even though the stated location of the goods is the UK.

KidKruger Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Sue, rather than quarantine your jar of peanut > butter, why not wash it like a dish in the kitchen > sink. > We are washing all shopping properly, then rinsing > it and letting it dry on drainer (except fridge > stuff which goes straight in there. > We quarantine our post though, it stays on floor > for a few days - we ain't washing that !! Doesn't the virus remain active for longer at a low temperature? It's heat that kills it along with sunshine. https://bgr.com/2020/04/10/can-coronavirus-live-in-freezer-refrigerator/ https://english.alarabiya.net/en/features/2020/03/19/How-long-can-coronaviruses-survive-in-a-freezer-Up-to-two-years-warns-expert

We are all agreed on Trump being a complete buffoon but there is clear justification to suspending contributions to the WHO. It is wasteful and corrupt. The first point I was making is that charity should begin at home. The NHS needs more funding plus we need to establish a strategic reserve of medical necessities. But equally we need to establish a vaccine production facility that is flexible and up to scale. The second is that a large portion of our foreign aid budget is wasted. A simple search on the subject comes up with multiple examples... https://www.bing.com/search?q=wasted+foreign+aid+budget&qs=n&form=QBRE&sp=-1&pq=wasted+foreign+aid+budget&sc=1-25&sk=&cvid=B3BAE00D57924633A000B7D2968424D4

Trump has just confirmed that the USA will stop contributions to the WHO. Heaven forbid we should be guided by Trump on most things however it would make sense for the UK to do likewise in this case and put our money into the NHS or a facility to make the UK self sufficient in PPE and/or to establish a full scale vaccine manufacturing facility. A slice from our $14 billion overseas aid budget would be money well spent considering much of it is wasted on a regular basis anyway.

I feel the pandemic could have been averted and things would have turned out differently if Britain's candidate (in 2017) for the vacant position as head of the WHO had been selected. However Chinese diplomats campaigned hard for Tedros Ghebreyesusg. China used its financial muscle to put pressure on developing countries to to vote for Ghebreyesus. That's why Ghebreyesus was always gushing in his praise for what China was doing about managing the virus when he should have hit the panic button. He delayed again and again before declaring a pandemic. One result was that Britain could not release its strategic reserves of PPE equipment unless the WHO declared a pandemic. It also mean that travel in and out of china was not stopped until in spreads worldwide. He also ignored the alert given by Dr Li Wenliang who identified the virus in early January. Dr Wenliang died shortly after but not before he was censored and vilified by the Chinese authorities. If Ghebreyesus had acted responsibly then the outcome might have been similar to the SARS virus ie a rapid response that contained it before it became a world wide pandemic. He has a much to answer for. Not least of which is the fact that on 21 October 2017, Ghebreyesus appointed former Zimbabwean president Robert Mugabe as a WHO Goodwill Ambassador to help promote the fight against non-communicable diseases. The appointment address praised Mugabe for his commitment to public health in Zimbabwe. It's not only Ghebreyesus, whole WHO stinks. According to The Associated Press, the WHO routinely spends about $200 million a year on travel expenses, more than it spends to tackle mental health problems, HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria combined. In 2016, Margaret Chan, Director-General of WHO from November 2006 to June 2017,stayed in a $1000-per-night hotel room while visiting West Africa. 'Nuff said!

There is a possibility that a splinter or piece of glass has penetrated her foot so it is necessary to check closely and thoroughly. The best way is for one person to hold her head securely whilst another bathes the foot and inspects it. If you have a muzzle, so much the better. If you find a splinter or other foreign object then it's removal will give immediate relief and healing process will begin.

edcam Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Chloroquine is horrific. From my experience I disagree. I took chloroquine for 17 years as a prophylactic against malaria and it didn't do any harm. If administered EARLY ON, it has been proven to have beneficial effects against Covid-19. In the later stages however it may be be detrimental. This suggests that careful administration is crucial. But then this applies to many drugs.

@ Malumbu, Not surprised that the Horizon programme didn't generate comment as the BBC documentaries credibility have diminished appreciably as they are over selective with their statistics and "facts" - all designed to support their preconceptions. The fact remains that much of Chinese "medicine" is based around products derived from wild animals. This ranges from pangolin scales, bats, porcupines, rhino horn to whatever else is rare. These products are central to the mystique surrounding their "medicine".. Couple this with the desire for freshly killed game meet in a country which has not enjoyed the benefits of refrigeration for the masses until very recent years. Both these considerations combine to provide a fertile breeding ground for the transfer of viruses from animals to humans. I have travelled extensively in China and have been horrified at the conditions in markets where wild mammals, birds and reptiles are caged in immediate proximity to where raw meat and other edibles are being prepared for sale. "Shocking" is insufficient to described the conditions in these markets.

Many plumbing issues require parts - even such as a humble washer or PTFE tape. This prompts the question...?. do you have a policy of "No Fix, No Fee"?

Transcribed from behind DT paywall...................... WHO boss supported by China is now giving the nation too much credit on coronavirus. If the World Health Organisation?s verdict is to be believed, China?s behaviour in the coronavirus crisis has been exemplary. Officials who returned from a ?joint mission? to the country in February described how China had ?rolled out perhaps the most ambitious, agile and aggressive disease containment effort in history?. WHO?s director general, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, claimed that China?s lockdown strategy had ?bought time for the world?. However, concerns are now growing that far from buying time, China has put the world on the back foot by publishing data about the spread of the disease that is at best inconsistent and at worst heavily massaged. It has also been accused of silencing whistle-blowers, and overlooking early evidence of the infectiousness of the disease. Chinese authorities have changed the way they count coronavirus cases no less than eight times since the outbreak began, and only this week started counting asymptomatic cases in its official statistics. When the daily counts started in January, the China?s National Health Commission?s definition of a coronavirus case was much more restrictive than it is now. Patients only qualified as suspected cases if they displayed all four of a list of specific symptoms - including pneumonia indicated by a chest radiograph ? and had also either travelled or had indirect contact with a Wuhan market within the previous fortnight. Inevitably, tens of thousands of milder cases of coronavirus slipped through unrecorded. Even now that the definition has been tightened, senior politicians and US intelligence have expressed concerns that the statistics released by China may be fiction. Certainly the statistics look out of kilter. China was affected weeks before any other nation, but has only reported around 82,500 cases so far. By comparison, the US which had its first coronavirus case in mid-January, has reported more than 245,000 ? more than three times China?s figure, according to data collated by Johns Hopkins University in America. The UK, whose population is less than five per cent of China?s ? and which has lagged far behind on testing - has already reported 34,173 cases. This is 41 per cent of China?s total. A WHO spokesman said: ?WHO?s mandate is to keep all people safe everywhere and this is what our scientists and public health experts are doing. The membership of the UN is decided by the countries. This does not affect WHO?s mandate as an evidence-based organization that safeguards the global public health.? Allies of Dr Tedros point to the fact that, as the former health minister then foreign minister of Ethiopia, he is naturally given to diplomacy ? and that praising China ensures the nation continues sharing critical information. However, critics note that China was highly influential in him gaining the position in the first place. According to reports, Chinese diplomats campaigned hard for him in the 2017 leadership election, using the promise of Beijing?s financial muscle to put pressure on developing countries to do the same ? helping him to stave off competition from Britain?s David Nabarro. The official toll of the number of cases is not the only point of information that has shaped the way other countries prepared for coronavirus. Chinese authorities also peddled the line that there was no clear evidence of human-to-human transmission - apparently overlooking early signs that patients were catching it from each other. A paper published in The Lancet and co-authored by doctors who worked at Jin Yin-tan hospital in Wuhan noted that the wife of the very first patient to die of coronavirus also "presented with pneumonia and was hospitalised in the isolation ward?. The study - Clinical features of patients infected with 2019 novel coronavirus in Wuhan, China - stops short of saying she caught coronavirus from him, but points out that she had ?no known history of exposure to the market?. The same study also claims that just one of the four earliest known coronavirus patients had links to Huanan Seafood Market - casting doubt on the popular notion advanced in Wuhan that the disease originated in wet markets. There, a shrimp seller named Wei Guixian, was identified by the Wall Street Journal as one of the very first patients, after she began experiencing symptoms on December 10. However, experts now believe that the disease began to spread in China much earlier than that. A little-discussed graph in the Lancet paper claims that the first coronavirus patient started feeling the effects of the disease on 1 December ? a week and a half earlier. Meanwhile, the South China Morning Post claims to have seen confidential government documents that suggest the first confirmed coronavirus patient may have contracted the disease on 17 November. If true, knowing about it early on would have had huge ramifications. Research by the University of Southampton suggests that 95 per cent of infections could have been avoided if China had acted three weeks earlier. Professor Larry Gostin, director of the World Health Organization Collaborating Center on Public Health Law & Human Rights, told the Telegraph: "It delayed for three to four weeks before reporting a novel virus to the WHO which probably cost hundreds of thousands of lives globally?Its record does not deserve praise." The first whistle-blower was Ai Fen, a senior doctor at Wuhan Central Hospital, who on 30 December posted information about the new virus on the WeChat social media platform. Later that day, Dr Li Wenliang, an ophthalmologist at the same hospital, also posted information on WeChat about the virus he believed to be Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome, or Sars. He and Dr Ai were both reprimanded, and Dr Wenliang was instructed by the hospital to write a ?reflection? on the spread of false information. Within two days, the Wuhan Public Security Bureau had reportedly called another eight doctors in for questioning after they discussed the virus on social media. According to Chinese media, the Hubei Provincial Health Commission ordered laboratories that were testing samples for the new virus to stop doing so, and to destroy any existing samples they had. John Mackenzie, a member of the World Health Organisation?s emergency committee and emeritus professor at Curtin University in Australia, told the Financial Times in February that some aspects of China?s response was ?reprehensible? and that he believes they tried to ?keep the figures quiet for a while?. Mr Mackenzie?s misgivings were backed by numerous reports in Chinese media, but Dr Tedros distanced himself from Mr Mackenzie?s critical remarks. He said that he could not comment whether or not China had hidden the start of the coronavirus outbreak but that if China did conceal the extent of the outbreak ?it really defeats logic? because there would have been a higher number of cases around the world. The WHO position is in contrast to the organisation?s handling of the 2003 SARS crisis when Gro Harlem Brundtland was director general. When the WHO declared a global health alert for SARS, there were just over 150 cases worldwide. When Covid-19 was named a public health emergency of international concern, there were nearly 10,000. Yanzhong Huang, senior fellow for global health at the Council on Foreign Relations, and author of a paper on the SARS response, said that the WHO did not use the new range of tools that have since been put at its disposal. ?Very often the WHO seems to be downplaying the Chinese response in the early stage of the crisis?It might be diplomatically unwise to criticise [China] but I do believe the WHO could take a more balanced approach." This is rejected by the WHO, which says that it co-ordinates the international response to Covid-19 in a ?transparent way?, publishing on its website information that can help countries and individuals respond to the crisis. ?Part of WHO?s mandate is to inform all member states and we do it both through bilateral exchanges and through weekly briefings where all countries are invited. Throughout the outbreak, there have been regular and frequent meetings and discussions between WHO leadership and technical experts from around the world,? a spokesman said. Indeed, Dr Nabarro ? who fought Dr Tedros to become director general and is now a WHO envoy ? suggested that his former opponent may have got the balance right. ?When this started, we were able to benefit from china making the structure of the virus available in the public domain extremely quickly and we?re grateful for that and we?re grateful for information that has been received about the virus.? ?Let?s do all the post mortems of all governments when we?ve got through this. We will all be accountable and that?s how it should be.? Professor Gostin, who was Dr Nabarro?s spokesman during the leadership race, was less charitable. ?When we look back and see so much praise going towards China and its system will the message be that civil rights aren't as important as we believe them to be? I believe in telling truth to power.'

Paint arrows on pavement! /forum/read.php?32,2109366 A small stencil and white paint could be deployed quickly and be most effective on streets such as LL where the pavements are quite narrow.

Now may be the time to recommend guidance for walkers and runners who used the pavements. My suggestion would be to only use the pavement for one direction of travel. For various safety reasons, the most appropriate would be to travel in the opposite direction to the on-coming traffic in the nearside lane. Having a designated direction will eliminate encounters and the need to continually create a "social distance" with on-coming pedestrians.

My short-term hope is that an existing drug(s) can be repurposed to minimise/ameliorate the effects of the virus to enable the body's own natural defensives to fight it more effectively and earlier. It appears that the virus is massively difficult to overcome when it starts damaging the lungs. Chloroquine is one potential candidate and I suggest this is rushed into usage quickly for those with the early signs. Side effects are well known and limited. Whilst living overseas I took it for 20 years and suffered no ill effects. There are other candidate drugs under consideration and my view is it's a case of ? when push comes to shove...??..

Blah Blah Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Oh behave Uncleglen. Boris did not get a majority > of votes cast at the general election. A third of > the electorate did not vote at all. Of 49 million > eligible votes, he got 13,491,087. That's about > 25% of eligible voters. Stop embarrassing yourself > with ridiculous claims. It is only the nuances of > our FPTP electoral system that enables a party to > get a majority of seats with less than 50% of the > votes cast. Things would look rather different if > we had PR. A coalition would have easily kept the > Tories out of government. @BB I have much respect for your medical knowledge and analytical ability BUT surely your credibility is diminished by the put downs you tend to default to frequently - such as "Oh behave Uncleglen" and "Stop embarrassing yourself with ridiculous claims". Such comments are provocative, aggressive and are purely intended to stifle debate. Debate is enhanced by mutual respect and willingness give due consideration to the other persons views -without resorting to personal attacks.

I'm frightened about what might happen to my pension. I believe that the bulk of the income (60%+) coming into the LGPS schemes comes from dividends from private companies eg utilities, BT Royal Mail etc. This is according to ? https://www.unison.org.uk/content/uploads/2016/09/23973.pdf The businesses such as National Grid, United Utilities, Severn Trent, BT etc appear to pay annual dividends in the region of 4% to 6% per annum. So surely after nationalisation this income stream will no longer be available? Corbyn has said he will nationalised these companies and give the shareholders government bonds. Sounds like unfair deal because an average bond pays less than 1% interest and can also fall in value. The 10 year UK govt bond yields 0.71% and has dropped 49% in value in one year! https://markets.ft.com/data/bonds/tearsheet/summary?s=UK10YG Surely the pension LGPS fund will suffer and may not be able to pay its pensioners? Any clarification would be appreciated.

fishbiscuits Wrote: > I like it, but I can't work out whether the period > style has been lovingly maintained, or if they > just moved in during the 60s, never bothered doing > any renovations and stayed their whole lives. I > suspect the latter, as some of the built-in > furniture looks knackered, and there's no way any > sane person below the age of 80 could really live > with that kitchen or bathroom. > The owner who died last year was well into his 9O's and I guess he may well have been the first occupant. It must have been cutting edge design when it was built however the rooms are small and the windows are really pokey. It is semi-detached which detracts from its value but (as a hobbyist and handyman) what I really like is the 35 foot garage. What couldn't one do with a space like that! Enough for both a car and a full blown workshop.

KateS Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > ?1,750,000 "doer upper" > > https://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/prop > erty-82806968.html > > I know it's a massively desirable road, and a huge > house, but I still find it hilarious. If you think that's hilarious then what about this one on East Dulwich Grove - outside the catchment area for DVI. https://www.harveywheeler.com/listings/east-dulwich-grove-se22-29063621/

This week four temporary battery powered devices have appeared atop two high poles at the junction of EDG and Red Post Hill. They look like miniature cameras. Anyone got any idea of what they are there for?

Tashmed Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I live at the top of the Rye on the Nunhead side > and am currently going through the whole rigmarole > with my insurance company around getting it fixed > following some large cracking appearing last > summer during the heatwave. To complicate matters > further a large Ash tree which is contributing to > much of the issue is on Southwark Council land who > are certainly dragging their heels on the matter. > > 13 months in and no remedial work on the horizon > but it is all insured and I'm glad it is! > > Anyone who suggests going private to rectify the > issue (no matter how minor) and then not declaring > it when asked if you have any history subsidence > by an Insurance company is committing > 'non-disclosure' which could result in future > claims being declined. I'm not trying to > scaremonger- I work in Insurance! You work in insurance. Well, that figures.

Alex, I think you need to have a more plausible pitch before you go much further. The URL www.alexdelis.co.uk does not work The URL www.thirstdesign.co.uk does not work Domino records web site was designed by http://anotherkind.co.uk/ Web site for Oh mercy Management http://www.ohmercymanagement.com/index.html has links to China The post from Jorik228 has Korean characters in it. The questions I would like answered are: Are you based in Korea or China??????? Why do the URL's you claim are yours do not work? Are you and Jorik228 one and the same Why are you using a Hotmail email account and not one on your own domain eg [email protected] ?? If I wanted a web site developed, I would be rather apprehensive. Looking forward to your responses

Can you provide some details:- 1. Is it a move between two addresses? 2. How many steps/staircases involved? 3. Does it need the handles/doors to come off to get through doorways? 4. What is the make/model of FF?