Off Topic SARS-CoV-2 Covid-19

What is XR?

 

Extinction Rebellion. Spelling is one a few things that are not their strong points.

 

No idea. However in the interests of accurate reporting...



And XR's position re covid-19...

https://rebellion.earth/2020/03/23/...llion-as-part-of-the-response-to-coronavirus/

If this is getting too political perhaps it should be deleted along with the original false post?

 

They shift between being a 'movement' and a collection of individuals as the fancy takes them. There would be no interest from 'white supremacists' in XR which leaves it looking as though they're miffed at being upstaged, and trying to get back in the news.

This isn't for this thread, and most likely not for this board, as it's impossible to discuss it fully without going in to the politics behind it.

 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-52033324
On Tuesday, police had to break up a group of more than 20 people who had gathered for a barbecue in Coventry.

 

It's really good news on the face of it, and will give peace of mind for those helping vulnerable people but how would it help police the lockdown? Surely it could still exist on hands and clothes too?

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2...home-testing-to-be-made-available-within-days

Thousands of 15-minute home tests for coronavirus will be delivered by Amazon to people self-isolating with symptoms or will go on sale on the high street within days, according to Public Health England (PHE), in a move that could restore many people’s lives to a semblance of pre-lockdown normality.

Prof Sharon Peacock, the director of the national infection service at PHE, told MPs on the science and technology committee that mass testing in the UK would be possible by next week.

The UK government has bought 3.5m tests, which the health secretary, Matt Hancock, mentioned on Tuesday with no suggestion that they would be available to the public so quickly, and is ordering millions more.

NHS workers or anyone else will be able to know if they have had the virus and are therefore immune, which means they could resume their normal lives, no longer having to work from home or keep their distance from other people. It is widely thought that having Covid-19 makes people immune to the disease or that if they get it a second time, they do not transmit it.

The test detects the presence of IGM, an antibody that arises very early on in the infection, and IGG, which is increased in the body’s response to the virus. The results of some of the tests on order can be read by anyone, but others would need to be interpreted by healthcare professionals.

 

Kashmir police officers force people to crouch inside marked circles to maintain a minimum social distance after they allegedly violated rules on gatherings. Photograph: Jaipal Singh/EPA

Do you think the copper may need some advice on distance?

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Good news but I thought it wasn't known yet if we could only get it the once?

https://www.newscientist.com/articl...catch-the-coronavirus-twice-we-dont-know-yet/

 

I'm very ignorant about the details on such things.

 

"Danger UXB" ?

 

Kids in east park playing footy but to be fair to them they are only kicking a ball to each other and were more than 2m apart.