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I think that they don't think they can stop the virus without causing complete economic havoc - like all airlines going bust as well as large numbers of retail businesses etc. I think the mistake is to think that letting things rip will do any better. The problem as I see it is that for at...

Not so sure. Simon Jenkins in the Guardian says that the current 'fear of illness' may be responsible for another sort of fear that leads to a massive recession. All very unnecessary!

Judging by the blurb for the book Ecclestone is an ignorant nutcase. He also seems to be a senior editor at Cochrane. Embodiment is about the biggest bullshit buzzword in study of the mind. As to what logically valid conclusions one can draw from these premises I would not pretend to know.

'Electrolyte' is used to mean simple elemental ions like sodium, potassium, calcium, magnesium, chloride. Its meaning is historical in medicine and bot very clearly defined. Bicarbonate might be an electrolyte because it is a charged ion. I am not sure what you mean by being told electrolytes...

Maybe I am being unfair; an anagram of the following- augmented habitual cognitive emotion regulation suggests an alleviation of emotion processing deficits, - does mean something - sort of. Is important, if I going to use an innocent moist guava and lubricate the moo...

To misquote Oscar Wilde 'Stupidity may be regarded as a misfortune, to use long sentences full of meaningless words looks like carelessness.'

I agree you want to keep alcohols (probably any of them including 70% isopropyl ) away from naked flames but you don't need to keep meths in a shed. For thirty years as a rheumatologist I always had a 250ml bottle of meths (the colourless hospital sort) in my clinic room and liberally splashed...

Less so but it may be very good practice for when you do need to go out!

I reckon that as long as the cloth smells heavily of ethanol and feels very cold (because ethanol evaporates and cools quicker than water) it is still good enough. So I am adding a bit more meths every other day or so at present. In a sealed pot it should not lose effectiveness. Isopropyl would...

Hand sanitisers seem to be sold out but I had no trouble picking up 2 litres of methylated spirit. The traditional kill all steriliser in the lab was ethanol. I guess it is not widely sold because people drink it. I am keeping a J cloth in a big yogurt pot steeped in meths and wiping down...

It was a large family party on Saturday. Someone present was identified as an asymptomatic contact of a coronavirus case and tested Monday or Tuesday. On Wednesday the test came back positive. So the teachers present had come in to contact with someone incubating the virus and potentially...

I doubt that Chris Whitty is intelligent enough to know that there is no way that one could predict or manipulate time course in that sort of way. My understanding is that containment policy has not been watered down. It is just that it has yet to get off the ground in any serious form. The...

If the epidemic is not slowed as much as possible there will be chains of ambulances outside every hospital carrying people for whom there will be no specialist care beds.

Skype is relevant for interactive events but would it be relevant here? Most people find it so clunky that they have to be very motivated to use it.

I think there are several problems here. I would be happy to communicate further by personal conversation but I would just flag up here that; 1. With the coronavirus epidemic I doubt anyone will come or indeed should come. People need to stop attending public events. The school my daughter...

We can do with more of that. I think us old 'uns can probably keep away from this thing with a bit of care. Keep away from chalet cooking, seafood banquets and cruise ships and you are well on the way to being OK.

I recommend this for a realistic assessment: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/mar/03/icu-doctor-nhs-coronavirus-pandemic-hospitals

The only place where the pandemic is slowing down as far as I know is China, where the streets are empty. In London yesterday they were as crowded as ever. There was no sign that anyone was taking any care to avoid contact. Estate agents still want to shake hands.

Yesterday upon the stair I met an illness that wasn't there (According to SF36) it wasn't there again today But Dr Stone will make it go away!

That looks like a political piece from a bureaucrat to me. The wording of the account of the reproduction number actually suggests alack of intelligence too. I find it very hard to see how this argument that Covif19 is 'as safe as flu' and 'safer than SARS and MERS' works. There are already...