Oh - ha! Didn't realise that but I like it a lot. I'm increasingly amused by the way the comedic talent of the nation emerges during a crisis/newsworthy moment. Which has just given me an idea...
Surprised no-one did this yet... Edit: That said, I thought I should also add that my general impression is that they and the NHS are doing remarkably well in the circumstances and better than I would have believed months ago when the Brexit issues were stalling.
On the one hand, it's amazing what ford et all can macguyver out of car parts and a drill battery... on the other it's somewhat depressing we're having to resort to macguyvering respirators out of car parts and drill batteries. https://jalopnik.com/fords-quickly-designed-powered-air-purifying-respirator-1842476673
Day 13 of social isolation: My flight home which was booked for the end of April has been cancelled. Animal import services in the Netherlands refuse to be flexible even though the cat has everything up to date, just not the stupid certificate. No way am I leaving the cat in a 3 week quarantine. Just watching America drown in it's own ineptitude and unable to do anything.
Has the home school stuff been of any use to anyone? We're finding that starting early and as we mean to go on has been beneficial. Little and often (with reward points and prizes) seems key in our house. I let the missus open the wine early yesterday as a reward for doing the schooling There's also Zoom and something called Houseparty (of which I have no experience) that apparently lets all the kids chat to each other. Mate - if you were heading back to the US, given what I saw about panic buying of guns 'n' ammo, you may well be better off not if that's the way things are heading.
I found Khan Academy helpful for maths, can't comment on their other stuff. [it's american tilted, so bear that in mind]
Well you'd sort of hope food is an essential, if it's not we're all going to be a hell of a lot thinner in 12 months. I get what you mean but i was really only talking on a personal level, i wouldn't really consider fertiliser production essential as it's not like all crops will fail if they don't get their weekly sprinkle, maybe if it goes on for longer than a few years it could be but ATM i wouldn't consider it to be.
The list of shops allowed to stay open has been updated to include off-licences. What a joke. I despise this country's alcohol addiction as it is.
Farming is as Just In Time as any other industry, as is all non-preserved food production. Fertiliser production halt, even for a few weeks = some or all crops are not going to survive (or be planted to start with) = total food production will reduce. Limited food stockpiles can buffer thus (effectively nobody is stockpiling fertiliser on the levels needed worldwide), but expect shortages in the months-year timeframe if the supply chain is significantly disrupted. And that's at a global level. Farming - like damned near everything else - is very rarely truly a local industry: even if you go traipse down to the farm to get your carrots, the backend of that industry (chemical production, seed production, equipment production & maintenance, etc) wraps around the planet several times.
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It must be have a go at Corky day. Yes a halt in the production of fertiliser would result in a drop in production, i don't remember saying it wouldn't but hey ho, what I've been saying is people ain't going to drop dead simply because production of fertiliser stops for a few months, people may have less to eat, prices of food may go up because of supply + demand, blah, blah, blah. However a stop in the production of something like fertiliser for a few months probably wouldn't cause thousands of deaths or your own death, whereas the likelihood of getting and/or spreading CV causing deaths is very real and very immediate, as such i wouldn't exactly say the production of something like fertiliser is essential.
As a raging alcoholic, I rather agree, but after homeschooling two cabin-fevered kids, dealing with self-employment paperwork, maintaining IT stuff so that learning can continue and trying to take as much off the missus as possible, I think I'll allow a degree of flexibility, keep up the daily exercise routine (for everyone) and deal with the above next week once the VAT return is done and I can breathe a bit. In the meantime, it is required (at least here). Ah. Then in that case I wish you luck as you need to be out of there soon as. Heathrow is still open for business though, according to oscy's other post!
Cough's a bit better, though I've properly tweaked something in my back. Got a bit of a runny nose now, so I'm suspicious that it's not the 'rona at all and is just a nasty cold - especially as I've had no fever or anosmia.
