Corona virus

[scole of TSBT]

The hoarding has gotten so bad, well here, this says it all...

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[SolidAir79]

Well linus tech and others have helped out with servers so there are more WUs if anyone is interested

[scole of TSBT]

If you still happen to have your Rosetta preferences set to 1 hr runtime, better check your credit. I think 1 hr WUs are taking a big credit hit compared to 2hr.

[davidbam]

I was totally convinced I had that on 1hr. On checking, I do see that it is on 2hrs. Thanks for the heads-up

[jockmacmad2]

I cannot get any units been trying for days

[scole of TSBT]

not using an old app_info.xml by chance?

also make sure you don't have a download that's stuck

[SolidAir79]

A couple of times I restarted the app and got some WU'S?

[scole of TSBT]

ARG!!! Only on linux are the 1 hr WUs taking a hit. On Win64, it's the other way around but I had already changed the prefs and now I can't set WU runtime to 1hr any more.

[Alez]

Hey guys, sort of back.
Survived malaria twice, sent to countries with all forms of nasties including ebola etc and apparently this virus is the end of the world. Work is gone and probabily finished, been put on indefinate leave and company has even cut off e mail access and tried to lock our laptops. Had to install a bunch of stuff to admin site again on a different system. Obviously racing has completely finished right after we started racing down in England against the national and international champions and kicked their butts. Brand new chassis sitting in the garage without a scratch on it. Got both widowed mothers in isolation and paranoid with the constant end of the world on sky and bbc.
Hope all you guys are coping fine. Personally climbing the walls as I've never been home for 6 weeks now in over 30 years.

[Dirk Broer]

Personally climbing the walls as I've never been home for 6 weeks now in over 30 years.

Just think of all that nice hardware you are now able to order -and receive yourself.
Ryzen 9 3950 now, Ryzen 4000 desktop series at autumn; RX 5600X going head-to-head with RTX 2060;
X570 mobo's, sTRX40 mobo's -both with PICe4.0; NVMe M.2 PCIe4.0 going up to 7,000 MB/s soon, etc.

[Alez]

Jesus, my niece's 1 year old has just been rushed to hospital with a temperature of 41c ( 106f ) and breathing difficulty.

[scole of TSBT]

Sorry to hear that. Hope the little fellow gets better soon.

[davidbam]

Will keep everything crossed. You must all be beside yourselves with worry.

Not necessarily corona though - my wife confirms that kids can hit temperatures like that for other reasons too.

[jockmacmad2]

Jesus, my niece's 1 year old has just been rushed to hospital with a temperature of 41c ( 106f ) and breathing difficulty.

I wish them a speedy recovery.

[Alez]

Thankfully as far as I know shes`s on her way home. Throat infection the doctors think. When my kid had scarlet fever he hit 39 c and that was scarily on the edge of fiting, 41c is well into the dangerous territory. Thanks for all the supportive messages. I need a bloody rum now, not being able to physically be there for my cousin`s family was hard. This whole staying away in times of need is not really in my nature and f`ing sucks. You guys all stay safe out there.

[scole of TSBT]

TSBT finished 11th of 31 teams. Not too shabby.

[davidbam]

[Megacruncher]

Well done. 11th is respectable.

Special mention to our top 100 megastars davidBAM in 4th & scole in 8th & JockMacMad at 49.
There were over 4000 active participants! well done all, even the ones not crunching for TSBT.

Here's an update on my heroic efforts to get back to the NHS:

Three weeks after I fixed bayonet & started my charge I haven't got out of No-man's land. True after a lot of emails I finally got my General Medical Council registration restored on friday. But the bunch responsible for the so-called Accelerated Recruitment Portal are dragging their feet. Their website only started running this weeked and just gives "unexpected error" messages when ever you try and enter the info they need to do the "pre-onboarding checks" which will be done "as quickly as possible" although the FAQ says they don't know when that will be. And remember we are the people who Boris & Nicola both claimed weeks ago are actually back in the NHS workforce. Quite possibly they both believe this. Total SNAFU.

The most dispiriting thing is that there might be no point in most of us returning to work as all the bits of the NHS not dealing with Covid have been put on pause for the duration. This is particularly true of Mental Health services where previously hard working colleagues tell me they go home shortly after lunch having done nothing much except collect PPE which they don't actually need because they don't have face to face contact with patients, all of whom are regarded as being at high risk. It can't possibly end well.

Of course maybe it's for the best that the drive to get all us oldies back working is going no-where.



Stay safe.

[Alez]

My niece's 5 month old daughter had 3 bouts with the SNHS before a paramedic totally lost it that she had not been treated and threatened to blue light her into hospital again unless she was treated.
Her doctor would not see her as it was not deamed to be covid. She basically spent 4 days at 41C temp until this paramedic forced a doctor to see her and prescribe antibiotics for the infection. I really can't thank that paramedic enough for standing his ground under the current situation and not being fobbed off.

[Dirk Broer]

Hats off to that paramedic

[Megacruncher]

Her doctor would not see her as it was not deamed to be covid.

This is my big concern about the Scottish/UK/World response to Covid. We've panicked and decided to ignore everything else whether it be other health conditions or the economy.
In the short-term, ill people are being neglected, because the NHS is, as a matter of policy, totally de-prioritising all other conditions, and it's killing people, quite possibly more than the virus. In the longer term GDP will drop and that is very closely correlated with life expectancy.
That's why I don't join in with the clapping on a Thursday evening. But I'll raise a glass to your bolshie paramedic!

[Alez]

Exactly. There wasn't this responce to SARS , MERS etc. I've almost certainly lost my job, I'll survive. My self isolating widowed mother is coping well enough as I bring her booze she doesn't ask for, but has totally stopped watching the news. My widowed mother in law still watches and news and is on the phone in tears most days. I really can't imagine what this will do for those with mental health issues isolated for 6 weeks plus. I read that the NHS is currently at 40-45% capacity which means that so many people are missing or not receiving treatment that an absolute time bomb is just waiting down the line. The damage to the economy and the poverty that will bring is the next time bomb. I feel bad for saying it, but as a society we seem to think that we have conquered death until well into our twighlight years. I've raised quite a few glasses to the bolshie paramedic, thankfuly we still have a few that say bollocks to the jobs worths.

[davidbam]

All of which makes me think it is man-made.

I am not usually one for conspiracy theories but I do wonder why the USA pumped huge amounts of money into Porton Down so quickly. That, plus Trump's deflective insistence in calling it the Chinese virus.

Iran is another hot spot. Coincidence or convenience?

There was also the small matter of the Military "Olympics" in Oct 2019. Held in ... Wuhan

[Dirk Broer]

All of which makes me think it is man-made.

If that is true...there must be someone(s) with a huge guilt complex.

[scole of TSBT]

[SolidAir79]

Perhaps its true no idiot would drop it in there own country first ?

[davidbam]

Oh I don't know ... ... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gruinard_Island

[SolidAir79]

Oh I don't know ... ... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gruinard_Island

Aye but that wasn't there island the same reason nuclear weapons are kept up here.

[Megacruncher]

Oh I don't know ... ... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gruinard_Island

Aye but that wasn't there island the same reason nuclear weapons are kept up here.

And to be fair the population density of Gruinard Island in the 1940s was a little bit less than modern day Wuhan.

I've no doubt it's man made, but accidentaly in the wet markets of China which is where other zoonotic CV varients have developed.

Anyhoo if you were developing an effective bio-weapon Covid 19 would not be it: Fairly infective but doesn't generally do young people much harm but has the potential to thin out the ranks of the elderly and chronically unwell.

[scole of TSBT]

Perhaps its true no idiot would drop it in there own country first ?

It was accidently released

[Megacruncher]

Can we hear from a 5G theorist, just for the sake of a balanced discussion?

[Gibson Praise]

Can we hear from a 5G theorist, just for the sake of a balanced discussion?

It was aliens .. working in service to the New Galactic Order.

[scole of TSBT]

TSBT has obviously been compromised. I suggest initiating protocol Sierra Hotel Tango Foxtrot

[davidbam]

Foxtrot Uniform Charlie Kilo

[Alez]

Is this the point where I have to slap some sense into people ? Covid 19 is a lousey bio weapon as it is very inefficient at killing fighting age males. It's a wonderful economic bio weapon but only because we have choosen to make it so. The closest country to having a vaccine is Israel, obviously it was mossad that did it .....

[Megacruncher]

FUCK I understand but SHTF?
Explain yourself please!
I write as someone who has often been accused of being a member of the illuminati (30 years in psychiatry is a long time) but has never quite felt worthy of the accolade.

[Megacruncher]

Is this the point where I have to slap some sense into people ? Covid 19 is a lousey bio weapon as it is very inefficient at killing fighting age males. It's a wonderful economic bio weapon but only because we have choosen to make it so. The closest country to having a vaccine is Israel, obviously it was mossad that did it .....

Actually I think we have to blame the Swedes, they're the only ones who have resisted the hysteria and are carrying on business as usual. At least their pubs are open, even if it costs £10 per pint. I'd happily emigrate there!

[scole of TSBT]

SHTF (shite hits the fan).

I don't necessarily think COVID-19 was released as a bio weapon but I do think the virus was being studied at the Wuhan Institute of Virology by the "bat woman" and it accidently leaked out.

[Alez]

Is this the point where I have to slap some sense into people ? Covid 19 is a lousey bio weapon as it is very inefficient at killing fighting age males. It's a wonderful economic bio weapon but only because we have choosen to make it so. The closest country to having a vaccine is Israel, obviously it was mossad that did it .....

Actually I think we have to blame the Swedes, they're the only ones who have resisted the hysteria and are carrying on business as usual. At least their pubs are open, even if it costs £10 per pint. I'd happily emigrate there!

The swedes are so crazy they turn cow farts into fuel for buses. You can only emigrate there if you have a proven history of buying bland but VERY safe cars. Plus I had to work there, half a mile inside a mountain, in a railway tunnel, in a place called Bastad ( where previous attempt to drill the tunnel poisoned all the local cows ). You try writing multiply reports about a place called Bastad without developing a paranoid requirement to check the spelling of every mention of Bastad
I should also add that their adherence to speed limits on roads is truely depressing

[SolidAir79]

China being china I don't think the truth will come out either way

[SolidAir79]

I have a man on the inside in Israel if they get a vaccine I'll let you know

[Alez]

I have a man on the inside in Israel if they get a vaccine I'll let you know

Way ahead of you

[SolidAir79]

[SolidAir79]

Mine actually could be illuminati

[Alez]

Bevakasha עַל לֹא דָבָר

[Alez]

Mine actually could be illuminati

[SolidAir79]

Bevakasha עַל לֹא דָבָר

Back at ya

[scole of TSBT]

[SolidAir79]

Another theory : https://www.theguardian.com/environment ... -pangolins

[Dirk Broer]

If I were to be the judge, he'd win -and the policeman is out of a job.