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The UK Government's abject failure to provide a sufficient number of ventilators for the NHS means that hospitals will probably be forced to adopt a less generous approach when it comes to survivability assessments.

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"I shook hands with corona virus patients. I shook hands with everybody. I will go on shaking hands with everybody."

-- Boris Johnson, who has just been tested positive for corona virus

🙄

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Listen, if you have an obsession with voting the biggest clowns into office, then maybe you shouldn't be surprised if your entire country turns into a bit of a clown show.

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PHIDOC

Please note that March's Book of the Month is 'The Plague' by Albert Camus and the Track of the Month is 'Downpressor Man' by Peter Tosh.

phidoc.net/book_of_the_month.h

phidoc.net/track_of_the_month.

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@mkwadee

Evening star,
There you are.
Paired with a crescent moon
Like a well-loved recurring tune;
And with some orbit warning
I'll see you both in the morning.

#SmallPoems

Thank you for the inspiration,
@mkwadee

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After yesterday's #Covid19UK figures, today's don't look quite as good. However, the reason for the lower figure yesterday was explained in a Tweet by twitter.com/KateEMcCann, and with that knowledge these figures still are not bad. We are well below the Italy line, and the last 9 days form more of a straight line than an exponential. That's a VERY GOOD THING, as it means it's not growing out of control.

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We knew this was going to be bad. Most of us didn't need to be told. We'd seen the way Italy was going, how China had gone, and probably most of us didn't trust our government to handle it properly. So we acted anyway. 18 days ago feels about right to me as the time most of us started to be particularly careful.
Has that saved us? Time will tell. 2/2

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After this is over can we keep all of the academic conferences virtual? Flying around for these things is a huge waste of time, money, and carbon.

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How far apart should you stand? The width of a small thermal exhaust port, or the length of a womp rat.

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In the middle of all this, swallowed up in the noise, Colorado just abolished the death penalty and commuted the sentences of those sentenced to death.

"the death penalty cannot be, and never has been, administered equitably in the state of Colorado.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/23/us/colorado-death-penalty-repeal.html
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