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OwlHoot replied

15 February 2021, 14:36
Originally posted by ladymuck View Post

Do you also think it's still 2018? That blissful before time...

Now come on. Gladstone hasn't been prime minister for _that_ long!
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DoctorStrangelove replied

15 February 2021, 09:38
Which is why this got bumped.

DRC is doing its best too.
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cojak replied

15 February 2021, 09:19
And I'm afraid that memories are short and traditions are long...

Guinea declares Ebola epidemic: First deaths since 2016 - BBC News
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BrilloPad replied

15 February 2021, 07:47
Originally posted by DoctorStrangelove View Post

We didn't appreciate how lucky we were.

"You have never had it so good" said the very young whipper snapper MacMillan.
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NickFitz replied

15 February 2021, 00:51
Originally posted by DoctorStrangelove View Post

NickFitz calls it again.

And the writer of that piece, Ed Yong, has written a lot of excellent articles about the pandemic over the past year
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DoctorStrangelove replied

14 February 2021, 23:12
Originally posted by ladymuck View Post

Do you also think it's still 2018? That blissful before time...

We didn't appreciate how lucky we were.
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ladymuck replied

14 February 2021, 21:14
Originally posted by OwlHoot View Post

Hang on, it's wednesday today isn't it? Nurse! Nurse!

Do you also think it's still 2018? That blissful before time...
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OwlHoot replied

14 February 2021, 20:43
Originally posted by Paddy View Post

That's what happens in nursing homes

Hang on, today's wednesday isn't it? Nurse! Nurse!

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Paddy replied

14 February 2021, 20:37
Originally posted by OwlHoot View Post

DOH! Seeing that Monday Links title at the top of the list, I assumed it must be Monday and for some unaccounable reason I was a day out!

That's what happens in nursing homes
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OwlHoot replied

14 February 2021, 18:54
Originally posted by DoctorStrangelove View Post

NickFitz calls it again.

DOH! Seeing that Monday Links title at the top of the list, I assumed it must be Monday and for some unaccounable reason I was a day out!
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DoctorStrangelove replied

14 February 2021, 18:39
Originally posted by NickFitz View Post

The Next Plague Is Coming. Is America Ready? - "The epidemics of the early 21st century revealed a world unprepared, even as the risks continue to multiply. Much worse is coming." TLDR: if you thought Ebola was bad, wait till you see what else nature combined with rapid international travel has up its sleeve.

NickFitz calls it again.
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northernladuk replied

18 June 2018, 18:41
Originally posted by ladymuck View Post

People say poverty is a bad thing and work to eradicate it but, without such expendable folk, we wouldn't be as medically advanced as we are now. The poor serve the greater good.

So why change a good thing? Cheaper and more useful than sterilisation.
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ladymuck replied

18 June 2018, 18:24
Originally posted by northernladuk View Post

That's the way to do it. None of this expensive clinical trials and years of research rubbish.

People say poverty is a bad thing and work to eradicate it but, without such expendable folk, we wouldn't be as medically advanced as we are now. The poor serve the greater good.
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northernladuk replied

18 June 2018, 16:37
Originally posted by DoctorStrangelove View Post

Good to see this again.

Not quite ebola, but inneresting none the less:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-44484599

In 1796 he immunised James with fluid from a cowpox lesion on the arm of a milking maid called Sarah Nelmes and then, after exposing the boy to smallpox, confirmed he was protected against it.

That's the way to do it. None of this expensive clinical trials and years of research rubbish.
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DoctorStrangelove replied

18 June 2018, 13:46
Originally posted by Tim Stoffel on McMoon

tim Stoffel says:
18th June 2018 at 12:16 am
I paid several visits to McMoons during this amazing project, and was taken back by the sheer complexity of what they had to do. The FR900 is basically a insturmentation version of a quadruplex videotape recorder. It used the same heads, required a vacuum guide to hold the tape in the correct position, and required new bearing be made to some incredible precision. The signal recover process was once highly classified, and that apparently had a page of equations and a block diagram to work from. Brilliant signal system engineer Al Stern, formerly of Ampex, designed a digital approximation of the original analog signal system that apparently worked on the first try. Although my involvement with the project was very trivial, it was something I will always remember.

Good to see this again.

Not quite ebola, but inneresting none the less:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-44484599

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