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Thank you! We need it to be local because the device being used can be fussy about the material it cuts. So really need to buy one (small) pack or whatever, bring it home, test, then decide to get more or use something else. Clarity or opacity is not an issue. Just that it works and can be...

Can anyone think of a source of plastic sheets (somewhere around A4 size would be ideal), like file dividers? Needs to be slightly thicker than the thinnest ones you can buy. Need a) to be open as a real shop; b) to have a branch in my area! I'm wondering if I am missing somewhere (e.g...

PPE obviously working extremely well: About half of A&E consultants and nurses at a major Welsh hospital have tested positive for coronavirus, a doctor there has said. Consultant Tim Rogerson, from the Royal Gwent Hospital in Newport, appeared in a video on the Aneurin Bevan health board's...

I have a really nasty expectation that there is nothing we (effectively, the government) can do to stop going over the 20,000 prediction. The question likely having become, how many more than 20,000?

Or as she appears in the Guardian:

That his rating still requires two digits is still astonishing. It should be around the level where the number of people expressing approval approximates the number attributable to chance. (As in people who can't even read the question stabbing their marker or finger or whatever they use...

And on the next page: Revealed: value of UK pandemic stockpile fell by 40% in six years £325m wiped off value of health department’s emergency stockpile including PPE

Whose back entrance? :)

They couldn't find a large enough canon: Boris Johnson discharged from hospital Boris Johnson has been discharged from hospital, Downing Street has confirmed.

Comedian and actor Tim Brooke-Taylor has died after contracting coronavirus, his agent said. The 79-year-old was probably most famous as part of television comedy trio, The Goodies.

A skim read suggests that almost everything on that page is inappropriate/unhelpful/downright stupid to do for the coronavirus emergency. They were obviously doing what all such people do - put the advice for the last lot of emergencies we had. So loads about flooding.

On that site, they posted this from the real site: We run the Government website for the Preparing for Emergencies public information campaign, on www.preparingforemergencies.gov.uk, and are very concerned that the material on your site will confuse people about the sensitive advice and...

And this attempt at reassurance: Dr Pittard added: “We are not going to run out of drugs to treat patients, that’s the bottom line. There may be shortages of specific drugs but there are always alternatives in the same class that although staff will need to slightly modify their practice...

Latest Guardian: UK coronavirus live: refuse to treat patients without PPE 'as last resort', says nursing body, as three nurses die Three nurses have died after contracting Covid-19, amid growing criticism of the lack of protection for NHS staff

Is she employed by the NHS or a contractor? From what I can see, NHS employees get sick pay (with limits, of course).

Lots and lots of thoughts. A couple: The global death toll has reached 108,867, according to the Johns Hopkins university tracker. More than 1.77m people have been diagnosed. Which is 6.15%. Let us hope that the diagnosis rate is missing millions who only suffer mildly. IVF clinics are...

We are still only months into covid-19 and even the simplest level of observation of its effects is very incomplete. For those who die, obviously, the chapter has closed. For those who survive, who knows what longer term effects might be? I offer a selection of some of the better-known effects...

The latest CV government TV ads do clearly say that you can get it at any age. Mishandled to begin with and they gave the impression of youth invulnerability. But I suspect the cases reported in the media (including, I believe, YouTube, etc.) have quite likely had a much greater effect in...

Did you notice the vehement putdown of the Virgin orbit ventilator in that video I posted of how (not) to design and make a ventilator? Specifically selected for the most dismissive words - while praising garden shed people.

At the end: Philosopher and author AC Grayling tweeted: “Trump doesn’t know that antibiotics target bacteria not viruses. Covid-19 is a virus. Trump is an idiot. He is a dangerous idiot.” Yesterday, I read that he still has 45% support. Ah! Specifically (and utterly bewilderingly) for his...