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Coronavirus inactivates at 56C in three hours, and half an hour at 70C - or something like that! Red hot would kill it immediately. :)

Just did a little food shopping. No-one seems to be doing anything to ensure that touch screens in self-service tills and PIN pads, etc., are kept clean. I'd have thought they would be real hotspots.

Which might not be popular with owner-drivers and small companies.

Some of the places that receive these lorries loaded with food are telling the drivers they cannot use their toilets. Which is pretty awful. If they really don't want the drivers to enter, set up some portaloos.

It will be held up as a fine example of entrepreneurship. (A government which was really in control might have requisitioned all testing facilities.)

Partner got an email from a lab she has used for other tests (when NHS won't do them). £299 a test - mail order. The general opinion of the company (judged by posts on a forum that mentioned the mailshot) sank dramatically.

10:38 EU's chief Brexit negotiator tests positive Michel Barnier, the EU's chief Brexit negotiator, has tested positive for coronavirus. Mr Barnier said he was "doing well and in good spirits" in a tweet announcing his diagnosis on Friday. His diagnosis throws the process of negotiating a...

Not if vaccines and treatments become available. Leaving all other considerations aside (however unrealistic), delaying and delaying gives a greater window in which to identify, manufacture and deploy the vaccines and treatments. (Though whether a hundred years would be enough for Johnson to...

From a very personal point of view, the 60-69 group is considerably worse but the worry only seems to start at 70. (Though 65 has been talked about in the USA.)

Paper on which that was based:

I am now receiving messages about "army on the streets tomorrow... or is it Friday". I am getting a distinct feeling that the rumour mill is running out of control. But given the legislation that is supposed to be going through tomorrow, who knows what will really happen. Mind, if used...

I'd rather a vaccination shot...

Just realised, our entry was almost as tactlessly idiotic as Johnson's comment about respirators. (Had to look our entry up as otherwise I had no idea.) “My Last Breath”

I see the pound is suffering from covid-19. Currently 1.1767 against the USD. And no treatment available.

And preparing for the Eurovision Song Contest. Eurovision Song Contest cancelled due to coronavirus pandemic The 2020 contest, due to take place in Rotterdam in May, will now be held in 2021

People here (and in other places I sometimes inhabit) having been shouting louder than government advisers. Now this is being made explicit in ways that might be very uncomfortable for the incumbents: Scientists have been sounding the alarm on coronavirus for months. Why did Britain fail to...

Question: Does vaping have the same, or even a worse, effect than ordinary smoking? (Not expecting an answer. Just a contemplation.)

If they are to be used for sex offenders, they should first be validated. For example, the members of the current government...? I'd also say, the consequences of a lie detector test being wrong could be horrific for both sex offenders' potential victims and, indeed, for sex offenders - not all...

Now the government is really making a huge mistake: Labour MPs alarmed at Covid-19 laws being passed without vote Emergency measures would be in place for two years with no plans for review

I guess that as it has been submitted from an independent advisor, this might not fall into the usual category of slipping out unpopular/bad news behind even worse. Windrush lessons learned report finally submitted to Home Office The final version of the Windrush...