Recent content by scaredeycat

The doctor should be suspended for a few weeks.

I can't see my family flying to Europe or the UK again for at least 2 or (more likely) 3 years. The risk is simply too great. If an effective, safe vaccine is produced then maybe we can return to our annual pilgrimage to the northern hemisphere but the pessimist in me suspects that FNQ will...

I don't want to destroy everyone's optimism re a vaccine, but the following makes sobering reading: https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2766651

It will be interesting to see how Trump's experience with the drug pans out, especially if he subsequently becomes infected. If he survives, the drug will get the credit. If he doesn't - well maybe they will claim that he was in the placebo arm of a double blind trial. Maybe they should be...

I worry more about what happens when the stimulus payments end. By that stage the US economy may well be a smouldering wreck and the ramifications for the rest of the world don't bear thinking about.

And now from an authoritative source:

I know some people rely on Fox News and the Daily Mail for their information, but the following link is to an article that may prove more educational: https://medium.com/swlh/misinformation-goes-viral-1aad951e4492 Cheers, Scaredeycat

My prediction is that there will be no regular international flights for at least a year, and when QF starts flying again they will be using 787s converted to all J (at F prices). I am a glass half full person, mind.

Actually, there was no specific plan. We had booked accommodation and were making it up as we went along. By now we would have fine tuned our itinerary, but it got derailed by some virus which is going around...

Wandering around the Izu peninsula in Japan

I am hearing reports from the north west of Tasmania that the public hospital is running short of PPE. Very worrying because it is a hotspot, numerous infected staff and 100 sent home to self isolate.

When this crisis has stabilised - I don't think it will ever go away, unfortunately- I think the interesting stat will be all cause mortality when compared with previous years.

I'm glad that you clarified that Cretin of The Day was a Tasmanian story. I thought you were referring to someone else...

From The Limbic, a medical newletter: "Cardiologists have warned of the need to monitor for cardiac complications of hydroxychloroquine if it is used as a treatment for COVID-19 disease. As Australia starts clinical trials of the drug and the government approves off label use of...

Yep - it's a full moon. Explains some of the comments...