CORONA VIRUS
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Aupmanyav
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Exactly at 5 p.m. today, the rich and poor, old and young, the 1350 million Indians appreciated and encouraged the Corona Fighters with clapping and sounding counches, cymbals, drums, bells, gongs, thalis (metal food plates) at the behest of Prime Minister Modi:
https://www.google.co.in/search?q="tali bajao"&tbm=isch&tbs=qdr:d&hl=en-GB&ved=0CAEQpwVqFwoTCLj_wOmnrugCFQAAAAAdAAAAABAC&biw=1513&bih=758
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Is India all one timezone?
Remember the good old days when all we had to worry about was E. coli laced lettuce..... 
Laced?
Aupmanyav
Be your own guru.
Yeah, India is a small country, we have one time zone, Asia/Kolkata (GMT -5:30).
Though it is generally listed as Asia/Kolkata, It the longitude actually passes through Mirzapur, a city of 230 thousand people situated on the banks of river Ganges, in our state of Uttar Pradesh.
"Indian Standard Time is calculated on the basis of 82.5′ E longitude in the city of Mirzapur, Uttar Pradesh, which is situated approximately on the corresponding longitude reference line."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_Standard_Time
Though it is generally listed as Asia/Kolkata, It the longitude actually passes through Mirzapur, a city of 230 thousand people situated on the banks of river Ganges, in our state of Uttar Pradesh.
"Indian Standard Time is calculated on the basis of 82.5′ E longitude in the city of Mirzapur, Uttar Pradesh, which is situated approximately on the corresponding longitude reference line."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_Standard_Time
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Aupmanyav
Be your own guru.
We did not know what was coming up. Narendra Modi announced it today. Where do I get my cigarettes?
21 day Lock-down for 90% of India.
21 day Lock-down for 90% of India.
We did not know what was coming up. Narendra Modi announced it today. Where do I get my cigarettes?
21 day Lock-down for 90% of India.
I can trade you some flour for cigarettes...
Aupmanyav
Be your own guru.
Yeah, we have flour and rice.
Aussie Thoughts
Just my 2 cents
Just spoke with a colleague who's elderly parents both have the virus. Says they were right bad off, but have responded well to that malaria drug and should be released from hospital in a day or two!
Aupmanyav
Be your own guru.
Nothing without the doctor's advice. A person died of quinoline in USA.
Thanks for sharing this! Nice to hear some positive news for a change. Seems like all you hear these days is the total number of reported cases and the number of deaths while news of those no longer active and those recovering is all but ignored.
It is one of the top three stats, confirmed infected, dead, and recovered. The recovery rate, understanding of the bug, and medical testing advances are highlites of every day.
Duplicating "miracle" results and making them commonplace is what we strive
Aussie Thoughts
Just my 2 cents
Yeah, big difference between poisoning yourself with fish tank cleaner and taking medical grade chloroquine prescribed by a physician. -
Precisely why I posted, mate. Stats are out there, but that's not what makes the headlines most people see.
This d@mn virus is taking out the medical teams, including this gentleman:
Phyllis Sidhe_Uaine
Phyllis Sidhe_Uaine
Aussie Thoughts
Just my 2 cents
Read something interesting today. Basically it said that, social distancing, to use the latest catchphrase, may actually be making us more vulnerable to this virus. Reason being, one of the ways the virus is transmitted is through droplets of saliva produced when we speak and that the number, size and speed of these droplets increases the louder we talk. Which apparently, many now feel compelled to do because of the greater distance folks are maintaining between themselves and others. -
Any road, say it, don't spray it folks! -
Any road, say it, don't spray it folks! -
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Any road, say it, don't spray it folks! -
Okay, no "raspberries" for the foreseeable future...
Phyllis Sidhe_Uaine
LOL.... Which apparently, many now feel compelled to do because of the greater distance folks are maintaining between themselves and others. -
We have an active family WhatsAp group, and my daughter who works in comms for a stroke charity spent a fair bit of time putting false information to bed in the early days. Basically don't trust anything that doesn't come from the WHO or suchlike, and especially not anecdotal information from people like 'my sister's friend's husband's colleague who knows someone who heard ...'
In London we're on lockdown. People have been asked to exercise locally, once a day, and I reckon there's gonna be a dog strike soon, because dogs are getting the •••• walked out of them. I've never seen so many dog-walkers in the park. We do our walk in the local cemetery, it's nigh-on deserted, and everyone there is keeping the statutory six foot distance, albeit under
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