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Oneball

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Funny you should mention that Newton , just had a call from Frank Williams , they have agreed to upscale the engineering for us so we can now offer a complete route detection/ diversion facility that will automatically sync to your smart phone via google maps to enable you to steer away from potential danger

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Is that your CIA/GCHQ/Mossad/David Icke proof phone?
 

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I am really down at the moment.
We live 100 yards from a major ambulance station, they are in and out with great regularity now. Every hour this afternoon they have been by every few minutes.
Stay safe.

Apologies Phil if im treating it with a little light heartedness , all very tongue in cheek to stop me climbing up the walls and maybe bring a smile to some faces in these sad times , wee all really feeling the same frustration inside mate
 

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Funny you should mention that Newton , just had a call from Frank Williams , they have agreed to upscale the engineering for us so we can now offer a complete route detection/ diversion facility that will automatically sync to your smart phone via google maps to enable you to steer away from potential danger

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That is great news Loz; can I suggest (subject to testing) trying a tri-corn alternative and parabolic sides for better reflection?
 

lozcb

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That is great news Loz; can I suggest (subject to testing) trying a tri-corn alternative and parabolic sides for better reflection?
Stick it in the pigeon hole marked suggestion box , and i'll make sure R & D get on to it
 

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Surely a ventilator is a relatively simple device, not rocket science or brain surgery. Where's the hard bit? We are a Western advanced country, surely it's not that hard for the boffins?
 

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Surely a ventilator is a relatively simple device, not rocket science or brain surgery. Where's the hard bit? We are a Western advanced country, surely it's not that hard for the boffins?

Stopping them from bursting your lungs while keeping them moving in an out enough to keep your brain from dying. At a wild guess

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Stopping them from bursting your lungs while keeping them moving in an out enough to keep your brain from dying. At a wild guess

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Spot on.....they are much more complicated than you might think which is why 20 big companies are working in a consortium to make these in high volumes and very quickly. I am hearing that the first deliveries of significant volumes to the NHS start this weekend. I actually think industry coming together to build the ventilators and in big volumes will be one of the successes coming out of this crisis. I wish the same could be said for PPE and testing which is turning into a travesty TBH.
 

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Guys , im not any where near fluent in German , but im sure that the German media and papers are having their own complaints with what they are doing or not doing , as sure as eggs ae eggs they are not sitting back laughing , this is a first learning curve for all of us , givem some slack eh
 

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I'm starting to lose patience with people , had two driving jobs today , one tit overtook me in a 30 doing 45 with more pedestrians about than usual , he got stopped at a set of traffic lights 1/4m up the road and I undertook him in the left turn lane , did stop and call him a **** first though.

Another thought good opportunity to get the petrol engined stand on scooter out and ride it on the path at 20mph in and out of pedestrians.

M6 was like a sunday morning all the way to birmingham , 90% commercial vehicles with the odd car , around stoke on an almost empty motorway somebody had managed to stuff a transit van into the central reservation barrier bending 30m of it

And people wonder why they're asked to stop at home.
 

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I am really down at the moment.
We live 100 yards from a major ambulance station, they are in and out with great regularity now. Every hour this afternoon they have been by every few minutes.
Stay safe.

Bizarrely, I live a few miles the other side of that same ambulance station and oddly enough I've noticed far fewer. Honestly, there seems to have been quite a reduction.
 

Oneball

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I am really down at the moment.
We live 100 yards from a major ambulance station, they are in and out with great regularity now. Every hour this afternoon they have been by every few minutes.
Stay safe.

That’s the first step, knowing you’re not happy.

Now you’ve got to do something about it. Have a chat with the Mrs and tell her.
 

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Spot on.....they are much more complicated than you might think which is why 20 big companies are working in a consortium to make these in high volumes and very quickly. I am hearing that the first deliveries of significant volumes to the NHS start this weekend. I actually think industry coming together to build the ventilators and in big volumes will be one of the successes coming out of this crisis. I wish the same could be said for PPE and testing which is turning into a travesty TBH.
Not having it - they've made them before, no problem, now unless someone is holding onto to 'secrets' there's no reason that if can can make one you can make 10,000 given the infra.

Cynical barsteward me!
 

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Surely a ventilator is a relatively simple device, not rocket science or brain surgery. Where's the hard bit? We are a Western advanced country, surely it's not that hard for the boffins?
Health and Safety, that's the hard bit, it's ok coz it ***** up every other industry as well.
 

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Question to the NHS or associated people on here , Just heard a right tail of woe , regarding a woman from Milton Keynes whose elderly mother died very recently with Corona virus positive , she was unable or not allowed to be with her mother when she died and was thanking the nurse who held her mothers hand whilst passing , my question is why , or is it possible to waiver the chance of catching Covid19 spend time with your loved one on the understanding that you self isolate for the required time ,

Fortunately for me both my parents have passed years ago , but im damd sure if it was one of my kids nothing on earth would prevent me from being beside them .........................what would you do
 

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Bizarrely, I live a few miles the other side of that same ambulance station and oddly enough I've noticed far fewer. Honestly, there seems to have been quite a reduction.

I know, you live the other side. I see them all as they all turn left and go Colchester direction. I should stop spending all my time in the conservatory and move to the back of the house where I can't see or hear them. Since I typed this two went by with blue lights on. I walked up the road earlier and all seven were out. None left even the two paramedic cars were gone.
 
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