Well rounded points there!

On the whole, I think proper use of gloves is probably more beneficial (assuming you are continuing to wash your hands) especially if you have cuts/cracks on your hands, which could be caused by dry skin from washing so much. Most people don't clean their hands properly, but it takes a special kind of cretin to not be able to use and dispose of gloves correctly.

The "don't use gloves or masks" thing has a few different points behind it. First is that they're in short supply, so it's about saving them for those who really do need them (the medical professionals with direct contact with the infected). Second is that most people won't be using them correctly,at which point they can increase the risk of pathogenic infections rather than decrease.

IE, disposable p2 type masks will stop particulates but once they're saturated, you'll end up breathing in the stuff that's soaked through. Also, improper handling can contaminate them. They should be worn once and thrown away.

As to gloves, same thing can be said about the improper handling and storage. But also they can instil bad habits, such as a feeling of immunity so you go around touching and contaminating more than you would of you felt vulnerable and gloveless. A lot of microbiologists don't wear gloves in the lab for that reason,as well as the fact that the skin is a great barrier, you just need to wash your hands properly!


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A little shocking thing I have seen is friends and family on facebook.


1. Too many people are getting their information from social media and too many of them are getting all the fake stuff and taking it in. That worries me. One is the home made mask stuff that people are doing that is pointless.


2. People complaining their hands are sore or too dry now from washing their hands a lot.
Firstly - OMG, the amount of people that did not wash their hands as they should be normally is very surprising to me. I have barely changed my hand washing because I was already doing it all.


- Before dinner
- When you come home from work
- Put bins out
- Doing anything in outside or clearly could be dirty
- Toilet of course


And so on...


I commented on this on facebook and most people seem to not wash their hands before dinner or after being out of the house and a couple of family members told me I was excessive before. The whole reason Flu numbers are still quite shocking globally is because people have a very poor concept in hygiene and as soon as a new virus hits - its a mess.


France - Has been poo with their flu numbers for years, too many old people die each year over there but they worked on it recently and it improved. They still have questionable hygiene around.
Italy - Old country, old people and lots just water works, garbage, streets - all old but they clearly have a major issue with their health and hygiene over there. They have not taken part in official flu statistics for a number of years so no one really knows how bad it is each year there but clearly there was a reason for it - They knew!


New York - Anyone been there in summer? Why do most people go there when it is actually winter? Same as San Fran - A lot of streets actually just smell of piss and the garbage everywhere that seems to just been there ages, the human poo you see on the streets, all the homeless, the smog and just how crammed people are there etc - It was ALWAYS going to be a bad run there.


America with its overal population of poor health, government of idiots in power, king idiot in power and poor [/size]hygiene many states have - Their death toll is going to be crazy.

Video on French pre-Dreadnaughts if anyone is interested.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ygXLnRAm-A

True, but it is still a change for the federation that built lots of different ships for different purposes. Lessons learned.

Quote from: Serious on March 29, 2020, 09:15:43 AM

Managed to watch episode 10, end of series, and it was enjoyable.

Then it was also highly predictable, I mean, they tell you what is going to happen a long time before they do it. I heard some bits put forward a couple of weeks ago.

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Scapegoat issue correct. Everyone cries for Picard, Series 2? The spare body was far too obvious. Riker arrives with cavalry, predicted.

They set everything up for a huge battle and then nothing. Romulans do off home and so does the Fed. Mind this is one of the principles of the original Trek.

The one disappointment was the alien machines that looked more like a bunch of mechanical worms. Then we have seen them previously. Could have been so much better.

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Those mechanical arms - Much like what Control/Red Angel

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I enjoyed it but a little bit disappointed but also respected some things.


- Super fans are angry because they could have brought data back to life. I disagree, The actor can not keep playing him, be realistic, they killed Data off - let him die like the series did here.
- Picard is now an android - Not sure how I feel on this one really
- Star Fleet clearly have gone more with other races, maybe they learned a lot from the Dominion - Just build one type of ship that you can mass produce and repair easily, rather then doing lots of different types.
- No one stayed to protect the androids?[size=78%] [/size]

Ship design often ended up advancing fast, so you might end up with ships initially intending to be identical but each ship benefited from the lessons learned from the previous ones, so could vary a lot. On top of that you get in life updates, improvements which were done to bring ships up to date but usually done on an individual ship. That meant even if ships were identical to start off with they often quickly ended up with variants. There are also a huge number of possible different uses for a ship so you would end up with a lot of different designs anyway.