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by manda
31 Dec 2020, 03:00
Forum: Fitness and Health
Topic: Covid again - a couple of interesting articles
Replies: 22
Views: 9454

Re: Covid again - a couple of interesting articles

When you think how many people the flu kills each year (WHO reckon 250-650,000) and as Coronaviruses do that has mutated ...COVID is going to behave in exactly the same way (as it has already started doing). What I don't understand if I'm being completely honest is why there are so many conspiracy t...
by manda
30 Dec 2020, 04:36
Forum: Frugality and Self-Reliance
Topic: Things we could 'fix' in the past
Replies: 9
Views: 15228

Re: Things we could 'fix' in the past

Yes to the kettle thing. Me too ....why I have a stove top kettle ...And electric plugs - you used to be able to replace a plug, now it's all moulded together and if something stops working no way of telling if it's the plug or the appliance. Once it's out of the warranty period then that plug is g...
by manda
30 Dec 2020, 04:07
Forum: Fitness and Health
Topic: Covid again - a couple of interesting articles
Replies: 22
Views: 9454

Re: Covid again - a couple of interesting articles

I think Corona viruses will sit on hard surfaces and they can last longer that way (as opposed to landing on cardboard/material which probably either absorbs or breaks the outer membrane of the cell. I know in Auckland they had a case which they could only put down to a lift button. Someone who test...
by manda
19 Dec 2020, 04:33
Forum: Fun and Word Games
Topic: Who's this then No,2
Replies: 4
Views: 3733

Re: Who's this then No,2

Kate Bush deffo :-D
by manda
19 Dec 2020, 04:24
Forum: Food and Drink
Topic: Is there a 'season' for celery?
Replies: 5
Views: 3620

Re: Is there a 'season' for celery?

I love celery...cooked and raw. Raw I like to smear some peanut butter in the concave side ...delicious. I also love celery hearts steamed and either eaten just like that or with cheese sauce on them
by manda
08 Dec 2020, 23:20
Forum: Books, TV and the Media
Topic: The Vicar of Dibley
Replies: 2
Views: 3139

Re: The Vicar of Dibley

I will have to look those up....I love the Vicar of Dibley although I don't know if it would be the same if they did it now....the absence of the Alice Tinker character, just for one, would be immense
by manda
08 Dec 2020, 22:38
Forum: Fitness and Health
Topic: When it becomes available, will you have the jab?
Replies: 52
Views: 31830

Re: When it becomes available, will you have the jab?

I thought that the point of giving the first dose to a 90 year old (and the first dose in Cheshire to a 92 yr old) was to counteract the bad publicity the government got for it's treatment of care homes, early in the pandemic. Still not sure if it wouldn't be better to inject hospital staff first, ...
by manda
02 Dec 2020, 23:56
Forum: Fitness and Health
Topic: When it becomes available, will you have the jab?
Replies: 52
Views: 31830

Re: When it becomes available, will you have the jab?

That too. I was thinking more of the fact that if trials of other dr-ugs were halted no one would hear about it, the researchers would either find an explanation or change their plans, but now everyone knows that someone has had a problem even though it might not be to do with the vaccine. Brazil h...
by manda
02 Dec 2020, 11:37
Forum: Fitness and Health
Topic: When it becomes available, will you have the jab?
Replies: 52
Views: 31830

Re: When it becomes available, will you have the jab?

I think this has to be the worry in all this.....the media are so powerful and they wield that power sometimes with little consideration as to the effects it has. The researchers will be under enormous pressure to deliver and I have no doubt there will be vaccines out there that haven't gone through...
by manda
02 Dec 2020, 01:37
Forum: Fitness and Health
Topic: When it becomes available, will you have the jab?
Replies: 52
Views: 31830

Re: When it becomes available, will you have the jab?

It looks like there are 3 major players currently in the running: The US Pfizer, Moderna (that are very similar in their base) and the British/Swedish AstroZeneca and Oxford Uni which is great - a vaccine being developed by the Chinese has had to be suspended as there was a death which is devastatin...
by manda
25 Nov 2020, 22:59
Forum: Food and Drink
Topic: Salting meat
Replies: 9
Views: 5285

Re: Salting meat

No worries :-D
by manda
20 Nov 2020, 23:12
Forum: Fitness and Health
Topic: When it becomes available, will you have the jab?
Replies: 52
Views: 31830

Re: When it becomes available, will you have the jab?

.......The bottom line is that if we did absolutely nothing about this current Covid virus, mankind wouldn't die out, there would be many who survived and many would develop strong immunity. The trouble is we don't actually know that people would develop a strong immunity because it is such a new v...
by manda
20 Nov 2020, 00:17
Forum: Fitness and Health
Topic: When it becomes available, will you have the jab?
Replies: 52
Views: 31830

Re: When it becomes available, will you have the jab?

I watched a video today, Professor Sucharit Bhackdi said he wont be having it. What I don't understand is that is a process that is already in place every year for already existing infections like Influenza....which also includes vaccinating as part of the toolbox to deal with it. He has made it cl...
by manda
19 Nov 2020, 02:51
Forum: Fitness and Health
Topic: When it becomes available, will you have the jab?
Replies: 52
Views: 31830

Re: When it becomes available, will you have the jab?

Polls tend to be a small sample of a population and if elections are anything to go by, are not that accurate. Considering the disruption to people's lives and livelihoods living in lockdown and restrictions, uptake may actually be higher. I hope you're right, who knows polls may be either totally ...
by manda
18 Nov 2020, 23:32
Forum: Food and Drink
Topic: Salting meat
Replies: 9
Views: 5285

Re: Salting meat

I should have been more specific...you would do it in a sealed container..

You would need to clean the salt off the meat - a good wipe does that. Then pack in all new salt.