Thread: Corona Virus

Originally Posted by Slunnie

As a teacher in a boarding school who's school on Monday is starting online education, it does make me wonder if this is a market that will expand in the future for our isolated students.

Yes, I think so. Both for isolated students and students on a campus. I currently teach in two modes, internal students and actual lectures, and distance via our online Learning Management System.

Two things happened recently.

One, a possible restructure at our university was announced in February that would move us all (or as many as are willing) to an augmented distance learning mode where we have one anchor campus (where I work has three campuses) for teaching face to face and we move all teaching/learning material to the online medium for all others at other campuses and the traditional distance student. This would involve virtual reality, augmented reality and many other Internet of Things capability. This is the way of education the future. Virtual classrooms, labs and such like.

The second thing. we all now see the impacts of covid-19. From this week all teaching at my place of work, where possible, moves online. We are reasonably well placed for this as we use the online Moodle to deliver what is called Blended Teaching where the courses are all online and available to all course enrolled students we use this for lecture materials, lab materials and communication etc. Very useful. But to be equally effective as face-to-face, requires lots of additional effort and a particular additional skill set to adapt to the medium. Most AULRO forum participants would survive in this mode as we all use this forum effectively (mostly) to communicate ideas, opinions, concepts, arguments, questions etc. But it takes time to develop such skills (some still don't) and there is many an opportunity to get things wrong (many still do).

Synchronous and asynchronous communication and the ability to cope and the agility to learn the skills required for the changes is the difference.

Originally Posted by rick130

One ship last week everyone disembarked as it was deemed low risk, but....
All have since been placed in 14 days self isolation.

The next three ships you can bet that won't be happening, they'll go straight into 14 days isolation.

But that's just the point, THEY DIDN'T.
Pickles.

Originally Posted by Arapiles

Yes .... Australians travelling with four other Australians who happened to come down with Covid-19 while on the boat. And the currently non-infected weren't told about the infected ones and then the currently non-infected were allowed to leave, and disperse into the community thereafter.

Complete and utter idiocy.

Thank You, some still don't believe that, I DO, because that's what happened. So like I said, how are we going to "win" with this level of stupidity?
Pickles.

Originally Posted by JDNSW

This "test" has been repeatedly debunked. Ability to do this can be affected by all sorts of conditions and Covid 19 does not necessarily affect the ability to do it, so the "test" is totally worthless.

There are quite a few worthwhile and accurate websites for information if you don't trust the official ones (see the other thread), but following or passing on emails from an unknown (even if a good authority is claimed) source is even worse (if possible) than getting your medical advice from facebook.

Good advice ,I'm not on facebook, never have been. I copied that from a link in the other thread.

WHO is carrying out trials on four promising drug treatments for COVID -19


Coronavirus drug trials: Four 'massive' tests underway

ADF reports 6 cases, while assisting in the fight.

ADF has 6 COVID-19 cases – while assisting in the fight - CONTACT magazine

The various antiviral drugs are the ones more likely to be effective against this virus. All of them are relatively new, and there is little experience or widespread use of any of them. It is possible, but fairly unlikely that one of them may turn out to be a 'miracle drug' for this virus. More likely is that one or more of them will show enough effectiveness to be worth using to save lives or shorten hospital stays. All are in limited supply, expensive, and still patented, which would hamper efforts to rapidly ramp up production, even if technically possible.

Chloroquin is , as mentioned an old antimalarial drug, no longer used because most of the malaria parasites have developed resistance to it and because it can have very serious side effects. However, it has long been known to suppress immune response, and has mild antiviral properties. It might seem strange to want to suppress immune response, but in many cases it is the immune response that is killing the patients. It has the advantage that it is already approved for human use, side effects are well understood, is readily available, cheap, and the off-patent. If it effective at a safe dose, it may well help with very sick patients.

Coronavirus, myths busted and the science explained. Also 5 reasons Singapore is ahead of the curve.


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