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Offline 7707

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Re: Speedweek 2020
« Reply #15 on: June 16, 2020, 12:01:24 PM »
It has been reported here in the U.K. in virtually every newspaper. Fauci did an interview with The Daily Telegraph?. But I stress currently the borders are closed to certainly All European states. There are no flights. Please check USA Today. Announced today both North and South Borders closed until at least 21 July.
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Re: Speedweek 2020
« Reply #16 on: June 16, 2020, 07:58:02 PM »
Not to head off on a tangent but I have a question. My state, Pa. has three colors, red, yellow, and green. Some states had numbers. There was written criteria to go from red, stay at home, to yellow, 25 in a group, and then green. 250 in a group still with masks, etc. . I have not seen any criteria to go from green to normal. Do any of the states have this criteria?? When will we be normal again?

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Re: Speedweek 2020
« Reply #17 on: June 25, 2020, 04:41:03 AM »
I am still keeping an eye on our flights from the UK to Vegas. Something tells me they might start flying even with no passengers. That way the airline still gets paid ( from all of the flights booked before this crap started) but they don't even have to lay on all of that luxurious food as there will be no more than about 10 passengers. We booked our flights way back in early December.
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Re: Speedweek 2020
« Reply #18 on: June 25, 2020, 08:18:29 AM »
If there are flights; is the US applying quarantine to inbound visitors? I ask only because I was looking to go to NZ as I am currently sans work and have a UK and NZ passport so thought I could sneak in for a family visit - a 14 day quarantine applies in NZ though the airlines don't mention it and apparently its been a bit shaky in terms of enforcement which is why, after weeks of no new cases, NZ has people testing positive again.

When will we be normal again?

I think 'normal' is when the annual flu jab includes 2019-nCoV and there is an uptake of at least 50% (seems there is still debate re the R0 of this virus so the classic formula for the herd immunity threshold of 1?1/R0 gives differing opinions for the minimum population that needs to be vaccinated). For comparison measles requires an 83 - 94% uptake for herd immunity (highly contagious, R0 of 12 - 18).

Remember H1N1 (the swine flu pandemic ca. 2009) - that is in the annual flu jab so it isn't talked about anymore. That virus probably came from wet meat markets too!

Technically a vaccine was developed for the first SARS outbreak (2002 iirc) but for some reason I don't think it ever went into production - whether it was a fail or whether that iteration of SARS just didn't re-emerge diminishing the commercial viability I don't know. An Oxford research team where involved in a SARS vaccine so they were saying they have a jump on this virus but I haven't heard much from them in the media lately....
Given the gazillions of $ being thrown at vaccine research via many different routes (pharma, coalition funding, philanthropy etc.) for this sucker we have to hope that one or more lead candidates are identified soon, proven to provide protection, and distributed as open source for production facilities around the world to ramp up.

Everywhere that has relaxed social distancing seems to be seeing flareups; target is to keep R0 below 1 - essentially a physical rather than biochemical form of herd immunity: stay apart, don't transmit it.

I reckon doing a couple of hundred mph at the quarter would satisfy social distancing; I wish I could be there this year :cheers:
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Re: Speedweek 2020
« Reply #19 on: June 25, 2020, 02:37:43 PM »
John,
There are BA flights going to and from the USA at the moment, but they are not carrying passengers.
I have a friend who is a senior captain with BA and he is flying to LV this weekend. Last month it was LA.

They have most of the seats removed to allow for small freight, but still keep the 1st class seats in.
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Re: Speedweek 2020
« Reply #20 on: June 25, 2020, 05:33:40 PM »
Tourists from the U.K. cannot fly to the US currently.. All Virgin flights cancelled up to 5th August. (My crews flights cancelled this week). Now transferred to BA and Los Angeles. Now we wait for the airports to accept U.K. travellers.
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Re: Speedweek 2020
« Reply #21 on: June 25, 2020, 06:59:46 PM »
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Re: Speedweek 2020
« Reply #22 on: June 26, 2020, 02:16:25 AM »
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Re: Speedweek 2020
« Reply #23 on: June 26, 2020, 07:20:03 AM »
What's out of date about it?
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