Forget Covid.......

[ToraToraTora]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-53019360
Anyone else think we just cut out head off because of a nose bleed?

[steg]

You would never survive cutting your head off, I’m sure Uk will survive... for a bit anyways

[bhg481]

We now know that it wasn't an artery we severed which might have caused us all to bleed to death.

[Gromit]

A nose bleed?
41,000 people dying isn’t a nose bleed.

Social distancing is the key to minimising the virus death toll. It is impossible to work normally and keep 2 metres. So we shut all but food buying. It has undoubtedly saved lives.
You think 41,000 deaths is acceptable. What figure would you find unacceptable the?

[Prudie]

It's everywhere that 2 meters was a randomly plucked length with little back-up to show that 1m would be worse and 3m better. We've all sucked it in though - personally I'm sick to death of shop assistants swerving maniacally if they think I'm too close to the tills like I'm spitting the black death on them.

[SparklyKid]

Social distancing is the key to minimising the virus death toll

In other words gromit, "I'm all right jack"

[Gromit]

2 metres wasn’t entirely random. It is the minimum distance from which you cannot physically touch someone. A sneeze can travel up to 8 metres, but 8m social distancing isn’t practical.
You are sick to death (groan) of shop assistants disapproving when you break the 2 metre advice. I suspect they are even more sick of people who cannot follow a very simple rule.

[Gromit]

OK SparklyKid,

If social distancing isn’t the key to minimising deaths, what is ?

[teacake44]

Well if your in your own little cocoon every day, you don't have to worry about other folks nose bleed, so don't worry about the head being cut off.

[Prudie]

I am NOT breaking the rule, I'm well aware and practise it, they start doing it from about 4 meters away, it gets on my wick.

[New Judge]

Just to add (for the 94th time) it is not a rule. It is advice.

[Mamyalynne]

Make sure your blade is very sharp before you start TTT - less pain.

[Ellipsis]

Wow. I think if a terrorist cult had killed over 40,000 people (and rising) in the UK in the last three months, TTT would not be calling it a "nose bleed".

[Bazile]

//Bank of England 'ready to act' as economy shrinks record 20%//

The above is what I see when I open the link

[THECORBYLOON]

Perhaps there should be a Public Inquiry to find out the answer?

[Peter Pedant]

// personally I'm sick to death of shop assistants swerving maniacally if they think I'm too close to the tills like I'm spitting the black death on them.//
whereas they are far more likely to infect me

[THECORBYLOON]

NJ, legislation says businesses in Wales must take all reasonable measures to ensure there's a two-metre gap between folk from different households within their premises or waiting to enter.

[Peter Pedant]

2 m or 6 ' is based on science fact

the surface area of any sphere is 4pi r squ - I metre - 12 sq m
radius 2 m - - 48 sq m

so by doubling the radius you quarter 48/12 the stuff raching the perimeter - so at 2m each sq m receives 2% of naughty stuff

and a 98% miss rate ( 100-2) is deemed by those who rule us to be acceptiable

but you really always knew that didnt you?

2 m works out ( above ) as the safe distance for - electric charge, magnetic field, X ray - (*)
radsio waves in aircraft - wifi and so on and so on

(*) in fact anything obeying an inverse square law (whose flux obeys an inverse square law) - but you really knew that as well huh

[Prudie]

Funnily enough I do know how to work out the SA of a sphere and I think your argument would have had 8 times the impact had you used volume instead. That doesn't make it a scientific reason to pick 2m though, in reality a covid sneeze (and more than 2% of it) would probably travel way more than that - but I don't see people sneezing left right and centre everywhere I go. Other parts of Europe picked 1.5 didn't they? We might reduce to 1m mightn't we - and why, are people sneezing with less force now?

[THECORBYLOON]

Is the trajectory formed by particles from a sneeze not more of a cone rather than a (hemi-)sphere?

[douglas9401]

More of a speech bubble shape, depending on wind conditions.