请不要责备英国医院或者NHS没有提前预备抗疫物资

英国的医院不收费，也没有收费处，材料应该都是系统依靠供应链配送，医院是没有用于采购医疗材料的自由资金的。

而且采购流程等都比较规范，按部就班的进行。要提前战略性备货，必须跳过很多流程和法律，只有在国家宣布紧急状态才可以。而国家卫生紧急状态还必须是WHO宣布灾害到一定的级别或者本国灾害到一定程度才可以宣布。这是先有鸡蛋还是先有鸡的问题，很多国家都是这样。我想这可能是很多欧洲国家和美国等发达国家缺少抗疫物资的系统原因。

从这一点来看，WHO迟迟没有参与调查疫情，没有宣布疫情全世界爆发是很多信赖WHO的国家损失惨重的原因之一。

Everything we do after a pandemic will seem inadequate

"Everything we do before a pandemic will seem alarmist. Everything we do after a pandemic will seem inadequate. This is the dilemma we face, but it should not stop us from doing what we can to prepare. We need to reach out to everyone with words that inform, but not inflame. We need to encourage everyone to prepare, but not panic." — Michael O. Leavitt, 2007

A Letter from Italy Warning for Coronavirus

I am writing to you from Bergamo, Italy, at the heart of the coronavirus crisis. The news media in the US has not captured the severity of what is happening here. I am writing this post because each of you, today, not the government, not the school district, not the mayor, each individual citizen has the chance, today to take actions that will deter the Italian situation from becoming your own country’s reality.  The only way to stop this virus is to limit contagion. And the only way to limit contagion is for millions of people to change their behavior today. 

If you are in Europe or the US you are weeks away from where we are today in Italy.

I can hear you now. “It’s just a flu. It only affects old people with preconditions”

There are 2 reasons why Coronavirus has brought Italy to it’s knees. First it is a flu is devastating when people get really sick they need weeks of ICU – and, second, because of how fast and effectively it spreads. There is 2 week incubation period and many who have it never show symptoms.  

When Prime Minister Conte announced last night that the entire country, 60 million people, would go on lock down, the line that struck me most was “there is no more time.” Because to be clear, this national lock down, is a hail mary. What he means is that if the numbers of contagion do not start to go down, the system, Italy, will collapse. 

Why? Today the ICUs in Lombardy are at capacity – more than capacity. They have begun to put ICU units in the hallways. If the numbers do not go down, the growth rate of contagion tells us that there will be thousands of people who in a matter of a week? two weeks? who will need care. What will happen when there are 100, or a 1000 people who need the hospital and only a few ICU places left? 

On Monday a doctor wrote in the paper that they have begun to have to decide who lives and who dies when the patients show up in the emergency room, like what is done in war. This will only get worse. 

There are a finite number of drs, nurses, medical staff and they are getting the virus. They have also been working non-stop, non-stop for days and days. What happens when the drs, nurses and medical staff are simply not able to care for the patients, when they are not there?

And finally for those who say that this is just something that happens to old people, starting yesterday the hospitals are reporting that younger and younger patients – 40, 45, 18, are coming in for treatment. 

You have a chance to make a difference and stop the spread in your country. Push for the entire office to work at home today, cancel birthday parties, and other gatherings, stay home as much as you can. If you have a fever, any fever, stay home. Push for school closures, now. Anything you can do to stop the spread, because it is spreading in your communities – there is a two week incubation period – and if you do these things now you can buy your medical system time. 

And for those who say it is not possible to close the schools, and do all these other things, locking down Italy was beyond anyone’s imagination a week ago. 

Soon you will not have a choice, so do what you can now. 

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from: https://www.teamblind.com/post/Read-this-from-internet----A-letter-from-Italy-CczgUNtq

Actions for UK government to stop the Corona Virus

As a tax payer, I am requesting the UK government to declare country emergency and :

1, Ask everyone to work from home if possible

2, Ask everyone to avoid public transportation if possible

3, Ask everyone to shop online if possible

4, Ask everyone to avoid indoor places where lots of people gathering, such as cinema, shopping mall

5, Close all schools

6, setup check point to screen temperature at airport for all passengers

7, Close the board or isolate for 14 days for people from oversea

8, Declare country emergency

9, setup check point to screen temperature at train stations for some areas

10, Ask everyone to keep one metre distance when queuing, talking etc.

11, Ask public facing staff (such as waitress, shop keeper etc.) to wear face mask

Each those measures may only contribute 1% or less on stopping the outbreak, but all added together will save thousands lifes in UK or may stop the breakout.

HP ProBook overheating and cursor jumping

I have a 2014 HP ProBook 450 G1 15.6-inch (Intel Core i7 2.2GHz, 8GB RAM, 750GB HDD, Windows 7 Professional). The temperature of CPU rise very quickly up to 100 degree and the mouse cursor is jumping towards the edge of the screen about once every second.

This issue has been for about two years. The laptop was very expensive and I do expect it to last longer.

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Update on 4/Jan/2010: After uninstall and delete the touchpad drive a few times, and then install the Synaptics driver 17.0.18.8 seems solved the overheat issue. The touchpad is still disabled as I always use external mous, but the cursor still jumping.

I won the court case against Churchill Home Insurance

People may recall that my house was damaged by the storm on Feb/2018. Churchill Home Insurance refused my claim, so I took the Churchill Insurance to the court.

Churchill Home Insurance refused to discuss for a settlement and insisted to go to the hearing.

Fortunately, I finally won the case on the hearing at the Cambridge County Court by myself (I don't appoint any solicitors).

Despite I won the case, I don't suggest others to take the similar action without solicitors. It was so stressfull, just not worth the time and effort.

Huawei is really in trouble without ARM licenses

Huawei is in really trouble with business stopped by ARM.

A mobile phone chip usually has many CPUs apart from the 4 or more main cores which are well known by most of consumers. It wouldn't surprise me if there are more than 10 small CPUs such as ARM M0, M3 of M4 inside.

Without licenses from ARM for those small cores, I expected Huawei is no more able to make the Kiren chip legally.

Let's wait and see.