Recent content by jbw

Been through the scenario you outlined - except instead of sisters I had brothers who would not help. After some very careful investigations we decided on a care home. My mom was actually a lot better cared for there and in her more lucid moments was organising an escape committee with fellow...

I agree with what’s already been said here. But if you want to tell a story then one way is to try and strike up a conversation between the viewer and your image. By that I mean don’t always be too direct in your telling of a story - instead think of allegorical ways of communicating it. Many of...

Well done !

I was only tempted once when I was younger. I loved reading about the history of the Roman Empire and was tempted to have SPQR tattooed on my upper arm. When I asked a guy how much it cost he mentioned he hadn’t come across a Queens Park Ranger supporter before. He must have been a bit...

Blimey - that’s an excellent read. Thanks for that James

Virus - an nucleic molecule in a protein coat that is obliged to parchandale a living host in order to reproduce.

Yes - an obligate parasite is something not capable of reproduction of itself but needs to infect a living cell to hijack their RNA

Since a virus is not a living organism but an complex obligate parasite it has to use the RNA of its host infected cell to replicate. RNA duplication is more open to mistakes (mutations) than DNA and has a poor self checking mechanism if mistakes are made . So the virus may well mutate - it...

Exactly- the WHO is worried about under reporting. People may have been infected and not been overtly aware of it (lucky sods ! )

WHO reports the death rate as 3.4% - the U.K. estimates 2% or with luck a bit lower. Death rates do not just depend upon infection but also on the quality of health care given to the seriously ill. If too many become ill at one time then the quality of health care declines. Statically the best...

The problem is that people are viewing self-isolation, washing hands etc as a way of preventing getting the virus altogether. It’s doesn’t work like that - it’s just a way of slowing the infection rate. Statistically you (and about 80 % of the population are certainly going to be infected at...

Exactly - that’s why the government has used mathematical modelling to estimate how they can deform the initial growth curve to make the number of serious cases more manageable. If you think about it the UK population is about 66.5 million. The death rate will mostly depend on number of older...

During the initial phase of unrestricted (ie no vaccine, no natural immunity, little restriction on contact etc) growth of this contagion the doubling time appears to be somewhere between 2 to 4 days. This would continue unabated until it peaks at 60 to 80 percent infection of the population...

Excellent

I don’t think you can ever have a level playing field in a photography competition. There will always be variations of one sort or another - for example between those that have time and money to get a great shot and those who who are hard pushed both finically and time wise. Probably the best...