I have just had a look at the NHS advice for pregnant women here in the UK.
There is no clinical evidence to suggest that pregnant women and their unborn babies are more at risk of catching the virus.
Pregnant women with no underlying health conditions are likely to have mild to moderate symptoms if the do fall ill.
However, pregnant women are considered a vulnerable group as a precautionary measure.
Pregnant women are advised to stay at home and practice social distancing as much as possible, but that they should continue ante-natal care. Phone and video links may replace some face to face appointments.
Where possible pregnant women should work from home. Pregnant women may choose to continue working outside the home, but if they have a public facing role they should consult with employer's Occupational Health representatives to minimise risks, either by taking a reduced risk, non-public facing role, or by using effective PPE. Social distancing practise is recommended at all times.
The precautionary measures should be particularly adhered to in the last trimester after 28 weeks gestation. (I'm going to hazard a guess that this is to increase the likelihood of being fit and well for a more 'comfortable' birth, so that birth partners may attend and to reduce risk to medical staff. I didn't see anything about increased risk to mum, or baby.)
I have a daughter who works in a public facing role and I have four grandchildren. I appreciate how anxiety provoking this situation is.
I think your daughter did absolutely the right thing to consider herself vulnerable as a precautionary measure and take take responsibility for her own and others' health. Our government has not handled the pandemic perfectly, but no pregnant woman is forced to work and they were advised to start self-isolating four weeks ago, particularly when in the last trimester for a minimum of 12 weeks.
As for your son, I cannot begin to imagine how stressful it must be to be thrown in the deep end like that and how stressful it is for you to feel that your child is being put at risk.
I worry about my daughter. If she doesn't get ill, it will be a miracle, but I just keep reminding myself that she's as tough as old boots. I worry about her taking it back home to my grandchildren, but I keep reminding myself that children appear to be made of sterner stuff.
It helps me to have contingency plans in place. I have talked to my daughter about how she can self-isolate within their tiny home if/when she gets ill to minimise contact with, and risk to, the rest of her family. If she becomes ill, her partner needs to stay healthy for the duration to look after the kids; I need to stay healthy to keep them supplied in their quarantine and foster the dog as they don't have a garden.
Our frontline workers need back up teams, whether we do that for our own relations, or others who are distant from their families. It's our job to stay healthy, to think ahead and be ready if/when we are needed.
Alfred Binet's original goal in creating his IQ test was to help children learn and improve their skills. Party games like musical statues were introduced to school curricula to help improve co-ordination, spatial manipulation and reasoning skills. IQ tests were merely a means of measuring need and progress.
IQ tests have been widely misused. In the US they were at one time used as an entrance exam for newly arrived immigrants, but as they were culture specific their use has been criticised as a form of eugenics.
They were also used in the US to guide a sterilisation programme, those women falling below a certain score being operated on without their knowledge, or consent. There is an historical account of a woman who tried all her married life to have a family, but only found out that she had been sterilised (rather than having an appendectomy as she was told) when she developed appendicitis in later life.
The IQ test is a measure of many things, and so few, all at the same time.
Most IQ tests don't go that high, never mind scores.
Whilst Rowan Atkinson's history of accomplishments (including an MSc in Electrical Engineering from Oxford) would suggest a bias towards the combination of the mathematical, verbal and spatial reasoning ability necessary for a high IQ score, a score of 132 on the Stanford-Binet test, or 148 on the Cattell would put him in the top 10% who are eligible for Mensa membership.
Albert Einstein is estimated to have had a score of around 160 based upon his work, Baruch Spinoza and Immanuel Kant estimated at around 175.
Its possible that Atkinson has an IQ of this order, but it's also possible that it's an internet rumour. If he is that 'intelligent', I doubt that he's all that impressed with his own score. IQ tests aren't all they're cracked up to be given they test a limited range of skills and you can improve your score through practice, technique and increased knowledge.
I think perhaps his success as an entertainer is more reliant upon his emotional intelligence, although verbal reasoning and spatial manipulation skills are evident in his work.
Given only one person can be treated per machine at any given time, moving the machines around doesn't seem like a practical solution unless there are no cases at all in a given area.
You'd be wasting time packing up,moving and setting up the equipment from an area where it could be used to an area where it could be used.
It might, however, provide some insight into how the effects of the virus need to be treated which may help with more widely available solutions.
Even if it lends weight to the idea that when patients are ventilated that oxygen isn't administered under pressure, it could perhaps save lives.
Yes, I understood how it works from your cited report.
That's why I suggested a connection with the other reports that ventilating under pressure appears to be causing lung damage, possibly killing patients.
Maybe the lungs need rest to recover, rather than been worked under pressure.
When I read that this treatment allowed the patient's lungs to rest I immediately thought of the reports relating to ventilators being used at high pressure and the lung damage that appears to be causing.
I should have said, Palm, I loved the colours in your painting.
I'm hoping that doesn't sound wrong and maybe I'm not expressing myself very well, but y'know the way you created texture and depth with pinks and blues. I liked that.
He's a dark horse man of the apocalypse, is our String.
He's the one they don't talk about because whilst the other ones are chucking around pestilence and what-not, up front and all in an honest day's work, he's the one that lulls you into a false sense of security before jumping out atcha.
Clearly the muddy boots are a symbol of a connection with with the Earth and the absence of trews is suggestive of your seed.
I think if you want to move forward with your personal development through dream interpretation and should the dream recur, it would probably be best to avoid dribbling your seed into your wellies.
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RE: Time for a cultural interlude
I think it may indeed appeal to the Latvian side of you, Har.That's why I mentioned it.