Coronavirus, advice from ME

[duncan webster 1Participant @duncanwebster1]

Re smoke rings issue 4642: next time I want some advice on a Model Engineering topic I'll ask the Chief Medical Officer. On the other hand, perhaps Mr Editor should stick to his last

[duncan webster 1Participant @duncanwebster1]

[SteviegtrParticipant @steviegtr]

Not a clue as to what you are on about, but from the few words it does not look good. .

Steve.

[Brian HParticipant @brianh50089]

It is not essential to be an expert to have an opinion about anything.

Brian

[blowlampParticipant @blowlamp]

I don't get ME, but I still want to know what's been said!!

Was it something Podiatry related?

Martin.

[V8EngParticipant @v8eng]

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Edited By V8Eng on 29/06/2020 18:43:13

[SteviegtrParticipant @steviegtr]

Come on V8Eng you nearly did it. This is like whatever you do, don't look in the bag.

Somehow can see this thread getting canned.

Steve.

[Jeff DaymanParticipant @jeffdayman43397]

"His last what?" Said the shoemaker.

Been some prime twaddle in Smoke Rings periodically over the last year or so from the latest chair occupant in the ed office.

[V8EngParticipant @v8eng]

Posted by Steviegtr on 29/06/2020 20:40:27:

Come on V8Eng you nearly did it. This is like whatever you do, don't look in the bag.

Somehow can see this thread getting canned.

Steve.

HaHa. My post might get canned.again so I’ve removed it first.🤐
V8Eng.

 

Edited By V8Eng on 29/06/2020 21:50:07

[JAParticipant @ja]

removed.

Edited By JA on 29/06/2020 21:34:31

[BazParticipant @baz89810]

Totally agree with you Jeff , I think his latest blurb really takes the biscuit. If we need Covid 19 advice we have experts to inform us, I think he should keep his writing in our magazine to model engineering subjects and if he has to share his thoughts on Covid he should perhaps share his knowledge through The Lancet.

[Michael GilliganParticipant @michaelgilligan61133]

Not currently being an ME reader, the detail of this discussion is lost on me … but I will just mention this ‘Editorial’ on micscape, which has attracted similar criticism:

**LINK**

http://www.microscopy-uk.org.uk/mag/indexmag.html?http://www.microscopy-uk.org.uk/mag/artmar20/virus-mol.html

MichaelG.

[HopperParticipant @hopper]

"You"ll just feel rough for a few days"? Really? Thats what all those emergency rooms in Texas and California are full of since they ended lockdown? People feeling rough? Crikey. Ive felt rough on a few Sunday mornings but never that rough.

[JasonBModerator @jasonb]

Hopper, I can't see that quoted text in Martin's editorial where are you getting it from?

[J HancockParticipant @jhancock95746]

We could all go back to those ' tried and trusted' remedies of the olden days………like what finished Robin Hood.

[HopperParticipant @hopper]

@Jason: Sorry. From the venerable Mr Gilligan's linked editorial on the microscope forum. Cant comment on the ME editorial as no link posted so its a mystery. I presume it is nothing quite so bizarre as the microscopist's short sighted view.

Edited By Hopper on 30/06/2020 10:27:43

[Nick Clarke 3Participant @nickclarke3]

Interestingly enough, yesterday the government issued an instruction to school staff not to wear masks as, according to Public Health England, 'they interfere with teaching' I actually agree, they do, but since when have Public Health England become qualified to issue instructions on an educational, rather than a health, matter?

As someone who has been involved in education for many years, am I now qualified to offer advice and instructions on health matters in return?

If so I am minded to change the social distancing distance to 2¼ cubits – with as much authority as their comment!

[HopperParticipant @hopper]

Posted by Nick Clarke 3 on 30/06/2020 10:48:25:

Interestingly enough, yesterday the government issued an instruction to school staff not to wear masks as, according to Public Health England, 'they interfere with teaching' I actually agree, they do, but since when have Public Health England become qualified to issue instructions on an educational, rather than a health, matter?

As someone who has been involved in education for many years, am I now qualified to offer advice and instructions on health matters in return?

If so I am minded to change the social distancing distance to 2¼ cubits – with as much authority as their comment!

Perhaps they issued their edict after consultation with some education experts?

Will we all be issued cubit tape measures?

 

Edited By Hopper on 30/06/2020 11:08:11

[MeunierParticipant @meunier]

What the Ell is everybody on about ?

Or am I playing in a different League ?

DaveD

Edited By Meunier on 30/06/2020 19:08:27

[Howard LewisParticipant @howardlewis46836]

If teaching while wearing a mask, it is going to be really difficult eating at a restaurant while wearing a mask!

The social distance bit is easy

Howard

[BazyleParticipant @bazyle]

I don't have copies of ME from 1918 but it would be really interesting to read at least a passing mention in the magazine from then to show what people were thinking and to mark the historical situation. There must have been thousands of model engineers passing away then – do the adverts from 1919, 20 reflect that in a surge in Drummond round bed lathes being advertised? Were there letters to the editor asking fro advice on disposing of workshops?
Was there nothing in the period '39 to '45 that touched on life perhaps being a little different from a few years before?

[JasonBModerator @jasonb]

The same smoke rings includes a bit from the Sept 1904 mag which does make interesting reading.

I'd have thought there would have been more complaints about ME using a somewhat out of date photo of some bloke named Neil on the facing page than about Martin's text

Edited By JasonB on 30/06/2020 19:46:04

[Neil WyattModerator @neilwyatt]

I have few issues from the Second World War and none from the first.

A random editoprial from February 1945 had Percival Marshall reporting on things as if all was normal, except for the results of an American railroad modellers magazine reader survey. He states that the results of a postwar survey would probably show even more activity, reflecting the assumption around then that it would all be done and dusted in the relatively near future.

Neil

[Nick Clarke 3Participant @nickclarke3]

During the war there was plenty of information regarding things going on – Percival Marshall wrote in the issue of Sept 21st 1939:

'Some of our readers may be wondering what the 'ME' will do during the period of the war. The answer is simple – it will carry on'

Later in the same piece he says that 'many of our readers will be engaged in some form of armaments making or of national service where where mechanical knowledge is required'

He goes on to say that the magazine supported this in the last war, and in fact a series of articles by Edgar T. Westbury were printed on 'Model Engineers and National Service' as well as information on Capstan and automatic lathes that they might come across if working in factories.

LBSC used to include asides in his articles about 'Herr Hitler' and the V1s or 'wommin birds' and how he had to put out an incendiary in his attic, how next door had a bomb hit and also how he used to sit outside the Anderson Shelter with a drawing board on his knees completing articles. He was definitely very pro British – you could tell by his cheeky comments about the Germans, including Goering who was described as fat but owning a model train system (but he still recommended by name tools that were pre-war and German!) He and his wife evacuated for a few weeks and this was also described.

[Former MemberParticipant @formermember32069]

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