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Withnail
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The Risks - Know Them - Avoid Them
It seems many people are breathing some relief, and I’m not sure why...
tl:dr
As we are allowed to move around our communities more freely and be in contact with more people in more places more regularly, the risks to ourselves and our family are significant. Even if you are gung-ho for reopening and resuming business as usual, do your part and wear a mask to reduce what you release into the environment. It will help everyone, including your own business.
It seems many people are breathing some relief, and I’m not sure why...
tl:dr
As we are allowed to move around our communities more freely and be in contact with more people in more places more regularly, the risks to ourselves and our family are significant. Even if you are gung-ho for reopening and resuming business as usual, do your part and wear a mask to reduce what you release into the environment. It will help everyone, including your own business.
Withnail
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Alexander, you've been a great contestant in the Big Brother Number Ten House.
Here are your best bits...
Here are your best bits...
The Hawk
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No one has ever put it better than the great Carl Sagan and I doubt anybody ever will:
staffordjas
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People like loads of our neighbours will be keeping this lockdown going a lot longer for those of us sticking to it.
Loads of visitors all around, people out visiting...overheard" I'm not bothering, I'm carrying on as normal and going where I want. It's all a load of b0llocks..it's only flu , and that's around all the time without killing us") So f' in annoying
Loads of visitors all around, people out visiting...overheard" I'm not bothering, I'm carrying on as normal and going where I want. It's all a load of b0llocks..it's only flu , and that's around all the time without killing us") So f' in annoying
Perrier
Banned
People like loads of our neighbours will be keeping this lockdown going a lot longer for those of us sticking to it.
Loads of visitors all around, people out visiting...overheard" I'm not bothering, I'm carrying on as normal and going where I want. It's all a load of b0llocks..it's only flu , and that's around all the time without killing us") So f' in annoying
At least you can hold your hand on your heart and say 'you did do the right thing' and deserve a clap for yourself as well as the NHS on Thursday night.
Not like the jokers in my street .
Bob
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Is anyone else concerned about what is coming this evening?
Somehow we’ve done everything so wrong that as a nation we have failed to protect our own, the numbers are frightening and devastating.
Countries that haven’t gone into lockdown have fared dramatically better and no one seems to know why.
Educated and generally sensible people I know are shouting about conspiracy theories and removal of rights, while others are burying their loved ones.
I fear Borris will be again making decisions based on politics and economics instead of based of the safety of the general public.
I have never before felt so helpless in terms of keeping my children protected.
Somehow we’ve done everything so wrong that as a nation we have failed to protect our own, the numbers are frightening and devastating.
Countries that haven’t gone into lockdown have fared dramatically better and no one seems to know why.
Educated and generally sensible people I know are shouting about conspiracy theories and removal of rights, while others are burying their loved ones.
I fear Borris will be again making decisions based on politics and economics instead of based of the safety of the general public.
I have never before felt so helpless in terms of keeping my children protected.
Perrier
Banned
Whatever is coming this evening regarding lifts in restrictions etc , i wont be doing anything any different for a while yet in relation to being in any crowded areas.
If recreational outdoors restrictions do lift , i may resume my drone photography/videography as that requires others being 50 meters away from me anyway.
until the R rate drops well below 0.5 for a while , im happy doing what i'm doing now.
If recreational outdoors restrictions do lift , i may resume my drone photography/videography as that requires others being 50 meters away from me anyway.
until the R rate drops well below 0.5 for a while , im happy doing what i'm doing now.
Noah
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I do have a concern about this Coronavid 19. Some friends came over from north Italy and they both had this strange dry, persistent cough, he was slightly unwell with it. We all acquired similar coughs which lasted some time.
True, but... Mrs Noah's daughter's in laws have lived in north Italy for many years but were in the process of moving to Canada. They arrived here the week before Christmas, with the coughs, we saw them a number of times over the Christmas period and they left mid January. Everyone seemed to acquire the cough without any other real symptoms (and all three members of this household come in the vulnerable/highly vulnerable categories). So too early and lasted too long to be Coronavid, but having had that how would we know the real thing if we caught it if that wasn't it?
True, but... Mrs Noah's daughter's in laws have lived in north Italy for many years but were in the process of moving to Canada. They arrived here the week before Christmas, with the coughs, we saw them a number of times over the Christmas period and they left mid January. Everyone seemed to acquire the cough without any other real symptoms (and all three members of this household come in the vulnerable/highly vulnerable categories). So too early and lasted too long to be Coronavid, but having had that how would we know the real thing if we caught it if that wasn't it?
Gramaisc
Forum O. G.
There is a possibility that it was available in Europe in December.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-52526554
Bob
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A relative with fibrosis died in January, suddenly and unexpectedly given the progression of the condition. He had contact with persons recently returned from Hong Kong with a flu like illness, some members of my family are convinced that it was Covid 19, he was never tested and we will never know for sure.
Mikinton
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The economy always has to be a consideration. You can't go throwing all your weight behind saving us all from coronavirus only to see the economy (and the NHS that relies on it) fail for the next 10 years. More people may die early during those 10 years than would die in the UK during the pandemic.
Anyway, I'm with @perry081064 ..... I won't be changing my lifestyle much in spite of Boris relaxing restrictions.
Withnail
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One thing you can be almost certainly sure of is that your children will not be affected by this pandemic - in fact overall (excess) mortality in under-15's for the last three months is quite considerably less than the ten-year average.
Much of that is because a huge amount of them didn't die by cars hitting them - take a wild guess why - most of the rest is not so easy, because the next big killer is Cancer, and now we have to factor in how many would have survived if their 'interventions' hadn't been cancelled to prepare for the Covid invasion, that sort of thing.
One thing, and at this point possibly the only thing, we do know, is that your children have a vanishingly small, so much so that it is essentially zero, chance of dying from this particular illness.
In fact, there is quite a lot of evidence to suggest that under-13s, if they have no other underlying conditions, are unlikely to experience anything that is likely to lead to hospitalisation, let alone death.
Please don't forget that children grieve for their grandparents in ways that you have no control over.
There are many variables that you have to think about if you have not already done so.
Please remember that in amongst all of this, that it is currently just as likely that your unvaccinated child will be infected by measles, and just as likely that they will die from it as they will from anything else
As things stand, the only real consideration for anybody under the age of up to about 30 is whether they remembered to talk to their Grandparents or not.
Withnail
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'Managing expectations' gives way to, as CJ would say, 'toss it in the seed tray, see if the budgie bites'...
May 7th (Thursday), say that a 'major' policy announcement is to be made on Sunday (May 10th).
Get the Fourth Estate - are they even an ordinal away now? - to frothulate (neologism, calling it) -
- about the ill-defined meaning of it all?
The plebs can now show their in(or-lack-of)dignation, over the course of the comment sections of the various twatterspheres available in a three day nationwide 'focus group'.
As the tail wags the dog, Alexander can now roll back the frontiers of the state of certainty he so lacks - Monday is now not so magic after all.
May 7th (Thursday), say that a 'major' policy announcement is to be made on Sunday (May 10th).
Get the Fourth Estate - are they even an ordinal away now? - to frothulate (neologism, calling it) -
- about the ill-defined meaning of it all?
The plebs can now show their in(or-lack-of)dignation, over the course of the comment sections of the various twatterspheres available in a three day nationwide 'focus group'.
As the tail wags the dog, Alexander can now roll back the frontiers of the state of certainty he so lacks - Monday is now not so magic after all.
staffordjas
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My mate suffered bad symptoms at home with Covid-19 for 11 days , before then being rushed off by ambulance a couple of weeks ago ,for a 5 day hospital stay with breathing difficulties , low sats and temperature of 40.2 . She was still ill when she returned home to recuperate, and was told could take up to 6 weeks or more to make full recovery.
I've had a cough which has puzzled doctors for months now, starting around November time. The doctor actually gave me 10 weeks supply of antibiotics and decongestant inhalers trying to get rid of whatever it is. Still not right now.
I'm just hoping, after us being so careful and going nowhere, that the emergency locksmith who came yesterday didn't have it. Got a bit worried when he started coughing ...
Mikinton
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I've had a sore throat since March 16th.
It's very mild and only surfaces very rarely, like once or twice every few days, but it's never quite gone away. It's something I first noticed around the time events were first getting cancelled, so I've always been a bit more aware of it.
It's very mild and only surfaces very rarely, like once or twice every few days, but it's never quite gone away. It's something I first noticed around the time events were first getting cancelled, so I've always been a bit more aware of it.