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[pusb]

I live in rural North Devon and so far we have no COVID19 cases in our local hospital. The hospital has just 8 ICU units so you see how small it is.

The stream of caravans heading here over the last few days has been stunning.

As of yesterday I’ve now decided to stay at home as despite being just 48 I have had type 1 diabetes for 37 years, Myasthenia Gravis (another auto immune disease, and to trump all that I’m having a quadruple heart bypass in a couple of weeks. So I’m well into the ‘at higher risk’ category unfortunately.

Over the last week I can’t say I’ve noticed any effort to social distance, in fact the beaches have been packed and it’s getting busier day on day.

My wife is worried about bringing it home too but her employer isn’t over sympathetic about her home working although this is perfectly doable.

The sooner Boris actually makes social distancing law and not a polite suggestion the better.

Maybe I’m sensitive to the situation but it beggars belief the way some people are behaving.

Hope everyone stays safe and common sense prevails.

 

 

"My wife is worried about bringing it home too but her employer isn’t over sympathetic about her home working although this is perfectly doable"

 

I know of a few places like this. Some where they are putting pressure on employees to register as "key workers" in order to still send their kids to school. I find this so annoying as that is a service which is meant for children of doctors, nurses and police officers. Not just for employers who have an allergy against their people working from home.

 

I tried to find a way to grass these places up to the authorities but I couldn't find anything. I guess they have their hands full at the moment and are assuming that everyone is acting in good faith....

[xrocketengineer]

Over on this side of the pond, things are about the same. The main difference is that more people are buying more guns and ammo!  Maybe they think the the virus has something to do with zombies?

Also in another sign of the times, they televised the first "virtual NASCAR race" using IRacing. I watched most of it and it was entertaining. They had some real current and retired drivers among the field.

We are definitely living in unusual times and it will get much worse before it gets better. 

Stay safe and healthy.  

[blacktulip]

The trouble with the public is that they think it won't happen to them and until the virus actually affects their lives directly they won't bat an eyelid. Like it's fake news.

Edited by blacktulip, 22 March 2020 - 09:20 PM.

[sonikk4]

As the saying goes "S£%t's got real" McDonalds are now closing completely, no takeaway service either.

 

And yes just this once i have avoided the swear filter!!!!

 

More panic at the shops for Burgers and Chicken Nuggets.

[Cooperman]

I just got this link from my friend in Arizona.

Personally I think we need to do a total lock-down NOW, especially in view of the number of idiots who went to tourist resorts this weekend with apparently no appreciation of the seriousness of this.

 

https://medium.com/@tomaspueyo/coronavirus-the-hammer-and-the-dance-be9337092b56

Edited by Cooperman, 22 March 2020 - 09:41 PM.

[sonikk4]

I just got this link from my friend in Arizona.

Personally I think we need to do a total lock-down NOW, especially in view of the number of idiots who went to tourist resorts this weekend with apparently no appreciation of the seriousness of this.

 

https://medium.com/@tomaspueyo/coronavirus-the-hammer-and-the-dance-be9337092b56

 

Boris and the gang are reportedly looking at something in the next 24hrs.

 

Bit late for that and i think we need to go down the route that both France and Italy are taking. France fining people on the spot.

 

Draconian?? maybe but you have to do what it takes to get people onboard with this dire situation. "Ohh it will all be over in a few months" No it wont you arrogant buffoon unless WE ALL FOLLOW THE GUIDELINES set out by the Government. Don't like it, tough titty, get over yourself buttercup life is real, this virus is real and the only way to deal with it is to face up to reality and the effect its having on the WORLD!!!

 

Sorry rant over.

[pusb]

The trouble with the public is that they think it won't happen to them and until the virus actually affects their lives directly they won't bat an eyelid. Like it's fake news.

 

Yeah its just a case of ignore it because it will never happen.

 

If I am being honest I did probably think it was scaremongering at first.

 

However I soon changed my mind. The way governments all over the world are treating this shows the seriousness of this. Economists now talking about a 24% drop in GDP. No government anywhere would ever allow that sort of crash unless it really was life or death

[Cooperman]

I was born in 1940, so I can just remember WW2 when my dad was in the RAF. My mother told me of the sudden changes the beginning of the war caused ordinary people and I do recall some small things like ration books and no sweets. I didn't get my first ice cream until I was 6 years old  .

Soon there were all sorts of restrictions, rationing happened after a short while and there was no petrol for any private motoring after early 1940. People accepted it and got on with things.

One interesting fact appears to be that if people don't quickly realise how f-ing dangerous this virus is, we could have a high number of deaths. I have seen a figure of 250,000 mentioned. Remember, during WW2, 66,000 people were killed by German bombing in the entire UK. That was thought bad - and it was. The Spanish Flu of 1918 - '19 caused 200,000 deaths in the UK

Maybe the younger people feel that the deaths will only be amongst the elderly or the already sick and it doesn't really matter how many die in those groups. Am I being cynical, being in the 'elderly' group - 80 this year? I do hope not!

[nicklouse]

Maybe the younger people feel that the deaths will only be amongst the elderly or the already sick and it doesn't really matter how many die in those groups. Am I being cynical, being in the 'elderly' group - 80 this year? I do hope not!

unfortunately that is what it seems the Governments initial plan was. save the economy and damn the people.

[sonikk4]

So finally Boris has pulled the trigger, restricted shopping, restricted exercise, Police can enforce dispersal of groups of more than two people and even fine.

 

About bloody time as well.

[Cooperman]

Maybe this will, at last, bring home the seriousness of the situation to those idiots who were in some sort of denial.

The estimate by the NHS is that if these measures had not been introduced, the death toll would have been c.70,000. With them in place it is estimated at 10,000 dead.

Even that is frightening, especially if you are one of the vulnerable ones, as my wife definitely is and I may well be.

[blacktulip]

Let's hope the nation buys in. I bet it won't change a thing with regards to people going out. Tomorrow on the news you will see people out as usual, you wait.

[mk1coopers]

Let's hope the nation buys in. I bet it won't change a thing with regards to people going out. Tomorrow on the news you will see people out as usual, you wait.

If people are out and about gathering in larger numbers expect to see further restrictions come in and the police being given further powers (with possible armed forces involvement) it is amazing what I've seen, people spitting in the streets after coughing, all huddled up in suprermarket queues, yesterday the drive through line for a McDonalds I went past was out onto the road and up to the next roundabout blocking traffic.....crazy

[DeadSquare]

Darn it !

A couple more dry days, and I would have been able to start preparing our veg garden.

[Vinay-RS]

After an official presidential announcement last night, we are in a lockdown in our country from Thursday. I think this is a good time to get some work done on the Mini and do work from home. 

 

It's a scary time that we are living in. Hoping that there are some basic supplies in the shops like milk and cereal when I get a chance to go do some shopping today. Seriously worried that people have bought everything and the shops will be empty...