Coronavirus

[oilmagnet477]

1 hour ago, C8RKH said:

@gregs24 I'm no medical expert, was just making a point that the panic buying and hysteria is all a tad premature in my very humble opinion. The press and social media are not helping at all.

Yes it will spread. Yes more people will get it. Yes more people will die. But right now, I bet more people have the cold/Flu and more people are dying, as they do every year, from Influenza, or heart disease, or Diabetes related illnesses or cancer than Lagervirus yet we don't just rush out and panic buy for these things do we?

I'm probably an idiot, as I just think gosh, it's bad, so sit down and have a cup of tea, then get back up again and get on with life.  Of course avoid unnecessary travel and contact, no need to tempt fate, but really, the level of hype right now is just making things worse, not better.

 

I'm currently self medicating with this in my Premier Inn hotel room! Will probably be self isolating too as Chesty LaRue's call girls are all refusing to travel 😆😆😆😆😆😆😆

 

 

 

Don't know how lambasted I'll get for this post (especially as I'm 2/3rds down a bottle of wine!!) but:

we're over populated,

my decrepit MiL lives in my garden (83),

we can't afford the pension or the on going social/health care situation (in this Country alone).

The demise of 'high risk' groups of people will only reduce the burden which have only resulted from the technical/health benefits of keeping people alive way beyond the point where we should.

Apart from the individual/personal impacts involved, I'm struggling to see a down side.

If I'm a casualty of fate, then so be it!

[Sparky]

Nature always finds a balance.

BTW any tips for getting the MIL out of the house and into the garden?  Is she chained?  Asking for a friend.

[pete]

6 hours ago, Sparky said:

First death in Watford General Hospital, just a mile away.  I need more toilet roll.

Since I saw you last Sunday do I need to isolate myself for the next two weeks

[andydclements]

That's strange, eslewhere I read somebody asking how can she get rid of s Son In law who does nothing other than sit about drinking or playing with cars.

[oilmagnet477]

@C8RKH You make me believe in a life before death. I thought I alone drank wine from a tumbler 🤣🤣🤣

5 minutes ago, andydclements said:

That's strange, eslewhere I read somebody asking how can she get rid of s Son In law who does nothing other than sit about drinking or playing with cars.

If I go, she's fooked. I do her shopping, cooking and cleaning!!!

[C8RKH]

54 minutes ago, oilmagnet477 said:

@C8RKH You make me believe in a life before death. I thought I alone drank wine from a tumbler 🤣🤣🤣

Tumbler. Mug. Whatever is in the hotel room. Or if I've had a really shitty day I just neck it from the bottle! I'm not proud...

[KAS-118]

I see the Health Minister, Nadine  Dorries, now has it https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-51827356

[oilmagnet477]

Not wishing the disease on anyone in particular but you have to recognise the irony in this. WOnder how many she will have passed it on to? Will it affect Govt Policy?

[pete]

Wonder where she caught it

[Sparky]

8 hours ago, pete said:

Since I saw you last Sunday do I need to isolate myself for the next two weeks

Feeling a bit rough this morning, but that could be the gin.

[Sparky]

Incidentally, as airline staff (well, retired) we have access to various industry discounts. Cruises are always a good deal (not that we're interested), but right now they're ridiculously cheap!  How about a 15-night Hawaii for £606?  Or 16 nights transatlantic for £314?  Or a long weekend - 3 nights Miami-Bahamas for 18 quid.  And you might even get an extra 2 weeks (or more) free...

[Colin P]

shamelessly nicked from elsewhere

 

[Chillidoggy]

My wife walked down the pasta aisle in Tesco yesterday. Should I be isolating her for two weeks?

I was thinking in the garage with a load of cleaning gear would be the best place.

[Colin P]

NO!!  Think of the swirl marks. 

[Sparky]

Her make-up should cover them.

[KAS-118]

I see McLaren and Haas have people in quarantine 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/formula1/51831409

[Bibs]

https://metro.co.uk/2020/03/11/coronavirus-conference-cancelled-coronavirus-12380306/

It wasn't the best idea someone had really was it! 

[Kimbers]

We will still be at the Surrey Art Fair, Sandown Race course this weekend. We are there from Friday setting up for champagne opening Friday evening and all day Saturday and Sunday.

Would love it if anyone wants to stick 2 fingers up at the hype and come and see us. Anyone coming if you call me when you get there I will come out with some free tickets!

[Bibs]

Seems that if you like horse racing you're immune!! 

[alias23]

Dont get me started @Bibs on Cheltenham Festival! 260,000 people coming into an area which has major issues with hospital infrastructure and support already! We have 3x cases already confirmed. Dont get me wrong im not one of the toilet roll hoarders but I do feel that sensible precautions are worth while to help prevent another Italian job happening in the UK! I guess the £500M betting and £20M hospitality swung it! 

[LotusLeftLotusRight]

I was due to fly out with BA from Heathrow to India on Saturday for a week. It’s a business trip I do once a year and I really enjoy it. I booked the international flights in November and all of the meetings, domestic flights and hotels since.

Today the Government of India decided to suspend issued travel visas for anyone from Italy, Spain, France and Germany until further notice. No problem for me I think. Not so: they are also suspending the visas of anyone who has visited any of these countries since the start of a February. Bummer! I was in Germany for one day only (flew in and out same day), but that’s enough to mean I have to cancel the whole trip.

BA will let me reschedule for latest 1 August at no extra cost, so that’s what I’ve done. Otherwise I will only get 50% back as a refund. The ticket was £2500: Business out, First back, which I was looking forward to! I just hope BA are still around by then and the visa restrictions have been lifted. The rest of the afternoon has been spent trying to cancel everything else with a certain degree of success refund-wise.

You can’t really blame the Indians. As of this morning they had 62 confirmed cases for a population of 1.1 billion, compared to 10,000 cases in Italy with its population of 60 million. Bearing that in mind I actually thought I’d be safer in India than the UK, but of course the air travel would have been a risk (not that I’d care much after a certain amount of complimentary hospitality!). Also there’s always the concern about getting ill abroad or problems with the flight back.

edit. A guy I was talking to today reckoned that Coronavirus cannot survive long in hot climates. Not sure if that’s true, but it would help explain the low casualty count in India, Thailand, Sri Lanka etc.

Edited March 11, 2020 by LotusLeftLotusRight

[KAS-118]

Well I was due to fly to Sweden on Sunday - but one of the things I was going out for will now be done via Video Conference  and the Clients wants to restrict trips as much as possible - so I've just cancelled.

A colleague was flying out by BA - and his return trip was cancelled a few hours ago in any event.

So all this is going to cause a major economic issue. 

[andydclements]

2 hours ago, LotusLeftLotusRight said:

edit. A guy I was talking to today reckoned that Coronavirus cannot survive long in hot climates. Not sure if that’s true, but it would help explain the low casualty count in India, Thailand, Sri Lanka etc.

That's the cornerstone of the UK government approach, delay the spread until the weather warms up and they hope it will then stop spreading, much as 'flu does. One problem is that "plan", Italy is noticeably warmer than the UK, so our average April temperature probably is no warmer than Italy in February, so I cannot see it being a great plan, but being in a tropical country would be much better if the theory about temperature is valid.

[williamtherebel]

SOME PEOPLE ARE JUST ASKING TO BE BURGLED!!

 

[pete]

1 hour ago, andydclements said:

That's the cornerstone of the UK government approach, delay the spread until the weather warms up and they hope it will then stop spreading, much as 'flu does. One problem is that "plan", Italy is noticeably warmer than the UK, so our average April temperature probably is no warmer than Italy in February, so I cannot see it being a great plan, but being in a tropical country would be much better if the theory about temperature is valid.

Don't think the north of Italy ,where the virus is mainly concentrated, is any warmer than the UK