SARS CoV-2 coronavirus / Covid-19 (No tin foil hat silliness please)
- Thread starter Don't Kill Bill
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Whhhaaaa...???
That would be something. I'm sceptical, but hoping he's right.
If the likes of Whitty and Vallance chime in with similar messages, I'll be over the moon.
18 months of quarantine sounded fecking absurd anyway. Maybe the guy is just a spoofer.
I don't think this is all that wrong. The government's advice isn't that clear. They said you can get about an hours exercise in provided that you practice distancing measures unless those people live with you. People seem to be more distanced here than they would at a local park or shop.
Did the government set any limits on how you could go from your house?
They probably couldn't get the drone into the bushes where the dogging event was taking place.
Damn right. If you can walk for hours away from other people then good for you. How do the rozzers know how far these people live from there. If it's twenty miles or so then that's fine. It's safer than a municipal park.
As long as they are affluent and like minded people.
(where did that joke come from?)
We are fortunate that they have a minority government otherwise it would have passed.
Ammunition? They going to shoot each other again?
Ventured out into the outside world this morning for the first time for a week to go supermarket shopping. Well stocked including toilet paper, only thing missing was fresh milk so got long life milk, people behaving well, keeping distances, no queues, no problems.
I'd also like to know why you can't buy giant feckoff tubs of peanut butter like you get in America? Crappy little servings here.
But Trump tells America there is “light at the end of the tunnel”
Yea, maybe Donald, but it’s a freight train heading straight at you.
ICU beds, wards and the equiptment they contain are expensive to maintain and aren’t a great investment in desiring people to live longer and healthier lives. It’s pretty much a given that your classic healthcare infrastructure is only a small proportion of the factors that decide an average individual’s overall health. Investment in prevention gives a far greater return etc.
Probably because we aren't mostly 30+ stone.
Exactly, the footpaths/hills I trek in every evening/late afternoon have the odd dog-walker or jogger but if a policeman stopped me I could be on my 10th walk of the day for all he knows! I'm not, of course, but I'm just saying, it's impossible to police. They know they can't stop people going outside, its the pisstakers they are targeting - the gatherings, the groups and those who are clearly just outside socialising rather than getting their allocated fresh-air.
We’re always thinking of shooting something. Ammunition spikes in times of panic, like after a catastrophe or when a Democrat is elected president.
It’s weird.
Or that light that everyone who has near death experiences sees.
This kind of nonsense does more harm than good. It is more likely to make people roll their eyes and not heed advice.
One person going for a walk in the middle of nowhere. "YOU SHOULDN'T BE HERE!" Piss off.
It's non-essential travel. It's really not that difficult, is it?
It is if you eat a giant feckoff tub of it.
Now that’s an episode of Ready, Steady, Cook right there.
The idea of an hour came because that was said in France and people got confused with it being said in the UK. Once it was posted by said confused people on facebook and the like it became established fact, which it wasn't. The UK government said you could exercise once a day, there was no time or distance limit, although police forces have since said you must do the exercise from home, and not travel by car to do it.
Here we go. My first real brush with a suspected COVID-19. It is not only in my small rural midlands village, but less than 100m from my door as it has hospitalised two of my best friends Mum and Step Dad.
Flu like for the last 3 days, a huge wait to get through to 111 yesterday and both wheeled into ambulances with oxygen masks this morning. My friends have said the hospital strongly suspects the virus.
Flu like for the last 3 days, a huge wait to get through to 111 yesterday and both wheeled into ambulances with oxygen masks this morning. My friends have said the hospital strongly suspects the virus.
Full of sugar and palm oil unless you buy the natural stuff. And sometimes they even take the peanut oil from that kind and replace it with other oil, too.
Because working from home in the garden is one of the perks of this. Fantastic weather in Manchester.
So they've filmed people who are getting their exercise in what is probably a place much less crowded than outside their houses, got the footage back, edited it and then posted in on Facebook. Wow, essential work that.
Technically exercise is non-essential, I think people haven't been given clear enough advice on what is or isn't allowed.
Fair enough but I don't think this message got through to people. Those people will think "we're in a car and then we're staying well away from others so what's the harm?" I don't see any bad intentions. If this is purely to put people off going out then fine but people need to be given clear instructions on what they can or can't do.
Sorry to hear that, wishing them and you all the best!
Well that was the one miracle that seemed even slightly possible, that it was far more widespread already than we initially understood. I’m still doubtful though.
Problem is I live in Saddleworth and can comfortably walk out onto the tops. Am I gonna get perved on by the police?
Hang on. This article is based on his comments at the Parliamentary Select Committee, which I watched yesterday, and it gravely misrepresents the overall tone of the proceedings.
"We did this Chinese virus better than anyone. More tests, more infected , more recovered and more deaths. Nobody had bigger numbers than we did. Tremendous numbers."
No doubt it could be clearer, but it's not difficult to work out that getting in your car to drive to do exercise is covered by 'no non-essential travel' given that you can do exercise within km of your house. Nobody needs to essentially drive to a national park to go for a walk, if you happen to have one on your doorstep lucky you.
Most of the advice isn't difficult, people are acting like babies trying to look for loopholes to go about their life like normal. See also: 'What if I go for a 24hr walk once a day, huh, huh huh?'.
Apparently around 1,400 people die a day in England and Wales which means weekly the numbers are bigger than the overall Covid19 deaths in Italy.
Makes you think.
Makes you think.
So China has stuffed Italy.......sending them testing kits that are suspect.