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Coronavirus in the UK

Discussion in 'Health and Fitness' started by aposhark, Mar 4, 2020.

  1. aposhark
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    aposhark Well-Known Member Lifetime Member

    Lots of people did not grasp the nettle, Rob.
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    aposhark Well-Known Member Lifetime Member

    Yes, I mentioned the three weeks although I fully understand it could be months, Jim.
    The PM could not make everyone too worried in one go.
    This is about saving lives, but I wished he would have gone further with the restrictions.

    I do feel sorry for the teenagers and 20-somethings who are full of energy, who will find it very hard to stay home all the time.

    I also know my op could be postponed and if I am in pain for a long time, I will just have to phone 999 if that happens.
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  3. aposhark
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    aposhark Well-Known Member Lifetime Member

    The biggest debate in the future will be the decision of the government not to lockdown earlier.
    They had their reasons but I think that thinking about the economy in preference to the health of the people will be seen as a big mistake.
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  4. oss
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    oss Somewhere Staff Member

    We blame the Chinese for covering it up and denying the problem at the start and in reality yes they did that, but so many other countries delaying real action and playing it down was in effect our own less obvious denial of the facts, the WHO failing to declare a pandemic for political reasons, plenty of people were seriously alarmed in early January and it could have been stopped then (maybe) by the right action.

    With this one we got unlucky, it has an r0 (reproduction number) that is higher than influenza and it seems to have a long incubation period and people shed virus particles before they show much in the way of symptoms, couldn't have been much worse.
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  5. aposhark
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    I think that people in the "west" have lived for so many years with so many freedoms, that many will not follow the new guidelines.
    We have seen in other European countries that people will not obey government directives so it is inevitable that the military and police will have to enforce strict "social-distancing" as has been seen.
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  6. Mattecube
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    Mattecube face the sunshine so shadows fall behind you Trusted Member

    Same in a couple on Merseyside
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    Well from now on they will have to realise what a Cooker is, and to dust down the cookery books, remember the old advert "Go to work on an egg" well i think a good many may be forced to now, because thats all they can cook. :D
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  8. aposhark
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    aposhark Well-Known Member Lifetime Member

    Life is easy with mostly vegetables!
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    aposhark Well-Known Member Lifetime Member

    From today's Daily Mail:

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  10. Druk1
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    Absolutely ridiculous, sardines in a can,pics like that can only lead to tighter lockdown measures.
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  11. aposhark
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    aposhark Well-Known Member Lifetime Member

    It is simple.
    Close the London transport system then people will mostly have to stay home like many others.
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    Unfortunately in London key workers use it to get to work. London is one of the few places I would consider living without a car if I had the misfortune to live there. Lots of other people in same situation and cant necessarily afford to live close to work if live there.
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    I used to love living in London, fantastic city to be honest.
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  14. Mattecube
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    Mattecube face the sunshine so shadows fall behind you Trusted Member

    Yes unfortunately it appears that the number of trains has been cut therefore forcing more people on fewer trains.
    What should of happened is kept the number of trains the same and those that have to use them through work necessity would be spread thinner.
    London is a great city one to be proud of
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  15. aposhark
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    aposhark Well-Known Member Lifetime Member

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  17. Druk1
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    I need to go to the archery range
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  18. Br28016
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    Br28016 Active Member Trusted Member

    Spent three months in London in 90's and put me off totally. Lots to see and do but hated traveling to work on packed tubes in the mornings and took ages to get there. Housing prices are ridiculous - bad elsewhere but nowhere like London. At start seemed good but after three months glad to go. If can cope with crowds and prices and maybe when younger good place to live. Ok to visit as lots of sights to see but would not want to live there.
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  19. Druk1
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    I lived in Hong Kong so crowds and prices don't bother me, used to live in the east-end now live surrey but close to London (not Croydon). I spend a lot of time in Canada which is the total opposite to where I now live, cheap (petrol is 69 cents today) and sparsely populated.
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    The limit on contactless payments is to be raised from £30 to £45 next week, this is welcome news as I far prefer to make contactless payments these days in supermarkets, although I honestly doubt that I will need to spend that much now on a single shopping trip.

    Cash is intrinsically dirty and right now I only have £36.15 in cash (GBP) although coppers are good as viruses do not tend to survive well on copper surfaces, but I wonder if the new plastic notes are worse than paper notes, viruses tend to degrade quite quickly on cardboard and probably on paper, who knows on the plastic notes.

    One thing is certain handling cash is more dangerous than tapping a card on a terminal and also make a point of thinking about whether it is a good idea to hand over your supermarket loyalty card to the checkout operator, you are putting them at risk as well as yourself. Tesco is quite good in that you can scan it yourself often but other supermarkets often don't have that facility.

    In general if you go to the supermarket don't touch your face until after you get home and have surgically washed your hands, and remember that your car steering wheel will have been touched when you go out and before you get back home, they are saying they have hand sanitiser on entry to the supermarkets now, I would not trust that to be the correct strength or composition, they better not force people to use that.

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