• Thank you all very much for sharing your time with us in 2025. We hope you all have a safe and happy 2026!

Coronavirus - how is it/has it affected you?

IainP said:
Was visiting Wokingham today, on the way out, Reading road I think, a load of anti-vaxers with placards making a racket ?‍♂️ Bizarre.
Click to expand...

There was a group came in The Red Lion in town centre. One old guy had double sided board he was wearing. I moved closer and listened a bit after my meal. They were complete loony tunes- I heard them talking the world is flat and other absolute nonsense! Total and utter fruitcake!
 
PNWokingham said:
There was a group came in The Red Lion in town centre. One old guy had double sided board he was wearing. I moved closer and listened a bit after my meal. They were complete loony tunes- I heard them talking the world is flat and other absolute nonsense! Total and utter fruitcake!
Click to expand...

The worlds not flat - when did that change
 
I’m thinking that I’ll be cancelling the Burns Supper and Ceilidh I’ve organised for the 22nd. I just can’t see the Government telling me on Wednesday or anytime soon after either that I definitely can or I absolutely can’t go ahead with it, I’ll have to use my common sense. My CS says to me quite clearly that it’s too risky, and I don’t want to have seriously ill or even ill folk on my hands as a result of going ahead. But if that’s the case then I shouldn’t be even considering going ahead with it. Yes I guess I could ask everyone to take a LFT beforehand but who knows whether LFTs will be freely available. Cancellation will lose my fundraising over £1000 and the club bar and catering will lose income (I’m hosting it at my golf club). I’m hoping that everyone will understand.

Thing is, I know that there will be some on here that would tell me that in cancelling I am doing the right thing considering the risk to myself and everyone attending; yet there will be others who would tell me that I am over-reacting, that we need to get on with and enjoying our lives; that the economy needs it to go ahead; that the risk is over-stated.
 
Last edited:
SwingsitlikeHogan said:
yet there will be others who would tell me that I am over-reacting, that we need to get on with and enjoying our lives; that the economy needs it to go ahead; that the risk is over-stated.
Click to expand...

Just remind them there were over 157,000 new cases of the fatal virus yesterday that has killed over 5 million people so far. You can have the Burns Supper and Ceilidh next year.
In my humble opinion, you are doing the right thing
 
drdel said:
These are religious and zealots. 'God' provided humans with the capability to think and reason. This enabled the scientists to develop vaccines for our benefit. So take what has been provided.
Click to expand...
So nice of god to help these scientists to try and provide a cure for a disease, if only something all powerful could have stopped it ever occurring…..
 
Well that’s a bummer
Just tested positive, got a pcr test booked at 8 am
Had cold symptoms for a couple of days, slight sore throat, bit of a croak in the voice, but taste & smell unaffected, feel fine within myself.

Unable to ascertain where I picked it up from ?
 
I also had the faintest line on a LFT.

Been rife amongst my friends and despite regular testing before meeting up he got a positive a day after we played golf and enjoyed a post round pint.

I knew something was up when I fell asleep on the couch at 5pm for an hour and was still able to sleep at 10pm that night. If that happened normally I'd be unable to sleep until 2am ish.

Thankfully seemed to have avoided any other symptoms for now. PCR test on its way.
 
Papas1982 said:
So nice of god to help these scientists to try and provide a cure for a disease, if only something all powerful could have stopped it ever occurring…..
Click to expand...
Ah well.The sending of whichever scourge happens to be the current one must have been actively initiated by <insert deity according to faith> to punish non-believers and restore adherents' faith in the all power of <insert selected deity>! And, of course, it was <insert selected deity> that provided scientists with the path to discover the cure for the scourge too!
Logic and (religious) faith are mutually exclusive!
But that faith can also get 'corrupted' by a very human trait - tribalism! Just consider that's it's the same deity at the head of the 3 dominant faiths in the Middle East, yet they've been fighting wars 'in the name of their deity' for centuries! And that even appllies to slight variations within individual faiths - plenty examples of that in Middle East and Europe over the centuries.
 
PhilTheFragger said:
Well that’s a bummer
Just tested positive, got a pcr test booked at 8 am
Had cold symptoms for a couple of days, slight sore throat, bit of a croak in the voice, but taste & smell unaffected, feel fine within myself.

Unable to ascertain where I picked it up from ?
Click to expand...
?Imurg ?
 
PhilTheFragger said:
Ok can we gat away from religion please
It’s a well trodden route to grief on these pages
Click to expand...
Not for me it isn’t ?

You will appreciate that I was making the point that many, if not most, of us having a religious persuasion view as sorely and dangerously misguided those ’God will protect me’ anti-vaxers with as much despair as the contempt expressed towards them by those of none.
 
Last edited:
bobmac said:
Just remind them there were over 157,000 new cases of the fatal virus yesterday that has killed over 5 million people so far. You can have the Burns Supper and Ceilidh next year.
In my humble opinion, you are doing the right thing
Click to expand...
Slept on it and will email the fundraising committee with my concerns and thoughts.
 
SwingsitlikeHogan said:
Not for me it isn’t ?

You will appreciate that I was making the point that many, if not most, of us having a religious persuasion view ’God will protect me’ anti-vaxers with as much despair as the contempt of those of no religious grounding.
Click to expand...

That's a bit of a leap.
I feel sorry for the many religious anti-vaxers and their children who will suffer because of their faith, not contempt.
 
PhilTheFragger said:
Well that’s a bummer
Just tested positive, got a pcr test booked at 8 am
Had cold symptoms for a couple of days, slight sore throat, bit of a croak in the voice, but taste & smell unaffected, feel fine within myself.

Unable to ascertain where I picked it up from ?
Click to expand...
My taste and smell didn't go until day 5. It come back on day 7
 
bobmac said:
That's a bit of a leap.
I feel sorry for the many religious anti-vaxers and their children who will suffer because of their faith, not contempt.
Click to expand...
Likewise…I feel they are misguided…but there is no hiding that some view them with contempt and disdain for their faith in that their God can protect them and they do not need vaccination. And I get that. Plus I have no time at all for those of any persuasion or none who are disrupting vaccination centres.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Top