Coronavirus - how is it/has it affected you?

[PNWokingham]

Was visiting Wokingham today, on the way out, Reading road I think, a load of anti-vaxers with placards making a racket ?‍ Bizarre.

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!

 

[SaintHacker]

I love flat earthers, they're great value for a wind up

 

[Old Skier]

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!

The worlds not flat - when did that change

 

[PhilTheFragger]

Flat Earth Society has members all around the world

 

[SwingsitlikeHogan]

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.

Absolutely…?

 

[SwingsitlikeHogan]

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.

 

[bobmac]

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.

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

 

[Papas1982]

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.

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…..

 

[bobmac]

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…..

Which god, there are hundreds of them

 

[PhilTheFragger]

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 ?

 

[HeftyHacker]

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.

 

[Foxholer]

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…..

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]

Ok can we get away from religion please
It’s a well trodden route to grief on these pages

 

[Tashyboy]

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 ?

?Imurg ?

 

[SwingsitlikeHogan]

Ok can we gat away from religion please
It’s a well trodden route to grief on these pages

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.

 

[SwingsitlikeHogan]

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

Slept on it and will email the fundraising committee with my concerns and thoughts.

 

[bobmac]

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.

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.

 

[Imurg]

?Imurg ?

It wasn't me...I wasn't even there
You can't prove nuffin'

 

[hovis]

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 ?

My taste and smell didn't go until day 5. It come back on day 7

 

[SwingsitlikeHogan]

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.

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.