Coronavirus - how is it/has it affected you?

HID and I went into London today for an early afternoon tea and matinee tickets for Phantom. It was definitely quieter than normal . We decided not to do the fast train to St Pancras as we'd need then to go on the tube so we did the slow train to Charing Cross as we felt the tube would be the most likely place to catch something
 
Seems the oxygen thief's on Facebook are going into melt down because Boris had the audacity to be honest and say there will be more death's in vulnerable people, apparently he shouldn't be telling people the truth but should be telling us it will alo be ok, bloody snowflakes?
 
Looks like Arsenal won't be playing any games soon with Arteta confirmed as having the virus and first team being advised to self isolate
 
drdel said:
There is no need for such emphasis or hike.
It is a serious issue but I was just trying to get away from the emotive language and gain some perspective. What I said was 9333 road deaths over 4 months, its about 30,000 a year.
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But this huge spike in cases in Italy is exactly what has overwhelmed the Italian health system.
I don't think it's overly emotive language it's exactly what the epidemiologists are predicting unless our preventive measures shallow out the spike.
 
Blue in Munich said:
Email this evening that Santana's show at the O2 in March has been postponed. Supposed to be going to the theatre on Monday, wonder if that will still be on?

If Bonamassa cancels in April I will be really hacked off.
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To be fair, it's a sensible move. After all, Carlos is now well established in the vulnerable age category. He'd not be wanting to catch anything off the hoi polloi... ?
 
Skiing trip to Austria next week is now off. Hotel emailed this evening cancelling booking, looks like the the authorities have taken the decision the season is now over and tourism industry shutting down.

Just need to see how this plays out with the airline now.

Need to break the news to my 6 year that his first ski trip is off, looking at 2 or 3 days at Glencoe or Nevis Range next week as a fallback.

Happened vey quickly today, got a mate currently in Austria and he was unaware of what was happening.
 
All schools, fiestas, municipal buildings are now closed for the foreseeable. Some bars and shops have also closed. Shelves in the supermarkets are looking bare of some products. Face masks were in evidence by customers in some supermarkets yesterday. Handshakes and (Spanish) hugs/kisses are not happening.

Numbers of infected are up dramatically, and the mortality number is climbing correspondingly. Mortality rate is sitting around 3.5%, way below the 7.8% in Italy. Some countries, e.g. Sweden and Norway are showing mortality rates of less than 1% but probably due to the relatively low numbers of cases suggesting its early in the cycle there.

I'm out first thing to buy a few perishables but are limiting our going out for the next week. The bowling club was light on members for today's roll-up, and next week's league matches are expected to be cancelled. A couple of Opens scheduled for the next couple of weekends have also been cancelled.

Bearing in mind I'm the 3rd youngest at 61 the membership is in the at risk category, especially as a number seem to be on meds for all sorts of underlying conditions.
 
Wolf said:
Looks like Arsenal won't be playing any games soon with Arteta confirmed as having the virus and first team being advised to self isolate
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I'd assume west ham have it too now then.

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My firm have shut their New York office and there’s a few people from my office that are self isolating.

I imagine I’d be told to work from home soon which is a problem as my useless IT department can’t get my laptop working as there’s an issue with the log in number generator software I need to use
 
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