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Coronavirus - how is it/has it affected you?

It is probably far to early to be optimistic but in terms of global deaths it does appear that initial estimates may have been wildly over exaggerated, hopefully.
 
HappyHacker1 said:
It is probably far to early to be optimistic but in terms of global deaths it does appear that initial estimates may have been wildly over exaggerated, hopefully.
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I'm in the wait and see camp. Before lockdown and the first couple of weeks it was running like a wild fire. Numbers look like they're dropping but how much is that down the harsh lockdown we've had here?
 
Hobbit said:
I'm in the wait and see camp. Before lockdown and the first couple of weeks it was running like a wild fire. Numbers look like they're dropping but how much is that down the harsh lockdown we've had here?
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Hopefully, now people have seen how quickly it escalates if no care is taken Some sort of normality can resume. If after a few weeks of relaxed restrictions it spikes again then I fear real trouble as I’m not sure the public will take to well to being told to stay indoors until a vaccine arises.

There have already been comments online about how it isn’t fair to ‘restrict youngsters just so the old can exist”, soon an economical factor will come into effect too. Multiple businesses will start to fail in mass numbers and then we will have no society to come back to
 
Hobbit said:
I'm in the wait and see camp.
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Indeed as am I, but if you recall they were talking in terms of 250,000 deaths in the UK alone, at the current rate of daily deaths there would need to be a huge spike in daily deaths to get any where near that figure.
 
Papas1982 said:
Hopefully, now people have seen how quickly it escalates if no care is taken Some sort of normality can resume. If after a few weeks of relaxed restrictions it spikes again then I fear real trouble as I’m not sure the public will take to well to being told to stay indoors until a vaccine arises.

There have already been comments online about how it isn’t fair to ‘restrict youngsters just so the old can exist”, soon an economical factor will come into effect too. Multiple businesses will start to fail in mass numbers and then we will have no society to come back to
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Just another sad example if how selfish and obnoxious the British public are when you get attitudes like you say.

While I feel for my two I know it's in their best interests and I'm doing it as I love them. They in return understand what is going on and why the lockdown is in place.
 
HappyHacker1 said:
Indeed as am I, but if you recall they were talking in terms of 250,000 deaths in the UK alone, at the current rate of daily deaths there would need to be a huge spike in daily deaths to get any where near that figure.
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The 250,000 figure was if we did nothing. They have always said that with social distancing and the lockdown measures, anything under 20,000 would be good.
 
Well one interesting impact is that I now no longer have weird stuff at the back of the cupboard.

It’s has either been donated or incorporated in some sort of recipe. Usually a chef’s special sort of dish.

I do have a few more soups than usual, in case I am held up in bed at any point.

All our supplies are now catalogued and kanbanned so we don’t run out...
 
I do wonder what the death toll will be due to the aftermath of the economy and subsequent financial hardship there will be in the coming years.
 
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