Coronavirus - how is it/has it affected you?

Press reporting that the over 70s may be instructed to self isolate for 3-4 months in plans being considered for implementation in the next few weeks!!! ???
 
Also could give Bojo a big dilemma with Brexit. As I'd say there's no way the negotiations will be done in time now as priorities will be elsewhere. So does he leave with no deal as not enough time to get one in current circumstances, or delay Brexit to give time to properly negotiate.
 
What I am absolutely astounded at is that some people do not know what self-isolation and lockdown mean, and how to differentiate between the two. It's quite scary and this is what will put others at more risk.
 
I can just see some 75 year old being dragged away and bricked up inside his house while he complains that he knows best and things were never like this when I was young...

On amore serious not, it will be interesting to see how this is policed should it come into operation...
 
pauljames87 said:
That's not the point tho. If we are in lock down as a country they won't let us go and it's the attuide of us ignoring it that will stop the lock down working
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If we are in lockdown as a country that stops golf, of course I will follow the rules. Until then it is a very safe activity.
 
Hacker Khan said:
Also could give Bojo a big dilemma with Brexit. As I'd say there's no way the negotiations will be done in time now as priorities will be elsewhere. So does he leave with no deal as not enough time to get one in current circumstances, or delay Brexit to give time to properly negotiate.
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I heard this being discussed and as many are more than happy for an exit without a deal, coronavirus does the job to make that a strong possibility in current timescales and so why look to agree a delay.

Anyway ... negotiations can continue remotely so hopfully a deal can be reached.

But one big question is that given the complete uncertainty about the state of the country in July - never mind the economy - what will the UK and the EU be looking for out of a deal given a currently unknown but quite possibly a very difficult and very different world economic environment from that which pertained when we started on this journey.

not saying cancel btw - just wondering how we can know what we will need for UK post jan -2021. But I am sure the government will have much and the best expert economic forecasting advice they can take on that. If things weren’t complicated enough ?
 
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Last night we watched a half hour documentary BBC News on the Wuhan lockdown. Blimey - very scary.

Worth watching to understand what China had to demand (not ask) of the Wuhan residents in order to contain cv to Wuhan and locality. And think whether it is even vaguely possible to expect the same of UK residents as some might call for or might be required. These are just ordinary chinese having to live in a quite extraordinary and disciplined way.
 
Slime said:
Sky Sports Golf Channel.
WE KNOW THE PLAYERS HAS BEEN CANCELLED AND WE KNOW WHY.
Please show reruns of the Ryder Cup from Medinah or Paris ................................ please.
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Did have a look at SKY golf channel last night. How many times can they ask the same question in 10 minutes? It was like they don't like the answer and hope someone is going to disagree, but nope, everyone says it’s the right thing to do, every time it’s asked. Get on with something else, show reruns, whatever, just stop with the continual bleeting about the situation, there’s a lot worse going on than missing a few rounds of golf.
 
Papas1982 said:
ATM lockdown isn’t the route the country is going though.

they seem pretty set on letting the required 60% of us get it.
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I think it important to understand that that number if not more of us WILL get it - if not now, then in the next year or so before a vaccine becomes available. That’s just a virus pandemic fact of life. We have no protection until we have had it or there is a vaccine. The question then becomes how the country best manages us getting it.
 
Imurg said:
Just started a clinical study as to whether a tub of Ben and Jerry's Phish Food is a viable defence against C-19....
So far so good
No sign of a temperature
Could be on to something here....
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I tried something similar last night with a bottle of Jack daniels. i now feel like shite and am not allowed near naked flames
 
well - my lad has been told that he may have some work next week but after that all his booked work is almost certainly likely to be pulled. And his employers don’t seem able to offer him any financial support. So that’s him with no income except universal credit - currently to be £250/month for him and his partner - and not due to get first payment for nearly five weeks. Though he’ll inform DWP tomorrow and they will reassess - still unlikely to be much more.

Also my BiL has had his job teaching in Malta pulled - he was due to start next week I think. So that’s him out of work and heading back to uk on Tuesday with clearly little or no prospects of getting a job teaching overseas for many months.

so difficult
 
Before I played yesterday I was standing at the bar waiting to be served by the lovely Alex - our most polite and attentive stewardess. A mate I hadn’t seen for a while came up and without thinking we shook hands. Alex instantly pulled a bottle of anti-bacterial cream from under the counter ‘hands out gentlemen’ squirt, squirt...we had to smile...
 
Imurg said:
I can just see some 75 year old being dragged away and bricked up inside his house while he complains that he knows best and things were never like this when I was young...

On amore serious not, it will be interesting to see how this is policed should it come into operation...
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So if you were told that going out and mixing with people would give you (say) a 1/30 chance of dying a fairly unpleasant death, do you think it would need to be policed????
Of course, there's a big impact on managing the health service and protecting the staff, so I can see why is important for the greater good, but are the oldies really that obtuse?
 
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