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Coronavirus - how is it/has it affected you?

Yep. Infection and confirmed cases numbers will be all over the place due to testing figures. Daily deaths are the true figure of how the virus is behaving, and thankfully they are still coming down for now.
 
On Thursday, after a tough battle, an ex-colleague and friend lost his battle. Frontline worker till it got him..................

How has it affected me? I'm still here, as is all of my family, but this hurt a lot. We've done going into barrier nursing rooms before. Double gloved, and donned and doffed. You go in knowing what's there, just like Covid, but you know if you do the right things you'll be horrendously unlucky to catch owt. You don't go in thinking but what if, you just do it....

But this hurts...... life goes on till its our turn. That's what life is, but this hurts. It just doesn't feel, mmm right, but it flippin' hurts. The reality is his family is the one suffering now, and we'll get on with life tomorrow as we always do... but....
 
Hobbit said:
On Thursday, after a tough battle, an ex-colleague and friend lost his battle. Frontline worker till it got him..................

How has it affected me? I'm still here, as is all of my family, but this hurt a lot. We've done going into barrier nursing rooms before. Double gloved, and donned and doffed. You go in knowing what's there, just like Covid, but you know if you do the right things you'll be horrendously unlucky to catch owt. You don't go in thinking but what if, you just do it....

But this hurts...... life goes on till its our turn. That's what life is, but this hurts. It just doesn't feel, mmm right, but it flippin' hurts. The reality is his family is the one suffering now, and we'll get on with life tomorrow as we always do... but....
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Feel your pain. Posted on here a while back about a good friend that lost his fight. Really brought it home (although the first UK victim dying in the room adjacent to my office was a wake up call when all this was kicking off). It's tough, and it's fine to have a good cry and it will hurt. There have been others on here that have gone through it too so plenty of support if you want to rant away here. Stay strong
 
due to the heat yesterday, my morning excersise nwith Rupert was cut short, so when i cooled yesterday evening i took him out again just though the Ness Islands. i have to tald down a few residential roads to get there and i lost count of the number of houses with groups in the gardens having get togethers and BBQ's the lock down has been eased to 8 not one i could see had less than that and i didn't see any effort to SD, think the easy of allowing groups to meet is a little short sighted
 
SaintHacker said:
Yep. Infection and confirmed cases numbers will be all over the place due to testing figures. Daily deaths are the true figure of how the virus is behaving, and thankfully they are still coming down for now.
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Deaths would only be the “true” figure if the vast majority of people who caught Covid died from it, which thankfully isn’t true.
 
SaintHacker said:
No, look at the average graph line. Its coming down.
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Kellfire said:
Deaths would only be the “true” figure if the vast majority of people who caught Covid died from it, which thankfully isn’t true.
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Think you need to look at both figures

If a high number of people are still catching it, but the death rates 10-14 days later are still falling, then we are becoming better at treating it and the “risk” becomes slightly less.

It’s only when the new cases drop much lower can we categorically say we are winning
 
chellie said:
Bet you feel so much better getting out for a walk. Looks stunning. Are there some people on the beach in the photo?
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Yeah a couple of people decided to ignore the beach rule on day one ?
It was therapeutic though, sat on a bench and smoked a pipe then hit the range at the golf club (knackered) then headed south for braai with friends (fillet steak has just gone on)
Simple things that we've missed ?
 
My next door neighbour really is a bellend. She is having a BBQ and there are 9 other people there in her garden with no social distancing. Yet she is standing there preaching lockdown is ending to soon and people shouldn't be coming in to contact with each other at all ?
 
We went our usual 3mile across the park and round the fields walk into town this afternoon. The walk was the quietest it has been since lockdown was established. Usually quite a number of folks walking and running. Today one girl and a close friend and her daughter. And that was it. Where was everyone today?
 
SwingsitlikeHogan said:
We went our usual 3mile across the park and round the fields walk into town this afternoon. The walk was the quietest it has been since lockdown was established. Usually quite a number of folks walking and running. Today one girl and a close friend and her daughter. And that was it. Where was everyone today?
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I think (hope) that's standard for most of the country. Around my way there are the occasional rule breakers but in general the majority are following the guidelines and acting sensibly. Obviously the media are showing the morons and those that are breaking the rules as that makes a better story but in general I believe that the vast majority are still observing the rules.
 
SwingsitlikeHogan said:
We went our usual 3mile across the park and round the fields walk into town this afternoon. The walk was the quietest it has been since lockdown was established. Usually quite a number of folks walking and running. Today one girl and a close friend and her daughter. And that was it. Where was everyone today?
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At the coast or queuing for fast food ?
 
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