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Coronavirus - how is it/has it affected you?

pendodave said:
Really, just none. I was at Manchester picadilly yesterday at 1915. It's a big and very busy station. The only people on the concourse were staff. it was extraordinary. On my train, the only one that hour to London, we had 15 people. But just carry on thinking what you like.
My genuine concern is that as numbers improve there will be some weakening of resolve. But for now, my own lived experience is that the public is doing what's asked.
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Not thinking what I like!
Just like you telling what I seen!
 
Jacko_G said:
A prat?

How charming.
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You really are bored today aren't you? Yes, a prat. If you don't like it, stop behaving like one. Read what you've posted up. My initial post on it was pretty clear. There's millions of good people, and yes there are idiots. Your reply was to ask if there were any selfish idiots... c'mon, at best you're on a wind up.
 
Hobbit said:
You really are bored today aren't you? Yes, a prat. If you don't like it, stop behaving like one. Read what you've posted up. My initial post on it was pretty clear. There's millions of good people, and yes there are idiots. Your reply was to ask if there were any selfish idiots... c'mon, at best you're on a wind up.
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If I'm a prat for speaking the truth and you can't accept that shows more about you. Perhaps a little less sun is required.
 
clubchamp98 said:
Not thinking what I like!
Just like you telling what I seen!
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People only want to see what suits their agendas.


The country's emergency services are stretched as thin as they can go and you still get selfish people thinking they can do what they want when they want. They put themselves and others in danger without a care.

These actions need to be stopped. Engage brains and do what is asked. It's not difficult.
 
Having been out on my exercise allowance it was great to see the boys in blue sat in the normal dog walker lay-by near the beach and seeing cars hastily switching off their indicators. On the minus side, seeing both bobbys sat in the front was a bit of a mistake.
 
Death figures update: last night only 28 new fatalities recorded.

Alas this is not good news, it is because there are now so many deaths NHS using a 7.30am cut off instead of 1pm.

So govt looking at changing how they are reported 1/2
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We may not get any death figures today, as they are looking at moving to publishing first thing in the morning.

Aim is to give more time to collate NHS data and inform families before ages and locations made public
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https://twitter.com/siennamarla/status/1243104190202818561

And going to require consent I believe, before added to the death figure.
 
pendodave said:
That's just nonsense, but I'll dignify it with a reply.
I've travelled into London, through it, and to Birmingham and Manchester since the start of the week. There is no-one about, just none.
But carry on making stuff up. Although it's not reported on, because it suits no-one's agenda, I suspect we are pretty much the same as other western European nations. Comparisons with other Asian countries are not helpful for a whole load of reasons.
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I would say that Monday and Tuesday going into London ( 5am) whilst being quieter than normal, there was still enough traffic around at my normal travel in time, but once the rush hour period was over the traffic dropped markedly to a point of Kensighton High St looking like a scene from the 1900's, hardly anyone on foot and almost no traffic whatsoever. My view is that there are probably still plenty of tradepersons still working because they have been told they still can.
I myself am on lockdown, I don't want to risk catching or more importantly pass it on so I cannot comment further on London since Tuesday.
 
Clearly the majority of this Country are community minded , or at least are mindful that following Government advice is in the Country's and their own best interests.
But it is also evident that too big a proportion of us are selfish and putvwhat we want to do before the common good. Shopping in the last weeks being an example.
If the present population's mindset were to be somehow magically replaced by the 1940's population mindset, I would feel a lot more confident in a better outcome from this crisis.
 
Swinglowandslow said:
Clearly the majority of this Country are community minded , or at least are mindful that following Government advice is in the Country's and their own best interests.
But it is also evident that too big a proportion of us are selfish and putvwhat we want to do before the common good. Shopping in the last weeks being an example.
If the present population's mindset were to be somehow magically replaced by the 1940's population mindset, I would feel a lot more confident in a better outcome from this crisis.
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Had an idiot telling me the other night that it was against his human rights to be told to stay in.

Absolutely bonkers.

Then you get high and mighty Hobbit's calling you a prat for doing your job and insinuating your wrong.
 
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