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Coronavirus - how is it/has it affected you?

Please don't take this as making light of human suffering. That is absolutely the opposite of my feelings on the subject.
Nevertheless, and inconveniences not withstanding, I'm discovering how much I enjoy the peace, quiet, and comfort of my home.
The social distancing is bothering me much less than it might have when I was a much younger man.
 
Ye Olde Boomer said:
Please don't take this as making light of human suffering. That is absolutely the opposite of my feelings on the subject.
Nevertheless, and inconveniences not withstanding, I'm discovering how much I enjoy the peace, quiet, and comfort of my home.
The social distancing is bothering me much less than it might have when I was a much younger man.
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It's the opposite where I am.
With everyone off work, the village is packed with doggers and jog walkers joggers and dog walkers
 
From the BBC...

The Foreign Office had estimated between 300,000 and one million Britons were travelling abroad after the coronavirus was declared a pandemic in March.


WTF... the range is massive ... I thought we had systems which count who comes in and goes out..

Secondly... while some travel is inevitable... what were a million Brits thinking ??
 
Mudball said:
From the BBC...

The Foreign Office had estimated between 300,000 and one million Britons were travelling abroad after the coronavirus was declared a pandemic in March.


WTF... the range is massive ... I thought we had systems which count who comes in and goes out..

Secondly... while some travel is inevitable... what were a million Brits thinking ??
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Well....abroad is quite a big place......some may have been on long breaks that may have started early in the year, some would have been on around the world trips for a year or more....the list has endless possibilities
 
Just a brief musing.... many people have expressed disbelief at China's numbers, what about Germany's? Do we view Germany with the same distrust? Just a musing, not really bothered either way.
 
Mudball said:
From the BBC...

The Foreign Office had estimated between 300,000 and one million Britons were travelling abroad after the coronavirus was declared a pandemic in March.


WTF... the range is massive ... I thought we had systems which count who comes in and goes out..

Secondly... while some travel is inevitable... what were a million Brits thinking ??
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i was thinking that I'd just paid £700 to go skiing in a region of Italy that had zero cases of coronavirus. add that to the fact that the British government where saying it was ok to travel. the tour operator was saying you'll lose your money if you cancel too. so i went march 7th and was flown home march 9th!!!?
 
Hobbit said:
Just a brief musing.... many people have expressed disbelief at China's numbers, what about Germany's? Do we view Germany with the same distrust? Just a musing, not really bothered either way.
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Arent Germany just showing numbers of people who have died because of the virus as opposed to some other countries that are showing numbers of people who died with the virus on their system and had an underline medical issue ?

Isn’t there also something about their level of testing belong as well ?

I can certainly see China masking numbers but not sure about Germany
 
pendodave said:
Excuse my statistical ocd, but 596 people didn't die in the last 24 hours. 596 deaths were officially recorded, many of which happened before yesterday.
It's an important distinction.
I can no more leave this unsaid than my mother can look at crossed knives...
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Mudball said:
Amanda .. I am going to disagree.. this is ultra omnishambles from the Govt. apparently there is PPE but they could not get it out in sufficient quantity and quality to the front line.

Would we ask our Army boys and girls to go to the frontline but not give them guns & armour. Every frontline worker without PPE is at risk. The new PHE guideline of work without ppe is diabolical. Drs and nurses signed up to save lives not to kill themselves.

Our local GP is buying PPE directly from Far East, Germany etc. They have turned to fund raising platforms to get this.

I speak as a husband of an NHS worker and I know the number of calls they have been on trying to figure out PPE and guidelines. She still does her job but every time she goes to her clinic, we as a family say a silent prayer. Every time she coughs, I sh*t myself.

So every time I hear some one from the frontline berates the lack of PPE, I feel like throwing the remote at the TV.

Without people like Fish, we would be in a worse place. But unfortunately we can’t say we have done enough... Hannock’s magic wand is the same as May’s magic money tree..

.. rant over
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We have had plenty troops killed on the front line because of substandard equipment.
 
hovis said:
i was thinking that I'd just paid £700 to go skiing in a region of Italy that had zero cases of coronavirus. add that to the fact that the British government where saying it was ok to travel. the tour operator was saying you'll lose your money if you cancel too. so i went march 7th and was flown home march 9th!!!?
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In your defence many Brits followed a similar line of thinking (although by March 7th there was at least one case in every Northern region and schools and churches had already been closed) - this was just bad advice you were given
But out of interest where did you fly in to?
 
ferenezejohn said:
We have had plenty troops killed on the front line because of substandard equipment.
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Absolutely right, stupid to compare with the armed forces especially using the hindsight analysis. First time i went to Iraq we never had any desert equipment but were expected to be in field concealed for days. We had only green kit so stood out against the terrain like a boil on a strippers tits. Not to mention other kit we needed but never got at all the entire time we were there first time round.
 
Italian outcast said:
In your defence many Brits followed a similar line of thinking (although by March 7th there was at least one case in every Northern region and schools and churches had already been closed) - this was just bad advice you were given
But out of interest where did you fly in to?
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flew into turin then transferred to sestriere
 
Wolf said:
Absolutely right, stupid to compare with the armed forces especially using the hindsight analysis. First time i went to Iraq we never had any desert equipment but were expected to be in field concealed for days. We had only green kit so stood out against the terrain like a boil on a strippers tits. Not to mention other kit we needed but never got at all the entire time we were there first time round.
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Genuine question.
Who would you blame for that.
Your commanding officer or MOD?
 
Ye Olde Boomer said:
Please don't take this as making light of human suffering. That is absolutely the opposite of my feelings on the subject.
Nevertheless, and inconveniences not withstanding, I'm discovering how much I enjoy the peace, quiet, and comfort of my home.
The social distancing is bothering me much less than it might have when I was a much younger man.
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Not been out on any of the protest marches then?
 
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