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Coronavirus - how is it/has it affected you?

Fish said:
Lots of key worker drivers are black balling them, plus a few other large similar companies who refuse to let us use their toilet facilities when we deliver into them!

Some of us have been on the road for hours, getting goods to them so they can still trade, then they treat us like this, these companies need naming & shaming nationally whilst the public is supporting key workers, let’s expose those companies & service stations that have shut their facilities to commercial drivers, or are the public shallow and will still go, because they’re cheap!!
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Glad I chose to blackball them myself then... Decided I could wait until I can source what I needed locally...

Never understood denying a fellow human being the use of something as basic as the loo... Whenever a courier asks I never have second thoughts in allowing them access...
 
Slime said:
I totally agree, that's utterly unacceptable. I'm assuming all public toilets are currently closed.
Which companies can you name and shame?
How about this .......................... if you have a delivery, ask to use their facilities before unloading.
If they say no, just drive to your next delivery without unloading. Would that work?
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No, even if it was a single hit, I’d need to be empty for the next collection, so it would hamper me.

I complained to ESSO and they apologized and put out a national email to all stations that they must open their facilities, so they’ve been reprieved, but some large builders merchants and stores that are open, are saying no??

MegaSteve said:
Glad I chose to blackball them myself then... Decided I could wait until I can source what I needed locally...

Never understood denying a fellow human being the use of something as basic as the loo... Whenever a courier asks I never have second thoughts in allowing them access...
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It’s a disgrace, and a lot of us will have long memories but unfortunately I know how shallow the public can be at times, but the R&A and other bodies are really bashing them, and rightly so.
 
GB72 said:
I read these posts about how this is affecting people and I feel massively guilty in the way my mind is at the moment. I am still working (part home, part office), I live in a village with access to walks and the countryside and, most significantly at the moment, is that cases of covid are pretty much unheard of where I am, where my family are and where I work as all are based in small, rural villages or market towns. I am struggling with the lockdown at the moment simply because, thank God, covid has not come close to my home, my work or to anyone I know and that makes it difficult. I am an educated bloke, I appreciate the bigger picture, I look in horror at the deaths and the hardship, but the frustrations of following rules based on something that has no close impact is playing with my head at the moment. I feel incredibly selfish and self centered for feeling this way and that, in itself, gets me down. Don't get me wrong, I follow the rules to the letter, I even mask up in the supermarket but it is really getting to me now but it shouldn't, I should be glad for the minimum impact on me, my family and my close friends.

This post is a bit ranty, very self indulgent and probably worthy of the wrath of those who have been struck by this even in a minor way but the thread is about how corona virus is affecting us and this is where i am at the moment.
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A well worded post and very honest. And at least you appreciate it and are taking the necessary measures. It''s the people who don't appreciate it and don't care about their actions and only care about themselves.
I just await the day when someone says they should be allowed out as the death numbers have gone down and only x hundred have died. :confused:
 
Depending on how you cut the numbers the UK is the worse in Europe for deaths https://news.sky.com/story/coronavi...in-europe-after-passing-italys-total-11983019 and while I think the article is correct in comparing the older populations in the UK v Italy as the virus seems to affect those over 50 more but nothing about it also affecting people from BAME but I guess there would be a lower ethnic proportion in Italy.

Given that it seems to be hitting nationalitiies like Indians, Pakistani and Nepalese (from what I've seen locally) is there going to be massive spikes in these countries as there doesn't seem to be anything to indicate massive death totals there.
 
HomerJSimpson said:
Depending on how you cut the numbers the UK is the worse in Europe for deaths https://news.sky.com/story/coronavi...in-europe-after-passing-italys-total-11983019 and while I think the article is correct in comparing the older populations in the UK v Italy as the virus seems to affect those over 50 more but nothing about it also affecting people from BAME but I guess there would be a lower ethnic proportion in Italy.

Given that it seems to be hitting nationalitiies like Indians, Pakistani and Nepalese (from what I've seen locally) is there going to be massive spikes in these countries as there doesn't seem to be anything to indicate massive death totals there.
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What confuses me is overnight the government decided to combine the numbers of deaths in hospital with outside. No one seemed to bat an eyelid and now makes statements like "we're the worst in Europe". Last time I heard the numbers we are shown daily from Spain and Italy are hospital only? How can we compare? One thing that's not clear is how all these countries are recording different. Surely we won't know the true numbers for a year or two yet?
 
HomerJSimpson said:
Depending on how you cut the numbers the UK is the worse in Europe for deaths https://news.sky.com/story/coronavi...in-europe-after-passing-italys-total-11983019 and while I think the article is correct in comparing the older populations in the UK v Italy as the virus seems to affect those over 50 more but nothing about it also affecting people from BAME but I guess there would be a lower ethnic proportion in Italy.

Given that it seems to be hitting nationalitiies like Indians, Pakistani and Nepalese (from what I've seen locally) is there going to be massive spikes in these countries as there doesn't seem to be anything to indicate massive death totals there.
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It is wholly dependent, as per the thread on the numbers, on how these things are recorded and, as they say in the briefing every day, they are not like for like comparisons.
 
hovis said:
What confuses me is overnight the government decided to combine the numbers of deaths in hospital with outside. No one seemed to bat an eyelid and now makes statements like "we're the worst in Europe". Last time I heard the numbers we are shown daily from Spain and Italy are hospital only? How can we compare? One thing that's not clear is how all these countries are recording different. Surely we won't know the true numbers for a year or two yet?
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people happy to pick and choose which numbers they can to suit their agenda sadly
 
MegaSteve said:
Whichever way you pick or choose them there's no way of altering that they don't make for good reading...
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think thats a given, but some people/areas of the press seem desperate to quote us as the "worst in Europe" to support their point of view/agenda

its been very clear from the start that numbers are barely comparable between countries, yet its almost turned into a competition for some to do so and to use those comparisons to misdirect/mislead
 
hovis said:
What confuses me is overnight the government decided to combine the numbers of deaths in hospital with outside. No one seemed to bat an eyelid and now makes statements like "we're the worst in Europe". Last time I heard the numbers we are shown daily from Spain and Italy are hospital only? How can we compare? One thing that's not clear is how all these countries are recording different. Surely we won't know the true numbers for a year or two yet?
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We can't apply like for like unless each country is reporting like for like and I am sure some will "nurse" numbers to suit their own need. I definitely think there is more to be gained comparing core data like age, and it seems ethnicity, along with existing co-morbidities would be a better starting point. There was talk last week if I remember about lower incomes being more susceptible too. Would be interesting to see how that panned out nation to nation
 
Local household waste sites to open on May 11th round here. With this happening who on here is going to raise merry hell about it? No one, because those in power have made the decision. Oh well that's ok then is it? But someone says they are going to stand in a field with no one around and wave a bit of metal about and they want them shot dead?

I'm really REALLY annoyed now.
 
Until today I'd been relatively unaffected by the virus. Yes I'd had to isolate in our caravan on our drive for 14 days after my last job but that was a small price to pay for having money coming in, and getting half day rate for my time in isolation was an added bonus. I'm still also getting job offers coming in and am waiting to hear on when I'm due to go away again. I've been shopping once a week and getting everything we need for meals for the week rather than every other day but apart from that the impact had been fairly minor.

Today Mrs Colch received a phone call from her best friend to say that her friend's dad had died this morning after contracting Covid in hospital. Suddenly it's much closer to home, especially as her friend's parents lived three doors down from Mrs Colch's parents on the same road.
 
Crazyface said:
Local household waste sites to open on May 11th round here. With this happening who on here is going to raise merry hell about it? No one, because those in power have made the decision. Oh well that's ok then is it? But someone says they are going to stand in a field with no one around and wave a bit of metal about and they want them shot dead?

I'm really REALLY annoyed now.
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Didnt read they were going to shoot golfers ?
 
I actually broke lockdown rules yesterday and made my first "non-essential" journey since lockdown began. My younger son has been wanting to get a rabbit for months and we had finally found a bonded pair at a (reasonably) local rescue centre. We got a call yesterday to say that our application was successful and we could pick them up. I'd seen that the rescue centre had put out a plea on Facebook for donations of certain things that they were urgently in need of - cat litter, cat meat and hay to feed the rabbits. So I drove to our local Pets at Home and loaded up the car with as much as I could afford and then drove (40 minutes each way) to deliver it to them and pick up the rabbits while sticking to social distancing rules. I now have a very happy younger son but also a slight feeling of guilt over making a non-essential journey.
 
ColchesterFC said:
I actually broke lockdown rules yesterday and made my first "non-essential" journey since lockdown began. My younger son has been wanting to get a rabbit for months and we had finally found a bonded pair at a (reasonably) local rescue centre. We got a call yesterday to say that our application was successful and we could pick them up. I'd seen that the rescue centre had put out a plea on Facebook for donations of certain things that they were urgently in need of - cat litter, cat meat and hay to feed the rabbits. So I drove to our local Pets at Home and loaded up the car with as much as I could afford and then drove (40 minutes each way) to deliver it to them and pick up the rabbits while sticking to social distancing rules. I now have a very happy younger son but also a slight feeling of guilt over making a non-essential journey.
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Your son being happy at this tough period is a necessity because its hard enough on us as well as young ones. Plus you provided some other animals with sanitation and food. I wouldn't beat yourself up over it, you followed protocol and have done something that will benefit your sons well being I'd class that at the moment as something well warranted. ??
 
ColchesterFC said:
I actually broke lockdown rules yesterday and made my first "non-essential" journey since lockdown began. My younger son has been wanting to get a rabbit for months and we had finally found a bonded pair at a (reasonably) local rescue centre. We got a call yesterday to say that our application was successful and we could pick them up. I'd seen that the rescue centre had put out a plea on Facebook for donations of certain things that they were urgently in need of - cat litter, cat meat and hay to feed the rabbits. So I drove to our local Pets at Home and loaded up the car with as much as I could afford and then drove (40 minutes each way) to deliver it to them and pick up the rabbits while sticking to social distancing rules. I now have a very happy younger son but also a slight feeling of guilt over making a non-essential journey.
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Most of my neighbours have broke the rules, I see rule breaking a couple of times a day, my mother with mild emphysema has broken the rules, the CMO of Scotland has broke the rules and I bet a pound to a Penny that many here have but won’t admit it! I have.
My dogs have had 3-5 walks a depending on the shift I’m on.
 
ColchesterFC said:
I actually broke lockdown rules yesterday and made my first "non-essential" journey since lockdown began. My younger son has been wanting to get a rabbit for months and we had finally found a bonded pair at a (reasonably) local rescue centre. We got a call yesterday to say that our application was successful and we could pick them up. I'd seen that the rescue centre had put out a plea on Facebook for donations of certain things that they were urgently in need of - cat litter, cat meat and hay to feed the rabbits. So I drove to our local Pets at Home and loaded up the car with as much as I could afford and then drove (40 minutes each way) to deliver it to them and pick up the rabbits while sticking to social distancing rules. I now have a very happy younger son but also a slight feeling of guilt over making a non-essential journey.
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I very much doubt there are many people who have not broken the rules by some means at some time. And I very much doubt that it was ever expected that all of us would obey them all the time. Just that nearly all of us would obey them nearly all of the time. Which is working.
 
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