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Coronavirus - how is it/has it affected you?

Wolf said:
Just had a call from my mum, Dad's just received the news his best friend since childhood, so a good 65+ years has passed away yesterday. Dad is doing his usual im fine getting on with things attitude but has today started new projects at home that don't need doing in a bid to keep himself busy and stop thinking or speaking about it. They were literally like brothers, went to school together, worked together, played football together. Made all the more harder because seems he possibly won't be allowed to the funeral as its family only, the reason that's worse is it means only 2 people will be there to remember him.. Feel for the old fella right now and would love to go help him with those jobs even in silence just so he knows he has someone there with him..
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Its hard losing life long friends, I feel for him. I've lost some great friends recently, ones that you know you will never be able to sit with and recall past times you had together. A mate I play golf with died last week, he had an aorta aneurysm a few years ago but they fitted a stent that saved him, it ruptured last week and when he arrived at Birmingham Queen Elizabeth Hospital the specialist unit had been shut and used as a Covid ward, they couldnt save him. Couldnt go to his funeral but they did have a live video service which was better than missing it altogether.

Best wishes for your Dad.
 
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SocketRocket said:
Its hard losing life long friends, I feel for him. I've lost some great friends recently, ones that you know you will never be able to sit with and recall past times you had together. A mate I play golf with died last week, he had an aorta aneurism a few years ago but they fitted a stent that saved him, it ruptured last week and when he arrived at Birmingham Queen Elizabeth Hospital the specialist unit had been shut and used as a Covid ward, they couldnt save him. Couldnt go to his funeral but they did have a live video service which was better than missing it altogether.

Best wishes for your Dad.
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Sorry about your friend and the others mentioned in recent posts
These video services have been great in these times for many
 
Member of our club died yesterday.
Only in his twenties.really nice young man.
Known him since he was 12 yrs old.
Not sure if Covid related but a shock .
Can’t even go and show our respects .
This virus is a ########.
 
Twelfth consecutive day with no new cases (not sure what will happen if we make it to 14)

We do have one bloke currently 'on the run' from a hospital with a suspected case so fingers crossed he's found and negative
 
Wolf said:
Just had a call from my mum, Dad's just received the news his best friend since childhood, so a good 65+ years has passed away yesterday. Dad is doing his usual im fine getting on with things attitude but has today started new projects at home that don't need doing in a bid to keep himself busy and stop thinking or speaking about it. They were literally like brothers, went to school together, worked together, played football together. Made all the more harder because seems he possibly won't be allowed to the funeral as its family only, the reason that's worse is it means only 2 people will be there to remember him.. Feel for the old fella right now and would love to go help him with those jobs even in silence just so he knows he has someone there with him..
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I don't believe that's necessarily the case;

https://www.gov.uk/government/publi...ing-a-funeral-during-the-coronavirus-pandemic

Communities, organisations and individuals are strongly advised to take action to reduce the risk of spreading coronavirus (COVID-19) infection among mourners who are gathered to pay their respects, with a particular focus on protecting people who are clinically vulnerable and more likely to develop severe illness. These actions include:

  • restricting the number of mourners to be as low as possible to ensure a safe distance of at least 2 metres (6 ft) can be maintained between individuals
  • alongside the Funeral Director, Chapel Attendant, and funeral staff only the following should attend:
    • members of the person’s household
    • close family members
    • or if the above are unable to attend, close friends
    • attendance of a celebrant of choice, should the bereaved request this
I would sincerely hope that if there are only 2 members of family & your Dad was that close a friend, no-one would question his attendance if the total number of mourners will then be 3.
 
The list of provinces approved to move onto the next phase of lockdown were published by the govt last night. Failing to pass the criteria doesn't mean an overly infected province, e.g. inland La Mancha province failed even though the number of infections is low. A province must have 2 empty ICU beds and 45 spare hospital beds per 100,000 residents.

Two provinces in Andalucia region failed to move onto phase 1, Malaga and Granada. I'm not surprised that Malaga failed. They suffered early and hard, after Madrid, and still have a number of patients in ICU.

Bars and restaurants reopen on Monday but only their terraces, and only to 50% capacity. This led bar and restaurant owners in Benidorm to kick-off, and they were refusing to open. The mayor stepped in and said the bar and restaurant owners could have the parking spaces in front of their premises for tables.

Friends may meet or visit each others homes, max 10 people. This can only occur in the same town in which they live, e.g. we have some friends that moved about 20 miles just before lockdown. We can't visit them because they live in a different town but what isn't clear(loophole?) is they can attend the bowls club, and we can sit with them for a drink after playing... amateur, non-contact sports are permitted from Monday, e.g. tennis, bowls, athletics.

Travelling together in the car is ok from Monday but only one can go into a shop.

Each phase, ideally, will last 2 weeks, and there are 2 further phases after phase 1. In effect, completely out of lockdown in 6 weeks time. However, according to Sanchez, the PM, there will be new, long term, rules after the final phase is completed, which will be in place until everyone is vaccinated.
 
Reading that 'garden centres' will be opening again soon... There's at least one been open for a while now in these parts... Wonder if they've been dobbed in and had any visits from plod... That's without the likes of The Range using/abusing "guidelines" to remain open... Liking the idea of encouraging cycling/walking but first a way of removing the murderous intent of way too many that are behind a wheel will have too be found... Mass machine gunning has always been my suggestion...
 
Yesterday we went into town for our walk and to say hi to our daughter and her b/f as they stood on their flat balcony with us below. A lot more traffic than we have become accustomed to - maybe due to us being midday rather than 6pm; maybe also due to folks stocking up for the pm drinks BBQs etc; maybe something to do with what the government may or may not be telling us tomorrow. But it was soooo NOISY (aaargh). We'd got used to the quiet.

And with so much more traffic on the road it was much harder for us to walk off the pavement into the road, or cross the road, to avoid on-coming pedestrians. And the roads weren't actually that busy. We reflected that we hated the noise...but more importantly, that when traffic builds up towards normal levels - as we will still have to keep some separation - whatever that is - it's going to be quite hard, and potentially quite risky, at times.
 
Hobbit said:
Sorry to be the bringer of bad news Amanda but she lives in Malaga province. She will still be in phase 0 of lockdown.
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Oh dear she won't be happy especially as they were meant to move house on the 1st May! She did say they'd been able to go for short walks but no dogs allowed and they have two.
 
Hobbit said:
The list of provinces approved to move onto the next phase of lockdown were published by the govt last night. Failing to pass the criteria doesn't mean an overly infected province, e.g. inland La Mancha province failed even though the number of infections is low. A province must have 2 empty ICU beds and 45 spare hospital beds per 100,000 residents.

Two provinces in Andalucia region failed to move onto phase 1, Malaga and Granada. I'm not surprised that Malaga failed. They suffered early and hard, after Madrid, and still have a number of patients in ICU.

Bars and restaurants reopen on Monday but only their terraces, and only to 50% capacity. This led bar and restaurant owners in Benidorm to kick-off, and they were refusing to open. The mayor stepped in and said the bar and restaurant owners could have the parking spaces in front of their premises for tables.

Friends may meet or visit each others homes, max 10 people. This can only occur in the same town in which they live, e.g. we have some friends that moved about 20 miles just before lockdown. We can't visit them because they live in a different town but what isn't clear(loophole?) is they can attend the bowls club, and we can sit with them for a drink after playing... amateur, non-contact sports are permitted from Monday, e.g. tennis, bowls, athletics.

Travelling together in the car is ok from Monday but only one can go into a shop.

Each phase, ideally, will last 2 weeks, and there are 2 further phases after phase 1. In effect, completely out of lockdown in 6 weeks time. However, according to Sanchez, the PM, there will be new, long term, rules after the final phase is completed, which will be in place until everyone is vaccinated.
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I was due to travel from the UK to Estepona on June 1st. I’ve been waiting as long as possible but cancelled my accommodation booking yesterday.

Quite aside from the fact that my flight will probably be cancelled anyway, in the event I could travel (and in truth I don’t want to), from what you’re saying there would be little or no point anyway.
 
Returning home from my exercise and absolutely gobsmacked by the sheer amount of people out and about in the local area today. Sunbathers, queues at Ice Cream Van and Chippy, virtually impossible to maintain any sort of social distancing.

Virus must be taking the Bank Holiday weekend off!
 
pauldj42 said:
Returning home from my exercise and absolutely gobsmacked by the sheer amount of people out and about in the local area today. Sunbathers, queues at Ice Cream Van and Chippy, virtually impossible to maintain any sort of social distancing.

Virus must be taking the Bank Holiday weekend off!
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And people are surprised that stll we have thousands of cases and hundreds of deaths every day.....
 
pauldj42 said:
Returning home from my exercise and absolutely gobsmacked by the sheer amount of people out and about in the local area today. Sunbathers, queues at Ice Cream Van and Chippy, virtually impossible to maintain any sort of social distancing.

Virus must be taking the Bank Holiday weekend off!
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Coupled with the government saying furlough rates to be reduced and I fear for the fitire somewhat.

People can't be trusted. I don't blame the government for trying to trust people, but those same people haven't repaid the faith.

The force shown in Italy and Spain should have been replicated here.
 
Billysboots said:
I was due to travel from the UK to Estepona on June 1st. I’ve been waiting as long as possible but cancelled my accommodation booking yesterday.

Quite aside from the fact that my flight will probably be cancelled anyway, in the event I could travel (and in truth I don’t want to), from what you’re saying there would be little or no point anyway.
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Who are you flying with? My BA flight to Almeria at the end of June has been cancelled. Good news - I’ll be receiving a further refund from BA which will probably mean another month where i won’t have a credit card bill to pay
 
I’m no different to anyone else, I can’t wait to resume some normality, I just can’t currently see anyway I’d be willing to risk going somewhere which is so busy.

I live 400yds from the Coast so it obviously gets very busy at certain times of the year and upto now I’ve been quite pleasantly surprised by the local‘s behaviour, today is just the complete opposite.
 
pauldj42 said:
I’m no different to anyone else, I can’t wait to resume some normality, I just can’t currently see anyway I’d be willing to risk going somewhere which is so busy.

I live 400yds from the Coast so it obviously gets very busy at certain times of the year and upto now I’ve been quite pleasantly surprised by the local‘s behaviour, today is just the complete opposite.
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People can't be trusted to follow anything. The press over the last 30 years have completely undermined the government which has led to the public having zero respect for those in power. Some are useless yes but not all of them.

No matter what they do they can't win

All I can see is a slow reduction in the lockdown with masks being recommended for times you can't social distance ie at work or on public transport
 
Del_Boy said:
Who are you flying with? My BA flight to Almeria at the end of June has been cancelled. Good news - I’ll be receiving a further refund from BA which will probably mean another month where i won’t have a credit card bill to pay
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EasyJet. They’re cancelling flights currently on a rolling 7 day basis and I fully expect in a couple of weeks they’ll pull the plug on my flight. If they don’t I will move it - they are allowing customers the option to do that without charging any fee, as many times as they want, until May next year.
 
AmandaJR said:
Oh dear she won't be happy especially as they were meant to move house on the 1st May! She did say they'd been able to go for short walks but no dogs allowed and they have two.
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The mayor can sanction a house move but they would need to self-isolate for 14 days afterwards. The Protection Civil would do their shopping.
 
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