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Coronavirus - how is it/has it affected you?

Billysboots said:
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.
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I moved our Italy flights from Aug to Lanzarote flights in Feb 2021, all online. Very easy to do and no admin fee. Just that it cost more to go to Lanza that Italy. ?
 
Papas1982 said:
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.
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I genuinely think the lockdown is coming to an end regardless of what the Government says.
I sense that lots of people have had enough now & are just saying to hell with this I'm going out.
The lockdown is a bit of a blunt tool.
Vast areas of the country with little in the way of infections are paying a huge price for the more densely populated areas.
 
Doodle said:
I genuinely think the lockdown is coming to an end regardless of what the Government says.
I sense that lots of people have had enough now & are just saying to hell with this I'm going out.
The lockdown is a bit of a blunt tool.
Vast areas of the country with little in the way of infections are paying a huge price for the more densely populated areas.
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How would those living in the remote area's have felt if they were left behind in the past. A road works, internet being installed, hospitals, education. All of these are lest cost efficient in areas of less dense copulation. You don't neglect them for the good of the many. So why shouldn't the few make a effort now?
 
Piece said:
I moved our Italy flights from Aug to Lanzarote flights in Feb 2021, all online. Very easy to do and no admin fee. Just that it cost more to go to Lanza that Italy. ?
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I looked at a Geneva flight to take the family skiing during February half term. And then saw I’d have to stump up an extra grand ?
 
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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There are what appears to be a lot of isolated decisions beginning to look like they are taken with behind the scenes discussions. For weeks the drip fed leaks all point to flights being allowed in from the 17th June onwards. Two of the main carriers have intimated that flights will restart then, providing there isn't an unforeseen big spike. The 4 phases of unlock coincide with the 17th give or take a day or so.

Short version, I would almost put money on there being no flights on the 1st June.
 
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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Good job the temperature is going to drop 10-12C tomorrow
 
Yesterday the VE party down the road from us gradually showed less and less attempt to social distance. Same bunch are out there again today and straight back into chit chatting etc. Newish allotments in the village and rode past today to see lots tending their patch. Should be easy to sd but others went to chat and seems that conversation is also continuing.

Perhaps 6 weeks in and generally not any cases we know of in the village and they all think they're unlikely to catch it - scary gamble that.
 
drdel said:
Those same people will complain the Government is to blame!
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In all fairness the government came on TV two days ago encouraging people the have street parties whilst staying in your own front garden and/or maintaining social distaning!. I mean come on, when the government said you can only go out for exercise people interpreted that as "go for a picnic and a game of cricket". What where they thinking!
 
I think the VE Day celebrations has given people the go ahead to start to ignore the restrictions. I believe regardless of what happens tomorrow more and more people are going to ignore the restrictions - someone said a while back that he expected people to comply for 6 weeks or so but then people will venture out.

They have seen plans from places like Ireland , the USA loosing restrictions despite their rate climbing and other European Countries start to relax so if things don’t get relaxed the population will start to revolt

The PM hasn’t helped matters with his statement on Wednesday that he wants to relax things on Monday
 
drdel said:
Those same people will complain the Government is to blame!
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Is it possible that both are to blame? Or is to difficult to accept that the Government have handled this relatively poorly?

Almost every media outlet has led with the story that restrictions are going to be partially lifted on Sunday. This hasn’t happened in a vacuum. This was a briefing from a “secret” source to selected media outlets (and yes, I do know these happen. I was a Production Manager for a certain print media outlet for 10 years). Whether this was a deliberate Government strategy, or a side project by a Minister or former Minister with vested interests I have no idea, but I’m 99% certain it happened. Couple this with the usual suspects thinking that rules are for “others”, and what did people think was going to happen?

FWIW, I’ve been out on a rather nice bike ride with my daughter today, and the vast majority of people were following the rules. There were exceptions, but they weren’t the norm.

Oh, and it was nice to see so many family groups out enjoying the sunshine together ?
 
hovis said:
In all fairness the government came on TV two days ago encouraging people the have street parties whilst staying in your own front garden and/or maintaining social distaning!. I mean come on, when the government said you can only go out for exercise people interpreted that as "go for a picnic and a game of cricket". What where they thinking!
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I'm not sure who you are referring to in the last sentence?
But it is about time we stopped this " interpreting" lark.
Journalists have been doing it for ages. " I know what he said, but what did he really mean"?.. All to create controversy and bolster their jobs.

If the Government said have a street party by all means but please maintain social distance, what is vague about that? What is there to " interpret?
It's clear . If you decide not to stay more than 2 metres apart it's because you don't want to, not because you don't understand fully.
 
hovis said:
In all fairness the government came on TV two days ago encouraging people the have street parties whilst staying in your own front garden and/or maintaining social distaning!. I mean come on, when the government said you can only go out for exercise people interpreted that as "go for a picnic and a game of cricket". What where they thinking!
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Completely agree, media outlets have been interviewing people who have set up street long VE Day celebrations and essentially encouraging others to do the same. Once the alcohol was flowing during a nice warm day of relaxing the social distancing was always going to become more lax.
 
road2ruin said:
Completely agree, media outlets have been interviewing people who have set up street long VE Day celebrations and essentially encouraging others to do the same. Once the alcohol was flowing during a nice warm day of relaxing the social distancing was always going to become more lax.
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We had a street party in our relatively long cul de sac yesterday and I didn’t see one person not following the social distancing rules. And there was a lot of alcohol flowing, music playing, BBQ’s kit etc.
 
bluewolf said:
We had a street party in our relatively long cul de sac yesterday and I didn’t see one person not following the social distancing rules. And there was a lot of alcohol flowing, music playing, BBQ’s kit etc.
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There are also plenty that didn’t, you just have to have a brief look at social media to see how the interpretation of the 2m rule changed at different events.
 
None of this is helped, it must be said, by scientists allegedly now suggesting that the UK spread is now primarily within hospital and care home settings, and that community infection is “low”.

If that is accurate then it’s very encouraging news, but I would rather hear it from the horse’s mouth than be directed to an article where it is reported.

We need accurate reporting perhaps now more than at any time during the pandemic so far, to prevent us taking huge backward steps.
 
road2ruin said:
There are also plenty that didn’t, you just have to have a brief look at social media to see how the interpretation of the 2m rule changed at different events.
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Seen a few, one with a conga line going up and down the street.
Different peoples kids on each other’s drives.

Glad nothing happened on my street, I don’t like noise as it is!
 
Swinglowandslow said:
I'm not sure who you are referring to in the last sentence?
But it is about time we stopped this " interpreting" lark.
Journalists have been doing it for ages. " I know what he said, but what did he really mean"?.. All to create controversy and bolster their jobs.

If the Government said have a street party by all means but please maintain social distance, what is vague about that? What is there to " interpret?
It's clear . If you decide not to stay more than 2 metres apart it's because you don't want to, not because you don't understand fully.
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Because you have to play to your most stupid people and we have plenty of those. Saying it's OK to have a street party was ridiculous. People might start with the best intentions but add alcohol to the equation and you have a disaster.
Don't get me wrong, have the party. Just don't then tell me I can't sit on a riverbank for a days fishing on my own!
 
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