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Coronavirus - how is it/has it affected you?

Mentally it feels a bit odd at the moment. Some parts of my life are effectively back to normal, others are as constrained as ever. Things like back in the office in a suit tomorrow but in a high street where most shops are closed. That feeling that you have been told you can go out and do things but then kept everywhere closed that you would want to go to, sat at home thinking I can go out but have nowhere to go. This middle ground is messing with my mind a bit, part of me wants to be totally safe at home, part of me is struggling with the idea of socialising and part of me wants to just get out there and enjoy myself again. Hard to explain, just a bit weird. May look to joining a golf club again just to ease myself in and get some form of focus back to my weekends
 
Can easily get rather depressed watching TV and seeing so much that has for as long as there have been moving pictures been normal but now isn't - at least for a year or two. And so watching Series 1 of Race Across the World I was feeling a bit down seeing so the participants travelling to interesting places until I realised that the whole idea was they could’t use air travel. And so what they were doing we could do - ok the train travel could be an issue - but the rest well yes.

And I reflected how our overseas holidaying over the last 30yrs had changed from one two week holiday to maybe three one week holidays - due to cheap air travel. And were these one week holidays as restful and enjoyable as the single two week one. I don’t think so but we did it as we could - because we could afford it and it was nice ticking lots of places off our ‘to visit’ list. We could fly out - have 5 days - and fly back. Done.

So I’m thinking maybe we return to a single two week holiday - slow travel - and enjoy the travelling as much as being there. Valencia in October. If we don’t fly, we could take three or four days driving there - have 6 or 7 days days there - and three or four days travelling back.

Slow travel - I’m thinking I like the idea...and if I chuck work in the next year or so we will have as much time as we need
 
1st June...is it just me that seems to think time is flying. :unsure:
June calendar dates..
Next three Thursdays internet shopping orders [my Mrs is sooooo organised.]
Birthday of a great nephew.
Cancel Spotify.

Jings, Is it only 3 months ago when you had to struggle to get some space to write stuff on it.
 
Swinglowandslow said:
Durdle Door?
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I live near Durdle Door.

It has been bedlam down here in the surrounding Poole area. The sandbanks beaches have been crammed like it's the middle of August in a heatwave. We have a beach hut there and went nowhere near it. Sister in Law was down there for 9am at the weekend and came home, said it was awful. Parks are rammed especially those near the water as well, jetski's and paddle boarders everywhere, dogs running wild. Most people not social distancing either

In all honesty it felt like lockdown was over.
 
Two and a bit weeks back at work, social distancing seems to be following what I'm seeing on the TV. A couple of factories last week we're a joke and today was awful, zero sd. Even with my mask and gloves on you would think they would get the message but no, trying to brush past you and coming up really close to talk ?
 
Some very positive news again. We are down to 4 Covid patients and clapped a long term patient out of the unit as they were fit enough to go to a ward. As long as people behave, we can take stock, debrief and then plan for contingency measures (including better access to PPE in the event of a second wave). For now though, it does feel good
 
HomerJSimpson said:
Some very positive news again. We are down to 4 Covid patients and clapped a long term patient out of the unit as they were fit enough to go to a ward. As long as people behave, we can take stock, debrief and then plan for contingency measures (including better access to PPE in the event of a second wave). For now though, it does feel good
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A couple of frontline doctors in Italy are quoted as saying the virus there is losing potency - those contracting it now are suffering nowhere near the severity of illness as patients two months ago.

I see also that Spain reported deaths in single figures during the last few days, and none in the last 24 hours. So lots of encouraging news starting to emerge.

I have been lucky enough, through a King’s College study, to be invited to take part in both antibody and antigen testing. I’m due to have both tests this week.

I’ll be interested to see the outcome as I had some very minor symptoms early on during lockdown after a work colleague himself reported very severe flu like symptoms.
 
Billysboots said:
A couple of frontline doctors in Italy are quoted as saying the virus there is losing potency - those contracting it now are suffering nowhere near the severity of illness as patients two months ago.

I see also that Spain reported deaths in single figures during the last few days, and none in the last 24 hours. So lots of encouraging news starting to emerge.

I have been lucky enough, through a King’s College study, to be invited to take part in both antibody and antigen testing. I’m due to have both tests this week.

I’ll be interested to see the outcome as I had some very minor symptoms early on during lockdown after a work colleague himself reported very severe flu like symptoms.
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Interesting about the potency. Would it explain why we're not seeing a spike despite the public being out and about over several bank holidays and this weekend. Those that we do have left are long term and have been there 30+ days so it's more the damage the virus has caused to the body.
 
HomerJSimpson said:
Interesting about the potency. Would it explain why we're not seeing a spike despite the public being out and about over several bank holidays and this weekend. Those that we do have left are long term and have been there 30+ days so it's more the damage the virus has caused to the body.
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The comments have caused a bit of a stir, and government advisers there seem to hold a contrary view, but both medics say that, whilst there is still transmission, the actual viral load now being detected in new patients is “infinitesimal” in comparison to new cases in early March.

If that is true, then it must be encouraging.
 
Reemul said:
I live near Durdle Door.

It has been bedlam down here in the surrounding Poole area. The sandbanks beaches have been crammed like it's the middle of August in a heatwave. We have a beach hut there and went nowhere near it. Sister in Law was down there for 9am at the weekend and came home, said it was awful. Parks are rammed especially those near the water as well, jetski's and paddle boarders everywhere, dogs running wild. Most people not social distancing either.
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Sorry, but I call BS on that. Yep, the beaches were busy, but boy do they absorb people. Two metres. Easy as. Social distancing, easy as. Paddle boarding? Really? Is that the primary course of spreading covid? On paddle boards? Seriously? Jet ski's? Same? Dogs?

Get a grip.
 
DanFST said:
Had the results of my antibody test, I've had it. A large chunk of my social circle has had it.

Still social distancing obviously, but enjoying a drink right now!
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Is this a surpruse, or did you have an inkling from some mild symtoms? (Apologies if details are somewhere earlier in this thread)
 
pendodave said:
Is this a surpruse, or did you have an inkling from some mild symtoms? (Apologies if details are somewhere earlier in this thread)
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I'm a fit 28 year old. And if i'm honest I was knocked for 6 for a night or two. I really struggled to breath, but was too "manly" to call an ambulance and assumed it was flu. Even after the quarantine period I still felt like I'd been beaten up for about 2 weeks. It's very hard to explain, The cough was like nothing i'd experienced and had no phlegm at all.

My girlfriend who lives with me and 4 of my friends had no symptoms at all (despite one being heavily asthmatic and generally allergic to summer) I was the only one.
 
Been advised that the beach at our local 'beauty spot' has been closed off... No surprise as it's relatively tiny... A couple of hundred yards long tops... And, it's been packed to the gunwales all over the week end... With the loos being shut folk have been going into the adjacent woods to do their business... Should have just left it fenced off as it was during lockdown...
 
Billysboots said:
The comments have caused a bit of a stir, and government advisers there seem to hold a contrary view, but both medics say that, whilst there is still transmission, the actual viral load now being detected in new patients is “infinitesimal” in comparison to new cases in early March.

If that is true, then it must be encouraging.
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Something to do with the weather? I know they say warm weather won't kill it off but could it reduce its severity? Normal flu is very much a winter virus , could this be the same?
 
murphthemog said:
Sorry, but I call BS on that. Yep, the beaches were busy, but boy do they absorb people. Two metres. Easy as. Social distancing, easy as. Paddle boarding? Really? Is that the primary course of spreading covid? On paddle boards? Seriously? Jet ski's? Same? Dogs?

Get a grip.
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You can stick your head in the sand if you like? Forgive the pun.
But it is all proveable, it was broadcast on local TV.
The post was highlighting two things. Extreme numbers of people using the beach, even for normal times, and being anti social doing it.
The locals were claiming the anti social behaviour re the "beach accessories " They can be used properly with respect for others, they can also be used selfishly. Much of the latter was being reported. There was no claim that the specific use of these were themselves spreading Covid. But it was a fair bet that those who were using them selfishly were not thinking about SD.

And the beaches were so rammed that SD was not happening. That was clear from the footage.

Also, did you see the footage of what happened at Durdle Door?
If you did, how do you call BS?
 
DanFST said:
I'm a fit 28 year old. And if i'm honest I was knocked for 6 for a night or two. I really struggled to breath, but was too "manly" to call an ambulance and assumed it was flu. Even after the quarantine period I still felt like I'd been beaten up for about 2 weeks. It's very hard to explain, The cough was like nothing i'd experienced and had no phlegm at all.

My girlfriend who lives with me and 4 of my friends had no symptoms at all (despite one being heavily asthmatic and generally allergic to summer) I was the only one.
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That's interesting, certainly not very mild symptoms. Has your girlfriend and friends been tested for antibodies ? If they had it as well as you , then they got off very lightly ( which is a good thing, of course), and if they didn't get it at all, then it may not be as easy to get as we fear.?
 
Billysboots said:
A couple of frontline doctors in Italy are quoted as saying the virus there is losing potency - those contracting it now are suffering nowhere near the severity of illness as patients two months ago.

I see also that Spain reported deaths in single figures during the last few days, and none in the last 24 hours. So lots of encouraging news starting to emerge.

I have been lucky enough, through a King’s College study, to be invited to take part in both antibody and antigen testing. I’m due to have both tests this week.

I’ll be interested to see the outcome as I had some very minor symptoms early on during lockdown after a work colleague himself reported very severe flu like symptoms.
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I read the same thing and it does give hope that this is genuinely happening. The only part of the interview that gave me cause for concern was towards the end:

He said: "We've got to get back to being a normal country. Someone has to take responsibility for terrorising the country."

Did suddenly sound as though he had his own agenda with the whole thing.
 
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