• We'd like to take this opportunity to wish you a Happy Holidays and a very Merry Christmas from all at Golf Monthly. Thank you for sharing your 2025 with us!

Coronavirus - how is it/has it affected you?

Blue in Munich said:
If it was an extremely mild year for normal flu then the start of the pandemic figures could still be incorrectly masked in the flu figures and be below average. I understand your concerns about the figures not apparently supporting it, but the more I read the more convinced I am that it has been here longer.
Click to expand...

I do think it is a bit of wishful thinking, with the death rate lower than normal that is reflective of the lower flu rate. There is no indication of an uprise earlier for any reason, this more than likely an indication it was not over here in great enough numbers.

I too had a rough time both in January and February where I had 3 days off and then another 3 both feeling really rough with a very bad cold, symptoms could be Covid ones.

All of us want it gone, want things back to normal and it is human nature to clutch at straws, fancifulness and look for anything that gives us a ray of hope.

The reality is likely a few may have had it but it certainly wasn't widespread and probably just a week or 2 earlier at most.
 
Last edited:
One of the many ways Covid-19 has affected my life is, I haven't physically seen my kids since before lockdown even though Cafcass stated government were allowing them between homes. But due their mum being high risk as she was in latter stages of pregnancy and then subsequently having the wee one and health visitor advise that it wasn't ideal timing for visits between houses, I have been video calling and patiently waited for what feels an eternity to see them and hug them. Well as of today their mum has the all clear medically for her and baby, meaning this Friday normal service is resumed and I can pick up my little ones and have them over for the week. To state I am excited is beyond any words I can find ????
 
Last edited:
Wolf said:
One of the many ways Covid-19 has affected my life is, I haven't physically seen my kids since before lockdown even though Cafcass stayed government were allowing them between homes. But due their mum being high risk as she was in latter stages of pregnancy along and then subsequently having the wee one and health visitor advise that it wasn't ideal timing for visits between houses, I have been video calling and patiently waited for what feels an eternity to see them and hug them. Well as of today their mum has the all clear medically for her and baby, meaning this Friday normal service is resumed and I can pick up my little ones and have them over for the week. To state I am excited is beyond any words I can find ????
Click to expand...

Great news mate, everyone has that one thing that they have been waiting to be allowed to do again more than anything else and it looks like you have just got yours.
 
GB72 said:
Great news mate, everyone has that one thing that they have been waiting to be allowed to do again more than anything else and it looks like you have just got yours.
Click to expand...
Thanks mate, and I owe you thanks as well because of your kindness of giving us the xbox we were able to have full screen video calls and interactive games ??
 
Wolf said:
Thanks mate, and I owe you thanks as well because of your kindness of giving us the xbox we were able to have full screen video calls and interactive games ??
Click to expand...

No problem at all. Just good to be able to help someone out a bit during this and hopefully it will allow you to keep in even better contact once this is over.
 
MegaSteve said:
I read, over the weekend, that smokers are less likely to cop it... And, there's been trials using nicotine patches as treatment...
Click to expand...

Yes, Steve, you are right . I mentioned this in post 173 of " The virus anybody else done the maths"
This was back in April , where French doctors noticed better responses from smokers, and put it down to possibly the nicotine in their bodies was helping fight the virus.
So some of the Drs took to wearing nicotine patches.?
Haven't heard any follow up on this, as to whether it has been found that nicotine is beneficial.
 
Wolf said:
One of the many ways Covid-19 has affected my life is, I haven't physically seen my kids since before lockdown even though Cafcass stated government were allowing them between homes. But due their mum being high risk as she was in latter stages of pregnancy and then subsequently having the wee one and health visitor advise that it wasn't ideal timing for visits between houses, I have been video calling and patiently waited for what feels an eternity to see them and hug them. Well as of today their mum has the all clear medically for her and baby, meaning this Friday normal service is resumed and I can pick up my little ones and have them over for the week. To state I am excited is beyond any words I can find ????
Click to expand...
That's going to great for you and the kids. Cant wait to hug my family and grandchildren
 
Swinglowandslow said:
Yes, Steve, you are right . I mentioned this in post 173 of " The virus anybody else done the maths"
This was back in April , where French doctors noticed better responses from smokers, and put it down to possibly the nicotine in their bodies was helping fight the virus.
So some of the Drs took to wearing nicotine patches.?
Haven't heard any follow up on this, as to whether it has been found that nicotine is beneficial.
Click to expand...

Don't know whether or not nicotine is the active ingredient but its worth considering some of the other by-products of smoking. One of the gases from smoking is nitric oxide. In high PPM its lethal. Nitric oxide creates nitric acid when it interacts with moisture in the lungs. Nitric oxide ventilation has been around for 30-ish years. Bizarrely the acid helps with O2 uptake. Its always been a last chance option, and its rare to see it in most hospitals as there are issues with dealing with the spent gases.
 
Hobbit said:
Don't know whether or not nicotine is the active ingredient but its worth considering some of the other by-products of smoking. One of the gases from smoking is nitric oxide. In high PPM its lethal. Nitric oxide creates nitric acid when it interacts with moisture in the lungs. Nitric oxide ventilation has been around for 30-ish years. Bizarrely the acid helps with O2 uptake. Its always been a last chance option, and its rare to see it in most hospitals as there are issues with dealing with the spent gases.
Click to expand...
I think the suggestion is that nicotine may inhibit the uptake of the virus into cells. Though it is highly speculative and some studies have disagreed with the French one. Nitric oxide is a pulmonary vasodilator so can increase the blood flow through the lung , it has been used in some centres during the covid outbreak but smoking is unlikely to have any effect on it.
 
Still holding steady at one suspected case although the numbers of the normal ICU type cases have risen sharply which in a perverse sort of way has been a relief and almost a diversion for the nursing staff to get back to that type of nursing and with the exception of surgical masks (now deemed mandatory for all staff as it's proving hard to SD in a lot of areas) without the need of PPE
 
bobmac said:
So not literally life and death then.
I would have thought putting lots of vulnerable people together in one room would be the last thing you'd want to do, especially when the experts advice is to self isolate.
Click to expand...
Above was from 18th March. We stopped the 'get-togethers' I was trying to keep going back then very shortly after 18th March.

Now as the days, weeks and months pass - the importance of us getting to some new form of normality as soon as possible remains so very important for me, and why I am so willing the government to get things right and keep us all on board and trusting in them.

Why? Well - one of my 'get-together' number - J - a really nice lad in his early 30s - committed suicide on Saturday. I know of some of the pressures he was under - but another friend spoke to him last week and he was really struggling with life in lockdown and isolation. He desperately missed his wee lad (he was separated from his wife), and our 'get-togethers' had kept him connected, stable, sane and able to cope with life :(

The 'Bubbling' that the PM is talking about today would have helped. But too late for J. But perhaps just-in-time for others. So I must thank Johnson for 'bubbling' if it is a step towards being able to meet with such as J on more than a 1:1 basis.
 
BrianM said:
Well it looks like we can open the holiday cottage for guests on the 25th of July, the cleaning requirements are off the scale....
Click to expand...

For my next job it looks like I'll be staying in an airBnB as we're only doing 12 hour ops and then on shore in the evenings. As part of them being allowed to rent out their accommodation they have to give it a deep clean and then no one is allowed into the property for 72 hours before I arrive. Also have to have contactless handover of the key (or lockbox with code).
 
All sorts of industries getting notice of when they're likely to be opening again....
And us driving instructors have had 4/5ths of bugger all.........12 days until tests are supposed to restart and nobody's been in a car for 3 months.....:rolleyes:
 
ColchesterFC said:
For my next job it looks like I'll be staying in an airBnB as we're only doing 12 hour ops and then on shore in the evenings. As part of them being allowed to rent out their accommodation they have to give it a deep clean and then no one is allowed into the property for 72 hours before I arrive. Also have to have contactless handover of the key (or lockbox with code).
Click to expand...

It’s not going to be easy but we’ve made no money in 3.5 months now.....
 
While impatience is entirely understandable the unfortunate facts are that research and modelling pandemic virus infections tend to show that infections rates go in waves and rise in autumn and winter. Since people stay inside longer, withing relatively high humidity central heated homes. Best keep our fingers crossed and not rush to crowded indoor places otherwise there may not be many opportunities for being merry on 25th Dec..
 
BrianM said:
Well it looks like we can open the holiday cottage for guests on the 25th of July, the cleaning requirements are off the scale....
Click to expand...

Brian, out of interest is that official government advice? Reason I ask is that we’ve got a UK trip booked for the 27th July and this would be welcome news for us!
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Top