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Coronavirus - how is it/has it affected you?

GB72 said:
You may actually be surprised as to the demographic of shoots around my way (OK admittedly not grouse, mainly pheasant). Shooting has a similar issue to golf in that it is seen as an pursuit for the high end of society but actually it is pretty much normal, everyday people who shoot in my area and many finance it by beating when they are not taking part in the shoot itself.
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What is beating?? I am assuming tat if i have to ask then i m not in..
 
Lord Tyrion said:
One of my employees works part time as a cleaner for a holiday let. They have asked her to clean a house on Friday for the arrival of 12 people, coming from 4 different addresses. She is currently mulling over how to deal with this as it goes against the rules, she has forensically checked the govt website this morning to double check. She has questioned it with letting agency but they are allowing it to proceed. She will not let it go and will report it to the police if necessary, she is strong like that, even though it may cost her job.

I feel for the police in this, the amount of time they are going to have to spend knocking on doors of people who should know better
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Sacked for preventing her employers breaking the law? I can hear the lawsuits being drawn up already!:LOL:
 
Hacker Khan said:
There was a chap on 5 live this morning who works in a test centre saying he expected to have yet another quiet day, sometimes reading books or listening to music to pass the time. He said they have the capacity to do 10 to 15 times the amount of tests they are doing but the backlog is at the labs processing the results. So the appointments are being (mis)managed based on the capacity of the labs, not the test centres. No idea if outsourcing is a reason, I would not be surprised if it plays a part but as with all things, it is probably much more complex that reducing it down to one reason, after all team UK does seem to have a lot on our plate at the moment.

I see the Daily Mail today is starting a campaign to get the testing sorted out, weird times when I am behind a Daily Mail campaign.... I've also noticed the Daliy Star has suddenly got very political and is creating some funny front pages that no longer just feature women in bikinis.. Today's is great, but I won't post as it is very political.

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Am I living in some kind of parallel universe now? I'm not imagining this am I. The rest of you see this as well? The Daily Mail having a real go at the government and dare I say making sense? 2020 is turning out to be extremely weird. I wish the Mail would get back to scaring the home counties readers about the threat of immigrants as I know where I stand then and I can just use them as a standard example of a hateful spiteful waste of paper. This is very disconcerting. ;)

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Springveldt said:
From the rumours so far it seems golf might be cancelled in the North East from today.
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So far outdoor sport has been largely exempt from severe restrictions, after the initial lifting of lockdown. Hopefully it will remain the same. It may well affect cluhouses again but we should be able to get out and play still.
 
Are Golf Courses still open in areas that are already under local lockdown?
 
Lord Tyrion said:
So far outdoor sport has been largely exempt from severe restrictions, after the initial lifting of lockdown. Hopefully it will remain the same. It may well affect cluhouses again but we should be able to get out and play still.
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Rumours yesterday were saying no mixing households indoors or outdoors but pubs still open. If that's the case you could have 40 people in the clubhouse for a drink but you can't go and play on the course with any of them.
 
I am a member of Doctors Net, a social media platform for UK and Ireland medics, and the debate there is not whether there will be a surge in cases, because pretty much everyone thinks there will be, and soon, but the extent to which we should lock down, with opinions ranging from severe lockdown to eliminate the virus to a Swedish style take it on the chin. Unfortunately with the collapse of test and trace, we are flying semi-blind.
 
So I'm due to go on holiday to the magnificent Northumbrian coastline in October, 4 people in one house that includes one person from another family. Any idea if this will be now allowed?
 
Ethan said:
I am a member of Doctors Net, a social media platform for UK and Ireland medics, and the debate there is not whether there will be a surge in cases, because pretty much everyone thinks there will be, and soon, but the extent to which we should lock down, with opinions ranging from severe lockdown to eliminate the virus to a Swedish style take it on the chin. Unfortunately with the collapse of test and trace, we are flying semi-blind.
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"collapse of test and trace" far too kind, never thought it even got set up!

A severe lockdown in an ideal world would be the most effective. However we all know it wouldn't eliminate the virus, people don't follow rules. Also the borders are still open, so pointless!
 
Ethan said:
I am a member of Doctors Net, a social media platform for UK and Ireland medics, and the debate there is not whether there will be a surge in cases, because pretty much everyone thinks there will be, and soon, but the extent to which we should lock down, with opinions ranging from severe lockdown to eliminate the virus to a Swedish style take it on the chin. Unfortunately with the collapse of test and trace, we are flying semi-blind.
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DanFST said:
"collapse of test and trace" far too kind, never thought it even got set up!

A severe lockdown in an ideal world would be the most effective. However we all know it wouldn't eliminate the virus, people don't follow rules. Also the borders are still open, so pointless!
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Timely comments for a thought that occurred to me earlier. so for curiosity. Open to all to answer;

If it was on offer would you accept a 14 day nationwide total lockdown starting tomorrow (not a political lockdown, a medical lockdown) A full blown quarantine style self-isolation for everyone except essential services. No leaving home except for medical care?
 
DanFST said:
"collapse of test and trace" far too kind, never thought it even got set up!

A severe lockdown in an ideal world would be the most effective. However we all know it wouldn't eliminate the virus, people don't follow rules. Also the borders are still open, so pointless!
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Well, it was staggering along on crutches, but has now fallen over completely.

There was a window in Feb/March where a strict quarantine for inward bound travellers could have significantly reduced the amount of virus that got into the community, so then managing subsequent spread becomes a lot more manageable. With T&T now in intensive care itself, we have lost even the tenuous grip on the numbers. I also maintain that not testing all close contacts of positive cases is a massive mistake. The asymptomatic transmitters need to be ID'd and contact traced just as much as symptomatic cases.
 
Slab said:
Timely comments for a thought that occurred to me earlier. so for curiosity. Open to all to answer;

If it was on offer would you accept a 14 day nationwide total lockdown starting tomorrow (not a political lockdown, a medical lockdown) A full blown quarantine style self-isolation for everyone except essential services. No leaving home except for medical care?
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Yes.
 
Hacker Khan said:
Am I living in some kind of parallel universe now? I'm not imagining this am I. The rest of you see this as well? The Daily Mail having a real go at the government and dare I say making sense? 2020 is turning out to be extremely weird. I wish the Mail would get back to scaring the home counties readers about the threat of immigrants as I know where I stand then and I can just use them as a standard example of a hateful spiteful waste of paper. This is very disconcerting. ;)

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It's all very confusing and disconcerting.
 
Been forced to move my office again as we are now up to 3 Covid and it isn't deemed safe for me to be around that side of the unit (where office located). Totally get it and happy to be out but just a pain having to move all the stuff again and trying to plan ahead as to what I may need to take now but not need immediately and finding somewhere to store it
 
Slab said:
Timely comments for a thought that occurred to me earlier. so for curiosity. Open to all to answer;

If it was on offer would you accept a 14 day nationwide total lockdown starting tomorrow (not a political lockdown, a medical lockdown) A full blown quarantine style self-isolation for everyone except essential services. No leaving home except for medical care?
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Not really as my milk goes out of date on Saturday so I'd need to restock first. ;) On a more serious point I'm lucky as I have a relatively big garden to exercise myself and pets, not sure how people with dogs and no garden would cope.
 
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