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Coronavirus - how is it/has it affected you?

GB72 said:
In the event that contact between households is reduced or stopped, wonder if that would impact on golf. Are we heading back to playing amongst your own household only again.
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Organised sport it's fine
 
Apparently pubs to be asked to close at 10pm in England as of tomorrow.

Have a golf trip in Newbury area this weekend so hoping we just sneak that in before Boris ruins it.
 
road2ruin said:
Apparently pubs to be asked to close at 10pm in England as of tomorrow.

Have a golf trip in Newbury area this weekend so hoping we just sneak that in before Boris ruins it.
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Really don't get the point of this

Either there closed or open ... Seems a stupid idea just to please pub owners but look like something's being done
 
Well we couldn’t have a mega party this last weekend for my wife’s ‘special’ birthday - but we still had a lovely weekend with our two children, daughter’s b/friend and my wife’s Bestie. At all times adhering to the rules. And because of no mega party we are now sitting in the warm sunshine outside a lovely cottage in Charlestown - just outside St Austell. Here for the week and it is going to be lovely.

If it hadn’t been for the coronavirus we wouldn’t be here ?
 
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road2ruin said:
Apparently pubs to be asked to close at 10pm in England as of tomorrow.

Have a golf trip in Newbury area this weekend so hoping we just sneak that in before Boris ruins it.
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No point. Shut them at 8. I believe they should be allowed to remain open.
In Scotland they are saying in house transfers are the issue.
 
I see some chap who's name rhymes with Norris Ronson is going to announce new restrictions, things like early pub closing and table service only. He wil also be reiterating the need to follow all the health advice, which for me is the biggest issue, to many just don't care. And that's across all ages groups.
 
SwingsitlikeHogan said:
Well we couldn’t have a mega party this last weekend for my wife’s ‘special’ birthday - but we still had a lovely weekend with our two children, daughter’s b/friend and my wife’s Bestie. At all times adhering to the rules. And because of no mega party we are now sitting in the warm sunshine outside a lovely cottage in Charlestown - just outside St Austell. Here for the week and it is going to be lovely.

If it hadn’t been for the coronavirus we wouldn’t be here ?
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Good to hear.
Visit the nearby Hidden Garden of Heligan it is fantastic. Nice cafe as well [circa 2004 :love:]
 
Pubs just across the Scottish Border could see a booze-cruise style increase in punters from border areas of northern England.;) Like gamblers coming over the Nevada state line.

Kicking out at 10 doesn't make a lot of sense to me, tokenism, just means house parties or drunk younsters hanging about street corners unfulfilled from their shortened merriment.
Days are shorterning fast so easy for them to hide from police in the dark.:oops:
 
Surely there's more to come (UK-wide anyway) than pubs closing early? Can't see that justifying a statement to parliament and an address to the nation this evening.

If that is all that Boris is planning, I can see Scotland going a bit further.
 
maxfli65 said:
Kicking out at 10 doesn't make a lot of sense to me, tokenism, just means house parties or drunk younsters hanging about street corners unfulfilled from their shortened merriment.
Days are shorterning fast so easy for them to hide from police in the dark.:oops:
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Well that's up to the idiots who want to be selfish and break the rules isn't it? I'm sure the vast majority of normal law abiding citizens will accept it and try their best to do what's right.
 
Beezerk said:
Well that's up to the idiots who want to be selfish and break the rules isn't it? I'm sure the vast majority of normal law abiding citizens will accept it and try their best to do what's right.
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You're right the vast majority will but a significant minority won't as we've seen countless times over the last 6 months. They're the worst spreaders - the party at home lot. Now there are even well attended anti-vaxxer and 'covid is a hoax' protests ongoing.

Without a vaccine or a perfect test and trace system that everyone signs up to and obeys (they wont), seems this could be an endless cycle of repeats of peaks and troughs.
 
A farming friend visited a farming market in Yorkshire last week.
She said it was rammed and not a soul was wearing a mask.
I always thought farmers were quite sensible, so it is not just the idiots then.
 
Looks like the advice on homeworking is changing again from this to work from home if you can. EiTpUFlXYAUgxKa.jpg

Not sure how busy the city centres ever were with workers as I've always worked from home. But any time I have ventured out in the morning rush hour it did seem to be very quiet on the roads and more like the middle of the day in terms of traffic. I'm kind of expecting a lot of changing advice in the foreseeable future which we'll just have to get used to. Change is constant as someone once said. But I can't help thinking the media do not help with the messaging. As in this example, if the message is something like 'for the time being it seems safer to return to work so if you can please do so' then fine. But the way this is phrased makes it sound like it is all the fault of individuals if they lose their jobs. Then we are being told it is all their fault that the virus is spreading. Again it seems like nuance is a dying art in the media.
 
Doon frae Troon said:
A farming friend visited a farming market in Yorkshire last week.
She said it was rammed and not a soul was wearing a mask.
I always thought farmers were quite sensible, so it is not just the idiots then.
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Remember masks dont protect you, they protect others from you. Virus will get in your eyes. I think that gets forgotten.
In that regard everyone has to wear a mask at an organised event or the protection isn't there.
Imo the market organisers needed to deem that mask wearing is obligatory, I'd put this on the organisers as people will not wear them unless they're told they have to and the organisers would know this. They are uncomfortable, hot, steam up glasses and at a social thing like a farmers market people want to smile and chat with friends etc unhindered. Messaging had been the virus was on the decline and we were opening up. That's now changed so I think if the market were scheduled for today for example the approach from people would be either 'I'm not going' or 'I will wear a mask'.
 
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