Coronavirus - how is it/has it affected you?

fundy said:
or you could accept the impact on someone who lives alone is far greater than on someone in a family household
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I'm also alone. I and many others did over 2 months without seeing another person.

This isn't ideal, but in the scheme of things isn't a huge issue. Can still get out on the course, slightly different beer session after but still possible.
 
pauljames87 said:
Really don't see the big deal at all

Basically all it takes off the cards is going to the cinema .. going to the pub (with your family as it was anyways) mixing In gardens and football fans gone again

Gyms still open
Haircuts still available
Golf still available
Schools open
Shops still open

Long as the pubs get their support and employees get support then really day to day it is the same as tier 2
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Here speaks someone who has lived in a tier 2 zone for a while. We've been in effective lockdown for quite a few months now. There is a difference. There is no release in tier 3, there definitely is in tier 2.
 
Lord Tyrion said:
Here speaks someone who has lived in a tier 2 zone for a while. We've been in effective lockdown for quite a few months now. There is a difference. There is no release in tier 3, there definitely is in tier 2.
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Golf isn't a release?
 
Traminator said:
No you're not.
I've only been in the area since the beginning of the year, I can't just invite myself round the house of people I've played the odd round of golf with, let alone in the middle of a pandemic.
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Shame your not close to Dan, both single households could have formed a bubble and both got a bit of company (not being sarky even if sounds it)

I hope you find some release

Hey least we still have golf.
 
Traminator said:
And no you cannot sit outside the clubhouse with your own beer.
Bars, pubs restaurants may offer takeaway only... The key word meaning you take it away, not sit there on site drinking.

Groups of 6 in a support bubble may meet in certain outdoor areas, not on the golf club patio drinking.

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Groups of 6 can meet outside in parks etc and doesn't have to be support bubbles

So your playing partners you can meet in a park for example
 
Traminator said:
And no you cannot sit outside the clubhouse with your own beer.
Bars, pubs restaurants may offer takeaway only... The key word meaning you take it away, not sit there on site drinking.

Groups of 6 in a support bubble may meet in certain outdoor areas, not on the golf club patio drinking.

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Went to a local garden centre today and there were at least three groups of four pensioners sitting together in the coffee shop. Perhaps they all live together......
 
Tier 3 was a huge difference for me. Removed any external social interaction. 6 people meeting in the garden for an hour, a meal in the pub with my wife, all things I really miss. These days it is work and home, nothing else, really hard mentally
 
GB72 said:
Tier 3 was a huge difference for me. Removed any external social interaction. 6 people meeting in the garden for an hour, a meal in the pub with my wife, all things I really miss. These days it is work and home, nothing else, really hard mentally
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Appreciate not the same. However you can meet people for an hour in the local park instead tour garden

Have a take away delivered instead of the meal out to try and switch off for that night

Little releases
 
Bah... had to cancel our works breakfast on Thursday. No works do or even a meal with the wives this year but thought the 3 of us could have got in a posh breakfast in London, but no such luck. ☹️
 
Wait and see where we end up. Sneaking feeling we're heading to tier 3. Not that bothered and have no plans to go out socialising at Christmas and the new year. Finish on Christmas Eve, back first Monday in January and so close the door, spend some time with the wife and chill. Will get some fresh air and golf and thats me. See how the land lies in 2021 and if/when I get my vaccine
 
Came into work today to full escalation plan in action. Only got 5 Covid (plus a suspected) but the unit is full. Now taken over T&O side rooms and escalated into their firs bay on their main ward. Plans to take it over completely if we get 4 more admissions and can't discharge. This isn't a Covid wave although I fear that apocalypse will come the second or third week of January after the Christmas excesses. Add in the winter pressures with flu etc and I fear 2021 is going to be a tough start
 
pauljames87 said:
Golf isn't a release?
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Slipped disc at the moment so I'm not playing. It certainly doesn't help. I miss little releases at the weekend, meeting someone in a house, tea and cake in a cafe after a walk. Yes, there are alternatives but I've doing those for a good while now and the joy has gone.

I'm aware why the area is tier 3, we are sticking to the rules. It's just draining. Tier 2 gives releases, I want to be in it, but it doesn't necessarily mean that we should be.
 
Lord Tyrion said:
Slipped disc at the moment so I'm not playing. It certainly doesn't help. I miss little releases at the weekend, meeting someone in a house, tea and cake in a cafe after a walk. Yes, there are alternatives but I've doing those for a good while now and the joy has gone.

I'm aware why the area is tier 3, we are sticking to the rules. It's just draining. Tier 2 gives releases, I want to be in it, but it doesn't necessarily mean that we should be.
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It certainly is challenging
 
IanM said:
Tonight's figures for Wales are bad. Worse growth than England. Goodness knows how.
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Prob because even with restrictions it is an air born virus, its now winter and it was always going to spread


Think it's more surprising that it hasn't spread even worse
 
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