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Coronavirus - how is it/has it affected you?

pauldj42 said:
If that is your normal routine then good, but let’s be honest, thousands suddenly turned into professionals. As for policing it, they shouldn’t have to, people should be able to follow the rules, apart from those who think they don’t apply to them.

As for saving the NHS, are you sure there were no injuries suffered by people suddenly taking sport to excess?

Even last week we had people telling us they had tourists in the Lake District from all over the Country.
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i am refering to going out for a walk (or cycle/run), usually on my own. Looks like common sense and no stupid limit has been imposed as i for one would have ignored it and carried on walking. They have said about keeping local and have no problem with that, although i coukld if naughty sneak over the Bracknell border line if i get carried away!

Plenty stupid people out there - we need to keep stupid rules out of any guidelines

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ColchesterFC said:
Then the estate agent isn't following the guidelines. My parents are moving from where they live (around an hour away) to a bungalow just around the corner from me. While we were still in Tier 3 I had to go and check some things out in the property that they are buying as it was easier than them driving down and back. I had to arrange a time that would allow at least half an hour after the previous owner's son had left the property to allow all doors and windows to be left open and for them to wipe down everything. I then had to visit wearing a mask and gloves, with the obvious distancing from the estate agent while in the bungalow. The rules are pretty stringent for estate agents so it seems that your local one isn't sticking to them.
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Yeah 100% not sticking to

Next door did purple bricks and he managed his own visits .. back to back might aswell high 5 on the drive
 
Tiger man said:
About time, how can anyone take these clowns seriously when we were told it's safe for schools to open, then they are shut after one day!
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Worrying and strange u-turn after PM appeared on Marr yesterday to announce schools were safe. :unsure:
 
It's not great timing for us as its the wife's busiest time of the year work wise.
 
maxfli65 said:
Worrying and strange u-turn after PM appeared on Marr yesterday to announce schools were safe. :unsure:
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...and head of a teaching union earlier today tells us that they presented a 6-pt plan for managing schooling reopening safely back in June and got no reply from government. The plan covered recruiting additional teaching and TA staff and building and arranging additional accommodation as well as getting all the necessary tech to everyone.

Why did he mention that plan? Because he was asked by the interviewer what he’d now do to help get schools open - whenever that might be - he grimaced and answered that he’d work with government to implement the 6-pt plan - as they should have been doing from June - and as they still will if asked.

I think I hear the PM say that he was hoping that that would be after spring half term? So they have until 22nd Feb to get the schooling sorted for safe physical return. That’s probably time enough?
 
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Anyway heard this evening just an hour ago that my wife’s favourite aunt - her mum’s 90yr old twin sister - has COVID-19 and has refused to be moved from her care home to hospital. She’s in a grim little room, alone and on oxygen. Mrs and mil both very upset. Of course they can’t visit, so know they might never see her again...

Feels like it’s closing in on us all...?
 
chrisd said:
When I moved out of Croydon to Kent and met MrsD she often used the words "mutton eye" which I finally realised was country bumpkin for "mustn't I" hardly the Queens English ??
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Met a lovely guy called Alan Tift. He was from Kent. He was the biggest scrounger of snuff and Owt warm from a flask. He could tell stories for England. I remember asking him one day “was he a man of Kent or a Kentish man”. He said “I always knew you were educated Tash”. Really.
 
BiMGuy said:
All fine till you fall off and need the air ambulance to scrape you up. Then a number of operations to put you back together again. Like happened to a mate of mine during the first lockdown.
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i should think a good deal more issues happen from everyday mudane things - i have seen several issue in supermarkets - but still think no logic imposing timing on execrise etc
 
PNWokingham said:
i should think a good deal more issues happen from everyday mudane things - i have seen several issue in supermarkets - but still think no logic imposing timing on exercise etc
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It's the same as you can't catch Covid if you are eating. Covid can't strike if you exercise for no longer than 59 minutes.

Lets use some common sense, if someone wants to go for a walk for a day, let them.
 
SwingsitlikeHogan said:
Anyway heard this evening just an hour ago that my wife’s favourite aunt - her mum’s 90yr old twin sister - has COVID-19 and has refused to be moved from her care home to hospital. She’s in a grim little room, alone and on oxygen. Mrs and mil both very upset. Of course they can’t visit, so know they might never see her again...

Feels like it’s closing in on us all...?
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My MIL had her jab in her IOW care home on Saturday, tonight they inform us that they have a case on her floor.
 
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