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Coronavirus - how is it/has it affected you?

See Rees-Mogg broke the rules by travelling 15 miles on Sunday from his T4 home to a church in T3.

Before anyone asks, there are plenty Catholic churches in T4 close to his home, it seems he prefers the one in T3. Hardly essential travel.

And before anyone plays the "political" card, this is not a political point, it's nothing to do with Tory policy, it's all to do with those who lead us failing to lead by example which is the least we should expect.
 
Leftitshort said:
Or you could get it and have really mild symptoms like I did. I’m not dismissing this at all, a work colleague is really poorly currently, but if you do get this it’s not a death sentence in the majority of cases. I think it’s important to keep some perspective.
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No, it isn't a death sentence. But look at it like this. If you were told that at your age and state of health, you had a 1 in 1000 chance of getting and dying from Covid, you would probably say that you can live with those odds.

If you got on a plane and the pilot announced that unfortunately the safety systems were down, so in the unlikely event of engine failure or a bad bird strike, the place would crash to a fiery death. He said the odds of that were about 1 in 1000. How many people would get off the plane?
 
rudebhoy said:
See Rees-Mogg broke the rules by travelling 15 miles on Sunday from his T4 home to a church in T3.

Before anyone asks, there are plenty Catholic churches in T4 close to his home, it seems he prefers the one in T3. Hardly essential travel.

And before anyone plays the "political" card, this is not a political point, it's nothing to do with Tory policy, it's all to do with those who lead us failing to lead by example which is the least we should expect.
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He needs a "special" sort of Church that does the old Tridentine Mass in Latin.
 
Ethan said:
No, it isn't a death sentence. But look at it like this. If you were told that at your age and state of health, you had a 1 in 1000 chance of getting and dying from Covid, you would probably say that you can live with those odds.

If you got on a plane and the pilot announced that unfortunately the safety systems were down, so in the unlikely event of engine failure or a bad bird strike, the place would crash to a fiery death. He said the odds of that were about 1 in 1000. How many people would get off the plane?
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I’m not belittling it at all. You could be unlucky and get some complications or you could have underlying health conditions and it become very serious very quickly. However, people getting it, albeit mildly and then recovering isn’t news. The fella I was replying to was mulling over the seriousness of the disease. Statistically, underlying health dependent, it’s a long way from a death sentence.
I won’t compare it to the flu as I believe this to be disingenuous but it’s also not the bubonic plague.
 
SocketRocket said:
Isn't that a bit like a reporter in WW1 taking a photo of an Army Storeman stacking blankets a mile behind the front line to portray what life is like for the Tommies,
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Not really, to carry on with the war analogies. it’s a bit like being part of a light skirmish, getting off without a wound, but recognising that the battle of the Somme was serious. The way it’s reported & the way it’s spoken about on here you would be forgiven in thinking that it’s a death sentence....it’s not.
 
our test results came back negative but Mrs D has had the symptoms since Sunday/Monday. As we did the test on Saturday they recommended another test so we had a trip to the O2.
 
Ethan said:
No, it isn't a death sentence. But look at it like this. If you were told that at your age and state of health, you had a 1 in 1000 chance of getting and dying from Covid, you would probably say that you can live with those odds.

If you got on a plane and the pilot announced that unfortunately the safety systems were down, so in the unlikely event of engine failure or a bad bird strike, the place would crash to a fiery death. He said the odds of that were about 1 in 1000. How many people would get off the plane?
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I heard a good one other day Ethan..

If someone gave you a bag of 1000 jelly beans and said 1 of them would kill you.. you would avoid the jelly beans!
 
SwingsitlikeHogan said:
LOL - 'unfortunately' ;) my Christian nature means that I have to pray for that passer-bye - pray that he 'sees the light' on the virus before it sees to him...and through him infects those close to him
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The unfortunate result about that (non) action is that it does nothing to stop his behaviour. And, although not specified , it is certain that with such an attitude his behaviour will in no way be such as to stop the virus spread.
He will go on behaving in such a way as will spread the virus, won't he?
 
My point re social media was that it doesn't matter what the BBC says, balanced or not, because it only reaches people who already use it, and a lot of hip youngsters view it as stale and old, and not relevant to them.

Social influences on the other hand, have followers in the millions.
 
pauljames87 said:
I heard a good one other day Ethan..

If someone gave you a bag of 1000 jelly beans and said 1 of them would kill you.. you would avoid the jelly beans!
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Exactly. But the main thing is, if you don't HAVE to eat any of the jelly beans.

Sometimes you have to take the risk with something - fair enough, 1000-1 is comfortable, a little less so if you want to do the something . If you're not fussed about it, you don't do it, do you?

That's why with this Covid thing, I don't take unnecessary risks.
 
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