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Coronavirus - how is it/has it affected you?

In the news today, there are Drs getting angry( rightfully) at people not observing this lockdown properly: some berks protesting at Clapham about lack of freedom.
Talk of police clamping down harder on those stretching the rules.

And all the time many are dying needlessly, and health workers at breaking point.
The selfishness of this country is becoming more apparent .
I don't think it helps for people who, however boring it is, to complain about having to stay in. It's a small price to pay in order to help those who, in every sense and circumstance, as seen on the News, are battling this virus at a much higher cost than being bored.
Keep telling yourselves that you are helping to save lives, most likely your own and your loved ones.
We are at a critical place.
 
Swinglowandslow said:
In the news today, there are Drs getting angry( rightfully) at people not observing this lockdown properly: some berks protesting at Clapham about lack of freedom.
Talk of police clamping down harder on those stretching the rules.

And all the time many are dying needlessly, and health workers at breaking point.
The selfishness of this country is becoming more apparent .
I don't think it helps for people who, however boring it is, to complain about having to stay in. It's a small price to pay in order to help those who, in every sense and circumstance, as seen on the News, are battling this virus at a much higher cost than being bored.
Keep telling yourselves that you are helping to save lives, most likely your own and your loved ones.
We are at a critical place.
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Really! People are selfish because they are staying in and moaning, personally, good on them, please, please, please keep moaning while staying indoors.

Concentrate on those saying nothing and going out or the boss’s who believe they have to stay open and making people work or the lax rules that don’t have enough to infrastructure to support them.
 
pauldj42 said:
Really! People are selfish because they are staying in and moaning, personally, good on them, please, please, please keep moaning while staying indoors.

Concentrate on those saying nothing and going out or the boss’s who believe they have to stay open and making people work or the lax rules that don’t have enough to infrastructure to support them.
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Your last paragraph I agree with. But don't you see that the more it is OK to moan about being bored, the more it gives the morons justification to break that boredom and go out when they shouldn't and help the virus.
Of course, it's not the intention of those that moan fir there to be that consequence, but it does fuel that justification.
And I didn't say the moaners were the ones being selfish. If you read the post properly, the selfishness is about those I describe in my first paragraph.
 
Swinglowandslow said:
Your last paragraph I agree with. But don't you see that the more it is OK to moan about being bored, the more it gives the morons justification to break that boredom and go out when they shouldn't and help the virus.
Of course, it's not the intention of those that moan fir there to be that consequence, but it does fuel that justification.
And I didn't say the moaners were the ones being selfish. If you read the post properly, the selfishness is about those I describe in my first paragraph.
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Maybe I miss understood, but you posted about people moaning just after a few on here had said how bored they were.

I fully understand what they are saying and have no issue with it as I don’t believe they were/are considering going out for no reason and moaning is probably no more than some venting.
 
pauldj42 said:
Maybe I miss understood, but you posted about people moaning just after a few on here had said how bored they were.

I fully understand what they are saying and have no issue with it as I don’t believe they were/are considering going out for no reason and moaning is probably no more than some venting.
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Ah, I can see that it looks that way. No, I'm in no way suggesting that people here are indicating that they are thinking of going out etc.
But some out there are doing just that, almost like they should be able to get on with life
It's just that it seems everywhere now you look, the news etc, somebody is having a say about being restricted, the police being heavy handed etc;and yesterday I saw a TV report from a hospital where the staff were on the edge, despairing at the increasing numbers and the incessant deaths.
It just got to me that staying in ( unless essential to go out) is not any hardship in comparison with what some are dealing with.
 
Our local vaccine centre opens next week - small lights at the end of the tunnel
 
Me and Mrs out for a short walk around 1pm and couldn’t believe volume of traffic - it was a normal Saturday. Loads of cars going into local Homebase, Halfords, petsRUs and council ‘tip’ - all fully open it seemed. What’s essential about any of that lot. And where was all the traffic not going to these stores all going? 1st lockdown the roads were deserted. Just not getting it at all.

And this in a part of the country where the rate per thousand is over 1000 - and nearby it’s 1750 - and rising almost everywhere for miles around - I fear that we are doomed if nothing is changed and so i expect a PM statement on tightening things tomorrow evening or late afternoon.
 
SwingsitlikeHogan said:
Me and Mrs out for a short walk around 1pm and couldn’t believe volume of traffic - it was a normal Saturday. Loads of cars going into local Homebase, Halfords, petsRUs and council ‘tip’ - all fully open it seemed. What’s essential about any of that lot. And where was all the traffic not going to these stores all going? 1st lockdown the roads were deserted. Just not getting it at all.

And this in a part of the country where the rate per thousand is over 1000 - and nearby it’s 1750 - and rising almost everywhere for miles around - I fear that we are doomed if nothing is changed and so i expect a PM statement on tightening things tomorrow evening or late afternoon.
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Interesting route, don’t you have a Currys, Aldi and Top Tiles.
 
SwingsitlikeHogan said:
Me and Mrs out for a short walk around 1pm and couldn’t believe volume of traffic - it was a normal Saturday. Loads of cars going into local Homebase, Halfords, petsRUs and council ‘tip’ - all fully open it seemed. What’s essential about any of that lot. And where was all the traffic not going to these stores all going? 1st lockdown the roads were deserted. Just not getting it at all.

And this in a part of the country where the rate per thousand is over 1000 - and nearby it’s 1750 - and rising almost everywhere for miles around - I fear that we are doomed if nothing is changed and so i expect a PM statement on tightening things tomorrow evening or late afternoon.
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Id say pet shops are very essienal. You need animals to still be cared for and fed surely
 
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