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Coronavirus - how is it/has it affected you?

AmandaJR said:
It is indeed and I was also in the previous chat which may have been hundreds of pages ago on this thread.

I found a nice tutorial with a sing along and worked with that for a couple of days before trying the original. I'm finding that singing along is really helping my ability to keep time/count somehow which is something I'm pretty poor at.

https://www.laurenbateman.com/three-little-birds-chord-chart

I've already planned "Leaving on a Jet Plane" for next week :)

I also use https://www.andyguitar.co.uk/
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Hi, Amanda. Not wishing to overload you but guitarbackingtrack.com is a good site. Thousands of tracks available, many of them originals with the guitars and sometimes the vocals removed. You can listen online or you can download the tracks, maximum of three per day. Also includes Three Little Birds. :)
 
I genuinely believe we are over the worst, but by no means out of it, I think the lockdown will be eased, enough for some, not enough for others and this will be how it goes with reviews for months and months.

Spring, Summer will be easier and we’ll have to be on our guard for a few years yet, but hopefully people will continue to maintain the higher standard of personnel hygenie and with the advances in medicine we’ll eventually back to the “new normal” whatever that looks like.
 
pauldj42 said:
I genuinely believe we are over the worst, but by no means out of it, I think the lockdown will be eased, enough for some, not enough for others and this will be how it goes with reviews for months and months.

Spring, Summer will be easier and we’ll have to be on our guard for a few years yet, but hopefully people will continue to maintain the higher standard of personnel hygenie and with the advances in medicine we’ll eventually back to the “new normal” whatever that looks like.
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Everyone tier 1 for the summer months then tier 2 for autumn and 3 for winter

If people could stick to it might actually work
 
SatchFan said:
Hi, Amanda. Not wishing to overload you but guitarbackingtrack.com is a good site. Thousands of tracks available, many of them originals with the guitars and sometimes the vocals removed. You can listen online or you can download the tracks, maximum of three per day. Also includes Three Little Birds. :)
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Ooh thanks. Just checked out 3 Little Birds and sounds really good and will also help me try and get that reggae beat which I think is just strumming the up...think!

I just played it through without backing and sang it and got it pretty good - the dogs seemed to like it!
 
pauljames87 said:
Everyone tier 1 for the summer months then tier 2 for autumn and 3 for winter

If people could stick to it might actually work
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So basically the end of the hospitality and travel industries if they’re forced to close for 3/4 months of the year, how is that going to work? By all means have certain restrictions in place but going back into Tier 3 next winter will mean something has gone horribly wrong.
 
road2ruin said:
So basically the end of the hospitality and travel industries if they’re forced to close for 3/4 months of the year, how is that going to work? By all means have certain restrictions in place but going back into Tier 3 next winter will mean something has gone horribly wrong.
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Only for this year but tbh if anything really thinks travel is a good idea this year is living in a bubble .. whilst we might have great vaccine plans other places don't yet

We need to limit international travel but people can't accept it
 
pauljames87 said:
Only for this year but tbh if anything really thinks travel is a good idea this year is living in a bubble .. whilst we might have great vaccine plans other places don't yet

We need to limit international travel but people can't accept it
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I agree re travel, that’s going to be effected far longer as we have no control over the vaccination process in other countries. The hospitality side of things though, there will be a large number of businesses hanging on by the skin of their teeth and won’t survive another period of enforced closure.
 
larmen said:
Isn't the antibody effect 'short lasting' while the vaccine effect last a lot longer?
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Mrs BiM is due a shoulder replacement, as part of which she had blood tests last July. When the hospital phoned re the results, the nurse asked if she was better now. Mrs BiM says I haven't been ill. The nurse replied that her blood test was full of Covid antibodies. The only thing that Mrs BiM can remember having was a bit of gastric trouble in March; not recognised then as a symptom, but I believe it is now. If that was it, the antibodies were still well in force 4 months later. And if that is correct then it should dispel some of the concerns about spreading the second jab to 12 weeks.
 
funkycoldmedina said:
The vaccine creates the antibodies like the virus and in both scenarios the antibodies disappear with time as they do with any virus. Memory cells are triggered through either the vaccine or virus and this provides the ling term immunity.
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The vaccine probably produces a more reliably decent response for many people. The viral load may have an effect on immune response, and the vaccine is a consistently strong load.
 
AmandaJR said:
Ooh thanks. Just checked out 3 Little Birds and sounds really good and will also help me try and get that reggae beat which I think is just strumming the up...think!

I just played it through without backing and sang it and got it pretty good - the dogs seemed to like it!
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When is your YouTube video due?
 
road2ruin said:
I agree re travel, that’s going to be effected far longer as we have no control over the vaccination process in other countries. The hospitality side of things though, there will be a large number of businesses hanging on by the skin of their teeth and won’t survive another period of enforced closure.
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Yup. We may/can control it in the UK but we cannot control the rest of the world? We will be ìn a reactive position for sometime.

However the UK is helping support by investing in international vaccine development and distribution.
 
Ethan said:
The vaccine probably produces a more reliably decent response for many people. The viral load may have an effect on immune response, and the vaccine is a consistently strong load.
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Out of interest is this a normal virus v vaccine circumstance or specific to Covid19 observed through studies? I'm guessing the former but would be interested to know.
 
funkycoldmedina said:
Out of interest is this a normal virus v vaccine circumstance or specific to Covid19 observed through studies? I'm guessing the former but would be interested to know.
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Viral load is definitely an issue for some viruses. This is thought by some to be one of the reasons healthcare workers often get severe Covid, because they contract it from close contact with the sickest people shedding the most virus. Vaccines tend to give the equivalent of a healthy dose of virus, although the current generation limit exposure to the genetic code for the spike protein, but a fair dose of that too so recipients should mount a robust immune response.
 
Swinglowandslow said:
Yes, life is so unpredictable. Times like these when the saying
" live every day as if it's your last", makes a strong case for itself.
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But in a lockdown when you can't even go outside except in specific circumstances, living like it is your last day is nigh on impossible for almost everyone. Thats why mental health issues and depression are rife. Let hope we can soon start being able to enjoy the odd day "like it could be your last".:)
 
SteveJay said:
But in a lockdown when you can't even go outside except in specific circumstances, living like it is your last day is nigh on impossible for almost everyone. Thats why mental health issues and depression are rife. Let hope we can soon start being able to enjoy the odd day "like it could be your last".:)
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Yes, I appreciate what you are saying. I was aware, but I also was thinking of "normal" times also.?
 
I'd be lying if I said I wasn't a little/lot concerned re the spread of the variants... And, potential further/future mutations... On a more positive note... Sister in law got jabbed yesterday and of our more immediate family she was of the most concern due to her ongoing 'dealings' with cancer...


I have been using current lockdown to make a dent in my long term project of digitising our old negatives/transparencies... Been bringing back some happy memories and some tinged with a degree of sadness... Also, after many false starts, I finally managed a binge watch the first season of GoT... Not sure i will be rushing into S2 but hopefully having completed one season it will help with my popular culture knowledge when we can get back to some pub quizzing...
 
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