Current Affairs Coronavirus Thread - Serious stuff !!!

[Catfish Blues]

......Mrs Eggs and I are taking the whole family to Greece in just over 3 weeks. My granddaughter is just 1 and my daughter-in-law is close to 6months pregnant. Decision might have to be made.

Once you're there, your risk is probably much the same as it as at home.

Airports in general, and being in a confined space with three hundred other people on a plane in particular, would seem to be the trickiest bit.

I guess one of the things to consider is, if you don't go, are you going to replace a trip to Greece with days out to public places round here ? Either way, it's not a binary decision and depends on lots of things.

... they will fine us but right now I don’t really care.

You'd hope that, given your partners condition, the school would see sense on this mate.

 

[Billy Dean]

Once you're there, your risk is probably much the same as it as at home.

Airports in general, and being in a confined space with three hundred other people on a plane in particular, would seem to be the trickiest bit.

I guess one of the things to consider is, if you don't go, are you going to replace a trip to Greece with days out to public places round here ? Either way, it's not a binary decision and depends on lots of things.




You'd hope that, given your partners condition, the school would see sense on this mate.

I'm supposed to be flying home at the end of March. Not overly looking forward to spending 3-4 hours in planes/airports.

 

[Tipp blue]

Went to Tesco today with my wife as she wanted to pick something up for after dinner. Lots of people, as usual, and just doing as usual, no filling of trolleys, no run on toilet paper, just a normal Sunday afternoon shop. So who are all these panicking shoppers, buying up everything, my guess is London and Cities. Those of use who just get on with life tend not to panic as much as the city Millenials, the snowflakes and the ‘woke’ populations....funny that....

I was in tesco in my town (in Ireland) and people were loading up with canned food. I saw people with trays of tins of sardines maybe 12 tins per tray, toilet paper pasta and rice are all gone from the shelves as are the frozen foods theirs plenty of non perishables around but most things that last a few months are going quickly. A colleague lives in a town where there is confirmed cases and his husband rang him to get some food as all the shops in their town were almost emptied

 

[RalphDring]

Once you're there, your risk is probably much the same as it as at home.

Airports in general, and being in a confined space with three hundred other people on a plane in particular, would seem to be the trickiest bit.

I guess one of the things to consider is, if you don't go, are you going to replace a trip to Greece with days out to public places round here ? Either way, it's not a binary decision and depends on lots of things.




You'd hope that, given your partners condition, the school would see sense on this mate.

Hopefully they will, I think a few local schools have asked parents to keep children off after the weekend, there was a confirmed case of a person picking a child up from the local leisure centre so basically anyone who used it has to take extra precautions. I might be being over cautious but family health comes first, I’m also my partners carer so being more careful than if it was just me to think of.

 

[spectateur]

From Reddit:

Thought I'd share the experience of someone in America caught up in their Covid-19 outbreak, just to underline how [Poor language removed] amazing our NHS is in comparison to the US healthcare system.

Coming soon to UK if right wingers in the government have their way

 

[Tipp blue]

That's madness in 2001 foot and mouth broke out in cattle and Ireland took it very seriously, there was foot washes everywhere to kill germs on your footwear, cars had to drive through anti bacterial, you couldn't leave your house without taking proper precaution, this effected cows and our lives were changed during the outbreak, this effects humans and is deadly in some cases and its business as usual. Profit before People, back in 2001 we had to protect the farmers income but now a disease that kills humans is not taken as seriously. https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/...th-disease-ground-ireland-to-a-halt-1.4075761

 

[peteblue]

......Mrs Eggs and I are taking the whole family to Greece in just over 3 weeks. My granddaughter is just 1 and my daughter-in-law is close to 6months pregnant. Decision might have to be made.

Friends of ours were due to travel to Venice last week, fortunately they cancelled it otherwise they would have been part of the lockdown. It is a big decision.....

 

[Methuselah]

Her indoors is querying if 'self isolation' means she has to stay in the spare bedroom.

 

[Tipp blue]

Her indoors is querying if 'self isolation' means she has to stay in the spare bedroom.

Yes it does.. Dude play this right and you can have 2 weeks of a peaceful life.

 

[peteblue]

BBC reporting that a dozen Brits have caught the virus while on a flight from London to Vietnam...

 

[peteblue]

Yes it does.. Dude play this right and you can have 2 weeks of a peaceful life.

Best be on the safe side and make it 4 weeks.....

 

[Archie Knox]

Wow, a TfL worker has contracted it. That means it could easily have spread to millions of people (I know it won't, but given the number of people who ride the tube each day and how close they are in proximity to each other..).

 

[Bruce Wayne]

Wow, a TfL worker has contracted it. That means it could easily have spread to millions of people (I know it won't, but given the number of people who ride the tube each day and how close they are in proximity to each other).

It only spreads if you make eye contact, so we're okay.

 

[peteblue]

Wow, a TfL worker has contracted it. That means it could easily have spread to millions of people (I know it won't, but given the number of people who ride the tube each day and how close they are in proximity to each other..).

No need for alarm, it’s only London....

 

[peteblue]

It only spreads if you make eye contact, so we're okay.

or speak to each other.....