Current Affairs Coronavirus Thread - Serious stuff !!!

[brieverton]

I had some resistance bands and kettlebells at home, but I am waiting on delivery on some dumbbells now also, as I have decided not to avail of my local gym re-opening this week.

Since the start of lockdown, it took me about 10 days to re-adjust to home workouts and road running, but its fine.

The problem will be later in the year when the weather turns, but thats a given anyway. I would have always walked to the gym and back, about 10 minutes each way so if rain wasn't an excuse then, it won't be now.

At weekends I like to go out really early, at about 6am. On a dry day, its lovely to have literally the freedom of the town whether its bright or still dark. I enjoy that silence and solitude.

 

[ToffeeTim]

I've got back into running again and it's pretty enjoyable at this time of year. Haven't been running this well since I played rugby at school. But I'm looking forward to going back to the gym. My weights training has pretty much fallen off a cliff because all I have are 2 x 10kg dumbells.

Gyms are due to reopen here on Friday 10th so I'm looking forward to getting back. I trained mostly with a mate and that always gave me the much needed motivation to actually go and train hard. Otherwise I waste a lot of time faffing when I'm by myself, or don't even bother going after work at all. I'm not too wary about going back because we have very few cases here.

 

[JimmyJeffers]

Speaking to a lot of client’s that are being made redundant now. Especially in construction. Things are about to go very bad indeed.

 

[mezzrow]

Just curious...what do you mean by "reality is coming for us"...You had mentioned in your post about Eric Weinstein that "When this 'revolution' goes off and someone is counting deaths in thousands instead of singles." Is that what you mean by "reality is coming for us"...some sort of civil war? Or is this some sort of religious thing...the 2nd coming of Christ and all that?

Nothing so apocalyptic, V. I was born exactly two weeks before Krugman, and we'll both meet the reality he was describing soon enough. Rather than anything as proletarian as The Villages (which I must admit, after a few visits for various concerts and performances, creeps the very **** out of me), Krugman has a lovely bolthole somewhere on some tropical island in the Carib in which to spend his waning days. When we each get there we'll meet reality up close and personal.

When you're 67, your thoughts will drift in this direction too, I surmise.

Why are you so certain that the Wuhan Lab is a deadend path? Bret has his reasons for his tentative conclusions and has stated them. It takes a real commitment to see a type-4 lab just sitting there in Wuhan and not ask questions in the aftermath of the COVID wave we have seen play out, particularly when we (as in the US DoH) were funding at least part of the research taking place.

Eric is a guy who really does not play well with others in an academic setting, and I get your point. I'm sure you're as familiar as I with the basic criticism of the peer-review process as a self-licking ice cream cone, so there's no point in going down that path. I enjoy him, and I think he's on to something. We all see something coming, we don't like it, and we are suspicious.

I'll take a look at Turchin. Looks like another cycle to overlay with the Strauss-Howe generational cycles. We were due for more craziness, and the plague year has kicked it off in a memorable way.

 

[Nymzee]

Speaking to a lot of client’s that are being made redundant now. Especially in construction. Things are about to go very bad indeed.

My company is about to lay a load off which I don't really understand as all the work for them is there it's just paused until September. I think the company needing to repay some of the furlough, or however it works, is forcing their hand.

 

[Jebus_lives]

Just seen the PM say all local Authorities have P1&2 data.

Up until about 2 weeks ago this wasn't available so easily conceivable Leicester didn't have it until last week.

It has been a request to the Minister since early May and arrived around late June.

 

[COYBL25]

Uh oh, just been reading a Sky News report, that said consideration is being given to locking down a further 36 areas due to rising numbers.

A lot of them iare n London and a lot of them are in BAME areas.

Fortunately Merseyside isn`t one of them.

 

[Jebus_lives]

Uh oh, just been reading a Sky News report, that said consideration is being given to locking down a further 36 areas due to rising numbers.

A lot of them iare n London and a lot of them are in BAME areas.

Fortunately Merseyside isn`t one of them.

Yet...

 

[orchard]

In addition to Leciester, the areas with cases on the rise include:

• Barking and Dagenham
• Brent
• Derbyshire
• Doncaster
• Ealing
• Enfield
• Gateshead
• Gloucestershire
• Hammersmith and Fulham
• Haringey
• Harrow
• Havering
• Hounslow
• Isle of Wight
• Kensington and Chelsea
• Medway
• Milton Keynes
• Plymouth
• Portsmouth
• Redbridge
• Redcar and Cleveland
• Richmond upon Thames
• Sandwell
• Slough
• Suffolk
• Sunderland
• Tower Hamlets
• Wakefield
• Walsall
• Wandsworth
• Westminster
• Wigan
• Wiltshire
• Windsor and Maidenhead
• York

 

[Toast]

Uh oh, just been reading a Sky News report, that said consideration is being given to locking down a further 36 areas due to rising numbers.

A lot of them iare n London and a lot of them are in BAME areas.

Fortunately Merseyside isn`t one of them.

I’ve got a haircut booked for Monday.
We need to hold out until then !

 

[peteblue]

In addition to Leciester, the areas with cases on the rise include:

• Barking and Dagenham
• Brent
• Derbyshire
• Doncaster
• Ealing
• Enfield
• Gateshead
• Gloucestershire
• Hammersmith and Fulham
• Haringey
• Harrow
• Havering
• Hounslow
• Isle of Wight
• Kensington and Chelsea
• Medway
• Milton Keynes
• Plymouth
• Portsmouth
• Redbridge
• Redcar and Cleveland
• Richmond upon Thames
• Sandwell
• Slough
• Suffolk
• Sunderland
• Tower Hamlets
• Wakefield
• Walsall
• Wandsworth
• Westminster
• Wigan
• Wiltshire
• Windsor and Maidenhead
• York

So do we lock down Derby or the whole of Derbyshire with its little towns and villages.This looks to me like they haven’t got the numbers sorted out. PHE have rightly been getting stick lately and I imagine this too is one of theirs......

 

[COYBL25]

In addition to Leciester, the areas with cases on the rise include:

• Barking and Dagenham
• Brent
• Derbyshire
• Doncaster
• Ealing
• Enfield
• Gateshead
• Gloucestershire
• Hammersmith and Fulham
• Haringey
• Harrow
• Havering
• Hounslow
• Isle of Wight
• Kensington and Chelsea
• Medway
• Milton Keynes
• Plymouth
• Portsmouth
• Redbridge
• Redcar and Cleveland
• Richmond upon Thames
• Sandwell
• Slough
• Suffolk
• Sunderland
• Tower Hamlets
• Wakefield
• Walsall
• Wandsworth
• Westminster
• Wigan
• Wiltshire
• Windsor and Maidenhead
• York

I wish them well locking some of those places down !

 

[ForeverBlue92]

Yet...

Thanks to all the bellwhiffs I'll never get me hair sorted

 

[Nymzee]

Well we're a big bag of racists in Cumbria so no chance of us getting locked down. There's about 8 non-white people in the whole county.

 

[zzr45]

In addition to Leciester, the areas with cases on the rise include:

• Barking and Dagenham
• Brent
• Derbyshire
• Doncaster
• Ealing
• Enfield
• Gateshead
• Gloucestershire
• Hammersmith and Fulham
• Haringey
• Harrow
• Havering
• Hounslow
• Isle of Wight
• Kensington and Chelsea
• Medway
• Milton Keynes
• Plymouth
• Portsmouth
• Redbridge
• Redcar and Cleveland
• Richmond upon Thames
• Sandwell
• Slough
• Suffolk
• Sunderland
• Tower Hamlets
• Wakefield
• Walsall
• Wandsworth
• Westminster
• Wigan
• Wiltshire
• Windsor and Maidenhead
• York

Some of these are odd. Barking for example has 2 more cases than a week ago, Enfield has had 1. Hardly second wave. There’s places on the COVID cases list that have had a bigger increase (Shropshire for example) who aren’t.