Current Affairs Coronavirus Thread - Serious stuff !!!

[spectateur]

Live in the Alps don't they? Where all those skiers came back with the disease? IT ALL MAKES SENSE.

But they came back with only covid19, not the bubonic plague.

 

[bigjonny]

Travel insurance is the thing that people seem to be forgetting in all this.

From the date of lockdown, you can`t get travel insurance that will cover you for any condition arising from the virus. ( imagine how many that is ! )

If you took out insurance before this you`re fine, but anyone travelling abroad without travel insurance that includes cover against the virus, really does want their head looking at, it`s just insane.

Not a cat in hells chance I`d be taking that risk.

I’ve paid £23 for 4 days cover with Trailfinders which includes COVID related cover.

 

[COYBL25]

I’ve paid £23 for 4 days cover with Trailfinders which includes COVID related cover.

Cheers, all the ones I’ve looked at didn’t include it.

Good to know

 

[Goat]

 

[Bruce Wayne]

Time to bring in compulsory testing for certain occupations. Oh, and also, compulsory vaccinations.

That would be a tough sell I'd imagine given the current climate.

But they came back with only covid19, not the bubonic plague.

 

[Bruce Wayne]

Someone seriously felt the need to have "opening the mail" on there?

 

[Goat]

Someone seriously felt the need to have "opening the mail" on there?

It depends, paper and cardboard is fine, but what about plastic?

 

[bigjonny]

Someone seriously felt the need to have "opening the mail" on there?

I’ve heard of people spraying envelopes with disinfectant and leaving them a day before they open letters.

 

[zzr45]

My gym is opening again a week tomorrow

Happy days

Mine opened again Saturday, albeit outdoors. I've already hoovered up all the fanny that @Tea_drinker thought he was going to get and frankly now I'm bored of it.

 

[orchard]

I’ve heard of people spraying envelopes with disinfectant and leaving them a day before they open letters.

I cover mine with sawdust and then if it burns I know it was infected.

 

[Bruce Wayne]

It depends, paper and cardboard is fine, but what about plastic?

What about it?

 

[Goat]

What about it?

I dunno, but prior to allowing the family to order stuff online I did check transmission possibility on cardboard, paper and plastic!

 

[COYBL25]

I’ve heard of people spraying envelopes with disinfectant and leaving them a day before they open letters.

I just stand there and scream MURDERER at Postman, who then legs it before delivering the mail, so I don’t seem to have that problem.

 

[Dixieslaces]

They had the examples of other nations for three menths to draw upon and act upon, and the advice of the WHO on locking down and tracing and testing.

As for a health system not fit for purpose, who ran that down then?

Unreal.

@davek I have often been an adversary and in opposition of some of your opinions but I have to say that, and hindsight is a wonderful thing, that as we have progressed through this mightily challenging time what has become apparent is the total disregard for those countries that were weeks ahead of us in terms of the initial outbreak and now, in terms of results of "opening" for business.

I do not profess to have the answers to much of it but, when Italy was ahead of us we chose to go with Herd immunity and now, with all these countries reporting disturbingly high recurrent rates, we still stick 2 fingers up and ignore the evidence in front of us.

Spikes aplenty and yet here we are casting caution to the wind as the stark reality of killing economies is a much worse prospect than people losing their lives.

I have taken umbrage with your use of the word murderer often and disagreed with you but what we are now witnessing as we slowly but surely head back to lockdowns, deaths and NHS struggles is borderline insanity.

I am an advocate of not tanking economies but not at the risk of losing nearest and dearest. I have stuck rigidly to my 12 week shielding and as a family unit we have done what we are told and now to potentially have that all undone by sheer bloody mindedness defies belief.

 

[Billy Dean]

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