Current Affairs Coronavirus Thread - Serious stuff !!!

[YoboCopter]

Snap. My nephew said hes gonna take me to an illegal rave too. Look like being a large one.

Make sure you wear ya mask mate
Or at least take your asthma exempt card

 

[spectateur]

There are people all over the world meeting up in large groups to party without any of this social distancing and mask nonsense. Unless there is a global imposition of true facism then we're just gonna have to live with this. The masketeers will have to accept that loads of people are fed up, realise that the danger of death is absolutely miniscule and want their lives back.

Danger of death small for most people. However lifelong after effects are quite probable for many of those people made ill by the virus.
How would you like to have an oxygen tube up your nose for the rest of your life.

 

[spectateur]

Snap. My nephew said hes gonna take me to an illegal rave too. Look like being a large one.

Oh go away WUMs.

 

[spectateur]

Everton have just signed a leading French striker. It's not all bad.

It's a girl!

 

[Bruce Wayne]

It's a girl!

On the basis that Bend It Like Beckham was a story, I'm inclined to think they probably knew?

 

[Blue Piper]

I was naively hoping that the worst of this, might be behind us by now. But no this ain't going away anytime soon. 2020 has been the worst year of my lifetime, and this has been the worst summer of my life. Im too afraid to even travel to another part of Ireland, no hurling and gaelic football championships either. Normally around now i would be either praising and lamenting, the performances of Corks hurlers and footballers. Im too afraid to even use public transport even with a face mask. If i need to head into town, i just walk in and out instead. What i have been doing to get through this, is by watching old Everton Cork and Carlton games on youtube etc. A lot of book reading as well.

But im starting to crack a bit now. There was really bad news yesterday. Cases are starting to seriously rise in parts of Ireland, mainly in Kildare Laois and Offaly. Once the evenings start to darken, and winter arrives then things will get very bleak. Im just so desperate for things to get back to normal, so desperate for all this to be over, but this Covid 19 thing will be with us for quite a while yet. We just have to keep on going, until a vaccine arrives. But it ain't easy. I just see a dark few months ahead. This is a bleak time to be alive, but we've just got to keep on hoping for the best i guess.

Hiya Corkie

A Dub here responding to you and identifying with you. Its tough going alright. I agree with your prognosis. Dark times are coming alright. Schools due to open in 3 weeks and everyone hoping that they open safely. I try to avoid the telly as much as possible, for my sanity. I reach out to others like me (59-year old) and try to be cheerful. Only thing that has really worked for me is to keep things in the day. I try not to dwell on what's happened and I try not to dwell on what will happen. If I keep it in today I can usually get through it. Keep reaching out.

 

[Prevenger17]

Cases are starting to seriously rise in parts of Ireland, mainly in Kildare Laois and Offaly.

Aye. Murmurs that we're going to roll back to an earlier phase here

 

[Cork Evertonian]

Are you at higher risk mate? Do you have friends/family you trust who you can meet up with every now and then?

It's not me that's the issue.But I'm living with a person, that would be considered to be a high risk category.Im just taking all the precautions I can, whilst hoping I don't want to bring this nasty virus into the house. Normally I head back home to Cork every summer but not this year.Maybe I'm being too precatious, but better safe than sorry.

 

[Tea_drinker]

Make sure you wear ya mask mate
Or at least take your asthma exempt card

Apparently the rave is pretty close to a nursing home so we'll be able to pop in there and borrow a few masks if we need them I reckon.

 

[Bruce Wayne]

Bill Gates on Covid: Most US Tests Are ‘Completely Garbage’

The techie-turned-philanthropist on vaccines, Trump, and why social media is “a poisoned chalice.”

www.wired.com

 

[Disgruntledgoat]

Aye. Murmurs that we're going to roll back to an earlier phase here

I used to do some work in Kildare a couple of years back, at the maltings in Athy.

 

[Prevenger17]

I used to do some work in Kildare a couple of years back, at the maltings in Athy.

That's just 30 minutes outside Kildare town. Actually not a bad spot Athy, haven't been there in years but there is some nice historical buildings there if I recall.

 

[USABlue]

Bill Gates on Covid: Most US Tests Are ‘Completely Garbage’

The techie-turned-philanthropist on vaccines, Trump, and why social media is “a poisoned chalice.”

www.wired.com

Our testing system does seem garbage. It took my dad almost two weeks to get his result back and he had to call them multiple times asking for it over that time. I know someone in England whose mother was feeling ill and their whole family (4) got tested and got their results back in a day

 

[peteblue]

Our testing system does seem garbage. It took my dad almost two weeks to get his result back and he had to call them multiple times asking for it over that time. I know someone in England whose mother was feeling ill and their whole family (4) got tested and got their results back in a day

Yeah but the U.K. are murderers .....

 

[Bruce Wayne]

Interesting piece about one of the lesser spoken about aspects of the pandemic

Homeless at the Holiday Inn

When coronavirus hit Britain, thousands of rough sleepers were moved to hotels. What happened next?

www.economist.com