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gobsteruk said:
We landed in fuerteventura yesterday, now I've got the mrs in full on panic mode, trying to book a flight home, she told me if I dont go with her, then she will divorce me. What do I do? She is sat in the room panicking, I'm drinking San miguel by the pool waiting for advise from jet2.
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It probably safer out there anyway if you got stuck. I would stop there if you can.
 
gobsteruk said:
We landed in fuerteventura yesterday, now I've got the mrs in full on panic mode, trying to book a flight home, she told me if I dont go with her, then she will divorce me. What do I do? She is sat in the room panicking, I'm drinking San miguel by the pool waiting for advise from jet2.
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You won’t want to hear this but from the outside looking in at that situation you need to tell her to calm the fuck down and start thinking more sensibly! Her saying she’d divorce you is quite frankly as irrational as it gets.

What she wants to do might be the wrong thing.

Wait for advice from the travel company/airline/home office.

Women, eh? I always think it’s annoying in films when there’s a threatening situation and there’s always a woman in a scene who starts panicking or getting hysterical... but that’s what they’re really like, isn’t it?!

They’re fucking nutters.

If she says it again, ask her to sort the papers out and you’ll sign them!
 
Lancet Fluke said:
Yep. Within 2 or 3 weeks anyone very old or with underlying issues will be left to die and someone who has a better chance of surviving will get the bed. An understandable if somewhat depressing policy. My son has a very serious congenital heart problem. We started isolating at the beginning of the week and will do so for as long as necessary to give him the best chance of survival at the point he does get it. We are in a fairly unique position to be able to do this. His mum and me both work from home 100% of the time anyway, we live rurally, we were in a financial position to start building up supplies when we saw this coming a couple of months ago and his mum is an ex teacher so can do some home educating. I didn't think it would move this quickly or that we would be isolating so early but we felt it was odds on that it was coming sooner or later. When we made the decision on Monday, I was massively doubting myself and felt like I was being an idiot and overreacting. Within about 24 hours, I was only worried that we might have been too late and we could already have it as a few cases were confirmed in the local community. It's moved scarily fast, it makes rational decision making tough. I do need to add. Obviously if we didn't have a son with those underlying issues then we wouldn't have taken such drastic measures although we would have taken some sensible/reasonable measures I'm sure. On a related note. My son is on a drug called Lisinopril which is an ACE inhibitor. There are now some compelling theories that ACE inhibitors might make a person more vulnerable to catching the virus in the first place and make the effects of the virus more acute. Genuinely frightening.
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Good luck mate, a couple of things to hang on to though , The ACEi is just a theory at the moment and may have no truth in it. Hubei must have loads of children with congenital heart disease but no one under 9 has died and deaths even approaching this age group are very rare.
 
Uncle Wally One Ball said:
I was having the same debate with myself yesterday. I ended up going and was pleased to see little tables with blue roll and sanitiser spray everywhere and every single person in there used it to wipe down what they had been using. Fair play to them. If it wasnt that clean I think I would have swerved it for a while. It is significantly quieter than usual there too, which is helpful in terms of cleanliness. Im the same as you, ive been 4 times a week to the gym for nearly 30yrs. Id go crazy if that wasnt possible I think. That said Im going for a pint today, and soon.
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daveiw01 said:
Same here, not sure what to do really. Mum is 74 and has some health issues. I'm not particularly worried about myself, but I do worry about her, don't want to stop visiting or anything.
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Mazzarelli's Swiss Cheese said:
Keeping away from the gym - too many shared sweaty handles and rebreathing large quantities of shared air in limited space. I'm sticking to running outside and my rowing machine at home.
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johnnytapia said:
I was at my gym yesterday; like a ghost town. I swim every day and have already bought a wetsuit so I can get my daily fix if needs be by swimming in open water, there are a couple of places in Manchester that do this. It's also getting lighter in the evening so will be out on the bike. So, so important to keep mentally fit. The only major change I've made is not to use the sauna at the gym, but, apart from that, I've been swimming as per normal. The chlorine kills everything! Keep up your running. Get outside to do it if you have to. I'm sure one or two of the club members would join you.
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Psychedelic Casual said:
I rang my gym yesterday to see if they’re still open and they said “business as usual”.

That’s the one place I hope stays open, it’s not the best idea, probably stupid to go, but it’d be the only thing to break up my time with nowt else to do.
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Thanks everyone. I feel like even having the conversation is a bit flippant but anyone who uses daily exercise to keep themselves 'up' will understand (and I'm going through a particularly rough patch too). My daughter uses for her mental health too (she has ASD) and she's had a remarkable turnaround since getting fit (she's 15 and really into power lifting...ironically empowering her confidence).
Gym was a bit emptier last night (then again it always is on a Friday evening) but they too have a selection of hand sanitisers everywhere.
Pool is a good shout. This place is my salvation in the evening...similar to pubs of old where you'd bump into people and have a chat (difference I'm not chucking alcohol down my neck).

Not sure if it's my current low mindset but I'm feeling the negativity much more at the moment. Was due to visit a company for a day next week which would be very important for my career change but that's gone really quiet for obvious reasons. I was almost on a good track again.
 
urban genie said:
I know I use the 219, 201/3, 205/6 every day and they are filthy.


I was sent working south manchester 3 years ago and had to get 2-3 buses to work, I was off sick for a while for the first time in 9 years and when my vboss asked I was convinced it was spending up to 2 hrs on buses home and the bacteria on them.

I got moved back nearer home amd haven't been off since.
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I get the 11 from Alty to Wythenshawe and back again in the evening Mon-Fri.

I feel like emailing them, they’re so dirty!

One day recently, when the bus had arrived early at Alty so didn’t have to get going again straight away, the driver stood in the doorway of the bus smoking. When I got on the bus was full of litter as nobody had got on to clean up and the driver didn’t fucking bother.
 
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mcfc1632 said:
I understand that there are arguments for and against 'lock-down'

Only time will tell which approach is/was actually correct in the long-term

Once China comes out of isolation will that not mean that there will be many millions of people having no immunity to the virus and then it will just surge again?

If that is not a risk then the lock-down strategy seems the correct one - if it is a risk then it isn't
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Why? If it surges, just have another lock down.
 
Mazzarelli's Swiss Cheese said:
According to some medical bod on the radio swimming is fine as chlorine is the dogs bollocks - not a verbatim quote tbh, but you get the jist.
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Chlorine kills much worse things than COVID-19.

The Pool Water Treatment and Advisory Group say it’s okay to go swimming:
https://www.runnersworld.com/uk/tra...472426/coronavirus-is-it-safe-to-go-swimming/

but warns bathers to wash before going in.

This is, of course, dependent on the pool attendants doing regular examinations on the pool water and adjusting chlorine levels accordingly.

I’ve worked in gyms and seen first hand that people can be so busy they forget to do a planned test. In that time the chlorine levels can become too low (or high which is bad for our skin) to go into the pool.
 
So of the 342 confirmed cases today, are we now to assume that those are in effect people who have been hospitalized?
 
George Hannah said:
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You’re a cheery fucker :)
 
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