COVID-19 — Coronavirus

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Fred_Quimby said:
I am to much of a gentleman to say f..king idiot. My wife and I are in the 65+ bracket, those most at risk. Are you suggesting that we stay at home and isolate?? How long for? 1 month? 2 months. 6? Can’t see the grandkids?? Shopping? Going out for a meal? I will do it if you will. Can’t believe that some people keep trotting out this shite. It is not us that are passing it around.
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Just watched some poor bugger with Covid and Dementia in hospital in Liverpoolwith his wife. His kids have been to say their last goodbyes. Liverpool has the most people in hospital and it's beginning to affect other clinical needs.
Then l think of all those people who still disregard the rules and remember all those scenes in Liverpool and it makes me so angry as l have erred on the safe side.
 
worsleyweb said:
Yes I have worked every day this year and will be in during all this. I am on about at night. Going to try and do it half 8 until 10.
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Not a single day off in servitude of this fine scepter-ed isle, with danger most foul only an omnipresent second away. This forum salutes you, a patriot in disguise and an honour to have shared bread with you.

Ask not what your country can do for you, ask more what you can do for your country!

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worsleyweb said:
So sad
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Hopefully people will take notice and only call for genuine life threatening emergencies.Our crews do not have the resources to attend routine illness that your local pharmacy or even your medicine cabinet could deal with.

Again,another example of modern society not being able to take responsibility,or think,for themselves.
 
kaz7 said:
Well kids can still meet and play outside , i think ,home schooling clearly works or nobody would do it , it is not forever , if you have two parents you must be able to cover the basics

This lockdown should have been whilst the kids were on a break and a couple more weeks
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No actually they can’t as one person can only meet with one other outside. Perhaps I’ll let my 6 year old out on her own to meet a friend. And of course every kid has two parents dontcha know? Teacher training takes years, we should get it all together in days.
Home schooling clearly works? As you like to say ‘source’?
Perhaps we don’t need schools at all?
 
Tonster said:
No actually they can’t as one person can only meet with one other outside. Perhaps I’ll let my 6 year old out on her own to meet a friend. And of course every kid has two parents dontcha know? Teacher training takes years, we should get it all together in days.
Home schooling clearly works? As you like to say ‘source’?
Perhaps we don’t need schools at all?
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I thought I heard on the news that young kids are exempt from this, so you could take your kids and meet others
 
inchy14 said:
I go running and cycling, can’t swim now though so that’s part of my training out of the window. Plus I’ve got weights at home, this doesn’t massively affect me, As for push ups and sit ups.... that’s not enough for everyone, how about the yoga or Pilates classes? How about heavy weights?
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I swim every day for my mental health. I managed to get by with some bike rides in the first lockdown when the gym was shut (it has both indoor and outdoor pools). I then got straight onto the open water swims at Sale Water Park and they were a Godsend whilst the gym remained shut. Some people have little/no idea just how much mental health can be affected by not having the daily swim/run/cycle/gym routine. I've swam nearly every day for the last twenty years. I believe it saved my life when I was in the absolute pits of a deep, dark depression. It helped lift me out of it (along with other things, CBT, medication) and I am extremely anxious about the coming weeks. It's facile and cheap to say, "Go for a run, go for a walk". Unless you've walked in the shoes of people for whom the daily exercise routine is a mental lifesaver, you cannot comprehend how much of a hammer blow this shutting down of gyms/pools will be.
 
johnnytapia said:
I swim every day for my mental health. I managed to get by with some bike rides in the first lockdown when the gym was shut (it has both indoor and outdoor pools). I then got straight onto the open water swims at Sale Water Park and they were a Godsend whilst the gym remained shut. Some people have little/no idea just how much mental health can be affected by not having the daily swim/run/cycle/gym routine. I've swam nearly every day for the last twenty years. I believe it saved my life when I was in the absolute pits of a deep, dark depression. It helped lift me out of it (along with other things, CBT, medication) and I am extremely anxious about the coming weeks. It's facile and cheap to say, "Go for a run, go for a walk". Unless you've walked in the shoes of people for whom the daily exercise routine is a mental lifesaver, you cannot comprehend how much of a hammer blow this shutting down of gyms/pools will be.
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I love a swim but am shit at it. Twenty years wow. Hang on in there mate.
 
kaz7 said:
Well kids can still meet and play outside , i think ,home schooling clearly works or nobody would do it , it is not forever , if you have two parents you must be able to cover the basics

This lockdown should have been whilst the kids were on a break and a couple more weeks
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And for lots (and I mean lots) of kids school is their only source of food, friendship and pleasure. Many many kids lead miserable lives and schools act as a place of safety and comfort.
 
Anybody else think that keeping schools/colleges/uni's open during the forthcoming lockdown is defeating the object of having a lockdown?
I drove home tonight through Rusholme, every bus stop had at least 20 at it some a lot more, no distancing and I failed to spot anyone wearing masks in the queues either, it looked like a match had just finished, it hadnt, they were all coming from colleges around there.
I know they have to wear masks on the buses but i mean come on whats the point in only a few people doing what had been advised when the rest clearly couldnt give a shit.
This sort of thing is happening everywhere and Im struggling to see how a lockdown lite for a month is going to make any difference at all.
 
Tonster said:
No actually they can’t as one person can only meet with one other outside. Perhaps I’ll let my 6 year old out on her own to meet a friend. And of course every kid has two parents dontcha know? Teacher training takes years, we should get it all together in days.
Home schooling clearly works? As you like to say ‘source’?
Perhaps we don’t need schools at all?
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Bingo! Just replace the word "schooling" and see how effective it would be:

Home bomb disposal
Home surgery
Home nuclear physician

Who needs fully qualified people when a quick mooch on Google will have you building rockets of your own? Simples.
 
Greater Manchester scoreboard: Like I said - odd - look who is top in GM today!

Wigan beats Manchester.....could never happen we all thought. But - like at Wembley - it did. By one again too.



Wigan 243 - down from 252. Despite the shock this is Wigan's lowest number for 2 weeks. Total cases 11409. Weekly 2327. Pop score up 74 to enter the 3400 club at 3471. Weekly Pop DOWN to 708.

Manchester 242 - down a lot from 372. Total cases 21, 024. Weekly 2758, Pop score up 44 to enter the 3800 club at 3803, Weekly Pop down a lot to 499.

Bolton 201 - down from 214. Total cases 10,899. Weekly 1674. Pop score up 70 to 3790. Weekly pop down to 582.

Oldham 168 - way down from 278. Total cases 10,118. Weekly 1769. Pop score up 71 to enter the 4200 club at 4267. Weekly Pop down to 746.

Salford 137 - another big drop from 232. Total cases 9240. Weekly 1713. Pop score up 53 to 3570. Weekly Pop down a lot to 662.

Stockport 126 - down from 201. Total cases 7570. Weekly 1387. Pop score up 43 to 2580. Weekly Pop down to 473.

Bury 122 - down from 167. Total cases 6793. Weekly1134. Pop score up 64 to enter the 3500 club at 3557. Weekly Pop down to 594.

Tameside 119 - down from 173. Total cases 7446. Weekly 1256. Pop score up 53 to 3288. Weekly Pop down to 555.

Rochdale 116 - big drop from 189 and in week fallen from 232 to exactly half day by day. Total cases 8690. Weekly 1383. Pop score up 52 to enter the 3900 club at 3907. Weekly Pop down to 622. Biggest fall of the day.

Trafford 88 - down from 127. First sub 100 score from GM in over 2 weeks and no surprise Trafford scores it. Total cases 6500. Weekly 995 - sub 1000 again for first time in a while. Easily the lowest weekly numbers in GM. Pop score up 37 to 2739 - lowest rise in GM for over two weeks and closed gap on Stockport by another 6 to now be just 159 behind on best in GM. 100 less than a week ago. So the race is on. Weekly Pop down to 420 which IS the best in GM. But Stockport made up 23 on that race as its numbers represent a bigger fall today.
 
blueparrot said:
List them then, then we can discuss how to protect them all.
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Anyone who is over 70, doesnt work, has underlying health issues, stay the fuck in. Hows that for a starter ?
Any age that has a particular health issue dangerous to covid and doesnt work (few on here) , stay in.

thats my first 2 ... hows that ?
 
marcus said:
Anyone who is over 70, doesnt work, has underlying health issues, stay the fuck in. Hows that for a starter ?
Any age that has a particular health issue dangerous to covid and doesnt work (few on here) , stay in.

thats my first 2 ... hows that ?
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What about asthmatics of working age, diabetics, over weight, bame all of working age. Many of them working as carers looking after the sick or elderly. How do you protect them. What about those undergoing cancer treatments attending regular hospital / clinics .
There ‘s a reason what you suggest has been tried anywhere.
Sure others can add other conditions.
 
johnnytapia said:
I swim every day for my mental health. I managed to get by with some bike rides in the first lockdown when the gym was shut (it has both indoor and outdoor pools). I then got straight onto the open water swims at Sale Water Park and they were a Godsend whilst the gym remained shut. Some people have little/no idea just how much mental health can be affected by not having the daily swim/run/cycle/gym routine. I've swam nearly every day for the last twenty years. I believe it saved my life when I was in the absolute pits of a deep, dark depression. It helped lift me out of it (along with other things, CBT, medication) and I am extremely anxious about the coming weeks. It's facile and cheap to say, "Go for a run, go for a walk". Unless you've walked in the shoes of people for whom the daily exercise routine is a mental lifesaver, you cannot comprehend how much of a hammer blow this shutting down of gyms/pools will be.
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Nail on the fucking head mate. I might drive up to the lakes, if allowed, and swim up there, nowhere near me now Sale is shut to swim.
 
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