COVID-19 — Coronavirus

[Vic]

Not really. The chances of strangers sitting less than 2 metres in the park with you for the 15 minutes or so you need to be near someone to catch it is pretty much nil. They are clearly trying to help people who live alone and are probably going insane at the lack of any kind of human interaction and could up with mental health issues because of it. Be glad you're being allowed to see one and stick to the rules, if we do that the expert scientists think it will stay away.

What's the evidence for the 15 minute thing?

 

[Marvin]

Did you note the halving time of the virus? Two weeks.

Think how cunning this is: We have 136,000 active cases (central estimate). Wait two weeks, and it comes down to 68,000. Please if I have misunderstood that tell me. We are clearly now intent on keeping R at 1 and no higher. So if they had waited two weeks it would have halved the rate of immunity acquisition assuming R stays at 1 throughout.

You might ask yourself why not wait two weeks if it is halving in that time. Think how more manageable that would be. Why didn't they do that? Because they have stopping that 2nd wave in mind?

 

[Gaylord du Bois]

Isn't it strange how nobody was into exercise until they couldn't do it. Now they are obsessed with having to go out and do it

They were thin on the ground near me, over the weekend. Hardly a cyclist, jogger or dog walker, in sight. VE Day taking its revenge.

 

[Nellies left peg]

They were thin on the ground near me, over the weekend. Hardly a cyclist, jogger or dog walker, in sight. VE Day taking its revenge.

They were too busy doing the conga to be out cycling and jogging mate

 

[richardtheref]

Isn't it strange how nobody was into exercise until they couldn't do it. Now they are obsessed with having to go out and do it

The amount of people running past my house in full lycra is unbelievable. Very few of them look as if they have ever been out for a run before. One guy this morning was running for about 25 yards before doubling over and looked like he was going to be sick. He then walked for about 200 yards round the green before running again for about 25 yards again and then appeared to get a stitch. This was repeated for 30 minutes. We watched this as it was great entertainment. You would think this lad would have been huge but he was built like Mo Farah. My son said he was running like Jar Jar Binks on acid

 

[Stoned Rose]

No one has actually answered my very simple question with a straight answer.

You lot are worse than the fucking politicians

 

[Churchlawtonblue]

But the friends is only one person but you can be with everyone else in the park that you are not related to,how does that make any sense? He was anything but clear

Because he can't trust families. There are many thick people out there . Look at Kyle !

 

[Gaylord du Bois]

No one has actually answered my very simple question with a straight answer.

You lot are worse than the fucking politicians

About family meeting up ? I thought I had.

 

[Rammy Blue]

Possibly the best summary I've seen of the current shituation... "I think I’ve worked it out...

* 4 year olds can go to school, but university students who have paid for the tuition they haven’t had and the accommodation they aren’t living in, can’t go to university.

* I can go to school with many 4 year olds that I’m not related to, but can’t see one 4 year old that I am related to.

* I can sit in a park, but not tomorrow, but by Wednesday that’ll be fine.

* I can meet one person from another household for a chat or to sunbathe, but not two people, so if I know two people from another household I have to pick my favourite. Hopefully, I’m also their favourite person from my household or this could be awkward. But possibly I’m not. In fact, thinking about it, I definitely wouldn’t be. But I can’t go closer than 2m to the one I choose anyway - so you wouldn’t think having the other one sat next to them would matter - unless two people would restrict my eyeline too much and prevent me from being alert.

* I can work all day with my colleagues, but I can’t sit in their garden for a chat after work.

* I can now do unlimited exercise, when quite frankly just doing an hour a day felt like I was some kind of fitness guru. I can think of lots of things that I would like to be unlimited, but exercise definitely isn’t one of them.

* I can drive to other destinations, although which destinations is unclear. I was supposed to be in Brighton this weekend. Can I drive there? It’s hundreds of miles away, but no one has said that’s wrong.

* The buses are still running past my house but I shouldn’t get on one. We should just let empty buses drive around so bus drivers aren’t doing nothing.

* It will soon be time to quarantine people coming into the country by air... but not yet. It’s too soon. And not ever if you’re coming from France because... well, I don’t do know why, actually. Because the French version of coronavirus wouldn’t come to the UK, maybe.

* Our youngest children go back to school first because... they are notoriously good at not touching things they shouldn’t, maintain personal space at all times, and never randomly lick you.

* We are somewhere in between 3.5 and 4.5 on a five point scale, where 5 is all of the virus and 1 is none of the virus, but 2, 3 and 4 can be anything you’d like it to be, really. Some of the virus? A bit of the virus? Just enough virus to see off those over 70s who were told to self isolate, but now we’ve realised that they’ve done that a bit too well despite us offloading coronavirus patients into care homes, and now we are claiming that was never said in the first place, even though it’s in writing in the stay at home guidance?

* The slogan isn’t stay at home any more.So we don’t have to stay at home. Except we do. Unless we can’t. In which case we should go out. But there will be fines if we break the rules. So don’t do that. Don’t forget... Stay alert... which Robert Jenrick has explained actually means stay home as much as possible. Obviously. Control the virus. Well, I can’t even control my dogs, and I can actually see them. Plus, I know a bit about dogs and very little about controlling viruses. Save lives. Always preferable to not saving lives, I’d say, so I’ll try my best with that one, although hopefully I don’t need telling to do that. I know I’m bragging now, but not NOT saving lives is something I do every day. So there you are. If you’re the weirdo wanting unlimited exercise then enjoy. But not until Wednesday. Obviously."

I assume you copied and pasted that from somewhere, bravo.

 

[Vic]

I assume you copied and pasted that from somewhere, bravo.

No I made it up in the quarter hour after reading your post and put the quotation marks in just to fool you.