COVID-19 — Coronavirus

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marcus said:
Yes. Pubs reopening. Life back to normal. That sort of shit that is normal to some. But not to miserable old fuckers who like to sit at home and moan
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Very true, there's some old people who's only social interaction is going to their local to meet up with their friends for a drink. I've known many over the years who have formed lasting lifetime friendships with people they have met in the boozer. The older ones who go to the pub do so to make it part of life's enjoyment. Can't understate the role the pub plays for a lot of people, many who are definitely not, as you say "miserable old fuckers".
 
oddfellows said:
Would have thought all this would have been in place in advance, its clear the manufacturing was.
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You have to have independent contractors (GPs) to be open on New Year’s Day to speed up the process (by a day) because the vaccine is being distributed today and tomorrow. That’s very difficult to arrange in advance when it wasn’t clear exactly when the MHRA would clear the Oxford / AZ vaccine.
 
mosssideblue said:
but hardly a priority was my point
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It’s not a priority, but it matters to people. I don’t play amateur rugby or football, but I hated seeing pitches empty on a Sunday morning during lockdown. I can count on one hand the number of pubs I go in during an average year, but it saddens me to see them closed. I want to see life restarting and some things are symbolic. I think to the British, the pub is a symbol of normality.
 
BlueHammer85 said:
I wasn’t saying it prevents Covid.

just saying running every day from my personal experience has prevented me from getting a cold, headache or anything really, may just be a coincidence but before I took up running I was always getting ill all the time
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Cardiovascular fitness as well as eating the right foods to give you the right vitamins and minerals for lung health (vitamin D, potassium, zinc), means that any cough cold flu or other virus you get, you are far less likely to suffer badly from it.

When the lining of your alveoli is stronger and the blood vessels around them function better because they aren’t full of fatty deposits through poor diet and obesity meaning the exchange of O2 and CO2 is more effeicient, the less severe you lung illnesses are likely to be.

Doesn’t mean you won’t get ill, doesn’t mean one year a particular strong variant of a virus won’t strike you down badly, but if the entire nation was fitter and healthier there would have been far fewer hospitalisation and far fewer deaths than there have been.

Covid should be a wake up call to the nation that we need to get ourselves MUCH healthier.
 
File this with Russia under reporting death total for least shocking news of the week..

www.bbc.co.uk

China Covid-19: Nearly 500,000 in Wuhan may have had virus, says study

The study by Chinese officials suggests there were more positive cases in Wuhan than official figures suggest.
www.bbc.co.uk

‘Wuhan's population is estimated at 11 million, which suggests that almost 500,000 people may have had the virus.
If true, that is almost 10 times higher than Wuhan's officially recorded number of 50,354 cases.’
 


Not that this is some kind of revelation, infact it's exactly what those on here have been saying for some time, but nice to hear it from Devi Sridhar too. She's been consistently clear throughout all of this, one of two or three "go to's" on social media for factual, logical information.
 
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