Corona Virus: How Are We Doing?

[newfhouse]

Roads felt like they were back to near usual levels today.

I went to work today as there are a few things I can only do in the office, so I thought it better to shift my working week and go in when nobody else was there. I passed through Norbury and Streatham and the road traffic and crowded pavements were like any normal Saturday. I reckon >50% of businesses were open, including a couple of second hand car dealers.

 

[Andy in Germany]

Please present your papers to the Cyclechat Corona moral police 👮‍♀️

From Friday the 15th I'm a keyworker in an organisation looking after psychologically disabled people. The organisation is short of staff, and this was organised before Lockdown, and indeed delayed by one month already.

I'm sure that won't satisfy everyone, but then, I'm 1000km away...

 

[Slick]

I went to work today as there are a few things I can only do in the office, so I thought it better to shift my working week and go in when nobody else was there. I passed through Norbury and Streatham and the road traffic and crowded pavements were like any normal Saturday. I reckon >50% of businesses were open, including a couple of second hand car dealers.

I do the same twice a week and noticed a definite rise in traffic on the motorway as I cross a flyover as I cycle to work. It's not leisure traffic at that time of morning so I could only assume more work places were finding new ways of working allowing more people back to work. I can't say I noticed more businesses open today, but traffic on the roads were definitely much busier with lots of people out and about which did make me wonder where they were all going. Can't blame them really as we stopped to admire a view and we met a very nice lady who told us she lives alone and is really struggling with the lack of human contact. We kept our distance especially when she said she is shielding but we did manage to have a bit of a chinwag with her before going on our merry way. I think the lockdown is creaking at the seems, which is when I think we need to be most careful.

 

[Joey Shabadoo]

I've got shed companies and the like going back on Monday. Some of the big production facilities are going back on the 18th. Most of the local traffic round here has been the boy racers - who never stopped to be fair. How they can fly around the town constantly with 4 or 5 of them in their Corsas at a time I don't know. The junkies didn't change their habits either, still meeting their dealer in the usual place and wandering round in groups off their faces.

 

[slowmotion]

Forty five minutes ago, I discovered that Hyde Park Corner is a whole lot less stimulating without heavy traffic. I had to have a stiff drink when I got home as some kind of compensation.

 

[Unkraut]

From Friday the 15th I'm a keyworker in an organisation ...

I gratulate you on your new job.

 

[Dave7]

Forty five minutes ago, I discovered that Hyde Park Corner is a whole lot less stimulating without heavy traffic. I had to have a stiff drink when I got home as some kind of compensation.

Reading that upset me so much that I am also having a stiff drink to support you

 

[Joey Shabadoo]

Some people -


View: https://youtu.be/Q5tSPbThaTg

 

[Smokin Joe]

Just after Christmas Mrs SJ came out in an itchy rash all over her back. The doctor couldn't pin it down and told her it looked like some sort of virus, giving her some cream to rub in. It took over a month to get rid of it. I've since read somewhere that a rash can be a mild form of Covid 19, and a week or so after she got it I had a slight but nagging head cold that took three weeks to clear. I wonder if we were both infected with only mild symptoms?

 

[Ming the Merciless]

From Friday the 15th I'm a keyworker in an organisation

A typist?

 

[Ming the Merciless]

Just after Christmas Mrs SJ came out in an itchy rash all over her back. The doctor couldn't pin it down and told her it looked like some sort of virus, giving her some cream to rub in. It took over a month to get rid of it. I've since read somewhere that a rash can be a mild form of Covid 19, and a week or so after she got it I had a slight but nagging head cold that took three weeks to clear. I wonder if we were both infected with only mild symptoms?

Yes that has come out of a Spanish report.

Like many of us you are wondering if you’ve had it in mild form. Many are in this position but lack of testing means we don’t currently know.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

Strange runny nose this morning. Had it a few times since early March. Cleared up by mid morning. Weird one but otherwise feel fine.

 

[Rusty Nails]

A typist?

No. A caretaker.

 

[vickster]

Just after Christmas Mrs SJ came out in an itchy rash all over her back. The doctor couldn't pin it down and told her it looked like some sort of virus, giving her some cream to rub in. It took over a month to get rid of it. I've since read somewhere that a rash can be a mild form of Covid 19, and a week or so after she got it I had a slight but nagging head cold that took three weeks to clear. I wonder if we were both infected with only mild symptoms?

Had she been eating bats in China to have caught it last year?

 

[newfhouse]

Just after Christmas Mrs SJ came out in an itchy rash all over her back. The doctor couldn't pin it down and told her it looked like some sort of virus, giving her some cream to rub in. It took over a month to get rid of it. I've since read somewhere that a rash can be a mild form of Covid 19, and a week or so after she got it I had a slight but nagging head cold that took three weeks to clear. I wonder if we were both infected with only mild symptoms?

I have heard lots of people reporting similar, but I wonder if that was a different illness. If COVID-19 was circulating widely in January, why was there no spike in acute cases and excess deaths? We are all being so vigilant that run-of-the-mill winter colds or even hay fever become candidates. I’m not a medical doctor, just asking in the hope someone may have answers.