Corona Virus: How Are We Doing?

You have the virus

  • Yes

    Votes: 57 21.2%
  • I've been quaranteened

    Votes: 19 7.1%
  • I personally know someone who has been diagnosed

    Votes: 71 26.4%
  • Clear as far as I know

    Votes: 150 55.8%

  • Total voters
    269
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marinyork

Resting in suspended Animation
Location
Logopolis
I checked out a venue asked by many acquaintances/friends online. The website gushes all this nonsense about being safe and changes and opening later which I bought into. It's twaddle.

They took out 3 tables in the middle, hand sanitiser, booking (de facto before), no ordering at the bar and no other changes. Supposedly bubbles only :laugh:. I know every square inch of that venue from before all this. Very, very scary. I feel like reporting them to the council in a drinking in cupboards kinda way was unsafe. Sadly they would probably pass as 'covid secure'.

Going for a haircut later and I feel sorry for the barber, their precautions are the most advanced I have seen or heard of outside some areas of hospitals. I actually believe the risk there is a lot lower.
 

gavgav

Legendary Member
Having enjoyed a trip to the pub last Saturday for the first time since lockdown, this really is not the headline I wanted to see in the local paper :sad:: Shrewsbury pub shuts for deep clean after customer tests positive for Covid-19

Fortunately The Boathouse operates on booked time slots and we'd left before that group arrived but it still feels a bit close for comfort.
It’s about as close for comfort as we could have got! Suddenly my slowly returning confidence, for being out, has been eroded again!
 

gbb

Squire
Location
Peterborough
Having enjoyed a trip to the pub last Saturday for the first time since lockdown, this really is not the headline I wanted to see in the local paper :sad:: Shrewsbury pub shuts for deep clean after customer tests positive for Covid-19

Fortunately The Boathouse operates on booked time slots and we'd left before that group arrived but it still feels a bit close for comfort.
We took the kids to the pub on Tuesday evening, on the recommendation of a friend. It is not an experience I would wish to repeat.
I mentioned in another post while everyone was in lockdown and I worked throughout, and based on my experiences a lot of people are going to feel very uncomfortable with the reality of mixing with people once things start getting back to normal, but I also have another thought..
I work in a very busy factory with a staff of circa 400 to 500 people. A great deal of them treat covid like it's a joke. We at the last count have had around 35 confirmed cases.
I touch equipment, machinery surfaces, buttons, screens endlessly that other staff have to, social distancing is not properly achievable and yet, I sanitise regularly all day, avoid close contact as much as reasonably possible and havnt caught the virus..despite what would be horrifying conditions to the uninitiated. It's a thousand times worse than what you see outside.
So I've been remarkably lucky...or the general advise, wash and sanitise hands, dont touch your face, mouth, nose etc, distance as much as you can, actually probably works

I'm probably temping fate having said that.

We went for a Toby carvery last week and thoroughly enjoyed it, steps taken by staff seemed appropriate but...I couldn't help thinking, yeah but suppose one of the servers has covid and theyve just touched my glass, dinner plate, cutlery ?
 

IaninSheffield

Veteran
Location
Sheffield, UK
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https://xkcd.com/2346/
 

All uphill

Still rolling along
Location
Somerset
I mentioned in another post while everyone was in lockdown and I worked throughout, and based on my experiences a lot of people are going to feel very uncomfortable with the reality of mixing with people once things start getting back to normal, but I also have another thought..
I work in a very busy factory with a staff of circa 400 to 500 people. A great deal of them treat covid like it's a joke. We at the last count have had around 35 confirmed cases.
I touch equipment, machinery surfaces, buttons, screens endlessly that other staff have to, social distancing is not properly achievable and yet, I sanitise regularly all day, avoid close contact as much as reasonably possible and havnt caught the virus..despite what would be horrifying conditions to the uninitiated. It's a thousand times worse than what you see outside.
So I've been remarkably lucky...or the general advise, wash and sanitise hands, dont touch your face, mouth, nose etc, distance as much as you can, actually probably works

I'm probably temping fate having said that.

We went for a Toby carvery last week and thoroughly enjoyed it, steps taken by staff seemed appropriate but...I couldn't help thinking, yeah but suppose one of the servers has covid and theyve just touched my glass, dinner plate, cutlery ?
I'm glad you have managed to stay healthy @gbb , long may it stay that way! I'm guessing you have been tested negative and know you are not asymptomatic?

Our son is at the other extreme; he worked from home from March, was, frankly, a wee bit obsessive about distancing and hygiene, but caught it, and is now slowly recovering.
He can identify two occasions in the right timeframe when individuals near him in a supermarket coughed. Seems that's all it took.
 

Accy cyclist

Legendary Member
I received a letter the other day from my local hospital regarding my appointment to see someone about my hip/leg problem. I'm having serious mobility problems. I presume my GP mentioned this when she contacted them 4 weeks ago. The letter said words to the affect of 'now that we're back up and running as normal'. My appointment is for Monday the 4th of January 2021! Is that back up and running as normal?🤔
 
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raleighnut

Legendary Member
I received a letter the other day from my local hospital regarding my appointment to see someone about my hip/leg problem. I'm having serious mobility problems. I presume my GP mentioned this when she contacted them 4 weeks ago. The letter said words to the affect of 'now that we're back up and running as normal'. My appointment is for Monday the 4th of January 2021! Is that back up and running as normal?🤔
You've got an appointment that soon.:eek:
 
The police have been checking that people wear masks on public transport here, as with the UK no action is taken beyond reminding people if they then put a mask on. If they refuse though the fines are pretty stiff.

The metro was showing three ways not to wear a mask (With nose uncovered, under chin and hanging off one ear) and we had close to 100% mask wearing on the train yesterday.
 
I received a letter the other day from my local hospital regarding my appointment to see someone about my hip/leg problem. I'm having serious mobility problems. I presume my GP mentioned this when she contacted them 4 weeks ago. The letter said words to the affect of 'now that we're back up and running as normal'. My appointment is for Monday the 4th of January 2021! Is that back up and running as normal?🤔

Reminds me of the East German response to that sort of letter: "Oh, no, that's when the Plumber is coming..."
 

DCLane

Found in the Yorkshire hills ...
The police have been checking that people wear masks on public transport here, as with the UK no action is taken beyond reminding people if they then put a mask on. If they refuse though the fines are pretty stiff.

The metro was showing three ways not to wear a mask (With nose uncovered, under chin and hanging off one ear) and we had close to 100% mask wearing on the train yesterday.

I ended up on two trains yesterday; Castleford-Leeds about half were wearing them, Leeds-Dewsbury all were. No checks on anyone though.
 

SkipdiverJohn

Deplorable Brexiteer
Location
London
I checked out a venue asked by many acquaintances/friends online. The website gushes all this nonsense about being safe and changes and opening later which I bought into. It's twaddle.

They took out 3 tables in the middle, hand sanitiser, booking (de facto before), no ordering at the bar and no other changes. Supposedly bubbles only :laugh:. I know every square inch of that venue from before all this. Very, very scary. I feel like reporting them to the council in a drinking in cupboards kinda way was unsafe. Sadly they would probably pass as 'covid secure'.

If you don't want to mix with other people, then don't socialise. No-one is forcing you to.
'Spoons has been really busy lately on the normally quiet days because of the half price food incentive. There's been more customers than normal in at times, not less. They have put some sanitisers out (which hardly anyone uses) , track & trace forms (that hardly anyone fills in) and dividing screens up here and there, but most of us just drink with whoever we normally sit with, regardless of any stuff about bubbles and household mixing. People are being sensible when waiting to be served, not crowding at the bar, and generally sticking to their own regular social groups.
There hasn't been any explosion in virus cases and we've been doing that for over five weeks, which tends to suggest a lot of the doom-mongering was just the chattering classes with too much time on their hands to spend pontificating. The fact that the current death figures are low and staying low tells you all you need to know that most of the increase in cases is coming from increased testing, not increased infection rates, and a few dozen deaths per day from one particular cause in a 60+ million population is not even worth talking about. The hysteria and risk aversion surrounding the virus is far worse than the actual virus.
 

Rocky

Hello decadence
If you don't want to mix with other people, then don't socialise. No-one is forcing you to.
'Spoons has been really busy lately on the normally quiet days because of the half price food incentive. There's been more customers than normal in at times, not less. They have put some sanitisers out (which hardly anyone uses) , track & trace forms (that hardly anyone fills in) and dividing screens up here and there, but most of us just drink with whoever we normally sit with, regardless of any stuff about bubbles and household mixing. People are being sensible when waiting to be served, not crowding at the bar, and generally sticking to their own regular social groups.
There hasn't been any explosion in virus cases and we've been doing that for over five weeks, which tends to suggest a lot of the doom-mongering was just the chattering classes with too much time on their hands to spend pontificating. The fact that the current death figures are low and staying low tells you all you need to know that most of the increase in cases is coming from increased testing, not increased infection rates, and a few dozen deaths per day from one particular cause in a 60+ million population is not even worth talking about. The hysteria and risk aversion surrounding the virus is far worse than the actual virus.
The hysteria.......perhaps tell that to the friends and relatives of the 41358 people who have died of Covid. Tell it to my son, a junior doctor who has been working 12 hr shifts on Covid wards. He’ll tell you about spending time with people who are literally drowning as their lungs give up. He’ll tell you about holding his phone to the ear of those patients so they can hear one last message from their loved ones.
 

SkipdiverJohn

Deplorable Brexiteer
Location
London
Spare me the pious virtue signalling sermon. I'm well aware thousands have died from the virus and thousands more will die from the virus in the weeks and months to come.
That's the price you pay for having a functioning economy and functioning society, just like car crashes, train crashes, domestic & industrial accidents, idiots getting pissed up and falling in rivers, OD'ing on drugs or any number of other causes of fatalities.
People do risky things that kill them, and people catch things that kill them, of which the coronavirus is just one more thing added to the thousands of other things that already exist. It's what happens in the real world, and has done since the beginning of mankind.
 

Rocky

Hello decadence
Spare me the pious virtue signalling sermon. I'm well aware thousands have died from the virus and thousands more will die from the virus in the weeks and months to come.
That's the price you pay for having a functioning economy and functioning society, just like car crashes, train crashes, domestic & industrial accidents, idiots getting pissed up and falling in rivers, OD'ing on drugs or any number of other causes of fatalities.
People do risky things that kill them, and people catch things that kill them, of which the coronavirus is just one more thing added to the thousands of other things that already exist. It's what happens in the real world, and has done since the beginning of mankind.
Thank you for belittling the contribution made by my son and all our medics. Dismiss my post as virtue signalling. You don’t have to deal with the psychological damage that he is suffering from having seen things that no one should have to witness at his age.
 
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