matticus
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The photos that papers love to publish aren't small groups of moderate drinkers, socially distanced.
Corona Virus: How Are We Doing?
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fossyant
Ride It Like You Stole It!
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- South Manchester
The halls next to the building I work in have been featured in the Manchester Evening News - student's partying in the 'gardens' - over 100 ! Security are now stepping up patrols. Staff now not overly happy due to risks of bringing the virus in. To top if off, more students in our building now reporting symptoms. Staff now worried we will run out of staff to teach !
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Smokin Joe
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- Bare headed cyclist, Smoker
And these are the "Caring and responsible younger generation" who are going to make the world a better place than us old duffers have managed.
"Meet the new boss, same as the old boss"
Like a group of 43 closely-packed elderly walkers?
The more detailed figures presented last week suggested gigantic spikes in 17 to 18 and 19 to 21 year olds. It's now shifting to older groups.
It depends on your opinion. My uni has got shared study spaces with basically random people, planned. Some would say that's come about with a lot of focus on halls.
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Smokin Joe
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- Bare headed cyclist, Smoker
Your Uni has, so do Bingo halls. But it's the people who use those places and ignore the rules who are the problem, and the young are no different to any other age group in that respect.
Which was my point.
Julia9054
Guru
- Location
- Knaresborough
I went to my first brass band rehearsal last night. Brass Bands England in negotiation with the DDCMS have allowed rehearsals to start up again for bands with an appropriate risk assessment. Our organisation in conjunction with the company that sponsors us who own our rehearsal premises have decided that our room fits 12 people + conductor socially distanced (instead of the usual 27). It was fantastic to be back playing although we sounded a little rusty! Mixed feelings though as we will not be performing any time soon.
Rusty Nails
We remember
- Location
- Living in the slow lane
On a personal level I am probably less worried about the risk factors to me of Covid than on the issues a new wave will cause to other NHS treatments.
My doctor, ten days ago, sent an urgent request to the hospital for me to have further tests for possible prostate cancer following some problems I've been having and a high PSA test result. I have just had a letter from the hospital telling me that they will give me a telephone consultation in three weeks time. I am not sure what I can tell the consultant that he has not been told in the letter from my GP and a glance at my medical records. Not what I was hoping for, and I just have a bad feeling that cases like mine will once again be given a lower priority.
My wife fell and broke her collar bone four weeks ago. It was x-rayed and she was given a sling, very few instructions and sent home. A follow-up x-ray five days ago showed it was healing OK and she was discharged. She was given no instruction about how long she should wear the sling and has been told that she should hear from a physio some time about rehab, but that it will again be a telephone call, not face to face instruction.
Yes, the NHS coped with the initial outbreak, and probably will in this wave, but at what long term cost in lives lost to other illnesses. They have only coped by offering a much worse service in other areas, and that looks to continue.
My doctor, ten days ago, sent an urgent request to the hospital for me to have further tests for possible prostate cancer following some problems I've been having and a high PSA test result. I have just had a letter from the hospital telling me that they will give me a telephone consultation in three weeks time. I am not sure what I can tell the consultant that he has not been told in the letter from my GP and a glance at my medical records. Not what I was hoping for, and I just have a bad feeling that cases like mine will once again be given a lower priority.
My wife fell and broke her collar bone four weeks ago. It was x-rayed and she was given a sling, very few instructions and sent home. A follow-up x-ray five days ago showed it was healing OK and she was discharged. She was given no instruction about how long she should wear the sling and has been told that she should hear from a physio some time about rehab, but that it will again be a telephone call, not face to face instruction.
Yes, the NHS coped with the initial outbreak, and probably will in this wave, but at what long term cost in lives lost to other illnesses. They have only coped by offering a much worse service in other areas, and that looks to continue.
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Moon bunny
Judging your grammar
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- Basking in my own brilliance.
Shouldn’t be rusty if it’s a brass band. Perhaps a touch of verdigris.
winjim
Smash the cistern
Julia9054
Guru
- Location
- Knaresborough
Younger son plays trombone. My eldest used to shout “Mum!!! He’s not practicing, he’s just making slidey noises!“
winjim
Smash the cistern
That reminds me, I haven't heard our neighbour in a while. Maybe they decided that trombone wasn't for them.
Julia9054
Guru
- Location
- Knaresborough
Sadly (for them anyway) one of the consequences of the sh!tshow that is 2020. Motivation to practice goes out the window when you cannot play with others, have lessons face to face or perform
srw
It's a bit more complicated than that...
Curiously I've found the exact opposite. I usually just sight-read, which means my technique has got ropey. This year I've learnt new repertoire. Some of it I will perform or have recorded as a contribution to a publicly shared thing, other pieces I'll never play except for myself.
I'm still putting off the moment of truth. Having given up mid-March, I'm sure the valves are suffering from acute lockdown!
Modern study spaces in unis are not so much study spaces as socialising spaces for a sizeable minority. Basically you could get the same kind of behaviours in halls in the study spaces and a terrifying level of mixing. On paper it all looks very sensible. Some at uni are baffled because if you look at the numbers, it is mindboggling.
