Corona Virus: How Are We Doing?

[Fab Foodie]

I know a few people who own that kind of gear already.

We may have met before then....

 

[Fab Foodie]

I'm 59,so i think if it gets that bad i might be down the list of those who they'll try to save. Not near the bottom,but certainly not near the top.

They’ll probably just leave you in the car park with a blanket....

 

[cyberknight]

They’ll probably just leave you in the car park with a blanket....

nah get the neighbour to care for you .)
EDIT jokingly referring to how well @Accy cyclist gets on with his .

 

[Joey Shabadoo]

No change in Altea

 

[winjim]

Suddenly everyone's a gardener. Compost has gone the way of bog roll. I wanted to get my herb garden sorted and start off some tomatoes. I might have enough for now in our little compost bin.

 

[stephec]

We may have met before then....

I thought I recognised that fa... ah errr I mean!

 

[MarkF]

Never thought I'd see the day I looked forward to painting the fence..........in the cold.

Meanwhile, eldest son has lost his job and is moving back home, daughter has lost her job too, maybe my mum (83) will spend her last days in solitary confinement, I do hope not.

 

[Accy cyclist]

Could a person be fined for going to their local laundry? I haven't seen laundry use on the government's 'essential journeys' etc list. Personal hygiene is essential,but i don't know if we're allowed to make a journey to a laundry,even though some laundries are still open,with strict guidelines on customers keeping safe distances,not coughing in the shop etc. Also...I heard that bicycle shops are allowed to stay open,though my LBS closed last week. You'd think he'd have stayed open,with his main income coming from repairing teenagers mountain bikes.

 

[vickster]

Could a person be fined for going to their local laundry? I haven't seen laundry use on the government's 'essential journeys' etc list. Personal hygiene is essential,but i don't know if we're allowed to make a journey to a laundry,even though some laundries are still open,with strict guidelines on customers keeping safe distances,not coughing in the shop etc. Also...I heard that bicycle shops are allowed to stay open,though my LBS closed last week. You'd think he'd have stayed open,with his main income coming from repairing teenagers mountain bikes.

Launderettes are on the allowed to open list so no. Under 'All retail with notable exceptions'

https://www.gov.uk/government/publi...her-businesses-and-premises-to-close-guidance

My LBS is available only for emergencies, presumably for key workers. The mechanic is available for telephone consults. They're allowed to stay open, but they don't have to.

 

[Accy cyclist]

so no

No,as in you won't get fined? Maybe they're allowed to open,but we aren't allowed to make a journey to them.

 

[PK99]

Now here's a puzzling one:

I started with symptoms a week ago got progressively better from about weds onwards.

Yesterday felt fine and temp was normal all day.

Got up this morning, intending to cook a nice black dahl - and i cannot smell or taste any of the spices.

 

[Skibird]

Now here's a puzzling one:

I started with symptoms a week ago got progressively better from about weds onwards.

Yesterday felt fine and temp was normal all day.

Got up this morning, intending to cook a nice black dahl - and i cannot smell or taste any of the spices.

Sense of taste and smell going is one of the symptoms.

 

[PK99]

Sense of taste and smell going is one of the symptoms.

yep!

 

[winjim]

Now here's a puzzling one:

I started with symptoms a week ago got progressively better from about weds onwards.

Yesterday felt fine and temp was normal all day.

Got up this morning, intending to cook a nice black dahl - and i cannot smell or taste any of the spices.

Biphasic immune response, innit. Check out the graphs for the recent antibody test and you'll see an early rise in IgM, giving you initial symptoms, which drops and gives way to a rise in IgG, giving you a second wave of symptoms. Remember your symptoms aren't caused by the virus as such, but your body's response to it.

From my relatives' experience, days 6-9ish are the worst. Hang on in there.

I am a clinical chemist and trainee clinical biochemist, not an immunologist.

 

[Joey Shabadoo]

Shed spray painted