The Retirement Thread

[ColinJ]

Infections are currently running approximately 10 times the level we had in March

They weren't doing many tests in March. They are testing lots more people now, so they are getting more positive test results, but there may actually not be as many people infected as there were in March...

yet deaths are running at around less than half of what they were

... and doctors have a much better idea of how to treat the disease AND have drugs to help, so the survival rate has improved.

 

[numbnuts]

I've got a funeral plan if it gets really bad......I'm not going in no mass grave

 

[ColinJ]

I still have not met anyone local who claims to have had Covid.

Oh, and you are in Devon, which has been spared the worst of the pandemic so far. I'm sure that people in the hotspots would be more likely to have had the bug or know someone who had.

I felt rough for a couple of weeks from the end of April into May. It never really developed into anything - I had no normal cold symptoms and it was not serious enough to have been flu. It might well have been a mild case of Covid-19, but I will never know for sure because I wasn't tested.

I've got a funeral plan if it gets really bad......I'm not going in no mass grave

I've got my funeral plan sorted. The corpse becomes a plaything for medical students, any scraps to be disposed of as clinical waste afterwards. As for a funeral - I am leaving instructions that there should not be a funeral! Obviously I won't be around to enforce my wishes, so I can't stop them putting on some daft show if they insist on doing so.

It might be nice though if people did at least make a few phone calls or personal visits to discuss the news rather than sending a terse text or email saying "Colin died yesterday."

 

[Dirk]

The BBC I had a written warning, just for watching 5 minutes of Remembrance Sunday two years ago

How did they know without them breaching the Data Protection Act?

 

[pawl]

quite.

I do know 4 people who have tested +ve, all fully recovered within a week.

The numbers quoted on News and elsewhere just do not make sense, or, equate with what I observe.

Ah that would be Donald Trumpton

 

[pawl]

Boris who ?

Becker

 

[BoldonLad]

Ah that would be Donald Trumpton

Two daughters, grand-daughter and son-in-law. Not that it matters, but Nurse, Teacher, GP Receptionist and Retired Sales Rep., respectively)

 

[Dave7]

I've just watched “Dunkirk” very moving film

We have it on record. Will watch in the next few (cold) days.

 

[Dirk]

I've just watched “Dunkirk” very moving film

Isn't that currently on iPlayer?
Naughty boy.

 

[numbnuts]

Isn't that currently on iPlayer?
Naughty boy.

No I have it on DVD bought and paid for
Boris is on youtube soon

 

[numbnuts]

I can't go to school .....glad about that and staying at home is good with this cold weather

 

[welsh dragon]

I've got a funeral plan if it gets really bad......I'm not going in no mass grave

See? Always look on the bright side

 

[Mo1959]

Molly says it's supper time so better feed her. I'll have toast and a cuppa too.

 

[Dirk]

I can't go to school .....glad about that and staying at home is good with this cold weather

I'm still curious as to how the BBC knew you were watching iPlayer.

 

[PaulSB]

I really don't know what to believe about this Covid.
Infections are currently running approximately 10 times the level we had in March, yet deaths are running at around less than half of what they were.
I still have not met anyone local who claims to have had Covid.
There seems to be no correlation between what is on the news and what I see in reality.
It's all very odd.
I can see people saying enough is enough and ignoring government advice.
Seems like I'm living in a surreal alternatative reality.

I can understand this. I know of 20+ people who've had it, including 2 who died. I stress "know of" not necessarily people I know directly. I've friends who don't know of anyone who's been ill.