Not at all. there is no meeting anyone apart from the idiots that stepped in and broke the rules. The guy was fishing, probably for food.
Because it’s an extra journey/meeting of people which doesn’t fall into the allowed categories.
Oh he’s just selling a bike, oh he’s just selling a car, oh he’s just viewing a house, oh he’s just taking something to a friends house, oh he’s just popping next door to borrow the lawnmower, oh he’s just..............
What lockdown.....?
Not at all. there is no meeting anyone apart from the idiots that stepped in and broke the rules. The guy was fishing, probably for food.
'Against stupidity, the gods themselves struggle in vain' - Schiller.
What if he drove there? Had an accident on the way? Had to go to hospital?
What about the closed season?
https://www.gov.uk/government/news/c...-rivers-starts
The taking of fish for food is subject to rules.
https://www.gov.uk/guidance/national...ine#when-where
Started out with nothing. Still have most of it left.
Thought this was a promising news thread?
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That’s a lot of what ifs when he is actually going for food in a way that allows much better social distanciation than going to a shop. And no fishing rule breaking was mentioned. But even if that was the case, it doesn’t entitle those mouth breathers to step in and destroy his gear.
'Against stupidity, the gods themselves struggle in vain' - Schiller.
Oh my the bike was loud - oh dear me. Can someone explain how riding a motorbike outdoors poses a risk (unless he crashes it and needs attention). And while your at it you can then explain how a few closely huddled together lifting a motorbike into a skip ISNT a risk. Moronic comments.
Did he break the rules ? Perhaps he did. Does he deserve his several ‘000£ bike thrown in a skip causing criminal damage ? Absolutely not. It seems you share a street with knuckle draggers who thought this was the right way to handle things. Nice area . We have a hotline to the police for such things.
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No, it was posted as an 'act of frustration' witnessed.
Why Ryan posted it in the Promising News thread only he knows, possibly thought it was one of the other CV-19 threads?
Anyway - I was already out of this discussion yesterday so I'm out again today.
Can we have some promising news please?
Nothing banal about my comment at all Rod. Take a look at what our then Heir Apparent did during WWII.
What she did, at a time of grave national troubles, wasn't just a practical job; it sent a message out to the whole country. There's no reason Charles can't do something practical to send out a similar message at this very difficult time.
It's called setting an example.
Best Regards - Peter
I'd hate to be with you when you're on your own.
Do you think that having the future King cleaning floors or refilling bog rolls in a hospital (or anywhere) at the moment, would be a good thing, especially when surrounded by his Royal Protection Squad and no doubt representatives of our wonderful media. Just what a hospital needs! Not.
The best thing he can do at the moment is to sure he is seen to be complying with NHS recommendations. This is setting an example.
Whoever does not know how to hit the nail on the head should be asked not to hit it at all.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Promising News! - I have a chance of handing back my lease car without getting stung for excess mileage charges.
Good news - My sons partner was done for speeding and elected to do the speed awareness course, they can’t run it so she has been let off.
It was anecdotal Andy. There is much that he could 'visibly' be seen to do, just as Princess Elizabeth did in WWII. If you can't see that, well.............. thank goodness this isn't the Bear Pit!
Oh, and as he's had it he's supposedly immune and can go out and do things, he no longer needs to self isolate. Even the NHS are more than happy for nurses etc who have had Covid 19 to return to work - keep up Andy!
Best Regards - Peter
I'd hate to be with you when you're on your own.
Back to good news. Well maybe not good news, but cause to question whether the news is as bad as we might think...
https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/...ar-as-we-think
New breathing aids that were designed and built in under a week as part of a collaboration between engineers and doctors at University College London and Mercedes Formula One have been delivered to several London hospitals for clinical trials.
The device can deliver oxygen to the lungs without the need for a ventilator and will help keep covid-19 patients out of intensive care.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/20...id-19-patients
Don't just do something, sit there. - TNH
I’m guessing if you can’t attend the course then the company doesn’t need paying as its not a fine but a course fee.
Whoever does not know how to hit the nail on the head should be asked not to hit it at all.
Friedrich Nietzsche
I feel like crap- bad times.
None of the symptoms match the COVID guidance- good news!
This is the only COVID thread I read, thanks to those keeping it positive
Fingers crossed- the toads (kids) have both been snotty of late and my trips out have been limited to dog walks and occasional shop runs with precautionary measures being observed (distance, wiping down trolley, surgical gloves, no face touching and antibacterial gel once gloves are off).
Im classified as high risk (diabetic) but usually don’t pick up the bugs off the toads who frequently bring stuff home from school.
Time for a large warm Courvoisier with honey before bed
Quoting this because the article is excellent & thought-provoking.
Another article in the Spectator points out that Iceland has tested a much higher percentage of their population than any other country - out of 360,000 people, 10,300 have been tested, with 1,135 positives. This is one of the highest infection rates (1 in 357) in the world. But only 2 persons have died (BBC, 31st March). And 50% of those who tested positive have been shown to be totally lacking in any symptoms at all. 40 variants of the virus have been found, meaning it is possibly more contagious than first thought but also possibly less dangerous too.
Great idea for a thread. Mental health is very important in these times. Let’s keep it positive on this thread at least.
"As the WHO’s assistant director-general Bruce Aylward told New Scientist last week, the countries that are best able to control outbreaks of the virus are those extensively testing people who might be infected, isolating them away from their friends and relatives, and tracing who they have been in contact with."
https://www.newscientist.com/article...#ixzz6IIluIv6d
Promising news that UK testing should be ramping up considerably in April.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-51943612
Don't just do something, sit there. - TNH
That is 2.8% of their population, which is a bit less than the 2.9% which have been tested in Luxembourg - so definetely not 'a much higher percentage than any other country'.
To complete the comparison, in Luxembourg there were 2,178 positives (12.4% vs 11% in Iceland) and 23 deaths (vs 2 in Iceland). Given the more than 200,000 people who commute daily into Luxembourg (about half of which come from the French corona-hotspot Alsace) and the intensive business travel to all other European and Asian hotspots out of Luxembourg (amongst it the busiest Chinese/European air-cargo connection with direct flights to Wuhan), one would have expected a much higher case-ratio in Luxembourg versus the shielded island of Iceland?
You would, assuming the testing has been carried out on the same basis...i.e completely randomly. I'm not sure we can assume this though. Different countries appear to be testing in completely different ways so it's mot possible to compare. The 23 versus 2 deaths would suggest incidence in Luxembourg IS much higher and the apparent difference in incidence is down to different testing protocols.
Luxembourg is now further stepping up the testing: anyone with any kind of symptoms is now eligible for testing.
https://luxtimes.lu/luxembourg/40277...-business-help
Celebrities are doing their best to help bless 'em
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/music/ar...s-coronavirus/
The UK, France and Germany are bypassing US sanctions to send medical relief to Iran. IMHO absolutely the right thing to do.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/202...Aohhif5LCY7ako
Coming out the other side now been in solitary isolation for a while. Stinging eyes, dry cough, light headed and breathless feel 200 % better today
Hope I have had it all symptoms nearly gone.
Been hard not seeing my wife and kids.
So should be good too go home on Sunday that’s 11 days since it began. I was very worried on a couple of days.
We have a static on the end of the dales. I stocked it last month just in case as youngest has asthma and I was still working in the food industry.
For the last 2 month I have been higher strength vitamin c and multi vitamin every I honestly think this has helped.
Sheesh fella, good to hear you are out the other side. I hope that whatever you had, and it does sound like COVID-19, has now gone and you get back to full strength quickly. Have you notified anyone? I downloaded an app at the outset of the lockdown and have used it to self report every day, all in the interests of helping the authorities see just how far this thing has spread before the testing regime is bumped up.
https://twitter.com/ProfKarolSikora/...650024448?s=20
Prof Sikora - v distinguished medic, posts quite a lot of reasonable, positive angles on the pandemic. Worth a read to cheer yourselves up a little.
A colleague has set up a fundraiser, with people donating their commuting costs. Proceeds going to scope and red cross, nothing too major but a bit of good amongst the doom and gloom
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Well this is potentially huge
https://www.sanmiguelcountyco.gov/CivicAlerts.aspx?AID=511
A private investor paid for an entire Colorado town to have serological tests for COVID antibodies. The town had recorded zero COVID cases. Tests came back saying that 1% of the town had definite COVID antibodies (meaning they had recovered from the virus) and up to another 2% had indeterminate results but where there was a decent likelihood of them having had COVID. Why is this significant?
Well firstly it indicates that all cases were either asymptomatic or mild enough not to require hospital treatment and a COVID diagnosis. That's point 1. Point 2 is that if a small town in Hicksville Colorado has between 1 and 3% of its population as recovered infections then it isn't a stretch of the imagination to imagine that New York may have 10 or 20% of the population infected meaning that R0 infectiousness figure is high but that Infection Fatality Rate is lower than thought. For example if we take that lower bound of 10% of New Yorkers infected (so around 800k) and we know that 1,900 have died and that of those currently infected double that number are deaths-in-waiting then we get around 6k deaths from 800k infected so around 0.75% Infection Fatality Rate which is of course several orders of magnitude higher than flu but not anywhere as high as some figures being bandied about. In all likelihood though the Colorado study would indicate that New York infections would be higher than 10% bringing IFR down further. This is obviously serious as the infectiousness may be much higher than thought and will swamp health care systems however the positive would be again if this is an indicator that certain cities may be closer to herd immunity than originally thought.
More research of course required but this was interesting based on the first serological study done.
What a nonsense.
The county has not tested the entire population but 645 first responders, healthcare providers and their families so far and as of yesterday afternoon there were seven positive COVID-19 test results and less than 2% have antibodies. It's all in the linked article.
Can I ask you were you have taken the conclusions from as they are certainly not from the website?
Someone who lies about the little things will lie about the big things too.