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Anyone Else Getting Sick Of Hearing About The Corona Virus On The Tv News?
Also tired of hearing the words safe, safely, save lives, control the virus, infections, lock down etc etc. Every news bulletin invariably has some bad news about the virus and even if they can bare to give anything encouraging, there's always a 'but' at the end. I have stopped watching the news on TV now, I'm sure they revel in the doom and gloom.
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I would like a bit more information about the virus and how the vaccines are coming along. I can do without all the personal stories of how people have coped, are coping, how many people are on Brighton beach blah blah. As soon as someone comes on in their home showboating on how they've baked cakes for every member of the local NHS, while home schooling three...
15:59 Sat 05th Sep 2020
To be fair though, ick, i'm not convinced either that quarantining is worthwhile and wasn't convinced months ago either except for a handful of countries. If we are going to test people compulsorily , I think it would make more sense to do it in hotspot areas such as those in Leicester, Bolton, Blackburn, coupled with roadblock checks, than at airports.
But the system as it is is hopeless. You basically tell people to stay at home and leave them to it.
Having ruined their holidays in all probability into the bargain.
Why not follow up tests? I’d have thought tho that a decent test would pick up the vast majority.
And then you know exactly who’s got it and can start tracing immediately.
All this of course assumes that people coming from abroad are special risk.
Having ruined their holidays in all probability into the bargain.
Why not follow up tests? I’d have thought tho that a decent test would pick up the vast majority.
And then you know exactly who’s got it and can start tracing immediately.
All this of course assumes that people coming from abroad are special risk.
Haven’t watched the news for a week; have just spent a very pleasant four nights with some mates in a Majorcan villa.
Muzzled-up at the airport both ends and on both flights, hire car, plenty of beer in the fridge and the only time we ventured out was for an evening meal.
This afternoon have been to the local pub with some other mates....oh, hang on, I don’t think I should have done that because I’m quarantining. Meh.
Muzzled-up at the airport both ends and on both flights, hire car, plenty of beer in the fridge and the only time we ventured out was for an evening meal.
This afternoon have been to the local pub with some other mates....oh, hang on, I don’t think I should have done that because I’m quarantining. Meh.
Quarantine certainly isn't perfect. In fact it's about as far from perfect as it could be. People are being ordered to isolate when returning from places where the infection rate is often lower than the towns they are returning to. It simply makes no sense. It would make more sense to quarantine the people of Oldham or Manchester or anybody returning from those areas. Couple this with the fact that they can travel from Heathrow on the Piccadilly Line through central London before entering "quarantine" and that just adds to the lunacy.
//So what's the alternative? Lock people up? We don't live in a police state.//
No we don't. But nor do the people of New Zealand. However, as I have related before, I have a friend who returned there from the UK a few weeks ago. She and her fellow passengers were met at the aircraft steps by security guards who saw them on to a bus. They were taken to a hotel and kept there for two weeks. Food and drink left outside their door. That's quarantine. And a lot of good that and the rest of the locking down did New Zealand. They've destroyed their tourist industry and crippled most of the rest of their economy. Oh, and they've got the virus back.
//So what's the alternative? Lock people up? We don't live in a police state.//
No we don't. But nor do the people of New Zealand. However, as I have related before, I have a friend who returned there from the UK a few weeks ago. She and her fellow passengers were met at the aircraft steps by security guards who saw them on to a bus. They were taken to a hotel and kept there for two weeks. Food and drink left outside their door. That's quarantine. And a lot of good that and the rest of the locking down did New Zealand. They've destroyed their tourist industry and crippled most of the rest of their economy. Oh, and they've got the virus back.
Going back a bit; NJ mentioned 1968 which I remember very well - summer days boating etc. etc. A lovely year at the end of my schooldays and unshadowed.
I have vague memories that there was a 'flu about, so I've just checked and it was the 'Hong Kong' or -since he was popular about then- 'Mao' flu. Yes it killed about the same number of people, it was a pandemic etc.. I scarcely noticed it, everything and everyone carried on as normal. I don't remember this constant drip, drip scare story from the media. I.m.o. it is the media that has caused this continuation of an appalling, original over-reaction. Epidemics happen. Let us know about it and what is going on and then leave it to our common sense, please. I would rather live my life than sit around just living and, from what I heard on Any Answers this afternoon, I hold the majority view.
Leave it alone media, please, unless there is an upsurge. Let us know where the risk areas are and leave it to our common sense - but that doesn't make good headlines, does it?
I have vague memories that there was a 'flu about, so I've just checked and it was the 'Hong Kong' or -since he was popular about then- 'Mao' flu. Yes it killed about the same number of people, it was a pandemic etc.. I scarcely noticed it, everything and everyone carried on as normal. I don't remember this constant drip, drip scare story from the media. I.m.o. it is the media that has caused this continuation of an appalling, original over-reaction. Epidemics happen. Let us know about it and what is going on and then leave it to our common sense, please. I would rather live my life than sit around just living and, from what I heard on Any Answers this afternoon, I hold the majority view.
Leave it alone media, please, unless there is an upsurge. Let us know where the risk areas are and leave it to our common sense - but that doesn't make good headlines, does it?
don't think so Mozz, estimated at 30,000 in the Uk and that seems to be over the whole of the pandemic, not over less than one year. https:/
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