One doctors view on an Exit Strategy: https://drmalcolmkendrick.org/2020/04/12/the-lockdown-is-not-a-way-of-beating-this-virus/ Dr Malcom Kendrick, a Scottish GP living in Macclesfield.
One never knows what is the best strategy to follow. To me it makes sense to stay safely ensconced within my 4 walls, and only venture out for bare necessities, without teasing lady luck... I supposed when I was much younger and I was invincible I would have behaved differently, but even then I was not very keen on russian roulette.
i only mingle with the public when i go to tesco...where none of the staff wear face masks. why is that ?
i'm used to it. i only miss being able to go out for a drive if i feel like it. even got my sports car taxed and ready--with nowhere to go.
Between self isolation at the beginning, and total lockdown after, we are starting today our 5th week of utter solitude. We ventured out once a week for groceries, took advantage of the diesel being priced @£1.03 per litre and filled up, with nowhere to go. her indoors is doing my head in, in about 2 weeks will be her 50th birthday and my plan to either take her to the North of Scotland for the chance to see the Northern lights, or the Netherlands Tulip Fields in full bloom are laying in tatters. I am forbidden to order anything, including her present, from the internet as she fears germs may sneak in with the package or the delivery guy... I am grateful that such things as Netflix and Amazon Prime exist, they make life in lockdown that little bit more bearable. looking at the brighter side......... We are alive.......... And apart from saving ourselves, and the N.H.S..... We also save loads of money!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Yes, we are spending very little apart from normal household bills. What we are spending is virtually all on food alone really. No trips to KFC or Nandos. We are venturing out for a walk around the block, to get out of the house and stretch legs every couple of days. While walking around the block we discovered an elderly Filipina just down the road from us we never knew about. She has been in the UK for 50 years.
Spending very little cash,no restaurants open,very little need to buy new clothes,no flights,no travel.
Not allowed out, (over 65) 6 weeks now for me apart from walking in the garden. Wife went into the village to buy food and cleaning chemicals, her bags were heavy and we live about 1,500 meters from the main rd. She tried to phone me but no signal, she wanted some help with her shopping. Even though I'm not allowed out, the dirt road I could have gone to meet her. but no signal from Globe. She was very angry when she got in crying and screaming and hitting me. She chucked her phone smashing it against the wall, then went to the bedroom for more crying. It's going to be a tough now for both of us.
My wife was a child when she lived in Sagbang. Her mother used to walk from Sagbang to Valencia carrying bananas on her back (using some kind of bamboo carrier) to sell in Valencia. My wife at the age of 7 had to walk with her. From what she says it was a challenging walk. If they didn’t sell all the bananas then they carried them back.
it was a lovely day yesterday. my wife asked me to get the lawn mower out--which i reluctantly did. i then sat sipping a beer while she mowed the lawn.
I would agree with most of what he is saying, he is however making up the IFR of 0.2% that is pure speculation at this stage, a quick back of the the back of an envelope calculation shows the only countries with quality testing that come close to that are Germany at 0.23% and south Korea at 0.04% both may also have had effective anti transmission strategies, the USA is currently showing an IFR 0.78% compared to the UK at 3%. In reality none of the IFR rates that can be calculated on existing data are reliable at this point in time, either because of the cross section of the population tested, the total number of tests performed or the effectiveness of the anti transmission strategies, or for that matter that it is simply too early to say until after the illness has infected enough of the population to get a true picture of how it kills across the full socio-economic spectrum. It's dangerous to make assumptions and even assuming 0.2% is still more than 3 times worse than influenza.
We should be getting a rebate on our road tax, I'm currently being taxed and insured for 2 miles driving per week, I expect most of us on here are pretty much the same.
I've spent a grand total of three hours outside my flat in the last 24 days, all grocery shopping. Are you still working John?
not great missing out on the tourist birthday surprises, I am watching the USA situation very carefully! Are wine sales for you rock bottom?
yes The company I work for moved me from driver assessor to doing some real work actually delivering! One of the contracts is delivering into the suppliers for the NHS others are delivering foodstuffs and other essential ambient product. It was agreed upfront for all the drivers to keep the same truck,in the past a truck that was back at night could be used for a night trunk but they have stopped this for now,so no one sits in the truck other than me! They have removed all paper manifests and each supplier is given a code to email the receipt of goods back on an electronic manifest so no going into transport offices for paperwork they will not deliver into places that will not allow the driver to sit in the cab whilst being tipped and give us phone numbers for goods in to ring to get an allocated unloading bay although we do have to hand our keys over H&S I put mine in a plastic wallet and when i get them back I open the wallet and spray anti bacterial into the wallet and over the keys before i touch them. Very little human contact all kept at least 2 meters apart gloves are a must and normally wear laytex gloves inside my work gloves once only. a pack of 500 for £5.99 at B&M
Exactly. 2 cars. Even though one is £30 a year. Same goes for council tax. We are not getting the same services and facilities as before lockdown.
