And even if you're selfish enough not to give a **** what happens to other people, the idea that being relatively young and healthy means that you'll be fine is untrue. *Most* relatively young and healthy people are fine. But whereas the flu almost never kills those people, COVID sometimes does. Not in huge numbers as a percentage, but 1 in 500 starts to look at awful lot different if hundreds of thousands have it. David Lat is the founder of a blog I sometimes read called AboveTheLaw. He's 44, has run marathons, does a lot of cardio, but has some exercise-induced asthma. He's currently on a ventilator and his situation is grim: https://www.law.com/newyorklawjourn...ventilator-as-his-covid-19-condition-worsens/ And even if David and people like him survive, that's a couple weeks where a ventilator isn't available for someone else. It's a cocktail of drugs that might be difficult to come by in a couple weeks. It's a whole cascade of effects today with serious consequences in short order. And that's the best case.
I thought of doing some jobs, but then lay down and felt better. To give you an idea of what I am like: My son asked if I could iron a shirt for him. That was when I discovered that I had forgotten how to put up the ironing board. He had to show me.
if anybody wants a curried goat recipe, I'll put one on Ralph's to keep this one on-topic. It's a pretty tasty dish - substitute Lamb for goat if you can't get it easily
Goat is my favourite meat, and I got told by a Jamaican friend that my recipe is pretty authentic so give it a go StJ, because it's a nice recipe even if I say so myself
Managed to get some shopping at Asda, in the Marlands. Plenty of gaps throughout, but got enough to keep me and Mrs Badger going for another week. The supermarket supply depot I work at is going to allow the staff to buy a few ambient products, starting this Wednesday, which will be a massive help as many of us can’t get the products we supply because of the hours we work, owing to the shops selling out before we finish our shift. Below is a photo of Level 7, of the Marlands car park, at 09.20 this morning. Is the message getting through?
A photo from the London Underground, showing the overcrowding. As I understand it, services have been cut, so at a time when commuters need to be given space, they are being forced to press even closer together than they normally might do. Surely lives lost to the coronavirus, as a result of this should be treated as culpable manslaughter.
Wise,wise words...... “The virus doesn’t move, people move it. We stop moving, the virus stops moving, the virus dies, It’s that simple.”
Dismayed at the attitude of those that cause the crush and those that submit to it similar the lack of distancing in shops and out of doors yesterday. I'm seeing many pictures of what would it be called? Herd harming? I feel a song coming on "let's get sick again like we did last summer". Here in the Hague the public transport use has dropped right off, plenty of room to distance most shops are closed with people keeping apart, all bars and restaurants closed since last Sunday 15th, schools the Thursday before that. Of course there's silly twats, mostly, but not all, young crowding. We cycle everywhere avoid contact even with our closest friends. Feeling we're safe as we can be but worried about family and friends in the UK. Stay safe all take whatever measures you need to keep apart from the gung ho nutters.
QUOTE="RSS, post: 13673177, member: 1008978"]Is this from this morning?[/QUOTE] I believe so, by someone claiming that he is not a key worker but whose employer insisted on him going to work. Here’s another picture from this morning, Southend to London [
****'s starting to hit the fan here - Don't know how much longer you'll be working @Osvaldorama, or at least without full PPE.
Luckily I have today booked off anyway, so I've avoided the rush for one more day! I'm thinking the full lockdown is imminent. The hospital I was at on friday all got given 'urgent /key worker's' letters. I assume that means we will have full shut down very soon. I'm going to start wearing a mask every time I leave the house. Would rather feel like an idiot than potentially be a spreader! Hope you're staying safe mate