Coronavirus

What you're forgetting is that Covid has had a hard year too, infecting all those people is bloody hard work and so the government has learned it will be taking a holiday over Christmas. That is why it is perfectly safe to mix between 23-27 December while it is seeing it's own folks back in Virusland. However, do remember that it is completely unsafe to mix on the 22nd or 28th December when it's still on duty. Of course if you really want to be safe from it, then go in to work yourself, as it is well known that it doesn't infect people when they are working, only when they are enjoying themselves by having a pint or a meal. It does take keeping up with though, as once upon a time it didn't bother people in pubs, but then it changed its mind, but even then could only be bothered after 10 o clock at night. Now it hates pubs and restaurants, but has stopped bothering people in gyms and hairdressers, who it used to hate. It's quite a fickle virus isn't it.

Just to avoid doubt, that was a bit of the lowest form of wit being used.
 
dinosaw said:
What you're forgetting is that Covid has had a hard year too, infecting all those people is bloody hard work and so the government has learned it will be taking a holiday over Christmas. That is why it is perfectly safe to mix between 23-27 December while it is seeing it's own folks back in Virusland. However, do remember that it is completely unsafe to mix on the 22nd or 28th December when it's still on duty. Of course if you really want to be safe from it, then go in to work yourself, as it is well known that it doesn't infect people when they are working, only when they are enjoying themselves by having a pint or a meal. It does take keeping up with though, as once upon a time it didn't bother people in pubs, but then it changed its mind, but even then could only be bothered after 10 o clock at night. Now it hates pubs and restaurants, but has stopped bothering people in gyms and hairdressers, who it used to hate. It's quite a fickle virus isn't it.

Just to avoid doubt, that was a bit of the lowest form of wit being used.
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Made me chuckle.
Of course, none of these measures have much to do with preventing people catching the virus. It's all about that fine line of keeping the economy from crashing and Boris's chances of getting elected again.
 
i will have the vaccine for the reasons Marigold explains so well. I'm asthmatic and I know what it's like to gasp for breath. My current medication works well so I haven't had a bad attack for years. My mother died of asthma complications 10 years ago in an ambulance on the way to the nearest A&E 30 miles away. Her death still haunts me.
 
Marigold said:
So sorry, BYM, I was fiddling about trying to quote your comment, got it wrong, and accidentally deleted it. Please try again!
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We were talking about the virus taking a break at Christmas so we can get together, and someone quipped " well the Grim Reapers dance card for the New Year is filling up nicely"
 
bigyetiman said:
Marigold said:
So sorry, BYM, I was fiddling about trying to quote your comment, got it wrong, and accidentally deleted it. Please try again!
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We were talking about the virus taking a break at Christmas so we can get together, and someone quipped " well the Grim Reapers dance card for the New Year is filling up nicely"
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Sounds like a quote from one Sir Terry Pratchett's books!
 
When death comes to dinner....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YoBTsMJ4jNk
 
Margaid said:
bigyetiman said:
Marigold said:
So sorry, BYM, I was fiddling about trying to quote your comment, got it wrong, and accidentally deleted it. Please try again!
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We were talking about the virus taking a break at Christmas so we can get together, and someone quipped " well the Grim Reapers dance card for the New Year is filling up nicely"
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Sounds like a quote from one Sir Terry Pratchett's books!
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I am a big Terry Pratchett fan, so I have obviously imbibed some of his metaphors along the way
 
Genuinely not trying to be snarky but feeling that I was missing out on something I watched the whole of series one of Dark Materials earlier this week. It just doesn’t do it for me. Love fairy stories like Lord of the Rings or the Duncton Wood books but this one left me cold. Have to admit though that the main evil woman was interesting.
 
Like most of these adaptations, this one was only tangentially connected with the original books, HenGen. I can understand that it’s not everyone’s sort of thing, if course, but just as with Game of Thrones, I found the original books very immersive and well- written, and the videos less satisfactory. However, we still watch Dark Materials because Poppy so enjoys the animations of the daemons. She jumps up and down to try to make herself tall enough to get at them inside the TV. - good exercise. Technically the series is amazing. Good stuff for Sunday evening, more watchable than endless sagas about murders or with unsexy heaving naked buttocks.
 
I am enjoying the series having not read the books. OH she has read the books, but doesn't like the tv series. We can imagine Poppy jumping up and down every time she sees a daemon
 
We will just pass.
We have just been told that Primark, Next and several other shops will be reopening at Lakeside next week 7am-midnight so everyone can shop safely. Yeah right, just means the same amount of people will be packing into the centre and hanging around, bit like they have now with "click and collect"
Only plus side we get a bit of overtime if we want it
 
dianefairhall said:
Outdoor gatherings? The woman in the Guardian has obviously never been to the Outer Hebs in December. Your Granny would die from hypothermia instead of Covid.
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Yes, weird, even for here at the bottom of the map in Hampshire!
 
dianefairhall said:
Outdoor gatherings? The woman in the Guardian has obviously never been to the Outer Hebs in December. Your Granny would die from hypothermia instead of Covid.
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Yet another case of the metropolitan elite telling every one else what to do. I’m sure in a heavily built up area of Chiswick,darling, this would be possible. But then north of Watford we don’t do Christmas because we’re all pagans.
But seriously open doors and windows to get a good throughput of air! Roast chestnuts on an outdoor fire! I don’t know anyone who does chestnuts, just how Dickensian are we? As you say, Dianne, have they any idea of the kind of weather up north.
 
I would describe the Guardian as a joke, but any news organisation that seems hell bent on spreading divisiveness isn't very funny. At least they seem to have moved on from "boomer bashing" and misandry to harassing anyone who thinks chromosomes define gender, including their own journalists. Surprised they have any time at all for Christmas really, it's as non vegan a festival as you can get, all those trees being chopped down!, Santa, an old white male presiding over affairs. You would almost think they were a bunch of Oxbridge educated hypocrites with villas in Tuscany......

Edit. I am equally critical of all of the other major newspapers we have in this country btw, I think they are all absolutely dreadful in their own way and pretend to put forward a view completely at odds with what the people running them represent. But still, should keep my opinions to myself, not entirely sure why I am feeling the need to vent at the moment, so just ignore me. Which you don't need to be told to do anyway ;)
 
Hen-Gen said:
dianefairhall said:
Outdoor gatherings? The woman in the Guardian has obviously never been to the Outer Hebs in December. Your Granny would die from hypothermia instead of Covid.
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Yet another case of the metropolitan elite telling every one else what to do. I’m sure in a heavily built up area of Chiswick,darling, this would be possible. But then north of Watford we don’t do Christmas because we’re all pagans.
But seriously open doors and windows to get a good throughput of air! Roast chestnuts on an outdoor fire! I don’t know anyone who does chestnuts, just how Dickensian are we? As you say, Dianne, have they any idea of the kind of weather up north.
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We do chestnuts. There are some lovely chestnut trees near us and we go and pick lots of them. Lovely roasted in the oven.

Can't imagine sitting in the open in Norfolk either, with the wind blasting across the North Sea
 
This is the Sage version of official advice. I really don’t think I’d want to bother with all that.
In years to come, articles like this will be considered wonderful reminders of the strange things people were urged to do.

‘ – while dancing can be dangerous because of higher breathing rates.“
From what I remember of my dancing days, higher breathing rates weren’t the main danger, just the first stage....

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/nov/28/elbow-bumps-sanitiser-uk-scientific-advisers-christmas-covid
 
Interesting contribution to the discussion on vaccinations. Any comments?
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/nov/26/heres-how-to-tackle-the-covid-19-anti-vaxxers

And this embedded link;
https://healthydebate.ca/2017/08/topic/vaccine-safety-hesitancy

Of course both these articles are written from the point of view of doctors who want at least 90% of people to get vaccinated in order to promote herd immunity. Has anyone got a rational article saying something different?
 
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