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Post by Playground LEVINE on Mar 26, 2020 13:30:33 GMT
In a couple more weeks people will be coughing over each other just for fun. "YOU'VE BEEN CORONA'D!" Desperate desperate days.
Kids have already started that.
I was hoping it wouldn't happen, but you know, 'if something CAN exist, then it will'? Dreadful. They're saying that could be classed as a terrorist act.
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Post by Playground LEVINE on Mar 26, 2020 13:31:08 GMT
So (prompted by Ray's post) are we better off in the cities or the countryside?
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Post by Deleted on Mar 26, 2020 14:05:59 GMT
It would depend on how rich or old you are. You'd be struggling in the country with no car, internet, means of support etc.
I've a housebound Nanna in a County Durham village with no shop, her only support now is her care workers.
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Post by loveless on Mar 26, 2020 14:19:19 GMT
Yeah, the notion of running out of some essential item in the country concerns me a bit.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 26, 2020 14:28:00 GMT
I was once at a town planning conference where the county council leader was tossing out these platitudes about increasing social inclusivity, but then saying that rural communities don't need shops anymore as 'most people drive'. Now that's your cognitive dissonance.
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Post by hippopotamus on Mar 26, 2020 15:40:39 GMT
So (prompted by Ray's post) are we better off in the cities or the countryside? My parents left for the country as soon as this started... but this is in Germany. They have a bigger house there, with a bigger garden. The tiny little house they had in the UK would have ACTUALLY resulted in someone's murder. I'm very happy they got there safely, and they have a bit more space to breath (literally and figuratively). They have all their hobbies there, and are keeping busy. And practically beg us on a daily basis to find a way to get there, because to them it's the best possible way to be. And Germany does have twice the ITU capacity as the UK, so there's that too. Still, I'm very happy. We don't have a garden, but we have a large park across the road. We have 3 "ethnic" grocery stores within a few hundred metres away which are always well stocked because people don't think to buy their pasta there. I'm not a city person, and in this day and age when most people DO have internet and cars, it's probably a good place to be. I'm VERY happy I don't live in London, or New York (sorry people who do), but it must be all that much more difficult to keep a good distance. Mostly, it must be very difficult if you work in essential services and until now were reliant on public transport .
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Post by Playground LEVINE on Mar 26, 2020 18:26:43 GMT
I wish they'd stop reporting deaths from COVID-19 with statements like 'the biggest daily rise so far', because for a while that's ALWAYS going to be true. It helps no-one.
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Post by Charlie O. on Mar 26, 2020 18:31:37 GMT
I wish they'd stop reporting deaths from COVID-19 with statements like 'the biggest daily rise so far', because for a while that's ALWAYS going to be true. It helps no-one. I disagree. Look at all of the people, from Trump down to the man (or kid) on the street, ignoring expert advice. Maybe pointing out that this is something that is very rapidly getting worse day by day will at some point actually impress that fact on some of them (though not Trump).
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Post by Charlie O. on Mar 26, 2020 19:02:02 GMT
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Post by Charlie O. on Mar 26, 2020 21:30:24 GMT
We're Number One! We're Number One!
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Post by Deleted on Mar 27, 2020 1:50:31 GMT
I'm going to log off again after this, but a friend of mine just died of the virus. Like a lot of people, he wasn't feeling too bad, suddently got worse, and went on a ventilator and passed today. I hope, for all our sakes, that this is the only person we all know who succumbs to this thing. I met John in high school, I forget what class, but we both made each other laugh even though our interests weren't the same. We kept in touch after high school and we'd occasionally check in with each other. John Tai was a very nice man.
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Post by loveless on Mar 27, 2020 2:21:02 GMT
Fuck.
So sorry.
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Post by Playground LEVINE on Mar 27, 2020 2:22:24 GMT
Ah jesus, John, I'm so sorry.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 27, 2020 9:55:17 GMT
Oh hell. I'm very sorry, John.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 27, 2020 10:40:18 GMT
Sorry to hear that
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