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spudfan



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The wife has just got word that an uncle of hers and his wife, both elderly and who live in a different part of the country, have the virus and are being treated with medication usually used to help those with malaria. Both have not had good health for sometime now. Many I presume will be in the same situation. 1982 88" 2.25 diesel
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Tim in Scotland



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Sounds right - the old anti-malarial Chloroquine has been found to have a beneficial effect on the virus - heard on the radio early this morning that there are several other drugs that work too - one of them is an HIV retro-viral. IIRC Chloroquine was removed from the anti-malarials list because Malaria become resistant to it so we got Something called Larinam or something like that but it caused liver failure if taken over too long a period! Pangea Green D250 90 HSE with Air Suspension, Off-road Pack, Towing Pack, Black Contrast roof , rear recovery eyes, Front bash plate, Classic flaps all round, extended wheel arch kit and a few bits from PowerfulUK Expel Clear Gloss PPF to come
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ickle



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Rushes to cupboard grabs gin bottle, desperately looks for glasses to check wether Schwepps tonic still has quinine in it

can't find reading glasses, drinks g&t anyway just in case..........
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Tim in Scotland



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Just had the sad news from my sister that despite requests for the general public to observe social distancing while queuing for takeaway meals, coffee and to use the establishment toilets, their staff suffered such horrendous abuse that at 9pm they closed their business doors and will not be re-opening until the virus is passed purely because they will not tolerate the abuse that their staff were getting yesterday. All the car parks on the east side of Loch Lomond were totally rammed with cars and motorhomes and a neighbour who is a policeman was severely abused by visitors from south England in a motorhome when he had to move them because there is no fly camping by law in the National Park at this time of year and through to October, like they thought it was their right to park up where they want. Yesterday everywhere in the National Park was busier that on a hot July Sunday - crazy and spreading the virus far and wide.

Folks this is how Italy and Spain have ended up in the situation that they are in - because of ME FIRST I’M IMMUNE I DONT HAVE ANY SYMPTOMS. Folks we have only a small population here so health facilities are thin on the ground, if you come here and fall ill WE won’t have any facilities very soon. WAKE UP and stay in your local area and use the facilities that you have near to home.

There is a posting from a well known Ice Cream and Tea shop in Largs in Social Media today - the owning family have already lost family members in Italy to Covid19, their shop is to be closed too because they simply couldn’t control people queuing but worse there are reports of people walking on the sea front cuddling, holding hands and elderly people carrying grand children. We already have a faster accelerating death rate than both Spain and Italy had at this stage of the pandemic.

PLEASE DO OBSERVE THE RULES IF YOU ARE OUT AND ABOUT  Pangea Green D250 90 HSE with Air Suspension, Off-road Pack, Towing Pack, Black Contrast roof , rear recovery eyes, Front bash plate, Classic flaps all round, extended wheel arch kit and a few bits from PowerfulUK Expel Clear Gloss PPF to come
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If there was any justice then natural selection will cull them but unfortnately they will take collateral innocents with them also.........

This is partly due to the mixed messages from above and general lack of any clear 'leadership'.......
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Well, one positive (as I sit in government enforced isolation in France and with the parts I ordered for my next Def upgrade not having arrived yet), the quality of some of the memes and videos on What’s App are truly brilliant. In testing times, humour comes to the fore, and some people are very, very clever/witty. I’ll try and post some up here. Thumbs Up


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90 Dreamer



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Post #820618 22nd Mar 2020 11:13am
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Doc P



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90 Dreamer wrote:
If there was any justice then natural selection will cull them but unfortnately they will take collateral innocents with them also.........

This is partly due to the mixed messages from above and general lack of any clear 'leadership'.......


I have to agree. Look at what happened in Oz - with Bondi Beach being rammed - despite warnings not to gather in groups of hundreds. If you ever needed a tsunami....

What's struck me in all of this is that the world is apparently even more so divided into givers and takers. A fellow was interviewed about the threat of the pandemic on his business (he runs a gun shop) and the 'war' was mentioned and how people reacted then. He, very wisely, stated that the difference then was that everyone looked out for one-another. Now it's 'I'm alright Jack' across the board and stuff everyone else. Of course, the takers are the first to come banging on the doors of the givers when it all goes south.

I hope there's a military crackdown on tw@ttish behaviour (as in Lombardy), I really do. Meantime, I've already run out of wanting to give anything of myself to these idiots (and yes I know I'm supposed to 'care').

Edit: and look at what's happened in Wales - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-51994504
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Cannot believe the thousands of idiots who climbed Snowdon yesterday putting their own and others health at risk.


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Tim in Scotland



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Unless these are military flights there are still people travelling by air as I get contrails over the house 4-5 times a day, through binoculars these don’t look like military planes - photo taken with an iPad




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There are still some flights yes, I heard a plane the other day. Much less though and wasn’t Military related by the sound of it. $W33T $0U7H3RN $UG4R
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Had to nip to the shop today, noticed mainly older people queuing, keeping a good distance between themselves and the person in front. Young hipsterish guy comes and stands right behind me, talking loudly into his mobile phone (on speakerphone, not held up to his ear) on about soap operas and their plans to go climb Snowden.

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90 Dreamer



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There are still a few 'recovery' flights on-going i think to get people home from overseas.........

Massively down on normal times
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It's surprised me this week to see the commercial training flights doing circuits around Robin Hood Airport have been on nearly every day. It's usually been Ryan Air.
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