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| Rashers Member Since: 21 Jun 2015 Location: Norfolk Posts: 3498   
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I wish you a speedy recovery
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18th Mar 2020 1:21pm |
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| ZeDefender Member Since: 15 Sep 2011 Location: Munich Posts: 4731  
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+1,000,000
Tell someone you love them today because life is short.
But shout it at them in German because life is also terrifying and confusing... |
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18th Mar 2020 4:13pm |
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| ZeDefender Member Since: 15 Sep 2011 Location: Munich Posts: 4731
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...and the coeliacs and vegans shall inherit the earth...
 Click image to enlarge Click image to enlarge Just stupidly thought I could buy some "real" sausages to grill. Thank God my son is vegan and told me the burgers are almost as good as the real thing
Oh, and my son is now stuck in the Dominican Republic because Germany has closed its borders 
He was helping my aunt in hospital who fell ill there with pneumonia 
It's all so messed up  Tell someone you love them today because life is short.
But shout it at them in German because life is also terrifying and confusing... |
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18th Mar 2020 5:47pm |
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| Projectblue Member Since: 22 Nov 2011 Location: Devon Posts: 1096 
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What a difference 11 days make.  New project and it's green: www.projectoverland.info |
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18th Mar 2020 6:08pm |
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| Projectblue Member Since: 22 Nov 2011 Location: Devon Posts: 1096
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I hope you don't lose out? I imagine from what you are saying that your work doesn't support paid time off for this?
But good to hear you are recovering. As a single person myself, being ill is one of the main times when it's harder to cope on your own. Being a single bloke and ill is appalling because there is no one to whinge to  New project and it's green: www.projectoverland.info |
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18th Mar 2020 6:14pm |
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| 22900013A Member Since: 23 Dec 2010 Location: Oxfordshire Posts: 3149 
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I get my regular hours covered but obviously I cant do overtime or standby.
I do worry about falling over or something and nobody knowing...  2011 110 USW
1973 Series III 1-Ton 1972 Series III 1-Ton Cherrypicker 1969 IIA 1-Ton 1966 IIA 88" |
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18th Mar 2020 6:43pm |
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| ickle Member Since: 22 Jul 2010 Location: South Vendee Posts: 1782  
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GREENI wrote:
If you’re under 55 years old, not been to China or Italy, you have more of a chance of winning the lottery, than dying of Covid 19. Move along, nothing to see here. What a difference 11 days make. Shocked I didn't win the lottery either! |
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18th Mar 2020 6:46pm |
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| Pickles Member Since: 26 May 2013 Location: Melbourne Posts: 3784  
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Here's a thought as to how quickly things changed, & people started to realize how VERY serious this issue is.
Spudfan put up his original post on 26/1,.....but not much comment following it (including from me), so as I reckoned it was VERY serious, on 7/3 I put my comment up, because from what was happening in Aussie, I could very clearly see the spread, and now, here we are, just 11 days later, see the number of posts, and how this insidious disease is spreading. Yep, in Aussie, we have the same greedy, selfish people grabbing all manner of stuff off shelves, as a consequence of which others miss out. Elderly people & pensioners are being offered the opportunity to shop between 7 & 8 am, but the queues are massive, & invariably the shelves are empty. The real worry is, that the number of infections is still increasing world wide, and until that situation is reversed, nobody knows where we will all end up. I myself am probably older than most on here, & I'm retired, so I've decided that my best option is self isolation, & by that I mean, I will just keep within the boundaries of my property, to try to refrain from contact with others. Many many Events have been cancelled in Aussie, Car Club meetings, displays etc, sporting events, restaurants, cafes, movie theaters, air travel bookings almost zero, & severe travel restrictions,.....but the numbers are still rising. Pickles. |
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18th Mar 2020 10:38pm |
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| blackwolf Member Since: 03 Nov 2009 Location: South West England Posts: 17376 
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I saw a photo on (I think) the BBC News website of Australians buying toilet rolls, and after estimating the number of rolls in each of their trolleys I calculated that at the rate I use toilet rolls the number in each trolley would last me between thirty and forty years! Even if they had large families of say ten arseholes each, it should still be enough for 3 to 4 years. There appeared to be nothing except toilet rolls in their trolleys.
I simply don't understand why toilet paper is at the top of the lost for these people. I wouldn't want to run out (although this is looking increasingly likely due to the selfish behaviour of so many people), but I am more concerned about having food to eat than toilet paper to deal with the by-products. The pasta fixation baffles me too. These are indeed very strange and unsettling times! |
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18th Mar 2020 10:54pm |
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| ZeDefender Member Since: 15 Sep 2011 Location: Munich Posts: 4731
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It's sheep mentality - if one person sees another hoarding toilet rolls they assume they need to as well (no neuronal activity required). It's the basis of almost all social networking sites (especially the "influencers")
Tell someone you love them today because life is short.
But shout it at them in German because life is also terrifying and confusing... |
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18th Mar 2020 11:11pm |
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| spudfan Member Since: 10 Sep 2007 Location: Co Donegal Posts: 4660 
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When I put up my original post it was not as a denegration of the impact that the virus could have. It was just another take on it. From the earliest times worries began to set in with my wife and I owing to the possible effect it could have on our daughter. Even, when I come home from work I spend my evenings in the kitchen and have moved into a spare bedroom as our other daughter is away at college. I am considering putting in for special leave to minimise my catching the virus and then passing it on to my daughter. Today I developed a sore throat but as far as I am aware that is not one of the symptoms.
I was talking to another parent who has two children in the autistic spectrum, one in remission from cancer, who says that as all activities and services have been cancelled the change in routine is having a chaotic effect in their household. So long as both my wife and I an stay healthy we can ride this out. We do not have a mortgage or a car loan so we do not have that type of worry. We have other worries. If things get bad and the health system gets over run patients will be prioritised. Some one like my daughter might be far down the list. If infected she would need a lot of help and if resources have to be allocated to those with the best chance of survival there would not be the time, staff or resources to go to people like my daughter. This is uncharted territory for a lot of people. Even when the virus has run it's course it will take a long time for things to get back to "normal". I hope we can all stay safe and healthy. My daughter who is 24 still hugs and kisses me morning, noon and night and it is soul destroying trying to put the brakes on that. Like I said I wish everybody well and anyone that is alone keep in touch with the thread and use it occasionally to blow off a little steam if need be. Seems an age ago that we used to search for help on this site for cures to rattles in our Defenders.... 1982 88" 2.25 diesel 1992 110 200tdi csw -Zikali 2008 110 2.4 tdci csw-Zulu 2011 110 2.4 tdci csw-Masai |
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18th Mar 2020 11:15pm |
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| williamthedog Member Since: 29 Dec 2012 Location: south wales Posts: 3441 
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As Blackwolf has already said about toilet paper.... Why?
When we were younger if we run out of toilet paper our mother wouldn't go to the local shop, she said it was too expensive. We would have to wait until she went into town.She used to cut up old newspapers and if we were lucky she would use a skewer to make holes in it, thread some string through them and tie them to the toilet roll holder.  |
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19th Mar 2020 6:48am |
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| ZeDefender Member Since: 15 Sep 2011 Location: Munich Posts: 4731
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I think the toilet paper is for people who already have the virus - they wrap it round themselves and stagger about so they can look how they feel
 Tell someone you love them today because life is short.
But shout it at them in German because life is also terrifying and confusing... |
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19th Mar 2020 6:57am |
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| Huttopia Member Since: 23 Feb 2016 Location: West Midlands Posts: 1972
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Logically it will take a while for the social distancing / isolation measures to have an impact on the number of people catching the virus. We won’t know that in the UK because unless you present at hospital you won’t be tested. We are currently testing about 5000 people per day. We aren’t tracing the source of infections any longer, so no more identifying super spreaders etc. The true number of infections in the UK is therefore impossible to determine or indeed guess at with any confidence. The fact people can be asymptomatic or have very mild symptoms makes it even more difficult to know the true numbers. Perhaps when this is over we will all be tested as part of routine med checks to see whether we need a vaccine.
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19th Mar 2020 7:33am |
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