The Nice People No. 17

PasturesNew

GDB2222 said:

... everywhere you’ve been in the last 3 weeks, in order to track down everyone you may have been in contact with...

I could say precisely where I've been and at what time in the last 3 weeks... and most of those outings have involved names on a register too. 
My life's pretty uncomplicated.  I've been in a couple of shops/supermarkets, but I always stay out of aisles where other people are ... and the shops have mostly been almost empty when I've gone in.  I've used no public transport. 

PasturesNew

There was this little bungalow that came up a week ago.... 2 beds, s-facing garden, garage... up an unmade up road (think gravel/pot holes/slight floods at the moment).  

EDIT: Viewed it today. Lovely little place.  Road is a dealbreaker. Road (rutted, huge pot holes) was completely flooded from one side to the other today (3' into a neighbour's garden and about to slide into another's below-road-level garage, so I drove past that slowly so I didn't create a bow wave).  

You'd need a car to get in/out in very heavy rainy weather - and the rest of the time it's a rutted track without any lighting/pavement. 

vivatifosi

Can I please ask those of you that use libraries, whether you will continue to do so if Covid 19 becomes widespread? Trying to get a handle on what people think. Shops already seem quiet.

Loanranger21

Viva, yes will continue to use our library. DH usually goes on a Saturday morning. I used to go too but then he would collect any books I have ordered so no need for me to go too. 

PasturesNew

The trouble with people is they don't change their behaviour.  Look at this chap, who has been through the worst and really SHOULD know better: 
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8057513/Man-kept-coronavirus-quarantine-stop-coughing-taking-water-3-year-old-daughter.html 
What on earth made him think it was acceptable to give it back to her? 
People simply don't think, they don't think it's them.

GDB2222

vivatifosi said:

Can I please ask those of you that use libraries, whether you will continue to do so if Covid 19 becomes widespread? Trying to get a handle on what people think. Shops already seem quiet.

It depends on how deadly the disease turns out to be. The main mortality study comes from China, where they tested 45000 people as positive, and about 2-3% died. However, the Chinese only tested people who were seriously ill. There may well have been 10 or 20 untested cases, with mild symptoms, for every case they tested. That means the overall mortality rate for people in the population with the disease may be as low as 1 in 1000.

Translate that to the UK and that would mean 10% more deaths than usual this year. A blip on the statistics. A substantial blip, but still a blip. Not the Black Death. 

That assumes everyone in the country is exposed to the disease, which seems very likely. If you’re going to get infected anyway, you may as well go to the library. 

GDB2222

People with seriously compromised immune systems should consider isolating themselves as much as possible for the next year.  I mentioned that idea to DW, and she simply refused. She said she cannot live without meeting other people face to face.

PasturesNew

GDB2222 said:

 She said she cannot live without meeting other people face to face.

Tell her I said that's over-rated. 
 

Doozergirl

I do understand that we don't want to be passing this on to vulnerable folk but it does seem that for the majority it isn't even as bad as flu, which is currently killing thousands in the UK with no media hysteria, and does so every year - even people who have been vaccinated. 

Wash your hands, especially after touching things that many people have touched or after coughing/sneezing yourself.  Try consciously not to touch your face whilst out and about.    

If you're vulnerable, that's something else.  I feel more like us sociable people should be also conscious of what we do around the oldies and the uncle who's had a transplant.  

This is stuff we should be doing anyway, if we're good citizens.  

It seems like the media is supposed to be being nice to people right now, so they've latched on to hours and hours of this mainly anonymous stuff.  The Mail article isn't nice at all.  The guy was under pressure there and has been tested twice and has weeks between him and any exposure. 

My daughter's friend's son has an article written about him (anonymous) and there's not going to be anything wrong with him, they've decided to self isolate because the mum doesn't think they've got it but has decided that she doesn't want to become famous for bringing it from Italy (not the affected region even). 

It's incredibly tedious for some of us and clearly frightening for others.   If you're going to publish one single article about this, publish what you should sensitively do every single day of your life to protect yourself and others from contagious diseases.  

GDB2222

I see the US and Taliban have concluded a treaty, so the US can withdraw their troops before the election, and the Taliban can take over Afghanistan after the election.