No, I live in a second floor flat and not being able to be as active as I usually am is utterly shit.
I'm making the best of what I've got, so what? It's not going out, it's not the 6 miles of walking I used to do every day, it's still staring at 4 walls. But, you know, better than dying.
I'm making the best of what I've got, so what?
No, I live in a second floor flat and not being able to be as active as I usually am is utterly shit.
It's just a bit of a waste of your energy. Most people are sticking by the restrictions. The minority of idiot who aren't, they were always going to ruin it for you. The same people flouted the restrictions in every other country in the world too, because there's always a minority of idiots, everywhere. You might as well be angry at the tide coming in.I'd rather just go with the rifle option tbh.
He's going boat happy!Just pissed off with cunts that fuck things up for everyone else as per bloody usual. If I had a rifle I'd be taking potshots from my window by now.
He's going boat happy!
I think the conditions of the lockdown do bad things to the psyche, turn you a bit stasi. The other day I was stood in my bedroom overlooking the road - it's a pretty busy road, and I'm a block away from the spar in one direction and the park in the other so there's a regular stream of people passing doing their daily mandated walk or shop: and even though I know they're probably all totally within their rights to be out there, I found myself judging each person as they passed.I think it's easy to over-estimate how busy it is in London and other city centres, despite my own posts moaning about it. I went out today for a bit and it seemed packed, but in reality buses were running past nearly empty, round the shops at Holloway Road there was a steady trickle of people but it's normally absolutely packed round there on a Saturday and at one point I was wandering down the middle of Seven Sisters Road for ages because there was so little traffic. Fifty or so people on a street you expect to be empty seems like loads, until you consider that under normal conditions there could well be a couple of thousand people in the same space.
My neighbour (works in admin between nhs and private medicine) reckons that most nhs beds outside of the big cities won’t be required for covid19, because social isolation will reduce infections enough. The problem will then be pressure to restart surgery for other serious conditions, which will lead to reinfection, and to reduce social isolation, which will have the same effect. In the absence of a vaccine, and without total heavy lockdown, how will you ever stop this cycle?
Is he being both optimistic (beds not full) and pessimistic (Reinfection)?
He also thinks that social isolation will be relaxed in time for VE Day. Cynical or realistic?
Oh I’ve been judging people in a stasi like manner for a long time before this shit kicked offI think the conditions of the lockdown do bad things to the psyche, turn you a bit stasi. The other day I was stood in my bedroom overlooking the road - it's a pretty busy road, and I'm a block away from the spar in one direction and the park in the other so there's a regular stream of people passing doing their daily mandated walk or shop: and even though I know they're probably all totally within their rights to be out there, I found myself judging each person as they passed.
Kevbad the Bad said:He also thinks that social isolation will be relaxed in time for VE Day. Cynical or realistic?
the martial law thing is new though, I'm fairly sure.Oh I’ve been judging people in a stasi like manner for a long time before this shit kicked off
I’ve considered it more than once since I’ve had to start commuting by train in the rush hour.the martial law thing is new though, I'm fairly sure.
I overheard a couple of people who clearly knew each other saying hello and stopping to chat on the street outside my window earlier and I got up to check they were staying 2 metres away (they were)I think the conditions of the lockdown do bad things to the psyche, turn you a bit stasi. The other day I was stood in my bedroom overlooking the road - it's a pretty busy road, and I'm a block away from the spar in one direction and the park in the other so there's a regular stream of people passing doing their daily mandated walk or shop: and even though I know they're probably all totally within their rights to be out there, I found myself judging each person as they passed.
I stopped (2 metres away) to chat to a friend I bumped into on the street yesterday, and people tutted at us as they passed.I overheard a couple of people who clearly knew each other saying hello and stopping to chat on the street outside my window earlier and I got up to check they were staying 2 metres away (they were)
This is completely impossible to enforce - fines would not work and threatening people with a criminal record for trying to picnic would just be mad. Seriously, expecting everyone not at work to stay indoors indefinitely apart from when they are buying food it was just never going to happen. Most people are keeping to the rules, you just don't see them for obvious reasons.
Very, very quiet in Swansea too (we cycled just to the supermarket -- this was the first time on bikes rather than walking! )
Quieter than Friday in fact, despite the weather being better today.
(And before anyone starts going on, we've become increasingly to the point of insanely careful about mega-distancing, when outside -- and we're outside for short spells only).
Also, on judging - I noticed that my neighbours (who have a lovely garden) had fucking wetsuits hanging out to dry today... ' '
PPE kit
was it bees?We had that. We saw one of El's classmate's and were having a socially distanced chat and some bloke started shouting at us from the other side of the road