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littlebabyjesus said:
Big clap in my street just now. I thought it was a naff idea, but actually it's quite touching.
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I forgot it was happening, heard it and was surprised it was taken up so widely and enthusiastically in my area, and joined in. To my own surprise I suddenly burst into tears.

I thinks that’s about connection at this time of separation.

Presumably most NHS folk will be either far too busy, travelling, sleeping etc to hear it or kinda not wanting it to happen (judging by what Urban NHS folk have said on their thread). So it occurred to me that this out-loud demonstration is a way for everyone to acknowledge that we’re all sharinng this thing.

Only connect etc.


ETA
I broke a really good wooden spoon though, banging on a saucepan.
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circleline said:
Really grateful to Elbows for all his updates in the above thread. On this (his) information I looked to Italy for any precedent relevant to us here. In casual work discussions, I mentioned the above precedent and shouldered feeling as if I were over-reacting, as I felt (privately) reliably well-informed. I acted upon this information by insisting to WFH (due to daughter's acute health conditions) from 17th March.

I am extremely grateful for this reliable and informative posting.

Round of applause right here
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I’ve been thinking that elbows may well have made a material difference to numbers and outcomes . I reckon some people have been more switched on and cautious and responsible than they would otherwise have been, directly because of elbows ‘s calm clear informative posting.

(Also weltweit and others who kept the discussion going in the early days so kept the thread bumped to the top)


For sure I was nagging people with facts and warnings as early as 28 Feb because of elbows posts.
 
Oh dear, I'm very grateful for these lovely sentiments but I'm not good at knowing how to respond to them.

And I could not have said all the things I said about this pandemic if it were not for all the other people posting about it too, having people to bounce stuff off and learn from and nitpick over and just bloody well argue with at times.

As the present fades into the past, lets resist the urge to oversimplify things as being more about me and my words than I believe was actually the case. What I firmly believe helped prepare people was everyone, all of us having these discussions here, coming to terms with a rapidly changing situation. Yes, I got really lucky with my prior knowledge and my timing, perhaps I was able to offer far more spoliers for this pandemic than I could possibly have imagined. But even if that was sort of true for a time, it grows less true with every passing month, there are still some aspects of the pandemic that might be expected to follow an assumed script, but in other areas we really are in uncharted territory. I expected to be less use in March than I was in February, and I think that has been the case. Anyway now I am rambling on and dont know how to finish. So cheers, be safe, hope to get through this and then after the pandemic I might feel like being cheeky and asking for some help & friends to bring meaning to my existence.
 
smmudge said:
Getting a bit tired of seeing these daytime tv programmes with presenters sitting away from each other, as though they just walked in and sat down, no hair, makeup, micing up and all.
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actually many are doing their own make up, ITV NEWS anchor Mary Nightingale tweeted she is not ill just doing her own make up, after enquiries into her health!

she looks great actually.
 
elbows said:
Oh dear, I'm very grateful for these lovely sentiments but I'm not good at knowing how to respond to them.

And I could not have said all the things I said about this pandemic if it were not for all the other people posting about it too, having people to bounce stuff off and learn from and nitpick over and just bloody well argue with at times.

As the present fades into the past, lets resist the urge to oversimplify things as being more about me and my words than I believe was actually the case. What I firmly believe helped prepare people was everyone, all of us having these discussions here, coming to terms with a rapidly changing situation. Yes, I got really lucky with my prior knowledge and my timing, perhaps I was able to offer far more spoliers for this pandemic than I could possibly have imagined. But even if that was sort of true for a time, it grows less true with every passing month, there are still some aspects of the pandemic that might be expected to follow an assumed script, but in other areas we really are in uncharted territory. I expected to be less use in March than I was in February, and I think that has been the case. Anyway now I am rambling on and dont know how to finish. So cheers, be safe, hope to get through this and then after the pandemic I might feel like being cheeky and asking for some help & friends to bring meaning to my existence.
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Just take it man 😍
 
I may have missed something: is any genuine change of circumstance being foisted on major land/lease holders? A lot of the corporate douchebaggery, wetherspoons etc, has to be linked to rates/rent payments. I would like to think that those organisations who own prime land are willingly joining in with the general loss of earnings/all in this together/bullshit blitz spirit, but I expect to be disappointed. A rent holiday doesn't count.
 
It was heartwarming to see and hear the support shown for the NHS last night. Will this become a weekly event?
 
At least in my street - and area come to that, there will be very few Tory voters
weltweit said:
I think in Spain and Italy it is every evening.
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I'm still holding out for the musicians in my street to get together .. I'm fairly certain my voice coach neighbour was singing Italian opera yesterday :)
I felt somewhat "English" when I forced myself to clap and then bash a bicycle frame with a coat-hanger.
 
Rationing myself to checking (written only) news twice a day. I haven’t watched tv news for years as it’s too enraging. Am in the privileged position of being insulated from seeing or hearing Boris Johnson spaff on about shit - why put yourself through such an ordeal? I can only keep a calm head if I process stuff like this by only reading about it
 
Orang Utan said:
Rationing myself to checking (written only) news twice a day. I haven’t watched tv news for years as it’s too enraging. Am in the privileged position of being insulated from seeing or hearing Boris Johnson spaff on about shit - why put yourself through such an ordeal? I can only keep a calm head if I process stuff like this by only reading about it
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A government survey popped up the other day asking me where I got my information about CV19 - long list of disgusting rags ... TV and radio ... "social media" ...then did I actually watch government announcements ?

I suspect I came across as ill-informed ...

It may be time to start "sleeping" Facebook groups again - I already tired of taking the piss out of French "big pharma" conspiranuts on one group who repeatedly post chloroquine bollocks (several French and Belgian connections) - they have a brilliant health service over there, but are also massively into "bio" ("organic") and woo ... I can't even be arsed to get to deeply into understanding all that ...

I confess I made two frivolous sorties into town last week in panicked search of a replacement bike (which I may well now not get to use in anger for a month) - albeit taking care to keep my distance - and it took the official "stay at home" instructions to make me take real notice.

I suppose I ought to make the effort to learn a bit more about virology ... and I don't even know nearly enough about the basics of how the DNA-RNA thing works in cell biology - I feel the need to know because I fix the printers of people who work in that field ...
 
Oh I am a bit of a news hound, I like to know the max what is going on. My dad was the same while my son seems to only get occasional snippits via messenger.
 
Apparently some government moves to get the rough sleepers off the streets and into shelter.

Hope it works for the homeless as well as the councils.
 
tescos still not prioritising disabled, sick, elderly with its online service, new update had no mention, just going bagged again, etc.
 
Rescue Helicopter has been overhead a few times on the past 2 days. They land at the hospital which is about 1km away. Word is numbers in icu are increasing and the plan is for the hospital to move icu upwards through the hospital as required. So the entire hospital will become a giant icu. There are 4 small hospitals in the region and they are reportedly supposed to take up all other emergencies and necessary treatments.
Worrying for staff. Most of whom as yet do not have PPE. The immediate icu staff have but outside of the current icu there are no masks
 
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