Urban75 Home About Offline BrixtonBuzz Contact

General Coronavirus (COVID-19) chat

I’m feeling utterly fed up here in Istanbul. We are on another four day curfew (ends at midnight), will have three days of semi normality and then four more days of curfew. This virus has affected everything in my life. I feel miserable. I’m working hard but earning pennies (online teaching) and can’t seem to move forwards as don’t know what the future holds.

The numbers seem down to manageable here (about 30 covid deaths reported today) but I just don’t believe or trust what we’re told. I want to get on with life.
 
Sugar Kane said:
No. Nobody is going near hospitals.
My brother works in the same hospital. He heard from a colleague and phoned my dad.
Click to expand...

Brother saw my aunt yesterday in a covid ward. He has a patient in the same room as her. 4 in the room. All covid19 patients. He was all geared up and gowned up etc. Had a quick chat with her. She's 86. Has a heart valve problem and is due for open heart surgery in 3 weeks time if the surgeons feel they can go ahead. She's extremely fatigued by the virus but not needing a ventilator and so far has not needed O2.
 
Mrs Miggins said:
It's been so long since I touched another person. Another human being. I am quite tactile and often just touch an arm or a shoulder or just a nudge when I'm in a good conversation with someone. Or if the person I'm talking to needs some reassurance. I'd fucking kill for a hug from a friend.
Click to expand...
Spare a thought for the toning mist bus pest.
 
frogwoman said:
I'm hearing a lot more ambulances in the last few days.
Click to expand...
Yes - and with the roads empty it had me wondering - and covid-19 cases are presumably not usually dire emergencies ...
My thinking is it's because the roads are empty and a lot of us are walking in the road ... so people may not be expecting traffic ...
 
The whole cycling boom thing...

My near neighbour asked me to help him with a pushbike for his missis so she could get to work more easily at 4am...
I struggle with people thinking you can leave bikes outdoors for two years and then expect to ride them ... so the chain was seriously rusty and the front wheel bearing was a bit crunchy .. the ancient knobbly rear tyre had blown out when they pumped it up - he was surprised when I insisted on lubing the chain !

Luckily I had some worn kevlar-lined tyres - at the stage where I usually put them outside for casual users .
First time I've properly spoken to him in the two or three years he's lived there - as I suspected he knows my sister and nephew from working at M&S - has her on Facebook ...

Then as I had his bike up on the stand, someone else asked how much I charged for a service - but I had to refuse - I'm not qualified / experienced - and a reluctant mechanic except on my own bike - and even this bike had a couple of features I was unfamiliar with... (I only have experience of maintaining a particular bike I bought 20 years ago ...)

There's now a street Facebook group and of course the local Facebook and Nextdoor groups are busy .. and I've given gardening advice etc ... sadly there's no sign of me actually getting a social life out of this ...
 
frogwoman said:
It did feel quite unpleasant bur not too bad (which makes me worry it was wrong) , the throat part was worse though I was gagging and almost threw up!
Click to expand...

Gagging sounds about right, think the nose one seems worse to me but maybe that's just my imagination! See what the results are I guess. Good luck, weirdly the best result is probably a positive!

Edited to explain: as in to have had it mildly and not needed hospital, and then hoping for some level of immunity!
 
Last edited:
After only leaving the house for a bit of food shopping and a morning dog walk for a couple of months I finally got some work starting last week. Was happy to do it as it's painting a nursery with one other person.

First day the guy I'm working with walks up and puts his hand out to shake hands, which I replied to with an elbow bump. Took a day of me having to back away when we talked for him to get the message. He's aware of social distancing and even comments on other people not doing it. We walked to the shop together yesterday and he bought a can of red bull which he opened and drank on the way back, which I assume is a risk. Tonight he's going to a kids birthday party, though hopefully I managed to convince him not to go.

Had the owner and a couple of people come in to measure up for flooring and they all got too close when chatting.

I had a skip delivered today and the driver gave me his pen to sign for it, which I took as I could wash my hands straight away. Gave it back to him and he licked his finger to separate my copy of the paperwork.

It's really difficult to keep up the necessary hygiene stuff when you're working and that's in a big building with one other person and hand sanitizer in every room. How people will manage in busier settings I don't know.

Very much seems like some people have been social distancing when it's forced on them, in supermarkets and other well organised places but don't really understand the idea behind it, so lifting lockdown is being seen as relaxation of that as well.
 
gentlegreen said:
The whole cycling boom thing...

My near neighbour asked me to help him with a pushbike for his missis so she could get to work more easily at 4am...
I struggle with people thinking you can leave bikes outdoors for two years and then expect to ride them ... so the chain was seriously rusty and the front wheel bearing was a bit crunchy .. the ancient knobbly rear tyre had blown out when they pumped it up - he was surprised when I insisted on lubing the chain !

Luckily I had some worn kevlar-lined tyres - at the stage where I usually put them outside for casual users .
First time I've properly spoken to him in the two or three years he's lived there - as I suspected he knows my sister and nephew from working at M&S - has her on Facebook ...

Then as I had his bike up on the stand, someone else asked how much I charged for a service - but I had to refuse - I'm not qualified / experienced - and a reluctant mechanic except on my own bike - and even this bike had a couple of features I was unfamiliar with... (I only have experience of maintaining a particular bike I bought 20 years ago ...)

There's now a street Facebook group and of course the local Facebook and Nextdoor groups are busy .. and I've given gardening advice etc ... sadly there's no sign of me actually getting a social life out of this ...
Click to expand...

Why wouldn't it lead to a social life? Sounds like your neighbours appreciate your skills and are happy to talk to you. That's a start. It's no France, obvs. And it must have felt good to be the one with the kevlar tyres and needed skills :)
 
gentlegreen said:
Then as I had his bike up on the stand, someone else asked how much I charged for a service - but I had to refuse - I'm not qualified / experienced - and a reluctant mechanic except on my own bike - and even this bike had a couple of features I was unfamiliar with... (I only have experience of maintaining a particular bike I bought 20 years ago ...)
Click to expand...

Just go for it. The scrandy doing the 50 quid rip off services at Halfords won't exactly be Ugo De Rosa.
 
We're lucky where we are -- in Swansea, there's a bike-recycling centre (a co-op) which collects old/abandoned/scrap bikes.

It's a place where people know they can dump their unwanted bikes at, as well (and it's in a student area ;) ).

This place has all the spares you could want, as you can imagine, and also it does nicely-priced repairs.

In normal times that is -- I'm far from sure whether or not it's open at the moment :confused:
 
The honey pot for all those conspiracy nuts who don't bother to check the credibility of their sources.

Researchers culled through more than 200 million tweets discussing the virus since January and found that about 45% were sent by accounts that behave more like computerized robots than humans.
Click to expand...
Researchers identified more than 100 false narratives about COVID-19 that are proliferating on Twitter by accounts controlled by bots.

Among the misinformation disseminated by bot accounts: tweeted conspiracy theories about hospitals being filled with mannequins or tweets that connected the spread of the coronavirus to 5G wireless towers, a notion that is patently untrue.


Such bogus ideas on the Internet have caused real-world harm. In England, dozens of wireless towers have been set on fire in acts officials believe have been fueled by false conspiracy theories linking the rollout of 5G technology to the coronavirus.

"We're seeing up to two times as much bot activity as we'd predicted based on previous natural disasters, crises and elections," Carley said.
Click to expand...

 
Not the best news
Recent public health warnings about a severe and puzzling inflammatory syndrome linked to covid-19 have focused on children. But some doctors say they are also seeing the illness, similar to Kawasaki disease, in a few young adults. A 20-year-old is being treated for the condition in San Diego, a 25-year-old has been diagnosed at Northwell Health’s Long Island Jewish Medical Center, and several patients in their early 20s are hospitalized with the syndrome at NYU Langone in New York City.
Click to expand...

 
Badgers said:
Going well then...

www.telegraph.co.uk

Tens of thousands of coronavirus tests have been double-counted, officials admit

Two samples taken from the same patient are being recorded as two separate tests in the Government's official figures
www.telegraph.co.uk www.telegraph.co.uk
Click to expand...
What amuses me is that every day just before each briefing, his own department publishes the actual numbers, highlighting the subterfuge.

Hancock comes out (yesterday) and says 128,340 'tests completed'...


Only two hours prior @DHSCgovuk tweeted 67,681 people actually tested:
 
You must log in or register to reply here.

Similar threads

Mation
  • Poll
How many times have you had covid 19?
2
Replies
52
Views
848
weltweit
weltweit
B
Covid vaccines for 24-25
2
Replies
39
Views
1K
Kid_Eternity
Kid_Eternity
B
Will you be getting a private covid vaccination?
2 3
Replies
69
Views
3K
MrCurry
MrCurry
On Fire
Covid: FBI chief Christopher Wray says China lab leak 'most likely'
Replies
9
Views
626
elbows
elbows
editor
  • Poll
Have you had Covid-19/coronavirus and how bad was it?
2
Replies
51
Views
3K
editor
editor
Back
Top Bottom