Corona Virus Treatment

I had an e-mail from a long-term ex-colleague since 1990 who comes here every year. We worked at Hoselock, me in Personnel, he in IT. Booked for August but has cancelled due to uncertainties. Son got Covid at Euro 2020 and passed it on to wife and two kids.

 

People should not be made to feel bad if they are not wearing a mask, I blame the way this lot was brought in, presumably worked out by government and scientists, that the best way to get people to wear them, way back last year, was to tell everyone they were useless for yourself but protected the rest of mankind.

Underhand coercion to make you feel bad if you didn't comply and also to get the rest of the public to police it.

As I said earlier, if you wish to continue wearing one, get a medical grade one.

Having said that, I still think there is some reason to wear one on public transport, but if they are not wearing them in nightclubs is there really any point.

 

@JWK, I think the fact you were served by a girl who was exempt kind of makes a mockery of the whole thing.
It's like saying, its ok if she passes covid on to you because she is exempt, but you mustn't pass it on to her.

The further you look into what has been going on the dafter it all seems to be.
I sometimes think Boris and the two book ends are going to appear on the telly one night and tell us all it was just some kind of hoax.
Before anyone takes that seriously, it is a joke.

 

Driving down the main street this morning, I noticed a few people without masks, and my brow furrowed slightly, one lady was wearing her mask on her elbow while chatting with her friend, who was masked and one foot distant.
Pulling onto the pavement in the plaza, I got the stack truck out of the back of the car and wheeled it over to my agent´s office, where a large parcel was waiting for me. My new, shiny red tool cabinet, which will enable me to sort out my tools at last, and create order in the workshop.
Such was my excitement that it was not until I had the load onboard and was driving off, that I realised I had carried out the complete operation sans mask.
Nobody had furrowed their brows as I passed, my agent seemed not to notice, and the Guardia Civil were busy elsewhere.
I realise that masks are often of very limited benefit, and often no, or even negative benefit, my main reason for wearing a mask (or attempting to), is solidarity with the others who are experiencing the current hysteria. My main regret about this morning´s lapse was not remotely about the virus and my safety, it is a feeling that I appeared to be arrogant and let the side down.

 

We don't have to wear masks outdoors unless we cannot distance. However, the other day going through our nearest town one elderly lady was walking along wearing a mask ... with not a soul in sight!

 

That's been going on all the time over here.
People have been traumatised into thinking they could die at any moment.

Then they wonder why mental health has gone down the pan.

 

It reminds me of something I once read, during ww2 they organised a collection of old saucepans from all over the country, they also cut down all the railings.
Saucepans were to make Spitfires and the railings were for tanks.

Apparently it was all dumped, but it rallied the population and they all thought they were doing their bit.

 

Lots of ping-ing going on and lots isoslating, i thought we had to live with it like flu, anyone been pinged for flu or tested for flu, now we don't have so much food on the self's because lots of lorry drivers has been pinged for CV
can you get a fasle ping the same as a false postive test

 

A ping only says you have been close to someone who has tested positive, for a certain amount of time.
It doesn't mean you have it.

Its just another stupid idea that cost billions and doesn't help the situation.

 

I think it´s all based on where your phone has been, and who got near it, rather than just your personal whereabouts. If you leave it in a locker while you are in the gym, and someone infected walks past it, you´ll get pinged. If the guy in the hotel room next door has the virus, you´ll get pinged as well. Luddites like me, too dumb for a smartphone, who use an old fashioned mobile, can wander around spreading the virus like billy-o without a care in the world, or fear of being pinged.
The Ping System has the appearance of a mathematical approach to shutting a country down, and whether or not that is a sensible idea in the present circumstances, it seems to work counter to Boris´s passionate support of the pubs, coffee bars and night clubs, and his general obsequious attitude towards the global conglomerates which actually run the world.
Forget national boundaries, geography is history. Boris will do exactly as he is told.

 

I think you have to be near to someone who tested positive for about 15 minutes for it to give you a ping, just walking passed isn't going to do it.
But it is something that seemed like a good idea about 12 months ago but has proved to be useless.
Really its down to you whether you download the app anyway so it was never going to work in the long run.