How is the corona virus affecting you?

[TastyReuben]

My uncle is scheduled to come home tomorrow, on his birthday. That's good news.

ALDI...I like some of their stuff, some of their other stuff, not so much. I guess that makes them like every other grocery store.

 

[Windigo]

I came down with a fever just today, we don't have my stepsons results yet. Hopefully it's not Covid. So no new year's buffet this year, hopefully we'll manage to eat what we have tomorrow afternoon.

 

[TastyReuben]

I came down with a fever just today, we don't have my stepsons results yet. Hopefully it's not Covid. So no new year's buffet this year, hopefully we'll manage to eat what we have tomorrow afternoon.

Big New Year's Eve hug to you and yours.

 

[caseydog]

Big New Year's Eve hug to you and yours.

Hugging is not allowed. Don't you read the guidelines?

Air hugs and air kissed to you and yours.

CD

 

[SatNavSaysStraightOn]

Unfortunately the video is not available to view in the UK - and probably Europe

Or Australia

 

[Yorky]

Or Australia

Funnily enough, it is viewable here. Unlike BBC iplayer (anytime, anywhere) - which isn't.

 

[SatNavSaysStraightOn]

Hugging is not allowed. Don't you read the guidelines?

Or kissing or...

I have been waiting for the obvious one...

I mean after all, share a bed but not allowed to sit next to each other at the doctors, or the hospital waiting room... come in the same vehicle but can't stand next to each other outdoors... thankfully no one has tried that one on me in the wheelchair. I'd just lose my rag at that point. Most people are still petty helpful when I'm on my own and don't hesitate to reach things for me in shops. When it was really bad at the beginning, I just had them put it on a shelf I could reach if they were hesitant. But that only happened the once here. Most people still offer to lift my wheelchair into my vehicle for me without me even looking like I need help. (I can't lift it despite it being very lightweight, I have to put the pad on my knees and use my knees lift and turn in one go (whilst I sit on the drop down tailgate).) Sometimes the problem with Australians is that they are too helpful. Approach a pedestrian crossing and vehicles stop with you still needing to walk 10m to the crossing. You end up feeling compelled to cross even if you actually weren't going to.

 

[SatNavSaysStraightOn]

Funnily enough, it is viewable here. Unlike BBC iplayer (anytime, anywhere) - which isn't.

Yeah, least said about the iPlayer the better. Most 'Poms in Aus' I know would happily pay the licence fee just to have decent tv again!

I had a major issue with my bank for a while when we first came out here because their app would not install from a non UK ip address even if the device itself was a previously authorised device (so after a rebuild of the os software) . Took me (and no doubt many others) ages to get them to lift the restrictions which has only happened just recently thankfully. Now you can install and authorise their app to any device no matter where you live provided your details (email and telephone number) were correct before you started.

 

[Morning Glory]

I mean after all, share a bed but not allowed to sit next to each other at the doctors, or the hospital waiting room

That isn't the case here.

 

[SatNavSaysStraightOn]

That isn't the case here.

Here, anywhere that you'd traditionally sit and wait, is a case of turn up in this time slot, sit here, come alone unless you need a carer and so on. All chairs/seats are pretty much removed except for cafes and restaurants. They have maximums and they can only put out that many seats. Doctors, hospitals, opticians and so on every other chair is unavailable if they are in "racks of x many together" or just missing if they are individual chairs. Lots of lifts have maximums of 1 or 2 people at a time and people won't mix groups in them. So if I'm in a lift in my wheelchair, even one big enough to take a stretcher in a hospital, no one else will come into that lift with me and no one expects to either now. Only my carer (hubby) would come in unless I was being escorted by a hospital staff member (has happened, hubby had to go back to the car and I got a staff member as escort whilst I went for the x-ray). I rang him when we were outside and he was allowed to come and collect me from the drop off zone. It varies though, usually he is allowed in work me without issue because he's pushing the wheelchair.

 

[Morning Glory]

Here, anywhere that you'd traditionally sit and wait, is a case of turn up in this time slot, sit here, come alone unless you need a carer and so on. All chairs/seats are pretty much removed except for cafes and restaurants. They have maximums and they can only put out that many seats. Doctors, hospitals, opticians and so on every other chair is unavailable if they are in "racks of x many together" or just missing if they are individual chairs. Lots of lifts have maximums of 1 or 2 people at a time and people won't mix groups in them. So if I'm in a lift in my wheelchair, even one big enough to take a stretcher in a hospital, no one else will come into that lift with me and no one expects to either now. Only my carer (hubby) would come in unless I was being escorted by a hospital staff member (has happened, hubby had to go back to the car and I got a staff member as escort whilst I went for the x-ray). I rang him when we were outside and he was allowed to come and collect me from the drop off zone. It varies though, usually he is allowed in work me without issue because he's pushing the wheelchair.that isn't the case. If you are in the same houdehold you can be together.

Sorry I meant in public, outdoors you can be with members of your own household.

 

[caseydog]

Unfortunately the video is not available to view in the UK - and probably Europe.

I did hear a Radio 4 programme which compared the two pandemics. It was quite fascinating.

Yes, if folks can't watch this video, they can still do some searching for a comparison of the two pandemics.

When the pandemic of 1918 first broke out in the US, our president (Woodrow Wilson) played it down, told people not to worry, go about your normal routine -- it will go away. Sound familiar? In 1918, people were told to wear masks to slow the spread of the pandemic, and some states and localities made them required in public, and a very vocal group of people protested, refused to wear masks, and claimed their constitutional rights were being trampled. Sound familiar? Many states that did have rules about masks and "social distancing," ended those mandates too soon, and encouraged people to go back to their normal routines, which led to a resurgence in the pandemic. Sound familiar? People promoted bogus cures for the 1918 flu? Sound familiar (hydroxychloroquine, drinking bleach)?

Seriously, do some searching. I was amazed at how little we learned from the 1918 pandemic, and how many of the same mistakes we made with the Covid-19 pandemic.

CD

 

[TastyReuben]

Yes, if folks can't watch this video, they can still do some searching for a comparison of the two pandemics.

When the pandemic of 1918 first broke out in the US, our president (Woodrow Wilson) played it down, told people not to worry, go about your normal routine -- it will go away. Sound familiar? In 1918, people were told to wear masks to slow the spread of the pandemic, and some states and localities made them required in public, and a very vocal group of people protested, refused to wear masks, and claimed their constitutional rights were being trampled. Sound familiar? Many states that did have rules about masks and "social distancing," ended those mandates too soon, and encouraged people to go back to their normal routines, which led to a resurgence in the pandemic. Sound familiar? People promoted bogus cures for the 1918 flu? Sound familiar (hydroxychloroquine, drinking bleach)?

Seriously, do some searching. I was amazed at how little we learned from the 1918 pandemic, and how many of the same mistakes we made with the Covid-19 pandemic.

CD

Wilson was a raging racist. Sound familiar?

 

[mjd]

My uncle is scheduled to come home tomorrow, on his birthday. That's good news.

ALDI...I like some of their stuff, some of their other stuff, not so much. I guess that makes them like every other grocery store.

I'm doing the happy dance for your uncle! Yeah!

 

[TastyReuben]

I'm doing the happy dance for your uncle! Yeah!

Thanks. We're cautiously optimistic. They're churning people out of the hospital and the very earliest possible, and there are cases of people being sent home not fully out of danger and passing later. He's 80 years old today!