COVID-19 Coronavirus

Just watching the news, a man has driven out to what looked like a semi rural location to walk his dog, two policemen ask him, to follow Gov. guidelines and warn him about making unnecessary journeys. Surely he is isolating himself in his car, and it must be safer to walk his dog were there is nobody about. The police must start to use some common sense.

I quite agree Antonio, but qualified with "providing people don't need to be driving too far or stop anywhere except their final destination".  The emphasis must surely be on social distancing as the virus spreads by contact or via droplets in breath or coughs or where infected persons touch an object that retains the virus for a given length of time.  If people go somewhere and there's lots of other people there, don't get out of the car and go somewhere else where you don't need to be too close to anyone or wait until there are fewer people around.  It's not hard.  (unless you live in towns or cities and then it is....unfortunately, so walking spread across more unsociable hours may be the only way of reducing risks if leaving the home for exercise).  For those with large gardens then there is no real need I'd have thought but that's not many of the population at a guess.

There are too many straw-man arguments such as "what if you have an accident?".  Well, given that anyone's chances of an RTA have been exponentially lowered due to the lack of traffic concentrated into peak times, and taking extra care, the chances must surely be so slim as to be negligible.  Taking extra care when out not to break an ankle or similarly avoid injury are a matter of personal care and not being careless.  I for one would welcome an opportunity to drive 4 miles to our local common land to get away from the maddening crowns congregating all hours of the day on local public footpaths over the Cotswold Way...you simply cannot avoid close contact with people, styles they have climbed over and gates they have opened.  The risk I would argue is far greater in using such paths, when at least on a large common or any other open ground you can more easily avoid getting close to anyone.  

The issue is being too heavily politicised by some police forces I think, such as Derbyshire who have employed drones to spy on people.  There's a definite feel of "big brother" out there, including people too afraid to say anything on public forums.  It would help enormously if the police would 1) apply some common sense in their approach and 2) apply it collectively and the same way across the UK and 3) that we all ought to be able to discuss these things openly as discussion is healthy and as far as I know is not yet outlawed!  The day that it is, will be the day that things have been taken way way too far.

LoL!!!!!!  OK.  If you believe that all police chiefs are totally impartial and no politicking happens within forces, you believe that.  I have great respect for our police services and those who put it on the line but clearly, politics operates at the highest level's and is filtered through to policing on the ground.  Not looking to debate a point of fact, as it's a point of fact.

I think if you're here to cause Sh#t, you wont be for long.......

In fact i was uneasy with your prescence here so have removed you anyway.

3 Posts, 3 bits of Sh#t.

Toodles

As a change of subject ...........

2 weeks ago we 'upgraded' to Sky Q. This morning the wife wants to watch the news, but the Sky box is telling us there is "No satellite signal". Not only that, she cannot watch any of the programmes she has recorded, nor can she access Netflix. Bugger.

After being kept on hold for an hour and forty five minutes, we are informed that no Sky engineers are making field calls and the best they can do is send us a Now TV dongle. My missus nearly exploded with rage, so she handed the phone to me. I said to this daft bint that I would rather have a replacement Q box sent instead of a Now TV dongle as I suspect that the LNB power feed, plus the lack of hard drive access, plus the loud popping when turned on or off suggests the power supply in the Q box is faulty on the 12 bolt supply, but she was having none of it. She said a manager would call us back but that might not be for 24 hours at least.

I am dreading being cooped up with the missus for the 12 weeks she is confined under lockdown as it is, but she will be hell to live with if she doesn't have her Sky.

The best bit though is Sky will "look at" the billing while we have to put up with Now TV. I might "look at" cancelling the direct debit if that is the case.

Don’t Sky have a service where you can watch TV on the Internet?

^^^^^^
I'm sure they do have happy customers Macca, but if I tell you they could not put the dish up in the right place for me at my last place. It was Autumn/Winter and obviously no leaves on the trees. They put up the dish on the wall ok, but when Summer came and the leaves were back on the tree, it blocked the dish from receiving a true signal so I was always having drop-outs especially when there was a breeze. I did tell the engineers before hand and asked them to place it at the end of the building but of course they knew best. They did save themselves 10' of cable though.

Yes, Sky Go.

What are you installing it on?

I use it in a MacBook Pro, IPhone and IPad with no problems.

Desktop pc and a laptop both running windows 10

Should be fine, I've used it on Win 10 machines no problem.

Glad now I live out in the boondocks of Cornwall on a private estate.

No way would I want to live in a large town or city, so I feel for the poor souls at risk in those places.

So , after a month of saying face mask are no good it's gone to Fart wanting to issue all Merry C#nts with rag face masks.
Just shows that they've been clutching at straws with this thing and they still are.
It's damn obvious its airborne or places like Spain and Italy would be slowing by now.

I don't think anyone needs "educating" that face masks are a good prevention measure but only where they are filtered fine enough which means to FFp3, but even FFP2 will be better than a scarf pulled over your face!

We have a UVC cabinet and when my wife shops, she wears an FFP3 mask and I irradiate the thing afterwards in the cabinet to kill off any germs residing on or near the surface. It was one of my workshop masks as I usually try to get FFP3 ones. You can't get any for love nor money presently hence the UVC treatment as then we can at least re-use one several times over.

I'm also installing a UVC LED cluster in our utility and have installed remote switching sockets...all shopping or parcels go in there, the door is shut and everything zapped for 30 minutes. If you can do these things it has to reduce risk shorter term, but longer term we're all probably going to encounter this illness one way or the other.

I still maintain though that the cure will be worse than the illness. More will fall ill and into poverty as a result of any prolonged shut down. It will collapse whole economies and makes no sense. I agree that we should protect the most vulnerable, they should self isolate and be taken care of but the rest of us should be left to get on with our livelihoods and keep the country running, taking all necessary social distancing measures. Where we cannot then those jobs need to be managed to reduce risk. It's ok for the government to think we can all work from home and he speaks of mostly the middle classes working from laptops...well not everyone does work from a laptop. The whole thing's a complete shambles and mess. Lets all hope and pray that this illness subsides so that the new Law can be revoked as soon as possible and that we can get all back to our livelihoods. I can't see the public putting up with more than a few months of this, nor the economy.