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fernandopartridge

fernandopartridge

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Evo1883 said:
My best mate has just called an ambulance as he's taken a turn for the worse with covid... This is the 8th day for him so far... He was ok felt a bit groggy but his breathing has gone to pot today
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Bloody hell, good luck to him.
 
skybluetony176

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Evo1883 said:
My best mate has just called an ambulance as he's taken a turn for the worse with covid... This is the 8th day for him so far... He was ok felt a bit groggy but his breathing has gone to pot today
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Hope his OK. My brother lost a close friend to it just before Xmas. He was only 49, really drives it home.
 
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chiefdave said:
In lockdown 1 local forces were advised by the National Police Chiefs’ Council to work on the basis that the length of the exercise had to be greater than the time spent on travel. Or something along those lines, can't remember the exact wording. Suspect they'll use similar this time as nothing seems to be defined.

Doubt anyone will be questioned unless they're driving for miles like those idiots that had to be rescued in the snow after they decided to take a day trip to the Peak District.
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www.bbc.co.uk

Covid: Women on exercise trip 'surrounded by police'

The two women were given £200 fixed penalty notices after driving five miles to go on a walk.
www.bbc.co.uk
 
skybluetony176

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Brighton Sky Blue said:
More of the kids I teach have now lost grandparents and older relatives to it. Certainly noticed behavioural changes in most just before Christmas
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I know that you shouldn’t speak ill of the dead but he was a covidiot. Believed all the conspiracy theories, refused to wear a mask etc. I was shocked to be honest about his attitude when my brother told me, met him a few times at brothers birthday drinks, christenings etc and he never came across as anything other than sensible. Married with a teenage daughter who are now dealing with the cost of his stupidity. They think he got it at the pub, apparently there was a cluster of 6 centred on his local and he was in there regularly.
 
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skybluetony176 said:
I know that you shouldn’t speak ill of the dead but he was a covidiot. Believed all the conspiracy theories, refused to wear a mask etc. I was shocked to be honest about his attitude when my brother told me, met him a few times at brothers birthday drinks, christenings etc and he never came across as anything other than sensible. Married with a teenage daughter who are now dealing with the cost of his stupidity. They think he got it at the pub, apparently there was a cluster of 6 centred on his local and he was in there regularly.
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Hadn’t you mentioned him before?
 
shmmeee

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skybluetony176 said:
I know that you shouldn’t speak ill of the dead but he was a covidiot. Believed all the conspiracy theories, refused to wear a mask etc. I was shocked to be honest about his attitude when my brother told me, met him a few times at brothers birthday drinks, christenings etc and he never came across as anything other than sensible. Married with a teenage daughter who are now dealing with the cost of his stupidity. They think he got it at the pub, apparently there was a cluster of 6 centred on his local and he was in there regularly.
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I wonder if it’s impacted any of his mate who I’d assume hold similar views?

I can’t get over how reality resistant recent conspiracy theories are. Within hours the Trump riot had been alternative facts’d, and even with tens of thousands dying across the country you’ve got nutters convinced it’s not an issue.
 
fernandopartridge

fernandopartridge

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shmmeee said:
I wonder if it’s impacted any of his mate who I’d assume hold similar views?

I can’t get over how reality resistant recent conspiracy theories are. Within hours the Trump riot had been alternative facts’d, and even with tens of thousands dying across the country you’ve got nutters convinced it’s not an issue.
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You'd hope so. Then again, one of the problems with Covid and the necessary controls round it is that people can't see the severe respiratory illness it causes and the impact. It is a year ago yesterday since my sister was taken into ICU with similar (flu originating rather than covid though) and seeing her struggling to breathe like that will live with me forever.
 
hill83

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Back when the pubs were open I was hearing so much "LOL I've not got long left anyway" 'banter' in the local. All older men.
People just don't take it seriously.
 
hill83

hill83

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Evo1883 said:
My attitude to covid changed from the start to now, il be honest.
At first I had doubts, over the last few months that's changed
Today it feels alot different
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Weirdly I've gone the other way kind of. I was very wary of it from the very beginning, my comments early on in this thread will attest to that even when other people were still laughing about it.
But from a personal worry point of view I've gone from washing food deliveries and being scared in my house to living my life as normally as possible whilst still being careful.
 
hill83

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Liquid Gold said:
I was heavily sceptic at first, look back at the start of this thread and I trotted out all the 'it's just like flu, more people die in cars' etc. bullshit but I was wrong, this is serious and we need to do whatever we can to be rid of it.
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Every time I open this thread I'm tempted to revisit that ha ha

It basically reads like a match thread
 
David O'Day

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Deleted member 5849 said:
www.bbc.co.uk

Covid: Women on exercise trip 'surrounded by police'

The two women were given £200 fixed penalty notices after driving five miles to go on a walk.
www.bbc.co.uk
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Ok, I see Derbyshire police have already started where they left off in the first lockdown with policing not based on the law. Like it or not nothing the 2 women did was actually against the law.

How long until we get some clown of a plod trying to police what people are buying in a supermarket again?
 
Skybluefaz

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Liquid Gold said:
I was heavily sceptic at first, look back at the start of this thread and I trotted out all the 'it's just like flu, more people die in cars' etc. bullshit but I was wrong, this is serious and we need to do whatever we can to be rid of it.
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My head still occasionally drifts in to, 'protect the vulnerable and everyone else crack on as normal' even though I know, for now at least, that is a false dichotomy.
 
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Liquid Gold said:
I was heavily sceptic at first, look back at the start of this thread and I trotted out all the 'it's just like flu, more people die in cars' etc. bullshit but I was wrong, this is serious and we need to do whatever we can to be rid of it.
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Can join you in that. I'll defend myself that it shows great intelligence to be swayed by the evidence, rather than stick dogmatically to a position ;)
 
Liquid Gold

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At first I thought it wouldn't make it here, then when it did I thought it would be like swine flu (which I had when it was around) a bitch but basically harmless to the vast majority of people. While COVID-19 may only take out a few percent of the people it gets it leaves a lot of lasting damage to a significant number of survivors and is so infectious the small percent that die could be fucking loads of people.
 
fernandopartridge

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David O'Day said:
Ok, I see Derbyshire police have already started where they left off in the first lockdown with policing not based on the law. Like it or not nothing the 2 women did was actually against the law.

How long until we get some clown of a plod trying to police what people are buying in a supermarket again?
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They're my local police force, don't see them doing anything in the town centre here or much around any local walking areas. That said, in lockdown 1 they coned off parking bays on the Snake Pass to stop people parking up to walk around reservoirs etc. It is completely illogical and counter productive. People can go for a walk outside in the fresh air, it might be what stops them from flouting rules otherwise.
 
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clint van damme said:
say hello to the new covid czar of Coventry.
Lost me job at the end of the year but just got a few months work on the councils covid test centre crew. Hopefully this vaccines not too successful, might get a bit longer 😂
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You at the one near where Whitefriars used to be?
 
Grendel

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clint van damme said:
say hello to the new covid czar of Coventry.
Lost me job at the end of the year but just got a few months work on the councils covid test centre crew. Hopefully this vaccines not too successful, might get a bit longer 😂
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council whore
 
Nick

Nick

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clint van damme said:
say hello to the new covid czar of Coventry.
Lost me job at the end of the year but just got a few months work on the councils covid test centre crew. Hopefully this vaccines not too successful, might get a bit longer 😂
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Ricoh?

when I went the woman was miserable as fuck.
 
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