Off Topic Coronavirus

  • Please bear with us on the new site integration and fixing any known bugs over the coming days. If you can not log in please try resetting your password and check your spam box. If you have tried these steps and are still struggling email [email protected] with your username/registered email address
  • Log in now to remove adverts - no adverts at all to registered members!
West WindsR said:
It has to. People can’t afford to do it forever.

This will become the norm, sadly, but that will also curb some of the ridiculousness.

However I’m worried also that will be the cue for widespread depression when the novelty wears off and I dread to think how many lives will be lost to that on top of the virus itself and those who could have been saved from other things that have to take a back seat for a while.
Click to expand...
There is a lot of genuine anxiety about now. I’m already doing some shopping for an lady in her late sixties round the corner who is fit but lives alone and is just too nervous to go into town. My wife said that she felt uncomfortable and nervy in town yesterday (and she only stopped going into the office on Tuesday) and our next door neighbour said the same. Long term exposure to even low level anxiety will **** people up.

My personal stress levels have just gone through the roof with the realisation that I will have to find somewhere to put a treadmill, doubtless assemble it myself (with free extreme swearing) and then be expected to use it, all in the knowledge that in six months time it will be an abandoned lump of metal in the already overcrowded garage.

There is no organisational learning in this household. As a whole variety of expensive unused gadgets testifies. But at least most of them can be stored in the loft.
 
Last edited:
  • Like
Reactions: kiwiqpr and SARQPR
sb_73 said:
There is a lot of genuine anxiety about now. I’m already doing some shopping for an lady in her late sixties round the corner is fit but lives alone and is just too nervous to go into town. My wife said that she felt uncomfortable in town yesterday (and she only stopped going into the office on Tuesday) and our next door neighbour did the same. Long term exposure to even low level anxiety will **** people up.

My personal stress levels have just gone through the roof with the realisation that I will have to find somewhere to put a treadmill, doubtless assemble it myself (with free extreme swearing) and then be expected to use it, all in the knowledge that in six months time it will be an abandoned lump of metal in the already overcrowded gagarge.
Click to expand...

Haha. I’ve dusted off my exercise bike and trying to do 20km a day. So far so good. Walked the poor dog half to death too.

Ordered a bench, two adjustable dumbbells and some other gear from Sports Direct before the gyms closed as I didn’t want to use mine and could see it coming. Useless ****s cancelled the bench so I got a cheap one on ebay which is fantastic. The rest of the stuff from Mike Ashley hasn’t turned up still but it’s a lovely bench with nothing to lift on it.
 
  • Like
Reactions: kiwiqpr and sb_73
sb_73 said:
Weirdly just added a bit to the post on that....Only these two Herberts. Masks stop you spreading if you have the virus for a bit, but don’t really protect you unless you are changing them regularly, in a pretty sterile environment ie healthcare, and do not fiddle with them - touching them, dragging them down to take a gulp of coffee etc etc - just adds to the chances of the virus getting trapped in them and getting you. Especially if you have a beard. Similarly the people wearing gloves while shopping need to remember that the virus lasts much longer on them than on your hands, which you will use to take the gloves off.....better to use a little bit of hand gel as you leave the shop, if you can find some.
Click to expand...

You could always try this....

You must log in or register to see media
 
  • Like
Reactions: sb_73
West WindsR said:
Haha. I’ve dusted off my exercise bike and trying to do 20km a day. So far so good. Walked the poor dog half to death too.

Ordered a bench, two adjustable dumbbells and some other gear from Sports Direct before the gyms closed as I didn’t want to use mine and could see it coming. Useless ****s cancelled the bench so I got a cheap one on ebay which is fantastic. The rest of the stuff from Mike Ashley hasn’t turned up still but it’s a lovely bench with nothing to lift on it.
Click to expand...
That’s cheered me up, the treadmill was ordered from House of Fraser, which is now a branch of Sports Direct......might not come.
 
rangercol said:
Did some hunter gathering this morning and the supermarket was heaving.
That's my last visit to a big store for the foreseeable future.
No one gave a **** how close they were to everyone else and I spent the entire, horific 45minutes trying to hold my breath!!
Short forages to small, local shops from now on.

When will this hoarding frenzy end?
Click to expand...

Found that out during the week, 5.45am at Tesco in Purley already over 100 queueing. Got enough for a week or so but have since found a couple of small local shops with most basics not overpriced maybe 10% higher so I'll stick with them. Also found that local Sainsburys after the locusts have struck usually still has most salad products so that does me nicely...
 
  • Like
Reactions: rangercol
I’ve not used a gym in about 3 years, preferring instead to work out at home. Body weight exercises, press ups, pull ups, lunges etc and one dumbbell covers me top to toe. In the past I’ve been a 5 or 6 times a week kind of guy, but I’ve not had a day off now since October/November last year. I know it’s probably detrimental to my progress not to have days off, but I’m obsessed with working out and feeling strong, mainly so that when 4 blokes try and jump me and stuff me in their government Range Rover, I can take them out.
 
  • Like
Reactions: kiwiqpr, jeffranger, sb_73 and 3 others
Woodyhoopleson said:
I’ve not used a gym in about 3 years, preferring instead to work out at home. Body weight exercises, press ups, pull ups, lunges etc and one dumbbell covers me top to toe. In the past I’ve been a 5 or 6 times a week kind of guy, but I’ve not had a day off now since October/November last year. I know it’s probably detrimental to my progress not to have days off, but I’m obsessed with working out and feeling strong, mainly so that when 4 blokes try and jump me and stuff me in their government Range Rover, I can take them out.
Click to expand...

Where you gonna take them out to? All the restaurants are closed
 
  • Like
Reactions: mapleranger, Queens Park Stranger, Ninj and 4 others
Been going to a gym twice a week for last 9 months or so to try and stave off the aging process .....getting a few withdrawal symptoms now....

We've been doing tai chi following videos on you tube.....good exercise as it moves all the joints....
 
  • Like
Reactions: Woodyhoopleson
Serious offer for anyone.

If they are absolutely desperate for anything, for themselves of elderly relatives, from next week, as NHS, I’m able to get into a few places like Tesco, Iceland, Sainsbury’s etc 1 hour earlier to get stuff. Happy to help out but obviously there’s a limit to what I’m allowed, sorting out my own old ‘uns and you’d have to collect from Staines.
 
  • Like
Reactions: bobmid, kiwiqpr, Sooperhoop and 9 others
Tramore Ranger said:
Been going to a gym twice a week for last 9 months or so to try and stave off the aging process .....getting a few withdrawal symptoms now....

We've been doing tai chi following videos on you tube.....good exercise as it moves all the joints....
Click to expand...
For similar reasons I’ve upped the exercise over the last few years, and have been trying to do the gym every other day for the last 3 months. Mostly cardio, tiny bit of dumbbells, ironically never using the treadmill which I now apparently possess, just elliptical, stairs, bike. Stopped going last weekend, dog is getting a severe workout. I’m doing the Dr Michael Moseley High intensity exercises for chaps about my age, takes ten minutes a day (including the rests between the minute long exercises). If I get a couple of dumbbells, this workout, the dog walking and some stints on the treadmill might even allow me to cancel the gym membership (though to be fair to them had a message this morning saying that they won’t be taking any fees, and are organising online exercise at home sessions through their app).

Just had an appropriately socially distanced chat with a GP friend who lives around the corner. She was saying that they have had people trying to force their way into the surgery with symptoms even though there is loads of signage asking them not to. She reckons there are loads of cases out there, and is quite keen to get it herself as soon as possible (oddly reassuring) but so far only one of the ITU beds at our local hospital is occupied by a patient with the virus.

Also irritatingly, her husband was in our local at the exact right moment to be offered a barrel of beer that was opened and would have gone off due to the closure. 30 pints for nowt! Why wasn’t I there?!
 
  • Like
Reactions: Tramore Ranger
So I live in a small village in Cornwall, Cornwall is just over 1,300 square miles and a population of over half a million people BUT we only have one main hospital! So why has the Tamar Bridge been full of caravans and camper vans coming here this weekend? Do they really think self isolating here is better for them? Selfish twats!!!

Also, took dog for walk this afternoon, I live in a village of only 40ish houses one of the old girls form the village walking towards me. I cross the road so we have distance, she crosses too to talk to me! Do old people not get Social Distancing!

Think I will just get pissed too!

Stay safe everyone
Cate X
 
  • Like
Reactions: qprbeth, kiwiqpr, Sooperhoop and 6 others
You must log in or register to reply here.
Top Bottom
Back