Coronavirus

Bringing this back round the thread topic, my daughter lives in the Lakes and went back into nursing after COVID kicked off, before Christmas the Lakes became the largest hotspot for the new variant outside of London as the second home owners exported it up there & started turning up on her ward.

It was also due to them that she could only buy in her preferred area on a help to buy.

 

Maybe those overzealous Welsh and Derbyshire police forces stopping people in their cars had a point after all.

 

Seems Landlords have been left to sink or swim throughout this pandemic.

Happy to be corrected if I've missed any financial support schemes from which they've benefited when losing out on rent due and being unable to evict etc.

 

I vowed I’d never get back into it, after having a number of rentals many moons ago, that I bailed out of before the crash. Not because I was Nostradamus, merely that I’d got bored of the hassle, non payment, damage and general grief, as I self managed them and they were all mortgaged.

But I bought a couple about 2 years back, solely because interest rates are that low that I could get a much better return on the cash at very low risk, even after paying an agent to fully manage them. There’s arrears on both, but only a few months and it is what it is. If they were mortgaged I’d obvs be out of pocket, but that’s the risk you take when buying rentals with borrowed cash.

 

There’s a long enough queue of people who haven’t been supported and they can join the back of it.

 

Take it you're not a fan

 

Not as anti as I’m sure a lot of people are. The landlords I had at uni and for a bit after were fine. Just feel a lot more sympathy for other groups.

 

Lol. Tory party policy in action

 

The bitch who ****ed my head up 15 years ago has a flat in St Ives overlooking the smaller beach (not the Tate Modern one) but I can't remember the name of it. Had some top holidays down there before it all went tits up

 

Bamaluz or Harbour ?

 

Watched the news and there was report down in Cornwall, where the locals were blaming people from elsewhere in the UK for bringing them the virus. I just hope they don't get to see Piskie's google maps timeline between March 20 until Now, just saying. #VanMan

 

lol. I think it’s a bit unfair to be blaming folk coming down. Over Xmas there were loads of households mixing and that’s when it spiked.

we had thousands of tourists down in the summer and it didn’t spike then, mainly because the visitors were sticking to their bubbles and following the rules.

folk ****ed that right off for Christmas though and look at where we are

 

Absolutely agree mate. People just make me laugh, they (in this case Cornwall) always want to blame someone else other than themselves.

If I catch it, it's my fault not anyone else's. Hence why I wouldn't go to the pub when they reopened. I order stuff online rather than go to the shops, I'm responsible for my own health. I don't expect other people to adjust their lives for me, if I'm concerned it's me that needs to make the adjustment. Simples really.

 

Symptomatic of a lot of society today mate. Nobody wants to take responsibility for their own actions. It’s always somebody else’s fault.

 

I wouldn't say I felt like that initially, but after we knew exactly what we were dealing with, it was then I realised people are responsible for themselves. If the youngsters all want to go to the pub, so be it, just means I stay away. That's not a critism of the young, it's just me being sensible. I've had my time, I can't really begrudge them theirs. The only time I get annoyed is when I see stupidity, such as a mile long queues to get in places, it's like watching an army of ants gather.

 

Primark being a prime example.

200 deep line of folk queuing up to get their £3 sweat shop t shirts.

Makes you wonder how these people would cope being in a real crisis like a war zone where fresh water and food are rationed, if you’re lucky

 

Trouble is that lot queuing up or other morons won't get it.Always the way....

 

I seen that, mate. You and your family, stay safe

I'm in Knowsley, at the moment. It's a surreal experience, ambulances blue lighting all day long and story after story from the locals about so and so testing positive and being admitted to hospital, or worse. I won't let anybody in the house now on that 0.001% chance my Dad picks up another virus or one of these new strains that's going about manage to infect him, again. I just wish it was ****ing over with now.

 

tad simplistic imo as during the summer the original lockdown had driven the number of infected down , though it was still at large in the community to say the least , which goes a long way to explaining the lack of spike however by Christmas we knew it was rampant and was even more transmittable therefore the same behaviours would lead to different results .