Coronavirus: Please use this thread for all COVID19 talk!

Maybe they were lucky.

But luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.

But in fairness, we'll scrap the preparation bit.

Calculated risk maybe that has so far paid off. And it is right to recognise the triumphs as well as the failings of the govt.

 

Like I said, most of the deaths happened overseas. You're aware of the emergency powers instituted by governments during the war, right, and the incredible measures taken to avoid increases in the pretty low totals of civilian casualties? Tens of thousands of children were relocated without their parents, millions were evacuated overall, curfews were enforced, mandatory blackouts, leisure-time activities severely curtailed, food and goods rationed, etc. All for a threat that killed fewer civilians than COVID by a factor of 2:1 at this point.

I mean, it could just be that this "MUH FREEDOMS" stuff is nonsense. Shutdowns aren't curtailing freedoms, the failure to properly contain the virus is. I'm pretty damned free over here. My sister and her family, in Australia, are pretty damned free over there too. Because when you control the virus, you get to have nice things. If you fail to control the virus, not only does it spread, but it creates a situation where it may become far harder to control in the future. You wanna let people die by the tens of thousands because it isn't that deadly (except when it is)? Don't worry: if allowed to spread uncontrolled, eventually it'll mutate further and you won't have to worry whether the death toll is sufficient to justify losing the ability to eat in a sit-down restaurant.

 

Roadmap day.

 

We aren’t all going to die of Covid mate. But we are all going to die. It’s how you live that counts.

Incidentally, at no point have I said we should just carry on as normal; I do however, think it’s legitimate to question whether the cure might be doing as much harm as the disease.

As for WWII and evacuation, my mum was evacuated. She never fully recovered from the trauma. Watch Jack Rosenthal’s TV play “The Evacuees” for an insight into those kids experiences. She was less afraid back in London with her family, even when the V1s were falling. That doesn’t mean evacuation was the wrong thing to do, but like like lockdowns, it came at a price to people’s psychological well-being.

This isn’t about “Muh Freedom” btw. That’s your narrative not mine. But well done for being “pretty damn free” in a country that’s mostly forest and tundra

 

That's the point though. If you institute the 'cure' when the disease starts picking up steam, and not when the disease is overwhelming health care capacity, there is absolutely no question of which option is superior. But the longer governments delay before putting on the clamps, the longer the clamps have to stay on. Because that's how exponential growth and decay work: if cases increase by a larger multiplier than they decline (and they do), every additional day spent dithering about whether to take action is a longer period of restrictions thereafter.

That's been the problem in the UK: restrictions have been put in place too late and then lifted before the virus is really under control, with the rallying cry of "the cure can't be worse than the disease". And yet the net result is that you've spent far more time under restrictions than most, because every blinking time things get halfway toward being under control, your government declares victory and the disease starts ramping up again.

We're a country that is mostly cities, as it pertains to population. I cannot possibly fathom why you believe that having a bunch of unoccupied acreage a few thousand kms away is some sort of meaningful defense against viral spread.

Also, the top US states by number of cases per capita: North Dakota, South Dakota, Rhode Island, Utah, Iowa, Tennessee, Arizona, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Nebraska. Not exactly a list of the biggest metropolitan areas in the country, is it?

 

So when can I get a haircut?

 

Just get some clippers, find a "how to" video on Youtube and do it yourself with about 4 mirrors

And please post a photo

 

Just seen it's 12th April

Gonna look like a right ****ing tramp by then. Already kinda do tbh.

 

You'll be in good company.

 

I feel sorry for the poor people who will have to sweep up the hair in the nation’s barbers and hairdressers on April 12th. After such a long furlough they’ll have the hardest job they’ll have ever had!

 

He knows my army is on the march.

 

Oi, i'm well ahead of you.

 

Just measured my fringe....7 ½ inches!....and i had a trim in December!

 

12th April

(Inshallah)

 

I am no fan of Boris, but the best thing he did yesterday was the big F YOU to all the "We love Covid" idiots who keep saying "the world will never be the same". When he said we will go back to how things were and we will have our old freedoms back it was exactly what most sane people have thought and wanted.

However, there is a sizeable loony minority in this country that has LOVED lockdown. They love the rules. They love watching their neighbours and moaning about non-compliance. They love the OCD cleaning because at last their decision to wash their hands every two minutes and sanitise everything their baby ever touches make sense. They love the excuse to be social outcasts. They love clapping out of their front door and pretending that the world is clapping with them. Let's not pretend these loud, irritating people don't exist.

Covid has sucked. Lockdown is bad for us - even if necessary. We are actually entitled in a democracy to decide how we want to live - and most of us want to live free.

 

I buzzed all my hair off last week.

No. No pictures.



I did my head too.

 

Last haircut was October! Can't wait until April so reluctantly ordered some clippers. My hair hasn't been this long since the 1970's.

 

I am going bald ....easy grade 1 all over.

 

I think I carried it off better in the 70s than I do now