Problem is that it's going to go up to some moment of relief for the families but we all know what happens next.i started and just couldn't bear to carry on after about 20 mins .
Up to 8 earthquakes now in last two weeks. More than I've been in rest of my life, i think.
Slept through the last two.

Taking part on this forum has helped me maintain a modicum of sanity.
Happy New Year everyone.
Thanks for keeping me going in 2021. Taking part on this forum has helped me maintain a modicum of sanity. Here's to more uplifting times![]()

This forum helped MAINTAIN sanity?
I used to be normal until I started posting here.

Glad to be of help.I know what you're both saying. There have been many times when I've had a break from here over one thing or another but there's always been a normal life to retreat into. The past two years took normality from us except on here where madness carried on regardless.![]()

This forum helped MAINTAIN sanity?
I used to be normal until I started posting here.
No mate. Sorry but no ****ing way you get away with saying you were normal before this forum. I can remember clearly and if anything it's made you more normal![]()
Did you ****This forum helped MAINTAIN sanity?
I used to be normal until I started posting here.
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Seems to me far more players are coming down with covid this time round than previously. Is this because the Omicron variant is more virulent (or at least more easily transmitted) or that people have become less vigilant?
I notice that supermarkets have become very lax in maintaining their disinfectant points lately, and only a tiny minority of people even bother with them. There are people roaming around shops without masks when they're supposed to be wearing them, and the staff never challenge them - presumably reluctant to get into an altercation.
It doesn't help that our government repeatedly shows itself to be in contempt of its own rules, but any reasonable person should understand that our own protection is at stake here, and it's the politicians that need to be brought to heel, not for us follow their flawed and selfish example.
Seems to me far more players are coming down with covid this time round than previously. Is this because the Omicron variant is more virulent (or at least more easily transmitted)
Combination of things. People being much more lax as you and others have observed... Also Omicron is vastly mutated and some scientists think it may have swapped some RNA with one of the coronaviruses that cause the common cold. (I think that's in the hypothesis stage with minimal evidence, not proven yet)... But the cold is a proven infector with millennia of experience at making us sick. Combine that with COVID weaponry and....bang.
It's mutated enough that it evades at least some people's vaccines... And previous covid infection is little deterrent to it. So lots of people smuggly thinking they're safe... And they're not.
No thought no design.
That describes all of evolution, but just like all evolution, it that lives to reproduce will have its information passed on. The more people unvaccinated, the more chance of mutation. The more mutations, more likely one will have a mutation needed to infect previously infected people, or people who are vaccinated.
Virus doesn't need to think or have will to evolve over time to reinfect us. And more people that have it, the more chances it gets to mutate and come up with a winning formula.