My work situation is fairly secure, but some of my colleagues are not so lucky. Casual and contracted staff are being briefed tomorrow.
But how long before this becomes effective? Tesco and Sainsbury no longer have any open slots for a fortnight
Looks like malaria drug chloroquine is helping. Need to start eating foods high in iron content Twitter Read the thread by David Sinclair (Edit: PhD at Harvard.)
Thread locked thanks to certain members . Also had comments about the thread title. I'm closing this one down.
Just woke up after falling asleep slumped in an office chair like a vulnerable groupie, to this. I'm gonna re-open it (as it'd be weird not being able to chat about it with people I actually regard as quite interesting/entertaining), after kicking two members off the thread, so they can read but not reply for two weeks. Jankers rather than the cooler. (Two weeks may of course be a permanent ban if the 7th seal is finally opened next Tuesday...) Chaps, persistent bickering just isn't in the spirit. If you don't get on with someone, put 'em on your ignore list & enjoy the challenge of not peeking. (You'll peek... see it as a willpower test.) The thread title stays. Its fine. The day I can't laugh at things like this is the day I'll cheerfully surrender to the reaper. First time I've ever used a thread ban. Now know how to do it, so... hmmm. If nobody messages me about this, that'd be lovely, as I'd ignore it anyway. It's only the internet. Life goes on. For now, anyway... ~A
Apparently the term Quarantine has somehow become offensive or perhaps too threatening. The new, approved euphemism is “Socially Distanced”. We truly are now at batshit crazy level 4. Next we'll see protective sequestration although that sounds like removal of ones genitals may be required.
Just wanted to say thank you for your kind wishes following my earlier post in this thread. Although we both had a bad day yesterday (...feeling especially grotty & falling asleep in the chair a few times), we are clearly on the mend. I'm now 3 weeks into this, and I can well believe it may take another 3 before I lose (what is now) a very wet cough and start to feel normal again. I can report that body temperatures (and Bog Roll consumption) are normal. This morning we are both feeling much better than yesterday, and my wife's blood pressure and resting heart rate are lower and well within the range of a healthy female for her age group. I've been practicing a nervous cough to stop people getting too close to me when I'm out walking, but if they don't take the hint, I now have a 2metre pole with a pointy end (...they don't like it up 'em).
The local Resident's Association is not for me, but my wife is a member, and a list of volunteers with telephone numbers given in the letter will help me if I have to self-isolate etc., or I cannot convince people I am not really 70 but going on 16 and a bit. The funny thing is that most of the volunteers named are older than me. I passed a "volunteer" in the street yesterday, hobbling on two sticks, recent operation the cause. I might ring her up and ask her to get me a loo roll but I know what she will say because even after 50 years she has kept her West Yorkshire accent and most of her conversations contain lots of words ending in "ing". She will tell me: " ---- off. You can't get ----ing bl---dy bog roll in this ----ing place. How are you, apart from that , you useless ---? " I shall have to ring up the local church for prayer and support now I've got the number from the newsletter , also to ask for forgiveness for suggesting my friendly neighbour should be so vulgar.
I really hope we don't follow the example of the Spanish & French by putting police on the streets to chase people back to their homes. We are better than that. I believe we can continue to walk around outside and be trusted to keep a safe distance from others. People living in flats without a garden will go crazy if they are not allowed out in the fresh air! Walk in the parks, across the fields, in the woods or along the beach. (we will fight this in the fields, in the woodlands, and on the beaches...sorry, getting carried away!)
See, now my personal bubble has been encouraged to expand out to at least 2m, I'm in heaven. (If only the measures could exclude cashiers' compulsory chat about my choice of items at the check-out... )
Grow your own bog roll. Mullein plants (cowboy toilet paper) have just started regrowing in our garden. 7 Plants Whose Leaves You Can Use As Toilet Paper | The Survivalist Blog
