Coronavirus Thread

[leicsmac]

2 minutes ago, Innovindil said:

**** me. Lockdown so bad I'd rather be fighting Nazis. 

 

That's a new one. 

 

Just now, Col city fan said:

Sometimes the posts you read on here are literally astounding...

 

 

But look, really exciting!

 

1 hour ago, Line-X said:

I actually fail to comprehend that two people have liked this. I'm tempted to ask, how would you respond to living in a warzone or facing the civil persecution that we are currently seeing in Myanmar? You can't go to the football, you can't go on holiday, you can't go to the pub - so ****ing what? Neither can I, and I'm also gravely concerned about losing my job. The reason that we're so in the shit is that we relaxed restrictions too prematurely and didn't adequately quarantine international travelers. 

 

Seriously, if your suicidal ideation is genuine - and despite my last paragraph, I do completely understand that depression is relative - please seek immediate help. A trained professional will be able to assess the severity of this and will help you manage the symptoms.  

 

Not sure who these supposed "lockdown forever weirdos" that you are referring to actually are. As far as I am aware, no one is suggesting that. We have to effect a very measured and gradual return to normality or the situation that we find ourselves in will simply become ever more protracted. Not sure why people are unable to understand that. 

 

Know this: We don't know how long immunity from vaccination lasts, we don't know about the possibility of reinfection, we don't the extent of transmission amongst those that have been vaccinated. We also don't understand enough about the variants of SARS-CoV-2 - the Brazilian episodes are particularly contagious and more dangerous. This is the world that you live in now - and nature couldn't give a rat's arse that you and I can't have an evening in the pub with our mates. Amusing to recall that one of the many cretins to post melodramatic opinion on here was actually expressing admiration for President Bolsonaro - suggesting that people should spend Christmas in Brazil because of the casual approach to restrictions from their government last year and supposed resultant low infection rates. Just when you think you've heard it all on this thread.

And that is something that really, really needs to be grasped better by more people.

 

If we fall apart under this (relatively) small stress from nature, goodness only knows how we'll react when it throws something a lot worse at us. And it will.

[Soup]

So Ferguson now saying that if the summer is not back to normal the Autumn should feel a lot more normal. I'll repeat that bit, a lot more normal. 

 

It's like the vaccine was the carrot but now it's just a bit of string with nothing dangling on the end.

 

 

[bovril]

Just now, leicsmac said:

 

 

 

 

Is that Rod Liddle? Maybe nuclear destruction isn't so bad. 

[CosbehFox]

3 hours ago, pmcla26 said:

So fed up of life now - think I speak for most when I say I don’t think I can take a third wave and more restrictions. 

It’s tough - the period is as long as the first lockdown and we had the weather then. This winter we’ve had the tougher restriction in Europe, it looks to have worked but fecking hell it’s been hard. 

 

Work was a godsend at the time but that wore off quickly 

Edited 24 March 2021 by Cardiff_Fox

[String fellow]

1 hour ago, dsr-burnley said:

There are 6 other coronaviruses that affect humans, and have been for donkeys' years.  None of them have mutated into something deadly, though there is speculation that one of them mutated away from a coronavirus pandemic like we are having now, but in the late 1800's.

Apparently, the 7 are: 229E, NL63, OC43, HKU1, MERS-CoV, SARS-CoV and SARS-Cov-2 (or 2019-nCov). What a great way to impress (or perhaps scare) your friends - next time you get a cold, tell them that you have a suspected case of 229E coronavirus!

[Guest Lcfc82]

1 hour ago, Line-X said:

I actually fail to comprehend that two people have liked this. I'm tempted to ask, how would you respond to living in a warzone or facing the civil persecution that we are currently seeing in Myanmar? You can't go to the football, you can't go on holiday, you can't go to the pub - so ****ing what? Neither can I, and I'm also gravely concerned about losing my job. The reason that we're so in the shit is that we relaxed restrictions too prematurely and didn't adequately quarantine international travelers. 

 

Seriously, if your suicidal ideation is genuine - and despite my last paragraph, I do completely understand that depression is relative - please seek immediate help. A trained professional will be able to assess the severity of this and will help you manage the symptoms.  

 

Not sure who these supposed "lockdown forever weirdos" that you are referring to actually are. As far as I am aware, no one is suggesting that. We have to effect a very measured and gradual return to normality or the situation that we find ourselves in will simply become ever more protracted. Not sure why people are unable to understand that. 

 

Know this: We don't know how long immunity from vaccination lasts, we don't know about the possibility of reinfection, we don't the extent of transmission amongst those that have been vaccinated. We also don't understand enough about the variants of SARS-CoV-2 - the Brazilian episodes are particularly contagious and more dangerous. This is the world that you live in now - and nature couldn't give a rat's arse that you and I can't have an evening in the pub with our mates. Amusing to recall that one of the many cretins to post melodramatic opinion on here was actually expressing admiration for President Bolsonaro - suggesting that people should spend Christmas in Brazil because of the casual approach to restrictions from their government last year and supposed resultant low infection rates. Just when you think you've heard it all on this thread.

As you say depression / mental health is relative, so not sure why you have gone on a rant about being lucky I’m not  living in a war zone.

I can’t be bothered to respond to the rest of it, think I need to take a break from here for a few days 

[Alf Bentley]

29 minutes ago, Leicester_Loyal said:

 

I know we're all losing it a bit during lockdown, but I'm worried about Sir Keir. Why has he got two ears of wheat in his buttonhole? 

[StanSP]

8 minutes ago, Alf Bentley said:

 

I know we're all losing it a bit during lockdown, but I'm worried about Sir Keir. Why has he got two ears of wheat in his buttonhole? 

Supporting farming industry. 

[foxfanazer]

1 hour ago, Master Fox said:

At least you could still go to the pub in WWI and WWII. 
 

I’d rather be fighting a war then this pandemic rubbish. A war gives you purpose and is kind of exciting. 

How do you delete the Internet? 

[AllGoneTitsSchlupp]

1 hour ago, Master Fox said:

At least you could still go to the pub in WWI and WWII. 
 

I’d rather be fighting a war then this pandemic rubbish. A war gives you purpose and is kind of exciting. 

this could genuinely go down in foxes talk folklore.

 

forget your nicky maynard threads, your cheese's dinosaurs, your ric flair's drunk stories thread, master fox's rather be fighting a war than this pandemic rubbish is the real winner

[Flamey]

1 hour ago, Master Fox said:

At least you could still go to the pub in WWI and WWII. 
 

I’d rather be fighting a war then this pandemic rubbish. A war gives you purpose and is kind of exciting. 

 

[Thefox81]

1 hour ago, Master Fox said:

At least you could still go to the pub in WWI and WWII. 
 

I’d rather be fighting a war then this pandemic rubbish. A war gives you purpose and is kind of exciting. 

How many wars have you fought in to know it is exciting? I have a feeling that you would barracade yourself inside if there was a war outside. Having served (only as an army chef) in Kosovo and Iraq exciting is not a word you would use to describe it.

[yorkie1999]

2 minutes ago, Thefox81 said:

How many wars have you fought in to know it is exciting? I have a feeling that you would barracade yourself inside if there was a war outside. Having served (only as an army chef) in Kosovo and Iraq exciting is not a word you would use to describe it.

Bangers and mash does get a bit boring after a while!

[String fellow]

1 hour ago, Master Fox said:

At least you could still go to the pub in WWI and WWII. 
 

I’d rather be fighting a war then this pandemic rubbish. A war gives you purpose and is kind of exciting. 

Wars may be 'kind of exciting', especially if carried out remotely and if the 'good guys' end up prevailing. However, the reality can be very different for those involved. A colleague of mine was on HMS Coventry during the Falklands War. Although he survived the ship's attack, he lost his eyesight in the process.

[Samilktray]

Fair play to @Master Fox he’s got an admirable amount of bites here  

[Jon the Hat]

You can say many things about the horrors of war, but if there wasn't some kind of appeal no one would join the armed forces.

[SpacedX]

52 minutes ago, Lcfc82 said:

As you say depression / mental health is relative, so not sure why you have gone on a rant about being lucky I’m not  living in a war zone.

I can’t be bothered to respond to the rest of it, think I need to take a break from here for a few days 

A sentence is hardly a rant. 

 

In answer to your question it wasn't clear whether you are actually harboring suicidal thoughts or that was a throwaway comment. If you are, do indeed take a break from here and please don't hesitate to talk to a professional.

[Sol thewall Bamba]

Who had India on their variant bingo card?

[Bellend Sebastian]

9 minutes ago, Samilktray said:

Fair play to @Master Fox he’s got an admirable amount of bites here  

He's an infrequent visitor to these parts these days, isn't he? Still very much got it on this evidence

[Sol thewall Bamba]

1 hour ago, Master Fox said:

At least you could still go to the pub in WWI and WWII. 
 

I’d rather be fighting a war then this pandemic rubbish. A war gives you purpose and is kind of exciting. 

Edited 24 March 2021 by Sol thewall Bamba

[leicsmac]

5 minutes ago, Jon the Hat said:

You can say many things about the horrors of war, but if there wasn't some kind of appeal no one would join the armed forces.

Might be the wrong thread for this, but I'd wager that those who do choose to sign up for the shooting part (there are other parts, obvs) are either:

 

- folks who don't really have much of an idea about what it's really like

- blood knight psychopaths who really do and enjoy the idea

- folks who think they're the second of the above but are really the first

 

And historical evidence is pretty clear that unless you're the second type and somehow manage to stay that way all throughout the service (and that singnifies other problems in the head tbh) then it inflicts at least some mental damage upon those who partake.

 

Put simply, the ideal and reality of war are often different and if you can get through one upright and without it messing with your skull in some way then your skull is probably messed up in the first place.

[AllGoneTitsSchlupp]

15 minutes ago, Jon the Hat said:

You can say many things about the horrors of war, but if there wasn't some kind of appeal no one would join the armed forces.

at least you're not banned from going abroad if you join up

[BenTheFox]

When I was at school I found that a number of people that went onto join the military did so because in their words, they wanted to 'shoot a rag'ed'.

Edited 24 March 2021 by BenTheFox

[reynard]

3 hours ago, Christoph said:

A woman at my work has booked a holiday abroad...in May. I have to admire the hope of some people. May seems way too early to book anything. Even June seems a bit far off. 

Didn't they extend the no overseas travel to the end of June yesterday? Or did I misread this? or maybe papertalk.

[foxile5]

15 minutes ago, BenTheFox said:

When I was at school I found that a number of people that went onto join the military did so because in their words, they wanted to 'shoot a rag'ed'.

Oh yeah. That's endemic to army culture, the causal racism. 

 

Even Prince Harry gave an interview not so long ago about 'our little paki friend' whilst on duty. But that was okay. Because of the military culture...I suppose.