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I have to admit I thought it was March 2022 but can't find any reference.
With furlough extended until March 2021 there clearly isn't going to be any change soon. Sent from my SM-A520F using Tapatalk |
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9 Nov 2020, 09:05 (Ref:4015600) | #953 | ||
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Unfortunately it’s the death rate that can be taken as a guide as there are obviously more cases as the T&T although not very clever is better than in March.
The only good news is more people are surviving Notice lots of people in the last week who should know tell us that there will be a third wave In late winter early spring Keep your fingers crossed for a vaccine as soon as possible, As far as us lot on here. Don’t get to excited about any proposed dates in first half of next year. |
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We need to make sure something is in place for the future to get through this. At the end of the day people have had the virus and survived, I guess that explains why more cases are being reported. It of course depends who you are whether you can get through it
I just hope things get better next year, it's about time we started to return to normal. If only the vaccine comes out before the end of the year, if not then, then early next year. That is our best hope. Don't worry, it will get better. You might have to wait a bit, but every precaution needs to be taken. Hopefully come the second half of next year things will have picked and as much racing as possible will be back |
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I do know plenty of people (inc medical professionals) who think that we should let COVID run its course and carry on life as normal, but I guess that isn’t really an option if there are large queues for bed spaces/ treatment, and people are dying from otherwise recoverable conditions. |
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I am also usually someone who is not very political and likes to believe what I am told by the authorities. I appreciate that it is easy to criticise the measures that have been put in place and with the benefit of hindsight saying that things should have been done sooner/later etc. but I am also starting to have my head & opinions turned by the information being put forward by people who are well educated and (more importantly) very experienced in the field of respiratory diseases & problems who are saying that things are nowhere near as bad as we are being led to believe when compared to years gone by... |
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On your second point, I am not sure I have seen anything or anybody really saying that “it’s not as bad as we are being lead to believe” |
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You've led a very sheltered life, recently, then I've heard plenty of people from the "it's only a bit if flu" or "its all exaggerated to control us" school of thought - only last week a lady of a certain age was telling me - as she waited for her husband to collect his Daimler SP250 from (oddly) an Alfa specialist - that she had been a nurse and she was sure it wasn't as we were being told, and that there weren't as many deaths as from flu (which is wrong). When I opined that deaths were lessening as medical techniques improved, but that the main concern was the increased hospitalisation and ICU use she rubbished that too - telling me that she knew another nurse who told her about someone who was only in ICU for two days and then he was fine....as if that proved anything. I just told her that I'd rather heed the advice form my Godson who spent weeks as a Covid ICU doctor in the first wave, sleeping in a motorhome on the hospital car park so as not to put his newborn daughter and the rest of the family at risk, and how relieved he'd been to get back to the relatively relaxed world of general A&E as the epidemic waned........ |
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On a separate but on topic point.....I've seen some mutterings that if we can get racing again soon, how are those of us who need them going to be able to get our medicals? Getting a face-to-face with a GP is nigh on impossible even with a real illness, getting one, even a paid one, for a recreational purpose might be very difficult.
Some suggestion that MotorsportUK should consider a waiver for this (next) year. Any thoughts? |
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As to a waiver for medicals I suspect if it were to be implemented those of us of a "historic" age may well be excluded. |
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I have no truck with the theory that because rates are staying low we shouldn't have locked down - surely it's *because* we locked down rates are low? Sent from my SM-A520F using Tapatalk |
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Of course masks and social distancing have helped. Maybe some see it as overkill, but whether that’s true or not, we’re seeing less of the flu season. Hopefully this doesn’t become the norm though, we can’t go on like this forever. It’s not worth it
Whether this lockdown is necessary or not remains to be seen. Things aren’t running smoothly as they should, so it’s a bit of a headache for people. If it saves lives it’s worth it, but the economy ain’t getting any better suffice to say |
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Gradually mask wearing is becoming more prevalent. At the Whilton Mill test on Wednesday it was pretty much 100% usage away from team work areas. |
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Listening to the news ,things are looking positive. Boris has just said the cavery are coming over the hill to rescue us.:
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It’s very confusing not knowing what is going on. Some countries have taken a risk on the virus, but unfortunately it hasn’t quite worked out. I guess a contingency plan would have fixed all of this. As it is we’re stuck in this situation, while other countries seem to have things kept under control.
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That would be a carvery then, Peter. I thought a cavery might have something to do with guinea pigs as I believe they are known as cavies? Iain's spelling continues to entertain. Better cavalry than the 4 horsemen of the apocalypse!
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Good to know you are watching over us John. Mike would of corrected me.
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Cavies? Thought that was a Vauxhall Cavalier? 😅
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