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Post by beth on May 5, 2020 11:41:37 GMT -5
So, mouse, they didn't try to find a cure or save the vulnerable?
if so … pretty cold.
Chilly and windy today. My cold's better but I'm happy to stay in today. Need a new book. May go shopping online. Does anybody have a good suggestion?
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Post by Dex on May 5, 2020 14:24:34 GMT -5
Gonna be a cold night. We got the outside work done early and now it's time to go home and put a log on the fire.
Have a good'un\
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Post by annaj26 on May 5, 2020 19:51:18 GMT -5
Sounds like everybody here is doing pretty well. We are half home bound. My mom is staying with us on weekdays, our daughter is home schooling with her computer and husband works part time from home and part time from the office in mask and gloves. Can't complain when others have it so much harder.
I'm taking a week of my vacation later this month. I need the rest and Grandmom needs a break.
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Post by mouse on May 6, 2020 3:28:06 GMT -5
So, mouse, they didn't try to find a cure or save the vulnerable? if so … pretty cold. Chilly and windy today. My cold's better but I'm happy to stay in today. Need a new book. May go shopping online. Does anybody have a good suggestion? I have absolutely no idea … a lot of people died both here and around the world.. figures vary.. it was a very different world back in the 1950s... I don't remember wearing a face covering or taking any particular care....we traveled mainly by bus and train to work.. we were still recovering from the war and many things were still on ration.....I do know that a lot of people were affected .. I had it and remember feeling very ill for about a weak and when I recovered I had lost weight and my cloathes no longer fitted the next one was the hongKong flu,,, that was a bad one as well my husband got it but the children and my self didn't... he was quite poorly for about a week..... Asian flu began in southern China and spread around the world in 1957-58. Up to four million deaths have been attributed to this outbreak, including around 33,000 in the UK. The Hong Kong flu pandemic of 1968-69 also began in southern China and led to a similar number of deaths worldwide – though in the UK the number was higher than for Asian flu, totalling around 80,000.
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Post by mouse on May 6, 2020 3:52:48 GMT -5
lovely day.. the wund has dropped so its going to be a sitting in the sun day from about lunch time friends is coming around so we shall sit at a reasonable distance but near enough so we can talk. it feels good to have some normality coming back... of course there are those who haven't done isolation... but that is their problem......I think the problem is any some do not believe there is a virus simply because they haven't seen any one with it.. others who think it all a government plot and conspiracy the rest will do what they have to do until such time as its no longer necessary to have government dictating ….and who will be aware that viruses don't just fade away...…
as for medication with the worlds scientists jumping through hoops... I wont be taking anything that hasnt had proper trials ...the Dutch Utrecht uni and our own oxford uni seem to be making good strides....so we shall see
© Provided by The Independent Italian researchers claim to have developed a vaccine that can neutralise the coronavirus in human cells. Tests carried out at Rome’s infectious-disease Spallanzani Hospital generated antibodies in mice that work in human cells. “This is the most advanced stage of testing of a candidate vaccine created in Italy,” said Luigi Aurisicchio, CEO of Takis, the company working on the treatment. “According to Spallanzani Hospital, as far as we know we are the first in the world so far to have demonstrated a neutralisation of the coronavirus by a vaccine,” he told the Italian news agency Ansa. “We expect this to happen in humans too
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Post by Jessiealan on May 6, 2020 22:11:52 GMT -5
It is not against the law here to go out without a mask, but to be honest, I feel very uncomfortable being out WITH a mask when people start coughing or sneezing. For peace of mind, I shall probably wear a mask and gloves in public all summer long.
It's possible there is already a vaccine, just not enough of it to go around. Trump and family seem much too confident not to have more protection than the rest of us.
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Post by mouse on May 7, 2020 4:16:52 GMT -5
I don't own a mask.. daughter has a very fetching one .. blue with flowers...very designer....but as am not going anywhere I really don't need one we are waiting agog to see what the PM has to say on sunday and then go from there though the thinking is people like me will still be constrained.... hey ho
DIL mother will be cremated next Wednesday,,and if traveling into Wales is permitted then daughter will go.. she will go on Monday and come back thursday,, son 2 will stay with me....and rather than flowers I shall buy a couple thornless but sweet smelling Roses for dil to plant in memory
yesterday was a most glorious warm and sunny day with today being the same..
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Post by toby1 on May 7, 2020 8:51:56 GMT -5
We got Masks, a few throwaway ones plus a couple of N95 masks plus bottles of hand sanitizer, so reasonably well equipped. I am recovering from shingles, affected my eye and it's a nasty thing to have, was very difficult to look at TV or computer screen and I had to wear sunglasses against the brightness. Eye is back to normal 99% but numbness around the eye persists. I recommend anybody over 60 get vaccinated, I never heard of shingles and if I knew about it then I would have got the shots, you all should !!
A UK Politicians is complaining that for every white person killed by Covid-19, four blacks are dying. I am not sure what he is insinuating and if I were to meet him then I would tell him to direct his moans at the unclean Chinese !
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Post by Dex on May 7, 2020 10:07:59 GMT -5
The U. S. has it's share of racists, Toby. No doubt about that.
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Post by Dex on May 7, 2020 10:16:28 GMT -5
We got Masks, a few throwaway ones plus a couple of N95 masks plus bottles of hand sanitizer, so reasonably well equipped. I am recovering from shingles, affected my eye and it's a nasty thing to have, was very difficult to look at TV or computer screen and I had to wear sunglasses against the brightness. Eye is back to normal 99% but numbness around the eye persists. I recommend anybody over 60 get vaccinated, I never heard of shingles and if I knew about it then I would have got the shots, you all should !! A UK Politicians is complaining that for every white person killed by Covid-19, four blacks are dying. I am not sure what he is insinuating and if I were to meet him then I would tell him to direct his moans at the unclean Chinese ! I'm sure sorry you had to go through that, Toby. My wife who was about 25, went through it but not in her eye.
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Post by toby1 on May 7, 2020 15:55:03 GMT -5
Dex "I'm sure sorry you had to go through that, Toby. My wife who was about 25, went through it but not in her eye." Shingles hits around 20% of the population over 60 ish, your Wife was unlucky to get it at such a young age, there is a vaccine and I kick myself I never got vaccinated because the symptoms are much reduced after being vaccinated. (My Wife plans to get vaccinated soon)
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Post by mouse on May 8, 2020 3:33:33 GMT -5
shingles.… OUCH how horrible for you and in your eyes too.. ive had it and it was incredibly painful on my upper torso back and front.....
re covid hitting Black men most and the rest of the Black and Asian population.. the way its being talked about is almost as though its the fault of the host population.. poverty and living conditions have been mentioned along with multigeneraltional living.... not being mentioned is the vitamin Dfactor and the breaking of isolation within these groups along with those from eastern Europe who have a delightful habit of spitting at the police and others...….and last night in London was a mini riot seems idiots were giving out Ramadan food... and objected to the police telling them to return home and one fool threw a punch and t all kcked of
no fabuous sunshine this morning instead its all over grey... I do hope it bicks up... although Saturday [tomorrow] the temps will drop by 10degrees......not at all good news
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Post by mouse on May 9, 2020 4:13:51 GMT -5
its already hot hot hot… going to be a scorcher today....however tonight the temps are going to drop or so the weather people say.....so we had better make the most of the sunshine while we many
yesterday was VE day... muted celebrations....under normal circumstances there would have been parties and fire works and te pubs open all day....as it was we stayed in the garden once the clouds had passed and drank a toast to peace with a cup of tea...and did a little reminissing with daughter about how I learned the war had ended and then about the men of the family and their home commings….and how strange it was to see lights on in houses and how amazing it was when street lighting came back...we were so used to the dark it had become 2nd nature
yesterday a couple were heavily fined for going into Wales.. so unless changes are made by the PM and the Welsh assembly on sunday.. looks like she will be staying here...
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Post by kronks on May 9, 2020 7:52:49 GMT -5
its already hot hot hot… going to be a scorcher today....however tonight the temps are going to drop or so the weather people say.....so we had better make the most of the sunshine while we many yesterday was VE day... muted celebrations....under normal circumstances there would have been parties and fire works and te pubs open all day....as it was we stayed in the garden once the clouds had passed and drank a toast to peace with a cup of tea...and did a little reminissing with daughter about how I learned the war had ended and then about the men of the family and their home commings….and how strange it was to see lights on in houses and how amazing it was when street lighting came back...we were so used to the dark it had become 2nd nature yesterday a couple were heavily fined for going into Wales.. so unless changes are made by the PM and the Welsh assembly on sunday.. looks like she will be staying here...
Only in the UK could 22C be described as a scorcher!
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Post by beth on May 9, 2020 8:57:28 GMT -5
its already hot hot hot… going to be a scorcher today....however tonight the temps are going to drop or so the weather people say.....so we had better make the most of the sunshine while we many yesterday was VE day... muted celebrations....under normal circumstances there would have been parties and fire works and te pubs open all day....as it was we stayed in the garden once the clouds had passed and drank a toast to peace with a cup of tea...and did a little reminissing with daughter about how I learned the war had ended and then about the men of the family and their home commings….and how strange it was to see lights on in houses and how amazing it was when street lighting came back...we were so used to the dark it had become 2nd nature yesterday a couple were heavily fined for going into Wales.. so unless changes are made by the PM and the Welsh assembly on sunday.. looks like she will be staying here...
Only in the UK could 22C be described as a scorcher! :D
We're supposed to get up to 56 F today and consider that quite chilly. Last night was cold and tonight will be very little better. We still have blackberry winter to get through before we can expect summer. I hope it's a good one this year.
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