Corona Virus

[Mike Johnson]

I don't do ironing.

 

[Midwest]

Seems this is the most recent thread to post about the virus.

I’m off to my sons stag do, in London today. Going by train and using the tube. Have to say, I am slightly nervous, and not just about keeping an eye on the lad, and staying up to silly o’clock.

Im told the place is deserted, and the tube pretty empty.

I‘ll keep you updated, on my secret mission up town

Well our day passed away much without incidents. The train and tube seemed pretty normal capacity. Bars were full, and restaurants seemed busy. Some people were wearing masks, including one guy who was wearing what looked like WWII gas mask.

Washed my hands every time, I thought about it.

Time will tell.

 

[littlespark]

Is today, in the current climate of covid19, the right time to be showing “Twelve Monkeys” on the sci-fi channel.....

“Bruce Willis... A criminal from the future..... is sent back in time to locate a virus that will kill millions of people”

 

[James]

I have been watching a series on amazon called the last ship
All about a virus that changes the world

 

[littlespark]

Conspiracy theory:

After seeing a notice in a shop say they only accept contactless payment, could it be that worldwide governments are working together to make us a totally cashless society?
No cash- no germs transference?

is corona made up to push us all into using electronically traceable currency? Every transaction logged?

China have already been under suspicion by offering a phone app that tells you if you are entering a particular covid hotspot. Also tells the govt where you are at all times.

I said at the top this is a conspiracy theory. Don’t reply that I’m being an idiot....

 

[littlespark]

And one other item of interest for the Trekkies

 

[Mike Johnson]

A LETTER FROM F. SCOTT FITZGERALD, QUARANTINED IN 1920 IN THE SOUTH OF FRANCE DURING THE SPANISH INFLUENZA OUTBREAK:

Dearest Rosemary,

It was a limpid dreary day, hung as in a basket from a single dull star. I thank you for your letter. Outside, I perceive what may be a collection of fallen leaves tussling against a trash can. It rings like jazz to my ears.

The streets are that empty. It seems as though the bulk of the city has retreated to their quarters, rightfully so. At this time, it seems very poignant to avoid all public spaces. Even the bars, as I told Hemingway, but to that he punched me in the stomach, to which I asked if he had washed his hands. He hadn’t. He is much the denier, that one. Why, he considers the virus to be just influenza. I’m curious of his sources.

The officials have alerted us to ensure we have a month’s worth of necessities. Zelda and I have stocked up on red wine, whiskey, rum, vermouth, absinthe, white wine, sherry, gin, and lord, if we need it, brandy. Please pray for us.

You should see the square, oh, it is terrible. I weep for the damned eventualities this future brings. The long afternoons rolling forward slowly on the ever-slick bottomless highball. Z. says it’s no excuse to drink, but I just can’t seem to steady my hand. In the distance, from my brooding perch, the shoreline is cloaked in a dull haze where I can discern an unremitting penance that has been heading this way for a long, long while. And yet, amongst the cracked cloudline of an evening’s cast, I focus on a single strain of light, calling me forth to believe in a better morrow.

Faithfully yours,

F. Scott Fitzgerald

I will just stay with the red wine.

 

[littlespark]

If I end up being off work for 2 weeks, I’m going to help the kids with this;

 

[Mike Johnson]

 

[Midwest]

Seems this is the most recent thread to post about the virus.

I’m off to my sons stag do, in London today. Going by train and using the tube. Have to say, I am slightly nervous, and not just about keeping an eye on the lad, and staying up to silly o’clock.

Im told the place is deserted, and the tube pretty empty.

I‘ll keep you updated, on my secret mission up town

Seems my lad got his do in, just in time. On the other hand, he could of saved himself a shed load of money. Bought everybody a round of drinks, beer and a shot (30 odd people), £325.

No sport, no pubs, no restaurants, no booze in the supermarkets, little food (& toilet rolls). Might have to get the Monopoly out of the loft.

Apparently the divorce rate is gonna go through the roof, it’s like 6 Xmas rolled into one. Gonna keep my gob shut, to keep my pension.

 

[littlespark]

It’s getting more and more serious as days go by.

At what point, as self employed and predominately domestic, do I say I can’t do any work for you, in your own home, because you’re over 70 and/or possibly high risk?

I have other jobs where I can simply let myself in and carry on, but that’s only 2 days worth.

 

[Midwest]

It’s getting more and more serious as days go by.

At what point, as self employed and predominately domestic, do I say I can’t do any work for you, in your own home, because you’re over 70 and/or possibly high risk?

I have other jobs where I can simply let myself in and carry on, but that’s only 2 days worth.

Think its already reached that point.