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Unlike you to make an inane comment. You carry on listening to Johnson and I am sure you will be just fine, especially when he has “squashed the sombrero.” Read The Guardian today. There is some good advice. Sadly it is from someone contradicting the Government, so you might ignore it.

Your last sentence is spot on. Children might not get sick but can still pass on the virus. So shut down schools. Older people are liable to pick it up now, not just next week. If it is imperative for them to self isolate, do it now. Everyday we prevaricate is another day when there could be potentially thousands more infected. This is not about point scoring, it about expecting the best possible advice from our leaders. At the moment it seems to make more sense to listen to leaders if other countries (apart from Trump of course). That article from The Guardian mentioned above struck the right tone for me. Hopefully the Government will pick up on it and stop their current nonsense.

I don’t know how many beds the NHS have currently before all of the new hospitals are going to be built, but would imagine that it is a lot less than 8m. Not sure where all of these people are going to end up although there had been a suggestion that hotels be used. Then there is the problem of staff and equipment. Then a again, this is the Daily Express.

Is that on Netflix?

I totally agree.

Instead of turning on the 70+ who don’t like the idea of shutting themselves away for months we should be asking why we aren’t adopting the advice of and working closely with the WHO in order to deal with this crisis.

As each day passes and more information comes to light, the plight of Liverpool, Leeds and WBA becomes less of an issue. Hopefully the Mail are talking their usual ********, but it isn’t looking good.

As you say SKD, at the moment. What happens when they can’t, as in Italy?

The thing is once you give people a choice some will chose not to. If it really is that crucial then the Government have to make it mandatory.

This is the thing though. They will prioritise hospital beds and respirators to those with the best chance of survival, which rules out many of us OAPs. Also if it was so vital that the over 70’s were to lock themselves away, why not do it now? What is to stop them getting infected in the next week or so?

That’s harsh. Look, many of us oldies will find it difficult to lock ourselves away for weeks or maybe months. We are the most at risk group and less likely to get a hospital bed and a respirated when the **** hits the fan, so cut us some slack please. We are all trying to get our heads around what it means to us and our loved ones. It is entirely possible that some of us won’t be here to slag off Gao, Long, JWP etc next season. I don’t see any of the general public giving a flying gig about others given that they are hoovering up supplies before the oldies can get out. As ever, when there are periods of great stress on society, we see the best and the worst of human behaviour. There will a lot worse than people breaking the isolating advice. Just wait until a black market appears and low life’s look to make money out of the situation.

Just heard from my brother who has worked in pharma all his life. Started off with Burroughs & Wellcome back in the 70’s. He now works for a company who audit the ingredients going into meds. He says that they are making progress on a vaccine but that it is probably at least a year away. As for the UK, they reckon we will be in lockdown in the next week. Didn’t have much advice for prevention other than what we know but did suggest taking concentrated garlic every day as garlic has an anti micro activity. Eek.

Sex Education is a must watched. Just started Stranger Things which seems ok so far.

Already stockpiled mate!

I remember getting stuck for this, but remember, as far as Universal Credit goes, they will cover your rent but they won’t cover your mortgage repayments.

So what are you saying? They can bring home normal cold and flu viruses but not Covid-19? And I am the one needs to sober up? Weren’t you the one who was telling us via your “snap dragon” that this was very serious? Not via school kids then.

Just watched the news reports from a Italy and Spain. Scary that in a week or two that will be us.

Everyone can claim benefits? You dint remember my posts about Universal Credit then. Good luck.

When my kids were younger I was always getting bugs they brought back from school. Why is Covid-19 any different?

Who looks after the kids if the parents are self isolating?

Playing Devils Advocate, isn’t Capitalism all about survival of the fittest? The people I feel sorry for are the small businesses. Many of them will go to the wall and there will be no hand outs from the Government to save them.

No worries, my loo rolls are all safely locked away.

So Richard Branson wants the Government to bail Virgin Airlines out to the tune of £7.5billion. Remind me again Richard, do you pay any taxes in the UK?

We have a large ranges of ages in our village fortunately and have just set up a WhatsApp group to keep in touch with anyone who needs help. Great too see so many local youngsters offering to help us oldies. Hopefully my fellow oldies on here will get plenty of help from neighbours too.