sadoldgit

Most of the forum? If by that you mean the gang of trolls and WUMs, why is that an issue. Your idea of being “annihilated” is having someone call you a childish name. I can live with that. And as I told you over there, if you don’t like my posts, put me on ignore. Life is short, why waste it reading something you don’t like?

Hello Whelk, hope you are keeping well? It’s too late to do anything about the far right here I’m afraid. Another good show worth watching - Homeland. I nearly gave up on it a few seasons back but the final series has been excellent and the show ended on Sunday night with a perfect finale.

Annihilated? Really? It’s just the same old shtick from those with a right wing axe to grind. I guessed you were there.

No Duckie, still in the land of the living thanks! Another good show is Run on Sky Comedy I think. It’s a grower so worth sticking with.

Nope. Just lurking and letting you lot put the world to rights.

Just catching up with a binge watch of Californication. Lost it after series 3 so plenty to watch. If you haven’t seen it, do yourself a favour. Lots of dark humour, warped LA characters and very fit women (and Hank Moody for the women).

I have not heard the news today and I wasn’t pretending that it was inside info. Just something I thought might be of interest. Unfortunately the usual c*nts on here can’t help themselves so I will leave you all to it.

Hopefully it will mean less transmission of the virus. A good thing, yes?

We will never know the numbers of course, but those who would not have had fallen sick if schools had been closed earlier might not agree with you.

You really need to grow up.

No cure for Covid-19 and still no cure for being a tw*t apparently.

I only have one brother, so as they say in America, you do the math.

More info. Just heard from my brother than trials in Asia using existing anti viral vaccines are having a good effect on symptoms of advanced cases of Covid.

I guess they will just be deployed to the main areas.

Just had another message from a friend who knows a women on London who has it. She has a temperature of 41 degrees and has been very poorly. Much worse than normal flu apparently. She is getting better. Mid 20’s.

Just heard from 2 different sources that we are very close to complete lock down with army deployed to keep people off streets. Also post office to shut down mail deliveries and posties to be used for food deliveries.

Scotland and Wales to close schools from Friday.

You are right but it is not me who is being abusive. I agree with your point and a decision has been made for a reason, but as I said early the wishy washy advice is worrying. We are advised not to go to pubs and restaurants but can still happily go to bigger more populated establishments. We High Riskers are told to stay at home from next week. Why not now? If it isn’t safe to go to the pub, shouldn’t they do close the pubs? If the reason is to mitigate lots of insurance claims, then that is not good enough. There has been a lot of rhetoric about being on a war footing. Perhaps we should have a cross party Covid committee to get a good focus from all sides of Parliament on the situation?

Thanks for that. I’m not the one throwing my toys out of the pram.

Yes they are. It is entirely possible that fewer people will get sick from the point schools close. It has nothing to do with High Horses. A reporter asked Johnson during this afternoon's press conference about school closure. Was he on a high horse?

Grow up. This isn’t anything to do with bashing Tories. This is about lives that may be lost unnecessarily. Apparently one of our number is very happy that schools will be open for at least one more day. One day! Great. In that one day how many people might potentially become infected? Of course we will never know because there is very little testing going on. However happens to be in power makes decisions and those decisions need to be questioned to ensure they are the right ones and are robust. You don’t become immune to the virus just because you voted Tory. If closing the schools one day earlier saved the life of a loved one, would you take it?

You are a very strange individual. What would you say to the people, maybe a pregnant teacher, who get infected in the next day or two because the schools are still open. Suck it up?

The BBC are saying that many schools are struggling to stay open due to sick staff. Concern about pregnant teachers is also growing as they are now in the at risk group.

Thank you so much for making it clearer. I’m sure the many people who have been calling for schools to be closed now will be reassured.

No, it was aimed at me. Weston doesn’t like me having a pop at Johnson so he gets digs in where he can. Large gatherings haven’t been banned, but it is suggested that they don’t happen (at the moment). Same with going to pubs and restaurants. All very wishy washy and typically British. The infection rate is on a steep curve every day so at some point they are going to need to be more prescriptive.