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    COVID-19 Pandemic

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    1 hour ago, Andy Bown said:

    Serious question, I need to know for the sanity of myself and my 3 year old son should the situation transpire ; If you’re on lockdown can you really be prevented from going for a walk on a sunny day!?

    Andy - I've been thinking the same thing. I went out for a lovely 10 miler yesterday. Unexpectedly wet to start, then glorious for a while and it did me so much good for my mental well-being. Social distancing was awkward at times, but understood with a few body language signals.

    My parents are both recovering from cancer and live in Weymouth in their 70s. The outlaws are over 70 too in Marlow. For my parents we've already talked about them getting out early in the day for a stroll on a deserted beach. How important the period is from leaving the house and getting back in, stripping of clothes etc.

    For the outlaws the chat we had today was similar about getting quickly in and out of the house and up to the Chilterns. Plenty of Social Distancing and no stopping at pubs.

    There is absolutely no way of policing this. It will 100% do more good than harm in curing cabin fever. Take whatever precautions you see fit. Stop, walk slowly, move left, move right, go backwards, vaseline your nose... whatever you do smile and enjoy some vitamin D and be safe.

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    Novel Coronavirus – China

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    Just now, Tilly said:

    Ah no! I hope by the 21st they’ve pulled their finger out and you’re not forced to make that decision. I really feel for you as a 2 week trip away with the family is a biggie and something you’ve probably all been counting down to for a long time. 

    Thanks Tilly. We've been saving for 4 years to go and the kids have been so excited about this. My wife has told me not to go on the Internet as she's in denial.  

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    Novel Coronavirus – China

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    1 hour ago, Tilly said:

    Great thread everyone, really informative with humour in the right places.

    Im not impressed with the way our government are handling things at all. From the minute Boris appeared on This Morning you could tell their reaction to the threat wasn’t going to be sufficient enough to contain anything *facepalm*. I think they’ll react in the end with better measures but it will be too late. It’s already too late imo. 

     

    My personal concern at the moment is large public gatherings. We have tickets to Lewis Capaldi at Wembley SSE arena for tomorrow, capacity 12,500. Why these haven’t been cancelled I’ll never know! I don’t want to go, I think it would be irresponsible. I myself have a very low immune system having not long had a baby and am just picking up cold after cold, currently with a sinus infection. I’ve been poorly on and off since November. But I have elderly relatives with Cancer, diabetes, Heart disease, high bp. Also I have my children to think about. Im not convinced the young are ‘safe’. I don’t think we know the truth and full facts about who this virus is picking off. I think many things about it will have been hidden to reduce panic. I need to keep myself healthy anyway to look after my clan. It’s really annoying though that they’re allowing them to go on. Postponement would’ve been sensible. 
     

    I hope everyone comes through this ok. It is indeed worrying times, fascinating at the same time the way nature can bite back with no warning and throw the world into total chaos. 


    ETA: I have already decided not to go tomorrow don’t worry. Reading back it kind of sounds like I was undecided. Forgive me, it’s early! 
     

     

    Thanks for sharing Tilly.

    I'm meant to be going to Disney World on the 21st March for 2 weeks with my wife and daughters. As you can imagine I'm thrilled about the travel ban excluding the UK. I'm hoping that our government see's sense and does the same thing.

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    Novel Coronavirus – China

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    1 minute ago, kold weather said:

    I suppose the problem is SB if they are trying to delay it, there may not be much left to save for some bushiness, quite a few places are already only just getting over a difficult 2019 due to Brexit fears/anxiety and may not have the resources to cope with a 2-3 month period of drastically reduced demand. I admit on its own its not a huge deal and I think other larger measures elsewhere in the economy needs to be put out and the introduction of IR35 for example must be put back at least 6 months IMO (as there is likely to be another Autumn budget when hopefully we will see things calm down) as every little will help in this case.

    No easy answer, especially since we haven't still properly recovered from the 2007-2008 crash (we used ultra low interest rates to prop everything up globally) that same trick isn't going to have anywhere near the same effect here.

     

    or 100% scrapped! triple whammy of Brexit, IR35 & Coronavirus will hit the economy hard.

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