Thread: How has Coronavirus affected you ?

Originally Posted by Chico

Yawn, New world snowflake

Did you learn a new word? Or even three? Well done.

Originally Posted by Dillinger

What professions or businesses do you reckon will be in high demand when these shutdowns end?

Sport shops.

Usually, I saw 2 or 3 joggers in the evening at my moo baan. Since the restrictions kicked in, it now looks like the start line of the London Marathon as the sunsets.

^ Good one

Gyms should rake it in too.

Originally Posted by Dillinger

^ Good one Gyms should rake it in too.

Yeah, because having a load of sweaty panting people in relatively close proximity ......

^ could move the treadmills 2 metres apart.

And one in the showers at a time.



My chocolate piping

^ who are you packing?

The distancing/queuing is fairly well organised in the UK with the 2m spacing, cept this morning i was stood about 3m from the bloke in front and i reckon i was smoking his fag more than him.

The supermarkets have arrows taped on the floors to indicate traffic flow around the aisles and of course almost to a man every woman ignores them.

Originally Posted by NamPikToot

who are you packing?

An early bday pressie for Batty

Originally Posted by NamPikToot

stood about 3m from the bloke in front and i reckon i was smoking his fag more than him.

Was the fag in the middle of you both?

Wrong'un

Originally Posted by Dillinger

Was the fag in the middle of you both? Wrong'un

Most i have smoked in over 6 years, be a shame if it kills me after having given up

^ what's your record for smoking fags over a balcony?

^ never been rich enough to own a house with one, attend a play in one or stay in a hotel with one..now if you are talking decks then i believe we have an expert amongst us.

Mmm. I put the bins out Monday before i popped off, they were supposed to be emptied Weds for Gen Rubbish, Recycling & Bottle box. Come home and the Bottle Box is intacto, unmolested and so i now have to undertake the walk of shame to keep further filling it with the spunked out Thatchers bottles until it gets emptied .. i may repatriate it after dark to spare further embarrassment.

Originally Posted by SKkin

Store had signs posted now about maintaining distance...but put up some cockamamie rope barrier scheme that only succeeded in bunching people together at the entry and exits. Didn't seem very well planned.

Found out what the rope barrier scheme was really about. Seems they are going to begin limiting the amount of people in the store at one time. Beginning this coming week. So they were already prepping for that last week. Other retailers following suit.

Should be interesting.

Well, I'm happy I got back to Thailand in time. The lockdown in Bavaria would have killed me quicker than the virus. At least here I have acres of space without having to be close to anyone but family.

Weekly chat with my dad was good news. Sister and her husband are recovering well from the virus. Dad thankful he's stayed well clear of care homes and happy living on basic food. Keeps telling me it reminds him of the war but at least there's no bombs going off all around.

Who gives a sh!t about money...freedom wins every time.

Originally Posted by NamPikToot

Mmm. I put the bins out Monday before i popped off, they were supposed to be emptied Weds for Gen Rubbish, Recycling & Bottle box. Come home and the Bottle Box is intacto, unmolested and so i now have to undertake the walk of shame to keep further filling it with the spunked out Thatchers bottles until it gets emptied .. i may repatriate it after dark to spare further embarrassment.

^ Further is a word missing from that last sentence. I am so cashed up i have decided to hell with loo roll shortages, i have taken to wrapping my empties in the stuff; stealth empties.

Originally Posted by SKkin

Found out what the rope barrier scheme was really about. Seems they are going to begin limiting the amount of people in the store at one time. Beginning this coming week. So they were already prepping for that last week. Other retailers following suit.

Should be interesting.

In theory, the base ideals are keep folks from mingling with one another - smallish groups are still crowds.
Therefore - restricting, containing and isolating the movement of this bug.

Seems to me, from simple observations, a healthy percentage of the world's population aren't getting it.
Refusing to comprehend the nature of this nasty pathogen and easily contagious/infecting as it is. Protective masks or not.

Folks are still out-n-about, freely, without a care -
Remembering the asymptomatic [and contagious] that abounds.

Don't know what is worse - the highly ignorant authorities or the like populations.


Notice where the growth of cases and death are occurring currently and retain a very shallow learning curve -
These populations are suspect

Originally Posted by SKkin

Found out what the rope barrier scheme was really about. Seems they are going to begin limiting the amount of people in the store at one time. Beginning this coming week. So they were already prepping for that last week. Other retailers following suit.

Works here. Lines at supermarkets and max 40 people allowed in at one time. One leaves, another enters. The last aisle is the start of the check-out queue

^It won't go over well here I can tell you that much. We're trying to limit our shopping trips to every two weeks. May limit that to monthly now.

Apparently propane is in as much demand as toilet paper here. Been checking around today online and by phone and all the local places that do propane tank exchanges are out of stock.

WTF...

^Maybe go back to charcoal.

^That's going to require some modifications... But now that you mention it I wonder if that's out of stock too. I'm trying to imagine why the 20# tanks of propane are out of stock.

^Trump says everyone is telling him that propane kills the coronavirus. Bigly!