Corona Virus Concerns

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  • davetommo
    davetommo Forum Participant Posts: 1,430
    edited May 2020 #1292

    Did you not want one when you insinuated I might be an idiot

  • no one
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    edited May 2020 #1293

    yes you are self isolated in your car,  until you have an accident or breakdown, (hopefully not)

    This would then involve a whole rash of others that will come to save your life, I had an accident 2 years ago were a car being driven erratically smashed in to the side of my vehicle he was doing 80+mph, I was doing 55mph.

    The result, my car span 180 deg and rolled 3 times ending upside down in a verge, onboard, myself OH and dog, dog died, wife had to be cut out of  the vehicle, I made my own escape.

    persons involved.

    2 PC's, 8 fireman, and  4 ambulance staff.

    This is also the Police point of view,  driving is allowed to go to your exercise and essential journey, but the risk is greater the further you travel.

    Maiden Castle just to the SW of Dorchester is at the end of a 1 mile road the police have been educating people in cars to the fact the should have walked .

    or maybe I should drive to Scotland (10hours) then just go for a 23 hour walk....as if.

  • EmilysDad
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    edited May 2020 #1294

    I might have been going to Wigan Pier! 😂

     

    But I have to come home again 12 hrs later 

  • Cornersteady
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    edited May 2020 #1295

    smile

  • Pliers
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    edited May 2020 #1296

    Just a thought, Fisherman, work is ongoing to identify, test and eventually produce a vaccine to protect us from this awful virus.

    Maybe I’m wrong, but I’m not aware that this research is being carried out by the lovely people of Llechwedd. ( my mother is from Llechwedd).

    No, it’s being done by the awful inhabitants of towns and cities in the UK 😱

    I hope that because of this, you and your family will not refuse the vaccine into your community when it’s available......🤔

  • Pliers
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    edited May 2020 #1298

    Correct, Nellie, he previously accused me of being an irresponsible dog owner, when, sadly, we no longer have a dog.

    😢

  • Oneputt
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    edited May 2020 #1299

    Lifted from the Eastern Daily Press as police clamp down on speeding:

    Norfolk & Suffolk Roads and Armed Policing Team (NSRAPT) reported incidents of four drivers going between 29 and 54mph above the speed limit across the region.

    The highest speed recorded was on the A47 where a vehicle sped 124mph in a 70mph zone. NSRAPT said the driver was on their way home after making a “non-essential journey”.

    Police also reported a driver travelling at 104mph on the A11 at Wymondham “en route to put a deposit on a puppy.”

    I will leave it up to you how you would describe these people 

     

     

  • Fisherman
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    edited May 2020 #1300

    Pliers- People all over the UK are volunteering to test various cures. Have volunteered myself as I have nothing to lose. Didnt follow your logic post.

  • moulesy
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    edited May 2020 #1301

    For the avoidance of any doubt, here are the actual government regulations. Section 6 is the relevant one as far as leaving home is concerned! smile

    http://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2020/350/made

  • davetommo
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    edited May 2020 #1302

    I could get run over crossing Blackpool Road on foot, emergency services woulD still have to be called 

  • davetommo
    davetommo Forum Participant Posts: 1,430
    edited May 2020 #1303

    I think the world of you to.

  • JVB66
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    edited May 2020 #1304

    Where we live,   at the moment the chance of getting run over are very small,  with the low traffic levels,raffic  its when? the the traffic levels start to get back to as they were   ,the accident rates for pedestrians will go up when we have to learn again to look before crossingsurprised

  • davetommo
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    edited May 2020 #1305

    I think you will find up here in the last couple off weeks the traffic has got back to near normal. I live just off Blackpool Road and it is nearly as busy as normal.

  • JVB66
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    edited May 2020 #1306

     So maybe thats why the North west is now the countries Covid 19 hot spotsurprised

  • davetommo
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    edited May 2020 #1307

    And maybe it doesn’t scare us

  • davetommo
    davetommo Forum Participant Posts: 1,430
    edited May 2020 #1309

    That is your choice.

  • Oneputt
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    edited May 2020 #1310

    You couldn’t make this up, the Norfolk Police stopped a motorcyclist travelling at 125mph.  When ask whether his journey was essential he said the purpose of his journey had been to pick up his pet goldfish.  Sure enough in his rucksack was the fish alive and well. 

  • Takethedogalong
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    edited May 2020 #1311

    I’d get that into Guinness Book of Records...”World’s Fastest Goldfish”.

    Hope they threw the book at him. I’d make them do a month cleaning for NHS, they’d have to provide their own PPE. That might concentrate the thought cells, clear out the fuzz. 

  • no one
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    edited May 2020 #1312

    I see the tracking app is now live for trials on the Isle of White,

    it seems that the security of the app has been proven by the experts there is no upload or download in use, 

    Only if you suspect you have symptoms , you can use the app to contact the NHS and order a test, this then sends a contact trace message regarding all other apps that have been near by secure id codes in each phone, no personal details will be transmitted.....we will see!.

  • davetommo
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    edited May 2020 #1314

    How many driving seats are there on this bus

  • EmilysDad
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    edited May 2020 #1315

    I was over taken on the motorway a little earlier .... I was doing 70 (which is as fast as you want to go in a Fortwo Smart) and was passed as though I was stopped!

  • davetommo
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    edited May 2020 #1316

    Was it a foreign HGV

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  • Tinwheeler
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    edited May 2020 #1318

    I think it’s citing idiotic breaches of the regs, David, rather than looking for ways around the rules. Surely only the foolhardy do that.

  • Cornersteady
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    edited May 2020 #1320

    +1

    Also no need to use any labelling of people posting their opinion

  • Takethedogalong
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    edited May 2020 #1321

    If you are finding your village boring AD, I quite understand your spending a good part of your year overseas. But commend you for staying close to home. I am happily enjoying what’s on my doorstep, and our once a week, two minute drive as part of a shop that takes in an hour or so’s walk in some close by ancient woodland, far less populated than our local park, is very nice. If we could both go out together, and didn’t have the dog who sadly cannot walk far, we would be on our bikes and doing the local canal paths and exploring what’s on our doorstep like Corners. But sadly, it’s not safe for OH.

    We work on the risk probability of doing what we do, if it’s safe for us and others, we do it, but we don’t if it increases our chances of catching C19, or might result in us becoming a burden on NHS. That goes for any dangerous in the house DIY as well. So far I have managed not put the fork through my foot, break my neck scrambling around the rockery, or walk into greenhouse glass, but there’s plenty of time yet😁 OH did cause havoc in kitchen yesterday, but once we had got smoke alarm off all was well. Didn’t take him that long to clean up either😂