Here in Madrid it all happened so fast. I teach English here. Schools closed last Wednesday, bars and restaurants on Friday, lockdown Saturday. Luckily we have dogs, so we can be outside, but even then they’ve since imposed a 20 meter from your apartment rule. They’re not joking. So many fines and arrests. Can’t remember who said it earlier, but it’s true about choosing younger to live. I’ve a doctor friend here, and they’ve been instructed to chose “those most likely to survive.” It’s so messed up. And Spain was better prepared than the US, and look at us now. My sister is 33, has asthma, and is a cervival cancer survivor. She wouldn’t survive this. I hate this thing. And for the young people, myself included (I’m 30), it’s getting more and more of us daily. It’s no longer become an older person with underlying conditions thing. Yesterday a civil guard with no preexisting conditions passed. Also a friend of my girlfriend’s brother. He was a healthy, non smoking 28 year old. Wish you gents the best of luck.
These are tragic times indeed. I just saw a report from Italy. They're the hardest hit country so far and their health system is in danger of collapsing.
Well, as my screen name and avatar should suggest. . .British Victorian literature (actually pretty much all Brit Lit from the Romantics to the present day).
I always assumed you were named after Frank and Joe Hardy!
Just started my 12 week self isolation, the full boxed set of Spooks is on BBC catchup so along with 24 Bond films hopefully the time will pass quickly :-)
Well, as my screen name and avatar should suggest. . .British Victorian literature (actually pretty much all Brit Lit from the Romantics to the present day).
I always assumed you were named after Frank and Joe Hardy!
Yeah, didn’t they sing “Da Doo Run Run”?
"...the purposeful slant of his striding figure looked dangerous, as if he was making quickly for something bad that was happening further down the street." -SMERSH on 007 dossier photo, Ch. 6 FRWL.....
Just started my 12 week self isolation, the full boxed set of Spooks is on BBC catchup so along with 24 Bond films hopefully the time will pass quickly :-)
Are you really isolating 12 weeks? I pray ours isn’t that long. I’m in an apartment. Luckily all my friends back home have a yard at least.
woah that's a popculture rabbit hole, I had to do some online sleuthing of my own to get!
Shaun Cassidy played Joe in the late70s Hardy Boys teevee series I never even knew existed, and he did indeed record a cover of “Da Doo Run Run” round the same time!
awesome history lesson!
Hardyboy, you should add superado to your faculty because he obviously has deep knowledge of the truly important stuff!
and I'm sorry, i just started a new page of this serious thread with a very silly post.
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on topic then:
I've been working from home for three days, since my employers finally acknowledged I was not in fact an essential service. I'd been telling them that for a week, I'd been getting really scared travelling by public transit, which is always filthy and overcrowded. The nature of my job, the software I use, the database connections I depend on, makes actually working from home not technically possible however, but I am thinking real hard about work.
Our Prime Minister the other day announced a huge emergency aid package for people who've lost their jobs from all the business layoffs due to the virus. People in the service sector especially, who live paycheck to paycheck, are really going to suffer. Toronto is a very expensive city even if you do have a secure fulltime job. There was a news story tonight: the banks have been telling their customers mortgage payments must continue like its business as usual. If this keeps up some people are going to lose their homes, economic tragedies even for those who remain otherwise healthy.
And starting tonight, Canada is actually closing the border to the States for all inessential travel, mostly just leaving trucks able to get through to make deliveries, Unprecedented.
Just reading that people in the US are lining up in front of gunstores.
I am fearing that if the situation there is getting close to what we see in Italy, we'll see horrible things happening, particularly if people run out of food/money/other supplies.
I sincerely hope that I am entirely wrong on that front.
President of the 'Misty Eyes Club'.
Dalton - the weak and weepy Bond!
It’s unreal. I’m from Oklahoma. Imagine how many “They tried to take food, my livelihood! I had no other choice!” Defenses there will be.
“Mr. Whitford, you shot a man in Wal-Mart as you were both reaching for a package of Doritos...”
Just reading that people in the US are lining up in front of gunstores.
I am fearing that if the situation there is getting close to what we see in Italy, we'll see horrible things happening, particularly if people run out of food/money/other supplies.
I sincerely hope that I am entirely wrong on that front.
There is an old legend here in Finland: A man takes his family into wilderness. He works like a madman to make life and survive the hardship. Plows a field where there was forest, lives through hunger and deprivation. Then, one spring he sees a bough floating down the stream, it's clear that it was cut off with a knife. So he grabs his ax, gets into his boat and rows upstream. When he finally found his new neighbour, he walked to him, kiĺled him and his family. Just to have his peace... These are Finnish national heroes, social distancing is second nature to us...
"I mean, she almost kills bond...with her ass."
-Mr Arlington Beech
I have a question for everyone:
What is the most controversial ordisliked anti-Corona measure in your country?
In Norway it's not allowed to stay overnight in your cabin.
I don't mind this at all. I'm considered an "essential worker" My drives to work and home are great. Hardly anybody on the road. My days off from work I hardly went anywhere in public. Since I work with the public, I do my best to stay away from people on my day off. I'm guessing right now the restaurant workers aren't liking the take-out only part of my states stay at home order. Poor owners aren't getting much business.
Some people would complain even if you hang them with a new rope
Due to the Coronavirus pandemic I have decided to come out of AJB exile and update how things are in the Philippines for anyone who may be interested. I will update anything further of interest as it happens.
Latest figures show 380 positive tests and 25 deaths all in the Manila region.
Here in Cebu we have no cases as yet but a stay at home order has been instigated for under 18’s and over 65’s. There is also a curfew for everyone from 8pm to 5am daily apart from key workers.
On the sub-division (gated community) where I live, we have imposed our own sanctions of only allowing residents entry, so no visits from family or friends.
Wherever you live, keep safe everybody.
Yeah, well, sometimes nothin' can be a real cool hand.
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Well that is a lovely thought
Dalton - the weak and weepy Bond!
"Do you expect me to talk? "No Mister Bond I expect you to die"
Yeah, didn’t they sing “Da Doo Run Run”?
Hardyboy, you should add superado to your faculty because he obviously has deep knowledge of the truly important stuff!
______________________________________
on topic then:
I've been working from home for three days, since my employers finally acknowledged I was not in fact an essential service. I'd been telling them that for a week, I'd been getting really scared travelling by public transit, which is always filthy and overcrowded. The nature of my job, the software I use, the database connections I depend on, makes actually working from home not technically possible however, but I am thinking real hard about work.
Our Prime Minister the other day announced a huge emergency aid package for people who've lost their jobs from all the business layoffs due to the virus. People in the service sector especially, who live paycheck to paycheck, are really going to suffer. Toronto is a very expensive city even if you do have a secure fulltime job. There was a news story tonight: the banks have been telling their customers mortgage payments must continue like its business as usual. If this keeps up some people are going to lose their homes, economic tragedies even for those who remain otherwise healthy.
And starting tonight, Canada is actually closing the border to the States for all inessential travel, mostly just leaving trucks able to get through to make deliveries, Unprecedented.
I am fearing that if the situation there is getting close to what we see in Italy, we'll see horrible things happening, particularly if people run out of food/money/other supplies.
I sincerely hope that I am entirely wrong on that front.
Dalton - the weak and weepy Bond!
“Mr. Whitford, you shot a man in Wal-Mart as you were both reaching for a package of Doritos...”
Dalton - the weak and weepy Bond!
Dalton - the weak and weepy Bond!
[url]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019–20_coronavirus_pandemic[/url]
-Mr Arlington Beech
What is the most controversial ordisliked anti-Corona measure in your country?
In Norway it's not allowed to stay overnight in your cabin.
How will the country survive?
Please someone tell theses dumbasses that Covid-19 buggers the respiratory system (lungs) NOT yer DUMBASS! (oh I just did!)
I don't mind this at all. I'm considered an "essential worker" My drives to work and home are great. Hardly anybody on the road. My days off from work I hardly went anywhere in public. Since I work with the public, I do my best to stay away from people on my day off. I'm guessing right now the restaurant workers aren't liking the take-out only part of my states stay at home order. Poor owners aren't getting much business.
Latest figures show 380 positive tests and 25 deaths all in the Manila region.
Here in Cebu we have no cases as yet but a stay at home order has been instigated for under 18’s and over 65’s. There is also a curfew for everyone from 8pm to 5am daily apart from key workers.
On the sub-division (gated community) where I live, we have imposed our own sanctions of only allowing residents entry, so no visits from family or friends.
Wherever you live, keep safe everybody.