Popular Post Xela Posted March 25, 2020 Popular Post Share Posted March 25, 2020 Was just feeling a bit dejected after another very tough work day but then had to slap some sense into myself. I'm lucky I can work from, have a secure (well, at the moment) job and earn a decent wage. Some people are out of work, living week to week or are ill. Wishing all the VTers suffering with this all the best. 21 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snowychap Posted March 25, 2020 Share Posted March 25, 2020 (edited) 10 minutes ago, bickster said: Aye Fox Basher's already on the case Jolyon Fox-Basher sounds like a character in a Wodehouse novel. Edit: Together with his friend/wife - Kim O'Nowearer. Edited March 25, 2020 by snowychap 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Awol Posted March 25, 2020 Share Posted March 25, 2020 32 minutes ago, sne said: https://metro.co.uk/2020/03/25/nurse-kills-infected-coronavirus-12453133/ Stories like this make me hope the atheists are wrong. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bickster Posted March 25, 2020 Moderator Share Posted March 25, 2020 Just now, Awol said: Stories like this make me hope the atheists are wrong. Do not underestimate the power of catholic guilt 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Awol Posted March 25, 2020 Share Posted March 25, 2020 (edited) 2 minutes ago, bickster said: Do not underestimate the power of catholic guilt I’m married to one and she wields it like a rapier. Edited March 25, 2020 by Awol 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RimmyJimmer Posted March 25, 2020 Share Posted March 25, 2020 4 hours ago, Stevo985 said: That's not the part that disgusts me. That's their culture. They eat animals like that. I don't see the difference between eating a mouse or a bat compared to a pig or a cow. But eating anything that's alive, especially ripping it apart like that frog is extra disgusting. Needless cruelty This was bats, rats and mice that were alive Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bickster Posted March 25, 2020 Moderator Share Posted March 25, 2020 1 minute ago, Awol said: I’m married to one and she wields it like a rapier. I'm partnered with an atheist one, it's still there deep down after all these years, that shite they whip into them at school and church despite her being a non=Believer for many years 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Villarocker Posted March 25, 2020 Share Posted March 25, 2020 44 minutes ago, Davkaus said: I see Amazon have opened up a charity that takes public donations to help compensate their contract employees. If there's one thing that comes from this, I hope it's eating the **** rich. Take your trickle down economics, and your "unskilled jobs" benevolently created by our job-creating betters and shove them up your collective arseholes. The ultra rich exploit us all, and they've particularly shown their true colours in the last couple of weeks. The costs of the financial hit the world is taking should be coming from an extremely aggressive wealth tax. While the rich hide, laying off thousands and thousands of workers, minimum wage workers find themselves "essential" having to go out and risk their lives. **** this system. The injustice has never been clearer. This is what winds me up. My employers made around £300m+ between October and December alone. Now the logistics director is threatening they may have to make people redundant if the business has to temporarily close voluntarily. The same director said we have monthly overheads of £1.3m. Monday last week, our CEO stood in front of us telling us all there was enough cash flow for the company to survive the next 6 months without work, if needed. Now, I'm no genius but, surely we can survive a temporary closure of 3 months with costs of £4m if we are making £300m in 3 months? The greed stinks. I hate those that exploit us mere mortals. I hope they all rot. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Villarocker Posted March 25, 2020 Share Posted March 25, 2020 10 minutes ago, Awol said: Stories like this make me hope the atheists are wrong. I'm sure there was a story about a young British nurse who had apparently committed suicide in a London hospital this week? It must be very hard for them mentally and physically. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Villarocker Posted March 25, 2020 Share Posted March 25, 2020 What I've noticed is, as the day has gone on my breathing is not the same. I've not had any runny nose or sign of sinus trouble but I've become wheezier despite taking my inhaler. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LakotaDakota Posted March 25, 2020 Share Posted March 25, 2020 1 minute ago, Villarocker said: What I've noticed is, as the day has gone on my breathing is not the same. I've not had any runny nose or sign of sinus trouble but I've become wheezier despite taking my inhaler. Are you any better/worse in general than yesterday? mine definitely seems worse in the evenings so could just be a thing i guess, seem to start out ok in the morning but gradually get worse through the day. Thankfully it is much better than it was but still isn't right 7 days now after the worst of it last wednesday. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sam-AVFC Posted March 25, 2020 Share Posted March 25, 2020 1 hour ago, Genie said: UK numbers of cases and deaths look surprisingly small? I just hope people have checked on isolated neighbours. I'm also expecting it to spread more to the regions now as an awful lot of London seem to have travelled to stay with family. Hopefully the majority of us are like the people who are reported to have had barely any symptoms. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Awol Posted March 25, 2020 Share Posted March 25, 2020 6 minutes ago, Villarocker said: What I've noticed is, as the day has gone on my breathing is not the same. I've not had any runny nose or sign of sinus trouble but I've become wheezier despite taking my inhaler. Does your gf drive? If you really start struggling to breathe I’d suggest getting yourself to casualty and don’t wait for an ambulance. She could probably cut some rough masks *now* out of cloth for you, her and the little man to wear in the car? Keep windows open. Even if she drops you outside and you have to crawl through the door, at least you won’t risk being abandoned at home by paramedics as per that story up thread. Work out that plan with her *now* so you both know what to do. If you get a heavy fever you don’t want to be trying to make sense of the situation while delirious and she’s clear on the next steps. Apologies if you’ve already got this covered, trying to help not lecture. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Villarocker Posted March 25, 2020 Share Posted March 25, 2020 12 minutes ago, LakotaDakota said: Are you any better/worse in general than yesterday? mine definitely seems worse in the evenings so could just be a thing i guess, seem to start out ok in the morning but gradually get worse through the day. Thankfully it is much better than it was but still isn't right 7 days now after the worst of it last wednesday. In general, I have felt worse today than I did yesterday. I felt better yesterday evening until the night drew in and that's when I got the shivers. But, I've been really hot all day today and struggled to cool down. My lethargy seems to have relented more as they day has gone on but the breathing has become wheezier. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kingman Posted March 25, 2020 Share Posted March 25, 2020 (edited) New York hospitals treating coronavirus patients with vitamin C Seriously sick coronavirus patients in New York state’s largest hospital system are being given massive doses of vitamin C — based on promising reports that it’s helped people in hard-hit China, The Post has learned. “The patients who received vitamin C did significantly better than those who did not get vitamin C,” he said. “It helps a tremendous amount, but it is not highlighted because it’s not a sexy drug.” https://nypost.com/2020/03/24/new-york-hospitals-treating-coronavirus-patients-with-vitamin-c/ Edited March 25, 2020 by Kingman 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Villarocker Posted March 25, 2020 Popular Post Share Posted March 25, 2020 2 minutes ago, Awol said: Does your gf drive? If you really start struggling to breathe I’d suggest getting yourself to casualty and don’t wait for an ambulance. She could probably cut some rough masks *now* out of cloth for you, her and the little man to wear in the car? Keep windows open. Even if she drops you outside and you have to crawl through the door, at least you won’t risk being abandoned at home by paramedics as per that story up thread. Work out that plan with her *now* so you both know what to do. If you get a heavy fever you don’t want to be trying to make sense of the situation while delirious and she’s clear on the next steps. Apologies if you’ve already got this covered, trying to help not lecture. I'm not that bad yet. I know when I'll be needing hospital as I've been through that experience many times throughout my life. Right now, I'm just trying to stay calm, drink plenty and use my inhaler as much as needed. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Awol Posted March 25, 2020 Share Posted March 25, 2020 2 minutes ago, Villarocker said: I'm not that bad yet. I know when I'll be needing hospital as I've been through that experience many times throughout my life. Right now, I'm just trying to stay calm, drink plenty and use my inhaler as much as needed. Fair one mate. I got pneumonia aged 19, went to bed fine after a night out and woke up poleaxed. When it came it came quick and I’ve never had a fever like it, luckily was with a mate who got me into hospital ASAP. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Villarocker Posted March 25, 2020 Share Posted March 25, 2020 I'm pretty sure, from reading survivors' stories, that the pneumonia part comes from the amount of fluid (mucus?) that builds up in their sinuses and travels down into their lungs. I've not had any of that yet but still wheezier than usual. I'm hoping to avoid the sinus trouble. I dread the pneumonia, I'm sure that would kill me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xela Posted March 25, 2020 Share Posted March 25, 2020 I won't link as its the Heil, but pictures across the UK today of people sunbathing in city parks, on beaches, taking a dip in the ocean and generally hanging around in groups in town/city centres They don't get it do they? They will find the general populations tolerance to this shithousery will soon wane. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xann Posted March 25, 2020 Share Posted March 25, 2020 42 minutes ago, Villarocker said: The greed stinks. I hate those that exploit us mere mortals. I hope they all rot. That's down to us. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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