When we're all dead or one foot in the grave, what will students of history make of these 'interesting times'? What exam question might they be set? Who will they be asked to compare us to? Ancient Rome occurs to me .
The USA is starting to show a lot of parallels to early Nazi Germany at the moment
If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
I just read this comment on a BBC HYS this morning which I think sums up what I think:-
'I think we’re all going to have to learn to live with Covid-19, it’s here to stay. We accept deaths from influenza every year as standard, and we have a vaccine for that which is taken up by millions each year. The world will just have to accept deaths from Covid-19 in the same way, that’s the reality. Having a new deadly virus is not uncharted territory, the reaction to it is.'
“Every day is ordinary, until it isn't.” - Bernard Cornwell-Death of Kings
I just read this comment on a BBC HYS this morning which I think sums up what I think:-
'I think we’re all going to have to learn to live with Covid-19, it’s here to stay. We accept deaths from influenza every year as standard, and we have a vaccine for that which is taken up by millions each year. The world will just have to accept deaths from Covid-19 in the same way, that’s the reality. Having a new deadly virus is not uncharted territory, the reaction to it is.'
I would agree, if it weren't for the fact that if we just let it do its thing unchecked we haven't got the critical care capacity to cope for the next couple of years until it settles down and enough people have been exposed and there's some level of 'herd immunity'.
When we're all dead or one foot in the grave, what will students of history make of these 'interesting times'? What exam question might they be set? Who will they be asked to compare us to? Ancient Rome occurs to me .
I’m keeping my eye on any new evidence etc. and was interested to hear that many of those who lived through SARS1 have been found to still have T cell memory for the virus 17 years later. Maybe there is hope that once Antibodies have gone, there is memory of the virus and therefore a chance of immunity or improved chance to be protected. For the scientists among us, sorry if that’s massively dumbing it down or being over optimistic, but I thought it was interesting and maybe a light in the dark.
Anyone noticed panic buying in supermarkets again? I saw online delivery slots getting difficult to get.it only takes a little thing like that and everyone goes bonkers again.hope not..and we are going to Norfolk for a couple of days end of September.i hope we get there,we were supposed to be in america for hubby's 60th!!
I have heard that SM delivery slots are booking up fast again. It boils my blood this behaviour because some of us: a). work in the hospital, b). shop for elderly relatives and c). survived the last wave without stock-piling for the apocalypse. We only ran low on some items last time because people went silly. You only need enough for about two weeks, unless you literally have no way of anyone delivering you some supplies.
" Some day-trippers said the town was “scarily rammed” and “packed to the
rafters”, and that the promenade had been turned into a “Covid breeding
ground”. "
If you're a day tripper to the town, then you're part of the problem! How can people not realise that it's not just "everyone else" that is in the wrong, but you included?? Where is the personal responsibility?? It's like people complaining about being sat in traffic, forgetting that they're the traffic themselves too.
Well we're back into lockdown here from tomorrow. I'm allowed to go anywhere I want in the borough, go out for work purposes or to go shopping or to go to the pub (as long as I leave before 11pm and don't meet any family members there). So life as normal except we're on lockdown. We do have a high population density here but luckily they're all pretty spread out.
If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
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'I think we’re all going to have to learn to live with Covid-19, it’s here to stay. We accept deaths from influenza every year as standard, and we have a vaccine for that which is taken up by millions each year. The world will just have to accept deaths from Covid-19 in the same way, that’s the reality. Having a new deadly virus is not uncharted territory, the reaction to it is.'
a). work in the hospital, b). shop for elderly relatives and c). survived the last wave without stock-piling for the apocalypse.
We only ran low on some items last time because people went silly. You only need enough for about two weeks, unless you literally have no way of anyone delivering you some supplies.