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  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    edited October 2020
    @AuntyRach :)  This article in the BMJ seems to think there's evidence to link low temperatures to Covid virus increase 

    "... The virus thrives in lower temperatures and very high or very low relative humidity...."

    https://www.bmj.com/content/370/bmj.m2716

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    Well northerners insist that they're more friendly than Londoners. Maybe that's the issue, especially as people down here seem to have stopped the kissy kissy greeting thing.
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • AuntyRachAuntyRach Posts: 5,291
    Some interesting points in that article Dove. I had heard about the slaughterhouse issues as there was an outbreak in a town near me. I wonder if anyone has mapped temperatures with hotspots during the last wave? I also think that the 3 Cs come into play in factories like that: Crowded places, Close contact, Confined spaces; and Professor Jonathan Van Tam today also added about raised voices being a factor. (Pubs - I’m looking at you here too).
    My garden and I live in South Wales. 
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    This also seems to confirm the cold and wet theory

    https://www.edp24.co.uk/business/farming/why-do-poultry-factories-get-coronavirus-outbreaks-1-6807670



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  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    I agree @philippasmith2 ... it's going to take time .... I mean, look how many generations it took for the Brits to loosen their girdles and stiff upper lips and hug and kiss relatives and non relatives alike when greeting them, instead of shaking their hands as I was taught when I was growing up.  I don't think my parents had hugged or kissed me (except at my wedding) after I grew up, until my brother married a very huggy sort of person, and after they got over the shock they quite liked it and started reciprocating. 

    Now we'vle got to return to our Victorian formality ... it'll take time.

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  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    I was talking about the London kissy kissy thing. A nod seems perfectly sufficient to me 😊
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    Perhaps. I was born north of the river.😉
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190
    I blame  the television,   These reality programmes it’s practically a full on snog when someone wins, or loses. 
    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

  • SydRoySydRoy Posts: 167
    B3 said:
    Well northerners insist that they're more friendly than Londoners. Maybe that's the issue, especially as people down here seem to have stopped the kissy kissy greeting thing.
    Up 'ere in the Fells "kissy kissy greeting " would be a mistake!  :s  :D
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    Then there's footballers. Roll about in agony of they trip over a blade of grass and hugs and kisses if they kick a ball between two poles.  Forgoodnesssakegiveusabreak!
    In London. Keen but lazy.
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