Kid Dynamite

WHO warning that America is fucked

To be fair, if the government leaves all the building sites open, then cuts bus and train timetables right back this outcome is inevitable

Put a few lbs on in recent weeks so went online to find some dumbbells to buy. Remembered my mate has some bowflex ones years ago which were canny. Looked on eBay for a 2nd hand set https://rover.ebay.com/rover/0/0/0?mpre=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ebay.co.uk%2Fulk%2Fitm%2F274314975382 Think I’ll just stay fat

Aye. 2 weeks ago I still had a conference to London booked and expected to be flying to Tenerife in May. It’s gone bezerk in the last fortnightly.

I came off Facebook after reading the 327th variation on this post

Fuck me Renton, have a day off. I said 3 weeks because that's how long the lockdown has initially been announced for. I haven't got 3 weeks off work. I meant on my days off, over the next 3 weeks..... FWIW I was working in A&E yesterday. My wife's turn today. There's not much more of a frontline I can be deployed to.

Got 3 weeks worth of days off to sit in the house and play it now

Mental times. Only food shops left open. Id planned on going to Vodafone tomorrow to get a 4g sim so I could FaceTime my gran on her tablet. Can’t even do that now. Be interesting to see how many people stick to this

Been keeping myself busy on my days off. Converted a kiddies card based game into an arcade cabinet. Just need to get some proper artwork printed off

Sounds like the woman might have been schizophrenic. Fucking awful either way

I’ve had Tenerife booked for 6 months. We’ve had the bairn up a height for ages about spending her 4th birthday at the water park with the whole family. She’s got a memory like an elephant too

You can’t judge people on their online personas. I’m a hoot in real life. And I have a home arcade so I’ve got this social distancing thing down pat

There’s literally thousands of people all over social media mixing up the two

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So what’s the latest advice? I thought we were social distancing. I went to the shops yesterday. Didn’t stand next to anyone and washed my hands before and after. From reading Twitter anyone who dares leave their front door has blood on their hands Obviously if I was symptomatic I would self isolate for 14 days, but an awful lot of people appear to be conflating self isolation with social distancing

Then 100,000s die. But everyone isn’t miserable as sin because they’ve been reminded of the fact daily. You would be a cracking prison warden on death row. Daily updates for the inmates

I give up

My point being some posters on here are clearly managing better than others. Daily doses of “I told you so” , “hundreds of thousands are going to die” and the country suffering “an economic collapse” is not helpful in the slightest. Even Quiff, the most emotionally blunted bloke on here said he was struggling the other day. Just because we are all full of bravado online (some more than others Fish ) doesn’t mean people don’t carry anxieties into real life.

Bet you’re a right laugh at parties! FWIW I think everyone on here is acutely aware of the seriousness of this by now. Constantly reminding people about it doesn’t help though. The time for arguing who was right and who was wrong is well past, and finger pointing at the government will no doubt be done for years to come in the aftermath of this clusterfuck when we have a multinational investigation into how this all happened, and how we prevent it from happening again What we need currently is calm, sensible leadership. At home, at work, on here and in government.

It’s mad to think but the Tories winning the last election has worked in everyone’s favour. If Corbyn had just announced the welfare package Boris has the Gammons would have been frothing at the mouth for years to come

The worlds landscape will be changed for the next decade. America will have it ten times worse than us too. It can go 2 ways though, either we pull together like we did following WW2, or the Cummings and the like use this as an excuse to ramp up control of the masses permanently. Good luck to everyone on here, I hope most of us survive relatively unscathed both medically and financially

Yep, he was awful yesterday. The first one he did he got the tone reasonably ok, but 4 days in and he can’t keep the act up anymore Meanwhile, over the water https://www.irishtimes.com/news/ireland/irish-news/coronavirus-many-of-you-are-feeling-scared-full-text-of-varadkar-speech-1.4205405

I only come on here now for the hourly updates on Renton’s psyche

Also, kudos to Ewerk calling the schools staying open for NHS workers