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AnnaMayZing
1 week ago
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Chasing Dragons
It is interesting hearing all your experiences. I too have relatives in the healthcare profession. Two of them work in Hospitals.
The English have been terribly selfish so far. There have been no restrictions yet but the store shelves are empty of essentials such as bread, meat, toilet paper, cleaning materials and so on. I have not stock-piled anything but yesterday I had to go to three separate supermarkets just to get my ordinary shopping. Even then, I couldn't get everything. Asda (Walmart) has had to close at night (24 hours usually) because they couldn't keep up with the hoarders who went in when it was quiet and the shelves were being stacked. What with Brexit and now this... Could the UK sink any lower?
Anyway, I hope that all of you with the underlying conditions manage to stay safe and well. I also have family who are at risk. This is indeed a very worrying time.
Just as an aside though, my other-half is convinced that this is the end of the world and is absolutely obsessed with watching all the news reports and reading on-line articles.
An interesting comparison, however, is the Spanish flu Pandemic of 1918-1920. It infected 500 million people, a quarter of the worlds population with the death toll estimated at anywhere between 17 million and 50 million, possibly even higher.
Puts this into perspective, doesn't it?
Some more interesting figures:
2008-2009: 13,000 deaths related to common flu. (UK)
2019: 27,820 killed or seriously injured on UK roads
Maybe we shouldn't worry too much over Covid19? Just a thought.
Nevertheless, keep taking precautions and stay safe all of you, from everything that is out to get you!
The English have been terribly selfish so far. There have been no restrictions yet but the store shelves are empty of essentials such as bread, meat, toilet paper, cleaning materials and so on. I have not stock-piled anything but yesterday I had to go to three separate supermarkets just to get my ordinary shopping. Even then, I couldn't get everything. Asda (Walmart) has had to close at night (24 hours usually) because they couldn't keep up with the hoarders who went in when it was quiet and the shelves were being stacked. What with Brexit and now this... Could the UK sink any lower?
Anyway, I hope that all of you with the underlying conditions manage to stay safe and well. I also have family who are at risk. This is indeed a very worrying time.
Just as an aside though, my other-half is convinced that this is the end of the world and is absolutely obsessed with watching all the news reports and reading on-line articles.
An interesting comparison, however, is the Spanish flu Pandemic of 1918-1920. It infected 500 million people, a quarter of the worlds population with the death toll estimated at anywhere between 17 million and 50 million, possibly even higher.
Puts this into perspective, doesn't it?
Some more interesting figures:
2008-2009: 13,000 deaths related to common flu. (UK)
2019: 27,820 killed or seriously injured on UK roads
Maybe we shouldn't worry too much over Covid19? Just a thought.
Nevertheless, keep taking precautions and stay safe all of you, from everything that is out to get you!
Chasing Dragons
My all-time favourite song! Annie Haslam had a beautiful voice.
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Bob! 
Roses always!
Deep, rumbling percussion or gentle acoustics?
Roses always!
Deep, rumbling percussion or gentle acoustics?
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Speaking of torches. I can't begin to describe the images and feelings this piece conjures in me. Well, I can but not here...
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Since the previous post, my longest drive is now 620 miles... to Koblenz in the Rhineland Palatinate of Germany. Only 25 miles was ferry on this one!
I have to say that it was an absolute joy, unlike the trip to Disneyland Paris avoiding toll routes! What a nightmare... never again!
I have to say that it was an absolute joy, unlike the trip to Disneyland Paris avoiding toll routes! What a nightmare... never again!
