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On 4/2/2020 at 6:20 PM, owl sees all said:

Milly was thrilled to have two flowers open up in her cat-fish pool. And another bud on the way.

I remember being excited when my ( paid for ) flower opened in our fish pond. I'd given up on it for ages.

On 4/2/2020 at 6:20 PM, owl sees all said:

I used the ultra sticky silver tape for the repair. It has done a good job and much quicker and cheaper than replacing a whole section.

 

I had a similar problem caused by a palm branch falling down and hitting the roof. I did a permanent repair by sliding a piece of tin shaped to the roof panel UNDER the damaged panel. It has to extend to the bottom edge of the panel as water just runs under the good part below the hole.

I was too heavy to walk on the roof and my wife was too scared to.

On 4/3/2020 at 5:29 PM, Nyezhov said:

Out in hunting camps in Alaska, it was a hole in the ground  between two trees with a log crosspiece. Very unstable. ESpecially at 3 am in bear country with your pants down and a rifle across your lap.

Luxury! In the army on exercise it was just a hole in the ground. We dreamed of a log crosspiece.

Best loo I ever used was the one at the White Temple in Chiang Rai. It was beautiful.

Most spectacular loo I ever used was by Shackleton's hut at Cape Royds on Ross Island, Antarctica. It was open air and we went in a cut down 44 gal drum. The sight of the TransAntarctic mountains over the sea was spectacular.

2 hours ago, a3tsw said:

Get to know where all the gasoline stations are located , even if they are closed , you can still use the toilets, as they don’t lock them up.

 

Not in NZ. Government has ordered public toilets closed. Highways will be open air toilets end to end by the time this is over. Even truckers have to do number two.

On 4/3/2020 at 3:15 AM, mauGR1 said:

Repent, the end is nigh !

Jokes apart, we are many in the same situation, let's hope we'll have electricity, food and water, and the internet to keep us going.

I never thought i could say that, but after 3 weeks of self isolation, i have to say that internet is helping me to keep some level of sanity.

God help us if the internet goes down- same with power.

When most people don't have cash, they'd be in in the deep doodoo.

Far as isolation goes, I've been self isolated ever since I got divorced. Nothing has changed.

1 hour ago, BritManToo said:

Not having a womb is no real excuse for not having sex with the man you love.

(after a normal recovery period)

 

If you love your husband, you will want him to be happy.

Having sex makes most men happy, it doesn't cost her anything, it doesn't take much of her her time, she doesn't need to make any physical effort, it doesn't hurt her.

 

Ergo If she refuses you sex, it means she doesn't love you, and doesn't care about your happiness.

It took me a while to understand this, but it's really entirely obvious.

I'm fully aware of the lack of a womb etc.

She only wanted me to make her happy; my happiness was not her priority.

She didn't love me, and after about a year stopped saying she did. By then she thought she had me where she wanted me.

It's all obvious to me now. Then, not so much, and I really didn't want to lose my house. I was fooling myself till I couldn't anymore. Then I left her. She thought she could change my mind with a fruit basket! She obviously thought I was a complete fool. Got nasty when she realised I wasn't coming back.

2 minutes ago, chessman said:

Anecdotal evidence or listening to talkback radio is not really the best way to judge how things are going! People on talkback radio are NEVER happy with any situation. Crime will go down (as it has done in the U.K.) In most places. The breakdown of law and order is still a long way off.

Domestic violence IS increasing and that's from the news, not talkback, and vigilantes not being arrested IS a breakdown of law and order. It is here and now, not in the future. Police are warning of an increase in breakins and not nearly enough cops to do much at all to stop it.

Just now, Kadilo said:

I had my daily walk today and passed a park where there were families sitting at park benches inside, cars parked up galore in the car park so all inside somewhere. 
The worse they gonna get is a £30 fine or more likely told to go home. 
Likelihood is no one gonna trouble them. 

I see absolutely nothing wrong with that. As long as they are on different benches they ain't infecting anyone else. People need to get out in the fresh air.

1 minute ago, VBF said:

Gotta get this in....... Except to do a major shop which avoids going to the shops for several minor ones and exposing more people. ????

The post I was referring to was about going for a long drive for the sake of driving- NOT about going to the supermarket.

1 minute ago, chessman said:

False choice. You can’t ‘carry on’ as the virus infects everyone... the economic crash comes anyway.

The vast majority would get flue like symptoms, be off work a while and then back to work. Many would not have symptoms at all, going by current thinking.

The Spanish flue killed millions and people carried on.

5 minutes ago, Kadilo said:

More  people on the roads, more potential to put more pressure on emergency services. 
It’s all about consideration for the front line services. 

Anyway, driving is not exercise so no reason to do it if not work related.

1 minute ago, chessman said:

If you read the paranoid ramblings of the majority of posts on this forum you might come to the conclusion that it is falling apart...

 

but is it?

 

countries like Italy and Spain, have managed to slow the rate of infection. It is no longer doubling every 4 days in those countries.... 
 

There is a plan. Reduce the spread as much as possible as scientists work to find ways to fight it. They didn’t find a vaccine for SARS but it was stopped because scientists pinpointed exactly how it spread and thus could eliminate that spread. Covid will be a much bigger challenge but if (when) quick and cheap tests become available they will be able to learn exactly how many people are asymptomatic and find ways to reduce the spread. Models predict that the virus will peak in the worst hit countries this month. If that happens, then along with greater scientific knowledge things will start to get back to (kind of) normal this summer. 
 

am I being too optimistic? Perhaps... if the models are not correct and the number of cases is still increasing in May then this will need to be rethought.

 

 

I wasn't referring to the disease, but to the breakdown of society. We have vigilantes unchecked by the police, an increase in domestic violence, etc.

I listen to talkback radio and people are not happy with the situation. Give it a few more weeks on lockdown and I reckon we are in for worse than Corona.

Even a government minister ignored the lockdown! He got caught by a sharp eyed citizen- PM nowhere to be seen on one of her own ministers flouting the law!

5 minutes ago, Kadilo said:

It’s the same on the U.K.  

There aren’t enough Police to cover what they need to do already let alone Police the new measures. We just had a long general election debating how the numbers have been slashed during the past 10 years. 
 

Where I live we never even see a cop normally.  I once had to call the emergency number and it took over half an hour for one to turn up.

13 minutes ago, mauGR1 said:

Well, i agree with you in general, but right now, there is apparently a fierce debate, among world scientists, on how long the virus can stay and transmit in the air.

We have to be vigilant, even the official narrative can change from one day to another.

Hmmmm. The official line from NZ government is that it's not airborne. Just transmitted by droplets when one coughs or sneezes. At least that is what is said on the official Covid announcement yesterday. Of course that could change tomorrow.

3 minutes ago, VBF said:

Is it? Can you support that worldwide 97% of the scientific community agrees on everything Covid-related?

Methinks you missed the irony.

1 minute ago, VBF said:

Sadly, I have to agree with that - and we were having such a good argument! ????

I'll go further; if many of the ones supporting lockdown were to potentially suffer bankrupcy, loss of home and marital destruction etc I bet they'd be changing their tune. I'd hazard a guess that many are retired and have a secure income, so not much to lose by watching tv for a month or three.

I'm prepared to catch it and die rather than be locked down, and I can't give more than my life, can I?

1 minute ago, VBF said:

Normally I'd agree with that whole-heartedly but given that this is unprecedented in its severity, I'd say that we're all struggling for the right approach politicians included.

If even the medical and scientific community don't all agree what chance do the the rest of us have? 

Ah, so not 97% agreement among the scientific community then?

1 minute ago, tropo said:

I don't believe it will take 18 months to 2 years for a vaccine. With the collective minds of scientists the world over working on this, I believe it will take no longer than 6 months. Necessity is the mother of invention. The old way may have taken that long, but the world is making new history by the day.

Some things can't be rushed. If they put a bad vaccine into use it may ruin more people than the virus will kill.

1 minute ago, VBF said:

So it's all about you is it?

Of course it is. I met very few, if any people in my life that did anything if it wasn't in their own best interest.

If Kennedy made his famous speech now ( ask not what your country can do for you etc ), people would probably think he was crazy, IMO.

2 minutes ago, richard_smith237 said:

 

 

This is the problem. Everyone is thinking about themselves and forgetting they are not the only people in the world.

 

You can’t transmit the virus from inside your car. But, what if everyone else wants to go for a ride in their car, why should you be allowed to and them not? then who has to fill up with petrol, who may decide they are tried and need to stop off for a coffee, go to the public restroom, block up the roads for essential services (were at a time of pandemic). 

 

Many of the measures and bans in place don’t make sense on the individual level, but make a lot of level when you have 10’s and even 100’s of thousands of selfish people continuing to demand their freedoms. And for what? what cost? 

So, why can't people that work alone not do their job? Why can't a man cut the grass on a golf course green when he'll be all alone? Without being cut the greens will be ruined. Many similar jobs that involve no risk to others.

BTW, in NZ public restrooms are closed, so truck drivers have to poo on the side of the road- that's a health risk. No coffee shops open, have to fill car yourself and give money through the night window- shop closed.

4 minutes ago, UbonThani said:

Supermarket higher risk than tennis courts!!!!lets ban tennis 555 silly stuff.

 

 

 

It's exercise so not silly. I had a younger than I friend that died because he didn't get enough physical exercise ( he wasn't obese ).

I used to go out to a farm and do a lot of physical work, like shovelling dirt, but now the most I do is walk to the supermarket.

4 minutes ago, richard_smith237 said:

 

People can’t see how selfish they are things...  How can you catch Covid-19 from playing tennis, you can’t. 

You catch it when every other genius in the area has the same idea... “Hey, we’re off work, lets go play tennis” or “Lets go to the beach”, “lets go to the open mountainside”... the idea doesn’t seem so dumb until we realise everyone else has the same idea....  Thats why all public areas are being closed, gyms, sports clubs, beaches etc.. thats why we all have to isolate, because we can’t all go to the same area if we want thinking we’re the only genius who had the idea.

Soooooo, one locks down when at home with family, but one person goes to supermarket and catches it there, comes back to house and whole family catches it.

SO, WHAT WAS THE POINT OF BEING IN LOCKDOWN IN THE FIRST PLACE?????????????????