09-03-2020, 19:53
I didn`t go at the week-end either, so that seems to make a full house of absentees. I wasn`t feeling too well; I seemed to have picked up a bug from somewhere (not that one ). Well, I assume it wasn`t `that one` as I`m feeling much better today so if it was my ancient and decrepit immune system deserves a medal for performance above and beyond.
Interestingly, though, although I`ve still got a cough and had to go up to the quack`s this morning for a shingles jab that I`d been asked to have, the nurse showed no concern at all. We had a chat about it – Monday morning`s a quite time , it seems – and both her thoughts and mine are very much in line with what you guys have already said. Most people who contract it will deal with it more easily than they would the `flu; it`s our glorious press that seems intent on scaring the brown and nasty out of everybody – plus the natural inclination of human beings to panic and over-react at every opportunity (but not to the point where they will actually take common-sense precautions, obviously) – that`s the real problem. I sat watching several people walking into the surgery without bothering to use the hand-sanitizers that are always there; presumably they think they`re okay on the basis that they were down at ASDA at the week-end buying half a hundredweight of bog-rolls.
I noticed as well, Dancing, that footballers still can`t resist having a kiss and a cuddle whenever a goal was scored (and that rugby players seem still to be happy to stick their heads up each other`s arse at every scrum - I`ll bet that`s a sanitizer-free zone as well!). Any preventative action we take is likely to be nothing more than cosmetic; the thing is just going to have to run its course and if it turns out that my number`s up, then my number`s up. I reached my three-score-and- ten a couple of weeks ago, so my family tells me I`m on borrowed time now anyway (they`re nice like that).
Personally, I`m inclined to the view that there are too many humans on the surface of the planet these days and that the odd pandemic now and then is Mother Nature`s way of balancing things out. Like you though, Dev, I just don`t happen to think that this is one of her more serious attempts. Now, if she decides to let an updated, fully refurbished and weaponised version of bubonic plague loose on us..........
Anyway, I`m pleased we got the win as well and that we`re out of the bottom four; I reckon that we might get a result at Dover as well. Who knows, I might even decide to get off my backside and go and watch us again someday soon. (By the way, can anybody tell me why they`re talking about only three going down from the NL this year?)
All the best to everybody; keep stock-piling the Andrex.
Interestingly, though, although I`ve still got a cough and had to go up to the quack`s this morning for a shingles jab that I`d been asked to have, the nurse showed no concern at all. We had a chat about it – Monday morning`s a quite time , it seems – and both her thoughts and mine are very much in line with what you guys have already said. Most people who contract it will deal with it more easily than they would the `flu; it`s our glorious press that seems intent on scaring the brown and nasty out of everybody – plus the natural inclination of human beings to panic and over-react at every opportunity (but not to the point where they will actually take common-sense precautions, obviously) – that`s the real problem. I sat watching several people walking into the surgery without bothering to use the hand-sanitizers that are always there; presumably they think they`re okay on the basis that they were down at ASDA at the week-end buying half a hundredweight of bog-rolls.
I noticed as well, Dancing, that footballers still can`t resist having a kiss and a cuddle whenever a goal was scored (and that rugby players seem still to be happy to stick their heads up each other`s arse at every scrum - I`ll bet that`s a sanitizer-free zone as well!). Any preventative action we take is likely to be nothing more than cosmetic; the thing is just going to have to run its course and if it turns out that my number`s up, then my number`s up. I reached my three-score-and- ten a couple of weeks ago, so my family tells me I`m on borrowed time now anyway (they`re nice like that).
Personally, I`m inclined to the view that there are too many humans on the surface of the planet these days and that the odd pandemic now and then is Mother Nature`s way of balancing things out. Like you though, Dev, I just don`t happen to think that this is one of her more serious attempts. Now, if she decides to let an updated, fully refurbished and weaponised version of bubonic plague loose on us..........
Anyway, I`m pleased we got the win as well and that we`re out of the bottom four; I reckon that we might get a result at Dover as well. Who knows, I might even decide to get off my backside and go and watch us again someday soon. (By the way, can anybody tell me why they`re talking about only three going down from the NL this year?)
All the best to everybody; keep stock-piling the Andrex.