coldel

Health care is fine, but without labouring the point, is that something new and apparently incurable comes along (it will be curable this time next year in all likelihood) and the human mentality goes into utter car crash mode. The media have not presented the facts, they have mixed reliable information in with headlines designed for clicks based on hearsay which has fed this inherent human trait to react to everything they read and caused untold stress on systems and organisations that should not have otherwise been. How much NHS time has been wasted, working in retail I have seen the stress caused on the 1m or so grocer retail workers who have been working overtime to feed this insatiable requirement to consume stuff - all because of everything I have described above. At times of national crisis - we don't need gutter press profiteering with mindless gossip presented as fact. It's irresponsible and downright dangerous.

That's not the point, the point is that nature kills humans, this will be another thing on the list. How big, remains to be seen. Personally I have witnessed the terror of people realising that we cannot control nature, treat every disease, and the resulting panic driven by media sensationalism. We are all going to die at some point (except Elvis), the vast majority of us will not have corona-virus on our death certificate.

And no one is disagreeing with you. But the vast majority will survive, just like the vast majority survive cardiovascular issues which kill tens of millions globally each year and cancer which does the same and of course war, malnutrition and starvation that kills hundreds of millions.

It has been overdramatised in terms of information, what the media has been presenting the last few weeks has been in many cases pretty much gossip presented as fact. If they stuck to the facts, then we wouldn't see the panic stricken behaviour we are right now. I think sensible people understand this is serious, what is fundamentally the problem is the media and profiteering that is going on at peoples expense.

Nooooo not the pub! That’s totally essential!

I think its clear that there is an NHS emergency coming, if not already - the context I responded to was around the panic shopping that is going on which is driven 90% by the media miss-information being broadcast to get clicks, views, papers bought - it had nothing to do with government or ministers, in fact behind closed doors retail leaders are absolutely spitting blood about the utter rubbish being released by the media in the hunt for viewership. There is more than enough food, hell easily enough bog roll. Its the pressure that it has put on the supply chain to get the stuff out and to stores especially the smaller more remote ones which do not have the scaled localised storage facilities - the one thing that wont be closed down is the food supply to the population.

Seen this doing the rounds and people calling it a 'prediction' although its already been pointed out that the work of fiction also says that the virus has a mortality rate of 100% and various other points to note about it, all of which bear no resemblance to the current coronavirus (but hey why ruin a good paragraph of text because they year happen to be right). Given the millions of fictional books written, some are bound to have coincidental 'truths' but are nothing more than that, just pure luck and coincidence.

What’s changed is that broadcasters have realised they get higher viewership if they say we are all going to die than if they say don’t panic.

IF it goes ahead

On so many levels

Yep run an extension lead out! Not ideal but needs must!

Haven't moved the car for nearly two weeks, usually that would mean battery charger time - popped it open and boom fired up immediately. Whoopee! The old girl needed a detail. So it went something like this: Auto Finesse Avalanche Gyeon Bathe+ Korrosol Clay Mitt DA Polisher + Scholl Concepts Soft99 wax Outcome: Also saw on the FB pages a guy selling smoked Elise wing indicators, bearing in mind these are the little indicators without bulbs...FOUR HUNDRED QUID. I liked them, but good god two little bits of plastic for four hundred quid seemed excessive. So onto ebay, £3 bit of flyeye, a hobby knife, a steady hand and I ended up with Not a bad saving of £397 but lets see how long it hangs on in there

First thing I thought of when I saw it...

Given the anti-immune drugs I have to take for my chronic arthritis I have the immunity of a 90 year old, so even at 44 years old I am a little worried

Aye I agree, but the initial point to this discussion was 'do I catch it now' and in short I think the answer is no. The NHS is traditionally under stress this time of year still due to the back end of flu season, its already having to deal with a fast changing situation with the virus. The last thing we need are people trying to get it, as in effect that undermines the whole point of delay - we need to allow time for the health services to corroborate globally, work out what this is, how to combat it and resource up accordingly - all at the same time as dealing with day to day health issues which are at their peak at this time of year.

The NHS is dealing with flu season still, so the point of “catching it now” is not a good one as they are already stretched. Delay and slow is the aim so that people catch it over a longer period of time to spread the load. If we all went out of our way to catch it now the NHS would collapse in on itself.

From what I have read they are deliberately trying to do delay the spread at the moment so that people catch it as late in the year as possible as we are still in high Flu season and resources are already stretched. Also by delaying it they have more time to react and put resource in place for the inevitable increase in cases.

The whole pasta thing is bizarre, given the amount of other food available that has long shelf life that remains untouched. All based on the media frenzy unfortunately telling people how to behave and what to do.

I know mate, was just kidding

Bah, its just a knocking noise, just turn up the stereo and carry on

People are a bit short of cash with all that bog roll they now have stored in their house.

For my DE I spent about a grand on a used aftermarket exhaust (about £400) bought sports cats another £400 plenum spacer (£100) and stillen induction kit (used £60) then paid £350 for the remap. I got an extra 16bhp at peak (remember this is just peak improvement, at lower revs you are looking at increases of something like 3-8bhp. You gotta be prepared that you will not get noticable extra speed, but you will get noticable drive improvements i.e. removing flat spots etc.

I guess if you are spending almost nothing on the car in fuel I would be asking why have it? To be honest I would be more concerned about potential depreciation you incur than the circa £200 a year/£16 a month extra on the VED.

Love the way nano 'tech' is actually a cloth with vegetable oil in it - some real tech there