Corona quarantine diary

Peter Motte wrote:

Somebody in my family died of corona.
He wasn't young anymore, but nevertheless...
Those who state corona isn't dangerous, don't know what they're talking about.

Kay Denney wrote:
At the dog park the other night, a guy announced that he was going home, he had to cook tajine. He explained that his cousin was coming over (so breaking lockdown). The cousin was in need of comfort, having just lost his father to corona.
I'm having trouble wrapping my head round that.

Mervyn Henderson wrote:

I was locked down into translation today. I was losing my patience with one of those jobs, no, two jobs, you can definitely lose your patience with. In desperation I googled "patience", and one of the hits was Guns 'n' Roses. Not that I know much about or even appreciate GNR (as those in the know call them, apparently), apart from Sweet Child of Mine, and I'd heard of this one. But it worked for me. I flew through a couple of K after that. Even though Axl seems to need a crib sheet for the words:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ErvgV4P6Fzc

Mervyn Henderson writed:

Not that I know much about or even appreciate GNR (as those in the know call them, apparently)

Matthias Brombach wrote:
I always expect some comments by "Beavis and Butthead" rushing in, when watching a videoclip with GNR, like "xxxxx?" or "xxxxx!".

Chris S writed:
I think that’s how Tom feels.

Chris S wrote:



Over here, it’s even explicitly in the rules that you are allowed to comfort people who need comforting. It’s interesting how differently people perceive the same threat, all depending on the information they are fed by their respective governments. But however deadly or not each country thinks the virus is, shouldn’t there still be a place for compassion?

But yeah, I was out on the bike earlier and had to wait for a group of 23 undistanced ramblers, none a day under 75, to shuffle out of the way on the coast path, and I did think why do I even bother, before thinking well if they’ve got that far they’d probably be fine anyway.

What is pissing me off at the moment is the statistics. In the UK, we hit 50,000 Covid deaths yesterday, cue big headlines. Except that just means people who tested positive in the month before dying, even if they died in a car crash. Why don’t they just tell us how many have actually died of it?

More importantly, though, what’s a dog park? Do you mean like Catford Stadium? Or tunnels and jumps and trampolines and slides and roundabouts for dogs?

Kay Denney wrote:
Nothing like Catford Stadium (although it would be a superb name for a dog park).

No tunnels or jumps or trampolines or slides or roundabouts either.

It's just a muddy (or dusty) enclosure in the only park in my town that dogs are allowed into. They literally just fenced off the one part of the park that nobody ever went to, being reachable only by climbing a muddy slope, with no lighting, one dirty bench for owners to sit on (where dogs have had their claws ripped off when they get them caught in the tiny holes all over the metal) and no stairs to get up the rest of the slope when your dog refuses to come back. Even the gate is all wobbly now. It's just the only place you're allowed to let your dog off the lead, and mine needs to run much faster than I can.