Fingers has returned to the fold and is back here posting again what more could you want?
Brexit, for once some facts.
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I retired nearly 7 years ago at the age of 55, I absolutely love being retired. I didn't hate work but I didn't love it either. I started planning when I was about 40 to try and retire at 55, with a combination of luck and judgement I managed to do so.
I find my day just fly by and often wonder how on earth I ever found the time to actually go to work. I can honestly say I have not woke up one morning and wished I was back in work, in fact I think to myself how lucky I am that I don't have to go.
flecc and vfr seem to have health problem, just to remind us that is something that will affect us all. Covid has imprisoned us for most of this year and looks like it will continue to do so next year too.
I wonder whether Apple and Google will ever exploit Ultra Wideband (UWB) such as is present in iPhone 11 and Galaxy Note 20 (and possibly others as well)?
Obviously, UWB can only detect other devices with UWB, so currently a minor factor. But it would be an obvious potential enhancement. Maybe for Covid-21?
From its first announcements, Bluetooth seemed to take forever to become widely available and reliable. For such a promising technology (well, what it promised to allow), it was extremely slow. And I still notice Bluetooth oddities which should have been sorted long ago (though they might be due to the platforms rather than the specifications).
The weird thing is that it's had almost no effect on me whatsoever, my life has continued virtually unaffected. I continued to do all my usual driving, I've seen my usual personal friends with no attempt at social distancing, the same with the dozen committee members of our wildlife organisation.
I've continued to wander daily in our nature reserve, meeting and chatting with all the members, some 240 of them, and absolutely none of us make any attempt at social distancing. Why should we when we'd already been doing this before any lockdown with Covid-19 already present? In fact we've just had a September Open Day as usual, all held in secret and only known to the hundreds of local people who attended, raising us lots more funds! It's also been the same for the over 150 residents of our separate part of the housing estate where we jointly own the freehold and run our own management company. Our housing density means any attempt at social distancing is pointless, how can we when we have to pass on staircases just 36 inches wide?
Yet out of all of those people none seem to have caught Covid to any recognisable degree and there's no deaths from it. I'm certainly not imprisoned in any way, the only visible effect being that since compulsion I perch a mask on the tip of my nose to allow me to still breath freely past it rather than through it for some 10 minutes when I do my supermarket shop. Everything else I get online as I've long done.
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Still waiting for the master of the circular arguments he usually loses to make a comeback
it may have been helped by random mutation. The Wuhan1 version was a big killer, same with the Spanish flu in some countries. The current Western European Covid does not kill as many. Also, progress in treatment must have reduce the death rate by half.
However, the vast majority of us (including probably yourself) are still not exposed to this virus which may mutate into a more virulent version this winter.
When he gets round to it.Still waiting for the master of the circular arguments he usually loses to make a comeback
(Ho ho...)
I still find this difficult to believe. My Borough of Croydon was originally London's worst affected and it was almost two months in before some North London Boroughs and then others took over that title in succession. Added to that the way London did it's own thing, ignoring the rules in open defiance and took a hit well over double that of the rest of the country and the proposition that so many of us have had no exposure doesn't hold water.
I'm sure it's the opposite, a high proportion of us have been exposed and are virtually unaffected beyond common cold like symptoms. We know that very early on sample testing showed 21% of Londoners had antibodies against 5% elsewhere, so in London's unhelpful circumstances that 21% could easily be far above 50% now.
I don't foresee any particular problem in London this Winter, and I mean the 13.2 million supercity of London, not the lines on the map.
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..when troubles come, they come not singly but in battalions..... If none of your current group infected, then they don't pass it on. If one does get infected .
I have never accepted the arguement that any person tested after the event and with fragments of RNA in their system was ever infected. The noise introduced by the multiplier in the amplification process renders it inaccurate.
You really make me laugh. Read what I posted and lose your village mentality.
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Actually upwards. The mask fits very snugly around my chin, I breathe through my nose and I feel the air passing upwards and downwards past my cheeks to and from my eyes on both sides. When I say the mask is on the tip of my nose, I really mean the tip.
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I'd have thought he's too busy windsurfing somewhere in the canaries (pursued by a gopro drone)Still waiting for the master of the circular arguments he usually loses to make a comeback
Agreed, though that is not my intention. I just put the damn thing on as I enter the door to avoid causing the mainly junior door staff the embarrassment of tackling me. That said, at least a third of the also junior staff inside that superstore don't wear masks, so I'm not sure they would.
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