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East Londoner

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  1. Not exactly if waking up at 3am counts as a holiday, whilst passenger numbers are falling off a cliff lots of staff are being forced into self isolation which is one reason for the situation in London where people (some who aren’t meant to be there) are faced with busier trains
  2. Passenger numbers have fallen off a cliff, i drove a train on Sunday and the passengers could’ve had a carriage each which is extreme social distancing, and had the government not stepped in the private operators would’ve just handed back the keys Does mean technically I’m now a government employee
  3. I went to one earlier that was operating a system of only 4 customers allowed in at a time, was in East London though
  4. Like i said at some point down the line decisions need to be made whether we want to view things emotionally or take a more calculated approach, at the moment it’s a bit of both so nobody’s happy
  5. On the whole i agree with you but the problem is people get quite attached to their mother or father or grandparents and would rather they got to spend longer with them. I don’t think we’re at the stage yet where we should write off a significant number or people I remember thinking last week about how this virus probably did this guy with MND a favour as that’s truly an horrendous condition to have but then saw his widows reaction and neither he nor she was ready to say goodbye and who can blame them Maybe in the future we will have to decide between leadership that looks at things emotionally or someone who’s more calculated as they’re pluses and minuses to both. But not yet. As a side note as someone who’s classed as a key worker so has to go into work it’s interesting watching how people who are having to stay at home are gradually getting more irritable with each other and that’s definitely reflected in this forum
  6. In fairness the vast majority of us only have to look inside our little bubble whereas they have to look at the bigger picture, that said he probably could work on his people skills a bit
  7. Another attempt of a positive spin, if you’ve had this since Christmas you could’ve already had the virus and you have a pretty good immune system, on the negative side it’s another reason to need to self isolate if you get that now
  8. Those Japanese ones are awesome you could happily spent longer on it than you need to and then hardly need any toilet paper if at all
  9. When he was mayor of London the thing Boris was good at was surrounding himself with people who knew their stuff, and he seems to be doing the same as prime minister but obviously having to consultant with several advisors is time consuming
  10. Might be dawning on those in authority that lots of people had the virus before it even had a name
  11. I did try but because i don’t work for great western my company didn’t like it
  12. I’m a train driver and this morning drove a six carriage train from Oxford to London and had a total of 21 passengers, one thing I’ve noticed as i commute in from East London is this has really highlighted social inequality (never thought I’d say that on a football forum) whilst there’s those who obviously can’t do their job at home there’s even more than can’t afford to stay at home
  13. Sensible decision but it looks pretty clear it’s the Premier League making all the decisions and everyone else following along behind
  14. Yeah it was weird though as i was struggling to walk and stand but was able to cycle with no problems at all and i certainly don’t do any weightlifting I ended up spending three nights in the Royal London hospital being pumped with drugs i don’t remember which and it took another week of antibiotics before the lymph nodes starting returning to normal.
  15. I actually got hospitalised a few days after going to the QPR game, this was two weeks after the Christmas flu coughing finally stopped, initially i was diagnosed with a strangulated hernia but a ct scan revealed all the lymph nodes in my groin had become inflamed and the consultant told me that they obviously been working overtime to remove an infection. At the time of being hospitalised news about Covid 19 was only starting to appear so no connection was made but the more i think of it and remember the symptoms i had a Christmas such as wheezing that made me sound like a dog the more convinced i am it was around a lot earlier than people think To me that’s a positive thing because we could be hitting it’s peak a lot earlier than forecast and also a lot of people will have had it and now be immune which Is what the herd immunity thing is all about
  16. It didn’t make sense that we were being told this virus only started in Wuhan at the end of December and just over two months later it’s made its way around the world and having so many well known people being tested positive On the plus side they’re closer to herd immunity than they thought and make the doomsday scenario we keep hearing about less likely
  17. So kind! I did Charlton away Boxing Day and managed not to wipe out those in the away end, it was literally a case of felt alright one day and was sick the next Joking aside since posting that article on Facebook quite a few people have said similar that they had those symptoms from November/December onwards, this helps explain why it looks like there’s been a massive jump in cases when it’s actually been going on a lot longer than people thought, it also means a lot of those currently panicking at home with their toilet rolls are probably immune now to the virus
  18. Lots of people myself included think this virus has been around quite a bit longer than people think, I’m convinced i had Covid 19 over Christmas as i had almost the exact same symptoms but obviously nobody knew it existed at the time I found this online apologies my computer skills only go as far as copying and pasting a link https://www.ccn.com/coronavirus-patient-zero-may-have-started-pandemic-in-november-or-earlier/
  19. According to the sun (so it must be true) ourselves Derby and Reading were also in the meeting
  20. He was on itv London news a couple of days ago so he’d be very stupid if he flew there in the last couple of days and certainly no expert
  21. What they forget was they were in a false position when they were 4th so this is just the football gods way of restoring balance
  22. It would be hilarious if Leeds were denied promotion this way
  23. Because you can pack it up at the end of the day?
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