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Post by Telemachus on Mar 28, 2020 11:32:18 GMT
Where I'm moored there are a couple of boats that have tried to make people think about social distancing. Both have done so because people walking past tend to forget the 'rules' i.e. if the boaters are sitting in the well deck or on the roof people passing have come up really close to stroke their cat or try to interact with their newborn baby. The measures taken are just a few stakes in the ground with some high vis cord connecting them placed about a foot away from the boat (still plenty of room for people to continue using the towpath). It is enough to make people think without being 'in your face'. If I saw them I’d kick them down. Those people have absolutely no right to annex a bit of ground. They have just as much responsibility as anyone else to maintain social distancing so they should move inside if people approach. Why should everyone else have to create their social distancing for them? My god there are some self-centred selfish arseholes around.
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Post by naughtyfox on Mar 28, 2020 11:34:56 GMT
Where I'm moored there are a couple of boats that have tried to make people think about social distancing. Both have done so because people walking past tend to forget the 'rules' i.e. if the boaters are sitting in the well deck or on the roof people passing have come up really close to stroke their cat or try to interact with their newborn baby. The measures taken are just a few stakes in the ground with some high vis cord connecting them placed about a foot away from the boat (still plenty of room for people to continue using the towpath). It is enough to make people think without being 'in your face'. If I saw them I’d kick them down. Those people have absolutely no right to annex a bit of ground. They have just as much responsibility as anyone else to maintain social distancing so they should move inside if people approach. Why should everyone else have to create their social distancing for them? My god there are some self-centred selfish arseholes around. What if somebody tripped over Metanoia's mat and plunged headlong into the canal and drowned?
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Post by Telemachus on Mar 28, 2020 11:36:01 GMT
I’m sorry but I don’t see what the presence or otherwise of a boat has to do with it. Yes you are right people walking on the towpath and encountering opposite direction traffic will often have to pass within 2 metres. But I can’t see why that should directly affect someone on a boat, unless you consider the bit of towpath adjacent to your boat as your own private property (which it isn’t), want to set up your deck chairs there etc. As Ricco says, it is exactly the same as pedestrians passing urban houses/flats that front directly onto the pavement, or passing people sitting in parked cars. If you are worried, just keep your towpath-side windows closed and remain indoors like the rest of us are having to do. I'm not worried about ME - it's those that seem to have forgotten to keep a decent distance from each other. On the contrary, it seems CRT are bothered by the boats and want us to display such notices in our windows - perhaps so boaters can enforce the social distancing message on behalf of CRT - who are normally quick enough to post many other (often superfluous) signs all over bridges and towpaths? eta - the only bit of towpath I ever claim is the size of a small mat I place immediately outside my doors Fair enough, but I don’t think one set of people should be trying to enforce social distancing on another set. I also question whether simply walking past someone too closely carries any significant risk. Facing people and talking to them, yes. But just passing?
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Post by Telemachus on Mar 28, 2020 11:36:53 GMT
If I saw them I’d kick them down. Those people have absolutely no right to annex a bit of ground. They have just as much responsibility as anyone else to maintain social distancing so they should move inside if people approach. Why should everyone else have to create their social distancing for them? My god there are some self-centred selfish arseholes around. What if somebody tripped over Metanoia's mat and plunged headlong into the canal and drowned? It would do a little bit to ease the NHS burden, assuming they drowned properly and irreversibly.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 28, 2020 11:39:13 GMT
On-site drowning should be encouraged but the type which needs ICU care should be banned immediately.
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Post by metanoia on Mar 28, 2020 11:46:16 GMT
Jane is convinced we, and half of South Yorkshire it seemed, contracted the virus over the christmas period ... sore throat and dry cough for several days ... but of course it was unheard of then. It will be intetesting to see how the next two weeks pan out. Rog You're too kind - thanks for sharing it with the rest of the country! Haven't you heard : "Stay at home, protect the NHS, save lives"
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Post by JohnV on Mar 28, 2020 11:47:43 GMT
Jane is convinced we, and half of South Yorkshire it seemed, contracted the virus over the christmas period ... sore throat and dry cough for several days ... but of course it was unheard of then. It will be intetesting to see how the next two weeks pan out. Rog You're too kind - thanks for spreading round the rest of the country! Haven't you heard : "Stay at home, protect the NHS, save lives" they've just been trying to build up the herd immunity
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Post by metanoia on Mar 28, 2020 11:48:08 GMT
And the guidance is 6 feet of seperation ... that doesn't mean that with only 2 feet 6 inches you're going to be infected.
People are worried and rightly so ... but I think we also need to keep our feet on the ground Rog
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Post by Deleted on Mar 28, 2020 11:48:16 GMT
I've been attempting to get Nerd immunity on this one.
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Post by metanoia on Mar 28, 2020 11:48:52 GMT
You're too kind - thanks for spreading round the rest of the country! Haven't you heard : "Stay at home, protect the NHS, save lives" they've just been trying to build up the herd immunity … and they say Yorkshire people are tight!
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Post by lollygagger on Mar 28, 2020 11:55:26 GMT
And the guidance is 6 feet of seperation ... that doesn't mean that with only 2 feet 6 inches you're going to be infected. ...and it doesn't mean that at 2m you won't be... if you're downwind. People on the tow path here are visibly holding their breath and nodding when passing. Good enough I'd say.
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Post by patty on Mar 28, 2020 14:32:22 GMT
Damn, I agree with all of you even though you're all typing different things. But thats it isn't it? There are so many viewpoints and they all make some sort of sense... I'm guided by those in the front line, I have never heard despair in the voice of one family member that I'm hearing now...more than anything that has influenced me. I will follow the guidelines. We all hope it won't be in our back yard..that those we love won't die alone fighting to breathe....thats one of the saddest things, when the hospital doors shut family cannot be there to support, cannot be there at the end. As has been said the next few weeks will be critical. I just hope we all get through and the halcyon days of summer are just over the horizon.
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Post by brummieboy on Mar 29, 2020 17:55:06 GMT
Looking towards the future when we are able to start cruising again, I can forsee that in many convenient visitor moorings will still be claimed as 'isolation units' by self centred C.Cers some of whom must be treating this as manna from heaven.
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Post by peterboat on Mar 29, 2020 18:17:58 GMT
No secret has been made of why the government has taken this action ... purely and simply to STOP critical care cases swamping the NHS all at one time. Makes sense to me ... other illnesses are still being, and need to be treated etc. a swamped NHS affects EVERYONE not just covid 19 patients. Jane is convinced we, and half of South Yorkshire it seemed, contracted the virus over the christmas period ... sore throat and dry cough for several days ... but of course it was unheard of then. It will be intetesting to see how the next two weeks pan out. Rog Rog they arnt doing ops in some cases Vince a friend has prostrate cancer, he will now die because his op has been cancelled. Mark had an op for a growth on his brain he is undergoing radiation treatment it has been cut drastically will he survive this very aggressive cancer? We dont know but he is young with children! None of this is good but I can see the reasoning they have suppressed immune systems so could easily get the virus and die, its a sort of no win situation, for me if they die they are victims of the virus as well
I think we had the same thing as you 2 months of hell with sore throat and coughing with high temps Jayne was in bed for 3 days really ill it was unreal everybody had it
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Post by Deleted on Mar 29, 2020 18:36:06 GMT
Worrying times peterboat I agree. A friend who has had MS for years is currently also receiving treatment (difficult enough due to MS) for breast cancer (terminal having suffered before) but all treatment has been suspended to keep her away from hospitals and the risk of the virus. My sister works as a Nurse at the teenage cancer unit of Weston Park Hospital ... she's been busy with barrier nursing and cancer treatments are largely being kept away ... easy for us to tap away at keyboards ... real life or death decisions are HAVING to be made in critical care. Rog
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