Good on you Chris. It's a great idea particularly for more rural and small community pubs that even in 'normal' times work so hard to provide an essential social service to their communites.
Well done
Derek

Thanks very much, Del. I thought it was the least we could do for them after the years of great service they've provided for us, & visitors to our home.
Plus they love our dog to bits whenever we take her in there with us.....

On a slightly lighter note, on returning to the site homepage I noticed a large banner ad from a major online retailer offering condoms at discounted prices...…..
They never miss a trick - the analysts are fully aware that one of the major long-term effects of everyone being confined at home/self-isolating will be a massive spike in the birthrate!

Hi Chris, no...they are intended to pull over your HEAD to avoid infection.......

A local doctor here once told me that years ago he got an urgent call from a patient who was in a panic because his
little lad had just swallowed a condom. When the ambulance turned up, with its blue light blazing, the father opened
the door saying, "Panic over...everything's fine....My wife's just found another one ! "

Mike

From a previous life, I can remember a guy whose favourite party trick was to pull one over his head to just under his nose, then inhale through his mouth & exhale through his nose to inflate it to a height of about 2 feet. Very impressive!

Just doing some modelling at the moment, & listening to an episode of Round The Horne on BBC Sounds. I can remember listening to this show on a Sunday afternoon when I was a nipper in the 1960s, completely ignorant of what all the double meanings in it were all about.......it’s even funnier now I do understand them all. Kenneth Williams was one of the funniest comedians who ever lived.

IMHO this is not just a normal flu. Maybe we can learn something from the past: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_flu
The most powerful weapon in this struggle is the use of common sense and we might get into trouble because many of us are already disarmed...

My benchtime is unfortunately currently limited due to special duties with the Police Force - I wish you all a great time at the bench and all the best for the next months ahead!
Stay calm and carry on.
Cheers, Martin

the difference with a normal influence is simple.
for a normal flu you do not need (not always) respirators and intensive care. For covid-19 yes, you need respirators and intensive care. If there are 10 infected, it is not a big problem for the health service if there are 1000 yes because it means that the beds for emergency therapy are busy and if you have, for example, a trivial domestic accident, you no longer find a place in the hospital, if you have an accident in a car can no longer find a place if you need dialysis, chemotherapy, etc. you can't find a place anymore. You don't have to look at the relative few cases, but you have to look at what these cases take away from other cases. Today a person from my country died ... yesterday exceeded the 600 deaths in Italy of this disease alone, to which are added the hundreds of people who die on average every day from other diseases or accidents .... 40 health workers have already died and the health workers are not easily replaced.

This is not like the flu. I thought so at first but reading more about the disease gave me quite a shock. It’s not only the higher lethality, even if you live the disease in 20% of cases is a rather evil one, potentially putting you 2 weeks in IC, hooked up to respirators and unconcious, needing months to fully recover. Half the people ending up in IC are under 50, some without underlying health issues. Not something I’d like to catch.

And what’s becoming more evident every day, our hospitals are becoming Corona clinics, with minimal capacity for anything else. This is extreme and unprecented since world war 2 and certainly nothing like seasonal flu.

Then this is a rather new virus, ‘smarter’ than the related SARS one. Less lethal, but more contagious and suspected to be contagious before symptons, which enables it to spread so widely. We also simply do not know yet if we even become immune. There are viruses that, once you catch them, occasionally keep making you ill (such as the herpes one plagueing your lips).
With so much about this virus yet to learn, I think we should be more humble towards nature and the situation.

This is not a media hype. Headlines don’t make hospitals swamp. We should take it seriously.

Stay healthy eveyone!

Adrian

I truly believe there is noone here on PF that does not take this serious but there are teo ways to handle situations like this. One is to keep trying to convince everybody "the end is near", the other one is to try to see thing im perspective while adding a bit of humor.
I believe the second option will help us to endure this. Believe me, all the media, social or not, are doing their best they can with the first option making the "off" button on my TV the best invention since sliced bread.
So..please post your jokes and memes and let the media spread their "doom of death".
Believe me, 99,9% of the worlds population will survive this and I'll even settle for 99,5% amd might it be me in the 0,5% I'd rather go with a smile on my face.
Regards
Hans

Guys, the end is not near and that wasn’t my point.
I got triggered to post because of the ‘it’s just like the flu’ statements in this thread.
Keeping things in perspective is good, but that is too much of it.
Hospitals are being swamped, and that’s nothing like with the flu.

Anyway, don’t get me wrong, I’m all for trying to keep spirits up through humour.
So here’s my contribution to getting away from seriousness.

(Crap, the movie I wanted to post is technically not allowed)
(Found something else)

I like sharing jokes - and why not carry on with it - but maybe missed the hidden humor in some posts indicating "flu hype" (maybe repeating the past btw. - see interesting link below).
Going with a smile is the goal of many but very few accomplish it when their day really comes.
Best, Martin

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-03-16/los-angeles-spanish-flu-coronavirus

So Ferris and Martin, good to know you both stick to some humor and leave facts and warnings to those who are truly competent to do so with which I mean the DO have a degree in this field off knownledge.
Happy "keeping-things-in-perspective" day and remember..



Ps, I go to the gym 3-4 times a week for some heavy lifting......yesterday I slided a chair and "snap"....there goes my back. There's danger lurking in every corner.....

And remember ...

From a German newspaper today...:




Why not? Maybe it really helps ...

Works for me....imagination can be a wonderful thing....
Keep the faith....
Wayne