Cycling UK Forum

Syd wrote:There are a great deal more essential workers in the UK that the ‘obvious’ and I for one was embarrassed that the NHS were singled out in the way they were on Thursday evenings.

I hope you’re employer is complying with their obligations to keep you and your colleagues safe.

mjr wrote:Oh I'm not so sure. I think there are quite a lot of cyclists who don't much like other cyclists, sadly.

tim-b wrote:Hi

But it doesn't matter how many millions of people get infected if no one dies, or deaths are below the background noise of life itself.
If more people die of cancer because they have abandoned by the NHS in their pursuit of C-19 what is the point of any of this.

Isn't that the point? If millions get infected and a proportion then have to be treated in hospitals because their condition is immediately life-threatening then that does matter. The NHS has to turn resources, staff, beds, etc to preventing imminent C19 deaths and other services will inevitably suffer
I don't get the selfishness allegedly shown by some (link) Is it any wonder that the Government is having to be more impactive at home?
Regards
tim-b

Jdsk wrote:

landsurfer wrote:If more people die of cancer because they have abandoned by the NHS in their pursuit of C-19 what is the point of any of this.

Interesting wording. Are you saying that the NHS has abandoned people?

Jonathan

Jdsk wrote:
Fortunately we do now have competent population surveillance programmes up and running.

pwa wrote:C19 deaths have been kept so low by severely restricting personal freedom and by crippling businesses. Without those extraordinary measures, which have a heavy cost, the number of dead would be several times higher. You and I have not seen what Covid 19 would have done, and might still do, without those measures. I agree that C19 mortality is very low right now. If it did not have the potential to increase greatly it would indeed be just one of the numerous ways to die.

C19 also has the potential to over-fill our hospitals and render them unable to deal with other conditions. If we let this epidemic run out of control we will reduce our ability to deal with cancer, heart disease and any other life-limiting condition we can think of. Surely that on its own means we have to suppress C19 to the point where hospitals are not overly burdened with it.

And it doesn't just kill Granny. I personally know of two families locally where there are children with conditions that make them very much at risk. To keep them relatively safe, each family has had to isolate. The children themselves, their siblings and parents. And they live in very understandable fear of what one small slip-up could cost them. For their sake we have to keep C19 incidence in communities low.

We all have to exercise some responsibility here. I know of four people locally who have had a Covid test in the last week. Two of them are my son and his partner, both turned out to be negative but they did the right thing and isolated while they awaited the result. The other two are a mother and her daughter, who had the test then carried on life as they had before while they awaited the result. Mum went to work and her daughter went to school, knowing there was a doubt over their status! They were positive, so the girl's entire year group at school is now in isolation! You couldn't make it up!

Paulatic wrote:

. a gathering takes place outdoors (whether or not in a public outdoor space)” for the purpose of “a physical activity which is carried on outdoors”, where a licence, permit or certificate is held by the organiser.

I take it as a Driving licence holder I can carry on arranging that 'dogging' meeting