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    I've been fine with it. The alternative is working in an empty office and then hearing the bloke behind me ask for my opinion on a game I'm not playing. Office banter is only good when there's actual drama going on.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Lewis View Post
    My friend.
    Give up.

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    Another one added to the list last night. We were all going to the pub after training, he said: 'I'm not ready for the pub, I'm not convinced it's safe'. Jesus Christ.

    It's exploded people's heads.

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    He's right.

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    He isn't when the prevalence rate is something like 3 in 100,000 people.

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    This is the problem with just chucking the figures on a website. People don't bother checking them and carry on living as if it's still April/May.
    Last edited by Spikey M; 26-08-2020 at 09:47 AM.

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    Funny how many people are now fully onboard with Team #GetAGrip, even though nothing has technically changed.
    I'm a twit

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    Other than the huge reductions in cases, hospitalisation and mortality rates?

    It's all changed.

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    The virus is the same.

    All those went down because people stopped going out.
    I'm a twit

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    Yeah, other than those.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Baz View Post
    The virus is the same.

    All those went down because people stopped going out.
    They are down because we have treatments now. Why would mortality rates decline because people stop going out?

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    People thinking the lockdown and subsequent regulations didn't affect numbers

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    Nobody said that. Of course it effected the number of cases. It doesn't effect the percentage of people that die from it.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Spikey M View Post
    Nobody said that. Of course it effected the number of cases. It doesn't effect the percentage of people that die from it.
    It does though.

    The vulnerable people were told to stay home, so the elderly, diabetic, people with respiratory problems etc (those who would almost certainly die from it) stopped getting it.
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    Too early for the victory parade, Baz. They're not ready for our bunting.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Baz View Post
    It does though.

    The vulnerable people were told to stay home, so the elderly, diabetic, people with respiratory problems etc (those who would almost certainly die from it) stopped getting it.
    The spread amongst the general public has been minute for a good while. It's been Carehomes carrying the torch.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Spikey M View Post
    They are down because we have treatments now.
    Do we? Dexamethasone has shown to be relatively effective, that's about it.

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    Take the L, Spikey.
    I'm a twit

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    Quote Originally Posted by randomlegend View Post
    Do we? Dexamethasone has shown to be relatively effective, that's about it.
    Reducing deaths by 30% is pretty effective.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Spikey M View Post
    Reducing deaths by 30% is pretty effective.
    If you're going to use statistics like that you have to explain what you actually mean by it. The paper says it reduced deaths in ventilated patients from 40% to 29%, which you could easily present as an 11% reduction if it suited you. In non-ventilated patients only receiving oxygen it reduced the death rate from 25% in 21.5% and 17% to 13.2% (not statistically significant) in patients receiving no respiratory support.

    Don't get me wrong, it's one (as I said) relatively effective treatment and the best thing we've found so far, but it's not the invitation to let Hammer's mates get back to it you're making out.

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    I'm sure there was another medication mentioned at some point too, but I can't find mention of it now (not the Trump one).

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    I think you're referring to Chashitanpheltokonsidophyl.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Don View Post
    Reports of lockdown induced anxiety and psychological damage are coming in thick and fast but ignoring all that and just looking at my personal circles, I'm seeing two long-term stable relationships hit the rocks (they seem to have sorted it out but both the geezers have decided to quit drinking so they're dead to me now), a gambling addict who was years clean has fully relapsed and is back to square one with his life in tatters and a drug addict has gone from 6 months clean back to hitting the weed hard daily (not exactly a serious relapse but still). Are others seeing this phenomenon?
    Apart from beating my personal best for most wanks in a day on a daily basis and scraping the barrel for films to watch I'd say I'm doing ok, could happily continue as I am but with the world opening up again. Maybe I was already immune to isolation because I had moved away from all my friends 3 years ago.

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    If you've been beating your personal best every day since lockdown started you must be in the hundreds by now. It'll be like mince.

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    He's not even sure if it's spunk or pus at this point.

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    I thought we were talking about Mahow's paint spillage, for a second.

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    Let's fire this up for it shall be active for the next month or two, rest assured.

    I'm still nursing a hangover from Sat which isn't helping matters at all but I'm also trying to consider whether I should rearrange my working day to fit in an hour or two of exercise whilst it's still light (I doubt I'll go ahead with it as I don't like idea of exercising but having to come back to work).

    Should we start a buddy system on here so that we can check in on each other and keep a nice live suicide tally?

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    Did we do any zoom drinks last time round? Family stuff was well and truly exhausted, but for the lols (for they will be few and far between) I might be up for a TTH one this time.

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    And Saturday was good, eh Don?

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-54773047

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    Quote Originally Posted by Don View Post
    Let's fire this up for it shall be active for the next month or two, rest assured.

    I'm still nursing a hangover from Sat which isn't helping matters at all but I'm also trying to consider whether I should rearrange my working day to fit in an hour or two of exercise whilst it's still light (I doubt I'll go ahead with it as I don't like idea of exercising but having to come back to work).

    Should we start a buddy system on here so that we can check in on each other and keep a nice live suicide tally?
    A two day hangover? Lightweight.

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    Speaking of being a lightweight, someone gave me a joint to smoke a couple of weeks ago. I had half of it and felt so ill I had to go to bed for a few hours and sleep it off.

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    I'm a bit more fucked off with it all the moment than I have been previously.

    Think it is just being magnified by the fact one of my friends is lying on his deathbed in a hospice (cancer) and we were asked to record videos to send to him. He's 42 with 3 kids, none of us are allowed to see him and probably won't be able to have a 'proper' funeral for him either. I'm sure it would have felt just as intense and helpless without covid etc but somehow makes a fucking horrible situation even worse.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Yevrah View Post
    And Saturday was good, eh Don?

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-54773047
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-53283351

    What the fuck is this creature's reporting about? This is his second similiar vid I've seen on BBC. Man's getting paid to go bosh a balloon at these raves all because he can be the next Trevor McDonald ffs.

    Quote Originally Posted by Dave. View Post
    A two day hangover? Lightweight.
    We all know I'd make Johnny Depp look a prude if I didn't have the burden of a white middle-class career to maintain.

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    "It's hot and sweaty, and there's no social distancing"

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    Quote Originally Posted by Dave. View Post
    A two day hangover? Lightweight.
    I tend to find the second day is worse than the first, in my (somewhat) advancing years.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Lofty View Post
    I'm a bit more fucked off with it all the moment than I have been previously.

    Think it is just being magnified by the fact one of my friends is lying on his deathbed in a hospice (cancer) and we were asked to record videos to send to him. He's 42 with 3 kids, none of us are allowed to see him and probably won't be able to have a 'proper' funeral for him either. I'm sure it would have felt just as intense and helpless without covid etc but somehow makes a fucking horrible situation even worse.
    I wouldn't know what to say in that situation.

    And hangovers: Mine tend to last most of the day now. Although I've only truly had one or two bad ones. I define bad as being on the brink of throwing up.

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    I never get a hangover since I gave up the bines.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Giggles View Post
    I never get a hangover since I gave up the bines.
    This. I'm off on another 6 month cleanse.

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    I can't remember my last hangover.

    edit: actually I can. It was my birthday in March a day before lockdown.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Disco View Post
    Speaking of being a lightweight, someone gave me a joint to smoke a couple of weeks ago. I had half of it and felt so ill I had to go to bed for a few hours and sleep it off.
    I had a space cake at the start of lockdown and was absolutely fucked. Sat there waiting two hours then it hit me. Fell asleep around 8pm and woke up at 11am the next day. I can’t even go 5/6 hours without waking up at least once or twice any other night. Just dreadful the next day. Comedowns were easier to deal with than that.

    Unfortunately it’s the in thing with all my mates smoking weed and eating shite throughout the day. Couldn’t think of anything worse

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    Quote Originally Posted by Shindig View Post
    I wouldn't know what to say in that situation.
    One of those really, I didn't know what to say and the instruction was to stay upbeat so ended up with a couple of crap jokes, felt like it was too difficult to do but knew I would regret not doing it, essentially the last time I will get to 'speak' to him.

    As for hangovers, definitely worse with smoking but otherwise a roulette wheel for me, can wake up after 3 beers feeling rough or fresh as a daisy after half a bottle of whisky, no rhyme or reason though I did once spend a day getting involuntary erections after quaffing a lot of duty free Jim Beam.

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    No hangovers on the mid strength lager just the odd bout of dementia.

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    Why do you keep posting that?

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    Light fading at three in the afternoon. End it.

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    I've given up all hope of life for 5 days a week, sustained purely by a diet of meaningless football and xvideos.

    I stuck in 3 punnets of berries into my yoghurt lunch today though so I'm hoping to shit out all my troubles soon and be awakened to a life of fulfilling shit (pencil sketching and xvideos).

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    This really is going to be an awful 3 months, isn't it?

    I'm starting to see why Nordic countries have appalling suicide rates, despite, lack of light aside, being fantastic places to live.

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    Nah, Autumn and winter is the best time of the year.

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    It's sim driving which is getting me through the evenings at the moment. I'm not normally a good gamer (a very bad one, in fact) but I'm OK with the wheel and it has the meditative, escapist quality whereby all you need to focus on in a ten-second period is the next corner, plus it's your feet, your hands and everything involved rather than just clicking around the internet.

    I don't think I've got anything else, though.

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