Is that Matt Lucas from Little Britain?

Yep! It was on the airport based show he and David Williams did, that character was always finding reasons to close early

By the way, if anyone is struggling to find any soap then Nuddy are giving away a bar to each customer as long as you pay the £1.97 postage.

 

I’ve just ordered one as it has to be better than trying to find one in a supermarket

 

Omg icon *.*

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I hope, when this is all over, people actually hold the government account.

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So my roommate works at a home for the elderly. Some idiot came into work while sick (actually showing symptoms and everything) but they haven't been tested yet but an elderly man is now showing symptoms as well so now not only am I possibly going into quarantine later today by proxy (although I have been self-quarantining for a week now) but it's possibly already spread around that elderly home which is sad and could potentially be disastrous :(

 

No one has died from this in Iceland yet but there are a few severe cases. We're have one of the highest number of cases per capita (almost 500 cases now in total) but we also have the second-highest number of samples taken per capita (only behind Faroe Islands) so that might explain the high number.

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I hope, when this is all over, people actually hold the government account.

From what the government were saying just a couple weeks ago, this genuinely was their strategy, The big flaw was that, if 60 - 80% of the people get it, that's a lot of deaths even with a mortality rate of around 3%.

 

There was a brilliant (and now uncannily prescient) illustration of how herd immunity works in last year's Royal Institution Christmas Lectures - starting about 22 minutes in.

 

If I have a dental appointment this week does this mean I’ll have to go by myself to it?

 

Going there is legit my biggest fear and I can’t go without someone else being there. I don’t want to ring them incase I sound ridiculous but with this going on I feel like if I take someone with me they’ll ask them to go away

If I have a dental appointment this week does this mean I’ll have to go by myself to it?

 

Going there is legit my biggest fear and I can’t go without someone else being there. I don’t want to ring them incase I sound ridiculous but with this going on I feel like if I take someone with me they’ll ask them to go away

I’m sure dentists are used to that sort of question and won’t think it is ridiculous. They don’t go into dentistry expecting to be popular!

This is completely selfish but I genuinely worry about my mental health if we're on lockdown. I live within five minutes walking distance from my parents/siblings house and my grandparents house and genuinely am considering just getting quarantined at one of their houses instead. My own flat is a dump which I don't mind but I have the most ANNOYING upstairs neighbour in history. She has three border collies and they bark non f***ing stop. She does nothing to discipline them, it's just endless bursts of random barks followed by her shouting "shut up!" all day long from 8am til 11pm. You can hear their tails wagging on their floor and it creates a thumping noise through my ceiling, they run around constantly and it feels like the ceiling is going to collapse and we also share a tiny garden/porch so anytime she lets them out in the garden they're barking aggressively at neighbours madly. I've had so many run-ins with her over the years and even had a dog warden out but nothing changes.

 

I manage to avoid hearing it when I go to work but on my days off it makes me want to f***ing smash her windows and scream at her to f***ing muzzle the dogs. I genuinely couldn't go on lockdown for months and have to listen to this 24/7 or someone is going to get hurt.

This is completely selfish but I genuinely worry about my mental health if we're on lockdown. I live within five minutes walking distance from my parents/siblings house and my grandparents house and genuinely am considering just getting quarantined at one of their houses instead. My own flat is a dump which I don't mind but I have the most ANNOYING upstairs neighbour in history. She has three border collies and they bark non f***ing stop. She does nothing to discipline them, it's just endless bursts of random barks followed by her shouting "shut up!" all day long from 8am til 11pm. You can hear their tails wagging on their floor and it creates a thumping noise through my ceiling, they run around constantly and it feels like the ceiling is going to collapse and we also share a tiny garden/porch so anytime she lets them out in the garden they're barking aggressively at neighbours madly. I've had so many run-ins with her over the years and even had a dog warden out but nothing changes.

 

I manage to avoid hearing it when I go to work but on my days off it makes me want to f***ing smash her windows and scream at her to f***ing muzzle the dogs. I genuinely couldn't go on lockdown for months and have to listen to this 24/7 or someone is going to get hurt.

 

It sounds like you need to move out ASAP (although I guess it's easier said than done). Quarantining with your family sounds the healthier option.

I've literally just had a similar experience with my previous neighbour whose dog just barked the whole time but wouldn't believe me because they weren't around to witness it :')

 

Now i've moved my mental health has improved so much because of how much quieter it is. If you can take measure to minimise negative living enviornments especially with a possible lockdown imminent (e.g. staying with a friend or relative) then it may be worth doing so.

Germany are to ban more than two people meeting in public for the next two weeks.

281 deaths in the U.K. :(

Any deaths are horrible but, minor positive is that it is 80 lower than Italy was at same stage, hopefully relieving those direct comparisons we were seeing.

Italy and Spain are hit the worst so far in Europe.

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Womp there it is. I’m officially in lockdown

Taking bets on which day next week we’ll be in lockdown.

 

I’m going for Wednesday

Thursday

I reckon give it a week, Friday.