My mum died last week and it looks as though my wife and I will only be able to attend the funeral "remotely". My dad died on Boxing Day so  both of my parents have gone within the space of a few months. They were 92 and 89 so both had quite long lives. A big part of me thinks they both got out at just the right time. It really feels as though the world has been turned on its head in the last 6 months. 

Originally Posted by: Brian Gaze 

My mum died last week and it looks as though my wife and I will only be able to attend the funeral "remotely". My dad died on Boxing Day so  both of my parents have gone within the space of a few months. They were 92 and 89 so both had quite long lives. A big part of me thinks they both got out at just the right time. It really feels as though the world has been turned on its head in the last 6 months. 

Originally Posted by: Brian Gaze 

Happy to report the Wetherspoons is still taking cash. Tim Martin was lying! And it’s absolutely Ramboed in here. Like a Friday night!

Originally Posted by: The Beast from the East 

Happy to report the Wetherspoons is still taking cash. Tim Martin was lying! And it’s absolutely Ramboed in here. Like a Friday night!

Originally Posted by: The Beast from the East 

My condolences, stay strong.  This website is going to become more important to its users than ever.  Thank you for this conduit for the exchange of views and information.

Originally Posted by: Whether Idle 

Happy to report the Wetherspoons is still taking cash. Tim Martin was lying! And it’s absolutely Ramboed in here. Like a Friday night!

Originally Posted by: The Beast from the East 

I am so desperately sorry to hear this Brian. My condolences to you.

You have kept this place running since 2001 and even during your only personal difficulties. It’s a wonderful community thank you.

Originally Posted by: Heavy Weather 2013 

I was rather hoping your jaunts to the public house would involve you getting bladdered alone in a forlorn corner for a few days before they closed but to hear that it is rammed full of people really does highlight the need for stricter measures.

These ideas of a peak in 2-3 weeks from the CMO are fanciful. He has no idea of the rebellion at ground level.

Originally Posted by: SJV 

My mum died last week and it looks as though my wife and I will only be able to attend the funeral "remotely". My dad died on Boxing Day so  both of my parents have gone within the space of a few months. They were 92 and 89 so both had quite long lives. A big part of me thinks they both got out at just the right time. It really feels as though the world has been turned on its head in the last 6 months. 

Originally Posted by: Brian Gaze 

People should start tweeting Downing Street with pictures and make Boris will take up. Actually he wont, he can’t be bothered to get the out of bed.

Originally Posted by: Heavy Weather 2013 

Hear, hear  Same condolences to Chris as well. The very embodiment of class on TWO, both of you.

Originally Posted by: SJV 

People in London are working in cafes, not at home. One cafe owner tells me that takings have shot up to over double usual daily amount
This is not social distancing, it is irresponsible behaviour and the price to pay for such selfishness will be severe for us all #coronavirus

— Nadine Dorries 🇬🇧 (@NadineDorries) March 18, 2020

Originally Posted by: JHutch 

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I wonder how significant this could be in the short term. Potentially a significant breakthrough if it works

Coronavirus: New treatment for critically ill patients to begin as soon as next week

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Doctors are to begin giving critically ill COVID-19 patients a new treatment as soon as Monday. The experimental drug, code named SNG001, will initially be given to patients at Southampton General Hospital as part of the first trial of its kind. The inhaled treatment has already been shown to improve the recovery of asthma and COPD (chronic obstructive pulmonary disease) patients who have other lung infections, such as flu.

Doctors have high hopes that it could also help stop the coronavirus in its tracks. Tom Wilkinson, professor of respiratory medicine at the University of Southampton, told Sky News: "We are hoping that the drug will increase the rate of recovery from infection, that it will increase the protection in the bit of the lungs that are not infected yet and will reduce the number of patients that decline significantly and require intubation and ventilation."

The drug is an inhaled formulation of beta-interferon, a naturally occurring protein that orchestrates the body's anti-viral responses. Scientists believe it will prevent the coronavirus from taking over lung cells to make further copies of itself. Around 100 critically-ill patients in up to 10 hospitals will be given SNG001 through a nebuliser device that blows a fine mist deep into the lung. Professor Wilkinson said the drug could help stop intensive care units being overwhelmed with patients, as they have been in Italy. 

https://news.sky.com/story/coronavirus-new-treatment-for-critically-ill-patients-to-begin-as-soon-as-next-week-11959914

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Originally Posted by: Gavin D 

Happy to report the Wetherspoons is still taking cash. Tim Martin was lying! And it’s absolutely Ramboed in here. Like a Friday night!

Originally Posted by: The Beast from the East 

I was rather hoping your jaunts to the public house would involve you getting bladdered alone in a forlorn corner for a few days before they closed but to hear that it is rammed full of people really does highlight the need for stricter measures.

These ideas of a peak in 2-3 weeks from the CMO are fanciful. He has no idea of the rebellion at ground level.

Originally Posted by: SJV 

Yes I drove past the local Spoons an hour ago and saw it was packed with the usual crowd. Busy and doing a brisk trade by the looks of it.

Originally Posted by: Whether Idle 

I really don't understand what's going on in the UK at the moment. All pubs, hotels and restaurants are closed here. Most shops too. Only pubs were specifically asked to close but shops and restaurants have closed partly because people are heeding government advice to  stay at home. This is the only way that we will get on top of the virus. Give it 2 to 3 weeks, we will start to see the benefits. I don't understand why similar measures are not being taken in the UK.

Originally Posted by: Lionel Hutz 

f’ck off bitch. Hope you get reinfected if that’s possible 

Originally Posted by: The Beast from the East 

Sorry to hear that Justin. Some people just carried on totally deluded, as though they could go anywhere and do anything.

Just come off the phone to my son-in-law who as you know is a GP - their receptionist went to Turkey last week for a holiday and is now stuck there. This is someone who works in the healthcare sector who was still mad enough to go on a foreign holiday last week because "she had paid for it". Nuts!

Anyone taking a foreign holiday in the past two weeks was either nuts or ignorant. Sorry!

Originally Posted by: Maunder Minimum 

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Please, please, please Beast, stop posting stuff like this...totally unnecessary.

And yes, condolences to Brian, Chris and others who have lost loved ones.  I am rapidly realising how fortunate we were to be able to gather together last Saturday to celebrate Dad's life.

Originally Posted by: Chichesterweatherfan2 

Our next door neighbours are away. We think they left on either Friday or Saturday morning and they've flown somewhere because their cars are still on the drive. They're a pair of arseholes anyway and we don't speak (since 'the incident' ). She's a fat, arrogant cow always slathered in half a ton of make-up. She is the spitting image of Robert Smith from The Cure, although Mrs Snow disputes this and reckons Alice Cooper. You get the picture.

It'd be a real shame if they got stuck wherever they've gone.

Originally Posted by: Saint Snow