What a boring year

[Northeastfarmer]

I know it’s for the good of the country and I’m happy to do my bit....but what a boring year this is going to be

no ag shows
No football
No sports
No eating out
No drinking out
No socialising
Not even allowed to visit my 104 nanna in her care home

I can only imagine the divorce rate sky rockets this year as couples throttle each other

 

[Kidds]

If that is all that is going to change it's not going to have any impact on my life whatsoever.

 

[ColinV6]

Certainly going to be a strange one!

 

[DRC]

Better than being sent to the trenches like our forebears . People need to stop moaning and take it seriously .

 

[Northeastfarmer]

Better than being sent to the trenches like our forebears . People need to stop moaning and take it seriously .

I’m not moaning.....I’m just stating a fact

 

[DRC]

I’m not moaning.....I’m just stating a fact

Yes, I wasn’t saying you were moaning. But it won’t be long before some are.
I’m missing my football , watching and playing, my Friday night pint .
Today we are going to set up a makeshift badminton court in the grain store, so at least me and the Mrs can do some sport .

 

[GeorgeK]

I'm can deal with a boring year, it's the wheels falling off our credit driven society once the smoke clears that worries me

 

[arcobob]

It is becoming increasingly clear that the NHS cannot cope with the problem as it stands. People with serious problems are being turned away and operations are being cancelled. In reality many people will die, not from the infection but as a result of it. The government will have to further increase restrictions well beyond the next twelve months and anybody who thinks they can carry on as normal are deluded. People who wish to invest in organising social activities in the not so near future will have to seriously consider the risk to public health and their own finances.
This may sound defeatist but many of my friends find it difficult to grasp the implications and should wake up to the fact that they are in danger of becoming a public menace.

 

[lloyd]

I know it’s for the good of the country and I’m happy to do my bit....but what a boring year this is going to be

no ag shows
No football
No sports
No eating out
No drinking out
No socialising
Not even allowed to visit my 104 nanna in her care home

I can only imagine the divorce rate sky rockets this year as couples throttle each other

Look at the money people will save.
All the more for buying your beef in
the supermarket.

 

[livestock 1]

I feel the same. A few of us get out for a few at any given opportunity who are farming in similar systems. It’s good to talk. Have a laugh basically rip the pee out of each other. Different farms with almost identical problems. Without sounding selfish we will miss it. 4 Newcastle season tickets fooked. No football on telly.
Daft bit is I have a backlog of meetings with my agents which I will still have to attend. Mechanics for loadall bikes, tractors here are are there regularly. Getting parts and new/second hand tractor yesterday. Marts, ag suppliers hauliers many days every week that’s not including the countless other meetings/dealings with folks.
It’s a interacted world

 

[SilliamWhale]

If everyone followed the guidelines properly we would have stamped on this massively by 14-21 days. Its bugger all of your life and then concievably we could be running normally again by August/ september

 

[Derrick Hughes]

I had 6 charity bike rides booked been training all winter . Should have been doing London to Reading today , those charities in particular the Bhf will lose out now , cant ride with my mates even now and every other Sunday we take new riders out on Club runs ,
But for now my main concern and hope and pray that my family all survive this ,

 

[robs1]

If everyone followed the guidelines properly we would have stamped on this massively by 14-21 days. Its bugger all of your life and then concievably we could be running normally again by August/ september

Yes but as soon as normal life resumed it would have flared up again , this virus started off in one person or maybe a family if they ate a bat with it, so it only needs one person to start it all again.

 

[arcobob]

If everyone followed the guidelines properly we would have stamped on this massively by 14-21 days. Its bugger all of your life and then concievably we could be running normally again by August/ september

I admire your optimism and sincerely hope you are correct but human nature being what it is people will not follow guidelines until absolutely forced. Some of my older friends think time is running out for them anyway and the younger ones don`t think it is a serious problem for them.

 

[Bill the Bass]

If everyone followed the guidelines properly we would have stamped on this massively by 14-21 days. Its bugger all of your life and then concievably we could be running normally again by August/ september

But people just can’t can they? My brother in-law is getting married today big wedding 100 odd guests, I think they are being very selfish but my other half is desperate to go. We have had countless arguments this last week, so much so that our little girl has stopped making her ‘mammy and daddy’ Lego figures ‘duddle’ (Her word for for cuddle) and now bashes them together and says ‘oh no’. My parents who are both mid septuagenarians and not of great health are worried sick and don’t want us to go, father has several times hung the phone up on me this week - the arguments are hellish.

And all for a bloody wedding. I sat in my office and just sobbed last night, on the last check around the calving cows I just had that horrible feeling that I had in 2001 of just wanting to find the rope.

 

[SilliamWhale]

I admire your optimism and sincerely hope you are correct but human nature being what it is people will not follow guidelines until absolutely forced. Some of my older friends think time is running out for them anyway and the younger ones don`t think it is a serious problem for them.

I didnt say I was optimistic. Im saying if we did this then we would stamp on it. Im taking it seriously

 

[arcobob]

But people just can’t can they? My brother in-law is getting married today big wedding 100 odd guests, I think they are being very selfish but my other half is desperate to go. We have had countless arguments this last week, so much so that our little girl has stopped making her ‘mammy and daddy’ Lego figures ‘duddle’ (Her word for for cuddle) and now bashes them together and says ‘oh no’. My parents who are both mid septuagenarians and not of great health are worried sick and don’t want us to go, father has several times hung the phone up on me this week - the arguments are hellish.

And all for a bloody wedding. I sat in my office and just sobbed last night, on the last check around the calving cows I just had that horrible feeling that I had in 2001 of just wanting to find the rope.

I feel very sorry for you and many others in the same position. I am not religious or a romantic and believe that all celebrations or meetings to pay respect for the deceased can be put off for a more appropriate time. Has your other half volunteered to go into complete isolation for at least fourteen days?

 

[lloyd]

I admire your optimism and sincerely hope you are correct but human nature being what it is people will not follow guidelines until absolutely forced. Some of my older friends think time is running out for them anyway and the younger ones don`t think it is a serious problem for them.

Then they will be forced old and young alike.
It's not a case of letting others carry the can.

 

[SilliamWhale]

But people just can’t can they? My brother in-law is getting married today big wedding 100 odd guests, I think they are being very selfish but my other half is desperate to go. We have had countless arguments this last week, so much so that our little girl has stopped making her ‘mammy and daddy’ Lego figures ‘duddle’ (Her word for for cuddle) and now bashes them together and says ‘oh no’. My parents who are both mid septuagenarians and not of great health are worried sick and don’t want us to go, father has several times hung the phone up on me this week - the arguments are hellish.

And all for a bloody wedding. I sat in my office and just sobbed last night, on the last check around the calving cows I just had that horrible feeling that I had in 2001 of just wanting to find the rope.

Ah gosh I'm really sorry to hear that. You are in a dilemma there and I can totally see why. There should be no dilemma at all really. The only thing I can say is that the chances of you or family catching anything are still very very small. Vanishingly so really but still...

 

[SilliamWhale]

Yes but as soon as normal life resumed it would have flared up again , this virus started off in one person or maybe a family if they ate a bat with it, so it only needs one person to start it all again.

Not necessarily. If it flared up again they would have local shut downs to start. We may also be 6 month closer to a medicine...