Fiddlesticks
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... Also TFL are running a reduced service.
et alThere seem to be a significant number of well washed and reasonably educated that are incapable or don't give two hoots as well, just read back though this and similar threads on Scuttlebutt.
Premier marina email just received telling me I can no longer come to the boat so lockdown, I think they can deactivate the fobs.
What do live aboards do.
Port solent is quite busy and a few boats going in and out of the marina.
I understand your sentiment. However, remember that the govt list of 'key workers' is as long as your arm. Financial workers are included and London has no shortage of those. Lots of folks still going to work because their employer expects them to, not because they want to. Clarification on specific key workers needs to come ASAP. I know plenty of people in this category who would like to stay home but are being told 'business as usual'.
If key workers have some sort of ID couldn't they use black cabs (paid by gov) they have screens dividing front/back, got to be safer than tube !!...and some genius (Mayor of London) cut more than half the trains meaning that the key workers have no choice but to crowd if they are going to get to work. Guess what is likely to happen to these key workers in 5-14 days?
Swansea Marina has closed and the Marina fees suspended until re opened.
If key workers have some sort of ID couldn't they use black cabs (paid by gov) they have screens dividing front/back, got to be safer than tube !!
My understanding is you need to register with the local council and the marina as a liveaboard. i.e. your berth is classed as a residential berth. (I've seen BT lines going to some). Whether the latter includes any increment fees is largely irrelevant. But if you have liveaboard status on a residential berth then, absolutely, they have every right to be aboard and yes, the marina as their effective landlord has an obligation towards them in accordance with any contractual agreement. What next, throw renters out of their accommodation too? Sounds like petty sour grapes to me.
If key workers have some sort of ID couldn't they use black cabs (paid by gov) they have screens dividing front/back, got to be safer than tube !!
Herd immunity.
That’s the correct approach btw , not total isolation as it’s OUT now and we all need to get naturally acquired antibodies against it until a vaccine is ready .
But at a PACE THE HEALTH CARE SYSTEMS CAN COPE ....with the ones that can’t cope with the disease and get ill.
Most hospitalised will recover others with pre existing co morbidity factors eg respiratory diseases will unfortunately die in the interim period .
So what you need ( in the absence of a vaccine ) is long term ( chronic ) looooow level exposure throughout the “ herd “ so it naturally self immunises ....just like any other influenza virus or any virus for that matter .
I worked many moons ago in the Dept of oral immunology @ Guys
As to survive one needs to get immunity most will get it without knowing ( subclinical ) some a slight flue ...normal flue and un
fortunately folks with underlying health conditions as said will not survive .Nothing new there with influenza.
It’s an airborne infection ( despite all this hand washing crap being peddled )
So avoid closed spaces , keep the house ventilated , avoid crowds etc .
You inhale it ....all virus first followed secondary by direct exchange of infected body fluids .Lets forget the 2nd ....so we are left with straight inhalation .
This whole current strategy is about preventing overwhelming of the health care systems, by protecting the un immunised vulnerable folks .
So some healthy self employed guys like Volvo Paul or DIY ers working in relative isolation on there boats assuming they have not got any , or live around anybody with morbidity co factors should be OK and won’t alter the outcomes.
At Shamrock today.
Yesterday was my last day for a while , i was at Shamrock quay , was told the place was closing , Hythe locked the doors as I spoke to them mid afternoon , Endeavour quay closed , Port Solent still making yard operations but I’d guess by the end of this week that will cease , as I stay on a boat in PS it’s a great area as to wether I can get access to it .
Salterns closed yesterday , I’d assume that MDL will follow suit and close everywhere , a big company cannot have different rules.
stay safe everyone I’m sure your houses and gardens will have never looked so good , I feel for boat owners having their pleasure taken away by this situation , it’s just starting to get nice outside .
no doubt when we are back up and running there will be a mad rush to get more engines and drives serviced , antifouled and boats polished up ready .