O/T:- Self-Isolating

[LaxtonLad]

If I follow the Gov's advise and isolate myself for four months or whatever the latest number the "experts" have plucked out of the air is and the virus is still going strong - what then? Carry On Isolating? One thing is certain, my pension in the post office will have built up quite a bit and the holiday companies will be desperate for some of it. Brave New World for the survivors, Majorca, here we come.

[irishpete]

If I follow the Gov's advise and isolate myself for four months or whatever the latest number the "experts" have plucked out of the air is and the virus is still going strong - what then? Carry On Isolating? One thing is certain, my pension in the post office will have built up quite a bit and the holiday companies will be desperate for some of it. Brave New World for the survivors, Majorca, here we come.

Not China here we come?

[i961pie]

I have booked 10 days in Spain in early June and I have to pay for it by March 31st.
I think I will forfeit my deposit and cancel or should I get the deposit (£120) back? being Spain is in lockdown and jet 2
have stopped flights there.

[irishpete]

I have booked 10 days in Spain in early June and I have to pay for it by March 31st.
I think I will forfeit my deposit and cancel or should I get the deposit (£120) back? being Spain is in lockdown and jet 2
have stopped flights there.

You should get your deposit back

[Lullapie]

It really isn't 'just flu' according to scientific/medical consensus..

This briefly but succinctly explains the differences and, of course, some similarities...

https://www.sciencealert.com/the-new...hing-in-common

Coronavirus is a strain of influenza. Is is a mutation of the SARS virus, that took the east by storm in 2003-2004.

Unfortunately, some people do die from influenza. It is just a fact of life. Worrying about it, is like worrying about dying from a car accident or cancer. You can take precautions to minimise the risk by not driving or smoking, but if you're the unlucky one, that's it.

What the Prime Minister announced today is the most sensible course of action. Protect the vulnerable and let the rest get on with it.

It's a shame the rest of the world hasn't followed suit.

[Bartlett's Dust]

You should get your deposit back

Unlikely. You may get credit with Jet2 as in a voucher to use at a later date but I can't see them crediting people as they'd probably go bust.

[Lullapie]

Of course not! I never get flu. Why? Because I get a flu jab every year.

No doubt somewhere along the road there'll be a corona virus jab.

The flu jab is only 60-70% effective against a flu virus. There are millions of strains of influenza going around the world at any time.

Most vaccines just isolate one part of a virus and attack that.

As far as I am aware, it is near on impossible to vaccinate against a virus. The best way is just to let it take it's course.

[crazyfists]

I get what your saying unfortunately its not as simple as that

I have to go to work to pay my rent and bills and food for me and my family, if i do not t go all i will receive is around £90 a week statutory sick pay. I just can not survive on that

I will gladly stay at home if the government or company i work for keep paying me, otherwise i cant. And many of us average joes are in the same position

I work in a nursing home and no way can you go to work if you've got it, you could kill people in double figures. On the other hand you're right, we need money to pay bills and mortgages so it's not a simple issue but no way if you have it can you go around as normal if you have it, you might kill someone as there's no vaccine. It's not the same as flu in transmission, mortality rates and the fact you can vaccinate against flu and not this also makes it more dangerous.

[drillerpie]

Coronavirus is a strain of influenza

No it isn't.

You seem to be unable to stop posting misinformation during a public health crisis. What is wrong with you?

[irishpete]

An expert on the BBc has said at the minute it looks like you can't get it again after having it once. Still early days for that assumption