COVID - general discussion - Temp Locked

Dont take all you see at face value, the professional truckers and their vehicles are surprisingly well equipped with cooking facilities either in the cab or in side lockers. They have radio/tv's/dvd's/portable heaters and porto loo's in the trailer, the bad thing for some foreign truckers , is that they are paid by the number of miles they cover and not by the hour.

No matter how bad it is now, they will all be back in the new year, it is a special way of life and many have been doing it since they were old enough to drive.

According to the national press this morning Wales now has the second highest infection rate for covid-19 in the world

I did have an HGV license, although never used it much, and also a PSV license, and did drive long distance coaches for a while so mixed it a little bit with the truckers. The professionals knew how to look after  themselves, some cabs where like 5 star hotels, and many will already have taken onboard extras in preparation for Brexit.

Many will have made some provision for a delay. But what length of delay? The larger transport may have sleeper cabs and some provision but we are entering day 4. 

Morning

On 15th July this year we were all told that we have to wear a mask when inside an establishment. Why do people still use the phrase " I forgot my mask" 5 months later?!!

JK

Some areas of London are not far behind. It’s not looking good, and will be much worse in a weeks time.

I feel sorry for all the truck drivers, some have managed to find accommodation, but it’s still a shambles. I don’t blame other countries for being super cautious though, our country hasn’t covered itself in glory from a World perspective, either in terms of ability to manage a dire situation, or a willingness of its population to do the right thing long term and consistently. Many have, but are still being badly let down by far too many who won’t co operate as they should.🤨

it has also been noted they seem to have a lot less respect or also it seems, thought for any one else in the pursuit of their enjoyment? than with past generations

The first time I heard that in my early childhood perhaps I believed it but I then so heard it so many times from different 'generations' as I got older that I realised it is just a myth, or a saying the 'older' appear to say about 'younger' people.

Likewise children and teenagers will (IMHO) always think that that their parents/teachers/older people know nothing and act in old fashioned ways. Then they grow up and do the same. It's called life.

We still have this displayed in out kitchen:

TENNAGERS Are you tired of being harassed by your stupid parents? Act now. Move out, Get a job. And pay your own bills - while you still know everything.

The UK is not unique in this situation countries such as Spain, France and even Germany have had difficulty in corralling the population and getting them to understand the importance of following the rules, and these are countries who try to enforce the rules with a much greater show of force than in the UK , and they now know that this super virus is in lots of countries not just the UK, it will just take time to manifest itself.

When you watch interviews on the TV where some antivaxers are taking this stance because they fear each vaccine has a tracking agent imbedded in it, then there really is no way the population will be 100 pct compliant with anything that is put on the table that might rid us of the virus.

I'm assuming that you've either not read the post from JVB which I was replying to - which to answer your question, was quite definitely blaming youngsters for disposing carelessly of face masks - or you're misinterpreting my post (which I'm sure couldn't possibly be the case! )

More like we should have less relience on single sources e.g. EU and widen the choice of where are produce comes from even if it might cost more in transportation.

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