It took me ages to psyche myself up to my 10K today. It was leisurely and low resistance, but at least I did it.
I don't want to lose the enjoyment of doing this. Everything feels like hard work at the moment and I need to feel positive about regaining my health and fitness.
Am I right in thinking he's promoting a pill implying it guarantees protection from a poor disease outcome?
And he doesn't understand how social distancing/wearing a mask reduces cross contamination for the benefit of everyone?
Nobody can completely isolate because at the very least we need food and other supplies. Medical staff and other essential workers put themselves and their families at risk every day. Medical care uses up resources.
Nobody likes social distancing and wearing a mask, but it's such a small ask in the interests of protecting others.
I've always had a good immune system and I was as fit as a butcher's dog before I became symptomatic at the beginning of April. I had it mildly, the primary symptoms lasting less than a week.
Four months on and I'm still fighting constant fatigue and trying to get my fitness back.
I picked up a second hand exercise bike recently. I've lost fitness during the lockdown/post virus and I can get sunburn on a cloudy day, so it's ideal.
Up until now I've been inconsistent ranging from a good workout through to 'couldn't be bothered'.
I'm game for egging each other on to do a reasonable amount every day.
No, it's rare that people piss me off, I feel comfortable enough to tell them and argue it out in public.
There is enough stuff on the internet for me to know that the prejudice filtering down to me is at least in part coming from David Icke, if not directly sourced from his conspiracy theories.
I actually feel a bit sorry for him as a human being. Whether he's an unwell man, an unhappy man, or both, he appears to be acting out a lot of personal pain.
There's just no excuse for manipulating others, creating pain for many and making a fortune in the process.
He's had events cancelled in the UK, Germany and Canada, books removed from sale, he's been investigated by Ofcom, had his visa to Australia revoked ahead of an event, publisher's refusing his work and he's had to self-publish.
He might not have done enough to be prosecuted, or there might not be enough proof for a prosecution, but individual institutions have blocked him on the grounds of objectionable, or unsubstantiated content which contravenes their codes of conduct.
Perhaps the whole reptilian thing, including his conviction that the Queen Mother was a lizard might make him difficult to prosecute.
Icke disseminates unfounded ideas and people like me cop the anti-Semitic fallout at work and in the street.
How many times have you said of your war experience that everyone integrated amicably until those who wanted power and money pit groups of people against each other?
Icke stirs the ethnic pot and profits handsomely from it, his net worth being £10 million.
Don't try to tell me he's any different from any other muppet who is feathering their own nest at the expense of others through the medium of bigotry.
I can see how it might have prevented nuclear weapons being used again, but that doesn't justify their use. They were weapons of mass destruction, so it was hardly surprising that there was mass destruction. The effects of radiation were also known, at least to some extent.
I may have missed this being mentioned already, but I heard (I can't remember the source) that the second bomb was dropped to compare the effects of uranium and plutonium bombs, not because it was needed to obtain a surrender.
I don't buy the argument that it ultimately saved lives either, given we can't know what might have happened if the bombs hadn't have been dropped.
I would, however, question whether these nuclear attacks were an experiment and/or war crimes.
I know you meant that as a comfort MissC and I really appreciate it, but it's just so wrong that so many people suffer the affects of war.
And for what purpose?
I really don't know how to answer Bodie's question because none of it should have happened in the first place to get to the point where the end was Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
The only way it could be justifiable is through self-defence, but to annihilate so many civilians seems totally indefensible to me.
The legacy of war goes on for many generations regardless of the mode of combat, or the types of atrocities committed.
I see behaviours in my daughter that I inherited from my mother's experiences as a child trying to survive WWII Germany.
I think of all the people around the world experiencing war and in refugee camps, their children, their children's children, those not yet born who will nonetheless be affected by conflict.
I'm not sensitive about being ethnically Jewish. Why would I be?
I'm not so dense that I can't pick up on bigotry and challenge it, however.
Race, or ethnicity is irrelevant because pretty much everyone goes grocery shopping; hearing and sight impairment is not racially specific, either. I didn't think I'd ever have to explain that to a grown up.
I'd like to know why you mentioned that I am ethnically Jewish when you made a joke about my hearing and eyesight because it suggests some very odd cognitive processing.
Don't talk to me about the whole masked grandmama retail experience.
I tried a cloth one yesterday which blows out on every exhale and vacuum packs on my face every time I breath in. I felt like a diminutive, greying Darth Vader.
Because masks fit so close under my eyes and protrude further than my own facial profile, it reduces my field of vision. I was trying to follow the one way system in the supermarket, but searching for the intermittent, stylised, directional footprints on the floor required some bizarre postural antics to get the ground within my diminished scope.
Then there's reading glasses. I can't see where I'm going with them on, I can't find anything with them off. The moment I put them on they steam up. The on, off, on, off thing is bad enough without a mask, but it's like I've got some St.Vitus dance thing going on with a mask.
I did come to a solution, however. I put my glasses on the end of my masked nose (which incidentally had a permanent, quivering granny drip from the condensation) and that allowed the fog to clear. Now I'm nodding like the proverbial dog trying to see where I'm going, see the one way directions and see what's on the shelves.
All this is visual stuff is quite important to me because I'm sodding well deaf. I can't hear myself talking with a mask on, so I'm yelling through it, shrink wrapping myself with every deep inhale, mask blowing up like a balloon and glasses fogging up with every attempt at speech.
And I can't hear anyone else who is wearing a mask because I lip read...
But, if this saves lives, or saves others from having a horrible time of it, then we just have to adapt, find new ways of interacting with others and our surroundings and laugh at it all.
I wonder if companies will be wary of employing over 50's who have lost their jobs now the idea has been vocalised, mind. Experience and skill might just have been outweighed by perceived financial risk.
It doesn't say that in your op and you haven't posted a link with that information.
Not that I've just taken the first train to Huffsville about being called elderly, or anything, but I'd like to know what's happening and whether I'm looking at greater restrictions in the future.
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RE: will i run 5 miles again everyday?
It took me ages to psyche myself up to my 10K today. It was leisurely and low resistance, but at least I did it.I don't want to lose the enjoyment of doing this. Everything feels like hard work at the moment and I need to feel positive about regaining my health and fitness.