Coronavirus Sars-CoV-2/Covid-19 Megathread

[Richard Hakluyt]

Luckily it rarely gets to 25C at my favoured beaches in Northumberland, don't want any sweating or plebeian riff-raff to ruin things 

Not that I expect to get there this year.

My lockdown started a bit early as I had a virus back at the beginning of March and I didn't want to risk passing it on. As a consequence I realised today that I have not used any form of motorised transport for at least 12 weeks.

[Sheilbh]

The countryside in general is just gorgeous in this country. My snarkiness was more about the climate I guess. It gets to 25 degrees Celsius and people invade the beaches as if this is proper summer.

25 degrees is a great temperature to go to the beach/do summer things! Plus it's May, so we're not even in Summer yet. But you're right we maybe over reach. I normally see the first lad walking shirtless down the street in my area in March when it hits 21 degrees - which is keen.

I also remember the first time I moved to the South of England from the Highlands (and normally went to Liverpool for holidays) and almost died when it got above 25 

My uneducated guess is that a fucked up half-dead lung is no fertile soil for the virus.

Sure - that makes sense. But then also children get it less or get it less severely? And it goes in the opposite direction of most respiratory conditions which, typically, love smokers. It's an interesting anomaly, I imagine that's why they're thinking of looking at NRT - is it the nicotine or one of the x hundred awful chemicals in smokers' lungs

[celedhring]

Covid or lung cancer. It's all about choice I guess 

[PDH]

Beaches here are closed from 11am - 5pm.  Well, "closed" in Santa Cruz means people can cross the beaches to get to the water (access to the ocean is a bedrock in California) where they congregate in huge packs of surfers.  Behind the beaches (which are, admittedly, empty) are all the people walking on paths, walking dogs, jogging, filming surfers, lying down, selling tacos, ranting about the evils in the world - many without masks.

It seems as if even in Santa Cruz, which has been very good about shelter in place, social distancing, and mask wearing...people have decided that the virus is done here.

[Josquius]

25 degrees and going to the beach is madness. Thats the temperature for closing the curtains and hiding indoors until it goes back down to something more reasonable.

[The Larch]

25 degrees and going to the beach is madness. Thats the temperature for closing the curtains and hiding indoors until it goes back down to something more reasonable.

[celedhring]

25 degrees and going to the beach is madness. Thats the temperature for closing the curtains and hiding indoors until it goes back down to something more reasonable.

I didn't know you hated cool summer days. 

[The Larch]

25 degrees and going to the beach is madness. Thats the temperature for closing the curtains and hiding indoors until it goes back down to something more reasonable.

I didn't know you hated cool summer days. 

Or even mild spring ones. 

I mean, it's 32º today over here and I've just taken out the short trousers to get them into the rotation.

[celedhring]

It's a mild 26º over here. No short pants yet.

[crazy canuck]

It is getting up to 30 in Quebec and Ontario and I hear on the news people talking about how they are going to manage cooling stations there.

[Grey Fox]

Yes, it's a problem. People use malls for this in the summer. Thankfully this heatwave is only 4 days long.

[Eddie Teach]

I wear shorts on warm days in February.

[Grey Fox]

I start wearing shorts when it gets to be ~15 celcius.

[Barrister]

I start wearing shorts when it gets to be ~15 celcius.

that's shorts and a sweater kind of weather right there.

[Duque de Bragança]

Luckily it rarely gets to 25C at my favoured beaches in Northumberland, don't want any sweating or plebeian riff-raff to ruin things 

Not that I expect to get there this year.

My lockdown started a bit early as I had a virus back at the beginning of March and I didn't want to risk passing it on. As a consequence I realised today that I have not used any form of motorised transport for at least 12 weeks.

If chavs can't go to southern Europe this summer (the horror!), you'll get the "plebeian riff-raff" anyways.