One of the bands I play with are back together playing. They have to wear muzzles and bell covers. I will not return to group settings until all this BS is over. I’m not scared of some silly virus and will not be made to dress up like a damn fool to perpetrate this lie being fed to all countries. Been spending a lot of time on my kayak fishing
@dennis78 - I totally agree with you.
I don't understand how anyone can possibly be expected to play any brass or woodwind instrument whilst wearing a face mask - and any kind of cover over the bell is going to play havoc with the sound. I've got a Shhmoot for my baritone, and whilst very useful for keeping the neighbours happy if I practise in the evenings, it seriously distorts the sound.
As for the bug; if we believe all we're told, I ought to be a prime case for getting wiped out by it - being 73, had one confirmed and two probable heart attacks, two lots of heart surgery (the second being a quad heart by-pass), and having lungs which were permanently messed up by being gassed with phosgene in an industrial accident when I was 19. I caught the bug at the end of March, had a few days in bed, lots of rest, fluids and vitamin C, and I was over it in about 5 days. And info has emerged to the effect that nearly half the hospitalised cases of Covid-19 actually caught the bug
whilst they were in hospital for something else, and not before!
As for the spike in cases three or four weeks ago, which got that shower in Westminster in a right tizzy - anyone who's done a degree or worked in a university (which includes most cabinet ministers and Johnson himself) could tell them why it happened, why it happened when it did, and why confirmed cases soared in towns and cities with universities - Fresher Flu.
Every autumn, first year students head off the the colleges; for many, if not most, it's their first time away from home, for overseas students, it will be their first time living abroad, they leave behind the friends they made through school and are surrounded by hundreds or thousands of strangers, in a radically different environment, bombarded with all sorts of info about how their college works and how the course is set up - it's no surprise that many of them get a bit stressed - and their bodies say "the hell with this, I need a break" and they go down with one bug or another - commonly known as Fresher Flu. Colds, flu, whatever - and this year, some of them with Covid-19. At that age, virtually 100% of them stand more chance of dying from a lightning strike than from any of the corona viruses - so, surprise! A couple of weeks later, they're as right as rain.
Meantime, in La-La Land, the government 'scientists' freak out -
again - and demand yet another lockdown . . .
Every winter, without exception, tens of
thousands of people die from plain ol' Bog Standard Seasonal Flu. But I'm damned if I can remember any government shutting down industry and commerce and the education system system for months on end because of it - nor can I remember NHS bosses cancelling millions of cancer treatments, vital operations, and vital diagnostic scans "to protect the NHS!" As it is, people have
already started dying from untreated cancer and cardiac conditions - and many more will continue to do so for years, because whilst some nurses have reported doing full 12 hours shifts without seeing a single patient, people with untreated and undiagnosed conditions have either died or progressed from 'curable' to terminal'. And there was silly old me thinking that the NHS was supposed to protect
us . . .
Frankly, I'd sooner take medical advice from a reasonably intelligent child than I would from the blundering, cowardly, criminally irresponsible morons who call themselves our 'government',
or from their junk 'scientific advisers' who have a
20 year track record of making 'projections' which turn out to be wrong
by several orders of magnitude.
I have news for them; Parliament can pass laws to prohibit all sorts of things - but they cannot abolish death.
Jack E