The Coronavirus Chronicles -Three Strikes You're Out

[Lord Popgun]

Change mine!! I wanna be LORD Popgun!

Sorry, I am getting very confused with your statement....you already ARE LORD Popgun....and this is written and sealed in the Grand Chancellor books.
Please explain your request!!

Sorry, I am getting very confused with your statement....you already ARE LORD Popgun....and this is written and sealed in the Grand Chancellor books.
Please explain your request!!

Yeah, but my USER NAME doesn’t say it

[peterbaron]

Change mine!! I wanna be LORD Popgun!

Sorry, I am getting very confused with your statement....you already ARE LORD Popgun....and this is written and sealed in the Grand Chancellor books.
Please explain your request!!

Sorry, I am getting very confused with your statement....you already ARE LORD Popgun....and this is written and sealed in the Grand Chancellor books.
Please explain your request!!

Yeah, but my USER NAME doesn’t say it

Sorry, I am getting very confused with your statement....you already ARE LORD Popgun....and this is written and sealed in the Grand Chancellor books.
Please explain your request!!

Yeah, but my USER NAME doesn’t say it
Let me know when you change it, so the Books will be updated accordingly

[Cormanus]

Many things can a moderator do. Changing names is not one of them. You will have to petition The Administrator.

[peterbaron]

Many things can a moderator do. Changing names is not one of them. You will have to petition The Administrator.

Lord Popgun is very smart and knows how to do it right .... with the help of his Ring....and 4 RLETs

[Lord Popgun]

Petitioning The Administrator is fraught with danger and not to be taken lightly. Remember the different colored user names debacle.

Only once have I dared, on bended knee, to petition him. That was for emoticons. After more petitions from other members and a suitable delay, that wish was granted.

The Ring has warned me against overstepping my bounds. I shall heed it.

[the Ferret]

So wise Lord popgun is.

[Cormanus]

I apologise for being momentarily serious, but this thread has raised questions of whether riding a motorcycle for pleasure is an OK thing to do in the current circumstances. It isn't.

And not because riding a motorcycle is likely to infect you.

The reason the authorities don't want bicycles, cars, motorcycles, people anything much moving around is that, on the evidence of the way coronavirus spreads, almost all the countries from which this forum draws its members are already past the point where their health systems will be able to cope with all the coronavirus patients needing intensive care. Maybe putting that the other way will be clearer: there will be way more COVID19 patients needing intensive care that our hospitals can treat. And that assumes they don't have to deal with anything else like road accident trauma, cardiac disease, strokes, diabetic and asthma attacks, etc, etc. That's why many countries are working hard to 'flatten the curve'. It probably won't reduce the number of infections; but it will mean they're more spread out which will give hospitals and the medical system a better chance of being able to respond and reduce the number of horrendous choices health professionals will have to make.

So, just at the moment, it's not all right to anything that puts you at risk of injury unless you absolutely have to for the simple reason that, if you do get hurt, you'll be putting further pressure on a health system that is, or is about to be, overwhelmed.

A friend of mine pointed out the other day that geezers are not only more likely to be seriously harmed by coronavirus, but are also in the 'throw-on-the-scrap-heap' age range. When the hospitals start having to make the really hard choices about who gets treated and lives and who doesn't and dies—and they almost certainly will—you don't want to be where the scales are already loaded against you.

[max]

Quite agree with you Cormanus, it was fun to get out but it does seem not right to be out there whilst others sit it out with the entire family inside.

We are in phase three today which means there is one day to arrange supplies etc, before midnight tomorrow the phase 4 starts which means everybody not in essential services stays inside, currently we have 3 confirmed cases of community spreading, all are in quarantine and almost all cases here are related to returning citizens from infected places for a total of 153 cases of which 12 have recovered, i totally agree with this plan and if we are consistent we stand the same good chance as Singapore, the success story.

Good to hear what happens around the world and Alprider's reports first hand.

[pdedse]

I apologise for being momentarily serious, but this thread has raised questions of whether riding a motorcycle for pleasure is an OK thing to do in the current circumstances. It isn't.

And not because riding a motorcycle is likely to infect you.

The reason the authorities don't want bicycles, cars, motorcycles, people anything much moving around is that, on the evidence of the way coronavirus spreads, almost all the countries from which this forum draws its members are already past the point where their health systems will be able to cope with all the coronavirus patients needing intensive care. Maybe putting that the other way will be clearer: there will be way more COVID19 patients needing intensive care that our hospitals can treat. And that assumes they don't have to deal with anything else like road accident trauma, cardiac disease, strokes, diabetic and asthma attacks, etc, etc. That's why many countries are working hard to 'flatten the curve'. It probably won't reduce the number of infections; but it will mean they're more spread out which will give hospitals and the medical system a better chance of being able to respond and reduce the number of horrendous choices health professionals will have to make.

So, just at the moment, it's not all right to anything that puts you at risk of injury unless you absolutely have to for the simple reason that, if you do get hurt, you'll be putting further pressure on a health system that is, or is about to be, overwhelmed.

A friend of mine pointed out the other day that geezers are not only more likely to be seriously harmed by coronavirus, but are also in the 'throw-on-the-scrap-heap' age range. When the hospitals start having to make the really hard choices about who gets treated and lives and who doesn't and dies—and they almost certainly will—you don't want to be where the scales are already loaded against you.

Sobering...fortunately for me, rain is predicted for all this week and that will dampen the desire to ride on the MC.

[zirconxi_imp]

Ya guys, please stay home to help reduce risk for those who risk their life to keep things going. Some patients don't even know they are carrier until contact tracing. Over here, some who work in high exposure risk even setup camp in front of their house to avoid contacts with family members. We can help stop the spread of the virus. Just by sitting at home... Plenty of riding days ahead, provided we stay alive...