tourist traffic
#1
tourist traffic
Working on the other side of the road today, sunny cool Saturday 6 of June, and traffic to and from the beach seems about equivalent to any other year.
PT plates; many rental cars, some city cars [late model premium cars not from this village, likely Lisbonites].
I hope this does someone some good, and we don't get a surge of infections.
PT plates; many rental cars, some city cars [late model premium cars not from this village, likely Lisbonites].
I hope this does someone some good, and we don't get a surge of infections.
#2
Re: tourist traffic
Working on the other side of the road today, sunny cool Saturday 6 of June, and traffic to and from the beach seems about equivalent to any other year.
PT plates; many rental cars, some city cars [late model premium cars not from this village, likely Lisbonites].
I hope this does someone some good, and we don't get a surge of infections.
PT plates; many rental cars, some city cars [late model premium cars not from this village, likely Lisbonites].
I hope this does someone some good, and we don't get a surge of infections.
#3
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Re: tourist traffic
Don't panic
As long as social distancing is maintained there's no possibility of infection or are all the governments wrong.? 🤔 😳
The pandemic will die out at some stage, they all do, everyone has a different take on their own personal safety and preferences to avoid cv19.
Personally I'm quite comfortable to get back to Normal ASAP.
If I was over 70 with underlying health issues I may have a different viewpoint.
Good luck and stay calm and safe 😎
#4
Re: tourist traffic
Don't panic
As long as social distancing is maintained there's no possibility of infection or are all the governments wrong.? 🤔 😳
The pandemic will die out at some stage, they all do, everyone has a different take on their own personal safety and preferences to avoid cv19.
Personally I'm quite comfortable to get back to Normal ASAP.
If I was over 70 with underlying health issues I may have a different viewpoint.
Good luck and stay calm and safe 😎
As long as social distancing is maintained there's no possibility of infection or are all the governments wrong.? 🤔 😳
The pandemic will die out at some stage, they all do, everyone has a different take on their own personal safety and preferences to avoid cv19.
Personally I'm quite comfortable to get back to Normal ASAP.
If I was over 70 with underlying health issues I may have a different viewpoint.
Good luck and stay calm and safe 😎
COVID-19 may go into abeyance and we will certainly develop better treatments, but there is no reason to believe it will just "die out". The likelihood is that this coronavirus will become endemic, like flu, and remain deadly to some, like flu ........ but what the numbers affected will be is unknown. There is also a slim chance that it will mutate into a less deadly form - as killing the host is not ideal behaviour - but I don't think we can count on miracles.
I agree that much can be done to prevent infection, short of total lockdown, but that's a bit like walking across a busy highway - you are reliant on the care and attention of others as much or more than your own protection. Every time you go into a crowded situation you will be running a risk - and that risk may not only be for yourself. There are some who will calculate the risk and others who just take their chances.... like drink driving. Like drink driving, they may get away with it for a long time, but would you suggest that such behaviour does not create unnecessary risk?
I'm not over 70, but I have friends and neighbours who are.... that's why I'm still in the UK, I don't want to be a vector for my community in Portugal.
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Re: tourist traffic
It will die out according to the government scientist (professor John Edmunds) on Andrew Marr show this morning.
It may become weaker, Italian doctors appear to think this is happening already.
It may return annually like the flu.
Who knows for certain?
But it's not good to hide forever, and it does appear on the whole to affect the aged with underlying health issues more badly than any other.
Natural selection?
It may become weaker, Italian doctors appear to think this is happening already.
It may return annually like the flu.
Who knows for certain?
But it's not good to hide forever, and it does appear on the whole to affect the aged with underlying health issues more badly than any other.
Natural selection?
Last edited by dingg; Jun 7th 2020 at 12:03 pm.
#6
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Re: tourist traffic
GAIA fights back ?
#7
Re: tourist traffic
Natural; that's all right then.
Personally, even if it's natural,I'd rather not be culled just yet.
I will stay in, or as you put it "Hide" for as long as necessary. Yes, I will keep behind my locked gates in fear, but unashamed.
I'll see my friends again after this "natural" selection thing has passed.
Nature is ok with me, as long as that doesn't include personal illness or death.
Personally, even if it's natural,I'd rather not be culled just yet.
I will stay in, or as you put it "Hide" for as long as necessary. Yes, I will keep behind my locked gates in fear, but unashamed.
I'll see my friends again after this "natural" selection thing has passed.
Nature is ok with me, as long as that doesn't include personal illness or death.
#8
Re: tourist traffic
It will die out according to the government scientist (professor John Edmunds) on Andrew Marr show this morning.
It may become weaker, Italian doctors appear to think this is happening already.
It may return annually like the flu.
Who knows for certain?
But it's not good to hide forever, and it does appear on the whole to affect the aged with underlying health issues more badly than any other.
Natural selection?
It may become weaker, Italian doctors appear to think this is happening already.
It may return annually like the flu.
Who knows for certain?
But it's not good to hide forever, and it does appear on the whole to affect the aged with underlying health issues more badly than any other.
Natural selection?
Many will disagree with his stance on immunity - IF he is talking about total immunity, because there are plenty of infections for which there is no herd immunity, like the common cold, and others where the virus mutates easily, meaning constant vaccinations are required - like "seasonal" flu. We may develop antibodies that reduce the impact of the virus.... or that temporarily provide limited immunity, but that's not the common undrstanding of immunity and it WILL NOT mean the pandemic will "die out".
Quoting individual scientists is like clutching at straws - note the stop/go on Ibuprofen as a treatment and the claims about miracle off-the-shelf medications and vitamin supplements. We are learning about the virus all the time, but there's much we still don't know - however it does seem to hit in clusters and it is the study of that which may hold the clue to better management. PS, Flu does not return annually - it is endemic, but less prevalent in Summer months.
However, if your last statement is indicative of your thinking, you will look for the data that supports you.
Last edited by macliam; Jun 7th 2020 at 12:46 pm.
#9
Re: tourist traffic
Don't panic
As long as social distancing is maintained there's no possibility of infection or are all the governments wrong.? 🤔 😳
The pandemic will die out at some stage, they all do, everyone has a different take on their own personal safety and preferences to avoid cv19.
Personally I'm quite comfortable to get back to Normal ASAP.
If I was over 70 with underlying health issues I may have a different viewpoint.
Good luck and stay calm and safe 😎
As long as social distancing is maintained there's no possibility of infection or are all the governments wrong.? 🤔 😳
The pandemic will die out at some stage, they all do, everyone has a different take on their own personal safety and preferences to avoid cv19.
Personally I'm quite comfortable to get back to Normal ASAP.
If I was over 70 with underlying health issues I may have a different viewpoint.
Good luck and stay calm and safe 😎
Last edited by Loafing Along; Jun 7th 2020 at 12:39 pm. Reason: spelling
#10
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Re: tourist traffic
I don't like many people so am quite happy to stay away from them.
Let's hope 6 foot stays in forever so you don't end up with people right up your rear in the supermarket queue.
Let's hope 6 foot stays in forever so you don't end up with people right up your rear in the supermarket queue.
#12
Re: tourist traffic
Huge traffic flow this weekend, and Friday the supermarket was packed.
Almost normal for this time of year I think.
But with a difference; almost all Portuguese. Very few rental cars or foreign plates.
Even the German owned holiday houses behind me had Portuguese guests, and I think he only advertises in German.
It looks like the travel ban cuts both ways, with lots of Portuguese people checking out heir own beaches instead of traveling abroad.
So instead of potentially infected foreigners, our village was inundated with potentially infected Lisbonites.
Almost normal for this time of year I think.
But with a difference; almost all Portuguese. Very few rental cars or foreign plates.
Even the German owned holiday houses behind me had Portuguese guests, and I think he only advertises in German.
It looks like the travel ban cuts both ways, with lots of Portuguese people checking out heir own beaches instead of traveling abroad.
So instead of potentially infected foreigners, our village was inundated with potentially infected Lisbonites.
#13
Re: tourist traffic
It will die out according to the government scientist (professor John Edmunds) on Andrew Marr show this morning.
It may become weaker, Italian doctors appear to think this is happening already.
It may return annually like the flu.
Who knows for certain?
But it's not good to hide forever, and it does appear on the whole to affect the aged with underlying health issues more badly than any other.
Natural selection?
It may become weaker, Italian doctors appear to think this is happening already.
It may return annually like the flu.
Who knows for certain?
But it's not good to hide forever, and it does appear on the whole to affect the aged with underlying health issues more badly than any other.
Natural selection?
But your casual remark consigning the elderly to an unpleasant death is not very kind.
#14
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Re: tourist traffic
Of course natural selection takes out the weak and infirm.
I have not consigned anyone at all to an unpleasant death.
Whichever way you want to dress things up cv19 is more harmful in general to the elderly with underlying health issues, that is a fact.
If there is no affective vaccine development then this may become the new norm.
People will need to realise that could happen and the world will not stay in lock down forever, as long as the health services do not become overwhelmed this most likely will be the way things end up imo.
I'm not being unkind to anyone btw, just stating the way I see things heading.
#15
Re: tourist traffic
Of course natural selection takes out the weak and infirm.
I have not consigned anyone at all to an unpleasant death.
Whichever way you want to dress things up cv19 is more harmful in general to the elderly with underlying health issues, that is a fact.
If there is no affective vaccine development then this may become the new norm.
People will need to realise that could happen and the world will not stay in lock down forever, as long as the health services do not become overwhelmed this most likely will be the way things end up imo.
I'm not being unkind to anyone btw, just stating the way I see things heading.
I have not consigned anyone at all to an unpleasant death.
Whichever way you want to dress things up cv19 is more harmful in general to the elderly with underlying health issues, that is a fact.
If there is no affective vaccine development then this may become the new norm.
People will need to realise that could happen and the world will not stay in lock down forever, as long as the health services do not become overwhelmed this most likely will be the way things end up imo.
I'm not being unkind to anyone btw, just stating the way I see things heading.