Are you still booking track days?

Are you still booking track days?

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Another_James

104 posts

151 months

Sunday 22nd March 2020
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But that’s not the choice you are making is it?
You go to the supermarket AND a track day. Multiplying your exposure.

Anyway we’ve been asked to not use online ordering for groceries if we aren’t vulnerable so people who are or are self isolating can get delivery slots.

HustleRussell

24,602 posts

159 months

Sunday 22nd March 2020
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It’s not just participating in the trackday though is it? My routine tends to include a visit to the petrol station on the way and services on the way back for a Burger King. Plus having used all that fuel the next visit to the petrol station won’t be far away. Compared to staying at home you’re probably doing several more transactions.

Another_James

104 posts

151 months

Sunday 22nd March 2020
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You know what I hadn’t even considered that, I visited 3 different petrol stations on Sat. I must have come into close contact with a dozen people when what I should have been doing was sitting at home and playing on the Xbox or drinking beer in the garden.

Carbon Sasquatch

4,582 posts

63 months

Sunday 22nd March 2020
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As long as you sign a DNR and don't expect any form of medical (or other) assistance if you crash, then fill your boots.

Zoobeef

6,004 posts

157 months

Sunday 22nd March 2020
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Given the chief medical officer is ok with us going out and doing things, those that are sat on some sort of high horse dictating what others are doing can go fk themselves.

Mr MXT

7,691 posts

282 months

Sunday 22nd March 2020
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Zoobeef said:
Mr MXT said:
A few days ago, I was considering Oulton next week. Following the progress of CV19 I think it’s unnesscessary risk.
Online order food shops from now on aswell?
You do what you have to do. My wife is a doctor so I’m likely to get it anyway, but if me not driving round in circles for a day limits the exposure for others, I’m happy to make the sacrifice.

And yes, I’m avoiding the supermarket where I can.

Zoobeef

6,004 posts

157 months

Sunday 22nd March 2020
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Mr MXT said:
You do what you have to do. My wife is a doctor so I’m likely to get it anyway, but if me not driving round in circles for a day limits the exposure for others, I’m happy to make the sacrifice.

And yes, I’m avoiding the supermarket where I can.
We're all likely to get it. This whole thing is to slow us getting it, not stop us. You should know this.

To tell you the truth, I'd rather get it now. Then in 2 weeks I'll be immune and not contagious and then I can go see my gran.

227bhp

10,203 posts

127 months

Sunday 22nd March 2020
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Zoobeef said:
Mr MXT said:
You do what you have to do. My wife is a doctor so I’m likely to get it anyway, but if me not driving round in circles for a day limits the exposure for others, I’m happy to make the sacrifice.

And yes, I’m avoiding the supermarket where I can.
We're all likely to get it. This whole thing is to slow us getting it, not stop us. You should know this.

To tell you the truth, I'd rather get it now. Then in 2 weeks I'll be immune and not contagious and then I can go see my gran.
Do you normally lie?
You can still carry it even though you don't have it.
I read on here the other day you can catch it more than once too.

Zoobeef

6,004 posts

157 months

Sunday 22nd March 2020
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227bhp said:
Do you normally lie?
You can still carry it even though you don't have it.
I read on here the other day you can catch it more than once too.
Haha, comedian.

964Cup

1,407 posts

236 months

Sunday 22nd March 2020
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227bhp said:
Do you normally lie?
You can still carry it even though you don't have it.
I read on here the other day you can catch it more than once too.
Both of these statements are untrue. Please don't spread misinformation sourced from idiot media.

You can only carry it if you are infected. You can be infected without symptoms, but your immune system will still be dealing with it and you will only be infectious for a limited period. There is no reliable evidence of reinfection in people who are not immunocompromised (there has been a total of one reported instance, and that is in doubt), and initial indications are that the normal immune response is a strong one (stronger than, e.g., the common cold) and that people who have had an nCv19 infection will not be reinfected.

It's why the government is (finally) looking to obtain serology tests (which are tests for the antibodies to the virus that will be present in people who have recovered). If the initial findings about immune response are validated, this will mean that people who have been infected can resume normal activity. There will have to be careful controls to stop people who have not been infected pretending that they have been, because people are selfish idiots, but if we can do a decent job of this kind of screening its our best chance to avoid the complete destruction of our economy.

Carbon Sasquatch

4,582 posts

63 months

Sunday 22nd March 2020
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964Cup said:
Both of these statements are untrue. Please don't spread misinformation sourced from idiot media.
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THere's confusion & misinformation all around - if you have reliable sources you can link to, it would certainly add credibility to your attestation.

I'm sure I heard Chris Whitty say just a few days ago that there wasn't;t enough evidence to say either way whether repeat infection would be an issue..... unlikely, but unknown I think was the phrase.

Zoobeef

6,004 posts

157 months

Sunday 22nd March 2020
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964Cup said:
Both of these statements are untrue. Please don't spread misinformation sourced from idiot media.

You can only carry it if you are infected. You can be infected without symptoms, but your immune system will still be dealing with it and you will only be infectious for a limited period. There is no reliable evidence of reinfection in people who are not immunocompromised (there has been a total of one reported instance, and that is in doubt), and initial indications are that the normal immune response is a strong one (stronger than, e.g., the common cold) and that people who have had an nCv19 infection will not be reinfected.

It's why the government is (finally) looking to obtain serology tests (which are tests for the antibodies to the virus that will be present in people who have recovered). If the initial findings about immune response are validated, this will mean that people who have been infected can resume normal activity. There will have to be careful controls to stop people who have not been infected pretending that they have been, because people are selfish idiots, but if we can do a decent job of this kind of screening its our best chance to avoid the complete destruction of our economy.
I suppose he means you could literally carry it on your hands and maybe clothing if you come in contact with the virus and have yet to wash it off or it die.

Carbon Sasquatch

4,582 posts

63 months

Sunday 22nd March 2020
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Here you go - lots of unlikely type statements, but nothing particularly definitive at this stage

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/mar/16/the-...

meatballs

1,140 posts

59 months

Sunday 22nd March 2020
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964Cup said:
It's why the government is (finally) looking to obtain serology tests (which are tests for the antibodies to the virus that will be present in people who have recovered). If the initial findings about immune response are validated, this will mean that people who have been infected can resume normal activity. There will have to be careful controls to stop people who have not been infected pretending that they have been, because people are selfish idiots, but if we can do a decent job of this kind of screening its our best chance to avoid the complete destruction of our economy.
Will also give us a better sense of the full scale of it, especially with the concerns many people are asymptomatic, and the need for further lockdowns if more people have been infected than originally thought

Mr MXT

7,691 posts

282 months

Sunday 22nd March 2020
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Zoobeef said:
Mr MXT said:
You do what you have to do. My wife is a doctor so I’m likely to get it anyway, but if me not driving round in circles for a day limits the exposure for others, I’m happy to make the sacrifice.

And yes, I’m avoiding the supermarket where I can.
Everything isn’t about you, you cretin.

We're all likely to get it. This whole thing is to slow us getting it, not stop us. You should know this.

To tell you the truth, I'd rather get it now. Then in 2 weeks I'll be immune and not contagious and then I can go see my gran.

Zoobeef

6,004 posts

157 months

Sunday 22nd March 2020
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Mr MXT said:
Zoobeef said:
Mr MXT said:
You do what you have to do. My wife is a doctor so I’m likely to get it anyway, but if me not driving round in circles for a day limits the exposure for others, I’m happy to make the sacrifice.

And yes, I’m avoiding the supermarket where I can.
Everything isn’t about you, you cretin.

We're all likely to get it. This whole thing is to slow us getting it, not stop us. You should know this.

To tell you the truth, I'd rather get it now. Then in 2 weeks I'll be immune and not contagious and then I can go see my gran.
Someones a little triggered. Isolation getting to you?

964Cup

1,407 posts

236 months

Sunday 22nd March 2020
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964Cup said:
227bhp said:
Do you normally lie?
You can still carry it even though you don't have it.
I read on here the other day you can catch it more than once too.
Both of these statements are untrue. Please don't spread misinformation sourced from idiot media.

You can only carry it if you are infected. You can be infected without symptoms, but your immune system will still be dealing with it and you will only be infectious for a limited period. There is no reliable evidence of reinfection in people who are not immunocompromised (there has been a total of one reported instance, and that is in doubt), and initial indications are that the normal immune response is a strong one (stronger than, e.g., the common cold) and that people who have had an nCv19 infection will not be reinfected.

It's why the government is (finally) looking to obtain serology tests (which are tests for the antibodies to the virus that will be present in people who have recovered). If the initial findings about immune response are validated, this will mean that people who have been infected can resume normal activity. There will have to be careful controls to stop people who have not been infected pretending that they have been, because people are selfish idiots, but if we can do a decent job of this kind of screening its our best chance to avoid the complete destruction of our economy.
For the strong immune response: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-020-0819-2

If your point was that you could act as a passive transmission vector by having the virus on your person, well, yes, but given that it's mainly transmitted by aerosol it would hard for that to work, and some basic hygiene would deal with most of it. What you can't do is have living virus in you with sufficient viral load for your exhalations to be infectious once you've recovered and still have a working immune response.

The point (which I think someone else made in this thread or one of the other 473 nCv19 threads on here) is about viral load. You *could* catch the virus by touching an infected surface and then your face, but you'd get a small dose and your immune system would likely fight it very effectively. In fact this is the crudest possible form of vaccination, albeit with significant risks. But if you give someone in the most contagious stage of their own infection mouth to mouth resuscitation you'll get a massive viral load and your immune system may not be able to keep up. This is why groups of people are bad - if several of them are infectious, you get a high viral load from the multiple sources. The weaker your immune system, the smaller the viral load needs to be to have this effect, which is one of the (several) reasons that older people are much more likely to be hospitalised and to die.

meatballs

1,140 posts

59 months

Monday 23rd March 2020
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Javelin announcement

https://www.javelintrackdays.co.uk/trackdays/Covid...

Edited by meatballs on Monday 23 March 13:51

meatballs

1,140 posts

59 months

Kev_Mk3

2,739 posts

94 months

Monday 23rd March 2020
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Anglesey have also cancelled Track days - gutted as that's my local track.