How are we getting through it?

[hammurabi70]

Listening to R4 on the way home - late night news . Ran a report from I think Louisiana - in a church...The peps interviewed all said that the jab was aganist the will of god. That's what the US authorities are up against fortuneatly the uk has very few like that.

Most of the anti-vaxxers seem to be atheists, well very few seem to mention any religious aspect on their internet postings.  They generally seem to be suspicious of authority or doubt the efficacy of the vaccine or think it is more dangerous to have than to risk getting Covid and, hopefully, surviving it.  A challenging exercise in the interplay between the individual and the community.

The New too. I had a Catholic friend once who was much troubled by the way you can't really combine faith and hope (if you believe it, hope doesn't make sense, and if you hope for it, where's the certainty of faith?).

The whole point is that they are complimentary and not in conflict, like two sides of a coin.

I think we need to minimise the politics and religion aspects of the forum.  To judge from the top-totty folder the politically incorrect amorous postings have, at least, been corralled in one place.

[fred.]

I think we need to minimise the politics and religion aspects of the forum. 

Absolutely

This is a forum for a 10mm Miniature figure manufacture. Modelling, Wargaming, Painting and their associated topics really should be the core topics of discussions.

[Techno II]

We do have the unwritten rule about politics and religion....Both subjects can just end up causing bad feeling on the forum.

Said it so many times, that I've just about given up repeating myself.

(I'll just use my Lock and Delete buttons if things get out of hand.)

Cheers - Phil.

[Heedless Horseman]

I see Chat & News or Fun Stuff as 'fairly open', for topic or comment... other boards for more modelling specific.
People need somewhere to 'communicate'... whether, 'Blowing Off Steam', or 'Relating'... and where better than on a site with SOME shared interests, so some common ground. We all know of some of the 'radical' or 'pedantc' views , sometimes expreesed on other Fora.

ANYWAY!, A guy on another Forum, just starting in 10mm or 1/144, was asking about Decals / Transfers for Free French WW2 vehicles. Yeah, some Lorraine Crosses and Flags available fron PenD... but think he might be after a wider selection of markings.
Any recommends to forward?

[FierceKitty]

10mm gaming IS a religion!

[DecemDave]

As most of us have survived merciless commentary on our generalship/ability to roll dice, surely we can cope with a bit of robust controversy contained in a few threads?  I find reading others perspectives on hot topics is useful even if they are so obviously wrong.    

While the forum host (peace be upon him) and his acolytes have absolute authority over what remains posted,  is it not far easier to rely on us making our own minds up on what to bother reading ?   Just to stir it up:   Given that objectification of women is clearly a hot political topic in the UK, surely the entire "top totty" thread becomes a political statement.   It is very hard to have a  "no politics" rule as you actually get  "no politics I disagree with".    What I think is meant is that "we don't want two members getting into aggressive personal arguments (unless in "forum bar fight") or posting stuff/language thats clearly offensive.  So its more about thread control and forcing posts into the right threads so the the rest of us are left in peace to admire the latest sashimonos on the sengoku ashigaru  or ever more obscure WW2 vehicles.     
 
In any case, the Lisbon Maru post http://www.pendrakenforum.co.uk/index.php/topic,21192.msg334210.html#msg334210   reminds me how trivial are the "hot" debates here or our whines about the shortage of petrol, turkeys, common sense, ...   

[Lord Kermit of Birkenhead]

We do have the unwritten rule about politics and religion....Both subjects can just end up causing bad feeling on the forum.

Said it so many times, that I've just about given up repeating myself.

(I'll just use my Lock and Delete buttons if things get out of hand.)

Cheers - Phil.

Sure you won't just delete yourself !! 

[Techno II]

That's always a possibility. 

I'm still being a sad old git, and watching the map of "How many cases of corona virus in your area."

Coo...the map of the UK has gone awfully red in the past few weeks, as cases rise.
Doesn't seem THAT long ago that Pembrokeshire reached the 'heady heights' of zero cases per 100,000...We're now the worst in Wales.....if not the whole of the UK, at 754 per 100,000.
Only blue bits on the UK map are the Shetland Islands and the Orkneys.

Oh well...I'll keep wearing my mask...though,in Wales, I think we're still required to in shops.
Very rarely see anyone 'unmasked' in Tesco's.

Cheers - Phil.

[Steve J]

Cases in my wife's infant's and primary school sharply on the rise, with year 6 badly hit. Even the infants have cases now which didn't happen last year. According to a report on The Today programme yesterday, cases are circa 45K per day, with Secondary School age children the worst hit. Deaths I think 500 a day/week. Still many people not wearing masks around here .

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

My friend's 17 yera-old daughter has had to be put onto Beta Blockers due to long COVID.
Her heart rate has been running between 100-120 at rest!
And they say it will have no effect on the youth..

[Techno II]

My resting heart rate hardy ever drops below 90....Probably why I'm so skinny.
Just taken it.....102.

Cheers - Phil.

[Steve J]

In my 40's my resting heart rate used to be around 50 bpm, but now around 60 or a tad above. I can't imagine what it would feel like to have 120bpm!

[toxicpixie]

I'm now seeing a lot of "direct" friends and family catching it, whereas before it at "one remove" or higher (friends of friends, friends extended family etc...).

We're worse off than the "peaks" previously, especially as the Ambulance Service is now overwhelmed and the waits for A&E hitting 13+ hours in some cases :/

[Lord Kermit of Birkenhead]

Said it before but .....

The important thing is the number of paitents in Intensive Care, and those are much lower. Did some testing with the Kids at Prescot High, over the week one +ve test. Two freinds thought they had it - one did but described it as a the same as a bad cold, the other had a bad cold. Higher infection rate is probably due us being more open, the minority wearing masks and far less social distancing. We could go back to lock down, but dont tghink any of us want that. I suggest we all take lateral flow tests as soon as we show any symptoms and get the booster as soon as offered.

[toxicpixie]

We're still seeing a small airliners worth of deaths every week, and our hospitalisations have been engineered to cripple NHS capacity to operate.

On the plus side I just had my booster shot scheduled. Choice of half an hour time or hour and a half. That's... cutting it a bit close

[FierceKitty]

I'm getting mine tomorrow.

[Techno II]

Not heard about the booster shot (for either of us) yet.....But got a call yesterday about our flu jabs...9th Nov.

Have to wait and see whether the covid booster is going to be done at the surgery, or at a 'jab centre'.

Cheers - Phil.

[Steve J]

I imagine they will be done at a centre Phil (our ones are), as they are the Pfizer vaccine and you have the 10 minute wait afterwards. Our son has his on 13th November, so the vulnerable groups are at least getting their done. Hopefully mine will be before Xmas.

[Techno II]

I think you're going to be right, Steve.

I just hope it won't be too much of a trek.
I've heard (anecdotally) people being offered boosters 60+ miles away...though they've been able to change that to somewhere a lot nearer.

Cheers - Phil.

[Lord Kermit of Birkenhead]

Getting mine at 10:20 on Saturday along with Flu jab, also been asked to marshal the disorderly mob queueing for them !!