dantheman
Bah humbug
On a more sensible note - travel advice from BBC; flights, insurance and that
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-51615412
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-51615412
Following on from the suggestion that the vulnerable should get it while health services can cope, how about the idea that children, who seem relatively unaffected, should get it now; it would build herd immunity in the population and hopefully protect them in case of future outbreaks when they would be older and potentially more vulnerable! (The joys of applying logic!) ��
The thread has become concerned with international travel rather than with the threats to birding. I suspect that day-to-day birding activities such as visiting nature reserves may well be threatened soon.
I have just had an email from a reserve that I volunteer at reiterating that the health and safety of staff, volunteers and visitors are paramount - I read that as we will be closing the reserve before long. Just as well that I enjoy working on my garden list.
Steve
The thread has become concerned with international travel rather than with the threats to birding. I suspect that day-to-day birding activities such as visiting nature reserves may well be threatened soon.
I have just had an email from a reserve that I volunteer at reiterating that the health and safety of staff, volunteers and visitors are paramount - I read that as we will be closing the reserve before long. Just as well that I enjoy working on my garden list.
Steve
On a more sensible note - travel advice from BBC; flights, insurance and that
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-51615412
I think this will hit the UK especially- when I was there, I was fascinated how different the UK's idea of a nature reserve is from ours. In Czech Republic/Poland most reserves are just areas on the map, a few signs in the field and maybe an information board, there are almost not reserves with visitor centers and on-site staff in central Europe.
I don't think those that haunt the information services with "lift wanted" messages are going to do very well this year.
John
It's difficult to change our habits too.. I've just realised that I let someone look thru my binocs last weekend. Neither of us thought twice, he was an older chap, so should probably be more vigilant in the coming months.
This was Keyhaven, where you would assume one of the most safest, outdoor, open areas in the South.
From what I understand, unless he licked your bins or used his nasal passages to look through them, it shouldn't be a worry.
From what I understand, unless he licked your bins or used his nasal passages to look through them, it shouldn't be a worry.
Like I mentioned earlier in this thread, I go to London once a month and nearly always come back with a bug. And that's just shaking a few hands, touching a few lift buttons and door handles, and sitting on the tube.
I'm not planning on going into London for a while now, but I wonder if its different now that I'm thinking more hygienically?!