The new HFP chat thread – Wednesday 13th May

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Optimus Prime says:

13 May13 May 19:41

Now that we’re allowed to exercise outside as much as we want – does that include doing activities in groups?

Our council seems to have reopened a basketball court nearby our place. I’t’s been full of kids all afternoon.
- Rob says:
  
  13 May13 May 19:54
  
  Except they won’t.
  
  I recommend you read this paper – https://erinbromage.wixsite.com/covid19/post/the-risks-know-them-avoid-them
  - Optimus Prime says:
    
    13 May13 May 19:58
    
    When playing basketball they all will be in contact with the ball with their hands for quite some time…
  - Doommonger says:
    
    13 May13 May 20:21
    
    Has anyone noticed the uncanny resemblance between Sir Kier Starmer and Lee from Gogglebox?
    
    Both of whom would do a better job than the current clown in number 10.
  - Qwertyknowsbest says:
    
    13 May13 May 20:50
    
    Interesting and credible, well at least I think so.
  - Lady London says:
    
    13 May13 May 22:10
    
    thanks Rob the article is very interesting.
    
    kinda confirms that everything those of us who are a bit OCD were worried about, indeed can kill you.
    
    i have always hated offices with sealed ventilation systems. Looks like this was correct.
    
    ive never returned to any hotel where my room window didnt open at least a crack so this is one for the future too.
    
    interesting that there were presumably filters and scrubbers in the office ventilation system and yet the whole floor got infected.
    
    Wondering what this means for planes which also have scrubbers and filters. Exposure time on planes is higher and preceded by being in a sealed atmosphere for hours at the airport. Hum.
- J says:
  
  13 May13 May 21:53
  
  You were always allowed to exercise outside as much as you wanted. The once a day limit was never put into law.
  - Bazza says:
    
    14 May14 May 00:57
    
    It does not have to be law for you to Know you are doing the right and decent thing! There are not laws that cover EVERYTHING. Of course your exercise was not supposed to be unlimited! And even now unless absolutely necessary everyone would rather you didn’t take the P. Stay home and saves lives?! Did that one pass you by?
    - J says:
      
      14 May14 May 01:21
      
      I’ve been exercising at home, not outside. Again, stop deliberately twisting words out of context. People are inundating the police to report non criminal acts for which the police have been given no powers by this shameful government. It’s a total waste of their resources and incredibly dangerous to offer such mixed messages during such a risky time.
- J says:
  
  13 May13 May 22:26
  
  You don’t have to stay 2m apart from your exercise buddy, although you obviously should. The government seems keen to make everyone think it’s mandatory, but it’s not.
  - Bazza says:
    
    14 May14 May 01:00
    
    If you can stay 2m apart from ANYONE of course you should! Are you not listening to anything you have been told about social distancing?
    
    You are putting lives at risk! Terrible attitude!
    - J says:
      
      14 May14 May 01:17
      
      Maybe learn to read properly before taking my words out of context! “although you obviously should” was fairly key to the point I was making…
Stephen says:

13 May13 May 20:53

Is anyone renewing their Virgin Atlantic Rewards+ paid credit card?

Lots of posts about people cancelling their cards, but surely if Virgin unfortunately no longer exist, we would at least get a pro-rata refund of the fee?
- Harry T says:
  
  13 May13 May 21:44
  
  Virgin Money are awful though. I wouldn’t want to have to chase them.
- jimA says:
  
  14 May14 May 15:23
  
  IIRC you only have to wait 6 months before reapplying to get the sign up bonus and we may get a special offer by then