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Post by NomadCris on Dec 11, 2020 1:12:41 GMT
Just a few questions about covid and you.
Theres 14 questions you can answer with 3 answer options for each question.Answers are anonymous.
Theres no closing date its just a rolling poll that hopefully may reveal how people feel about how covid has affected them.
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Post by jumpinghare on Jun 28, 2021 10:37:56 GMT
Interesting how it’s just become a way of life, phone, keys, mask, I’ve had both jabs and test myself a few times a week, I’d hate to think I was spreading it to a vulnerable person, I think it will take a long time to get over, I’m not saying back to normal because well, was it normal ? How many burger shops, nail bars, clothes shops ect, do we really need. We should think about the Earth and what we’re doing to it, chopping down rain forest so animals that would never come into contact with each other now have to use the same watering hole, viruses spread, there’s going to be worse than this, covid is not even the big one. The Earth is culling us like dear, and we deserve it.
Many fishing villages in Africa are wrecked, people who rely on fish for century’s now mine salt for 12 hours a day to feed their family’s because big trawlers are out in there waters scooping up the fish, it’s not even for human consumption, they dry the fish to feed cattle and chickens so people can stuff KFC and Mac Donald’s daily, we are heading for a great extinction if we don’t change..
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Post by VanWoman84 on Jun 28, 2021 11:08:35 GMT
You know how it is, if it's not happening in front of me it's not happening.
The mining of minerals for electric car batteries, the burning of rain forest to grow soya, hoovering all life out of a section of ocean, the list is endless. As long as it's happening "over there" it's fine.
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Post by parrotandcrow on Jun 28, 2021 11:59:51 GMT
My life has not changed at all to be honest. I see few people and still see few people. The only personal difference is that people who had no time or interest in keeping in touch now have an extra excuse, covid.
As for extinction, we are there, standing outside the terminal. I have just been out with the dogs along my usual leafy lanes. No flies, spiders, beetles. I saw one butterfly, an argus but no moths in the flowers. I used to wear a mosquito net along that lane to prevent myself from being eaten alive, no need now as no midges or other flies. No birdsong, all I heard was the occasional rook and sheep bleating. It's horrific.
I read Rachel Carson's 'Silent Spring' when I was about thirteen and it terrified me, but in one of those 'I won't get to see it' kind of ways. And here we are.
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Post by VanWoman84 on Jun 28, 2021 12:45:11 GMT
I kind of have to disagree with you parrotandcrow, there's loads of insect life here. BUT we live my acres of untouched MOD land, which is untouched for over a hundred years, with the other land only used as pasture or hay so no pesticides there either. A few nights ago we were coming back with the dogs, the insects were massive swarms, with the bats obviously loving it! I am covered with insect bites on my arms and legs, even my forehead where they land on my hair so I don't feel them. |
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Post by parrotandcrow on Jun 28, 2021 13:55:40 GMT
I'm glad that things are different where you are, Vannie, but that does not negate my experience. Mod land is often rich in wildlife because it is kept apart from everywhere else.
For what it's worth, where I live it is also countryside. Fields, plantation woods and shady lanes. I'm surprised that it is so barren as it is not farmed heavily, I don't see much evidence of agrichemical warfare, sheep, horses and grassland is what we have, yet still once you start looking things are more barren than you first notice.
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Post by NomadCris on Jun 28, 2021 21:01:15 GMT
My life has not changed at all to be honest. I see few people and still see few people. The only personal difference is that people who had no time or interest in keeping in touch now have an extra excuse, covid. As for extinction, we are there, standing outside the terminal. I have just been out with the dogs along my usual leafy lanes. No flies, spiders, beetles. I saw one butterfly, an argus but no moths in the flowers. I used to wear a mosquito net along that lane to prevent myself from being eaten alive, no need now as no midges or other flies. No birdsong, all I heard was the occasional rook and sheep bleating. It's horrific. I read Rachel Carson's 'Silent Spring' when I was about thirteen and it terrified me, but in one of those 'I won't get to see it' kind of ways. And here we are. I think in the wider environment there is definitely a huge deficit in wildlife and insects especially. I noticed this year the number coming into my trailer and getting zapped in my flycutor was massively lower than previous years,even on last year. There probably are oases in which insect populations thrive very well in abundance but generally the picture is pretty dismal. Probably most humans think thats not a bad thing but for wildlife populations and the natural foodchain its a disaster. I can remember year on year cycling the lanes or rowing sculls mile upon mile of river and being eaten alive all day long by insects,but virtually nothing about now. Driving a few hours the vehicle windscreen would be a paste of dead insect smears and that was accepted normality every year. Ive not cleaned a single squashed insect off my screen this year. Times are a changing,I dont think Covid nor the nonsense surrounding it has much to do with anything. |
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