Author: richard
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Day Nine of Orca in Switzerland – Not Our first Epidemic, but the most severe.
Reading Time: 2 minutesThis is not our first epidemic. In the 21st century I saw the actions to spread Foot and Mouth from spreading in South West England. Dartmoor was closed and precautions were taken to protect animals. We also lived through the BSE crisis, i.e. Mad cow disease. From 2002 we had the SARS…
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Day Eight of Orca in Switzerland – Herded like Cattle
Reading Time: 2 minutesToday I was herded like cattle at the shops and walked along the edge of a field I had never walked along before. At the shops they put tape up, like a maze to force people to walk a certain circuitous route. The circuitous route would be fascinating if the shops were…
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Day Seven of Orca in Switzerland – Quietness
Reading Time: < 1 minuteToday’s topic is quietness. As the weather was bad, and as there is no reason to leave the home unless you have to work, or to go for a walk everywhere was quiet. The roads were quiet, with few cars, the paths between fields were quiet. Even the motorway was quiet,…
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Day Six of Orca in Switzerland – Stricter measures.
Reading Time: 2 minutesToday’ I’d like to discuss stricter measures. Coop and Migros both have online shops set up for home delivery but the system is overloaded by people ordering at the same time. They don’t have the truck fleet or staff to cope with the demand so I suggest a better solution. Both Digitec…
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Day Five of Orca in Switzerland – Next Time We Discuss Shaking Hands We Should Stop and Go Into Self-Isolation.
Reading Time: < 1 minuteIt’s Day Five of ORCA in Switzerland. Next time we discuss shaking hands we should stop, and go into self-isolation. We had all the signs that a pandemic was coming. We knew about China and we saw what was going on in Italy. We knew that a virus was infecting people…
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Day Four of Orca in Switzerland – Exploring the Trail Less Travelled
Reading Time: 3 minutesToday is Day Four of Orca in Switzerland and I saw that the Canton in which I live has the most active cases of COVID19 so my motivation both to go to shops and to go for walks has taken a hit. At the same time I don’t know whether it’s COVID…
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Day Three of ORCA in Switzerland
Reading Time: 2 minutesOn Day Three of ORCA in Switzerland, I have decided to deactivate my account. In the last three days, I have been bullied by two people, a third tried to discredit me and a fourth reported a link for spam. As a result of these unpleasant experiences, I have deactivated my Facebook…
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Day Two of ORCA in Switzerland
Reading Time: 2 minutesWe are in ORCA day two in Switzerland and I crashed the drone. I also avoided the shops because of the behaviour I witnessed yesterday. The weather is excellent at the moment. Sunny, warm, and without wind. These are perfect conditions for drone flying so I thought I’d take advantage. I forgot…
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Day One of ORCA in Switzerland
Reading Time: 2 minutesDuring the weekend I thought that being in self-isolation would be a pleasant and enjoyable experience. The sound of cars is diminished. More people are walking and going for bike rides and the level of pollution could decline for at least a few days or even weeks. On the flip side I…
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Outdoor Sports and Pandemics
Reading Time: < 1 minuteIn theory, pandemics are terrible for your social life because you go from socialising in bars, pubs, restaurants, cinemas, theatres, and cafés to having to stay home like an indoor cat or a fish in an aquarium. For people like me, the thought of not being in crowds of 50 people…