Coronavirus - how is it/has it affected you?

Unlike my Mrs, I am WFH and therefore doing the school run. Nipper loves it as we listen to radio and make silly conversation. With Mummy he has to finish his homework or practice his tables or something.
... so major change for him..
 
Planned trip to Denmark postponed,apparently escalated quick with 1000 new cases in 24 hours,all schools closed for 14 days and gatherings of more than 100 banned
 
We are voting today on our Town Locality Plan - I will take my own pencil with me.

More seriously - I run and attend a good few meetings and discussion groups during any one week, and we are having to look at our personal interaction practices before, during and after these meetings - and also what physical separation we should adopt. And of course we'll be looking at our practices of a Sunday morning...

This is difficult as interpersonal physical interactions are important.
 
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Dragged myself back into work today after having yesterday off with a cold. Emergency meeting first thing to outline what the business is doing in response to COVID-19. One of things is don't come in if you're ill even if it's just a cold. Oops - I'm already here now.

Staff are encouraged to work from home if they're able to do so effectively, but our boss is of the opinion that we need an on-site presence so that's out the window. One thing they have made sure they do is to freeze bonuses and payrises due to foreseeing delays to projects. Nice of them.
 
Unfortunately can't work from home as it would be a massive security breach

However hoping they shut down the tube for a month would be lovely

Let us clean it and do some blooming maintaince!!!!
 
Just announced that Ireland are closing of all schools, colleges and childcare facilities - plus gatherings of 100 or more - until end of the month. Can't be long for that to happen here. Lunchtime? Though PM has been advising that we wait for a week or two before we do that - worrying if he does announce a change in that policy. Whatever the experts advise I trust and believe that we will do. But it's going to be tough.

https://www.irishtimes.com/news/hea...es-and-childcare-facilities-to-shut-1.4200977
 
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Old Skier said:
If he has a problem tell him to contact the CAB who in some areas have designated energy experts.
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Thanks - I am sure he has asked his landlord as he spends a fortune on gas and electricity.

Separately - was there anything in the budget yesterday about what councils will do in respect of collecting Council Tax - it's a right bad 'un to be in arrears on.

In fact the advice from debt charities is that paying council tax should take priority over anything else. Other missed loan/CC etc payments will hit your Credit Record immediately - but these can be cleared or managed without too much of an issue. Councils are utter swines in respect of missed Council Tax.
 
A nice illustration and helpful to remind people to wash their hands.
With cold and flu season upon us, a School in the US decided to try a hygiene science experiment using Bread that they hoped would encourage students to wash their hands and spread fewer germs.
There is an untouched slice, one touched by unwashed hands & the others were handled by hands ‘cleaned’ with hand sanitiser & Soap & Warm Water. They then decided to rub a slice on all their classroom Chromebooks which they usually sanitise.
They then left the bread to "go off" and you can see the bacterial growth on each slice dependant upon the level of cleanliness.
Correct hand washing was shown as the best method of keeping bacteria down. Hand sanitizer alone doesn't do it.
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Robster59 said:
A nice illustration and helpful to remind people to wash their hands.
With cold and flu season upon us, a School in the US decided to try a hygiene science experiment using Bread that they hoped would encourage students to wash their hands and spread fewer germs.
There is an untouched slice, one touched by unwashed hands & the others were handled by hands ‘cleaned’ with hand sanitiser & Soap & Warm Water. They then decided to rub a slice on all their classroom Chromebooks which they usually sanitise.
They then left the bread to "go off" and you can see the bacterial growth on each slice dependant upon the level of cleanliness.
Correct hand washing was shown as the best method of keeping bacteria down. Hand sanitizer alone doesn't do it.
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Don't really fancy my sandwich now :sick:
 
Trump has closed the US to all European flights other than from the UK for 30 days. My lad due to go to the States for 3 months in June to do an internship as part of his degree. Situation may change of course between now and then, hopefully, he'll still be able to go.
 
Robster59 said:
A nice illustration and helpful to remind people to wash their hands.
With cold and flu season upon us, a School in the US decided to try a hygiene science experiment using Bread that they hoped would encourage students to wash their hands and spread fewer germs.
There is an untouched slice, one touched by unwashed hands & the others were handled by hands ‘cleaned’ with hand sanitiser & Soap & Warm Water. They then decided to rub a slice on all their classroom Chromebooks which they usually sanitise.
They then left the bread to "go off" and you can see the bacterial growth on each slice dependant upon the level of cleanliness.
Correct hand washing was shown as the best method of keeping bacteria down. Hand sanitizer alone doesn't do it.
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That’s mould though?
 
I’ll be surprised if the players makes it to Sunday. Can’t see how the f1 can go ahead now in light of Mclaren withdrawing. Uefa aren’t going to be able to force real to play, I think all sport is pretty much going to stop for a period.
 
A blanket closure of schools would reduce NHS capacity as parents stay home. Kids would be in the wider community unless isolation is also mandated.

It may be better to be more precise and allow 'crowd immunity' to develop but that means ensuring health care services have capacity.

Tricky balancing act.
 
We still have 0 cases in this region officially but it'll get here.

"Boris Johnson is killing us all. Close schools now!" Not my words but the words of man with a can of spray paint in large letters on a site perimeter boarding on the A816 through Oban yesterday. I was driving past and noted the fellow with said can, he had just started, thought it slightly odd, came back along 20 minutes later to see all of the local constabulary arresting/restraining this person who was yelling some message. I hadn't seen any kind of public protest about this until then and it upped the ante a little for me.

Increasingly feel we are intentionally being protected to prevent panic.
I delved a bit deeper online into the Italian cases and it made quite grim reading. They are having to select who gets treated and who's too far gone to bother with . The lungs of victims stop working so they have to pump their blood round an oxygenating machine whilst waiting to see if the patients lungs can re-function if the body's immune system can fight off the virus.
 
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