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Coronavirus - how is it/has it affected you?

bobmac said:
MPs already get an office allowance
Budgets
6.10 For London Area MPs, the annual office costs budget is £28,800.
6.11 For non-London Area MPs, the annual office costs budget is £25,910.

Budgets
7.12 For London Area MPs, the annual staffing costs budget is £188,860.
7.13 For non-London Area MPs, the annual staffing costs budget is £177,550.

Plus £6,000 for stationery
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BoJo told us to work form home, if you can. Now we find out maybe half the workforce of Britain could be doing so illegally. There was no time for everyone to be fitted for new office equipment.

Now we find out extra budget is available to a select few to do what everyone else is just getting on with. If the MPs get extra budget then surely the whole workforce should have that luxury from the government as well.
 
HomerJSimpson said:
I also wonder if its a political decision. Having just seen the tories make huge inroads into labour heartlands they don't want to do anything to draconian. Voters have long memories. Also, do they have the resources to police the parks and open spaces properly
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...not until those more draconian measures can be announced by Johnson...as many might listen to him who couldn’t give a fig for what any of the others say - so my wife’s thinking goes. She may have a point.
 
HowlingGale said:
BoJo told us to work form home, if you can. Now we find out maybe half the workforce of Britain could be doing so illegally. There was no time for everyone to be fitted for new office equipment.

Now we find out extra budget is available to a select few to do what everyone else is just getting on with. If the MPs get extra budget then surely the whole workforce should have that luxury from the government as well.
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You can bet your house the whole workforce won't be getting a 3.1% pay rise either.
 
Well think it’s safe to say I have it, woke up at 2:20 feeling like I’d been hit by a bus, body aching all over, roasting hot but freezing cold as well, tight throat and wheezy cough.
Have spoke to work doctor who says just to carry on taking paracetamol and they will get more to me in hotel.
Can’t actually believe it.
 
BrianM said:
Well think it’s safe to say I have it, woke up at 2:20 feeling like I’d been hit by a bus, body aching all over, roasting hot but freezing cold as well, tight throat and wheezy cough.
Have spoke to work doctor who says just to carry on taking paracetamol and they will get more to me in hotel.
Can’t actually believe it.
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Hope you get better soon ?
 
BrianM said:
Well think it’s safe to say I have it, woke up at 2:20 feeling like I’d been hit by a bus, body aching all over, roasting hot but freezing cold as well, tight throat and wheezy cough.
Have spoke to work doctor who says just to carry on taking paracetamol and they will get more to me in hotel.
Can’t actually believe it.
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Take care.... best wishes. :)
 
BrianM said:
Well think it’s safe to say I have it, woke up at 2:20 feeling like I’d been hit by a bus, body aching all over, roasting hot but freezing cold as well, tight throat and wheezy cough.
Have spoke to work doctor who says just to carry on taking paracetamol and they will get more to me in hotel.
Can’t actually believe it.
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statistically you probably have the flu. get well soon
 
Jesus Brian hope you're back fighting for asap.

Get plenty of vitamins in you and try eat good nutritious food...and get some Zinc if you can?
 
Billysboots said:
I try and give my kids the simplistic view, and I do accept it is very simplistic.

But I tell them, if every household stayed at home for a month, doing essential shopping and trips only, maximising social distancing when they do, the virus would die out as it simply has nowhere to go.

It’s not really a tricky concept to grasp, and it mystifies me why so many are struggling with it.
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The problem is that I don't think they're struggling with it, I think they're just blatantly ignoring it.
 
just drove past asda on my way home from work. I have never seen a queue so long. according to the coppers the local supermarkets have been nuts since Wednesday! what's going on. people planning family get togethers no doubt ?
 
hovis said:
just drove past asda on my way home from work. I have never seen a queue so long. according to the coppers the local supermarkets have been nuts since Wednesday! what's going on. people planning family get togethers no doubt ?
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Was advised it was horrendous queuing outside all the supermarkets yesterday morning in these parts... Glad we went out Wednesday... Shop was virtually empty of customers with shelves relatively full...
 
hovis said:
just drove past asda on my way home from work. I have never seen a queue so long. according to the coppers the local supermarkets have been nuts since Wednesday! what's going on. people planning family get togethers no doubt ?
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Maybe not, maybe people trying to make it as normal as they can for the kids?

We will be having our normal easter lunch just without everyone else

My wife sent me pic of all the Easter stuff she got for little lady months ago as she always gets things 6 months ahead so she will get an Easter egg hunt in the garden ..stuff like that

Wonder how many just doing things to make lock down feel a little more normal without going out more than normal

Time the weekly shop right can fit it all in I'm sure

Or nice weather how many people thinking BBQ at home with the kids? Again no more trips than normal if you time it right
 
Slab said:
Should people really have to be told this kind of very obvious non essential guff shopping will put other peoples health at more risk
You cannot work on the basis that if you haven't specially been told not to do xyz then it automatically means it's fair game
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But that’s where retailers need to take responsibility for their operation. Should I decide to order a non-essential item online then the onus is on the retailer to manage my order safely. Not on me to not submit my order to begin with.

If retailers act responsibly I get my order, they don’t go out of business and nobody is put at risk. Some common sense has to prevail, surely?
 
Slime said:
The problem is that I don't think they're struggling with it, I think they're just blatantly ignoring it.
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I’ll give you an example of what this country is up against.

A colleague of mine stopped and spoke to a group of three men from a different household playing football in a local park. Their explanation?

They’d left their individual homes to go for essential food supplies, so their “leaving” was legitimate. They argued that there was nothing specific in the guidance that said, having completed the essential task, they then had to return home again.

Difficult to know whether they were being serious or taking the urine, but either way it illustrates perfectly why this country will remain locked down for months to come.
 
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