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Coronavirus - how is it/has it affected you?

PNWokingham said:
Martin - did you get the results back? Hopefully all OK?

Also, does anyone know the policy for getting tested? It does cause a sense of paranoia as I was feeling rough a couple of weeks back but probably just a seasonal bug. But does anyone have an idea when non key workers will be able to go to the mobile testing centers?
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You've probably had it, easy to forget in all the media driven panic that vast majority will have what you've had. 3 of 4 in my house have had illness but all different in intensity, duration and symptoms. 4th is either asymptomatic or his Xbox induced isolation has protected him.

Best wishes to Homer too, never met but feel like I have after reading his posts here for about 13 years now....cripes.
 
PNWokingham said:
it was just a general question about when it will open up to mass testing - not to do with my cold a couple of weeks ago. I am keen to know if i have had it (my girlfriend and I were both pretty rough for a week or so), as would most people, as this is clearly part of the return to normality when we can start segmenting society into those that have had it - and are likely to have antibodies - and those that have not.
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At the moment the evidence as to whether immunity is developed simply by recovery from C19 is sketchy....
There's little evidence to prove that you do develop immunity and the thought, at the moment, is that if you do develop antibodies they may not last more than a year or two.
Some will recover without developing the antibodies in significant quantities to prevent re-infection
We also need to take into account that just because some may now be immune they are still perfectly able to pass the virus on to those who aren't simply by touching something that has the virus on it and then touching something else etc etc...
 
maxfli65 said:
Thought France had done or is doing the same, was on news last night.
Trouble is all the good tax paying employees suffer as well as the tax dodging company if it isn't bailed out and goes belly up. Double edged sword.
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I agree.. employees will struggle. I doubt if Tory's will go down this route, this will impact a lot of their donors. While Rishi is having his moments in the sun, but he too is an ex-investment banker
 
This morning over my cuppa in bed and pondering what we do today in 'the time of corona' we had thoughts back to where we were exactly a year ago - 27th April 2019. We were in a beautiful little place on the Queensland coast of Australia called 1770, having two days previously finished a three days sailing and snorkeling in the Whitsunday Islands

And we reflected how a year previous to that - 27th April 2018 - we would never, ever, have imagined that we'd have been in 1770 or the Whitsundays - and having already been travelling for 3months down under.

As we looked at the selfie my wife took of us from the monument to Captain Cook looking out over the sand and azure sea of the estuary - we would never have imagined what we'd be doing exactly one year later.

Yet here we are. And as much as I might - I actually would rather not speculate where we'll be on 27th April 2021.
 
Here's one for you which a colleague asked during a conference call earlier which no one could answer.

Let's say we go back to work on the 11th May, this would mean we are about two weeks into a furlough payment month and then three weeks of regular pay.
How is the furlough pay calculated as you won't reach the £2,500 threshold in those two weeks?
Is it based on the £2,500 on a day to day basis (£100 a day based on a 5 week month) or is it 80% of your full pay which is more than the furlough pay (about £140 a day)?

Hope that makes a little bit sense.
 
Beezerk said:
Here's one for you which a colleague asked during a conference call earlier which no one could answer.

Let's say we go back to work on the 11th May, this would mean we are about two weeks into a furlough payment month and then three weeks of regular pay.
How is the furlough pay calculated as you won't reach the £2,500 threshold in those two weeks?
Is it based on the £2,500 on a day to day basis (£100 a day based on a 5 week month) or is it 80% of your full pay which is more than the furlough pay (about £140 a day)?

Hope that makes a little bit sense.
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I thought they were calculating furlough pay based on what people had earned in February and all further payments would be calculated on that same base.
 
Beezerk said:
Yes, but what rate is the furlough amount worked out on?

Anyone have a proper answer for this rather than just conjecture?
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As I said proportionate. The monthly rate you have been recieving divided by the number of days in the month and multiplied by the number of days you were entitled.
 
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