Coronavirus - how is it/has it affected you?

[Hacker Khan]

Yes.. 14 days self isolation for whole family due to support bubble. Lost income as Mrs can’t wfh or see her patients

I may be proved wrong but I would not be surprised if most school kids will have had Covid by the end of the academic year just by the fact that kids are in close contact a lot of the time. My mate's daughter has been sent home to isolate for 14 days, there is someone who has tested positive in my daughters class, this will only increase.

As was made perfectly and abundantly clear by the DFE when the back to school plans for all pupils were announced, the only way to contain it without having whole families isolating for 2 weeks if a kid gets a cold is by a world beating, efficient and fast test and trace system. Unfortunately all political comment is now banned so I can't possibly say if we have such a thing, I'll leave it to people to make their own mind up on all available evidence....

 

[Mudball]

I may be proved wrong but I would not be surprised if most school kids will have had Covid by the end of the academic year just by the fact that kids are in close contact a lot of the time. My mate's daughter has been sent home to isolate for 14 days, there is someone who has tested positive in my daughters class, this will only increase.

As was made perfectly and abundantly clear by the DFE when the back to school plans for all pupils were announced, the only way to contain it without having whole families isolating for 2 weeks if a kid gets a cold is by a world beating, efficient and fast test and trace system. Unfortunately all political comment is now banned so I can't possibly say if we have such a thing, I'll leave it to people to make their own mind up on all available evidence....

A mate has sent his kid back to school after staying at home for a couple of days.. Both parents work and cant afford to keep the kid home. I suspect that there are plenty of such cases. Should i grass on him??. While at the testing centre, cars behind had big kid/teen/young adults in them.

The T&T is needed but we cannot comment on such things. Its also funny that after the curve flatlned, they did not use the opportuniity to foresee a rise in cases when schools restarted. Now if only the Govt took a collective eye test.

Genuine Q? So why is the delivery of testing so omnishambles.. Someone mentioned that we have outsourced it to the likes of Serco while Germany is doing it via their medical system. I have no idea if this is true?

 

[Hacker Khan]

A mate has sent his kid back to school after staying at home for a couple of days.. Both parents work and cant afford to keep the kid home. I suspect that there are plenty of such cases. Should i grass on him??. While at the testing centre, cars behind had big kid/teen/young adults in them.

The T&T is needed but we cannot comment on such things. Its also funny that after the curve flatlned, they did not use the opportuniity to foresee a rise in cases when schools restarted. Now if only the Govt took a collective eye test.

Genuine Q? So why is the delivery of testing so omnishambles.. Someone mentioned that we have outsourced it to the likes of Serco while Germany is doing it via their medical system. I have no idea if this is true?

There was a chap on 5 live this morning who works in a test centre saying he expected to have yet another quiet day, sometimes reading books or listening to music to pass the time. He said they have the capacity to do 10 to 15 times the amount of tests they are doing but the backlog is at the labs processing the results. So the appointments are being (mis)managed based on the capacity of the labs, not the test centres. No idea if outsourcing is a reason, I would not be surprised if it plays a part but as with all things, it is probably much more complex that reducing it down to one reason, after all team UK does seem to have a lot on our plate at the moment.

I see the Daily Mail today is starting a campaign to get the testing sorted out, weird times when I am behind a Daily Mail campaign.... I've also noticed the Daliy Star has suddenly got very political and is creating some funny front pages that no longer just feature women in bikinis.. Today's is great, but I won't post as it is very political.

 

[SwingsitlikeHogan]

There was a chap on 5 live this morning who works in a test centre saying he expected to have yet another quiet day, sometimes reading books or listening to music to pass the time. He said they have the capacity to do 10 to 15 times the amount of tests they are doing but the backlog is at the labs processing the results. So the appointments are being (mis)managed based on the capacity of the labs, not the test centres. No idea if outsourcing is a reason, I would not be surprised if it plays a part but as with all things, it is probably much more complex that reducing it down to one reason, after all team UK does seem to have a lot on our plate at the moment.

I see the Daily Mail today is starting a campaign to get the testing sorted out, weird times when I am behind a Daily Mail campaign.... I've also noticed the Daliy Star has suddenly got very political and is creating some funny front pages that no longer just feature women in bikinis.. Today's is great, but I won't post as it is very political.

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I saw the Daily Star front page last night on Tomorrows Papers. What a hoot...a topper (of the big variety) of a front page, 'funny' times.

 

[robinthehood]

First day back to the city for me tomorrow, since March. I dont have to go in, but i'm going stir crazy sat indoors all day every day!

 

[Lord Tyrion]

One of my employees works part time as a cleaner for a holiday let. They have asked her to clean a house on Friday for the arrival of 12 people, coming from 4 different addresses. She is currently mulling over how to deal with this as it goes against the rules, she has forensically checked the govt website this morning to double check. She has questioned it with letting agency but they are allowing it to proceed. She will not let it go and will report it to the police if necessary, she is strong like that, even though it may cost her job.

I feel for the police in this, the amount of time they are going to have to spend knocking on doors of people who should know better

 

[Ethan]

One of my employees works part time as a cleaner for a holiday let. They have asked her to clean a house on Friday for the arrival of 12 people, coming from 4 different addresses. She is currently mulling over how to deal with this as it goes against the rules, she has forensically checked the govt website this morning to double check. She has questioned it with letting agency but they are allowing it to proceed. She will not let it go and will report it to the police if necessary, she is strong like that, even though it may cost her job.

I feel for the police in this, the amount of time they are going to have to spend knocking on doors of people who should know better

I don't think she should risk her job. If she wishes to report it, make sure it is anonymous. You don't know the circumstances of the people, they may have had Covid and are immune, and whether they are or not the police may not take any useful action.

 

[DanFST]

You don't know the circumstances of the people, they may have had Covid and are immune, and whether they are or not the police may not take any useful action.

That's the fantastic thing about this law, it's objective. 6 people only.

 

[GB72]

One of my employees works part time as a cleaner for a holiday let. They have asked her to clean a house on Friday for the arrival of 12 people, coming from 4 different addresses. She is currently mulling over how to deal with this as it goes against the rules, she has forensically checked the govt website this morning to double check. She has questioned it with letting agency but they are allowing it to proceed. She will not let it go and will report it to the police if necessary, she is strong like that, even though it may cost her job.

I feel for the police in this, the amount of time they are going to have to spend knocking on doors of people who should know better

This sort of situation confused me the other day as the association responsible for holiday lets were complaining that the rule of 6 would lose their members big bookings. That somewhat surprised me as there has never been a situation where more than 6 can meet inside (so stay in one let) or even technically outside in England.

 

[huds1475]

Same as pubs restricting tables to one household.

Driving past a few such establisments, the genetic variance in some families has been a triumph of nature.

 

[Hacker Khan]

This sort of situation confused me the other day as the association responsible for holiday lets were complaining that the rule of 6 would lose their members big bookings. That somewhat surprised me as there has never been a situation where more than 6 can meet inside (so stay in one let) or even technically outside in England.

Is that true? I must admit I have not been keeping up to date with all the nuances, but a few weeks ago we had 8 of us from 2 households meeting up. And my wife does follow the latest rules and is usually hot on following them, and she didn't say anything.

 

[GB72]

Is that true? I must admit I have not been keeping up to date with all the nuances, but a few weeks ago we had 8 of us from 2 households meeting up. And my wife does follow the latest rules and is usually hot on following them, and she didn't say anything.

This was the one time that I have misunderstood. From my understanding, before the change this week, you could have 6 people from 2 households meeting up inside or outside. What developed was a bit of an urban myth that up to 30 people could meet outside. That was incorrect from what I have read and the situation was that the police would not disburse a meeting of 30 people or less.

 

[Lord Tyrion]

I don't think she should risk her job. If she wishes to report it, make sure it is anonymous. You don't know the circumstances of the people, they may have had Covid and are immune, and whether they are or not the police may not take any useful action.

The rules do not allow for that, it is not part of the equation.

 

[Ethan]

That's the fantastic thing about this law, it's objective. 6 people only.

I know, objective is one word, but there are others. It appears the virus moves differently in different parts of the UK.

In any case, I still don't think this woman should risk her job doing something which may result in no action (due to police decision) nor actually make a difference to local virus spread (if they really aren't a risk, immune part).

 

[Deleted member 21784]

One of my employees works part time as a cleaner for a holiday let. They have asked her to clean a house on Friday for the arrival of 12 people, coming from 4 different addresses. She is currently mulling over how to deal with this as it goes against the rules, she has forensically checked the govt website this morning to double check. She has questioned it with letting agency but they are allowing it to proceed. She will not let it go and will report it to the police if necessary, she is strong like that, even though it may cost her job.

I feel for the police in this, the amount of time they are going to have to spend knocking on doors of people who should know better

I'd tell her to completely leave it . Not worth the agg ..

Say it's a week what if suddenly this group of 12 decided to split the holiday and come 3 nights each in 2 groups of 6? She isn't to know because it's not really her business

 

[Mudball]

One of my employees works part time as a cleaner for a holiday let. They have asked her to clean a house on Friday for the arrival of 12 people, coming from 4 different addresses. She is currently mulling over how to deal with this as it goes against the rules, she has forensically checked the govt website this morning to double check. She has questioned it with letting agency but they are allowing it to proceed. She will not let it go and will report it to the police if necessary, she is strong like that, even though it may cost her job.

I feel for the police in this, the amount of time they are going to have to spend knocking on doors of people who should know better

I feel for the police.. never an easy task. They are already stretched.

No point in going to them. Too little context to know how they are being set up, how big the house is etc. Equally, remember the law does not apply if you are Oxbridge, Tory doner clan. Why the unnecessrary hassle when not much gains and she cant stop it

 

[Hacker Khan]

I feel for the police.. never an easy task. They are already stretched.

No point in going to them. Too little context to know how they are being set up, how big the house is etc. Equally, remember the law does not apply if you are Oxbridge, Tory doner clan. Why the unnecessrary hassle when not much gains and she cant stop it

Hey, less of the snark please. At least we can still go grouse shooting in large groups now. Which is a win for the common people.

 

[Ethan]

Hey, less of the snark please. At least we can still go grouse shooting in large groups now. Which is a win for the common people.

Its not great for grouse, though.

 

[GB72]

Hey, less of the snark please. At least we can still go grouse shooting in large groups now. Which is a win for the common people.

You may actually be surprised as to the demographic of shoots around my way (OK admittedly not grouse, mainly pheasant). Shooting has a similar issue to golf in that it is seen as an pursuit for the high end of society but actually it is pretty much normal, everyday people who shoot in my area and many finance it by beating when they are not taking part in the shoot itself.

 

[Old Skier]