Coronavirus - how is it/has it affected you?

ColchesterFC said:
What about a parent in one of the other vulnerable groups, a pregnant mum or parent with underlying health conditions? If they are advised to self isolate what do they do about their kids? Do they keep them off school for the 12 weeks or continue to send them to school and keep their fingers crossed that they don't pick up the virus? Does their partner continue to go to work or do they also have to stay at home for 12 weeks?
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If you have no choice then obviously you will have to do what you can. My point was simply for those that have a choice. Make the right call or the consequences (that could be avoided) could be severe.
If my missus gets it or vice versa then the other will take the time off as our daughter will need care. I think over time a lot of hard decisions will need to be taken.
 
SwingsitlikeHogan said:
Given the briefing given by the scientists and modellers last night - and what i have heard from the group this morning on Today - then given more recent data from Italy in particular, the measures we had in place up to this coming weekend would quite likely be catastrophic in terms of deaths. That’s why the more severe measures are coming in; schools to close on Friday? and the likelihood of lockdown to support the new measures. Because inconvenient as things seem today we cannot just continue with the current measures - and must adhere to the new restrictions; and as the strength of any security is its weakest link they will probably have to be enforced.
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No idea what "the group" is or where you are getting your information and yes it is a fluid situation and yes I do think there will be drastic changes in terms of all pubs, golf clubs and places where people gather closing but I haven't heard anything about schools (and HID works in one and they have a daily briefing) but I don't think we'll go into full lockdown yet as the peak still seems to be a couple of weeks behind Italy (although the gap does seem to be closing)
 
Just seen an interview with two professors.
One says Boris is absolutely doing things correctly, the other says he's doing things absolutely incorrectly.
We just don't stand a chance!
We have to just do what we genuinely think is best and hope we're correct.
 
we've been told we can work from home if we can but although I can, my security number generator doesn't work so I cant log in to my system and working from iPhone isn't really an option
 
HomerJSimpson said:
No idea what "the group" is or where you are getting your information and yes it is a fluid situation and yes I do think there will be drastic changes in terms of all pubs, golf clubs and places where people gather closing but I haven't heard anything about schools (and HID works in one and they have a daily briefing) but I don't think we'll go into full lockdown yet as the peak still seems to be a couple of weeks behind Italy (although the gap does seem to be closing)
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Tom Whipple of The Times

https://twitter.com/x/status/1239619001522761728
 
HomerJSimpson said:
No idea what "the group" is or where you are getting your information and yes it is a fluid situation and yes I do think there will be drastic changes in terms of all pubs, golf clubs and places where people gather closing but I haven't heard anything about schools (and HID works in one and they have a daily briefing) but I don't think we'll go into full lockdown yet as the peak still seems to be a couple of weeks behind Italy (although the gap does seem to be closing)
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Come on Homer! Either you’re making things up or getting confused:

Below is what you posted in the lounge 5 minutes before posting the above!

Which is it? you haven’t heard anything or you have.

”The latest from the head teacher at the school HID works at is the government are trying to keep them open as long as possible to enable the exam mocks to go ahead as unhindered as possible and then close at Easter and stay shut after that.”
 
Here is an example of the problem we have.

My wife’s best friend sent here a long txt message last night saying the following. Her husband got made redundant last week and started his new job yesterday. She works at the hospital in a support role. Her eldest son who is 13 came home from school yesterday and has a temperature of 38.6. They also have a younger son aged 8.
They feel it’s not Covid-19, they are not staying home, the kid will stay home alone and the others will go to work / school as normal. They can’t afford the husband to lose his new job and she can’t afford to be away from the hospital and they have no one to look after the little one so he is off to school…

They know my wife has cavities in her lungs and is in the higher risk category but does this affect their thinking, nope we will carry on as normal and screw everyone else.

To add my wife is a teacher and yesterday they had twins at her school come back from a 2 week holiday in France want to come back to school and were very insistent, the school had to get public health involved to get them excluded for 2 weeks. Due to the high risk to my wife I think she is going to be sent home from Friday to work from home permanently which will be a relief.

Unfortunately you cannot ask people to do the right thing, you need to make them.
 
Joe Pike (Sky Political Commentator) reporting that BJ was on a call with business leaders last night, and joked the effort to build more ventilators should be called "Operation Last Gasp". Didn't go down well apparently.
 
pauldj42 said:
Come on Homer! Either you’re making things up or getting confused:

Below is what you posted in the lounge 5 minutes before posting the above!

Which is it? you haven’t heard anything or you have.

”The latest from the head teacher at the school HID works at is the government are trying to keep them open as long as possible to enable the exam mocks to go ahead as unhindered as possible and then close at Easter and stay shut after that.”
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My wife works in a school

Skeleton staff until they announce a closure possible Monday

Schools are preparing
 
Andy said:
It's not self isolating just yet, only social distancing.
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Confusing, on Radio Scotland just now lots of q&a and anyone like me who qualifies for a flu vaccine annually but is in decent health otherwise is classed group 3 and should not be going to work and absolutely minimising social contact. Is that not as good as self isolating?
Interested if banks will allow a mortgage holiday.

At least we're getting into longer days and better weather so I can paint the house exterior or rebuild garden retaining walls etc.
 
1 plus point - bog roll in Lidl this morning:D, managed to control myself and only bought 1 pack (9 rolls).
 
I work as an insurance broker, i am in High Net Worth but my office is the commercial team. 99% of businesses do not have business interruption for corona regardless of the government shutting you down. Most have named requirements and if the issue is not named specifically you aren't covered.

Insurance is not going to be a saver.
 
Seems to me, too many in the modern world want to be the first with every bit of news, whether it's real or not. Too many are selfsih and only consider their own wants and needs.
My wife is glued to farcebook and the news when at home, I ignore some of the news and almost everything on farcebook.
It's a virus, a flu like virus. I will take the neccessary precautions accepting that I'm likely to have financial hardship soon as a result of it and also accepting that people generally want their stuff fixed regardless.
I accept some will suffer and die, hopefully very few, hopefully through nothing I have done. However the constant "I heard this, I heard that" doesn't help anyone.
Lets be sensible and mindful that whilst there are some that want to be the first with this or that bit of news, true or untrue, there are lots more for whom the anxiety of the situation is probably doing more damage than the virus probably would were they to get it.
:)
 
HomerJSimpson said:
No idea what "the group" is or where you are getting your information and yes it is a fluid situation and yes I do think there will be drastic changes in terms of all pubs, golf clubs and places where people gather closing but I haven't heard anything about schools (and HID works in one and they have a daily briefing) but I don't think we'll go into full lockdown yet as the peak still seems to be a couple of weeks behind Italy (although the gap does seem to be closing)
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Read the headline on Sky news online where it talks about "mitigation" and "suppression "
It explains that the science advising the Government is at London Imperial college, a Covid 19 group.
It seems to be a case of "you ain't seen nothing yet"
Hard times.
 
Kellfire said:
People at work are self isolating (aka not working) despite fitting none on the criteria to do so, safe that they won’t have it recorded against them as sick. Here comes the increasing selfish phase of coronavirus.
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That’s the problem I think we have at work they are not willing to give us any more than SSP so people are still here

If there was some sort of extra to stay home everyone would be home
 
Bunkermagnet said:
Seems to me, too many in the modern world want to be the first with every bit of news, whether it's real or not. Too many are selfsih and only consider their own wants and needs.
My wife is glued to farcebook and the news when at home, I ignore some of the news and almost everything on farcebook.
It's a virus, a flu like virus. I will take the neccessary precautions accepting that I'm likely to have financial hardship soon as a result of it and also accepting that people generally want their stuff fixed regardless.
I accept some will suffer and die, hopefully very few, hopefully through nothing I have done. However the constant "I heard this, I heard that" doesn't help anyone.
Lets be sensible and mindful that whilst there are some that want to be the first with this or that bit of news, true or untrue, there are lots more for whom the anxiety of the situation is probably doing more damage than the virus probably would were they to get it.
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I sympathise a lot with your viewpoint, but we need to accept that there will be measures required which were never contemplated in peacetime.
So it seems, anyway.
What I would like to see is a proper reporting and emphasis on the figures.
To say there have been say 50 deaths from 500 confirmed cases is irresponsible. We should be told that there were 50 deaths from an estimated,( and it can be estimated reasonably accurately, i should think) number of persons likely infected.
The percentages would be markedly different , more accurate of the situation ,
and certainly more reassuring.
 
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