Coronavirus - how is it/has it affected you?

clubchamp98 said:
Is there actually a school policy?
Or is it up to the head teacher?
My wife and daughter both work in different schools and they are being told different things.
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My wife works in an independent school and its staying open on the say so of the head teacher who is taking advice from local education authority who in turn I guess are getting their information from official government sources. With mocks going on/coming up, her plan is to stay open as long as permitted and let the children do those and business as usual for the other kids
 
Orikoru said:
Finally been told this morning that I will be able to work from home from now until god knows when. I am happy that I won't be travelling on the tube for an hour each way mainly. Although sitting at home every day will be weird.
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Same here , although with the longer days I'll be able to hit the course for 430 and get 9 holes in.
 
robinthehood said:
Same here , although with the longer days I'll be able to hit the course for 430 and get 9 holes in.
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Haha, good thinking there. I'll be so bored I may have to do the same. Stringing out your work in the office is easy enough but doing it from home when no one can see you anyway is something else. :LOL:
 
Just got in from a walk taking us past a small local shopping centre. The small Cafe has condensation running down their windows yet it is stacked full with mostly young mums 'socialising' - at 4 to a table no way are they 'distancing'...
 
My wife is a teacher and falls in to the at risk category, her school will not shut until the government allows it, she has been told to work from home from next week due to her condition but with 2 boys I am not sure how with them going to school she will be much safer.
 
We are still open where I work, starting to make us all sit 2m apart (bit late i think) and for those who can work from home to do so to make the social distancing possible. Things might changes as we are a German owned company and all our stock comes from there. As they are shutting down borders in Europe it means we may not be able to get stock if they go down the route of essential items only.
Wifes school still open but they seem to be getting ready with virtual learning etc.
 
Reemul said:
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.
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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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Yes i rather suspect this virus (serious as it is) is 43% more serious when you catch it online (as many seem to have done) :eek:
 
Had to sit thru a training session on 'How to use Microsoft Teams for Meetings'... its irrelvant that i have been using it for about a year or so...
 
Reemul said:
My wife is a teacher and falls in to the at risk category, her school will not shut until the government allows it, she has been told to work from home from next week due to her condition but with 2 boys I am not sure how with them going to school she will be much safer.
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I've just had an email from my boys' school that has said that they will authorise all absences for up to 14 days for those who are self isolating. Additionally they will authorise absences of up to 12 weeks for children of parents who are in the at risk categories, which is likely that we will have to do. Assuming they finish on Friday this week they will be going back to school on June 8th at the earliest. It's a shame that I'm not at home at the minute as I would love to see the look on their faces when I tell them that they're getting 12 weeks off school. And equally the look on their faces when I told them that it wouldn't be a holiday and that they'd still have to do school work while they're at home.
 
Next door neighbour has a 6 year old with earache. He also has a temperature so the doc won't see him and they've been told to self-isolate. Off to Tesco later to get them some provisions - assuming Tesco have any!
 
Reemul said:
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.
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Heard a caller tell LBC phone-in that he is just off a call with his insurer. He has £100,000 pandemic cover. The insurer pointed to a list of 'diseases/conditions' covered. Guess what. Covid-19 is not on the list - well it wouldn't be would it! So he's not covered. The statement made an hour or so ago looks to be directed at the government - telling the government that the insurance policies of most, if not all, businesses will not cover closure by government mandate - even if pandemic cover is included...
 
Jacko_G said:
What are you suggesting?

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Pretty obvious really. Lots of business are going to go down during this, plenty in the hospitality sector in particular. People's life savings, their lifes work may be piled into their business and the difference between economic survival and losing everything, business, house etc is an insurance claim. Desperate people do desperate things.

For my own part, my company has money put to one side to see us through a certain period of time. If business became catastrophic we would close before that reserve was all used up and use that to live on, pay bills etc. We would not go down an illegal path, nor am I encouraging anyone to do so. I am simply pointing it out as an almost inevitable consequence of what is happening.
 
I do have concerns for the possible millions of people who will now find themselves unemployed with no income. I can only assume they will be claiming benefits and the way the system will be bogged down processing claims.
 
Lord Tyrion said:
Pretty obvious really. Lots of business are going to go down during this, plenty in the hospitality sector in particular. People's life savings, their lifes work may be piled into their business and the difference between economic survival and losing everything, business, house etc is an insurance claim. Desperate people do desperate things.

For my own part, my company has money put to one side to see us through a certain period of time. If business became catastrophic we would close before that reserve was all used up and use that to live on, pay bills etc. We would not go down an illegal path, nor am I encouraging anyone to do so. I am simply pointing it out as an almost inevitable consequence of what is happening.
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As Fragger said yesterday sarcasm doesn't write well!

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SocketRocket said:
I do have concerns for the possible millions of people who will now find themselves unemployed with no income. I can only assume they will be claiming benefits and the way the system will be bogged down processing claims.
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There are all of those - plus all the self-employed who have been advised to register for UC just in case their work dries up.

When my son and his partner went for their interviews last week he was told that the DWP UC was already bending seriously under the strain. Apparently now no interview will be required - however the reason given for my son having to have an interview was because the system couldn't validate his identification documents. He has to somehow now get back to them to tell them that his income has collapsed to zero. At the time of the interview he did at least have some.

And so yes - the UC system may well grind to a crawl...or there will be a long wait to get UC money through.
 
Jacko_G said:
As Fragger said yesterday sarcasm doesn't write well!

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A bit like Johnson yesterday when talking with potential manufacturers of ventilators referring to it as Operation Last Gasp...

Apparently laughter was in short supply...when things are very grim definitely best to avoid jokes or sarcasm...even when trying to lighten the mood.
 
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