Coronavirus - how is it/has it affected you?

Well, decision made..I'm off the grid.
Apart from 3 kids with tests coming up, which will probably be cancelled anyway, I'm sitting it out.
A bit of Social Distancing on the golf course for as long as I can, let everything settle and pick it up then.
Decided I need to protect the Mrs health more than fleecing some kids for a few quid.
 
I, too, am in semi-isolation. I’m going to work and to the shops (as little as possible) but other than that it’s home for me. I’m getting a work laptop for Thursday - Tuesday while my partner is at her worst post-chemotherapy. We had been staying at the in-laws but someone in the house was at a party with someone who is now symptomatic at the weekend so we can’t be there until he’s two weeks without symptoms.
 
SwingsitlikeHogan said:
The police and army will have to be patrolling the streets - not just to get those being delinquent. One reason why the government has to be getting money to everyone asap. My town does not have much history of ram raiding - and so many shops, stores etc do not have any security shuttering.
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It was a rumour, too many people spreading rumours, no wonder so many people are paranoid. Rumour mongers are as bad as those who are currently clearing the shelves of bog roll.
 
Old Skier said:
It was a rumour, too many people spreading rumours, no wonder so many people are paranoid. Rumour mongers are as bad as those who are currently clearing the shelves of bog roll.
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Look at what other countries are doing, look at the myriad posts on social media showing the Army being dispersed across the country and then try and say speculation isn’t normal and acceptable. To equate it with people selfishly hoarding resources is ridiculous.
 
Imurg said:
Well, decision made..I'm off the grid.
Apart from 3 kids with tests coming up, which will probably be cancelled anyway, I'm sitting it out.
A bit of Social Distancing on the golf course for as long as I can, let everything settle and pick it up then.
Decided I need to protect the Mrs health more than fleecing some kids for a few quid.
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You are aware this isn't just a few days of hunkering down, for weeks now we've been getting told this could be for months. FM up here has said there is no guarantee schools will open again before the summer holidays.
 
my friend told me 9 days ago schools will be closing this Friday to allow for at least 4 weeks break including the Easter break. at 5pm today the government are making an announcement on schools. if they do decide to close them I wonder why the government have kept this from us? perhaps to stop panic or for economic reasons?
 
HappyHacker1 said:
You are aware this isn't just a few days of hunkering down, for weeks now we've been getting told this could be for months. FM up here has said there is no guarantee schools will open again before the summer holidays.
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Seeing as I've heard of driving test centres about to close for 12 weeks I'm pretty certain that by the middle of next week this decision would be forced on me anyway.
As I say, keeping the Mrs healthy comes first.
It's a hit but it's only money....
 
Kellfire said:
Look at what other countries are doing, look at the myriad posts on social media showing the Army being dispersed across the country and then try and say speculation isn’t normal and acceptable. To equate it with people selfishly hoarding resources is ridiculous.
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People reporting a large convoy of CR2's on the motorway, cant be large, we dont have a large number. So I presume we are deploying tanks across the country.
 
hovis said:
my friend told me 9 days ago schools will be closing this Friday to allow for at least 4 weeks break including the Easter break. at 5pm today the government are making an announcement on schools. if they do decide to close them I wonder why the government have kept this from us? perhaps to stop panic or for economic reasons?
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9 days ago they did not have a plan to close the school this Friday. They are reacting to very fast moving situations where things are literally changing by the hour. I know of a local person quite high up in the NHS near me who has said that if schools do close then they will lose approx 40% of their staff in their area to look after the kids. Probably worth people considering under all the clamour to close them down.
 
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