Coronavirus - how is it/has it affected you?

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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Except it’s rubbish, the Army are not dispersing anywhere at the moment.
In fact the only place they are moving to is back to barracks as exercises are being cut short and cancelled.

Yes they will be involved in contingency planning and, Yes, some will be used to help the Government, just like they are for all National emergencies, but right now most are sat on their ar5es waiting to be told if and when they are going to be used.
 
Hacker Khan said:
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.
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according to my friend they do have a plan and have known about it for 9 days. his exact word to me was "sort out childcare mate because I've just come out of a meeting on a national level and we're closing next Friday". I didn't believe him at first but he was adamant it was happening
 
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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If it is this Friday then - as I mentioned a few days ago - some (if not all) head teachers have known it was likely for a week or more.

I might suggest that shutting schools before necessary - or knowledge they were going to shut - would have created chaos - even more than the difficulties we've already experience. Most of us have had a few days to get our thinking into gear if not sorted - around self-isolation - what do do about the elderly/grandparents etc. If the children had been dumped on the parents too soon - or that certainly made clear a week ago - there is a risk that parents and grandparents thinking might have gone haywire.
 
pauldj42 said:
Except it’s rubbish, the Army are not dispersing anywhere at the moment.
In fact the only place they are moving to is back to barracks as exercises are being cut short and cancelled.

Yes they will be involved in contingency planning and, Yes, some will be used to help the Government, just like they are for all National emergencies, but right now most are sat on their ar5es waiting to be told if and when they are going to be used.
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Which is the correct answer. The only thing any Soldier, marine, airman or sailors that aren't on deployment are doing right now is the usual weekday war of block jobs, naafi breaks or cleaning vehicles in between rounds of trying not to piss your SSM incase you get ROPs meaning no chance of going on the lash at the weekend.
 
Wolf said:
Which is the correct answer. The only thing any Soldier, marine, airman or sailors that aren't on deployment are doing right now is the usual weekday war of block jobs, naafi breaks or cleaning vehicles in between rounds of trying not to piss your SSM incase you get ROPs meaning no chance of going on the lash at the weekend.
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Mate’s lad on his way back to Arbroath from Norway after they’ve cut that short, said the lad’s are totally pissed off and would rather stay in Norway.:)
 
I'm now working from home - following last year's illness, and due to my asthma, I've been deemed to much at risk, and forced by the firm to decamp to the house.
 
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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I reckon if they'd announced a day they'd close em. Many woukd have simply taken them out early or asked why Friday is better than any other day.
 
chellie said:
Lots have been taken out of school early around here judging by lack of school time traffic.
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The schools around me have been leaving a different year group at home each day (except for yr 11, who have GCSE's coming up)
 
Our customer base is different in that the customers will still require our product (liquid nitrogen and equipent for cryopreservation) all the time. If they don't get it then they will potentially lose irreplaceable samples. So even if hospitals, universities, fertility clinics, research organisations, etc. close or reduce hours, the requirement is still there. There's a lot of work being done in the background to ensure that we don't let them down.
I'm getting emails and phone calls now on a regular basis from concerned customers.
 
pauldj42 said:
Mate’s lad on his way back to Arbroath from Norway after they’ve cut that short, said the lad’s are totally pissed off and would rather stay in Norway.:)
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Arbroath aye, up at RM Condor then is he. Don't blame them wanting to stay in Norway, I loved going on exercise there even the ice diving was fun after your first go.
 
Papas1982 said:
I reckon if they'd announced a day they'd close em. Many woukd have simply taken them out early or asked why Friday is better than any other day.
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Also worth considering the pressure and in some way sacrifices heads, teachers and schools are making. Advice is to socially isolate yet they are told they have to go into school. It is a national talking point with everyone having an opinion on if they should close or not and they are stuck in the middle, doing what they always do and working for the good of society.
 
Old Skier said:
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.
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Nothing stops people buying too much loo roll more than depleted uranium.

Also the "army" in Clapham are just cadets going to the TA base from the common.

Everyone is talking rubbish to scaremonger and farm likes.
 
chellie said:
Lots have been taken out of school early around here judging by lack of school time traffic.
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Yeah I noticed when picking my kids up that the playground wasn’t as busy. people still parking like idiots though.
Hacker Khan said:
Also worth considering the pressure and in some way sacrifices heads, teachers and schools are making. Advice is to socially isolate yet they are told they have to go into school. It is a national talking point with everyone having an opinion on if they should close or not and they are stuck in the middle, doing what they always do and working for the good of society.
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‘Yeah, most of the teachers are troopers.
A local school here had to rearrange classes and sent all year 7s home as of yesterday due to 7 teachers trying to force the schools hand and all simultaneously self isolating.

id have thought the schools would have sent home the oldest kids first as they can fend for themselves. Now parents are having to take leave even earlier.
 
Mother in law passed away a few days ago, funeral planned for first week of April. Crematorium and hotel for the wake both booked, I wonder if that will be the case in a couple of weeks time.
 
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