Coronavirus - how is it/has it affected you?

Just been reading about the ruler, sorry "leader" of the free world Mr Trump refusing to refer to the Coronavirus by its name. He'd rather call it "the Chinese Virus". However, according to him, it's not racist calling it that on the basis that we use the term Chinese food all the time. The man must be going senile.
 
Bunkermagnet said:
Glad you're busy, we've been hammered by it with many agents only doing emergency work orders and them working "remotely" and many tenants returning back to their home country. It's not helped by many "self isolating" but it's ok to have the washing machine or other applinace attended to and try and stay with you as you work.
You can take precautions (Ive used hand santiser for 2 years now), but taking precautions is all you can do. It's the start of some very troubling times after the stomach punch that was B...
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I have a few letting agents but not many due to the poor payment timescales from them, so not to affected by that. Most of my work is word of mouth built up over 25 years, plus being registered as an Age UK accredited agent helps a bit.
I do a bit of sub contracting for a bigger company to iron out any downtimes, but overall I'm nice and steady usually.
Another thing that helps is that I do all appliances from inductions hobs to built in dishwashers so I've always got something on.
 
Lazkir said:
I have a few letting agents but not many due to the poor payment timescales from them, so not to affected by that. Most of my work is word of mouth built up over 25 years, plus being registered as an Age UK accredited agent helps a bit.
I do a bit of sub contracting for a bigger company to iron out any downtimes, but overall I'm nice and steady usually.
Another thing that helps is that I do all appliances from inductions hobs to built in dishwashers so I've always got something on.
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Give Mudball a cheap quote to repair his Samsung FF :D
 
Lazkir said:
I have a few letting agents but not many due to the poor payment timescales from them, so not to affected by that. Most of my work is word of mouth built up over 25 years, plus being registered as an Age UK accredited agent helps a bit.
I do a bit of sub contracting for a bigger company to iron out any downtimes, but overall I'm nice and steady usually.
Another thing that helps is that I do all appliances from inductions hobs to built in dishwashers so I've always got something on.
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Only things we dont do is anything gas, or system work (not that Im not qualified in them). We been dealing with property management companies for over 30 years now and we have seen the changes made in town over that time. It's now like driving at 4 am Sunday morning now getting around, but then you have more trouble parking.
 
Doon frae Troon said:
Our local Posties are absolutely fabulous, real links to the isolated rural community.
Mind you bacon rolls/cakes and coffees at the farmhouses are seen as the norm
One took a pre paid PO parcel from me today.
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We've had some great posties over the years... Sadly, some desk jockey has decided they now have to change walks every few weeks... So they don't get too familiar... Not sure that serves the community well...
 
Russ_D said:
Just been reading about the ruler, sorry "leader" of the free world Mr Trump refusing to refer to the Coronavirus by its name. He'd rather call it "the Chinese Virus". However, according to him, it's not racist calling it that on the basis that we use the term Chinese food all the time. The man must be going senile.
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In his words (and often his actions) the man is an obscenity - so much so he has his very own thread on these boards so that we can thank our lucky stars that, no matter what we might think of our political leaders, at least we don't have Trump ....:)

Not sure I have of late heard that much out of the weasel-mouth of Farage in the way of his obsequious sucking up to the PotUS (but that is for the Farage thread on here :) )
 
Russ_D said:
Just been reading about the ruler, sorry "leader" of the free world Mr Trump refusing to refer to the Coronavirus by its name. He'd rather call it "the Chinese Virus". However, according to him, it's not racist calling it that on the basis that we use the term Chinese food all the time. The man must be going senile.
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This is a bit of a fuss about little. So he called it the Chinese virus, he says because that's where it originated.
Perhaps those that are sensitive enough to be offended by this could tell us how we should really refer to the " Spanish flu" of 1918?
 
Is it correct that the majority of victims have had 'underlying health conditions' ? I think this should be published with all the statistics.

If so, surely the most sensible solution would have been to isolate anyone with a serious health condition and over a certain age. Provide necessary support, food drop offs etc.
Everyone else go about your business as normal, if you catch it, most likely it will be relatively mild and you won't notice anyway, otherwise a few days not feeling good in the majority of the rest of the cases.
Like other viruses, it will whizz round and then fizzle out. The economy isn't disrupted, people don't lose their jobs.
 
Had to travel to London last Saturday to install some network kit to increase our capacity to allow more people to work from home, drove down 11:30 Saturday morning, got back home 04:00hrs Sunday. Monday this week out the house at 03:30hrs and drove down to Swansea to fit out a new call centre, felt crap Monday Tuesday, Wednesday felt worse, Thursday tightness across my chest, so figured run down, or heart attack, since no tingles and tight chest is still around, going with run down, due to a lot of driving and working in a cold dusty building.

I think this is just a cold and me feeling generally rubbish ,but to be safe I'm going to self isolate and see how it goes.
 
Khamelion said:
Had to travel to London last Saturday to install some network kit to increase our capacity to allow more people to work from home, drove down 11:30 Saturday morning, got back home 04:00hrs Sunday. Monday this week out the house at 03:30hrs and drove down to Swansea to fit out a new call centre, felt crap Monday Tuesday, Wednesday felt worse, Thursday tightness across my chest, so figured run down, or heart attack, since no tingles and tight chest is still around, going with run down, due to a lot of driving and working in a cold dusty building.

I think this is just a cold and me feeling generally rubbish ,but to be safe I'm going to self isolate and see how it goes.
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Good idea. Your Temperature is the biggest indicator I understand. The care Dave ??
 
Khamelion said:
Had to travel to London last Saturday to install some network kit to increase our capacity to allow more people to work from home, drove down 11:30 Saturday morning, got back home 04:00hrs Sunday. Monday this week out the house at 03:30hrs and drove down to Swansea to fit out a new call centre, felt crap Monday Tuesday, Wednesday felt worse, Thursday tightness across my chest, so figured run down, or heart attack, since no tingles and tight chest is still around, going with run down, due to a lot of driving and working in a cold dusty building.

I think this is just a cold and me feeling generally rubbish ,but to be safe I'm going to self isolate and see how it goes.
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Wise thing to do Dave.
Take it easy Mate(y)
 
Swinglowandslow said:
This is a bit of a fuss about little. So he called it the Chinese virus, he says because that's where it originated.
Perhaps those that are sensitive enough to be offended by this could tell us how we should really refer to the " Spanish flu" of 1918?
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Please do not try and justify Trump's weasel words on this - it becomes nobody on here to do so. Trump's only interest in describing it so is self-serving and absolutely nothing to do with accuracy - but simply to deflect criticism from himself - criticism that he 100% merits. Already his words are seeing attacks on Chinese in the US. So please give with the Trump apologist rubbish. It's disgusting.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/18/us/politics/china-virus.html

and it's happening here also - so best not to give any legitimacy to this lest we want it to get worse.

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news...g-levels-of-racism-after-coronavirus-outbreak
 
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