Coronavirus - how is it/has it affected you?

SwingsitlikeHogan said:
Thanks - I am sure he has asked his landlord as he spends a fortune on gas and electricity.

Separately - was there anything in the budget yesterday about what councils will do in respect of collecting Council Tax - it's a right bad 'un to be in arrears on.

In fact the advice from debt charities is that paying council tax should take priority over anything else. Other missed loan/CC etc payments will hit your Credit Record immediately - but these can be cleared or managed without too much of an issue. Councils are utter swines in respect of missed Council Tax.
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I didn't hear anything on that front I'm afraid. You are absolutely correct about prioritising paying council tax. Not one to mess with
 
Only just properly understanding what tells if you have to self-isolate through exposure - if you have spent 15mins or more within 2m of someone later tested positive you have to self-isolate - and I also didn't realise that a cough or sneeze can stay in the air for ten minutes. So if I spot someone coughing or spluttering then when he goes I don't really want to go stand where he was.
 
Also - with potential escalations soon to be with us my wife has still not had anything from the NHS or her previous Trust employer asking if she'd be available to work. And I don't know why.

The NHS and her Trust know who left service quite recently, and surely it is a simple letter or Email asking the key questions - are you available; where could you work; what could you do? Just a bit of data gathering to inform their contingency and mitigation planning.

All very well not panicking us but this is obvious stuff...
 
50 year old member of our Team went home yesterday with what looked like a really bad cold/flu. He saw his GP today who confirmed it was NOT the virus........they also said he was currently more poorly than he would be if he had the virus! That's sort of reassuring. It's the v oldies that need to be careful
 
SwingsitlikeHogan said:
Also - with potential escalations soon to be with us my wife has still not had anything from the NHS or her previous Trust employer asking if she'd be available to work. And I don't know why.

The NHS and her Trust know who left service quite recently, and surely it is a simple letter or Email asking the key questions - are you available; where could you work; what could you do? Just a bit of data gathering to inform their contingency and mitigation planning.

All very well not panicking us but this is obvious stuff...
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Because this is still scaremongering. At present, we have approx 20 off the roster self isolating but we are working to full capacity and managing perfectly well. Once the virus takes hold. there are plans withing our emergency plans at the trust based on PHE and government advised received about getting additional staffing resources. At this time it simply isn't required.
 
Imurg said:
HiD is supposed to be going North to her aged parents at the weekend...maybe, maybe not..
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Jeremy Vine touched on this on his radio show yesterday, he is in the same position. There was no clear answer but it may be that visiting is not the best bet if they are in that vulnerable category. One to think carefully about and perhaps delay for the time being. No issue in visiting a younger person but that is not the description given. Food for thought.
 
HomerJSimpson said:
Because this is still scaremongering. At present, we have approx 20 off the roster self isolating but we are working to full capacity and managing perfectly well. Once the virus takes hold. there are plans withing our emergency plans at the trust based on PHE and government advised received about getting additional staffing resources. At this time it simply isn't required.
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My wife doesn't see it as scaremongering as the boss of the team she used to work in has told her that they would - in worst case situation - have to go onto the wards. Which as as you have said.

All she is saying is that every nurse who has recently left the service knows that there could be a call put out for their support - Johnson has already said that. So surely it's prudent contingency planning to simply gather the information that would support any such eventuality. That's all. Nothing more required.

But if the call out is not realistically going to happen, then Johnson shouldn't perhaps have set that hare running in my wife's mind.
 
SwingsitlikeHogan said:
My wife doesn't see it as scaremongering as the boss of the team she used to work in has told her that they would - in worst case situation - have to go onto the wards. Which as as you have said.

All she is saying is that every nurse who has recently left the service knows that there could be a call put out for their support - Johnson has already said that. So surely it's prudent contingency planning to simply gather the information that would support any such eventuality. That's all. Nothing more required.

But if that isn't realistically going to happen then Johnson shouldn't perhaps have set that hare running in my wife's mind.
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It is already in our trust contingency for major incidents involving COVID-19 and there are plans to contact people on an as and when basis but until more details are released from PHE and the government it is felt the rosters each ward has at our trust is sufficient (and with additional scope for an increase in capacity)
 
My cousin's work in insurance

Apparently her boss is about to announce those who don't wish to travel don't have to

All working from home will be accepted without question for the foreseeable
 
Just heard from my son that Manchester Uni have stopped all face to face lectures, on-line only. His Uni (Nottingham Trent) have told him that it is only a matter of time, maybe next week, that they will close.
 
Perspective...

So for the UK over the last 4 months about - 30,000 people tested; 600 confirmed and 10 deaths; those who died have been elderly suffering underlying conditions.

Last year about 9,333 people died from Road Accidents over the same time period !!
 
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