Coronavirus - how is it/has it affected you?

Wolf said:
Seems the oxygen thief's on Facebook are going into melt down because Boris had the audacity to be honest and say there will be more death's in vulnerable people, apparently he shouldn't be telling people the truth but should be telling us it will alo be ok, bloody snowflakes?
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I suspect you are deliberately misunderstanding what some people are trying to say in an attempt to drone on about snowflakes. Here's the editor of The Lancet who is probably putting the point in a slightly more understandable way
https://twitter.com/x/status/1238157609129181188
 
Ye Olde Boomer said:
It affected my wife and I tonight when some timid friends cancelled dinner plans as they bunker down for the duration.
True, they're old, but so are we.
I wasn't desperate to see them, but I was hoping to not have to cook.

(I don't particularly enjoy cooking, but since I'm Italian and my wife is Irish, who the hell do you think is going to cook?)
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that round of golf with an Italian meal and a bottle of chianti is getting closer. ?
 
Paperboy said:
My private pension has lost a bit of money, but advised to put extra in if I can. For when the market starts recover.
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Hmmm. Indeed. But I have decided to ignore my pension pot for the time being. I have a 90yr old MiL; a vulnerable and worried wife and son with livelihood at risk - all of whom need my attention at the moment more than my pension - though I will ask our adviser if I might do something...worrying times
 
Hacker Khan said:
I suspect you are deliberately misunderstanding what some people are trying to say in an attempt to drone on about snowflakes. Here's the editor of The Lancet who is probably putting the point in a slightly more understandable way
https://twitter.com/x/status/1238157609129181188
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My wife is a nurse, working at the local hospital. She works in a clinic now, not on the wards any more, but that doesn't make us feel any better, she is still being exposed to the general populace on a daily basis.
 
I am working from home today so relying on gossip and heresay so far as there has been no official communication yet, but I've been told people have been unable to get into our office this morning as it's locked. The rumour is someone at work has tested positive for the Coronavirus.
 
need_my_wedge said:
My wife is a nurse, working at the local hospital. She works in a clinic now, not on the wards any more, but that doesn't make us feel any better, she is still being exposed to the general populace on a daily basis.
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My wife is also a Nurse, but working in the Community. She has already had several E Mails from the Trust informing her that there may be emergency measures that mean she will have to go back to Ward work. Bearing in mind she hasn't done any Ward work for over a decade, she's rightly concerned that this will expose her to situations she isn't experienced enough to deal with.
 
Orikoru said:
We are meant to be flying out to Bratislava in a couple of weeks for a long weekend so I'm just hoping nothing happens to get that cancelled at the minute.
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Mentioned it in the irritations thread, but our return flight with Whizair has now been cancelled. Our outbound flight with Ryanair hasn't yet... but I'm sure it will be. If it isn't then that screws us over big time. I think we will lose money in having to cancel our accommodation as well unfortunately. This trip was for my wife's 30th so I'm gutted for her at the minute.
 
Hacker Khan said:
I suspect you are deliberately misunderstanding what some people are trying to say in an attempt to drone on about snowflakes. Here's the editor of The Lancet who is probably putting the point in a slightly more understandable way
https://twitter.com/x/status/1238157609129181188
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Then your suspicion is absolutely wrong as I'm not talking about twitter or people who actually understand the situation, I'm talking about the actual muppets I see on Facebook that are taking the opportunity to blame Boris for the disease and then blaming him again for giving an honest press conference saying he shouldn't be telling us the truth , but these are the same posters blaming politicians for lying. Not merely an opportunity to post about snowflakes but an actual accurate assessment of what I've seen. But you carry on thinking you know best about ?
 
Some people in my office moaning were moaning today as their corporate day at Cheltenham courtesy of RSA was cancelled
 
I just can't get my head round governments decision around the world. we have a deadly virus in China that's spreading like wild fire. I know let's bring all them people back into our country!!!!! at the time it initially broke out I remember saying "it's simple, no one leaves the country unless tested or had 14 days isolation".

that clearly is a massive task to undertake but look at where we are now. if it was that simple to a thicko like me then why wasn't this carried out?
 
Orikoru said:
Mentioned it in the irritations thread, but our return flight with Whizair has now been cancelled. Our outbound flight with Ryanair hasn't yet... but I'm sure it will be. If it isn't then that screws us over big time. I think we will lose money in having to cancel our accommodation as well unfortunately. This trip was for my wife's 30th so I'm gutted for her at the minute.
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I contacted Ryanair live chat support, they said it will mostly likely be cancelled in the next two days and I should watch out for the email confirmation. That's that then.

This really has been the worst year on record I think.
 
My daughter was due to go on a skiing holiday at the end of the month but she's had an email advising that the resort is now closed.
My son works for a major finance company and first with Brexit and now with Covid-19, his job is crazy at the moment.

Closer to home, my partner has type 2 diabetes and a heart condition and my father-in-law, who lives with us, is 87 and has vascular dementia and medical issues. So my worry is for them two. For myself, I always say that having been brought up in Widnes, you build up a resistance to pretty much everything! ;)
Work is a movable feast. A lot of my customers are in the Life Science sector and include hospitals, fertility clinics, research institutes, pharma companies, etc. so they are much more likely to prohibit people going into their facility.
Our company only allows necessary staff in at the main offices, forbidden sharing of fleet cars and asking people to keep travelling to a minimum. Given that we are sales, that is going to be a major issue. The message we send out to customers gets modified on a daily basis to take into account the continuous changes to the situation.
 
Wolf said:
Little bit sensationalist there Bob. Just because some people of faith will have a skewed view, doesn't mean all people following those same faiths are as backward in their thinking. Many within their own faiths will disagree with the sentiments of these far right thinkers.
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I know it's just a few fanatics.
But it is out there and because the pastor/priest/rabbi/Muhaddith says something, there are always those who will belive it's true.
 
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