Coronavirus - how is it/has it affected you?

penod- ricard anounced today their distillery visotor centres will close till further notice, which will effect out Advertising rev, no doubt the others will follow
 
Missis T has had her letter today from the NHS asking her to go back if required. Once she has stopped laughing al let you all know her answer
 
Trip to serbia next week has been cancelled, it was for an event i was speaking at. Serbian gov have banned indoor events hosting 100+ people.
We have cancelled two training courses we are hosting in london week after next, probably lose around $130k in gaap revenue.
was at the excel in london this week, the guys who set the stands up reckon next week will be the last events there and they heard rumours that will be until september! No idea where they got that from.
 
Due to play 2 finals next week, Thurs afternoon and Friday morning. Both brought forward as the Spanish Federation has advised closure of all clubs from Monday for 15 days. Finals tomorrow afternoon and Sunday morning.

Supermarket shelves looking a little bare today, and the local market was very quiet.

On another note, residents trying to leave the 4 towns that are under lockdown are being threatened with a €60,000 fine.
 
Doon frae Troon said:
Norfolk, D&G and Highlands are the only non affected areas, for once poor road/rail air structure works to their advantage.
I live near the D&G border, perhaps go south for my shopping in future.:whistle:
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DFT, I read up on the Spanish flu a couple of months ago on Wikipedia. It was an excellent read. Bottom line is the the flu followed the travel routes. Back in the day of the flu it was ports and railways. It travelled around the world with the exception of Australia who would not let anyone in. It started in the USA on an Army base, by the time some of the soldiers got to Europe to fight the war is ships the incubation period meant some of the soldiers were already dead. With this incubation period you can now travel around the world a hundred times.
 
My GP has just had to go into self quarantine having dealt with a patient who turned out to be infected - so I won;t be going to the surgery for my asthma review this month.

Otherwise, no real affect, other than the office bringing in a no handshaking policy (which most of us broke in the first day :eek:because shaking hands is 2nd nature when meeting clients)
 
Looks like sport is self isolating and ignoring Bojo's advice from yesterday afternoon. Let's hope the rest of the governments advice lasts a bit longer.
 
Hacker Khan said:
Looks like sport is self isolating and ignoring Bojo's advice from yesterday afternoon. Let's hope the rest of the governments advice lasts a bit longer.
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Hardly ignoring

Half the teams have a player with it so following correct advice
 
Our council gyms and swimming pools have just announced they will be closed for the next two weeks.

Likely be far longer. I fear this is only the beginning.
 
Doon frae Troon said:
Norfolk, D&G and Highlands are the only non affected areas, for once poor road/rail air structure works to their advantage.
I live near the D&G border, perhaps go south for my shopping in future.:whistle:
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The BBC story is showing that there are more than just those three areas that haven't had any cases so far.....

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now then, I think it’s fair to say that’s it s been alleged that Tashyboy can rattle on. So here’s another.

I posted on here a couple of days ago a graph showing that next year will be tougher than this. Obviously it meant nowt at the time because no one commented on it. I have posted on here that the German chancellor has said that 70% of Germans will get it. Again nowt was really said. It’s like it’s not sinking in.
Now the chief science officer to the Government is saying that this virus is going to come back year after year. And that “ Around 60% of the UK population will need to become infected with coronavirus in order for society to have "herd immunity" from future outbreaks, Sir Patrick Vallance said.
So that means that 6 out of ten need/ will get the virus. Again work out what the initial mortality rate will be. So it begs the question are you as well off getting the virus sooner rather than later.
Fonna be an interesting few months ahead.
 
Pulled the short straw and doing the shopping tomorrow. Providing I can get bread and milk and basics (already got pasta and rice) i'm not too fussed.
 
Tashyboy said:
So it begs the question are you as well off getting the virus sooner rather than later.
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Vallance already answered this but possibly not clearly, it's what is meant by "flattening the curve". Because it is expected the majority of people will be infected, it needs to occur over a longer period of time.

Say the population is 100 people. 60 people get the virus but you can only 'cure' 1 person a day. If only 1 person catches it every day over 60 days you can cure everyone. But if 60 people get it in one day, 59 will die.

Here is a good graphic illustration of the problem: https://miro.medium.com/max/1340/1*PZesaMfoPxgYJBoQVtpmjQ.gif
 
Having listened intently to the advice from Boris and the health advisers, I can see the logic in what they are trying to do and also the hope that the warmer weather may play a part but I do feel the situation will become more fluid quicker than the predictions seem to indicate. I would imagine by next week schools will be shut as will most shops bar chemists and food stores.
 
Our Sunday League game has been cancelled. But since we've already paid £145 for the pitch and they won't give us a refund, we'll be playing a friendly instead. :rolleyes:
 
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