Coronavirus - how is it/has it affected you?

Imurg said:
It did cross my mind but I'd still have to scrub down between lessons..
Plus I'm sat 2 feet away from someone who may have been exposed...unless I suit up with mask, gloves and full body suit I'm in the firing line anyway...
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Good point, I remember being nervous enough about driving lessons without a guy in a hazmat suit and mask sat next to me!
 
Imurg said:
It did cross my mind but I'd still have to scrub down between lessons..
Plus I'm sat 2 feet away from someone who may have been exposed...unless I suit up with mask, gloves and full body suit I'm in the firing line anyway...
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I bet you already have the mask, gloves and full rubber suit :sick::sick:
 
SwingsitlikeHogan said:
Can the guys on here who know about precision manufacturing tell me how the heck JCB and RR (or their ilk) are going to be able to build ventilators, seems to me to be just pie-in-the-sky. Great if we could do it - but how? Or is this just an idea to make us all feel a little bit better with a little bit of hope - and (cynically thinking) simply something that Matt Hancock can go on TV and radio and fill minutes talking about - talking about something that is practically unachievable. :(

I'm finding this a bit scary - reminiscent of On The Beach where the people of Melbourne and surrounds try to keep living as near to normal as possible as the radiation from a Northern Hemisphere nuclear holocaust head the way of Victoria - the final outpost - knowing they were all going to die. That isn't going to happen to us - but when, a couple of years back, I read the book and watched the (brilliant) film I never, ever thought for one moment that I could be in a situation that would resonate so...
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In the war, how many companies were diverted to manufacturing arms including planes etc? Many, and things got done.
I'm no engineer, but I think it can (and will) be done.
Just so long as lawyers and patent arguments don't try to get in the way.
If they do, then some sorting of the strong kind is required.
This is clearly a national emergency as far as the Government is concerned and I hope they act accordingly.
 
HID doing Tesco shop on line and they've come up with a bag of 16 toilet rolls available - nothing like a good bit of panic buying???

But then, will they arrive tomorrow ?
 
Watching the live presser I now think the UK strategy is better than others where I didn't a couple days ago.

The UK are introducing things that other countries didn't, they just shut down where ours is based upon slowing the progress, social isolation etc etc.

Very annoyed about absolutely no mention of those us us that are self employed and it's all about businesses yet what support does the single self employed person get...nothing.
 
SwingsitlikeHogan said:
Ah you are hopefully right - it wasn't Cobra...

Unfortunately I have to believe what I read and hear on the main News TV and Radio Channels and in the main newspapers.

And so still not sure that I am altogether happy with him being involved in any decision making that might literally be life and death for some of us. Johnson has the key Scientific and Medical advisers he needs - and I don't see why Cummings would be in there. Given his record these last four years I don't trust his involvement in managing the information giving and political optics.

https://www.wired.co.uk/article/dominic-cummings-coronavirus-big-tech
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As I write there are three men standing fair and square in front of the Nation telling us how they intend to proceed.
Stop this carping on about a man with horns in the background deciding other different strategies that we aren't being told about.
You always seem to need someone to be the baddie . Party politics is not involved in this!
 
Imurg said:
It did cross my mind but I'd still have to scrub down between lessons..
Plus I'm sat 2 feet away from someone who may have been exposed...unless I suit up with mask, gloves and full body suit I'm in the firing line anyway...
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And so are they! :eek:
 
Slime said:
And so are they! :eek:
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Cant deny it.
Courtesy of me old Mum, if I do have to stop work, we're not going to be in trouble but a lot of the other guys in town are the main earners and they've got some hard decisions to make.
There's already talk in the industry of Theory test centres being closed due to the numbers in a confined space.
That's going to impact practical tests as you can't book one without passing the theory..which will impact the length of time it takes to pass.
Add to that, it wouldn't surprise me one bit if tests start getting cancelled due to examiners self-isolating- they're in a similar boat to me.
I hope to God they don't close the golf courses ....
 
Imurg said:
Cant deny it.
Courtesy of me old Mum, if I do have to stop work, we're not going to be in trouble but a lot of the other guys in town are the main earners and they've got some hard decisions to make.
There's already talk in the industry of Theory test centres being closed due to the numbers in a confined space.
That's going to impact practical tests as you can't book one without passing the theory..which will impact the length of time it takes to pass.
Add to that, it wouldn't surprise me one bit if tests start getting cancelled due to examiners self-isolating- they're in a similar boat to me.
I hope to God they don't close the golf courses ....
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You can get passports and driving licences on line, is there a practical reason why on line testing can't be done?
 
HappyHacker1 said:
Watching the live presser I now think the UK strategy is better than others where I didn't a couple days ago.

The UK are introducing things that other countries didn't, they just shut down where ours is based upon slowing the progress, social isolation etc etc.

Very annoyed about absolutely no mention of those us us that are self employed and it's all about businesses yet what support does the single self employed person get...nothing.
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As someone who runs a small manufacturing business on an industrial estate I can assure you that we are getting exactly the same assistance as you are, nothing.
 
Robster59 said:
Good to see the online platforms are clamping down on this. I bet there's a few people in the UK who have bought shedloads to sell in ebay too but if both Amazon and ebay are clamping restricting/stopping sales of these products.
Sadly there will always be parasites who will want to profit from the misfortune of others.
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I delivered 2 pallets containing 22,000 individual small hand sanitizers to a private address in Bristol, with the figures I know he bought the stock for and what he’ll sell them for on devils bay, he has the potential to make £100k quick profit with no shortage of customers.
 
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