Coronavirus - how is it/has it affected you?

Still keen to go to the gym and pool, went yesterday and it was about normal for numbers in gym, pool was v quiet. They had one staffer wiping down machines all the time and lots of spays and wipes for us too, they have strong constant ventilating on. There are only 2 reported cov19 cases in my health authority area (highland) so far so my reasoning is keep going whilst watching infection numbers in my area. Is that foolhardy?

Fact my 2 kids are mixing with hundreds of people at school then returning home makes a bit of a mockery of anything I do doesn't it?
 
in the fire service we've just been forbidden to mix with other crews. whether that's change of shift or following an incident. Next stage is to keep the whole crew apart during a shift and only come together when we have to get on the appliance
 
Our room has been asked to say which shifts over next 4 weeks we can be available for if anyone goes sick

An Emergancy overtime roster . Called on the day and asked to come in if someone blows out
 
Finally been told this morning that I will be able to work from home from now until god knows when. I am happy that I won't be travelling on the tube for an hour each way mainly. Although sitting at home every day will be weird.
 
Reemul said:
I work as an insurance broker, i am in High Net Worth but my office is the commercial team. 99% of businesses do not have business interruption for corona regardless of the government shutting you down. Most have named requirements and if the issue is not named specifically you aren't covered.

Insurance is not going to be a saver.
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same here, but I am in Professional Indemnity with the odd office policy thrown in.

our commercial team have been inundated with queries and there are 4 guys who specialise in insuring restaurants and pubs and their phones haven't stopped ringing
 
maxfli65 said:
Confusing, on Radio Scotland just now lots of q&a and anyone like me who qualifies for a flu vaccine annually but is in decent health otherwise is classed group 3 and should not be going to work and absolutely minimising social contact. Is that not as good as self isolating?
Interested if banks will allow a mortgage holiday.

At least we're getting into longer days and better weather so I can paint the house exterior or rebuild garden retaining walls etc.
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Tell me about it, I'm type 1 also. Absolute pain in the ring piece.
 
Orikoru said:
Finally been told this morning that I will be able to work from home from now until god knows when. I am happy that I won't be travelling on the tube for an hour each way mainly. Although sitting at home every day will be weird.
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Welcome to my world, you'll get used to it ;)
 
bobmac said:
My neighbour and his wife who are both 73 (she has an ongoing medical condition) have just gone to their weekly ten pin bowling :eek:
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Rang my parents who are well into their 70s last light to check how they were getting on based on the news. Asked my dad to put my mum on and he said 'oh she's gone down the line dancing with her friends'. :rolleyes:
 
Just seen a vid on FB. Young woman swimming in a hotel pool. Lockdown here means your hotel room and the dining room, at least 2m from the nearest diner. Police turn up and tell her to get out of the pool. She ignores them and swims around the centre of the pool. Ignoring the Police in Spain is just plain stupid, even on a good day.

One Policeman strips down to his jockies and goes in after her. Hauled out, face down and handcuffed. Then taken away. The fine for walking on the prom is €600, and zero tolerance came in yesterday. Wonder what she'll get?

There are 4 different levels of fines for ignoring the lockdown + a year in jail. The top fine, probably reserved for serious breaches at a corporate level is €600,000.
 
maxfli65 said:
Still keen to go to the gym and pool, went yesterday and it was about normal for numbers in gym, pool was v quiet. They had one staffer wiping down machines all the time and lots of spays and wipes for us too, they have strong constant ventilating on. There are only 2 reported cov19 cases in my health authority area (highland) so far so my reasoning is keep going whilst watching infection numbers in my area. Is that foolhardy?

Fact my 2 kids are mixing with hundreds of people at school then returning home makes a bit of a mockery of anything I do doesn't it?
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Not really as if everyone took that attitude then the virus would spread a whole lot quicker than if not. We can't stop the virus but a decision has been made that for the time being schools are still open, doesn't mean the rest of us should ignore the advice.
 
I was supposed to do some training in a school today and not surprisingly it's been cancelled. Exams Officer must be wondering what next and how they'll cope. I'm not "vulnerable" so have offered to go in at short notice if needed. There are a few live exams imminent but think it unlikely they'll go ahead.

Nephew's girlfriend is a nurse working with the elderly. He allegedly is having to self-isolate for a week and admits she's jumped on the bandwagon to get a week off paid...to say I'm livid is an understatement...selfish gits.
 
Hobbit said:
Just seen a vid on FB. Young woman swimming in a hotel pool. Lockdown here means your hotel room and the dining room, at least 2m from the nearest diner. Police turn up and tell her to get out of the pool. She ignores them and swims around the centre of the pool. Ignoring the Police in Spain is just plain stupid, even on a good day.

One Policeman strips down to his jockies and goes in after her. Hauled out, face down and handcuffed. Then taken away. The fine for walking on the prom is €600, and zero tolerance came in yesterday. Wonder what she'll get?

There are 4 different levels of fines for ignoring the lockdown + a year in jail. The top fine, probably reserved for serious breaches at a corporate level is €600,000.
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never mess with the Spanish "powlice“
 
Bunkermagnet said:
Seems to me, too many in the modern world want to be the first with every bit of news, whether it's real or not. Too many are selfsih and only consider their own wants and needs.
My wife is glued to farcebook and the news when at home, I ignore some of the news and almost everything on farcebook.
It's a virus, a flu like virus. I will take the neccessary precautions accepting that I'm likely to have financial hardship soon as a result of it and also accepting that people generally want their stuff fixed regardless.
I accept some will suffer and die, hopefully very few, hopefully through nothing I have done. However the constant "I heard this, I heard that" doesn't help anyone.
Lets be sensible and mindful that whilst there are some that want to be the first with this or that bit of news, true or untrue, there are lots more for whom the anxiety of the situation is probably doing more damage than the virus probably would were they to get it.
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I'm ignoring Facebook other than watching for posts coming from our friends in Seattle, she is Editor-in-Chief of all PSB stations in Washington, Oregon, Idaho and - I think - Montana. He is the senior neo-natal surgeon at a major hospital in Seattle. They know what is happening in the states and it is scary. His hospital's intensive care beds were full two weeks ago - and many deaths in that state have been in his hospital.

She has had to be very careful over the last few months about how she has allowed the developing crisis in the US and Trump's response to it to be reported - because if reporting was critical then Trump and his henchmen would have come down on her and her stations like a ton of bricks - so she doesn't post any opinion on Trump on Facebook - with much of what she posts for us to read being by PM.
 
Hacker Khan said:
Not really as if everyone took that attitude then the virus would spread a whole lot quicker than if not. We can't stop the virus but a decision has been made that for the time being schools are still open, doesn't mean the rest of us should ignore the advice.
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If there is someone vulnerable in the house of the child then that individual should be self-isolating in any case.

If the child contracts the virus at school then it will become apparent within a week and at that point everyone in the house self-isolates - whether they have already caught it from the child or not (and wouldn't know)

If the child's symptoms develop to be more serious and likely cv, then NHS111 contacted and the child will be tested for cv and treated accordingly. I am not sure if the rest of the household are tested for cv at the same time as the child, or whether that testing is delayed until or if symptoms become apparent in the wider household.

Well I think the timing of the testing bit is what happens - but to be honest I am not sure. Very difficult.
 
UHI are cancelling all face to face lectures and classes from Friday. My lad is coming back from Dornoch tomorrow, as most of his assignments her are online and can be done here. Can't get all his gear back on the flight tomorrow, so will still have to go up in May, assuming travel is still OK then. Not sure what will happen if we can't empty his flat then, because that's when his tenancy agreement is up with the Uni residence. It's not run by the Uni though, so waiting to hear on that.

With mrs wedge being a nurse at the local hospital, albeit in the Breast Cancer clinic and not on the wards, he's coming back to a high risk environment, might be better staying in the highlands.
 
Hobbit said:
Just seen a vid on FB. Young woman swimming in a hotel pool. Lockdown here means your hotel room and the dining room, at least 2m from the nearest diner. Police turn up and tell her to get out of the pool. She ignores them and swims around the centre of the pool. Ignoring the Police in Spain is just plain stupid, even on a good day.

One Policeman strips down to his jockies and goes in after her. Hauled out, face down and handcuffed. Then taken away. The fine for walking on the prom is €600, and zero tolerance came in yesterday. Wonder what she'll get?

There are 4 different levels of fines for ignoring the lockdown + a year in jail. The top fine, probably reserved for serious breaches at a corporate level is €600,000.
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Seen that too, stupid bint. She didn't like getting stacked to the rear, moaning about her arm hurting.
 
Hacker Khan said:
Rang my parents who are well into their 70s last light to check how they were getting on based on the news. Asked my dad to put my mum on and he said 'oh she's gone down the line dancing with her friends'. :rolleyes:
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My 90yr old MiL and her 90yr old pal were due to go to a local small theatre for a play last night. Her pal was still thinking of going as she didn't want to have wasted the cost of the ticket. £6!...

My MiL didn't go. I don't know if her friend went. That's oldies looking after the pennies. When you were brought up without very much at all - you will never be happy wasting it.
 
Not surprisingly the BC Charity Helpline that my wife works on is swamped this morning, and she and most of the nurse specialists in work today are manning the phones all day - normally they split between phones and Email inquiry support.
 
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