Coronavirus - how is it/has it affected you?

Stuart_C said:
My MIL and FIL have just been to Tenerife, should've been there til next saturday.

Come back last night as Ryanair had cancelled there flight coming home next week so theyve paid over the odds to get home, the resorts are on total lockdown, people in hotels are banished to their rooms.

They were lucky they had a good sized balcony where they were staying so they could sit and drink in the sun. They were told that Jet2 are on lockdown from this Monday and there'll be no more flights in or out the country.

I understand you dont want to lose money, not many of us working class folk can afford to lose that amount of money, but if it's anything like what they've just experienced you wont be a happy chap.

Good luck with your decision
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We had a villa with a heated pool so really were not concerned as long as we could get food from the shops. We fully intended to lounge about and not really use the restaurants as we can BBQ can all can cook.

Today....flight cancelled. Full refund. Or re-book, but no flights out for next Easter yet. Took 'em long enough.

Off to play golf now and see how many oldies are out on the course. Found a course on full greens and no mats. Wahooo!!!!!!
 
Matt Hancock telling us that letters are going out today to 16000 (I think) ex-NHS doctors and nurses. Not sure how enthusiastic the uptake will be.

[CORRECTION] 65,000
 
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Slime said:
I read the first five words ........................ that was enough for me.
No wonder people are stockpiling having read hysteria like that.
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That bbc article is far from scaremongering. Probably the complete opposite as it explains the full lifecycle.

Would be naive to think it just magically goes away after an initial peak.

Ive seen some of the models, long term strategy essential as it will keep coming back.

Why do you think the flu jab exists??
 
huds1475 said:
That bbc article is far from scaremongering. Probably the complete opposite as it explains the full lifecycle.

Would be naive to think it just magically goes away after an initial peak.

Ive seen some of the models, long term strategy essential as it will keep coming back.

Why do you think the flu jab exists??
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Fair enough ......................... but the world is not shutting down.
We're facing a particularly nasty virus, not a nuclear apocalypse.
 
hovis said:
emergency services are going to struggle as the government said we can only send our children to school if "both" parents are keys workers. my wife and many others in the private sector don't have such understanding bosses.

alot of panicking chiefs at the minute wondering how they're going to manage on an already thin service
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That's not, or no longer true.

Only one parent viewed as key worker and kids can go school.

Wife a deputy head
 
huds1475 said:
That's not, or no longer true.

Only one parent viewed as key worker and kids can go school.

Wife a deputy head
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yeh, it changed last night. apparently every chef police and fire officer was on the phone to government. the impact it was going to have on emergency services was potentially huge
 
huds1475 said:
Not interested in debating semantics, you crack on though.
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It's nothing to do with semantics, it's everything to do with over dramatising and scaremongering.
The quality of much of the reporting has been nothing short of ridiculous.
No wonder people stockpile.
And yes, if I want to make what I believe to be a valid point, I will crack on.
 
Slime said:
I read the first five words ........................ that was enough for me.
No wonder people are stockpiling having read hysteria like that.
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People are stockpiling 'cos they've been listening to liar-Leader who is telling us we can get this under control in a few months. Who the hell is going to believe a word he says.
 
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