Coronavirus - how is it/has it affected you?

Kellfire said:
More clarity needed over zero hours contracts.
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not quite sure how it’ll work unless employers are asked to provide monthly average wage over a period for all zero hrs employees. My son is on a zero hrs contract for part of his income - he normally gets £1000 a month but last year didn’t get paid anything at all for two and a bit summer months...the rest of his income was sole trader income and so I guess he gets covered for loss of that through UC

hopefully the tour management companies may now be able to pay my son some sort of retainer given their permanent staff with get paid through government grant. They might be able to take one of the interest free loans to cover the 20% not covered by the grant and pay my son a retainer.
 
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Hobbit said:
In the last week we've had two police officers die from the virus. Both in their 30's, and both WITHOUT any underlying conditions. Bearing in mind the lockdown, and the vast majority of the general population has been at home, its very sobering to see that healthy guys have succumbed to this.
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Hey Bri, stay safe... we have plenty of new rules to keep us safe at Matfen Hall. Hopefully if people are sensible we should... be safe. Take care of yourself and the rest of the Monthly family
 
Kraxx68 said:
Hey Bri, stay safe... we have plenty of new rules to keep us safe at Matfen Hall. Hopefully if people are sensible we should... be safe. Take care of yourself and the rest of the Monthly family
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You too Stu. Our rules come with fines. So far, just under 30,000 in 6 days. The fine for having two people in a car went up last night from €600 to €1000. And its been zero tolerance since Monday.
 
IanM said:
I am getting increasingly hacked off with the dumbo questions the press are getting away with. The Sky News bloke right now needs a smack in the gob!
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Not as bad as the lady from the Daily Mail who was looking for Boris to say something about Italy so they could put some apocalyptic headline on the paper tomorrow. But then again what did I expect from that rag.
 
Italian outcast said:
In Italy
47,021 cases - 5,986 new cases in past 24 hours
4,032 deaths - 627 new deaths in past 24 hours
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Do Italians have a different lifestyle which makes the virus more dangerous to them? Maybe panic buying pasta is not the right thing to do.

Seriously, do they smoke more? Or drink more?
 
larmen said:
Do Italians have a different lifestyle which makes the virus more dangerous to them? Maybe panic buying pasta is not the right thing to do.

Seriously, do they smoke more? Or drink more?
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Don't they have the highest percentage of elderly citizens compared to other countries? I thought that was driving the numbers. Sobering to hear today that the over 80's have a 1 in 12 chance of dying if they contract it.
 
Hobbit said:
You too Stu. Our rules come with fines. So far, just under 30,000 in 6 days. The fine for having two people in a car went up last night from €600 to €1000. And its been zero tolerance since Monday.
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Wow, I can see why they are taking this so seriously, I just seen Spain's numbers, over 1k dead now!!! rather worrying for all of us... hopefully with Social Distancing, things may slow down/stop eventually - We've been told to go to work as normal, but no meetings and we have to sit 2 meters away from anyone... the only poeple who work form home, are thoise with Asthma and kidz... unless you have to self isolate...

Stay safe my friend
 
pokerjoke said:
I walked my dog alone tonight and saw 10 boys playing football on the local Astro.
Seems some parents aren’t taking the threat seriously
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They will within a couple of weeks when the UK will be reporting thousands of deaths, I suspect around 5000 before the end of the month.
 
spongebob59 said:
Some real scum out there ?




Important Information:

There has been an incident in Greenhill, Herne Bay this morning:

Two men dressed in suits saying they are from the NHS and wanting to take temperatures. Whilst they are taking the persons temperature, someone is going around the back to enter the property.

If you have encountered these people, please call the Police immediately.
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Penalties for this sort of thing during a national emergency should be trebled .
And tell everyone in the nick what they did.
 
it won't be long before vigilantes start getting involved with social gatherings. there was a massive row tonight in Lichfield when punters were trying to get their last few pints in. pathetic
 
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