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Coronavirus - how is it/has it affected you?

Mudball said:
He was at Chequers.. I guess he needs to just switch off for a few days. He needs time for himself and family. Not worth the risk or trouble tbh. The rest of the cabinet should cover. Besides the above, did we not see Alok Sharma - Bus Secretary one day - he sounded ok, though i dont remember what he was talking about.
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He was a disaster. Couldn't answer any questions. Got totally slaughtered in the press the next day. Even The Telegraph tore him to pieces.
 
Rlburnside said:
I didn’t know that flights are still coming in from New York and Italy up to 15,000 a day coming into UK from different parts of the world,seems irresponsible to me when the Government are telling us all not to travel.
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It's absolutely crazy. Wouldn't be so bad if they were put into isolation for 14 days on arrival, but no, they are allowed to bugger off and go where they please.
 
I think we need to hear from the Leader of the House of Commons, he is always brim full of confidence and certainty. Joking aside, Jenrick and Gove are almost as bad at doing the briefing as Sharma. Robert Buckland is a QC so he should be able to get on top of a brief and present it. Liz Truss (International Trade) and Therese Coffey (Work and Pensions) should also be on top of the brief as it impacts their areas and wider. And they have the Chief MO and Chief Scientist for the detail.

But on Health, reports are that Hunt has done a very good job as Chair of that Health Select Committee. Now he absolutely has baggage with the NHS...but that is the past and the NHS and care workers know he knows the NHS
 
rudebhoy said:
It's absolutely crazy. Wouldn't be so bad if they were put into isolation for 14 days on arrival, but no, they are allowed to bugger off and go where they please.
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I guess it is beyond the wit of the assembled hacks to grill them on this at the daily briefing. Seems important enough
One doesn't get the feeling that there much joined up thinking on this, or on the matter of getting going again.
 
pendodave said:
I guess it is beyond the wit of the assembled hacks to grill them on this at the daily briefing. Seems important enough
One doesn't get the feeling that there much joined up thinking on this, or on the matter of getting going again.
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Matt Hancock got a grilling from Piers Morgan this morning but avoided the question
 
rudebhoy said:
It's absolutely crazy. Wouldn't be so bad if they were put into isolation for 14 days on arrival, but no, they are allowed to bugger off and go where they please.
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can they go where they please? the Hilton? center parks, alton towers?. the government talked about this a few days ago. only people who live here or have a purpose to be here are allowed to come and let's face it. other than new York said travelers are coming to the danger zone not bringing it in.

where did the 15, 000 figure come from?
 
Are all passengers tested or temperature checked at their departure point before they get on a flight to the UK? I don't know.

One thing I am 100% sure of though is that there are very few aircraft in the skies above us - and we are bang between Gatwick and Heathrow - with Farnborough just down the road, so if there 15,000 coming in every day I have no idea which airports they are flying in to. That said - with hardly any flights maybe they don't have to come over us.
 
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Plenty flack being thrown at the governmens handling of the pandemic from media and self appointed experts.
It's not just in the UK the same is happening in every other western country.
People seen to forget this is a unprecedented situation in our time.
There is no magic formula, I for one would not like to be in their boots.
It's the easiest thing in the world for the likes of Pierce Morgan to criticise others withoout coming up with answers themselves.
I'm sure Hancock looking tired might just be he's probably on the go day and night, just the same as you see NHS workers looking shattered.
 
hovis said:
can they go where they please? the Hilton? center parks, alton towers?. the government talked about this a few days ago. only people who live here or have a purpose to be here are allowed to come and let's face it. other than new York said travelers are coming to the danger zone not bringing it in.

where did the 15, 000 figure come from?
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Believe one of the hotels adjacent to Heathrow was earmarked to be used for isolating new arrivals... Plenty of others available if more rooms needed... And, there can't be many places, elsewhere, that haven't been touched by covid... Surely, best practice would of been to isolate all new arrivals...
 
The charity that my wife works for needs to reduce their monthly wage bill even more and she has been asked if she wishes to be furloughed. She was not sure as she is still on probation and not sure how that would be viewed. I assured her that her work would actually want her to put herself forward - they need to save money as their income has collapsed - and bluntly I guess they need to take 'advantage' of the government scheme to tide them over - and as she's the least experienced on the team she isn't key to delivery of their core support services. That said - it doesn't sit that well with her getting paid for doing nothing. But so be it. Weird weird times we are living through.
 
MegaSteve said:
Believe one of the hotels adjacent to Heathrow was earmarked to be used for isolating new arrivals... Plenty of others available if more rooms needed... And, there can't be many places, elsewhere, that haven't been touched by covid... Surely, best practice would of been to isolate all new arrivals...
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how do you isolate 15,000 arrivals per week never mind per day (if the earlier post is correct) isn't going home and staying indoors isolation?
 
hovis said:
can they go where they please? the Hilton? center parks, alton towers?. the government talked about this a few days ago. only people who live here or have a purpose to be here are allowed to come and let's face it. other than new York said travelers are coming to the danger zone not bringing it in.

where did the 15, 000 figure come from?
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The 15,000 figure came from Matt Hancock this morning when answering a question from Piers Morgan
 
hovis said:
can they go where they please? the Hilton? center parks, alton towers?. the government talked about this a few days ago. only people who live here or have a purpose to be here are allowed to come and let's face it. other than new York said travelers are coming to the danger zone not bringing it in.
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Today's scheduled arrivals include flights from Italy, Germany, Moscow and Iran. Plenty cases of the virus in each of those.
 
ferenezejohn said:
Plenty flack being thrown at the governmens handling of the pandemic from media and self appointed experts.
It's not just in the UK the same is happening in every other western country.
People seen to forget this is a unprecedented situation in our time.
There is no magic formula, I for one would not like to be in their boots.
It's the easiest thing in the world for the likes of Pierce Morgan to criticise others withoout coming up with answers themselves.
I'm sure Hancock looking tired might just be he's probably on the go day and night, just the same as you see NHS workers looking shattered.
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No it is not. Yes every country has been impacted by the virus, but some had had different responses and are having different outcomes, some better, some worse. But that does not mean people can not question the current response here.
 
hovis said:
isn't going home and staying indoors isolation?
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No, not in the accepted sense for people entering other countries.

One of my sons works as a teacher in Wuhan. He is currently stuck in Thailand with his wife who is Chinese. She has been told she can go back, but will need to go to a specific centre for 14 days, and will have to pay the cost of that.

He is not allowed in at all for the foreseeable future.

Pretty draconian, but ultimately more effective than letting folk in and leaving them unchecked.
 
We were on a 'House Party' call yesterday evening with four other couples - we are all very close friends.

The nice thing about the call was that one of the couples in our group got married yesterday in a small town on the Belgium/Netherlands border. The guys have been together for over 30yrs and decided to get married this year - oh the irony of it they said. We were all going to be going (5 other couples) - but that was knocked on the head.

They were in the town hall with the Mayor and Registrar. Nobody else. They could stand together - the Mayor and Registrar stood 2m apart. Out friends set up a laptop pointing at the officials and another pointing at themselves - so that friends and relatives could watch the ceremony on Zoom :)

We are all supposed to be getting together 2nd week of October in Valencia - and if that happens we'll celebrate together then - though we hae oor doots about that.
 
Got my test this morning, bloody awful, swab down the throat then up each nostril.
Hopefully get my results tomorrow night or Saturday.
Still a bit choked up but have got zero taste or sense of smell.
Could do with getting my energy levels up, but nothing in the tank.
 
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