Essential Services

bobmac said:
Ok, what is it you do that is so important ?
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Are you asking me?
if so then I absolutely give up. I mean, what’s the point.
Fine, I fly plane loads of kittens to hospitals around the UK and then parachute them into the Corona wards to help people’s mental health. There you go. I’m as “essential” as they come!
 
bobmac said:
Ok, what is it you do that is so important ?
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It's really not what people do that matters too much. If they can't work from home and their boss etc hasn't decided to close they have to decide between working or not depending on their personal situation.

Window cleaners can social distance as can gardeners .. they can't work from home . If they need to support their families should that be a problem?
 
bluewolf said:
Are you asking me?
if so then I absolutely give up. I mean, what’s the point.
Fine, I fly plane loads of kittens to hospitals around the UK and then parachute them into the Corona wards to help people’s mental health. There you go. I’m as “essential” as they come!
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That’s fantastic, you deserve a medal.;)
 
pauljames87 said:
It's really not what people do that matters too much. If they can't work from home and their boss etc hasn't decided to close they have to decide between working or not depending on their personal situation.

Window cleaners can social distance as can gardeners .. they can't work from home . If they need to support their families should that be a problem?
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Out today , mowed 7 customers lawns, had 3 cheery waves from indoors, didn't see others , even had a wave out from a side street by a patrolling police car ;)
 
bobmac said:
Ok, what is it you do that is so important ?
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He has repeatedly said it’s not “essential” in a national sense but it’s essential at a personal level and I can understand that, it’s essential he earns a wage, to pay for essential food and power and to keep the essential roof over his head.
 
upsidedown said:
Out today , mowed 7 customers lawns, had 3 cheery waves from indoors, didn't see others , even had a wave out from a side street by a patrolling police car ;)
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I'm just going to switch the point slightly here or the angle

Say you can't afford to go unpaid

But you feel window cleaning isn't essiental (please bear with ,, I mean no offence) so you decide Tesco need help I'm going to work there through this .. which the work is now "essiental" is your ability to feed your family suddenly deemed acceptable?
 
Jamesbrown said:
It’s not Marburg or Ebola! it kills about 1-2% of those that get it. Roughly two thirds of that would die this year anyway. People need to calm down.
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My stepson has it, not doing too well atm. His work colleague is on a ventilator in ICU, it's not looking too promising for him right now. You go on believing that it's no big deal. To me it's very real.
 
bobmac said:
I know. Please see my post you quoted.
I think you are wrong this situation will last years, if it did, there would be no-one left.
I believe the lockdowns around the world will start to affect the statistics and the numbers of cases will start to fall in the next 3-4 weeks.
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I agree the lockdown will have an effect without doubt and give hopefully some breathing time.

Why wouldn't it last years, the virus isn't suddenly going to die just because of a few people stay at home across the world. Its got out the bottle now.:( I see the best case as less just than a year with vaccine or medicine that makes fighting the virus on 'equal terms', but then it would be months before we got vaccination ourselves or the medicine.

A vaccine is far from certain as well, think of something like measles or chickenpox or HIV they are still around. Smallpox is about the only virus that has gone forever.

There would be billions of people still left, as not everyone dies from the virus. Think are see it completely differently, which is fine, different opinions are great.

I hope you are right tho and in a few weeks, we will be talking about our round of golf shortly. All the best.
 
bobmac said:
How much does the government pay out for people who are self employed to stay at home?
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Right now nothing. They will pay from June and they have said they can keep trading aswell .
 
pauljames87 said:
I'm just going to switch the point slightly here or the angle

Say you can't afford to go unpaid

But you feel window cleaning isn't essiental (please bear with ,, I mean no offence) so you decide Tesco need help I'm going to work there through this .. which the work is now "essiental" is your ability to feed your family suddenly deemed acceptable?
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None taken
Not sure I get where you're going ?
Window cleaners and myself as a "gardener " have built up rounds and customers over many years and over 90% of mine are pensioners and very grateful for my visit as their garden gives them pleasure . As the guidelines are only work from home if you can't I will do so long as they allow and I can ensure i'm not putting myself and my customers at risk with the correct social distancing . I'm on a landscaping forum and we discussed this last week and the message we were getting from our domestic customers was please please come. Hope that helps
 
upsidedown said:
None taken
Not sure I get where you're going ?
Window cleaners and myself as a "gardener " have built up rounds and customers over many years and over 90% of mine are pensioners and very grateful for my visit as their garden gives them pleasure . As the guidelines are only work from home if you can't I will do so long as they allow and I can ensure i'm not putting myself and my customers at risk with the correct social distancing . I'm on a landscaping forum and we discussed this last week and the message we were getting from our domestic customers was please please come. Hope that helps
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Sorry I was just meaning that Tesco are hiring lots of people ... They are essiental workers .. so say you decide I don't feel right leaving house to clean windows . But you can leave the house to go work at Tesco's

Was just trying to highlight either way your feeding your family best you can but one is deemed acceptable the other is shouted down as stay at home you selfish so and so
 
pauljames87 said:
Sorry I was just meaning that Tesco are hiring lots of people ... They are essiental workers .. so say you decide I don't feel right leaving house to clean windows . But you can leave the house to go work at Tesco's

Was just trying to highlight either way your feeding your family best you can but one is deemed acceptable the other is shouted down as stay at home you selfish so and so
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Ah got ya , yes absolutely (y)
 
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