Coronavirus (COVID-19)

[ftk]

I work for an online retailer and one of our top selling products this week and last has been stand alone freezers...

Thats to keep any bodies in. Funerals suspended till August [emoji40]

[Todd_is_God]

23 hours ago, Todd_is_God said:

I travel all over the country on a daily basis. The rest of our team do the same.

It's absolutely not business critical to do so (working from home is not really possible for more than a day or two, but travel in general could be vastly reduced), yet the official line as of Friday evening is to continue as normal.

Seems absolutely mental to me given everything else that is going on. I hope common sense is arrived at come Monday.

Common sense was not arrived at

[jamamafegan]

Tesco this morning. No flour, no hand wash, no bog roll, no pork chops or steaks, no pasta, hardly any chicken, hardly any eggs.

People are dicks.

That is all.

Tesco on a Monday morning during a global pandemic, what else were you expecting? :eye:

[Mark Connolly]

Just been in the Lego store and the shelves are full.

If I had the cash, I’d be panic buying in there for something to do once I’ve seen everything on Netflix

[Florentine_Pogen]

5 minutes ago, Mark Connolly said:

Just been in the Lego store and the shelves are full.

If I had the cash, I’d be panic buying in there for something to do once I’ve seen everything on Netflix

 

[Scotty Tunbridge]

As much as the supermarkets are issuing the dont panic buy memos they will be rubbing their hands at the amount of shit going through the tills. Probably making up for a poor Christmas period.

[Bairnardo]

Just been in the Lego store and the shelves are full.
If I had the cash, I’d be panic buying in there for something to do once I’ve seen everything on Netflix

Give it time, the Old Firm fans will get hungry soon

[AyrshireTon]

Wife works in bookies - they’re not expecting any sport until August at the earliest.

[Savage Henry]

Wife works in bookies - they’re not expecting any sport until August at the earliest.

Bookies will certainly know if anyone does.

[welshbairn]

Supermarket guy on the radio this morning saying that if you're expecting to order your supplies online when your self isolating, think again, it's least efficient way going to distribute food and there isn't anything like the capacity to lift it to much more than the 10% of shopping it covers now. Some encouragement to all you hoarders out there!

[tamthebam]

I'm kind of hoping they cancel the Edinburgh Fringe. No unfunny Oxbridge twats, no tourists blocking the pavements everywhere- it would be the best summer ever! 

[WhiteRoseKillie]

8 minutes ago, Scotty Tunbridge said:

As much as the supermarkets are issuing the dont panic buy memos they will be rubbing their hands at the amount of shit going through the tills. Probably making up for a poor Christmas period.

Although they'll be quiet next week when those who take their living instructions from facebook realise they've got fuckloads of bogroll, lakes of sanitiser, mountains of pasta...

 

And no fucking money!

 

[doulikefish]

And all the wankers that have blocks of flats renting out on Airbnb screwed aswell

I'm kind of hoping they cancel the Edinburgh Fringe. No unfunny Oxbridge twats, no tourists blocking the pavements everywhere- it would be the best summer ever! 

[boomboomyards]

 

Anyone else noticed the decrease in PPI and scam phone calls.

A bit of a pleasant surprise.

[WhiteRoseKillie]

Just now, doulikefish said:

And all the wankers that have blocks of flats renting out on Airbnb screwed aswell

This is what we want - surely time for a new thread: The Upside of Global Pandemics.

[doulikefish]

Virgin asking there airline staff to take 8 weeks unpaid leave ffs

[Sergeant Wilson]

3 hours ago, WATTOO said:

Holidays flights & Hotels cancelled, Sky / Virgin subscriptions stopped or downgraded, local Sports and Community clubs in dire straits, Bookmakers taking a huge hit, Football Clubs, Racecourses, Rugby clubs, Bowling Clubs, Golf Clubs will all struggle to survive.

Over and above these obvious things, the construction industry will be hit, advertising firms will be completely screwed, retail which is already struggling badly will take another huge hit which will finish many, then you have the major retail landlords and property developers such as INTU on the brink of collapse. Tourism also brings in fortunes to local economies and that's all but stopped. Socialising will also virtually stop which then hits Bars, Restaurants, Cinemas, Theatres etc.

There really is an almost endless list and the Economic fallout is already unimaginable.

But apart from that...

[Lofarl]

8 minutes ago, doulikefish said:

And all the wankers that have blocks of flats renting out on Airbnb screwed aswell

 

[19QOS19]

 
Anyone else noticed the decrease in PPI and scam phone calls.
A bit of a pleasant surprise.

The time to claim PPI passed in August. I now get phone calls about the car accident I wasn't in. I usually hand the phone to my 3 year old.

[Florentine_Pogen]

From Grauniad.......

Mass gatherings in Scotland could be postponed until the summer due to the coronavirus outbreak, as the first minister, Nicola Sturgeon, defended the country’s response to the pandemic.

As of today, the Scottish government is issuing advice that mass events should not take place to reduce the impact of the outbreak on frontline services.

Sturgeon confirmed at a press briefing on Monday morning that this advice could be in place for several months and she can’t rule out it remaining even longer.

The first minister said “significant steps” have been taken to slow the spread of the coronavirus and reduce its impact, amidst growing criticism of the UK response to the outbreak.

Health Secretary Jeane Freeman said 700 additional ICU ventilators have been commissioned. In Scotland, authorities will continue to test key workers, including critical frontline NHS staff, to ensure the people who are so essential to managing the disease but also keeping a critical infrastructure going are not self-isolating unnecessarily.

Scotland is taking the same approach to the rest of the UK in considering asking elderly people to reduce social contact amid the coronavirus outbreak, the first minister said.

Sturgeon would not comment in detail about the stringent approach other countries have taken, but said: “I’m not privy to the advice and decision making in those countries. My responsibility is to follow the scientific advice we’ve been given, to interrogate and scrutinise that advice and to apply judgement to it.”

The first minister said that Scotland has already taken “quite significant steps” to tackle the outbreak and possibly prevent a second severe spike. “Asking everyone who has a fever or a cough to stay in their house for seven days is a significant step and behaviour change that we’re asking people to apply.”

She added: “That advice of course is about how we slow the spread and reduce the impact, but we do that in a way that perhaps avoids a later perhaps just as severe spike later on.”

The Scottish government’s ban on mass gathering does not currently apply to schools, travel, shopping and work. Dr Catherine Calderwood, Scotland’s chief medical officer, described blanket school closures that lasted a few weeks as ineffective.

[You need] a minimum of three months in order to really suppress the spread of the virus in these type of institutions. The thought that children won’t mix together for three months is impossible.

We therefore risk having children congregate to other areas together, the virus is spread amongst them, so you actually have measures put in which are ineffective in keeping virus from those groups of children.

To compare talking about closing the schools for two weeks, it’s very very clear from the science that is not a scientific way to either prevent the spread of the virus nor indeed to protect vulnerable people.

Updated at 12.46pm GMT