Current Affairs Coronavirus Thread - Serious stuff !!!

[Tea_drinker]

They aren't sensible measures, or at least wouldn't be here. All you'd end up doing is making it even more difficult for the NHS to get hold of masks.

That's what I was thinking. The fact is that masks are being sold widely there in pharmacies and shops so no requirement for them to be preserved for health workers. It's just here then that is under supplied with the basic requirements to protect doctors and nurses after 10 years of tory cuts. What a surprise.

 

[summerisle]

The hospitality industry contributes 4% of GDP and employs 2.9 million (2015) people, and is the UK's fourth largest industry. Things are looking bleak in the coming months.

Don't let coronavirus destroy the UK restaurant industry | Yotam Ottolenghi

We can’t continue to pay rent when we are banned from opening. Government intervention is vital for our survival, says chef Yotam Ottolenghi

www.theguardian.com

 

[PhilM]

Taking it with a pinch of salt because it’s the daily fail but if true - no way should people comply for that length of time. If things aren’t being eased by June then we slowly need to go back to our lives, permission or not. They can’t arrest all of us.

 

[Woolverhampton_Blue]

The hospitality industry contributes 4% of GDP and employs 2.9 million (2015) people, and is the UK's fourth largest industry. Things are looking bleak in the coming months.

Don't let coronavirus destroy the UK restaurant industry | Yotam Ottolenghi

We can’t continue to pay rent when we are banned from opening. Government intervention is vital for our survival, says chef Yotam Ottolenghi

www.theguardian.com

Sooner they’re allowed to open, the better. Hope they can hold on until whenever that is.

 

[tsubaki]

Taking it with a pinch of salt because it’s the daily fail but if true - no way should people comply for that length of time. If things aren’t being eased by June then we slowly need to go back to our lives, permission or not. They can’t arrest all of us.

It isn't the whole lockdown, its just bits of it like seven/fourteen days off for flu-like symptoms and so on.

For the Mail that seems eminently sensible, though of course they'll probably have an expose on workshy Brits taking a fortnights holiday by June or July.

 

[peteblue]

It’s roasting today In the Midlands. I’ve just been having a water pistol fight in the garden with my granddaughter and I am now absolutely soaked...mind you she looks like a drowned rat...no quarter given, no surrender taken......I’m too old for this....

 

[tsubaki]

It’s roasting today In the Midlands. I’ve just been having a water pistol fight in the garden with my granddaughter and I am now absolutely soaked...mind you she looks like a drowned rat...no quarter given, no surrender taken......I’m too old for this....

pete at your age you should know to bring a hose to a water pistol fight

 

[Groucho]

What do you do if I may be so bold?

Don't really want to say on an open forum but I'm quite senior frontline patient care.

 

[peteblue]

pete at your age you should know to bring a hose to a water pistol fight

I was playing fair, my daughter had bought two backpack pump action pistols, filled them up then ran inside...coward....

 

[summerisle]

lol

 

[degsy]

For anyone interested in a vacinne and related news

If this is kosher, its Nobel Prizes all round

 

[JLW]

Spain 272. Looks like they are getting it under control their numbers are decreasing day by day

 

[mahermi1]

It’s roasting today In the Midlands. I’ve just been having a water pistol fight in the garden with my granddaughter and I am now absolutely soaked...mind you she looks like a drowned rat...no quarter given, no surrender taken......I’m too old for this....

Probably get panned for this, but yesterday me and son went and put her 8 foot trampoline up. Took us over an hour just to do the base, loads of nuts, bolts, screws, whatever.
Then son said stop, just as I was tightening up the last few bolts..... It's up side down dad....
After a brief row and a fair bit of finger pointing, we shared the blame..98% to him.
Five sweat stroked hours it's up and she is bouncing on it and I'm totally forgot.lol
Took milk and eggs this morning, no answer, in the back she's still bouncing on it. Christ I feel old my arms are still killing me from tightening it up.

 

[Agent Blue]

That was written in December in the run up to the election Does it say in there somewhere that the NHS should be preparing for a global pandemic with the utmost urgency or something?

Not really, he discusses understaffing, death rates and how Conservative policy has crippled the NHS.
Lets see him harrrumph, bluster and joke his way out of this one, joviality aint gonna cut it this time. I'd like him, Hancock and to some degree unt(insert apprpriate letter of your choice) to apologise to the families of the dead for their mismanagement, corruption and malfeasance in their eagerness to sell off the NHS to equally corrupt American corporations.

Lets see how the American model of medical care copes with the pandemic and thank our lucky stars that it hasn't happened here............YET.

 

[peteblue]

Probably get panned for this, but yesterday me and son went and put her 8 foot trampoline up. Took us over an hour just to do the base, loads of nuts, bolts, screws, whatever.
Then son said stop, just as I was tightening up the last few bolts..... It's up side down dad....
After a brief row and a fair bit of finger pointing, we shared the blame..98% to him.
Five sweat stroked hours it's up and she is bouncing on it and I'm totally forgot.lol
Took milk and eggs this morning, no answer, in the back she's still bouncing on it. Christ I feel old my arms are still killing me from tightening it up.

We need a bit of light relief In this thread every now and again. There’s only so much ‘murdering PM’, ‘look at Germany‘, ‘we’re all gonna die’, we can take.....