Current Affairs Coronavirus Thread - Serious stuff !!!

[Bruce Wayne]

Spoke to the mother-in-law in Czech yesterday about their lockdown (or easing thereof). A couple of crackers were revealed. Pubs and restaurants are opening, but they still expect people to wear masks, and keep 2 metres away from each other. They also demand that facilities keep their toilets shut to the public. So you're expecting people to drink beer through their mask, whilst not socialising with the friends they went to the pub with, and certainly not for that beer to need a release at any time during your stay. I can't see people disobeying that whatsoever.

In book shops, which I believe are among the first things to open, if you touch a book but don't buy it, that book has to go into quarantine for 4 days so any virus you transmitted to the book can die off. She wasn't quite clear why gloves aren't mandated for book shops in the way they are for grocery shops, but yeah, books in quarantine

She also said the images of the farmer's market in Prague are commonplace around the country, as people went a bit nuts after their 'release'.

 

[Brennan]

I am concerned this “everybody wear masks” practice is going to be seen as a solution for allowing normality to resume too quickly.

 

[Bruce Wayne]

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[Bruce Wayne]

I am concerned this “everybody wear masks” practice is going to be seen as a solution for allowing normality to resume too quickly.

That seems to be the mood music.

 

[Disgruntledgoat]

The city have given the nod to café bosses here that they'll be allowed to reopen 1st of June but there'll be a maximum number of people inside and they may insist everybody is 1.5m apart.

Saw the owner of my local yesterday and he said if that was the case, he wouldn't bother until he could open properly.

 

[whiteshadow]

The city have given the nod to café bosses here that they'll be allowed to reopen 1st of June but there'll be a maximum number of people inside and they may insist everybody is 1.5m apart.

Saw the owner of my local yesterday and he said if that was the case, he wouldn't bother until he could open properly.

He might have a long wait.

 

[Brisan123]

I think this has been a trend anyways but this will just dramatically accelerate things. Can see several organisations using the same office space on different days of the week. I also imagine that housing in rural areas will become more sought after with people needing to commute less.
You would think that disused office space could be altered to be used for housing.
My work has said for years it’s impossible to work from home, then this happens and we’re all suddenly able to do so.

That was the impression a lot of companies had
No trust in their employees
The old us and them syndrome

 

[Brisan123]

Yeah this could be a huge problem. Could possibly see urban areas become undesirable places to live. Going to be the biggest social changes seen in the last 30 years.

The new normal

 

[Disgruntledgoat]

That was the impression a lot of companies had
No trust in their employees
The old us and them syndrome

There will always be a tendency for managers to equate being places as equal to doing stuff. It's a measure of control and, as you say, trust. Also, those idiots who think that being in the office for 12 hours a day is the same as being good at your job would be shafted if we all worked from home, wouldn't they?

I was working for a large Japanese company a few years ago and their policy on homeworking was that it was allowed, but only if you could show it was more beneficial to the company than you being in the office. So actually not allowed. The thing I never grasped was that in terms of overhead, having everybody at home full time would be loads cheaper.

If there's a positive from this current madness it will hopefully be that a lot of people realise their jobs are completely pointless and go do something they want to instead and that employers realise homeworking is a viable option to complete 90% of everyday tasks.

 

[Brisan123]

I can't remember a time when I've been busier tbh.

Cooking ,vacuuming ,polishing furniture and going for long bike rides does not count

 

[zzr45]

Love this whole ‘furloughed workers should go and help bring in the harvest’ argument. Looked this morning and the closest farms looking to take on staff are 45 minutes away and paying minimum wage. Which would be treated as a second income. Think I’ll pass.

 

[jamieni]

There will always be a tendency for managers to equate being places as equal to doing stuff. It's a measure of control and, as you say, trust. Also, those idiots who think that being in the office for 12 hours a day is the same as being good at your job would be shafted if we all worked from home, wouldn't they?

I was working for a large Japanese company a few years ago and their policy on homeworking was that it was allowed, but only if you could show it was more beneficial to the company than you being in the office. So actually not allowed. The thing I never grasped was that in terms of overhead, having everybody at home full time would be loads cheaper.

If there's a positive from this current madness it will hopefully be that a lot of people realise their jobs are completely pointless and go do something they want to instead and that employers realise homeworking is a viable option to complete 90% of everyday tasks.

In our organisation quite a number of the senior management team have been pushing for more agile working practices for quite a while but IT infrastructure and the general culture made it seemingly unworkable. The word for now coming out from the top is there’s no going back to the old way of working. I don’t think the offices will be closed completely but capacity will be cut back to allow SD and those who can work from home regularly will be encouraged to do so.

 

[Brisan123]

Personally mate for the last two weeks ive held the belief there are 2 Pandemics.

One In for the general population and one in residential care homes amongst our older people. I think its really important to separate those two populations, impact and the unique measures required.

There is an absolute war going on in residential care/nursing homes and almost every country has neglected it, to our shame, far worse then what is going on in the general population and i think it will be our generations shame.

Exactly
It will hopefully force us to reexamine the way we run care homes
This has been an issue all across Europe
In Spain in one nursing home the staff could not cope and just packed up and left en masse
Britain ignoring the deaths in nursing homes is a shameful action

 

[Tipp blue]

That was the impression a lot of companies had
No trust in their employees
The old us and them syndrome

Yea, my brother in law is working from home his hours are 9-5:30, he says the boss rings him 4 or 5 times a day with a random request, to make sure he's at his computer, at 3 minutes past 9 or 25 past 5 in the evening and then a few times during the day.

 

[Brisan123]

She`ll look like a Gruffalo by then, never mind her toes lol

I have seen worse when the lights go on at 2.30 am in many a nightclub lol