Current Affairs Coronavirus Thread - Serious stuff !!!

[BlueToff]

Try and list the types of jobs you can do working from home. And then list the types of jobs where that is impossible.

Office jobs can be done from home
I'm a freelance reporter/writer - that can be done from home (especially given there is no live sport / events to go to cover atm)
Anything which involves the majority of work being done on a computer - from home
Job centres are all closed (I know as I've had to apply for Universal Credit) they must all have been working from home
Admin jobs etc - from home

You can't be an office receptionist and work from home
Atm, because of social distancing measures, you can't be a hairdresser and work from home but of course you could do once more restrictions are lifted
Working on-site obviously can't be done from home (but any office work can be)
Supermarket in-store working
Nurses/Doctors etc - the obvious stuff
Clerks keeping banks open
Postal workers etc

That's off the top of my head. But none of those roles scream either middle class or working class.

If someone thinks working in an office means middle class then I'm genuinely baffled.

 

[davek]

I didn't say I didn't acknowledge it. Just questioning the merits of a fine and presumably change in the law to give the police & courts the powers to enforce it.

I suppose we could always skip law and order and just send in the 15th King's Hussars.

So you agreed with me on the face covering, but you thought it'd be worth omitting that?

Ok.

 

[Bruce Wayne]

I didn't say I didn't acknowledge it. Just questioning the merits of a fine and presumably change in the law to give the police & courts the powers to enforce it.

I suppose we could always skip law and order and just send in the 15th King's Hussars.

The first step would be to round up the 'elite' at Katyn Sherwood forest...

 

[LinekersLegs]

Currently the government are swab testing;

• over 65
• cannot do their work from home
• living with those identified above

That's pretty much the general population. They've made this decision because for some reason the government decided 100,000 was vital to show how committed they were to testing, so vital they've actually lied to claim 100,000 tests on the deadline date they gave.

I think it's a bum steer to tick a testing box - it seems to be it's common sense that mass prolonged swab tests shouldn't be for the general public. They should be to get NHS workers back to work (not as vital at the moment), vulnerable people who have symptoms so they're aware, or in the absence of blood test availbaility, targeted regionally on sample groups to inform modellers.

The sooner the government can find a blood test for the general population, and create an infrastructure to gather data from those tests the better.



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We can at least agree on the antibodies test bit.

 

[Bruce Wayne]

I'll happily wear one if they start making em Dave mate

Just get a buff and it can help to mask your mullet at the same time

 

[davek]

I'll happily wear one if they start making em Dave mate

The club could make them and donate the proceeds to EitC.

 

[Jebus_lives]

Pfft, your experience is nothing compared to some bloke on the internet.

To be honest, as you know, I'm not frontline in the NHS, but I have to create systems that enable frontline staff to do what they need to do and map out services for the public...like most NHS staff, I have worked 7 day weeks and countless hours to get some semblance of control throughout this pandemic, so to be told in a patronising manner 'lend a hand' by someone who has swung from advocating not being fooled by a fear mongering Government one minute, to advocating cavalry charges and martial law the next, is a bit insulting.

 

[davek]

A tenner. Job done.

 

[Jebus_lives]

So you agreed with me on the face covering, but you thought it'd be worth omitting that?

Ok.

Sorry I was too busy lending a hand

 

[zzr45]

What happened to the 50,000 you quoted me an hour or two ago, have another 5,000 just been murdered while Boris is in Parliament giving a statement and answering questions.....

It was at 60,000 this morning according to him. Few must have sprung back up.

 

[Bruce Wayne]

To be honest, as you know, I'm not frontline in the NHS, but I have to create systems that enable frontline staff to do what they need to do and map out services for the public...like most NHS staff, I have worked 7 day weeks and countless hours to get some semblance of control throughout this pandemic, so to be told in a patronising manner 'lend a hand' by someone who has swung from advocating not being fooled by a fear mongering Government one minute, to advocating cavalry charges and martial law the next, is a bit insulting.

Personally, I think your background provides a perspective you don't often see in the media. We hear a lot from the 'frontline', but precious little from those who support those on the frontline. In terms of PPE, for example, there hasn't really been much insight given into why shortages have existed, which is a shame as that would have been genuinely interesting.

 

[Bruce Wayne]

It was at 60,000 this morning according to him. Few must have sprung back up.

Stay down comrade ffs!

 

[Jebus_lives]

Personally, I think your background provides a perspective you don't often see in the media. We hear a lot from the 'frontline', but precious little from those who support those on the frontline. In terms of PPE, for example, there hasn't really been much insight given into why shortages have existed, which is a shame as that would have been genuinely interesting.

Nobody cares, there's little merit in discussing the detail of something when you shout loudly about things as if everything is black and white.

 

[ForeverBlue92]

Just get a buff and it can help to mask your mullet at the same time

Already accepted my fate that its man bun time until July mate

 

[roydo]

Already accepted my fate that its man bun time until July mate

Being a photographer, you will carry it off just fine.