Current Affairs Coronavirus Thread - Serious stuff !!!

[Diogenes the Cynic]

its the same with trains, especially rush hour. It’s why many companies are starting to implement agile/remote working to try and keep as many people away from large groups as possible

The tube at peak times especially must be viral suicide surely?

In the morning from Broadway to Kennington i am literally up jammed in place with four or five people around me.

Its impossible to do that journey without touching people. In fact it forms the backbone of my sex life. But anyway I've been coughed, sneezed and breathed on daily. And there are millions of us little kamakazi worker bees doing this morning and evening.
Turn off the tube?

 

[Bruce Wayne]

So collateral damage for the greater good of younger healthy hurd, that's nice!

*sigh no, that's not what it means at all. Please try not spreading misinformation online, it's not helpful.

 

[Bruce Wayne]

I don't go out Bruce much at the best of times due to my tiredness etc..... so it will be the norm for me....

Good mate. Hopefully we can maintain a degree of entertainment on here. @Paris has basically lived on here for the past week or so

 

[Joey66]

Woke up this morning feeling even worse than I did yesterday. Called NHS Direct again, they said that if they continue to *worsen* until Tuesday then call them with a reference number.

One guy had it and he was an asthmatic he telephoned LBC to tell everyone caught it at a football game 111 are not doing test just self isolate and if it gets unbearable then use your ref number - he recovered and is now in two weeks isolation....

 

[Sentinel]

Referring to people as the "herd" That's shocking. Advocating a percentage have to die. Immoral and repugnant.

 

[Bluerover]

When do you think mate? They may announce it tomorrow as people and businesses will already be prepared not to be open on Tuesday it may be the easiest transition.

Taoiseach may use special powers to force pubs and clubs to close. Galway Vintners have already asked their members to shut for next 2 weeks.

I agree that it is daft opening workplaces tomorrow for one day, allowing further spread amongst employees, then closing Tuesday for a very downbeat National Holiday- by that stage I think shutdown will be inevitable.

Therefore if it was up to me I would announce it today, with exception of vital services and shops.

 

[ForeverBlue92]

Best get having as much sex as possible before clubs and tinder are on lockdown for a few months lads.

 

[Paris]

Good mate. Hopefully we can maintain a degree of entertainment on here. @Paris has basically lived on here for the past week or so lol

Indeed.

I'd have gone stir crazy had it not been for this place.

 

[Old Blue 2]

It's all gone mate. Some blooming virus destroyed the stock market.

Good answer Bruce!

On a more serious note regarding finances, I explained to my wife this morning the impact of an extension to the 3 April deadline for football. The potential loss of TV revenue for the top flight teams, the potential legal wrangle if the season is never completed, the potential financial mess lower league clubs could find themselves in through no income through the turnstiles, the potential overlap of a season being finally completed into the opening of the next transfer window and the potential storm that could induce regarding promtion/relegation teams wading into the transfer market. Not given that any thought. Potentially, utter chaos. And that translates to other sports as we know. Wimbledon - if it doesn't take place, massive work on refunds on ticket sales. We are only at the start of what could prove to be a cataclysmic time for sport worldwide, aside from the health considerations which we haven't a clue as to how things will be in one, two, three, six months time.

 

[Joey66]

Referring to your own country people as the "herd" That's shocking. Advocating a percentage have to die. Immoral and repugnant.

Influenza kills every year, by large numbers - panic should not set in anyone know where you can buy a Bog roll

 

[chrissyjack]

Went to get a tin of beans on Thursday from the Asda . Not one single tin on the shelves . If this is happening all over the land , people just eating baked beans , it might explain the rush on loo rolls

 

[Diogenes the Cynic]

This has been my best day on GOT for years, i couldn't be happier how this is going.

I'm really going to miss this after Judgement Day.

 

[orchard]

Wales up 50pc, so dropping community testing.

 

[zzr45]

Referring to people as the "herd" That's shocking. Advocating a percentage have to die. Immoral and repugnant.

Shooting unarmed black people is pretty repugnant but your ilk do it with gay abandon

 

[Diogenes the Cynic]

Shooting unarmed black people is pretty repugnant but your ilk do it with gay abandon

Wait .. Who's shooting these blacks and abandoning these gays?