Current Affairs Coronavirus Thread - Serious stuff !!!

[Bruce Wayne]

https://www.theguardian.com/money/2...furlough-scheme-compares-with-other-countries might be useful.

 

[Disgruntledgoat]

The German scheme is very different IIRC

It's more about allowing shortened hours/short weeks etc. Employers can cut hours and the government pay a proportion of the hours that haven't been worked?

Please correct me if I'm wrong though!

Correct. Your employer will contribute 40% of your wages for hours not worked and can write that off against taxes, the other 40% is covered by the state and a proportion will get repaid by the claimant in taxes in the years to come.

At least thats how it worked for in Belgium.

 

[YoboCopter]

Interesting ( I think) video from Sky

Cliffs?

 

[COYBL25]

Reports like that are going to get people killed.

What, so anyone who dares to report a different view point to yours is now a MURDERER too ?

 

[YoboCopter]

To all the active people in here if you had to guess

are pubs/gyms going to shut again soon/this winter?

is there going to be a “lockdown”

will they extend Furlough?

 

[orly]

To all the active people in here if you had to guess

are pubs/gyms going to shut again soon/this winter?

is there going to be a “lockdown”

will they extend Furlough?

I think in October

 

[COYBL25]

To all the active people in here if you had to guess

are pubs/gyms going to shut again soon/this winter?

is there going to be a “lockdown”

will they extend Furlough?

Only my opinion, but I can`t see them going nuclear straight away - as we`re seeing with the rule of six.

I`m hoping that "if" things do come to that, they`ll do it stages.

Shorter opening hours for pubs and gyms etc.

I can`t see them extending furlough due to it`s cost tbh.

 

[Goat]

To all the active people in here if you had to guess

are pubs/gyms going to shut again soon/this winter?

is there going to be a “lockdown”

will they extend Furlough?

Its impossible to predict at this point.

If the death rate stays "low" then I doubt much changes apart from local lockdowns, if it starts to increase then I dunno.

I doubt Boris the Butcher has the balls to lockdown again.

Winter is coming, we have no tests, hospital admissions are increasing, people on ventilators are increasing, Winter is coming.

 

[Charro]

Aren’t countries like Germany getting help from the EU in regards to furlough?

 

[YoboCopter]

Only my opinion, but I can`t see them going nuclear straight away - as we`re seeing with the rule of six.

I`m hoping that "if" things do come to that, they`ll do it stages.

Shorter opening hours for pubs and gyms etc.

I can`t see them extending furlough due to it`s cost tbh.

Yer thats it and if they dont extend furlugh can they fully close pubs and gyms? Not sure
Also if they close everyhing, house gatherings will be everywhere all the time ( the thing they dont want most)

 

[COYBL25]

Yer thats it and if they dont extend furlugh can they fully close pubs and gyms? Not sure
Also if they close everyhing, house gatherings will be everywhere all the time ( the thing they dont want most)

The problem as I see it, is that everything gets shut down, the infection rate drops. Everything opens up again, the infection rate goes up. Everything shuts down again, the infection rate goes down again - rinse and keep repeating.

It`s not sustainable.

 

[Deleted member 48881]

tf?

 

[Goat]

tf?

Seems fair.

 

[YoboCopter]

The problem as I see it, is that everything gets shut down, the infection rate drops. Everything opens up again, the infection rate goes up. Everything shuts down again, the infection rate goes down again - rinse and keep repeating.

It`s not sustainable.

Yer good point, its about learning to live with it isnt it rather than the davek approch of lockdown for what could be 2-3 years?

 

[Goat]

The problem as I see it, is that everything gets shut down, the infection rate drops. Everything opens up again, the infection rate goes up. Everything shuts down again, the infection rate goes down again - rinse and keep repeating.

It`s not sustainable.

I suppose it depends on how stretched the NHS gets.

I know I'm considered a bit negative, but honestly watching these tory rats does not fill me with any confidence at all.

But lockdown after lockdown is totally unsustainable for every single reason you can think of.