Current Affairs Coronavirus Thread - Serious stuff !!!

[Piijt]

Mate of mine works in a small office in London, 21 staff.
All staff have been tested, 12 of them have it, one of them is in ICU. Scary

 

[Bruce Wayne]

That's just spooky

Isn't it just?

 

[Spadge Vernacular]

They might have gone for this tune as the backing instead.

 

[Deleted member 48881]

NBA are eyeing mid-late June return in best case scenario. UEFA to follow?

This means we will scratch local leagues and only play Euros. Fine by me. RS in meltdown.

 

[Brisan123]

I think a lot of people don't realise yet that we are dealing with 2 emergencies here. One is a health emergency, but the second is an economic and logistical emergency on a scale probably not seen since the last world war.

The government need to manage both of these at the same time and it will invariably involve balancing one with the other. It's a terrible conundrum as peoples lives are at stake, but when the health situation does improve people will need jobs to return to, and the likelihood is many of those jobs won't be there.

Every decision that is made will have consequences. For instance, closing schools causes a problem with child minding, with people staying off work or children going to stay with vulnerable grandparents who should really be isolating. Cancelling sporting events, like the Grand National and football matches, bring their own problems. The company that own Aintree racecourse, for example, used to bring in 95% of it's annual income from the 3 day Grand National event, I doubt they could survive the cancellation. Friends of mine own a hat shop in Liverpool and 50% of their sales are in the run up to Aintree. Many football clubs outside of the premier league cannot survive without the gate receipts and match day income.

When the big shut down comes, which it inevitably will at some stage as the government has already stated, then our already vulnerable High Street is going to find it hard, with many small business's, in the hospitality sector especially, failing. The travel industry will also be hit hard. The longer the shAutdown, the more business's will go under.
o, that won't help the poor guys who are coming upto retirement now.

As I understand it, the people advising the government on this are trying to take into account all these factors plus the impact on the emergency serviaes. They are trying to time events to ensure that the shutdown, when it inevitably comes, will have the minimal effect on our long term economy whil our medical services to cope with the numbers that require hospitalisation. The fact that more people may possibly die as a result of their decisions makes their jobs that much harder.

It's all well and good criticising government for making the wrong decisions or listening to the "wrong expert advice", but nobody at this stage really knows what's good advice and what isn't. Hindsight will give us a better indication, but even then it's inevitable that all governments around the world made mistakes in the handling of this virus, and all evidence would therefore be open to interpretation. For all governments, and ours is no different, it'll be a case of damned if you do and damned if you don't.

Personally I'm just glad it isn't me having to make those decisions.

Agree with you post
The bit in bold however, any good pension advisor will tell you to have most of your assets in cash 5 years before you retire
I am retiring this year and all my assets are in a cash fund
No return but safe

 

[Brisan123]

Lad I would proper burst you given the opportunity

Morrisons car park is full of panic buyers so an alternative venue will have to be found
stadium jackets optional

 

[neil999]

half expected you riding past, head to toe in fluorescent lycra...

 

[PITA]

Just been put in 2 weeks quarantine as a precaution. Coughing gets worse, but still not really feeling sick or anything.

Best wishes.

 

[Jebus_lives]

Everyone's at the big roll isle.

Aisle ffs

 

[Brisan123]

It was my fault mate. The water down here is fine. No one is not on the mains, yet folk are buying tons of bottled water. More an observation than anything. Maybe they are flying to Spain for Easter and will take it with them, but if so, they are thicker than I thought.

Never ever underestimate the stupidity of humanity
You will be severely disappointed every time if you do

 

[PITA]

Ah right. Thought you meant they stopped doing them.

I hope the extra demand is from those with a genuine need rather than somebody panicking and using a service at the expense of somebody who needs it more

You have more faith in your fellow man than I do.

 

[marnie]

NBA are eyeing mid-late June return in best case scenario. UEFA to follow?

This means we will scratch local leagues and only play Euros. Fine by me. RS in meltdown.

How are you today mate ?

 

[Deleted member 48881]

How are you today mate ?

thank you mate, nothing much physically but reading all the news around world made me depressed and paranoid a bit, nothing to worry, thanks for asking hope you are fine too.

 

[PITA]

When being extravagant and using 2 sheets, turn one 90degrees to the other as toilet paper rips very easily one way but not the other.
Rotating one sheet gives you a stronger 'laminated' effect thus cutting down brown finger syndrome.

We are truly blessed on GOT. We have experts all over the shop; politics, football management, music, coronavirus, etc. Never thought that we'd have an expert on brown-finger avoidance but I see that we do.

 

[Billy Dean]

Kinell Bavaria has declared a state of emergency. Another region calling for closing of all airports