Current Affairs Coronavirus Thread - Serious stuff !!!

[Eggs]

imagine counting them, must take ages

...just looked up, can’t see any.

 

[Billy Dean]

I gave up watching men's tennis when Nastase packed it in, and women's when Chris Evert was bullied out by the muscular ones.

Then you missed Martina Hingis in the 90s mate. She was boss and not muscular at all.

 

[longers]

 

[Buckers]

I hope that didn’t have a rude ending I got a bit bored and just shared it with my Dad.

 

[thirdmantackle]

I've volunteered over here in Ireland

Not sure what I'll be doing yet. Could be driving groceries out to elderly people who are isolating, could be delivering prescriptions, could just be making or taking phone calls from worried people

I'm lucky enough to be off work and still being paid, so hopefully I can help in some way to the community and national effort

 

[Paris]

Worth pointing out that on the Global Health Security Index, the UK is 2nd in the world. Top scoring in the rapid response to and mitigation of the spread of an epidemic category.

Where the UK leads, others would be wise to follow.

 

[Tubey]

WHO: "Our key message is test, test, test."


The UK: "OK mate x"

 

[LinekersLegs]

WHO: "Our key message is test, test, test."


The UK: "OK mate x"

US - “there are tests for this?”

 

[PITA]

In fairness I did say "hope"

I know. I don’t have any hope.

 

[Tipp blue]

At my office, I would say that close to half of the staff are at home minding children because of schools being closed - we are being flexible here due to the nature of this crisis and there is no requirement to take a/leave.

We are also setting up everyone for the possibility of remote access to the organisation's systems, but there is a limited number of licences, and we will monitor these closely.

I still think a decison will be taken soon to close the building completely.

140,000 people are now out of work as a result of their employment shutting - if we close, our staff will continue to be paid as it is a State office.

State won't be able to maintain payments for state employees for too long if the country shuts down, might be OK for a few pay days but I'd imagine we'll have to take the hit that everyone else will.

 

[Tubey]

US - “there are tests for this?”

It'd be nice if the media at least held Trump and Johnson to account for the lack of community testing.

 

[PITA]

This is madness.

I hope that they’re flying at different levels.

 

[Paris]

WHO: "Our key message is test, test, test."


The UK: "OK mate x"

As we saw with their stupidity (and I will call it stupidity because that's what it was) in China, the WHO don't know their backside from their elbow.

 

[Tubey]

As we saw with their stupidity (and I will call it stupidity because that's what it was) in China, the WHO don't know their backside from their elbow.

We're not even testing frontline staff mate.

I don't think the UK can accuse the WHO of being stupid. Stones, glass houses etc.

 

[Tipp blue]

I've volunteered over here in Ireland

Not sure what I'll be doing yet. Could be driving groceries out to elderly people who are isolating, could be delivering prescriptions, could just be making or taking phone calls from worried people

I'm lucky enough to be off work and still being paid, so hopefully I can help in some way to the community and national effort

How do you go about volunteering in Ireland? I'd be quite happy to do something, in a week or 2.