Current Affairs Coronavirus Thread - Serious stuff !!!

[peteblue]

Sports reporting - lost that in March, managed to get it back. Jan/Feb is a quieter time - I'm freelance - and if the Prem goes, it's a big chunk of work gone.

Other job is doing marketing work and tenders work for a contractor. Unfortunately I have to go to site/office for that. If there's another lockdown where we can't do anything but work from home, or their work goes - which is a possibility - then I lose that job too.

And I'll get no support, again, like last time.

I know there's millions like me, I'm not meaning it to be a sob story. People in this thread have it worse I'm sure - I don't have to feed my family. But it's either in the media on Twitter (which I have to be on for work, deleted it in the first lockdown) that I just see the calls for strictest lockdown all the bloody time. And there just has to be another way. We're nearly there now, with the vaccines. I just don't see what people calling for themselves and others to be locked inside in the dead of winter for two months actually achieves.

Also worried about my dad, who relies on retail businesses and shops to be able to open for his work. He managed to get creative in the first lockdown, but another one and what he offers is probably gonna be seen as an unnecessary cost by some outlets - he lost one client already because of lockdown 1.

Anyway, I'll ease off as @Nymzee suggests and hopefully Everton brighten things up tomorrow.

All the best mate, this won’t go on forever....

 

[roydo]

Thanks mate.

No worries, I'm sure I'll manage. I've tried not to worry, just the last few days have got to me. I see people demand this stuff and, even though I'm sure it comes from a good place, I feel sometimes perspective is missing.

Maybe another lockdown will be for the best. I'm just worried about what people will have left - and yes, worried about what I'll have left.

Paying a fair whack in tax yesterday hasn't helped the case, like, but at least it's done lol

Struth, tax return time isnt it.

Folk can only really view this through their own lives; not unreasonably. Me and Mrs R are in a far better place, covid wise, than many will be. My default position atm is that every day, more and more will get a jab. Keeps me sane, ish.

 

[sbbefc]

What will happen to your job if we go into lockdown?

Will you follow your own advise and stay locked inside?

How about you do it anyway? Get ahead of the curve and stay indoors for three months?

Who's saying you have to stay indoors. You can go out for exercise. I've been lucky enough to be able to work from home the past 9 months. So yeah I am pretty much following my own advice. I know many others who aren't so lucky but the furlough scheme is there. You can go out and run, walk and cycle as much as you like. Support bubbles are there for those who need them.We literally just have to hold on a few months for the vaccine to be rolled out. I'm all for opening things up, but the NHS will be overnrun in weeks looking at the current projections.

 

[bebo86]

To everyone feeling down in here, think about it we've made it through nine brutal months, we now know vaccines are on the way. Alright times are really tough now but even if it is one year things will get better. This time next year we could be having the best Christmas party of all time. Stay safe everyone, this will end. Be grateful for all the good things you have in life and know that someday on the not too distant future all the stuff we miss doing will be back. Happy new year blues

 

[BlueToff]

Who's saying you have to stay indoors. You can go out for exercise. I've been lucky enough to be able to work from home the past 9 months. So yeah I am pretty much following my own advice. I know many others who aren't so lucky but the furlough scheme is there. You can go out and run, walk and cycle as much as you like. Support bubbles are there for those who need them.We literally just have to hold on a few months for the vaccine to be rolled out. I'm all for opening things up, but the NHS will be overnrun in weeks looking at the current projections.

I'm 100% with you in that. Sorry for misunderstanding your post.

The furlough scheme and SEISS isn't there for a lot of people, but that's on the government.

 

[roydo]

I'm 100% with you in that. Sorry for misunderstanding your post.

The furlough scheme and SEISS isn't there for a lot of people, but that's on the government.

I am assuming you are early into your s/e life, so have maybe paid your first tax bill the other day?

That sucks, but with the absence of data to go on, I cant really see how HMRC could work out your SEISS support. Maybe now you have a track record, of sorts, they may cobble sommet together.

 

[ForeverBlue92]

To everyone feeling down in here, think about it we've made it through nine brutal months, we now know vaccines are on the way. Alright times are really tough now but even if it is one year things will get better. This time next year we could be having the best Christmas party of all time. Stay safe everyone, this will end. Be grateful for all the good things you have in life and know that someday on the not too distant future all the stuff we miss doing will be back. Happy new year blues

Spot on lad - the only thing keeping me sane is looking forward to harassing 40 year old women in Popworld when all this is over - sticky floors and all

 

[Deleted member 48881]

I stand corrected if its fake, but wow if its true

 

[Diogenes the Cynic]

Spot on lad - the only thing keeping me sane is looking forward to harassing 40 year old women in Popworld when all this is over - sticky floors and all

Message me mate I've got something for ya.

 

[BlueToff]

I am assuming you are early into your s/e life, so have maybe paid your first tax bill the other day?

That sucks, but with the absence of data to go on, I cant really see how HMRC could work out your SEISS support. Maybe now you have a track record, of sorts, they may cobble sommet together.

No mate, I have been s/e for four years - have done tax returns every year since 16/17 tax return.

My issue is that during 2016-19 (the years they counted) I had two jobs. Full-time marketing, and then freelancing with my reporting. So I was paying PAYE on the FT job and self-assessment on the freelancing. I don't qualify for SEISS because in those 16-19 years, less than 50% of my earnings came from self-employment.

I left the full-time job in Feb 2019, went to NZ for a few months, then came back and did the freelancing on a full-time basis, for two companies, but both are invoiced. Lost the work in March from one company all together. Luckily my other work came back and it is reliable when sport's on. Just given Jan/Feb are quiet times in the calendar and with less full-timer holidays etc, then worried if the Prem/other leagues have to take another break then it'll hit me at what is already a bad time.

The only thing that stings about my tax return this week is that it's the first one I've done which has been on earnings based on full-time work, rather than a part-time job. Obviously it was for 19-20. My savings I had for it earlier in the year had to go on keeping me going earlier this year. So ironically, the one for 20-21, I'm not even sure if I'll have made enough 'profit' to have to pay any self-assessment on! But everybody has to pay tax!

 

[4737carlin]

I stand corrected if its fake, but wow if its true

What a bell end she is, of course its empty, you can't have hospital corridors rammed with people walking around in a pandemic, scum like her deserve all they get

 

[Nymzee]

I stand corrected if its fake, but wow if its true

You're a weirdo you

 

[tsubaki]

I stand corrected if its fake, but wow if its true

clue: its not true

 

[Goat]

I stand corrected if its fake, but wow if its true

Good, hopefully Karen is first in line for hanging.

 

[grandjoeblue]

Any NYE parties?

How do they even attempt to police NYE?