Current Affairs Coronavirus Thread - Serious stuff !!!

[magicjuan]

Good. I’ll start coughing on old people, just in case you’re right.

Book yourself on an Anfield tour

 

[scratchnsurf]

There are obvious ones, frontline medical staff, police etc, butbthe those who drive delivery trucks, or make the ventilators or make the parts to make the ventilators or feed the ventilator makers or provide the food to feed the ventilator makers or pack the food to....

It's almost like they hadn't thought it through. Still, who could have predicted the schools would have to close?

 

[Bruce Wayne]

Not really, you're confusing infratructures. Tech makes that profit because it is relatively young, the railways have been subsidised more by tax payers than almost any industry I can think of as it's a necessity for people to work, but its privatisation has failed miserably, without question, with scant improvement save for dividends.

FTSE 100 hoards £166bn in cash | The Association of Corporate Treasurers

www.treasurers.org

 

[Seanjd]

All relevant sectors have been told to compile their lists of who will need the service and this has been pushed down onto the local authority (LA) to organise.

I personally know that the former was one done yesterday (from my own experience) and I've been informed that the latter was being organised today.

In layman's term, they're putting the numbers together to know how many children and where. Schools in Liverpool have already been selected and informed.

With regards to sources, it's different people at different in the chain although all giving the same information. In hindsight, this should have been started earlier!

Our neighbouring LA has a different list to us and have said they will only open for children who have both parents working as essential workers. We have been told it’s one.

 

[Bruce Wayne]

Looking highly likely that my job will be gone in the next few weeks due to lack of business as a result of this outbreak. I have no idea where I stand with regards to help with rent payments, utility bills, council tax etc.. I’ve seen other countries are going out of their way to provide their citizens with a temporary immunity to various bills during this period. I have seen things like ‘no evictions for renters’ or ‘universal wage’ (which appears to have been talked down now) but it’s not enough information. Doesn’t appear like the system we have paid heavily into our whole lives is doing an awful lot to provide assurances and assistance for us when we could really do with it.

Have a look in the COVID sources page in this forum and there are links to both the government page and citizens advice. They can hopefully help.

 

[summerisle]

That's the way to do it.

 

[Brisan123]

Had to google that. FFS I'm getting old.

Dont feel bad so did I,and still none the wiser

 

[Number_25]

how long have you had it now?

day 8 isn't it?

i didn't realise how short of breath i was until i tried to go into the garden to fill the bird feeder

bloody crikey

 

[NorthernBlue]

This school policy is great isn’t it. So we are in a position where I will probs lose my job, or at best put myself right in the firing line, because I’ll be the one to look after the kids. My boss is not sympathetic to things like this at all. So the discussion with the wife is her quitting her good job in the NHS and working bank hours on a weekend at a lesser band.

 

[tsubaki]

day 8 isn't it?

i didn't realise how short of breath i was until i tried to go into the garden to fill the bird feeder

bloody crikey

sorry if you know this already, but I think 111 need to be contacted if you've had it for 8 days now without it going

 

[Toast]

 

[PhilM]

day 8 isn't it?

i didn't realise how short of breath i was until i tried to go into the garden to fill the bird feeder

bloody crikey

Mate, seriously you need to ring 111 and get yourself into hospital if the symptoms are still that severe.

 

[Seanjd]

This school policy is great isn’t it. So we are in a position where I will probs lose my job, or at best put myself right in the firing line, because I’ll be the one to look after the kids. My boss is not sympathetic to things like this at all. So the discussion with the wife is her quitting her good job in the NHS and working bank hours on a weekend at a lesser band.

Sorry to hear that mate.
If your partner is an NHS worker there will be childcare available through school.

 

[Sentinel]

Senate Intel chair unloaded stocks in mid-February before coronavirus rocked markets

Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Richard Burr unloaded stocks in major companies, including hotel chains, in February before the coronavirus pandemic.

www.opensecrets.org

 

[ForeverBlue92]

Feel like pure [Poor language removed] and I just want a functioning respiratory system back.

You tested positive lad?