davek
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Putting lives over commerce? Yes.
Current Affairs Coronavirus Thread - Serious stuff !!!
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Macron and Merkel in late night call with Putin to secure delivery of Sputnik vaccine in place of AZ.
Couldn’t make this up if you tried!
Couldn’t make this up if you tried!
peteblue
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Wait till they find out Russia stole the formula from AZ......
Ha...Thing is, it will take the EMA some 2 months to approve the sputnik vaccine for use in the EU.
Meanwhile their people are dying of this virus and they’re running around like a pair of headless chickens.
Also there are some 100 million Russians at the head of the queue for the sputnik vaccine. Germany and France will have to wait their turn!
wainy
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His way or no way. Hasn’t got a clue what he’s on about.
davek
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What's been happening since this began? Furlough. Coronavirus Business Interruption Loan Scheme. Another two months or so of that to get the vaccinations to the whole of the adult population would be money well spent.
davek
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They have some ground to make up on the UK in that respect.
And it's not enough.
It's not been enough to save thousands of businesses.
And even if it was done, you'd still be screaming lockdown due to the presence of variants etc.
davek
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Please elaborate.
There's tons and tons of small, independent businesses which will have gone under due to this.
Whether because of a lack of support (on the government) or the fact that, even with support, it is simply not feasible for them to be able to keep opening up or closing down with uncertainty so they'll have stopped. Or businesses that were just starting up when it all hit.
Then you've got the thousands of jobs that have still been cut, despite furlough, despite the measures, or the thousands of jobs lost because people didn't get support or simply because the work disappeared over night. Think of all the jobs and small businesses in the events industry - most of which is done on a freelance basis.
davek
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But you have no figures to su[port these c laims?
I wouldn;t be surprsied if there were hundreds of businesses folded. But thousands you said....and how many people have lost their job as opposed to being furloughed?
toffee82
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It's mad how the numbers hundreds and thousands are small today, yet 31 yesterday was massive.
Do you have the figures to back up your 'only 1% of people landing in the UK are quarantining' claims?
I'm in a group on Facebook - more for news than anything else - called Excluded UK. There are 3m people, as an estimate, who have been excluded from government support. Whether they're a freelancer, a plumber or run their own full office of staff, it's still an independent 'business' that has been hit very hard and yes, a lot of them have gone under.
I'd be pretty bloody surprised if, as a direct or indirect result of COVID, there isn't going to be 1000s of businesses gone one way or the other.
It's not the end of the world - people can bounce back, do different things, but still, you shouldn't just be so flippant.
Who are the millions of Britons not working, and why?
About a quarter of the working age population - those aged 16 to 64 - do not currently have a job.
www.bbc.co.uk
Predictions are that it could rise to 6% unemployment rate by the end of 2021 - or 2.2m people.
Who is becoming unemployed?
Workers in hospitality, retail and entertainment have been badly hit. These jobs have seen the biggest impact from Covid restrictions.They also employ large numbers of young people, who have borne the brunt of job losses.
Figures for the number of people on company payrolls show the impact clearly.
Since the crisis began, 693,000 payroll jobs have disappeared, including 368,000 in hotels, restaurants and pubs, and 123,000 in shops.
During the pandemic more nearly two-thirds of the fall in the number of employees has been among the under-25s.
According to the article, furlough has helped protect 11m jobs. But there's still been nearly 700,000 (and it will be more by the year's end) lost.
BlueStevie35
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Furlough isn’t the saviour it’s made out to be in all honesty, especially if you’ve had a change in hours on your contract because of how it’s based. Speaking from a personal level, in both the first lockdown and this one I’ve lost out on hundreds as my pay has been based on 2019 and early 2020 when I was working fewer hours
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