I keep waiting for this to happen, but, each day seems to be worse than the previous one.
I had to go to 3 separate supermarkets last night, just to get some beer.
Getting serious now like
Current Affairs Coronavirus Thread - Serious stuff !!!
- Thread starter bullybeef
- Start date
- Status
Getting serious now like
The binman chronicles
Player Valuation: £80m
My local co-op is enforcing a strict only 2 of the same item policy. Bugger all bread this morning so I think someone has been putting on a disguise and going back in again.
It should help ease the situation after a while though if others follow suit.
Barnfred 55
Player Valuation: £80m
My missus and I both have 2 part time jobs. One is as an examination invigilator with the local college. It's a permanent job but obviously we only get paid for the work we do. It's mainly GCSE which have all been cancelled for the year, s therefore no income from that source. The second job was with National Trust. Mine was zero hour contract although I was doing at least 2 days a week and expected to work every day in the peak summer weeks. But the NT have now closed all their properties for the foreseeable. The missus has a fixed hour contract so she'll continue to get paid.
Luckily we both have our work pensions, and whilst they don't cover all of our outgoings. at least we're not in the same situation as people like yourself. Hopefully the chancellor will come through for you in his announcement today. Fingers crossed.
I do think that many employers are reacting far too quickly in laying people off within days of seeing a turndown in their business. The prime minister has said that he will support them and urged business's not to lay people off. This crisis is developing at breakneck and the government need to be given time to put systems in place to get the funding through to business's. And business's need to play their part in not knee jerking as they have with you.
The government still need to come up with a plan to support the gig economy, freelance workers, rent payers, those who work low hours, and the level of SSP. On the latter I would say it should be at least equivalent to the minimum wage. Hopefully these will all be outlined today together with more information on how business's can lock into this £330bn that's been made available.
Well wasn't the point of it for enough people to get it so that it'd give a bit of time for there to be a vaccine in place?
I know it won't work. The only chance we'd have had of using it to then get us through to a vaccine would have been if we'd had upped all of our preparations from Jan onwards and even then it might not have been enough.
Ahem, I wouldn’t be pollute my lungs with North End air Joey.
roydo
in memoriam - 1965-2024
I keep waiting for this to happen, but, each day seems to be worse than the previous one.
I had to go to 3 separate supermarkets last night, just to get some beer.
Same here. I thought the panic buying would calm down after a few days, but nope.
Disgruntledgoat
Player Valuation: £50m
Sick pay wont work, so I'm putting in 2 weeks holiday and then I'll probably claim the emergency unemployment benefit. If the worst that happens to me from a pandemic is that i lose 4 days pay and some holiday from a job I plan to quit in june anyway then I reckon I'll have come out ahead.
Walton ???????
My wife went out mid am the shopkeepers told her not so much panic buying but lack of deliveries.... hence the empty shelves - one shop had nothing but the same chain one mile away had a lot more as they had been delivered to......
Yep I've just been on a run and it was exactly the same for me. Loads of people out walking or on bikes – it's a lovely day – but everyone just giving it a bit of room (not really different to round here anyway tbh, there's more than enough space for people).
If anything, maybe people having more time if they're working from home and the weather getting nicer will mean people actually go out on more walks and stuff and get active. That'd probably be a positive in the long run for a healthier society. And as has been stressed by experts, this virus isn't as effective in open spaces. It's in tight, crowded areas (not just indoors, but cities etc)
Yeh, I only went to a small shop, haven't been in a supermarket. The people who work in them are probably more at risk of getting it than anyone apart from nurses.
Ok Wooshire....
I don't think the number restriction helps. Not everyone going to the shop will normally get bread but now EVERYONE will be getting two loafs thinking they'll suddenly never get bread again. Only need 40-50 people to do this before you get there and the stock has gone.
There wasn't any point of it; the science behind it doesn't work whatsoever. All it would do is ensure the deaths of people quicker than is already happening till it plateaus A.K.A. when all the vulnerable infected are dead.
Inevitable.
I must be missing the logic here, but making public transport operate a reduced service seems madness, having to then cram in those who have to go to work into fewer trains. Don’t get it at all.
- Status