Current Affairs Coronavirus Thread - Serious stuff !!!

[ClausThomsen]

Email just arrived....

”Dear Brook Taverner Customer,

It is with great sadness that we have made the difficult decision to temporarily close all our Brook Taverner stores in England and Scotland from Sunday 22nd March at 4pm until we are advised that it is safe to re-open.

Events have moved so quickly over the past few days that we now know it is the right thing to do to protect our customers and staff in all our store locations and to keep everyone safe in these extraordinary times.....etc”

Watch everyone jump on this publicly funded bandwagon over the next few weeks.....

The government paying 80% of staffs wages will help with outgoings but closing the doors leads to zero income and plenty of businesses still have bills to pay. It's not the greatest bandwagon to be a part of.

Pretty sure shutting the doors to customers is not great regardless of government help with staff wages.

 

[Joey66]

Correct


But @peteblue thinks its just scaremongering and he sees 'what this really is' ffs

I seen her plea live on the news listening to LBC she is being ignored .........social gathering, Some NHS workers stated Tescos policy of letting them in an hour early for food worked in one sens, but the downside was 300 people NHS staff were stuck in a queue for an hour as the tills never opened till 10 am so they were stood close together to get served.....
FGS relax the Sunday shooping laws if a gesture like this is going to work safely..........

 

[Joey66]

You know, I take all this [Poor language removed] you come out with and I really shouldn’t. You play the same record, we are all brainwashed, when nothing could be further from the truth...but carry on and enjoy....

The pair of you just forget politics it's a pandemic fgs......

 

[Harryflashman]

The government paying 80% of staffs wages will help with outgoings but closing the doors leads to zero income and plenty of businesses still have bills to pay. It's not the greatest bandwagon to be a part of.

Pretty sure shutting the doors to customers is not great regardless of government help with staff wages.

youd be amazed , or probably not , how little retail shops were taking . It was pennies they were absolutely losing money just being open so it gave them an opportunity to reduce loss and Potentially going online mitigates that.

 

[RAFUH]

I take vitamins and a fish oil tab every two days.

Not saying they'll stop this virus at all, but since I started (three months ago) I've felt healthier. They're not the only thing. I've been mixing my exercise up and have gone veggie since the New Year - that's helped me feel like I have more energy.

My thing with this is I don't see why the advice hasn't also been that people need to start keeping themselves as healthy as possible. If you have a better immune system then you are likelier to get mild symptoms if you catch this virus than not.

Of course it's no sure thing but I'd rather do everything in my power to try and stack the odds in my favour rather than the viruses if you get me.

Being active and eating healthy is always good advice, but you are wasting your money on the vitamins.

 

[Brennan]

I seen her plea live on the news listening to LBC she is being ignored .........social gathering, Some NHS workers stated Tescos policy of letting them in an hour early for food worked in one sens, but the downside was 300 people NHS staff were stuck in a queue for an hour as the tills never opened till 10 am so they were stood close together to get served.....
FGS relax the Sunday shooping laws if a gesture like this is going to work safely..........

I thought when I saw the original announcement that surely they weren’t going to open the tills an hour after opening the doors. Bizarre really as was always going to be a disaster.

 

[Harryflashman]

FGS relax the Sunday shooping laws if a gesture like this is going to work safely..........

I think that feels like a totally reasonable response, they’ve already relaxed the competition laws so I don’t see why this should be a problem in the conditions .

 

[tsubaki]

You know, I take all this [Poor language removed] you come out with and I really shouldn’t. You play the same record, we are all brainwashed, when nothing could be further from the truth...but carry on and enjoy....

Pete - why do you think its a good idea to deliberately let a disease that will put you personally at a hugely increased risk of a hospital admission, which we know will kill tens of thousands of people if not dealt with, run through the country when the economic damage it will cause is guaranteed whatever happens?

 

[Neiler]

The attitude of people during the NHS hour this morning also reflects this.

I'm sure videos will follow, but managing hundreds of utter gobshites isn't something normal staff have experience of doing.
You try and do the right thing but it just ends up biting you on the arse.

You really worry where this type of social behavior will end, people are obviously fearful and panicking, there is a growing acknowledgement that that UK government got the initial two weeks of this very wrong. That creates more distrust in the public mindset and they go into self preservation.

If the curve of the virus continues to rise in the UK you would have to expect peoples panic to grow as well and we will see an escalation in this behavior, looting, rioting violence, hopefully not. Seems like two polarized views on how people cope with this, people are afraid sparking mass panic in retail while others are choosing to ignore and head off on weekends away or look for a good piss up. Fight or flight psychology in its most purest and instinctive form.

Its darkest before the dawn and you get the sense we aren't even at midnight yet, the spectrum for social disorder to escalate may be huge, hopefully not.

Thinking of those in retail caught in the cross fire of this panic, must be massively challenging.

 

[Brennan]

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I fully appreciate the efforts that the Health Sector are putting in. I also understand the actions of those putting others at risk because of overdoing the situation and causing stockpiling, panic and economic ruin....

You don’t appreciate it though.

If you did you wouldn’t be criticising policies which are being enacted with the primary goal of reducing the ridiculous pressure being put on those very people.

 

[ClausThomsen]

youd be amazed , or probably not , how little retail shops were taking . It was pennies they were absolutely losing money just being open so it gave them an opportunity to reduce loss and Potentially going online mitigates that.

Not amazed at all. It's just that some on here seem to think it's a jolly bandwagon!

Even if large companies are taking advantage it means that their staff are receiving an income rather than just being laid off or similar cost-cutting measures.

 

[Harryflashman]

Not amazed at all. It's just that some on here seem to think it's a jolly bandwagon!

Even if large companies are taking advantage it means that their staff are receiving an income rather than just being laid off or similar cost-cutting measures.

Oh absolutely, I certainly don’t think it’s a jolly by the way .

 

[larrygobfiend]

The reality is, as of next week, hospitalised older people are gonna be taken off ventilators and left to die so that younger, fitter people have more of a chance of surviving.

For every minute that people are out frolicking as if it’s a bank holiday, there will be more infections, more strain on the NHS and more deaths.

The government needs to spell this out in black and white and bring the military in to enforce martial law. It’s obvious we can’t be trusted as a nation to do our bit.

 

[tsubaki]

You really worry where this type of social behavior will end, people are obviously fearful and panicking, there is a growing acknowledgement that that UK government got the initial two weeks of this very wrong. That creates more distrust in the public mindset and they go into self preservation.

If the curve of the virus continues to rise in the UK you would have to expect peoples panic to grow as well and we will see an escalation in this behavior, looting, rioting violence, hopefully not. Seems like two polarized views on how people cope with this, people are afraid sparking mass panic in retail while others are choosing to ignore and head off on weekends away or look for a good piss up. Fight or flight psychology in its most purest and instinctive form.

Its darkest before the dawn and you get the sense we aren't even at midnight yet, the spectrum for social disorder to escalate may be huge, hopefully not.

Thinking of those in retail caught in the cross fire of this panic, must be massively challenging.

The good news is that a lot of people have taken sensible measures - self-isolating if they feel ill or are at risk, reducing social contact, establishing support networks and not behaving like fools; this is probably enough of the population to prevent a lot of social disorder from taking place.

The bad news is that all the people who don't think this is serious will only realise that it is when they wake up one morning and find that they / a family member has it, and that the NHS really is under massive pressure. Then they'll panic, and demand their thing be taken seriously.

 

[Brennan]

The good news is that a lot of people have taken sensible measures - self-isolating if they feel ill or are at risk, reducing social contact, establishing support networks and not behaving like fools; this is probably enough of the population to prevent a lot of social disorder from taking place.

The bad news is that all the people who don't think this is serious will only realise that it is when they wake up one morning and find that they / a family member has it, and that the NHS really is under massive pressure. Then they'll panic, and demand their thing be taken seriously.

And they’ll be outraged when their elderly parent is told by doctors that they cannot have a ventilator because they are at a high risk of death.

“iTs a DiSgRaCe WhYs tHeRE nOt MoRe bEdS?”