Current Affairs Coronavirus Thread - Serious stuff !!!

[summerisle]

 

[thirdmantackle]

This all goes back to the fact that so many people live from month to month or week to week.

They don't have the savings needed to stay at home

 

[Mozza1987]

The things that are still open during this supposed lockdown is ridiculous. Home and hardware stores, dry cleaners, garages, bicycle shops and banks. Just why? Why are these currently essential. Boris is so weak. And he wonders why people are not listening.

 

[ramacca]

Hear, hear. Yes, it is a little ambiguous and I wonder if by design?

My neighbour, a painter and decorator, has just left the house to go to work. As he did yesterday, and will no doubt tomorrow. He told my wife only the other day he has no intention of stopping unless his customers refuse him entry.

Self employed? Yes. He is.

Sole bread winner/ source of income?

Not entirely: his partner is in a profession and they foster more than one child; money cannot be an issue; at this time it shouldn’t be an issue. Is any of this my business? Absolutely.

My daughter is a front-line NHS professional and my wife, a carer who has no choice but to go to work as she has a duty of care to 5 residents.

Both have taken all the advice given very seriously: social distancing and only venturing out when essential (as described).

On Sunday, my daughter arrived at the end of the driveway, on foot having taken the opportunity to walk the couple of miles from her home with her husband for exercise. She left a card and flowers for her mother at the door and then retired to a safe distance onto the driveway. My son did the same when he arrived later.

Meanwhile, miladdo’s family next door, arrived en mass and piled in, flying in the face of all health warnings.

Okay, OTT all this preventative action may seem to many, but the consequences of their defiance/cavalier attitudes towards the measures implemented to protect us all, and which they appear to treat with scorn, may yet prove perilous to those like my own family members who are at the forefront of all this, and whom the irresponsible will eventually turn to if the worst happens.

I shouldn’t, but I just can’t help but get annoyed at the flagrant inconsideration of some in these most dire of times, and who would blame me?

So, unless you really HAVE to go out, please, please, please guys: stay at home.

Thank you.

Mate, my daughter lives in London and her partner is being forced into work - non essential job repairing things in churches, which is closed anyway, and they have a 1 year old. He's using the tube and public transport so non existent social distancing with the potential to get infected. That's why the government has to act to stop some employers forcing workers to go to work.There's been no word from the company about not going in today, he took it upon himself not to go in. But there'll be others that will go to work when they don't need to.

 

[Deleted member 48881]

 

[ramacca]

It wouldnt work.

Let's say a Tube train is 12 carriages long. It has probably 6 doors - four double and two single door at the end of each section. So to regulate numbers - especially in the morning where the likes of the Jubilee line is rammed with site workers before 730 - you'd need a person on every door to help limit numbers. Nowhere near enough TfL staff for that. Then you would break the network by adding 10-15 seconds a train for this regulated loading service.

So the government's advice on social distancing doesn't work. And the government has the gall to complain people are not doing enough social distancing. Incredible.

 

[bring the ghost on]

This all goes back to the fact that so many people live from month to month or week to week.

The majority of people don't have a choice.

 

[navidson]

Hopefully mate, I hope people start taking it seriously, I was in a Co-Op yesterday trying to do my distancing and a builder just got in the queue right up my ass, some aren't taking it onboard. I admit, I didn't take it seriously at first but when everything combines it effects everyone.

I went to the Co-Op this morning - They were operating a 'one in, one out' policy with a maximum of five people in the store at at one time. The nice chap guarding the door told me that the 'big' supermarkets are doing the same - with a limit of 60 people at any one time

 

[Baines' left foot]

Madness this. The Jubilee line will have been packed again this morning

Leytonstone station at 6:38am today, which is nowhere near central London.

Unbelievable.

 

[ramacca]

This all goes back to the fact that so many people live from month to month or week to week.

They don't have the savings needed to stay at home

That's why they should have brought in the universal basic income of £350-£400 for everyone

 

[Barnfred 55]

Staggering working hours would help a little to avoid this. Everyone working 9-5 will not stop the hoards of people.

This is a very good and very simple idea. Also easily doable

 

[Deleted member 48881]

That's why they should have brought in the universal basic income of £350-£400 for everyone

this should be done immediately

 

[Blueclouds]

Know someone who passed away this morning due to CV in liverpool.

 

[ramacca]

Not hugely convinced a national election is the best way to enforce a lockdown tbh

Doesn't need an election.

 

[Baines' left foot]

This is what construction site canteens in London looklike.