Current Affairs Coronavirus Thread - Serious stuff !!!

[Mcdrewson]

Shocked I am.

As sad as this is, it's pretty much the same for many, many businesses on the high-street.

EDIT - Not the apply for Tesco bit

 

[COYBL25]

Shocked I am.

Camra`s stance on this will be very interesting, as you know, you receive £20 worth of Spoons vouchers with your membership.

If Camra continue to support them, I won`t be renewing my membership until they revoke their support.

I`m not a massive fan of the places anyway, as their beer is always too cold, which tells me that they want to squeeze every last drop out of the cask, regardless of the taste.

I certainly won`t be going in one of their places ever again after this regardless.

 

[DanEFC92]

Christ sake

 

[Harryflashman]

As sad as this is, it's pretty much the same for many, many businesses on the high-street.

EDIT - Not the apply for Tesco bit

I know for a fact H&M are paying staff , Costa obviously and I believe John Lewis . I also know a lot of independent pubs are , even if a couple have moved onto holiday pay until the 80% allows them to go back to full pay .

 

[Barnfred 55]

Its absolutely disgusting and the staff should be put on trial after this is all over for manslaughter (or whatever their equivalent is).

However getting to the state where staff do that is the path that the care sector had gone a long way down here; remember those two bints who were abusing elderly people in their care last year?

I'm still wiping my eyes 20 minutes after watching it. I can't believe people would do such a thing. Dispicable doesn't come into it.

 

[Tubey]

Christ sake

Don't get the "boomers" criticism when it's actually been the younger generations who have been woeful during this.

 

[Mcdrewson]

I know for a fact H&M are paying staff , Costa obviously and I believe John Lewis . I also know a lot of independent pubs are , even if a couple have moved onto holiday pay until the 80% allows them to go back to full pay .

I know this is the norm in my industry, sadly, which is going to take a great deal of time to recover. Thankfully, my lot are being a lot more thoughtful and haven't laid anyone off at the first sign of trouble.

 

[Harryflashman]

Don't get the "boomers" criticism when it's actually been the younger generations who have been woeful during this.

i don’t think any generation comes out of it well

 

[PhilM]

Just seeing news report coming out of Spain. Soldiers cleansing nursing homes are finding some places deserted with dead and dying residents.

Shocking. Me and the missus are literally sitting here sobbing

I suspect some of those soldiers would be thinking about cleansing the world of the amoebas who have left them.

 

[Mcdrewson]

Christ sake

Good Lord!

 

[Bluerover]

Re post from last night on funerals - as I thought, they are going ahead in Ireland but strictly immediate family only - Churches are being used.

As per the current government directive on public gatherings and with the support of XX's family, a private Funeral Mass, for immediate family only, will take place on Thursday March 26th at 10.30 o'clock in YY Church

 

[Barnfred 55]

I suspect some of those soldiers would be thinking about cleansing the world of the amoebas who have left them.

Makes me think of old footage of soldiers discovering the holocaust

 

[ForeverBlue92]

I really hope this is sorted in the next 12 weeks as if its not society and the governments will have some serious moral/ethical questions to answer not just in the UK but worldwide.

1. At what point do you have to open back up life/society/economy/businesses/shops regardless of the threat of spread?

2. Is it ethical to keep people especially the vulnerable locked away for longer than 12 weeks?

3. Is it moral to deny children their education long term / accept economic collapse and potential mass job loss and business closure to try continue in saving the sick and elderly who have already lived a long life?

4. If it came to potential mass job loss / business closures - what would be available for those people and would working folk need to subsidise this via increased taxes?

So many potential awful scenario's that this thing could push the world to.

 

[Baines' left foot]

The first major construction company to close. Hopefully more will follow today.

 

[Bluerover]

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The military leading by example this morning.

Whoever took this will be tracked down and shot for spying.....