Corona Virus

[The Horse's Mouth]

3 minutes ago, nnfox said:

The WHO go one step further.  They suggest you continue to self isolate for 14 days from the point where you no longer have any symptoms, so potentially off for three weeks!

 

The government hinted at more extensive testing yesterday but I suspect that, initially at least, it will be NHS staff and maybe police.  They aren't going to want many of those staying at home for two weeks if someone in the house has a cough.

It needs to be available for everyone, but I completely understand it's very pie in the sky thinking as of right now. I think all we can do now as a society is keep hygiene at the peak but offer as much assistance as possible to the most affected groups 

[Trumpet]

55 minutes ago, Xen said:

Same here.

 

Non-essential staff to work from home, but the company's definition of 'essential' is flawed in that just because I can access certain databases I'm considered part of that group, even though I dont need access to them 99% of the time. So I'm sat here in a half-empty office having caught the train in this morning to do a job which I could've done in my pajamas at home.

 

Great quarantine, that is.

Same at my place.

 

I’m a BI developer and have been required in the office so far this week. We have all the necessary technology for home working and I do in fact work from home once a week anyway.

 

Everything I’ve done this week so far I’d have been able to do so at home.

[st albans fox]

Some perspective from the virus ridden south 

 

my kids school have informed us that a student/pupil/member of staff is positive but has been off for eleven days so not closing 

 

my partner at work has just told me that someone he played golf with 9 days ago has tested positive 

 

that tells me that when I go out for my baked potato in the west end in five minutes, I will come across several people who are in incubating it ...

 

I can see the se of England being locked down by the weekend and other regions to follow - that ‘lock down’ will probably be a month to begin with to make sure it’s gone. 

 

the Chinese have shown that you can isolate this thing and defeat it in the short term - but it wont be gone properly .... it will re surface ....

 

my office manager in China tells me this morning that several weeks after they are allowed out, almost no one is shopping apart from food and no one is going out to eat/drink etc - this is not a govt restriction.  

[yorkie1999]

2 hours ago, Costock_Fox said:

Anyone else thinking working from home will quickly turn into working from the streets? 
 

Grim situations all round.

O2 network was down, don't know if it still is, and there's a sudden shortage of kleenex. Don't know what's going on there!

[BKLFox]

Intrigued to know if all those that don't trust the UK field 'experts' advice are the same people that go abroad for medical procedures?

[Xen]

2 minutes ago, Wet Trump said:

Same at my place.

 

I’m a BI developer and have been required in the office so far this week. We have all the necessary technology for home working and I do in fact work from home once a week anyway.

 

Everything I’ve done this week so far I’d have been able to do so at home.

Sounds like we're in a very similar position - I'm an MI analyst so everything I do is aggregated dashboard stuff, but because in theory I can access the specific indentifiable information I still have to come in.

 

Mostly young office though so it's not too bad, and at least its a bit more face-to-face social interaction before things get too isolated. Plus there's table tennis so at least there's something fun to do

[Sir Shep]

At the moment I’m looking at a few weeks unpaid leave now. However this is expected to change depending on what course of action the government decide to do next. I’m just hoping that bars and restaurants only have to close for as little time as possible otherwise my colleagues and I are stuffed. 

[bmt]

8 minutes ago, BKLFox said:

Intrigued to know if all those that don't trust the UK field 'experts' advice are the same people that go abroad for medical procedures?

Confused by this. There are experts on each side, they are still UK field experts.

[lildave3]

14 hours ago, Pst said:

Mrs is due in 3 weeks. ****ing typical. No one knows what that **** is going on. She’s panicking and i can’t do anything to comfort her. Thank you world. Go well

I’m literally sat in a delivery ward now, we had our 2nd baby yesterday. If it helps, it’s basically business as usual except that no visitors are allowed. Only 2 birthing partners (1 at a time) permitted, and nobody under 18 I believe. So the only impact it’s had on us is that so far child 1 

hasn’t met her new sibling yet, not a big deal. Whether that’s still the case in 3 weeks nobody knows but hopefully a little current info helps you. 

14 hours ago, Manini said:

Been confirmed I’m WFH tomorrow for the foreseeable. 
 

 

Im due to exchange contracts on a new build tomorrow (10% deposit up front, rest on completion - September in normal circumstances). Every inch of my being is telling me to pull the plug and just forget about the reservation fees and don’t exchange. I wouldn’t worry as much but they haven’t even laid a brick yet and I cannot see the house being built given the current circumstances. I’m completely and utterly lost. 

We signed our paperwork last week on a house and expected to move in April, hopefully the lockdown doesn’t restrict us actually moving 😂

[FoxesDeb]

1 minute ago, lildave3 said:

I’m literally sat in a delivery ward now, we had our 2nd baby yesterday. If it helps, it’s basically business as usual except that no visitors are allowed. Only 2 birthing partners (1 at a time) permitted, and nobody under 18 I believe. So the only impact it’s had on us is that so far child 1 

hasn’t met her new sibling yet, not a big deal. Whether that’s still the case in 3 weeks nobody knows but hopefully a little current info helps you. 

We signed our paperwork last week on a house and expected to move in April, hopefully the lockdown doesn’t restrict us actually moving 😂

Congratulations 😊 

[The Syrup]

Seems to be business as normal in the city centre. Pubs, cafes and restaurants all open with people inside from what I've seen. Same thing in Market Harborough this morning. Can see the government having to force them to close rather than just advise public not to use them

[bovril]

Just now, The Syrup said:

Seems to be business as normal in the city centre. Pubs, cafes and restaurants all open with people inside from what I've seen. Same thing in Market Harborough this morning. Can see the government having to force them to close rather than just advise public not to use them

It's mad. I'm not a very panicky person but I really don't feel like socialising down the pub at the moment with so many unknowns about. 

[Strokes]

49 minutes ago, bmt said:

That would be my preference but if you have a cough and fever it's quite likely its coronavirus in which working is incredibly selfish to others in their office. If you are self-employed, presumably that means you don't operate around large groups of other people so it is slightly different.

I could be on a building site, or an office block near you.

[Alf Bentley]

5 minutes ago, Strokes said:

I could be on a building site, or an office block near you.

[bmt]

13 minutes ago, Strokes said:

I could be on a building site, or an office block near you.

Hahaha I've got my feet up at home mate so doubtful!

[yorkie1999]

 

Just now, bmt said:

Hahaha I've got my feet up at home mate so doubtful!

If you look out the window, you see that bloke sneezing on that ladder cleaning your windows. Well!

[TheUltimateWinner]

This is an incredible read by the way: https://www.imperial.ac.uk/media/imperial-college/medicine/sph/ide/gida-fellowships/Imperial-College-COVID19-NPI-modelling-16-03-2020.pdf 

 

Although quite scary in the sense that, it sort of concludes there's either going to be hundreds of thousands of deaths if we continue to just mitigate or the alternative which is suppression would mean the economy is shutdown until a vaccine is created (up to 18 months away). 

[yorkie1999]

21 minutes ago, The Syrup said:

Seems to be business as normal in the city centre. Pubs, cafes and restaurants all open with people inside from what I've seen. Same thing in Market Harborough this morning. Can see the government having to force them to close rather than just advise public not to use them

Leicestershire will be the last place on earth to succumb to the virus. It's travelling the world west to east and east to west from china, look at the hotspots on a world map. Hopefully if they can get a vaccine sorted by tomorrow night, we'll be able to start repelling it back to where it came from.

[VLC86]

46 minutes ago, bmt said:

My mum saw people taking stuff out of the food bank bin at Tesco 

@ttfn busted

[String fellow]

Today, I suspended our weekly visits from a care worker to help with my elderly mother. The possibility that the care worker herself might be infected is a risk I won't dare take.  

[WigstonWanderer]

2 hours ago, The Guvnor said:

79% of fatalities in Italy Male.

Men can’t catch a break these days

[Leicester_Loyal]

Idris Elba has confirmed that he's tested positive for it, but says he has no symptoms. I reckon loads of us have it or have had it and we'll never have known.

[goose2010]

2 minutes ago, Leicester_Loyal said:

Idris Elba has confirmed that he's tested positive for it, but says he has no symptoms. I reckon loads of us have it or have had it and we'll never have known.

One thing i dont understand about this is how has he been tested? If he has no Symptoms? 

[Leicester_Loyal]

1 minute ago, goose2010 said:

One thing i dont understand about this is how has he been tested? If he has no Symptoms? 

The rich and famous will obvously just pay for a test, money is no object.

 

I think he had contact with Justin Trudeauth's wife too.

[Guest MattP]

4 minutes ago, Leicester_Loyal said:

The rich and famous will obvously just pay for a test, money is no object.

 

I think he had contact with Justin Trudeauth's wife too.

Given Trudeau's history his wife probably mistook Elba for her husband at some point.