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Corona Virus

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yorkie1999

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Where’s this schools closed come from ,  my mrs has got to carry on going in. And another thing, know a couple of people who work in the supermarket and from what I can gather, the amount of abuse they’re receiving from selfish shoppers is unreal. They’re on the front line facing 100’s of lunatics with a greatly increased potential of catching the virus on minimum wage. What’s that all about when people are bragging about working from home.

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blabyboy

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2 minutes ago, EastAnglianFox said:

Big problem in ordering a grocery shop to be delivered in a few weeks time is surely if the shelves still continue to be empty by 9am what the heck are they going to send out for delivery? 

From my experience, they tend to do the picks first thing in the morning after the shelves have been stocked overnight. 

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blabyboy

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4 minutes ago, yorkie1999 said:

Where’s this schools closed come from ,  my mrs has got to carry on going in. And another thing, know a couple of people who work in the supermarket and from what I can gather, the amount of abuse they’re receiving from selfish shoppers is unreal. They’re on the front line facing 100’s of lunatics with a greatly increased potential of catching the virus on minimum wage. What’s that all about when people are bragging about working from home.

Yeah, that is bang out of order, they should operate a blacklist for those selfish dichs.

 

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st albans fox

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We went from 104 to 137 today

 

Italy at the same stage went 107 to 148 

 

its hard to compare day to day - those rises are within the same 20-40% daily increase envelope …….. worrying in the extreme

 

tomorrow is the govt's last chance to save millions of jobs and thousands of business'.  by not announcing any forced shut down of bars and offices, they avoid responsibility and industry is left to carry the cost.

 

we have told our staff that they needn't come in for the time being (all our customers have shut down as retail away from supermarkets is finished). they are paid up till end of the month. beyond that we have no idea what will happen.  we may be able to get a govt loan to help us through the closure but we expect to effectively do no business for at least six more weeks and possibly another six beyond. our working capital is all tied up in the stock that we have now had cancelled.   if we do get a loan then the cost of running the business for that six/twelve weeks becomes debt on our balance sheet. that debt wipes out our the majority of our nett asset value.  many small business' will just refuse to do that and make their staff redundant.   and those business' will likely go bust anyway.  we shall see what suggestions are made tomorrow but without some 'blue sky thinking' and rabbits from hats, the economy is toast.  

 

 

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17 minutes ago, blabyboy said:

"Turning the tide within 12 weeks" (hopefully) says the PM.

 

So that puts us well into June before you can think about a season restarting.

I'm not sure what he meant by what he said and I'm not sure he knows either. 12 weeks just happens to be the time they are telling the elderly and those with health conditions to basically self isolate.

I know he's trying to be positive and give people a rough date to when things might be relaxed but turning the tide might mean we've reached the peak of the number of daily deaths, might mean we've reached the peak of the increase in the numbers of daily infections or might mean we're seeing numbers of both decline.

12 weeks today would be 11th June.

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Costock_Fox

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2 minutes ago, reynard said:

I'm not sure what he meant by what he said and I'm not sure he knows either. 12 weeks just happens to be the time they are telling the elderly and those with health conditions to basically self isolate.

I know he's trying to be positive and give people a rough date to when things might be relaxed but turning the tide might mean we've reached the peak of the number of daily deaths, might mean we've reached the peak of the increase in the numbers of daily infections or might mean we're seeing numbers of both decline.

12 weeks today would be 11th June.

He started it by saying people want to go on their summer holidays did he not and then ended by saying we would be on the downward curve.

 

Both of them statements are at very different ends of the spectrum which makes you think he’s just spouting complete bollocks.

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yorkie1999

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1 minute ago, blabyboy said:

Yeah, that is bang out of order, they should operate a blacklist for those selfish dichs.

 

One chap had 4 packets of fish fingers in his shopping, trivial I know, the girl on the checkout says sorry but your only allowed 2, he refuses to move unless he can have 4, says he’ll go to the back and pay for the other 2. Not the point she says, so after a rant about 2 for him and 2 for his wife who was at home and proclaiming he’s a human being and was being denied his rights, he goes over to the self service, waits 20 minutes to pay for the 2 packets of fish fingers, security gets involved and he ends up getting escorted from the store with nothing but a refund and told not to come back. Now I don’t know too much about human behaviour in times like these, but that, to me, is not the actions of a normal person but more of a fvckin nutcase.

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Gary Eatfood

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4 minutes ago, st albans fox said:

We went from 104 to 137 today

 

Italy at the same stage went 107 to 148 

 

its hard to compare day to day - those rises are within the same 20-40% daily increase envelope …….. worrying in the extreme

 

tomorrow is the govt's last chance to save millions of jobs and thousands of business'.  by not announcing any forced shut down of bars and offices, they avoid responsibility and industry is left to carry the cost.

 

we have told our staff that they needn't come in for the time being (all our customers have shut down as retail away from supermarkets is finished). they are paid up till end of the month. beyond that we have no idea what will happen.  we may be able to get a govt loan to help us through the closure but we expect to effectively do no business for at least six more weeks and possibly another six beyond. our working capital is all tied up in the stock that we have now had cancelled.   if we do get a loan then the cost of running the business for that six/twelve weeks becomes debt on our balance sheet. that debt wipes out our the majority of our nett asset value.  many small business' will just refuse to do that and make their staff redundant.   and those business' will likely go bust anyway.  we shall see what suggestions are made tomorrow but without some 'blue sky thinking' and rabbits from hats, the economy is toast.  

 

 

Wow. Sounds like the decimation of a lot of SMEs?

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Gary Eatfood

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6 minutes ago, reynard said:

I'm not sure what he meant by what he said and I'm not sure he knows either. 12 weeks just happens to be the time they are telling the elderly and those with health conditions to basically self isolate.

I know he's trying to be positive and give people a rough date to when things might be relaxed but turning the tide might mean we've reached the peak of the number of daily deaths, might mean we've reached the peak of the increase in the numbers of daily infections or might mean we're seeing numbers of both decline.

12 weeks today would be 11th June.

I think the end of July/start of August might be more realistic. Maybe later?

 

I don't expect normal life to properly resume until around that time, unless an effective treatment that limits the number of people requiring ICU care is developed. That's what I understood from the Imperial College report.

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stripeyfox

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First day of working from home for me - reasonably productive. Pretty much resigned to being in unofficial isolation now - other than going to the shops, we don't have any plans to go anywhere really. If me or the kids show symptoms, the missus has to move into a hotel so she can still go to work at the Royal (can't work out if this would be good or bad!lol)

 

 

 

 

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davieG

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3 minutes ago, Mickyblueeyes said:

Just going to have a mini rant about these utter morons who are buying in excess and putting the country at further risk. You’re all idiotic ninkumpoops. The end. 

A bit childish but then if the cap fits.

 

Image may contain: possible text that says 'BAD NEWS PEEPS A new virus which is spreading hundred times quicker Coronavirus has been discovered the imasthickasshit virus affects people's ability to normally people with the imasthickasshit virus will fill there trolleys with tons of Toilet roll pasta and doctors think that Coronavirus imthickasshit virus could be connected but are worried by the speed imasthickasshit is spreading if you see anyone in supermarket filling there trolleys with toilet roll and pasta please keep well clear stay safe my friends'

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