Corona Virus

[String fellow]

I think that a lot of hypochondriacs will know all the symptoms and will convince themselves that they've got the virus, even if they haven't. They shouldn't be regarded as time-wasters, because they are genuine about what they believe. This is partly why a widely-available testing kit would be so useful. Personally, I'd pay top-dollar for one.  

[Julian Joachim Jr Shabadoo]

7 minutes ago, String fellow said:

I think that a lot of hypochondriacs will know all the symptoms and will convince themselves that they've got the virus, even if they haven't. They shouldn't be regarded as time-wasters, because they are genuine about what they believe. This is partly why a widely-available testing kit would be so useful. Personally, I'd pay top-dollar for one.  

 

Trouble is the normal testing kit will only tell you if you currently have it, it's the antibody testing kit that's being worked on which will be the breakthrough - which will show if people have already had it (and therefore are highly unlikely to be able to contract it again, unless it mutates). I've read it's somewhere between 30-70% of people who've had the virus had no symptoms at all, and some have reported the only symptom was a loss of sense of smell

[Ric Flair]

I'm telling you now, hayfever sufferers aren't going to have a fcukin clue whether they've had coronavirus or not until about October. I'm in no man's land already, end me.

[Costock_Fox]

14 hours ago, Costock_Fox said:

Yeah, minimum of 8 weeks really isn’t it.

 

i knew it was coming but it’s stressful, my mum lives on her own so that’s shit. If she didn’t have a cat I’d bring her round here.

Lol i don’t get why this is funny. My 2 Huskys would eat the bastard, it’s not like I’m willing to sacrifice my mum because the cat is a bellend (it is).

[StanSP]

6 minutes ago, Ric Flair said:

I'm telling you now, hayfever sufferers aren't going to have a fcukin clue whether they've had coronavirus or not until about October. I'm in no man's land already, end me.

Had no idea hayfever gives you diarrhea! 

[jammie82uk]

36 minutes ago, Julian Joachim Jr Shabadoo said:

Genuine question - our office is all working from home, and my colleague's home computer keeps crashing so he wants to use the work laptop which is currently at my house.

 

I was planning on going out cycling today anyway (leave the house once a day for exercise) and I take the laptop and leave it at his front door, am I breaking any rules?

 

I know the chances of getting caught are slim but I can't afford any fines that might be imposed. But also we can't afford to not have him working!

 

I can’t see that being an issue myself 

[Nalis]

40 minutes ago, Julian Joachim Jr Shabadoo said:

Genuine question - our office is all working from home, and my colleague's home computer keeps crashing so he wants to use the work laptop which is currently at my house.

 

I was planning on going out cycling today anyway (leave the house once a day for exercise) and I take the laptop and leave it at his front door, am I breaking any rules?

 

I know the chances of getting caught are slim but I can't afford any fines that might be imposed. But also we can't afford to not have him working!

 

I dont think so. Its exercise if you cycle to his house, pop it in a sports rucksack. Dont knock or ring the doorbell, call him when you've drop it off so he can pick it up without interacting with you and tell him to wipe the laptop down before using it (coronavirus wipedown of course...).

[purpleronnie]

1 hour ago, Izzy said:

 

 

From today's BBC news feed 09.47

 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/world-52013888

I do wonder if we can't isolate now when will we?  The summer will be even worse.  Makes you wish for miserable weather, maybe then people might stay home.

[Xen]

56 minutes ago, Pliskin said:

Surely nothing will change until there’s a vaccine? It wall always be there, parts of China are set to lift their lockdowns but what then if it starts to spread again? By bringing the country to a haunt, it might temporarily halt the spread, but will it not just accelerate again once restrictions are lifted? 

It will come back, that's unavoidable.

 

The point is that when cases are kept below a certain threshold the healthcare systems can cope. They put in the immediate lockdown so the number of new cases slows and now that it has (and they've had time to increase the healthcare capacity) they can partially 'release' the lockdown and allow cases to happen again whilst they're able to deal with them, because they've 'flattened the curve'. Chances are we'll have multiple lockdowns as we keep increasing capacity and working through the population at a manageable rate, rather than everyone at once.

 

A full lockdown from now until a vaccine is developed/tested/produced/administered would be ideal, but that could be 2021 and even in authoritarian countries it would be impossible to impose such severe restrictions for that length of time (plus the economic damage that would do would be ridiculous). Lock things down, clear the 'backlog' and raise capacity for next time, then go again but be better prepared for it each time (with hopefully more responsible behaviour from the public in the interim).

[theessexfox]

Sunak not saying an awful lot on help for the self-employed in the HoC - still working on it.

[Izzy]

14 hours ago, Izzy said:

One form of exercise each day alone.

 

Might go for a four hour round of golf on my jack.

Yeah scrub that. All golf courses now closed 

 

Might have to go for a walk with the bread knife instead.

 

FML

[Zear0]

The golf course is a shame.  Our local course recently plugged and raised all the holes so if you hit it then it's count as in to stop people touching flags holes.  You even pay online so there's zero interaction.  Unfortunately, whilst fine for loners like me who play on their own, I did see two days ago a society of 7 high fiving each other after every single putt.  As is always the case, the minorities ruining it for everyone.

 

Usual caveat that this is a minor inconvenience compared to the big picture.

[Bellend Sebastian]

Just had the text message from the government and it's a dick pic?!?!?

[yorkie1999]

Just now, Bellend Sebastian said:

Just had the text message from the government and it's a dick pic?!?!?

A bellend?

[StanSP]

I feel sorry for some people on those London underground pictures being lambasted as some of them could genuinely be key workers or been told to go to work yet they now get criticised for giving London a bad name. 

[Jon the Hat]

1 hour ago, Swan Lesta said:

Update from Chancellor this afternoon - should provide some info for sole traders/self employed.

Yes sounds like they have worked out how to do it.  This is the enabler for the next stage of lockdown should they decide to do it - construction sites etc.

[yorkie1999]

1 hour ago, joachim1965 said:

If that really is a photo from this morning that is outrageous. 

Expected is the word you're looking for. While the government allow firms to stay open, people will still have to go to work. What is remarkable though, is suddenly there seems to be millions of people who can work from home and are demonstrating this via social media. What i'd like to know is, if they can work from home now, why would they have needed to go into work before all this happened.

[Jon the Hat]

1 hour ago, Julian Joachim Jr Shabadoo said:

Genuine question - our office is all working from home, and my colleague's home computer keeps crashing so he wants to use the work laptop which is currently at my house.

 

I was planning on going out cycling today anyway (leave the house once a day for exercise) and I take the laptop and leave it at his front door, am I breaking any rules?

 

I know the chances of getting caught are slim but I can't afford any fines that might be imposed. But also we can't afford to not have him working!

 

It's fine, go for it.

[Tuna]

 

[Bellend Sebastian]

15 minutes ago, yorkie1999 said:

A bellend?

You'd think I'd get more of them.

 

I'm not going to take credit for the 'joke' (nicked from someone off Twitter) especially as nobody laughed

[Xen]

4 minutes ago, Tuna said:

 

As they should. Ridiculous that its taken this long for them to confirm it, in all honesty.

[String fellow]

I dread the thought of a long hot summer approaching.

Edited 24 March 2020 by String fellow

[The boy Linacre]

2 hours ago, Izzy said:

Tubes still busy this morning 

 

Wouldn't you just walk though, or call in sick if it was like that, I mean whats the worst case scenario??  The disease might (and you can't actually be certain) kill you!!!!

 

And you might possibly kill you folks, outlaws (might be a good thing) grandparents etc......

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[Izzy]

20 minutes ago, yorkie1999 said:

Expected is the word you're looking for. While the government allow firms to stay open, people will still have to go to work. What is remarkable though, is suddenly there seems to be millions of people who can work from home and are demonstrating this via social media. What i'd like to know is, if they can work from home now, why would they have needed to go into work before all this happened.

One of the potential long term benefits of all this, is that companies will finally realise they can actually trust most of their people to work remotely and still get the job done.

 

For decades there has been a culture of 'presenteeism' in business, driven by controlling micro managers who don't trust their work force.

 

The fact this is now being taken out of their hands and they've got no choice is a good thing in my book.

 

I hope it changes working practices forever.

[String fellow]

Presumably, dentists come under the category of medical treatment, and will continue working.

Edited 24 March 2020 by String fellow