Coronavirus

All going a bit mad atm.

I get the gov needs to get everyone to take it seriously but Boris could do with calming people down too.

Close to hysteria in some places - people walking around with a lot of anxiety of their faces. Met too probably.

Not so worried about me - more relatives and of course I am self employed and working in the building industry - and we can't just stop or work from home.

 

I agree the kids part of this is very difficult, it's a double edge sword whatever the decision. Nothing worse than bored kids with fook all to do, especially when there will be no events or group places to take them to.

They will want to go out to play, how do you manage it in such a way that you keep kids away from those vulnerable and make them socially aware of the situation, a lot of parents are responsible, some will not be.

What happens with the kids that get free school meals, that's their main meal 5 days a week, how will we manage it so they still get fed.

There are no rights and wrongs, we are learning and we are ALL responsible for managing this situation.

 

Exactly this, at the end of the day we all have a personal responsibility here. There tons of knock ons from shutting schools and nurseries. And so far we haven't seen that it helps in anyway. Closing schools seems to be equally for PR reasons as it is for public safety.

 

One thing I do want to see from this is the BIG supermarket chains giving free food away to those that need it most. The supermarkets have had a bonanza, all their Christmas' come at once (with less employees than at Xmas), the tills have not stopped ringing - they are entitled to profit, but they need to be visibly seen in a crisis giving something back to the communities. No ifs, no buts, no excuses.

 

Yup...other way round and we would all be forced to be in tears because another big logo is going bust

Lets see what they do now that the onus is on them to show what they can do for their country. Us, the Mob...we always get told ‘ask not what your country can do for you....’

Well now it’s over to these ****s...I hope people remember how they behaved once this is all over.

We should be supporting the local businesses...they are like us..**** the big boys.

 

Went to get Toilet Roll from a local shop they had whacked the price up, I left.

 

Absolutely. I think we will all be watching the businesses that can do something to help, and we will all guage and remember how they behaved, once this is all over.

 

The big supermarkets have ****ed people over for years, Lidl and Aldi came along and showed that.

 

Our business interruption insurance won’t pay anything for coronavirus. Broker tells me it’s both a force majeure and a disease that’s not on the list of covered illnesses - as it didn’t exist.

Top and bottom being that no ****er has business insurance that covers any lockdown.

Business is ****ed.

 

Like I said mate, we will remember those that did the right things and those that didn't once this is all over. My immediate concern is foodbanks, homeless and children that have free school meals.

 

There are loads of things to consider.

 

Heard some bloke from an insurance company on the radio this morning basically saying most businesses won’t have insurance that covers it.

Which means without some sort of government intervention or the banks stepping in lots of businesses are going to go under.

 

Sorry mate, your need for bog roll don't count.

 

Well it does but it's not very high on the list.

 

Panicking will **** this country harder than any virus is capable of doing on its own accord. Rushing to the shops to stockpile on your non-perishable food when you should be forcing as much healthy food inside you as humanly possible.. is as ****ed up as it gets.

Imagine being told that you have to distance yourself to stand as much chance of survival as possible and your first thought being to hack **** out of every **** in your path in a royal rumble to get a few bog rolls and some dettol.

This country will only end up as bad as the rest due to the gargantuan volume of ****ing ******s, absolutely **** all to do with not copying what Italy are doing.

 

Thought Trump and his posse’s speech was encouraging. Fair play. Hope we follow suit.

 

No mate it don't feature on the list at all, the needs are as follows:

1. Water
2. Food
3. Shelter
4. Medical assistance as and when needed

 

I've loved it mate, fresh fruit and veg a plenty, no fooker wants it, did myself a lovely salad yesterday.

 

The not testing people is a real issue as it doesn't take too long before only a handful of "confirmed" cases lead to 100s/1000s of people self isolating.

Case in point a mate of mine, someone who works in his office's wife sister has been confirmed as having the virus. The guy in his office and his whole family has been told to self isolate as of yesterday because they have been in contact with the sister. Now the whole of my mates office is being told to potentially self isolate as well due to coming in contact with the work colleague who may have it. I saw my mate at the weekend so should I now self isolate despite being what 3 or 4 steps along the "contamination trail?"

If it is a yes then the one confirmed case has probably caused at least a couple of hundred people to self isolate for 2 weeks which is mental

 

Government needs to step in to ensure banks extend a line of credit to those businesses at least. At zero interest rates.