Sorry Col I’m not in a position to tell you anything. I am becoming more bewildered by this **** by the second.
Go on...I need cheering up...it is bound to be a laugh...head over to the Politics thread and get writing
Just read the construction letter and guidance that Bob posted. Initially, I was pissed off and concerned that I was going to get no help from Rishi and friends, but actually now I’m not. I don’t trust these ****s one bit and I don’t want to be in debt to them. So as long as we can keep working, I’m more than happy to be out there. I know that screwfix is still open, order on line and collect and the electrical wholesaler I generally use is still open, albeit limited hours.
They got rid of the dead wood, but that's for another day. The most important part was that these test are not knocked up in 5 minutes like the pregnancy ones. (That sentence was actually quite clever). We just need to be patient. Funnily as I was writing this I was listen to a German doctor who confirmed what i said the other day in that they have more Pharma manufaturing and more facilities. He also mentioned about people paying into it.
The BBC article, linked a couple of pages back, serves only to strengthen my serious concerns about what’s really going on here. Early on in this madness, I realised the media reports would tell us how many people had died with corona virus and not because of it. My tin foil hat has an antenna which helps me tune in to oddities in media wording. Weeks ago, we were being bombarded with news, reports and comment about the virus, long before it was reported to have arrived (although I suspect it already had). It got to the point that many radio listeners contributions to shows were purely to ask why the incessant coverage. It seemed way OTT to me, almost pre-planned. We then descended rapidly into this crazy situation we now find ourselves. The vast majority of the population were/are terrified by this unseen threat, this unprecedented scenario. People were calling to be told to lock themselves away, snitching on others for buying non essential items or for going out more than once a day. An astonishingly quick descent into madness. Still we continued to hear about people dying with corona virus or having been tested positive for it, each day more than the last, and sometimes they’d slip in that they died because of the virus, only for the wording to be changed in the next bulletin. The logo in front of the podium at 5pm used colours to trick our minds into believing this was a cross party stance. We hear only negative figures, and as 9’s mentioned earlier, never the numbers of those released from hospital. We are accused of not really doing enough to protect the nhs, because more cars were on the road than yesterday, whilst the ****s in charge blatantly ignore the questions levelled at them about their duty to frontliners regarding PPE and testing. The economy is ****ed. Is it even repairable? Hundreds of thousands of jobs lost, businesses gone, millions incurred in debt, much of which is at 20+% interest and is required to be guaranteed by people’s houses. Who’s lending this money? Does this money even exist? How much will get paid back? Who will do nicely out of this? A growing voice of dissent is beginning to be heard, Hitchins, Sumption and plenty more, questioning the proportionality of the government response and rightly so. I felt this way from the start, my antenna guiding me. I’ve wondered about daily death figures for some days now and the legitimacy of them. The bbc article suggests that perhaps only 12% of the covid 19 recorded deaths are genuine, the other 88% being really down to cancer or heart attack or diabetes or any of the other things that add up to the UK’s 1600/1700 who die every day, but for some reason, they’re being recorded as covid deaths. What’s really going on here? Disproportionate seemed an appropriate word a week or so back, but is beginning to feel wholly inadequate now.
Col see the letter I received along with many other businesses I know. It's a struggle to fully understand the true intentions but it dont sound too good
Depends how long he’s been self employed, if he has filed a return for 18-19 and this year he will be entitled to 80% of his monthly take home for period, up to a max of £2500 per month so could in effect get £7500, again depending on his earnings however he will also be taxed on this, again however if he claims universal credit while he waits for the June payout lump sum, he will also be liable to pay that back. Hope this helps.
I wouldn’t say someone dying who had an underlying condition isn’t a “genuine” death due to Corona. If it robs them of their last decade, year or month they still are a death from Corona. I take the point on the economy but I guess the alternative is vastly more people catching it quicker and swamping an overstretched health service even more, probably taking hundreds of doctors and nurses with it. We were on course for six figure deaths until they changed strategy.
But if a human body can contain thousands, maybe millions of virus phages (correct word?) at any one time and in inconsequential to deadly amounts, and if the test being used is purely qualitative, as I believe it is, then to record a cause of death as corona virus could be completely inaccurate and misleading. And it matters if the world is turned upside down because of it, especially if this is not an accidental clerical error.
Did you see the letter I received Turkish? Its vague to say the least. My concern is that by the time June comes around, self employed workers in the construction industry may be told that their line of work was never closed therefore could have still worked and not be entitled to the pay out. That's my theory anyway. The only way around it that I can see is to phone 111 and get an official record of isolation.
I haven't watched any of the briefings in full and have avoided most of them altogether. Pure bullshit.
