Jobs already being lost in many areas. My grandson is a manager of a fruit and veg supplier in New Covent Garden, he said in past three weeks their cumulative losses are around a quarter of a million as many of the major hotels and resturants they supply throughout London have virtually stopped ordering fresh fruit and veg. They've already laid off half of their staff and his hours have been cut back as well, the company may not survive if this goes on for much longer...
This “herd immunity” thing all sounds a bit terrifying for anyone old, sick or unlucky. Perhaps it’ll be the right call, in which case we’ll be uniquely right. Perhaps it’s not in which case we’ll have to blame Corbyn’s corpse or something.
My daughter was working for Swissport at EMA and had contract terminated last Sunday no notice either , worrying times and she had only been there 5 months.
Update from here..... Irish Nursing Home Association imposed a complete lock down of Nursing/Care Homes since last week......no visitors under any circumstances so that workers and patients are protected...... Gyms have closed from yesterday until 30th March...…. Lay Offs already being implemented in hospitality sector......
We're not the only club doing this, but well done to all involved Barnsley matchday food donated to local charity QPR’s matchday food for Saturday’s postponed fixture against Barnsley has been donated to local charity The Upper Room. The EFL confirmed on Friday morning that it would be suspending all fixtures until April 3rd at the earliest, due to the COVID-19 virus. By the time the announcement was made, the club had already received and prepared its food for the Barnsley game and QPR in the Community Trust then contacted City Harvest to see if it could be given to some local people in need. QPR Trust CEO Andy Evans said: “Our first thought when we began to discuss the no-longer-needed food for Saturday’s game was ‘can we help a charity in our local area?’. “We didn’t want it all to go to waste and we know that City Harvest do a fantastic job in redistributing food to charitable organisations all over London. “The Upper Room are one of those and we know all about the work that they do. They were shortlisted for our stadium naming rights project last year and I’m really pleased that we’ll be helping them to feed a number of vulnerable people this evening.” City Harvest provide support to 300 organisations that feed London’s most vulnerable people by regularly delivering high-quality, nourishing food to homeless shelters, soup kitchens, children's programs, centres for the elderly, and refuges for women experiencing domestic violence.
Colney Hatch Tesco this morning (multiple sources) Elsewhere on the BBC website, stories of a man who took all the dry pasta from a supermarket shelves refusing to give one packet to an elderly lady who politely asked if he could spare one. At my local supermarket a woman who had loaded her trolley so high with toilet rolls they were falling off as she waddled through the car park, was asked if she really needed that many. Response ‘I might do’. This kind of behaviour is just as dangerous as the virus itself. The vast majority of us do not do this ****, but we will be driven to it by the selfish bastards that panic and hoard. Empty shelves drive panic. Elsewhere, speculation that the virus spread so fast in Italy because the young, recognising that they are virtually immune to serious effects, simply carried on living as usual. I would assume that our young will as well, though my son was trying to avoid touching too many surfaces last night.
Bit of a flaw in the old herd immunity plan. Reports now coming out of someone who was thought to have gone through it and recovered being re-infected. The thing can stay in you for several weeks so a 14 day quarantine won’t do a lot for many.
I listened to some professor about the ‘herd’ and it basically means we take a hit now so it doesn't continue when other flu’s come forward. I.E people are going to die to save a prolonged problem.
Agree. It’s a hard reality but that’s what it’s about. Although it’s a hard decision to make and it will kill people I can understand the reasons behind it. I’m no scientist and we have to trust them. I feel sorry for the people that will suffer. Once again though these diseases came from bloody China and their disgusting hygiene and eating habits.
I don't understand it. It sounds like the plan is to let the weak die to prevent something but I'm not sure what we're preventing if we decide to kill people off sooner. We also risk a higher mortality rate by putting the strain on the health service and postponing operations and healthcare to otherwise curable issues. Surely we should be preventing death primarily? Not immunising the strong.
I get the theory. It just seems to need to be only slightly out to go horribly wrong and kill far more people than it would otherwise. The long term ramifications of any policy on this are going to be grim. Depression and suicide is going to ensue on a mass scale inevitably.
Italian medics are already deciding who they should treat and who not. Who should live and who they should let go. It happens when there's only a restricted number of ventilators etc People are saying this is Europe's darkest hour since WW2
