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Boris...

  • should completely lock us down immediately and fook up all our Christmas'

    Votes: 3 12.5%

  • let the bodies stack high

    Votes: 13 54.2%

  • lock us down from the 29th to fook up Treble's plans

    Votes: 8 33.3%
  • Total voters
    24
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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.
 
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Welshie said:
You have to draw a fine line between absolute panic stations and trying to keep some normality. I think some have pressed the big red button to batten down the hatches, some are opting for relative normality. I recognise many people want schools and nurseries to be closed, but, that's happened elsewhere and just resulted in many 16-18 year olds hanging around outside all day as opposed to staying at home as they've been told. Countries who have closed schools have seen infections increase at a completely normal rate as those with kids in schools.

Long term economic affects are also on everyone's mind, some countries have to try and keep the ball rolling and money flowing. Germany is reacting quite similarly to the UK, imagine if they tried to quarantine, not a single net contributor with the euro would be conducting business.

I know people have a gut reaction of "**** it's serious, DO SOMETHING." But I think what we are doing is a generally solid response to try and keep people's lives moving for as long as possible.

The long term economic affects of France, Spain and Italy closing will be massive for the Eurozone in my opinion, as it would be in the UK if everything shut.
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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.
 
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brb said:
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.
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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.
 
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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.
 
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brb said:
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.
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Yup...other way round and we would all be forced to be in tears because another big logo is going bust <wah>

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.
 
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Spurlock said:
Yup...other way round and we would all be forced to be in tears because another big logo is going bust <wah>

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.
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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.
 
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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.
 
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Tobes said:
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.
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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.
 
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.
 
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Tel said:
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.
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I've loved it mate, fresh fruit and veg a plenty, no fooker wants it, did myself a lovely salad yesterday.
 
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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
 
Tobes said:
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.
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Government needs to step in to ensure banks extend a line of credit to those businesses at least. At zero interest rates.
 
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