Covid-19 / Coronavirus Contingency Thread

Your comment spare cash lol. Did you not say on the football forum you would definitely buy a home and away shirt. If that's not spare cash what is. I have never said everyone smokes and drinks. A lot do. I was a heavy smoker my wife as well. When I returned from working abroad there were still no jobs in UK so a quick calculation told me we were smoking the equivalent of the mortgage payment. We both stopped smoking. Still struggled but kept our house.

My job role is included in the government bulletin regarding school remaining open for children of certain staff so 🤷🏻‍♂️

thanks for that info i was just about to thank him and his wife for saving us all

The lad is an idiot. I don't know why you bother replying to it. 

Mancot, the 4th emergency service,

They aren’t claiming they are.

What gives anybody the right to say how important any other persons job is? All NHS workers are heroes at the moment, we’re all doing our bit whether it’s doctors, nurses, APNP’s, ward clerks, switchboard operators, HR, payroll officers - and all with great uncertainty at the real possibility of anybody being redeployed to any other department in the hospital where the need is greatest. It is what it is - an exceptionally unprecedented busy time for the service.

As I said “frontline” was a bad choice of words, what I was getting at was the issue of “important” workers whose children will still be going to school and it includes ALL NHS staff.

Apologies for the confusion.

Agreed. In such exceptionally busy times how do you manage to notch up 100 posts a day on here? 

It's depressing that even at a time like this, journalists are more interested in cheap headlines than keeping people informed on what they need to know.

I bet tomorrow's Daily Mail front page is something like "Now Mother's Day Banned". Another one was desperately trying to get him to call the people still going to pubs "immoral" (a crap angle anyway, who cares?) and there was someone asking some rubbish about young people having house parties.

There are better questions on this thread than I've heard at any of these briefings.

I was off today.

Probably because you told us all that this is nothing to do with politics whatsoever 🙄

Suppose with less people out and about there’s less traffic on the roads and you can chase those ambulances quicker

The government failed to heed scientific warnings for seven weeks, until the impact on the stock market hit. Same in America where the Republicans called Covid-19 a hoax in public but made sure they got their money out before the general public could.

There’s a real concern that we will be like Italy in a fortnight.

As for the policies enacted to help it’s amazing how much we need socialism in times of crisis. Jeremy Corbyn was right - “we may have lost the election but we won the argument”, it’s just a shame it’s taken a worldwide pandemic to do so. Saying that, there is still nothing for the sick, disabled and vulnerable who are already on benefits and forced to isolate for months. The five-week wait for UC still remains, those who earn less than £118 a week still don’t qualify for sick pay and self-employed get just £94.25 a week. Still nowhere near good enough.