Well, no because stay at home orders kinda limit that.
Well, no because stay at home orders kinda limit that.
The horses were already in the fields.
Cork hats for everyone.
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Well, whoops for Japan and Singapore.
Calling gaming setups 'rigs' is the most nauseating thing ever.
Telling an employer that regularly fisted you that they're a sweetheart is probably worse.
Some of our early models were based off Singapore.Originally Posted by Shindig
Take your L, Spikey, he absolutely beasted them.
There won’t be pubs or restaurants in business if it goes that way.
Won’t be a good time to live in an urban area. Great time if you live more rurally. If there’s a genuine concern, phases pullback is the way forward by region.
You could just have the distancing in restaurants and run them at half capacity (aren't Sweden doing that?), but sport is ballsed below the television level.
Good news - the date at which you had to be employed isn't 28th February as people previously assumed.
Bad news - It's actually 19th March.
28th Feb only applies to people made redundant between the 28/02 and 19/03.
I think most sport will have to go ultra-local for a time. As in the only football that will be able to happen will be Sunday League sort of stuff. Pretty sure you'll be able to have 22 people playing in a park at some point, but no crowds or anything. I'm not sure pro football in particular has yet got its head around the fact that the bubble has properly burst.
Austria is opening up golf, tennis and athletics soon.
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I'm part of a group trying to get it changed and we've had some decent support but this change helps mostly those paid weekly, I think so still a couple of hundred thousand still uncovered. Governments solution was to ask former employer to furlough you or go on UC. I went on UC, took two hours or so to get through then a few days to sign up.
I believe it will change again eventually but it's still a bit shit. I sympathise more so with those who have kids and proper commitments as some of the stories I've read are quite harrowing, especially those who can't even put in a claim because one half of the couple work or because they are considered key workers etc.
When did you start your new job? Have you missed out on the 19th by much?
The ones that can do takeaway might scrape by, but pubs (aside from the chains) may well be going the way of the dinosaur. They've been struggling for years as it is.
Day 30-something Thought of the Day: Restaurants dying really is the way forward for humanity. Obviously we know 'foodie' culture and all those who revel in it to be the worst thing since Nazism but breaking up the relationship between humans and food like this only results in problems, be it physical, mental or social.
I started on the 9th but didn't get paid until the 27th so eight days? I'm sure it will change again, there is too many affected otherwise.
It depends with the RTI submission was, but I doubt it was 8 days before you were paid (we do it 5 days before pay day). Worth checking though.
They are starting to say they see early positive signs here, and that we may have come close to a peak or reach a plateau (the latter seems more like how our curve will end up looking to me) which is partly encouraging, but also a bit terrifying as I'm sort of expecting people to throw caution to the wind now and go SIT IN THE SUN at cafés and bars this weekend and going forward.
It's kind of weird, life just seems to go on as normal here, except you see an ambulance or two picking up people every time you go out for a shorter walk.
Well, our deaths just jumped up by a 100 so that'll put pay to complacency. Or not.
The jump is just reporting catch up. Our deaths are plateauing now. April 8th looks like the peak at the moment, but yesterday could rival it based on what has been reported so far. The number will bounce around at a high level for at least a few more days yet.
Is ICU coping, Lee?
It is in my place, but there are more ventilated patients than is normal. Very tight in London and Birmingham, but they probably won’t breach (expanded) capacity. Our overall hospital beds occupied have stabilised and we’ve had small drops the last couple of days, so here’s hoping.
3 more weeks. Just off to kill myself. Love ya's.
We're opening Hairdressers on the 27th and the pubs on June 8th.
It will be another 3 weeks after this, too.
Which Western country has been locked down longest?
Italy surely.
Switzerland for my holiday it is
I am taking this very strangely indeed. Some days I feel serene and others totally down.
When will I next be able to visit my parents, fucking June? July?
Maybe you have already but I skyped mine the other night and it was really nice being able to see them and talk to them both at the same time rather than just talking on the phone. I know it's not the same but it helped a bit.
I have video called them twice (and my brother and sister) but it's just awkward and not a patch on being in the same room, four fucking miles away.
I do wish I lived closer to mine now. I'm mainly ringing them just to check in for five minutes.
Jimmy's commuting still so I can understand the higher risk but if, like my brother, you've isolated yourself and are still too scared to have contact with your parents then you probably need to unplug yourself from the matrix.
It's weird not seeing my Sister. I go round hers every few days to drop off shopping and/or some home cooked meals but she buzzes me into the building and I either leave it outside her flat door or put it in the kitchen while she waits in her bedroom. Was also her birthday last week which was weird.
And yet I see that one of my Auntie's went to another Auntie's house for Easter not giving a shit about the whole thing.
My mother rings me twice a day to talk absolute crap, and it's literally the only bad thing about any of this. If this is what retirement is like then I'll have some.
Think this angle is one of those things that has no effect on me.
My mum spent months at a time away on business when I was growing up and I've barely lived in the same country, let alone city, as my parents since I was 17. I'm used to it.
Walked to their house you lazy shit.
I might to get to call to mine this tomorrow or Saturday. Well, only into the yard but I have stuff to give them since before all this started and I want to get a few things I left in my Da’s shed. Will all depend on work.
I’ve seen mine once and just had a chat over the garden fence. A bit shit really, but better than nothing. I speak to them most days. I’m hopeful that going round other people’s houses will be okayed in another three or six weeks.
You're great then aren't you.
Sassssssy.
The opposite, I wish I had that sort of closeness to anyone that most people have. I live in a world where I struggle with personal connections on a constant basis because of it.
lol
I'm weirdly in-between Phonics and Jimmy: I spend probably nine months out of the year in a different country as my parents, but coronavirus means that I'm now with them 24/7 for the foreseeable future. It's not bad at all, but I think it would be nicer if I had some siblings. Or I could get out a little more.
I think the ideal is living on your own in the same city / county as your parents.
Well, that's the least surprising Autistic coming out that we've had.
Edit: Phonics, not the Mormon.
I've gotten closer to the family as time's gone on. With this situation, I'm just breaking up the two hours I'd usually see them once a fortnight into phone calls. If I tried to visit them, my mam would probably call me a stupid bugger for bothering. Civil obedience is hardwired into them. And, by extension, it's hardwired into me.
https://youtu.be/VKR7i-2EC6w
Yesterday's was lowkey so I expect fireworks.
I only see my parents about 15 days a year in total, it can be tough but I get by knowing that it's probably not too long until the next visit.
It's different now, because there is no way I could possibly visit them even if I desperately needed to.
It’s them I feel for.
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