Coronavirus Death Thread

[Dquincy]

I hate the place and everyone involved with it. Had this shit not happened I'd probably already be working elsewhere.

Fair play.

I think I've worked outside of 'office hours' slightly less since the pandemic. But this is mainly because our work flow has slowed down, which is not great considering the bigger picture.

So many people think that the office is no longer required (certainly in it's previous form) and home working is the way forward. But this appears to generally be the views of employees rather than employers. It's a lot harder to manage staff and quality control in this remote environment. Also the graduates need closer contact to manage and help them develop, imo.

Ps. Interesting post about peper pig world. We're all the rides open? Queues OK?

[niko_cee]

Are they limiting capacity in terms of how many people they let into zoos/theme parks etcs in the UK? I guess that wouldn't be noticeable at Peppa Pig World seeing as the cap would probably apply to the whole of the bigger park, which is always deserted, so everyone would just be in the pig's domain even if it was technically only at 50% capacity.

[Spikey M]

Are they limiting capacity in terms of how many people they let into zoos/theme parks etcs in the UK? I guess that wouldn't be noticeable at Peppa Pig World seeing as the cap would probably apply to the whole of the bigger park, which is always deserted, so everyone would just be in the pig's domain even if it was technically only at 50% capacity.

Yep. The main problem is that Paultons itself is huge, but Peppa Pig World its self is both the most popular and quite compact.

The virtual queue for some of the rides was over 2 hours long. On the other side of the park we were able to walk onto rides with no wait time.

Fair play.

I think I've worked outside of 'office hours' slightly less since the pandemic. But this is mainly because our work flow has slowed down, which is not great considering the bigger picture.

So many people think that the office is no longer required (certainly in it's previous form) and home working is the way forward. But this appears to generally be the views of employees rather than employers. It's a lot harder to manage staff and quality control in this remote environment. Also the graduates need closer contact to manage and help them develop, imo.

Ps. Interesting post about peper pig world. We're all the rides open? Queues OK?

Yep, everything open. They were taking steps to social distance on the rides (skipping every other seat etc.) But that just made the queues worse, and there was fuck all distancing there. Which is no surprise when 50% of the attendees are under 5.

[niko_cee]

And the other 50% are probably leaning towards the sweet embrace of corona-related death from the experience of being there.

[Shindig]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-53478404

Man, if I was civil service proper, I'd be loving that.

[Spikey M]

3.1% of fuck all isn't alot.

[Jimmy Floyd]

There are some things that make me glad I'm highly unlikely ever to have children, and the apparent existence of 'Peppa Pig World' is up there with the best of them.

[Shindig]

3.1% of fuck all isn't alot.

I got 0.75% last year and this year we're getting no rise. It's better than that.

[Dquincy]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-53478404

Man, if I was civil service proper, I'd be loving that.

My neighbours are teachers. They have been loving their lockdown life. Initially they were at home at the start of lockdown. And since the schools started prioritising key worker children they've had a rota of 1 week in school and 1 week at home. The week in school there are hardly any kids to look after (albeit that has changed recently) and the week 'working' at home is spent by them sunbathing, playing golf and doing anything but work.

All on full pay.

[Lofty]

What industry is that?

On the railway if it's less than 5% every year there is uproar.

[Shindig]

Benefits. The DWP farm out the assessment side of things to us but we work with their systems, their data and their customers. But we don't get the same money. Sometimes it works out (when there's a pay sector freeze whilst we still get bumped up) and sometimes it doesn't. As a private company, they can do what they like with their payroll and they can always play the Corona card when it comes to this year's pay.

I shouldn't whinge, really. There's more senior people in the office that do the same role as me on better money. And with about 40 days holiday.

[Don]

The payrise missing certain workers and leading to some calling it unjustified for others, some NHS protection clause being voted down and I think the Russia report is due to be released today? Twitter servers really earning their money today.

[Jimmy Floyd]

I think everyone should be given a payrise, except people who don't deserve one.

[Raoul Duke]

If you're not getting a pay rise at least at the inflation rate, you're getting a pay cut

[Shindig]

A former National Security Agency (NSA) contractor who admitted passing secret information to the media has contracted coronavirus in jail.

Reality Winner, 28, was sentenced to more than five years in prison for leaking an NSA report on alleged Russian meddling in the 2016 US election.

I also had a giggle at someone with the surname 'Cockins' today.

[phonics]

Her story is absolutely tragic, she was a big pro-Glenn Greenwald guy because of his work with Snowden and he was vehemently pushing the line of "There's no proof of Russia trying to affect our elections" that she sent the evidence they'd hacked the Florida voter role. He pawned the story off on some junior editor who did none of the security clearance work and the FBI had her under arrest less than 48 hours later.

[mugbull]

Her story is absolutely tragic, she was a big pro-Glenn Greenwald guy because of his work with Snowden and he was vehemently pushing the line of "There's no proof of Russia trying to affect our elections" that she sent the evidence they'd hacked the Florida voter role. He pawned the story off on some junior editor who did none of the security clearance work and the FBI had her under arrest less than 48 hours later.

Greenwald never said that, he just believes that the interference wasn't anywhere near as big a deal as Democrats are making it seem and that there wasn't collusion. Also makes the valid point that while Democrats were constantly op-edding about "why trump may not accept the election results if he loses - and WHAT this MEANs for our democracy", once he won the Dems did just that vis a vis Russia 'stealing the election'.

[Don]

The care homes are open again but a group of young people with single digit BMIs can't congregate for a dance? Fuck the shut up.

[Giggles]

Your dancing is irrelevant.

[Spoonsky]

Greenwald never said that, he just believes that the interference wasn't anywhere near as big a deal as Democrats are making it seem and that there wasn't collusion. Also makes the valid point that while Democrats were constantly op-edding about "why trump may not accept the election results if he loses - and WHAT this MEANs for our democracy", once he won the Dems did just that vis a vis Russia 'stealing the election'.

It's not like Obama refused to concede or anything, which is what I think people worry about with Trump.

[Don]

Your dancing is irrelevant.

Not half as much as your life, I assure you, but no one should restrict either.

Cracking piece on BBC News about those with learning difficulties dealing with lockdown

[Giggles]

Not half as much as your life, I assure you, but no one should restrict either.

Cracking piece on BBC News about those with learning difficulties dealing with lockdown

Were they dancing too?

[randomlegend]

He's just told you he's not allowed to dance.

[Don]

Stop with the fucking flirting and let's get naughty, boys.

[Shindig]

They tell you the new normal won't be that bad but it's ripe for a line-dancing renaissance.

[Spikey M]

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[Lewis]

Right, everyone back inside forever.

[Shindig]

I can look at that very graph for 1st July and see a 7-day average of 711. It's going back up but it hasn't doubled.

[Boydy]

What are decent reusable masks to buy?

They should be three layers, right?

[Don]

Get a scarf on and stop killing dolphins, you cunt.

[Spikey M]

Right, everyone back inside forever.

We booked a holiday for the end of August. If this shit fucks another one I'll go postal.

[Shindig]

I picked up a sports mask with some filters for under a tenner. It's thin as fuck but the filters do the job.

[Lewis]

My next door neighbour has literally just asked me to do their bins this week because they've booked a last-minute trip to Spain.

[Boydy]

We booked a holiday for the end of August. If this shit fucks another one I'll go postal.

Europe warns of need for vigilance as Covid-19 cases rise sharply

https://www.theguardian.com/world/20...s-rise-sharply

[Don]

What sort of a helmet books a holiday now and then gets emosh when THE GLOBAL FUCKING PANDEMIC turns out to not disappear overnight to allow them to have their bottomless sangrias? Get the fuck into Butlins with a suitcase full of Dettol, you cunts.

[Spikey M]

Europe warns of need for vigilance as Covid-19 cases rise sharply

https://www.theguardian.com/world/20...s-rise-sharply

It's a UK one, so a little less likely but a local lock down is a real possibility.

[Spikey M]

What sort of a helmet books a holiday now and then gets emosh when THE GLOBAL FUCKING PANDEMIC turns out to not disappear overnight to allow them to have their bottomless sangrias? Get the fuck into Butlins with a suitcase full of Dettol, you cunts.

We are going to Butlins.

[niko_cee]

I'm also due to be attending the UK in a few weeks (not Butlins mind) so if you're going to lapse back into some sort of lockdown it'd be appreciated if you could do it sooner rather than later, you filthy fuckers.

[Don]

Ah you meant another UK lockdown? Not a fucking chance. The NHS will burn like that Batman scene before me and my bredrins will accept that shite again.

[Yevrah]

I'm sort of with Taz on this one.

You either care most about the economy and industries or you care most about Covid. You can't open up tourism and then sound surprised that there's a rise in cases before imposing some bullshit 10 day wank before presumably repeating the cycle in perpetuity.

Humanity also seems really poor at dealing with this. Sans a vaccine and/or effective treatment we're basically employing methods that would have been used in the dark ages. We need to sort that shit out as if/when airborne Ebola does come, we'll never be leaving our houses again.

[niko_cee]

Humanity bad at dealing with this as opposed to?

Bats?

[Yevrah]

As in we should really be better at dealing with it.

[Shindig]

On the bright side, we've got the testing in place and have given local authorities more control to react over this. Germany, Italy and France might have lower case numbers but we're testing three times as much.

[Kikó]

I'm going to the Algarve in a couple of weeks and hoping they hit the safe zone before then. Otherwise it's home and in lockdown on return.

As long as the flights aren't cancelled.

[niko_cee]

As in we should really be better at dealing with it.

We're probably going to have developed a vaccine within 12 months of this thing coming into existence. Seems pretty good going to me.

[Lewis]

I'm sort of with Taz on this one.

You either care most about the economy and industries or you care most about Covid. You can't open up tourism and then sound surprised that there's a rise in cases before imposing some bullshit 10 day wank before presumably repeating the cycle in perpetuity.

Humanity also seems really poor at dealing with this. Sans a vaccine and/or effective treatment we're basically employing methods that would have been used in the dark ages. We need to sort that shit out as if/when airborne Ebola does come, we'll never be leaving our houses again.

This was obvious in early-March, and why the initial government approach was the right one. Now here we are, four months into a three week lockdown and people are still being pathetic.

[Boydy]

My next door neighbour has literally just asked me to do their bins this week because they've booked a last-minute trip to Spain.

Spain just added to the quarantine list.

[Spikey M]

On the bright side, we've got the testing in place and have given local authorities more control to react over this. Germany, Italy and France might have lower case numbers but we're testing three times as much.

We're claiming to test 3x as much.

[Boydy]

Yeah we're testing three times as much because they count your throat and each nostril as three separate tests.

[Don]

King of swabs.