We're going full Madagascar, no one's coming in without 14 day isolation.
No active cases, no evidence of community transmission.
We're going full Madagascar, no one's coming in without 14 day isolation.
No active cases, no evidence of community transmission.
2nd death confirmed in Scotland.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/newsbeat-51923334
Should be interesting.It's been more than a month since the majority of Germany's Big Brother contestants entered the house.
In early February the first cases of coronavirus outside of Wuhan were just being reported.
Now Germany has close to 7,000 confirmed infections, with 14 deaths - but the housemates have no idea a global pandemic has been declared.
They'll finally be informed on Tuesday night in a live TV special, after "consultation with relatives".
Sounds like it's time for a rewatch of Dead Set.
I'd probably stay there...
Another 14 today.
So glad I'm having to stay on paeds for my next rotation. If I'd gone to urology I'd be one of the first in line to get drafted into front line adult medicine which is going to be fucking grim.
Second day of the job and after 40% of my team were sent home with symptoms the office has closed for the foreseeable. My chest is tightening and my throat has gone gippy.
I only caught the beginning but this would seem a fairly substantial package for businesses, hopefully that is going to include the self employed and more temporary workers in some way.
Given the shelves of local supermarkets now seem to be empty of soap, toilet roll and paracetemol by the time I swing by them after work, I feel it will only be a matter of time before I have to go at some ridiculous hour just to get essentials, appearing like a mentalist in the process.
I picked up a click and collect order from Tesco this morning and even though I fixed anything that was unavailable at like 10pm last night there was still some stuff that wasn't fulfilled and other stuff that was substituted.
The guy giving me my stuff also said they'll probably be stopping click and collect soon.
Probably gonna have to do my next shop at like 3am on a Tuesday.
Sunak absolutely donned that, and Lewis will be seething. Made Boris look like a floundering turnip as well.
They need to somehow work out help for renters and a few other groups (homeless?) but it's a great start.
From my experience the small shops still have everything.
I've been buying little and often over the last week since things started to ramp up a bit and I've not really struggled with much.
I've got more than enough to last the two of us for a month at least now. I am going to stop shopping now unless it's an essential to prevent contact outside of work.
Yeah, beggars can't be choosers so If Tesco runs out, I've got a corner shop or two and a Lidl. Anything to avoid going into Durham which the students will have knackered. And then there's the takeaway places.
I'm not entirely convinced by this so far but it sounds like he'll go a fair bit further. Not sure how keen businesses will be to take out loans, also worrying that there doesn't seem to be anything about wnsuring they pay their workers also what about people on zero hours or low minimum hours contracts who actually work a lot more hours?Originally Posted by Jimmy Floyd
Agree something needs to be done for renters.
But overall, yeah, felt much more reassured listening to Sunak than Johnson.
Also though Boris looked like he was just bored with it all and sure enough a minute later he was saying 'wrap it up'.
Early Mayor Boris would be donning this. Today's Boris looks tired, distracted and shit.
You have to think he'll get onto the other stuff soon. You probably can't work out how to help renters, self employed etc in 1-2 days.
Zero hour contracts as a thing will not survive this pandemic.
Of course he does. No politician these days is ready for this.
Good job we cut spending a bit when we did.
You can pause your Sky Sports subscription now.
https://www.sky.com/shop/covid19-cus...ile#section-12
Hopefully we’ll start to ramp up from tomorrow.
https://twitter.com/matt_dathan/stat...76875423924226
Love this sort of thing as well. Takes a crisis sometimes.
Not the case now.
Mad seeing Rishi donning things on TV. He grew up two minutes away from my house, seems a bit surreal.
One of the fun things (maybe this should be the work thread) is realising how the office infrastructure is really not set up for multiple work from home workers. Our ability to video call each other for example is shambolic. I've had to invent ways for us to be able to do face to face meetings because the approved method is just not fit for purpose.
Mine has been setup really well - Slack + Zoom is a winning combo
Our situation is a disgrace. The MD came in at 9am today and was talking about drafting up a plan for rotational wfh (this would be a good start) and he'd send an email round. He was then nowhere to be seen for the rest of the day and we still haven't heard anything, at a time when government advice is all possible should wfh.
We have all sorts of delivery men coming in and to make matters worse, someone's retirement card passed around the whole building, you couldn't make it up.
My guess is that El Presidente is crying his octogenarian ducts out in frustration because it wasn't like this in his day, he doesn't like being outranked by the PM, and you can't have business without everyone at the office.
My boss was still making plans today for a job to do with the Chelsea Flower Show, I was lolled at when I said it almost certainly wouldn't be happening.
https://www.itv.com/news/london/2020...ond-world-war/
The two big secondaries in my town are closed now due to staff shortages. We’re partially closed, years 10 and 12 have been asked to stay home. Which initially freed up two of my teaching periods tomorrow, but you know anyone freed up will get taken for cover.
Lol at your futuristic toolset. We've got Skype which sounds like people are drowning if you call through network and nothing really works video enabled. Had to just use Zoom and Whatsapp to make it possible.
We're using Microsoft Teams which seems to be holding up pretty well.
Do you really need video calls?
We've got Teams (Microsoft Slack) + Zoom and I set-up a Discord for when Teams is crashing from too many people using it.
We're doing a few interviews so it's more human. And if we're all not seeing each other for ages, it's probably best to check in now and again.
I’d say what it’ll end up showing a lot of companies is that 5 people will do where they had 20 before.
I am in Brighton and places look only marginally less busy than they usually would. There is probably a case for locking anyone currently celebrating St. Patrick's Day in the pubs to starve to death.
Depends how deadly this virus is....
They deliver food now. They'll live.
What virus?
Lord Castleknock will address at 9pm. Either he’s trying to jump on the presidents usual Paddy’s Day speech or I’m not going in to work, or anywhere, for the foreseeable.
Teams here too, plus our cloud VoIP.
Some of the Churchill impressions are pretty crap. Boris's earlier was terrible.
Anything but Microsoft teams.
Good thing they turned off Skype.
We do most remote stuff via Duo and Drive. Not big enough to need more and Duo is the only video service that isn’t complete dirt.
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I'm in the planning (office) side of a repair workshop for oil rig equipment. We'll be pretty limited in what we can do if we have to work from home given we usually need to be in the workshop a lot of the time.
There's still only the 2 off with symptoms (out of 8 of us) but their roles are more indirect. If a couple of the remaining 6 were to go for 2 weeks it wouldn't take long to turn into a clusterfuck.
We're working from home from tomorrow onwards. If this lasts 3-4 months, the lack of new business is going to end up in redundancies, and based on how happy people seemed to be told they're working from home, I don't think they realise that.
I can't work from home so I'll just get to doss about on full pay.
That’s the dream.I can't work from home so I'll just get to doss about on full pay.
Was a lot of getting work and stuff ready to send home should we need to today, I made up a few weeks of stuff for the two SEN children I work with, but it’s all hush hush and officially we aren’t doing it.
Can’t see us lasting to the end of next week, if only cos staff are dropping like flies, three more off today.
Nothing new in that. More of a national address for the day that was in it.
Told a girl i work with who works in a similar but diff dept about my WFH survey I received and she was so confused by my lack of enthusiasm.
I said honey there's literally already a call center that does what my job would entail if I went to WFH and then she realized there was one for her too lol
I'm watching The 6th Day on something called 'Sony Movies Action'. If the Johnson regime want everyone inside then they want to be leaning on terrestrial channels to stick a decent film on every night.
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