The most pathetic lockdown in history. A lot of folk using up their one form of exercise already!
The most pathetic lockdown in history. A lot of folk using up their one form of exercise already!
We're still in, had an email at 7am that everyone is expected in as normal, but now discipline is starting to break down and I can't see it holding for a day. The MD has completely lost control.
They did indeed try to requisition a couple for the warehouse but, bravely, they refused (correctly contending that in the warehouse no 2m rule is being observed). MD shat himself and has retreated to his bunker. Meanwhile, other department heads are demanding sales be sent home.
I can see an argument for you guys staying open, to be honest. Agriculture needs to plod on and they can't have equipment fail on them.
New Zealand is level 4 lockdown.
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/a...ectid=12319204
All non-essential businesses will be closed and everyone will have to stay at home except for solitary exercise and visiting essential services.
Supermarkets will stay open throughout the four-week lockdown and the supply chain will stay running.
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My mate works for the government and still hasn't been sent to WFH even though he absolutely could in his role, which is pretty shambolic.
Jimmy you guys should just refuse to go in en masse.
The housing association I work for are trying to get us to go in for all work. Apparently its business as usual within our sector as long as we are 2m away from people.
Also got told as we are open as usual if we dont go into work we wont get paid and the goverment 80% wont cover businesses who are working as usual.
Unbelievable.
Lockdown going well on the Tube, I see.
This is exposing just how backwards we are when it comes to having to be in an office. And that applies in normal times too.
There is literally nothing in my job I can’t do from home now that all the work I do with clinical people is rightly gone for the foreseeable. My boss is a good bloke and genuinely very bright (and, ironically, a virologist by background) but the notion of remote meetings just doesn’t work in his head. He doesn’t get it. ‘It’s not as good as face to face’. And there might be truth in that, but right now we have to get on with good enough.
He means well. When he tells me he wants to balance my need to attend with the level of risk he is telling the truth. It’s just that proper remote working has never been a thing in his head. It’s something he’s happy with if there’s a piece of work that needs doing which can be done just as well at home. He just can’t comprehend that we can interact differently.
There aren’t many things more bleak right now than looking at webcams of places you’ve visited. Christ.
Aye, or places you were going to.
Yeah, I’ve had to stop with the Cornwall ones.
My gf's housing association have been replacing her kitchen. So far they've disconnected everything, removed all the cupboards, sideboards and floor, the plasterer game yesterday so that's done. Then today she got a call to say they aren't coming. They where meant to be putting counters and cupboards in, and connecting her cooker and washer back up.
Hopefully they can get someone to sort it, to at least a basic working kitchen level.
Just had a webcam conference call thingy for work.
Firstly, Microsoft Teams is dogshit.
I spent most of it not saying anything so that my webcam wasn’t one of the four (out of twelve) that people see and spent the entire duration (44 mins) stroking the cat and refreshing the Morrison’s website to try and get a delivery slot.
They want to repeat the call every day but it’s not compulsory, so I’m just gonna politely decline unless there’s anything to actual discuss.
Also the stupid fat useless woman who does no work (and STOLE MY DESK) literally said “besides these meetings at 9:15 everyday, what do you want me to do? I have no work” and was told not to worry about it, and just stay in touch. She’s fucking having a laugh. She’s like four paygrades above me too, the cunt.
I'm a twit
Right. I'm off for my government-approved daily mooch. I'll take my passport just in case I get stopped.
** LIVE **
I'm currently being kick out of a coffee shop due to a 1 week lockdown starting at 6pm today
I've been having mine at lunch time. Yesterday I saw a few people, but most were being sensible. The only dickheads were a group of 4 kids sitting on a bench and 3 pensioners gathered on a street corner for a chat.
You can indeed.
Teams is fine. Good even.
PM just said Australia has performed 140 000 tests.
Have now been told that our lockdown will start at the end of play Friday. They are sending us an official document to show the police if we get stopped while out working.
On my walk to Tesco from work and so far I’m on 9 OAPs was out and about
You (well at least Germany but I suppose it's similar in Austria) are presumably already far ahead in testing compared to most other countries.
How each country attributes deaths to COVID is also a point of contention, but I don't think we'll ever properly find out about that.
How do you determine who is in the premier league and the championship? @John Arne?
Germany are definitely fudging figures.
Even if they are, the rise they're showing is still exponential.
They also have a bigger ICU capacity. The response has been better but they were still woefully slow to limit the spread. Too much of Europe wanted to remain open for too long.
I'm now expecting wfh to be implemented by the end of the day, but fuck me they're dragging their feet.
I'll remember this.
Good to hear.
So my ex has it, or is as sure as one can be that they do. She's 30, otherwise really healthy (low BMI, gym 3 times a week etc) but over the last 24 hours she's developed an awful cough, temperature and aches all over.
Not sure how good she is at dealing with ill, but says she feels like she's been floored by it.
My morning run along the canal was uneventful and fairly quiet. Bar one family of five or six, it was all pretty much single joggers, walkers and dog walkers.
In school, Key Stage 2 is down from 16 children yesterday to ten today, and the dinner lady is off with a high temperature.
Somebody on my friend's Facebook feed has lost their ninety-nine and ninety-two year old grandparents to it, and they're booting off at selfish people for not following the guidelines. Not the family birthday party you threw one of them ten days ago then love?
Pretty much business as usual here, we might end up staying open for the duration. Quite why the building industry gets a pass is beyond me, you'd think people who were congregating on sites and in and out of people's homes would be the same as everyone else. Not so apparently.
Today’s government press conference is being taken by Michael Gove, with journalists participating using Zoom.
I know Johnson will only be repeating things he has already said, but he is giving the impression of being bored already. Which he probably is, but so what?
What else can he say aside from, "STAY AT HOME. READ THE TEXT MESSAGE! TESTS SOON!"
Actually, that reads too much like a Trump tweet. Speaking of Donald, this is breaking him. He's stuffed a lot of responsibility on State and local government whilst he wants the country back open in weeks.
The birdsong sounds so loud. I think it's the lack of background traffic noise.
I'm sat outside my apartment block ... A duck wonders up to me and starts quacking its head off, as if I owe him money or something. He then shuts the fuck up, looks at me, then trundles off. #Beef #DuckAttitude