If you'd ask me to guess where (or what) Limavady was, a town in Northern Ireland would have been fairly low down on the list.
If you'd ask me to guess where (or what) Limavady was, a town in Northern Ireland would have been fairly low down on the list.
He's from Donegal.
How persistent is the cough supposed to be?
And is it one of those that feels like there's a bit of an irritant in your throat but that feeling never goes away? Got what I'd describe as the beginning of one of them this evening, can hold it in but the irritated feeling gets worse.
Sounds like you're the one with the anti-Irish alarm fella.Originally Posted by Giggles
The 111 website describes it as either ‘coughing a lot for more than an hour’ or ‘3 or more coughing episodes over 24 hours’. Which is pretty fucking broad.
It's constant coughing with nothing really coming up or in your throat. Dry as fuck.
Does it feel phlegmy?
Apparently if you’re going to die there’s no phlegm.
We were originally told that and now it’s changed to any cough, not necessarily dry.
This is the main reason I felt so annoyed by the seemingly gleeful attitude of staff being told they were working from home. We're probably mostly fine if it lasts 3 months, but beyond that and we're talking about at least one redundancy, maybe more.
We are fortunate that we don't really rely on new business to pay the bills, because we'd be absolutely fucked if we were.
Definitely dry but not exactly what I'd call a major cough. Feels more like a cough is required to try and clear the irritated feeling rather than uncontrollable coughing itself.
Will see how it develops. I'd rather it got worse or fucked off entirely so it's at least obvious.
Gary Neville is pretty brave, sitting that close to Carragher on Sky with all this going on.
Business is actually booming for us, so much so that the two corpses in the sales department who I mentioned would be sacked before me have now been told to get the steel toe cap boots out and help in the warehouse until further notice, as the current staff can't cope with the number of orders going through.
I can't think of a more likely environment to catch the coronavirus than our warehouse, so godspeed to them both. At least they can't be as useless out there as they are in the office (or can they?)
My work has been absolutely horrendous this week. The joy of working with often vulnerable people is that they (the ones that work) often have zero hour contracts or dodgy 'self employed' jobs. Tears and tantrums all day every day. Sheer panic.
LiveScore is fair fucking grim these days.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-51968302
Fuck you Netflix.
It's better than the internet going to shit, you absolute retard.
That was the most Mahow post ever
The Palestine Gaza Strip Cup is in full force.
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My cousin's just told me my aunt has a 'chest infection'.
Girlfriend’s aunt and uncle in Croydon have it.
Mahow this is the perfect time for you to be getting out and about. Go out into the town centre every day, and then as the crowds start to come back over the coming months it will wean you off being a fanny.
This thread of the paper's front pages. We're doomed.
As if that loser blog still knocks up a 'front page'.
Extreme CBT, I like it.
There’s some shady work being published right now. There’s one paper doing the rounds that hydroxycloroquine (an anti malarial) recovered patients faster and reduced symptoms. The problem being any patient who went into intensive care was not included in the pissing analysis. Now orders for this HCQ are going through the roof in the US.
That will have been Mellin as well the shithouse.
40000 people have been tested in NSW for 352 confirmed with 53 community transmissions. 6 people have died.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-03-...ralia/12071910
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Being Irish covers both parts of Ireland. Is that right?
The FTSE has improved this morning. They bought the 12 weeks to some extent then.
A somewhat less alarmist version of what I posted yesterday, but the same message is there in terms of the size of the problem we're facing.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-51963486
That ia fighting words to some.
I do enjoy the insistence that the whole island is called Ireland but that not all the people from there are Irish.
The countries are Ireland and the UK, islands are an irrelevance. The northeast has a monarchy, pays taxes to HMRC, and spends pounds sterling.
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Donegal has a monarch?!
Northern Ireland isn't a real place.
shit, northeast of the island I mean. Cabin fever has the directions fucked up.
And Irish passports.
Special Dom.
We haven't closed the schools:
The government's advice is clear: if you can keep your children at home, do so. But key workers still have the right to send their children to school. These are workers in:
health and social care, including doctors, nurses, midwives, paramedics, social workers, care workers, and other frontline health and social care staff
education and childcare
key public services including those essential to the running of the justice system, religious staff, charities and workers delivering key frontline services, "those responsible for the management of the deceased", and journalists and broadcasters who provide public service broadcasting
local and national government
food and other necessary goods, including those involved in food production, processing, distribution, sale and delivery
public safety and national security, including police and support staff; Ministry of Defence civilians, contractor and armed forces personnel; fire and rescue service employees, border security, prison and probation staff and other national security roles
transport
utilities, communication and financial services
My wife just got told she won't be needed while this is going on, but will still be paid, which is good news.
Just got an e-mail through from the daycare we use - they'll be shut from Monday onwards. Unless I'm directed to work from home, this means either using up annual leave or taking TOFD without pay for the foreseeable future.
Are we not fucking past the point of people having the right to do stuff? Are we not listening to Italy?
People need to be told straight what this means now. We're in this for the long haul. We'll come out the other side but only if people take responsibility and the government takes a role in enforcing it. We've got maybe two years of this. If people behave like adults those two years will probably be a whole lot nicer, in that we'll only have intermittent lockdown and it will become increasingly targeted/localised as testing becomes more widespread.
It's still shit, but staying in is a price worth paying. If people carry on as they are then they'll soon find mum and dad are dead and it will be partly their fault. But at least they got to enjoy that pint.
At the pub again tonight and there are easily more than 100 people. Lol wuhan!
Basically they need nannies otherwise the economy is gonna collapse is all I got outta this
It will need to be enforced. I'm meant to be seeing my parents tonight (at their home, 2 miles from mine). They are healthy and mid 60s so not a huge at risk category. They think me coming is no big deal but I think it is. I don't know. It's terrifying, not helped by the business-as-usual attitude at work.
My mum's been getting the bus to the osteopath. I managed to talk her down to a taxi (which I'm paying for) and reducing from 3 times a week to once.
Indeed. There was never any shred of anything to suggest they were. I wish people would stop saying it. And Boris saying it without providing any sort of actual plans or even advice is just diabolical.
If this does end up as bad as you think and that muppet ends up as some kind of hero, he’ll be an almost as much of a fraud cunt as Churchill.
I'm a twit
PM Sincere for Ireland facts if you need to brush up.
Because I've had some (admittedly light) symptoms I've told my parents - late 50s, reasonable enough health - that I won't be seeing them for a couple of weeks. My mum is my biggest worry. Whilst healthy day to day she's epileptic and her drugs are immunosuppressive, so she's basically stopping in for three months other than walks in the park or whatever. Other than the epilepsy her health is pretty robust. It's just there always exists the risk that she has multiple seizures in quick succession and needs a short hospital admission. I don't want her anywhere near a hospital while we are at the peak of this. My dad is a bit panicked by the whole thing. I'd rather him not feel as anxious about it as he is, but at least I know he'll keep mum in.
I'm calling getting out of this with my parents still okay a success. Obviously grandparents would be lovely too, but my remaining ones are old and ill to some degree, so they're at risk. They're being sensible at the moment though.
My last grandparent died in 2000 which, at the moment, I'm treating as a tremendous stroke of good fortune.
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