Chinese "Devil Virus" - anyone worried?
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Meanwhile, this is London yesterday morning.
In "Lockdown" apparently...
What was everyone expecting?
There's still a lot of key/ essential workers who need to travel, and while tube and train use has decreased by 80% or whatever, but so has the number of actual services, so it's as busy as ever for maths reasons.
I don't see any solution, short of requiring ID to ensure that everyone is a "key worker", which apparently still includes postmen, binmen, call centre workers, teachers, and a whole host of others, so it's still loads of people anyway.
Bex sister is due to start working in a hospital on Monday, was with us Saturday & we're all now coughing.
She won't be allowed to test & is still expected to go in on Monday.
It's a fucking joke.
Thanks mate. Seems it was. She's been to the doc and he's not even going to test for it. Treating it as flu and advised isolation for the sake of being cautious, but made it sound like he was sure it's not the Mileys.
They can massively reduce the amount of key workers. It's easily done by going to each category, like for example garages, & choosing just one or two per region to remain open & all the others close.
They can enforce the businesses who are taking the piss, like the furniture chain (whose name I forget) which has added a fridge & freezer with food to each store to remain open, the carpet & flooring stores staying open saying they supply key businesses, the factories & places making anything (except food) that goes to the businesses allowed to stay open who are still making their workers come in, like ladder & tool manufacturers. There must be millions of staff just going in cos their owners are being liberal with their interpretation of the rules.
They can enforce the businesses who are taking the piss, like the furniture chain (whose name I forget) which has added a fridge & freezer with food to each store to remain open, the carpet & flooring stores staying open saying they supply key businesses, the factories & places making anything (except food) that goes to the businesses allowed to stay open who are still making their workers come in, like ladder & tool manufacturers. There must be millions of staff just going in cos their owners are being liberal with their interpretation of the rules.
Oh, & close construction sites (arguable exception for hospitals obv).
Open the tube stations again, have the usual amount of trains as usual (or close to as possible) & have them stop at every other station with limited numbers allowed on each.
Open the tube stations again, have the usual amount of trains as usual (or close to as possible) & have them stop at every other station with limited numbers allowed on each.
Ace mate.
Unfortunately now Isabelle has gone downhill massively in the last hour. She's got a really high temperature too (sadly can't find the fucking thermometer but she's properly roasting).
It's fucking ludicrous.
Orthodontists aren't exempt, so Luke literally has a piece of metal sticking into his mouth cos part of its broken, but if his bike wheel is fucked, we can get that fixed no problem.
Nonsensical.
My mum is in work currently. She works in a car showroom. The car showroom however, has a garage attached, so her employer said she has to go in.
They're gonna have to get a grip on this shit. Sadly there aren't police numbers to do so (I'm desperately trying not to get political about this but I think we'll all agree that) so I think to enforce it properly at some point they'll have to use either a huge volunteer force or soldiers to do so, both of which have huge issues attached.
Fuck dude, that's tough. Do you have access to testing there if you think you need it?
A car showroom?! Doing what exactly?? With WHAT customers?
Yeah, looks like that key worker list is going to need culling, especially if this kind of legislation-swerving fuckery is commonplace.
The NHS staff are in contact with sick people at work. In contact witch sick people on the commute in. Then when they get home, their kids have all been in contact with other NHS kids at school.
For the life of me, I still don't understand why the NHS staff are all dropping like flies. A total mystery. According to the models this should not be happening.
Nope. Only if you're a member of the royal family, a celebrity, or an mp it seems.
She's not running a fever so high that she's delirious or anything, so I'm not overly concerned about her as yet.
There are actually customers, believe it or fucking not, not many, but they're still coming. They sold a fucking car yesterday!
Also, sports direct staff have to go into work or they don't get paid. Even though the stores aren't open, they have to clean the stores, organise the stock & be available at all times in store for their normal shifts.
Sadly it appears even the message 'non essential stores must be closed' wasn't specific enough for some arseholes.
From what I hear, the UK is pretty fucking shit at handling this.
Even though I'm in a backwards 3rd world country that's supposedly sure to be fucked, I fancy our chances more than yours based on evidence to date.
Could all explode really quickly anywhere of course, but we're at 700+ confirmed cases with no fatalities yet.
It's all going to come down to how much people respect the lock down come Friday. Unfortunately there are loads of greedy cunts owning businesses here too.
Wow.
And wow again. What's the point of organising stock and cleaning shops if the stores are closed? Can't they fulfil online orders from a warehouse or something?
Oh, wait. Mike Ashley.
He issued a press release saying sports direct provide an essential service but got a social media bollocking when it turns out those massive mugs and 18 packs of donnay socks don't cure Corona
What makes it more laughable (or terrifying) is that the garages that are open can't get most parts cos most (but not all) parts suppliers are closed, & the new car that they've sold, is stuck on the Dock (where they're stored) cos there's no one to sign it out, never mind deliver it.
It's beyond satire now. Charlie Brooker wouldn't write this cos it's too far fetched.
Here's India "Superpower by 2020" in action.
Mohdi asks everyone to stand on balconies and cheer health workers, during the announced Janata curfew and new social distancing rules.
Immediate country-wide street party ensues, with huge crowds gathering on the streets, often led by local government officials, singing, clanging pots and pans and dancing, with some claiming that clapping and vibrations can help stop the spread of the Virus.
So, yeah. They're fucked.
Latest (unofficial) news in Ireland is that all the latest cases have been household transmissions, meaning that we could be out of this sooner than expected, but would need to shut down the borders or quarantine anyone coming in.
Fuck me. They're monumentally screwed. 1.3bn people? The death rate (in numerical terms) there could be staggering even if it's less than 1 percent.
Well, this seems to be getting worse...
So far Greece is doing OK, all things considering, there's been 20 deaths but rate of infections seems to be falling. I just hope there aren't any outbreaks in any of the refugee camps. They need to up the game when it comes to testing, everyone does.
So far Greece is doing OK, all things considering, there's been 20 deaths but rate of infections seems to be falling. I just hope there aren't any outbreaks in any of the refugee camps. They need to up the game when it comes to testing, everyone does.
There still seems to be a fair amount of traffic.
Where did you read that Gerry? Not disputing or anything, just haven't seen it.
Next have told all their store staff if they turn up to stores to work they will get an extra 20% pay rise.
This shit HAS to stop.
This shit HAS to stop.