Coronavirus

[ricky2tricky4city]

DPD have just delivered something and to save you having to sign they are taking photos of it being dropped at the door.

BUT this is not just to minimise contact BUT all the chancers taking advantage of the situation and lying about not receiving goods. People are such clams.

I bet that's why it could be taking the government a while to help the self-employed...many will see it as a chance to 'double up' on wages as the government will have to rely on self policing in the main.

 

[Aldo]

DPD have just delivered something and to save you having to sign they are taking photos of it being dropped at the door.

BUT this is not just to minimise contact BUT all the chancers taking advantage of the situation and lying about not receiving goods. People are such clams.

I bet that's why it could be taking the government a while to help the self-employed...many will see it as a chance to 'double up' on wages as the government will have to rely on self policing in the main.

People have been lying about not receiving deliveries for ages. My clam of a sister-in-law does it at every opportunity, not caring that delivery drivers can have costs deducted from their wages, disciplinary measures or even sacked as a result.

 

[Robbo]

Prince Charles infected.

 

[P.D.]

They were saying last night they will request to go back to full service of trains to keep passengers spaced out a bit more. Not sure who thought it was a good idea to reduce the service in the first place, pretty obvious what would happen.

Khan reduced the tube frequency initially when demand dropped but now says he can't increase it as too many people are off so it's hard to know the truth really. I'm not really a fan of Khan generally but it's probably somewhere inbetween the two.

 

[Glenda's Legs]

Prince Charles infected.

An official statement read: "It is not possible to ascertain from whom the prince caught the virus owing to the high number of engagements he carried out in his public role during recent weeks."

Add to that - and no idea how many people he might have passed it onto.
Assuming he was still shaking hands with everyone.

 

[elltrev]

Khan reduced the tube frequency initially when demand dropped but now says he can't increase it as too many people are off so it's hard to know the truth really. I'm not really a fan of Khan generally but it's probably somewhere inbetween the two.

As in off sick? As far as I can tell tube services are down 70-80% or something - is he really saying that 70-80% of staff are off sick?!

 

[Seedy Ron]

An official statement read: "It is not possible to ascertain from whom the prince caught the virus owing to the high number of engagements he carried out in his public role during recent weeks."

Add to that - and no idea how many people he might have passed it onto.
Assuming he was still shaking hands with everyone.

He was doing that Indian thing (namaste?) a few weeks back so I think he'd tried to cut out the hand shakes.

 

[Glenda's Legs]

Maybe the message got through but the costs of the inconvenience of social distancing are beginning to outweigh the perceived benefits.

Maybe they've spent far too much time uprooting their lives already and they don't accept "hide away until all the big scary brick goes away" as an acceptable tactic from the govt.

What inconvenience? That was recorded before the ‘lock down’ by the sounds of it. Social distancing, aggro getting food. It’s hardly been going on for ages, not compared to the next few weeks. (Admittedly I haven’t been there).
She is 75 and has a husband recovering from a stroke and other elderly friends. I am giving her the benefit of the doubt that she just doesn’t understand the importance of social distancing for those who can, otherwise she is one extremely selfish woman.

 

[Glenda's Legs]

He was doing that Indian thing (namaste?) a few weeks back so I think he'd tried to cut out the hand shakes.

Fair enough. Sounds sensible.

 

[ricky2tricky4city]

Since the government have started paying 80% of wages, unemployment in Liverpool has reduced to zero.

Amazingly, all have secured jobs paying £37,500 a year.

 

[Parklaner81]

Since the government have started paying 80% of wages, unemployment in Liverpool has reduced to zero.

Amazingly, all have secured jobs paying £37,500 a year.

All joking aside our company has had staff members wanting to go off voluntarily when the work is still there, citing (their misunderstanding of) the government's actions.

 

[scaramanga]

We have no idea if a viable long term vaccine for this is possible

So both options are as likely to fail as each other then.

 

[P.D.]

As in off sick? As far as I can tell tube services are down 70-80% or something - is he really saying that 70-80% of staff are off sick?!

Sick or isolating - he said it was a third of staff on the news yesterday.

 

[scaramanga]

There are many financial instruments that can be used to minimise the impact of businesses. Some will of course go out of business, but it's possible to make arrangements to prevent mass bankruptcy.
In addition, businesses will have to learn how to do business in an unconventional way. That's how businesses have evolved all the time. If you don't change and develop, you will be obsolete.

If by unconventional you mean leaving behind the methods of adding value to a good or service and selling that to customers then I suppose you're right.

If there are no customers and no suppliers there's no amount of cold we strategising that will.make any business viable.

 

[scaramanga]

What inconvenience? That was recorded before the ‘lock down’ by the sounds of it. Social distancing, aggro getting food. It’s hardly been going on for ages, not compared to the next few weeks. (Admittedly I haven’t been there).
She is 75 and has a husband recovering from a stroke and other elderly friends. I am giving her the benefit of the doubt that she just doesn’t understand the importance of social distancing for those who can, otherwise she is one extremely selfish woman.

This whole thing has been a fudging huge inconvenience.

 

[ricky2tricky4city]

Prince Charles infected.

Don't worry his homeopath has got his back.

 

[DTA]

So both options are as likely to fail as each other then.

I have said this to you before. It's not an either or situation. There is many benefits from buying time, learning and preparing properly.

 

[scaramanga]

I have said this to you before. It's not an either or situation. There is many benefits from buying time, learning and preparing properly.

We bought time (at great expense), we've learned nothing but cost the economy an absolute fortune.

 

[markysimmo]

Be interesting to see what my step-daughters dad does, hope the massive clam of a man gets caught out
He is a self-employed roofer who apparently has only earn't £12k a year for the past 3 years thus meaning his child payments are a massive £18 a week
We know for a fact he earns a minimum of £1k a week without extra work which he does
Be funny when he suddenly asks the Govt for 80% of his £50k + wages

 

[SpurMeUp]

As in off sick? As far as I can tell tube services are down 70-80% or something - is he really saying that 70-80% of staff are off sick?!

People are not off sick. They have been whipped into a state of anxiety, and who wants to be underground where germs are not killed by sunlight? On one hand the government and media have to instil fear to ensure people don't congregate as usual, on the other, everyone stops working even when it is safe and required. Hard balancing act to maintain.