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#1 ·
dont want to put a downer on this, but if it happens believe me i'll be pissed off for sure, but i got a feeling that shows will be cancelled, its starting in football and motor circuit racing already, plus workplaces making staff work from home, let's hope it blows over soon like all the others over the years. what's your faults on it.
 
#142 ·
One of our three local pubs has just reopens after a major refit. Me and five friends decided to pop in and show a bit of support. I recon there were ten of us in a bar/Resturant that employs about twenty people and has just invested tens if not hundreds of thousands......this is not some major pub co but an independent family run.
 
#145 ·
Went to one of my locals last night for drinks with a mate, reasonably busy. Hoping to visit the local curry house this week. Plenty of handwashing and avoiding some 'vulnerable' relatives. Steady and sensible is the way!
...I urge everyone to support local business and not the huge tax dodging firms now and when this is all over. I do that anyway but they will all need as much support as they can get going forward
 
#146 ·
Seems like the Preachers Boys in Michigan know something we don't.

Michigan Casinos closing here , Seems Churches are a big gathering place , packed shoulder to shoulder in pews A reverend , priest or elder giving communion by hand to mouth or hand to hand , handling the host or bread

Went to the store and church parking lots were packed tonight (theres a church on almost every corner here some places 3 on the same block!!

One reverand said "We’re Never Closing Church Because We’re Not Raising “Pansies” in Here" LOL What kind of person is that LOL ARE churches exempt from common sense !! Seams like even a Satanic church would close ROTFLMAO
 
#147 ·
I can't see why a church should close. If you really have faith in the almighty power of God then you have no reason to fear coronavirus. You might expect to die from it, but a devout belief in the righteousness of God will exempt you from fearing death. For an earnest Christian, there cannot possibly be anything to fear besides the consequences of turning away from God.

Anyway, I came here to post this: https://www.spiked-online.com/2020/03/18/in-france-its-now-a-crime-to-talk-to-your-neighbour/

I would rather have coronavirus than be a thrall under the French government. I will stress this: no government, in wartime, famine or in times of pestilence, has the right to make prisoners of innocent citizens.
 
#148 ·
This is something I wrote on Facebook today:

I have just driven through the town. Our local shops are opening. No-one is panicking, no-one is queuing, just local businesses opening to serve you with the things you need for today and tomorrow. No faceless corporations that will still be around in years to come. It might be wet out there but it isn't cold, put a coat on and walk into town, buy the food you need for the next couple of days, buy fresh, leave the tins for the panic-stricken sheep. Once you've eaten the fresh food, take another trip into town and repeat the whole exercise. While your at it have a coffee in one of the cafes while they're still open. Buy what you need for today and tomorrow, your local stores will be there for you again on Friday. However, if you join the panic-sheep at Tesco/Aldi/wherever, your local store might not be there when you do decide to use them.
I appreciate not everyone can do this, but if those that COULD do it DID it, the rusty old wheels of the social world would keep turning.

The butchers have stock but are struggling to find the time to prepare everything, the grocers have plenty of everything (minus one broccoli, six apples and some beans that I just bought). I was there & back in a few minutes, the only queues were the two people in front of me at the pedestrian crossing. Panic-ye-not.
 
#152 ·
The local restaurant that we use regularly is closing soon and wont be able to re-open if this lasts any length of time, which it now looks like it will. My daughter used to work there, the owners have become friends and I know that they cannot finance it forever with no money coming in. My future daughter in law still works there but she will of course be out of a job.
My manager on the tanker firm has told me today that tonight's shift is likely to be my last for at least 3 months due to aviation fuel being on its arse now, and he will have to use his full time men on my ethanol job, but that is dwindling a bit now too as petrol output is down as people stay at home. Gas oil and kero are in overdrive mode, but that wont keep all our drivers going.
My wife works in the refinery canteen but for a contractor and she is liable to be put on short time as over 75% of her customers in the building have been told to work from home. Her only saving grace just now is that oen of the canteen women is pregnant and as from tomorrow she has been told to self isolate, so they are one number down and my wife will have to go in earlier and open up for the forseeable.
My son is just back from spain and is in self isolation as he has a cough and dry throat, but he's now thinking that was just due to the air con in the plane and is asking his work if he can resume his shift pattern asap.
My future son in law should be okay as he is currently on the nuclear deterrent and will be about 200m below the sea keeping Putins sneaky bastards under observation. Unless somebody went on that sub already infected.... we wont know anything for another 4 months or so.
 
#150 ·
Following on from an earlier post I now have heard it's official we have just lost someone in local ICU to Coronavirus .

The unforseen consequence was that an organ retrieval had to be stopped as the donor had been in the same ICU in the next bed . They had to wake the person up ( who had already been anaesthetised and taken to theatre who was awaiting a kidney transplant to tell them it couldn't go ahead even though they begged for it to continue :(
 
#151 ·
I am a Rep for Goodguys in California. It's getting scary over here. Aside from everything else shutting down like malls and restaurants, Dallas, Scottsdale and Pleasanton shows all cancelled. These shows draw thousands of cars, and tens of thousand spectators. I assume Del Mar will be cancelled next, as it is in 2 weeks. Looks like any gathering of 10 people or more won't happen.
 
#155 ·
Maybe a stupid question but also serious,have you had any deaths over there you know of just because of the virus and not other combined illnesses or is it all just hyped up by the media and we are all over reacting. I honestly think you can’t trust anything you read or hear anymore.all I have heard all day is people angry about not being able to buy anything in the supermarkets,worried about bills,mortgages,rent and surviving if they get forced to stop work,but the worse is people are fuming about all the lowlife on benefits and claiming money are the ones who have stockpiled everything possible and still getting paid and not got a care in the world about anything when all the workers here in England are being penalised and losing out and worrying where the next penny will come from and when and if they can return to work.worse thing is it is one rule for one here and one for the other,it is crazy,nothing is making any sense and it is getting worse!!
Is there any insurances on cancellations of these shows or has it cost you all a hell of a lot of money? Seems everything we have worked so hard for is being taken away from us and we all have nothing to look forward to anymore.
 
#161 ·
Maybe a stupid question but also serious,have you had any deaths over there you know of just because of the virus and not other combined illnesses or is it all just hyped up by the media and we are all over reacting. I honestly think you can't trust anything you read or hear anymore.all I have heard all day is people angry about not being able to buy anything in the supermarkets,worried about bills,mortgages,rent and surviving if they get forced to stop work,but the worse is people are fuming about all the lowlife on benefits and claiming money are the ones who have stockpiled everything possible and still getting paid and not got a care in the world about anything when all the workers here in England are being penalised and losing out and worrying where the next penny will come from and when and if they can return to work.worse thing is it is one rule for one here and one for the other,it is crazy,nothing is making any sense and it is getting worse!!
Is there any insurances on cancellations of these shows or has it cost you all a hell of a lot of money? Seems everything we have worked so hard for is being taken away from us and we all have nothing to look forward to anymore.
From all the news I've seen,it just targets them that are already I'll,or who,s immune system is down.not healthy people unless you're the Chinese doctor who tried to tell the world about it.

It will take years for this country to recover financially,and has been said,the knock on effect is enormous.shut all the pubs,it's not just the pubs that will close,it will be the brewery,s as well,and all those that work there.it will be all the small company,s that supply them fresh food.

Who knows if it's man made.

Maybe next time they could make one that wipes out the stupid.

On a separate note,regarding the self employed.shoudnt they have a bit of savings,as the gamble of being self employed is not having work all the time.

The problem with the government paying people is it's totally open to abuse.

The scum of society are already taking the piss.my misses works at our local hospital.most of the porters have gone of home to self isolate and a fair few nurses.

The cunts shouldn't be given full sick pay.if they weren't paid they wouldn't pretend to be ill
 
#158 ·
30 days! Bloody hell,that will bankrupt a hell of a lot of people for sure,not only that suicides will rise where people cannot pay bills,crime will rise as people will rob for money,depression will settle in,all people where their counselling is forced to stop are going to go mad,possible murders,where will it end? cannot say the same for here,panic is pathetic here and only a handful chilled,good old english!! China has got a lot to answer for now
 
#159 ·
My son is a chef at a country village pub/resturant that severs to a majority of pensioners and rambler clubs & put the offer of a delivery service to keep him and the other chefs jobs, closing the pub & restaurant but keeping the kitchen open.

There was hardly any response so as of today he is out of a job & the pub will be closed from sunday .
Most chefs will lose their jobs due to this as no one wants to go out to eat so I told him claim job seekers allowance from the government until things pickup/change
 
#160 ·
I'm off work this week and have made a conscious effort to avoid the news, apart from checking the headline updates once a day. I've also deactivated facebook, which seemed to be increasingly full of nonsense and hysteria. It isn't about burying my head in the sand but keeping perspective. I will be eating out tonight, if the place is open, as I think those of us who are not in a high risk category should keep supporting struggling local business.
It still seems that the response is way over the top, given the mortality rate. Perhaps a bit more data about how many people die every day, of all sorts of things, might be a good reality check.
 
#162 ·
By god the damage this thing is doing is un bloody believable!!!!!!

If it was something that was life threatening to all, well and unwell etc then we would all knuckle down I'm sure.

But the stats relative to other more direct killers will eventually show that this was a grotesque over reaction and mishandled global catastrophe that will damage almost everyone short and long term. My workand finances never came back after the bank crash :(
 
#163 ·
While I'd never be stupid enough to pretend that the WHO is our friend in all of this, it's probably still a more honest informant than the tabloids. Scroll to the top of page 12: https://www.who.int/docs/default-so...na-joint-mission-on-covid-19-final-report.pdf

So a typical coronavirus case would involve a fever, a cough and perhaps three to five other symptoms. I had flu for the first and only time in my life over Christmas 2018. I definitely had fever, fatique, chills and conjunctival congestion and I'm sure I had a handful of other symptoms but they would have been such common winter ailments anyway that they haven't stuck in my memory. It rendered me pretty useless for about two weeks. I think, based on the WHO's rate of symptoms, the likelihood is that a typical case of coronavirus would not be worse than that.
 
#170 · (Edited)
p.s you're well ahead there, you can guarantee that soon, everybody will be bombarded by companies wanting to make your claim against somebody for the handling of the corona virus. "did you invite the virus? " lol, did the government tell you exactly what to expect ? etc etc etc etc

my claim is going in against Norton as it claimed to stop all viruses.
 
#171 · (Edited)
I am seriously pissed off with the media now.

We 'might' get the virus, we 'might' get ill, we 'might' get seriously ill and some (very few) 'might' die.

Meanwhile................

All business (= peoples livlihoods) DEFINITELY are heading for bankrupcy at a fast rate.

My businees is a strong business, we were forcasting the best year ever this year in over 30 years of trading. We run it prudently with no borrowings and have good cash reserves. This week we laid off the first staff member. We also had to ask if the staff could voluntarily take a pay cut for reduced hours. I think after next week it will be a 3 day week. Our trade has dropped off about 99% so it costs us literally thousands of pounds a day to be open.

The big companies we work for have laid staff off for 3 months, this was meant to be boom times with all the events due to be on, but as all are cancelled then 100% of their work is cancelled.

Where is the media talking about industry failing because of this???? If we don't get the trade going again then the UK will be bankrupt - WTF happens then god only knows.

The snowflakes are saying "if it saves one life its worth shutting down" .....IS IT???

I can see thousands of suicides this year as people get into financial ruin because of this. Probably far outstrip the death toll for the virus once its all blown over.

Anyway............breath.....rant over.
 
#177 · (Edited)
I understand your frustration at the media...etc..
If you listen to and ill use the BBC breakfast they appear to want to make things worse and not better.
Yes this is very serious' the impact on business our own health -family's old ones this has to be taken seriously' but while these over paid bbc front line staff sit there and judge and criticise all those who are trying to solve a problem-government etc that for now know one really knows the answer to it all' and worst of course how long this will drag onto.
Ive switched off my TV as said it bloody serious but do we need reminding by these so called journalists very 24/7
no we don't....
I hope your business survives and jobs are saved.
 
#172 ·
My wife is a Teaching Assistant at the local primary school, there are a fair few kids from the local "problem estate" attending there and this week has seen the number not at school because their parents are "self isolating" reach almost half. Several of the parents have been seen self-isolating in Wetherspoons...…. There are always some that will take the piss, but to be honest our Wetherspoons is one of the ones with sticky carpets so there's probably bacteria in there that would give Covid-19 a run for it's money.
 
#173 · (Edited)
I noticed that the Hoyer tanker drivers have been given a box of latex gloves and hand sanitiser to use the touch screens in their trucks and to sanitise steering wheel and switches etc. They, as we all do, use heavy gloves for handling hoses etc.
I asked my manager why we were not getting anything similar, and he replied that he had already asked head office and the reply was, it's not happening, sanitiser is in short supply and anyway we have 2500 trucks! My reply was that a few thousand drivers off on the sick pay will be a lot more costly than 2500 bottles of sanitiser!
 
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