Coronavirus

[Scott_M]

42 minutes ago, 1892-LFCWasBorn said:

So if I phone my manager and tell him I'm self isolating for 2 weeks (even if I don't cough, cough..), I get a 3 month mortgage break?

Bank manager? Not sure they’d authorise it but, dependant on your lender, the relevant service centre will likely say yes. 
 

You’ll have to pay the remainder back over the term of the mortgage, so after the holiday your monthly payment will go up. You’ll be charged additional interest as well but that shouldn’t be much.

[cloggypop]

Anybody getting short yet? 

 

@JohnnyVegasReal: Erm....dear @AbsoluteRadio90 my #innerMacGiver is swapping tartar sauce for the absence of brown sauce. The slow cooked sausage casserole might resist but tough times call for inventive alternatives

 

[TheHowieLama]

35 minutes ago, Strontium Dog™ said:

 

So what do you put in a stripper's g-string, then?

 

8 minutes ago, Barry Wom said:

One of the government experts said a day or so ago, it's about 2-3 days on hard surfaces. 

It just seems slippery, my guess is its harder than a bowling lane. 4-5 days, minimum.

[Rico1304]

7 minutes ago, sir roger said:

Hope he is ok Rico , and yourself by extension obviously. 

 

On a side note I am surprised at how many people seem to feel they have it ( The wife's niece is undergoing tests ) when by my mathematics the government are suggesting it is a one in a thousand plus chance at this stage.

Cheers. 
 

I was really ill at Christmas, then my dad got pneumonia in Jan. I wonder if I’m patient zero?  Loads at work been to China and Far East. 

[SasaS]

13 minutes ago, Rico1304 said:

Woman at work just text me. Her son has likely got it, being tested tomorrow.  He’s quite ill, v high temp.  

I hope this doesn't mean that Sodoma in Hotel de Roma is now off.

[Rico1304]

1 minute ago, SasaS said:

I hope this doesn't mean that Sodoma in Hotel de Roma is now off.

I’m still going to Berlin. Depends if PB maintains his rage for 7 months.  

[Nunavut Patrick]

3 minutes ago, SasaS said:

I hope this doesn't mean that Sodoma in Hotel de Roma is now off.

If you’re patient zero a straightener in Berlin may be the least of your worries

[Rico1304]

1 minute ago, Nunavut Patrick said:

If you’re patient zero a straightener in Berlin may be the least of your worries

I’m through it, like a cockroach. 

[Dougie Do'ins]

17 minutes ago, sir roger said:

On a side note I am surprised at how many people seem to feel they have it ( The wife's niece is undergoing tests ) when by my mathematics the government are suggesting it is a one in a thousand plus chance at this stage.

I reckon there'll be thousands upon thousands of people financially living day to day who may have shown some slight symptoms and just thought, fuck it and kept quiet for fear of being told/forced to quarantine and losing wages.

 

So much of this just seems to be pure guesswork when in reality, no fucker has a clue about it.

[Rico1304]

9 minutes ago, Dougie Do'ins said:

I reckon there'll be thousands upon thousands of people financially living day to day who may have shown some slight symptoms and just thought, fuck it and kept quiet for fear of being told/forced to quarantine and losing wages.

 

So much of this just seems to be pure guesswork when in reality, no fucker has a clue about it.

If the mortality rate is consistent then it’s easy to work out the infection rate.  

[TheHowieLama]

13 minutes ago, Dougie Do'ins said:

I reckon there'll be thousands upon thousands of people financially living day to day

Worldwide - hundreds and hundreds of thousands

[Champ]

7 minutes ago, Rico1304 said:

If the mortality rate is consistent then it’s easy to work out the infection rate.  

The mortality rates in different countries is very different. I suspect in such a fast moving landscape it’s not possible to isolate all/even a fraction of the variables 

[DJLJ]

3 minutes ago, Champ said:

The mortality rates in different countries is very different. I suspect in such a fast moving landscape it’s not possible to isolate all/even a fraction of the variables 

Unfortunately the more that get infected and go through this disease, the more data you will get and even more unfortunately we will get much more data to extrapolate from before this thing is over. 

[Dave D]

1 hour ago, Elite said:

Aldi have a policy of 'only 4 of a particular item'. So you'll still get dick heads buying 4 packs of 16 toilet rolls.

Just been to Aldi. Felt sorry for this lady- she was buying around 7 or 8 loose bananas. Got told limit was four and had the rest removed. Im stood behind here with a "pack" of bananas that had 8 in them- which was fine?

 

We both mentioned it to the checkout guy- he went further explaining I could actually buy "4 packs" equating to around 32 bananas but she could only buy the 4 "singles"

 

Perplexing stuff

 

  

[Elite]

1 minute ago, Dave D said:

Just been to Aldi. Felt sorry for this lady- she was buying around 7 or 8 loose bananas. Got told limit was four and had the rest removed. Im stood behind here with a "pack" of bananas that had 8 in them- which was fine?

 

We both mentioned it to the checkout guy- he went further explaining I could actually buy "4 packs" equating to around 32 bananas but she could only buy the 4 "singles"

 

Perplexing stuff

 

  

Who buys 7 single bananas anyway? Fucking weirdo got what she served.

[Anubis]

27 minutes ago, TheHowieLama said:

Worldwide - hundreds and hundreds of thousands

 

42 minutes ago, Dougie Do'ins said:

I reckon there'll be thousands upon thousands of people financially living day to day who may have shown some slight symptoms and just thought, fuck it and kept quiet for fear of being told/forced to quarantine and losing wages.

 

So much of this just seems to be pure guesswork when in reality, no fucker has a clue about it.

 

28 minutes ago, TheHowieLama said:

Worldwide - hundreds and hundreds of thousands

Yup.

[Anubis]

7 minutes ago, Elite said:

Who buys 7 single bananas anyway? Fucking weirdo got what she served.

Come on man, if she’s elderly it may be one per day. She may be trying to shop what she needs for seven days till her next pension payment.

[Dougie Do'ins]

There's a UK based lab that's claiming it's developed a finger prick test kit that can detect the presence of coronavirus in 15 minutes.

[Dr Arthur De Sabre]

10 hours ago, M_B said:

Many industries are going to need financial support to survive. Airlines for example will not survive with no business for 3 months. Do we let them collapse or do we bail them out? Not just them either - bus and rail companies, the whole tourism industry, retail.....

nationalise the fucking lot, time to reset!

[AngryOfTuebrook]

 

[Rico1304]

38 minutes ago, Champ said:

The mortality rates in different countries is very different. I suspect in such a fast moving landscape it’s not possible to isolate all/even a fraction of the variables 

Is it? Factoring in things like smoking, obesity and other aggravating factors isn’t it consistent? Growth is.  

[Rico1304]

12 minutes ago, Audrey Witherspoon said:

nationalise the fucking lot, time to reset!

All the state aid measures being applied by EU countries seems to blow JCs argument out of the water. 

[Josef Svejk]

Not to mention Trump's economic intervention today...

[Elite]

23 minutes ago, Anubis said:

Come on man, if she’s elderly it may be one per day. She may be trying to shop what she needs for seven days till her next pension payment.

If she can afford 7 single bananas, she can afford a pack of 7 which will be cheaper. Or am I missing something?

[Dougie Do'ins]

1 minute ago, Elite said:

If she can afford 7 single bananas, she can afford a pack of 7 which will be cheaper. Or am I missing something?

You could well be. Asda for example don't sell certain pre packed fruits in packs of 7.