Coronavirus

[SasaS]

4 minutes ago, 1892-LFCWasBorn said:

Woman on Sky News in Italy just said new cases have gone down.

 

Nope. Do your fucking homework.

For what it's worth they have been going down for 3 days previously and this is the second lowest number in 6 days.

[Guest]

1 hour ago, dockers_strike said:

Fucking hell, people ringing 999 to ask if they can still drive their car as the MOT runs out in a few days!

Although clearly this is not the right way to go about it, it does bring up a lot of questions. How do you renew insurance? How do you arrange MOTs? Will the laws change regarding this during this COVID-19 outbreak? Lots of people will eventually face these situations.

[Strontium]

3 minutes ago, SasaS said:

For what it's worth they have been going down for 3 days previously and this is the second lowest number in 6 days.

 

Yep, the correct way to look at them is a rolling total over the last X days, which accounts for outliers etc.

[PestiRed]

1 minute ago, Shooter in the Motor said:

Although clearly this is not the right way to go about it, it does bring up a lot of questions. How do you renew insurance? How do you arrange MOTs? Will the laws change regarding this during this COVID-19 outbreak? Lots of people will eventually face these situations.

in Hungary all official documents (passports, ID, anything granted by the govt) will be valid until 2 weeks after the state of emergency has ended. If Hungary can think this through and communicate clearly then you’d expect the U.K. to be able to match it

[Chairman Meow]

8 minutes ago, PestiRed said:

If Hungary can think this through and communicate clearly then you’d expect the U.K. to be able to match it

[Nelly-Szoboszlai]

This is claimed to be the current state of affairs for Universal Credit new claims. 

 

 

[Chairman Meow]

15 minutes ago, Shooter in the Motor said:

Although clearly this is not the right way to go about it, it does bring up a lot of questions. How do you renew insurance? How do you arrange MOTs? Will the laws change regarding this during this COVID-19 outbreak? Lots of people will eventually face these situations.

Repair garages are on the exemption list so presumably MOTs should be fine.

[Jairzinho]

40 minutes ago, Red Phoenix said:

Meanwhile in the land of Biden :

 

 

Trump is going to fucking annihilate this tit. Fuck sake.

[clangers]

Nothing is being thought through, announcements are made without any real consideration and then they're hoping the respective sector will pick the responsibility and run with it. It's amazing to see so little planning with each set of announcements. They clearly didn't have a clue who was a key worker when they closed the schools. Any rational reason construction workers are still working? What about the self-employed? How about managing the food supply, rationing and distancing at supermarkets? NHS staff travelling on packed tube trains trying to get to hospitals dealing with the worst outbreak in the country. It doesn't matter who is right between Hancock and Khan, Hancock was clearly political point scoring during a pandemic, I assume because Khan wanted construction workers sent home? Wonderful.

 

There's still no real nationally defined community driven planning in place. It's almost as if a small number of clueless Westminster based politicians are making it up as they're going along?

[1892-LFCWasBorn]

8 minutes ago, Nelly-Torres said:

This is claimed to be the current state of affairs for Universal Credit new claims. 

 

 

My sister was on hold to Santander for 4.5 hours earlier today.

[Captain Turdseye]

Give it Piersy ‘til the end of the season. 

[Bjornebye]

1 minute ago, 1892-LFCWasBorn said:

My sister was on hold to Santander for 4.5 hours earlier today.

Was it for a mortgage holiday? If so its takes 2 minutes online 

[Jenson]

45 minutes ago, Captain Turdseye said:

@Ezekiel 25:17  @Jenson

 

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/breaking-coronavirus-children-separated-parents-21743291

If I was a cynic I would think they haven't got a clue.

[The Golden Eel]

MOTs in Northern Ireland were all suspended today - saying that, there were hardly any on anyway as the lifts are all fucked. I've got an exemption certificate that lasts until August. 

[1892-LFCWasBorn]

2 minutes ago, Bjornebye said:

Was it for a mortgage holiday? If so its takes 2 minutes online 

Her mortgage payment is due to go out at the end of the week, so she had to call.

[Bjornebye]

1 minute ago, 1892-LFCWasBorn said:

Her mortgage payment is due to go out at the end of the week, so she had to call.

Aah ok.

 

 

Is she fit? 

[Alan Sex]

39 minutes ago, SasaS said:

For what it's worth they have been going down for 3 days previously and this is the second lowest number in 6 days.

Ideally, you wouldn’t want someone with Coronavirus going down on you until they were no longer contagious. 
 

 

[Dougie Do'ins]

I see the Tories who've spent the last ten years or so running the NHS and other public services into the ground, are now asking for 250K volunteers to help out. This is on top of all the ex NHS staff who've come out of retirement to help out.

 

The shame of it is, once we're through the other side of this and things get back to relative normality, we'll get a week or so of patting front line people on the back but the long term victors will the Tories. They'll spin this as though it was their handling of this that got us through it all. 

[easytoslip]

1 minute ago, Dougie Do'ins said:

I see the Tories who've spent the last ten years or so running the NHS and other public services into the ground, are now asking for 250K volunteers to help out. This is on top of all the ex NHS staff who've come out of retirement to help out.

 

The shame of it is, once we're through the other side of this and things get back to relative normality, we'll get a week or so of patting front line people on the back but the long term victors will the Tories. They'll spin this as though it was their handling of this that got us through it all. 

Is right. 

[Bjornebye]

2 minutes ago, Dougie Do'ins said:

I see the Tories who've spent the last ten years or so running the NHS and other public services into the ground, are now asking for 250K volunteers to help out. This is on top of all the ex NHS staff who've come out of retirement to help out.

 

The shame of it is, once we're through the other side of this and things get back to relative normality, we'll get a week or so of patting front line people on the back but the long term victors will the Tories. They'll spin this as though it was their handling of this that got us through it all. 

Yep. 

[joeyk]

7 hours ago, sir roger said:

Is the Chicken Barbecue shop still open in Broadway ? used to love that shop when I lived in West Derby.

Remember Leo`s supermarket? Was that Broadway? 

[Anubis]

2 hours ago, 1892-LFCWasBorn said:

Far too ambiguous on workers yet again.

 

How the fuck is a John Lewis call centre member of staff (all stores currently closed) be classed as a key/essential worker?

They have a delivery service and they may be repurposed to deal with online Waitrose orders, perhaps?

[Nelly-Szoboszlai]

A study from modellers who think that coronavirus may have already infected approx 50% of the UK population and that the mortality rate may, therefore, be much lower than has been suggested:

 

https://www.dropbox.com/s/oxmu2rwsnhi9j9c/Draft-COVID-19-Model (13).pdf?dl=0

[dockers_strike]

There's some great stories around which people should focus on instead of looking for negatives, NHS and other essential services workers applauded into some stores during the special opening hours, a company in wales developing a ventilator and now building 100 a day, a chemical company going to be making a million bottles of hand sanitisers, local farcebook groups looking out for old and vulnerable people and making sure they have supplies of food and toiletries.

 

Stay safe.

[SasaS]

Another big jump in the number of deaths in France.