Coronavirus - A pale horse,4 men and ....beer

[Euler]

They are building some houses about 1.5 miles from me near the train station and supermarket. Train stations and supermarket empty, the building site has all services and contractors present just like a normal day.

[Derek27]

It's all well and good telling us to stay at home and shop when it's absolutely necessary, but with so many empty shelves in the supermarket, every day is still necessary!

I could now do with a citizens arrest kit, pepper spray, handcuffs and whistle.

[spreadbetting]

They are building some houses about 1.5 miles from me near the train station and supermarket. Train stations and supermarket empty, the building site has all services and contractors present just like a normal day.

Most building contractors are self employed so always going to work whilst they can. Guess they'll bring in some cover for self employed workers today. Even then hard to see contractors stopping work until they're explicitly told to do so.

[PDC]

Students have already been "advised" to leave their digs....if a lockdown is then further issued;

I wonder where they stand paying further rent, as the uni's are closed too?

Most Uni's have moved to online teaching only and are keeping the campus open as best they can because a significant number of students can't go home.

In terms of rent, if it is for the University owned accommodation then the Uni will have it's own policy in place.

If it is in private rented accommodation they are in the same situation as all other private renters. So should continue to pay rent unless they have come to an arrangement with their landlord/lady.

[Jukebox]

I'd be pretty excited if my bank had grown daily like this since 5th March - any ideas where I might be by the end of the month or three months?

1,2,3,5,6,8,10,11,21,35,55,71,104,144,177,233,281,335

Stop trading as soon as it reaches it's peak.

I'm just picking up mostly backmarkers but the total market I'm working in is about £68M although I think I'm only a few weeks away from having to iceberg my orders in.

[PDC]

This is really how Boris should have announced it

https://twitter.com/TheMenOfWho/status/ ... 73667?s=20

If anyone hasn't watched all of The Thick Of It - make it your number one show for this isolation period. It is brilliant!

And just think, we could have The Donald in charge:

https://twitter.com/sosa__f/status/1242 ... 82787?s=20



https://twitter.com/CordeliaSkyNews/sta ... 99810?s=19

[superfrank]

Britain is under pressure to increase the number of coronavirus tests it carries out, as it emerged that public health chiefs have never once hit their initial 10,000-a-day target.

The UK is now seriously lagging behind other nations in monitoring the spread of the virus, and testing NHS workers to see if they are infected.

Experts have warned that in some hospital wards, up to one third of medics are now self-isolating at home, often because family or housemates have shown signs of the virus. If they could be tested, they could get back to work, say health analysts.

On March 11, NHS England said it would be ramping up testing to 10,000 a day, and called on local hospital laboratories to help with the effort. A week later Boris Johnson vowed that would rise to 25,000 a day.

Yet despite promises, the maximum number of tests performed in one day was 8,400 on Thursday March 19. Since then the average daily figure for testing has been 4,573.

Lord Crisp, NHS Chief Executive and Permanent Secretary at the Department of Health from 2000 to 2006, told The Telegraph that the lack of testing of staff was an "obvious bottleneck" that the Government needed to address.

"We are seeing these situations where you have three junior doctors living as flatmates- one has a cough and three of them are off work for two weeks," he said. "That is ridiculous."

As of Sunday, Britain had carried out a total of 78,340 tests, around 1,164 per one million people, far behind many other countries.

In Europe's worst-hit country – Italy – health teams performed more than 3,499 tests per one million citizens (206,886 tests).

Most recent figures show that, more than a week ago, Germany had already carried out 167,009, the equivalent of 2,023 tests per one million people, while Norway has tested 6,000 per million (34,583 tests).

Meanwhile, South Korea has tested 316,664 people – equivalent to 6,148 tests per one million population, while Singapore performed 6,507 tests per one million people.

[Derek27]

There's not much point in posting that without mentioning the source.

[superfrank]

There's not much point in posting that without mentioning the source.

Read it. The source is contained within.

[jimibt]

There's not much point in posting that without mentioning the source.

Read it. The source is contained within.

so, it's from the torygraph??

[Derek27]

There's not much point in posting that without mentioning the source.

Read it. The source is contained within.

The source of the article, not the information within the article.

[superfrank]

The source of the article, not the information within the article.

It's in there FFS. It's from the Telegraph. The article is behind a paywall otherwise I'd have posted the link.

This forum was way better before you monopolised it.

[weemac]

I knew this would happen.

[jamesg46]

Is it just me or has this thread become a bit touchy, I thought a discussion could be tolerant of anyones opinion, regardless of what we as individuals personally think of it.

[Jukebox]

When comparing the C19 toll between countries we'll need to adjust for the USA figures as their six feet social distancing requirement is more than six inches closer than our two metres.