Corona Virus: How Are We Doing?

[marinyork]

Do nothing, or do something. Don't do nothing and say that you're doing something.

They did do something, just you haven't thought through that pensioners or vulnerble people with cars aren't any less determined or less badly behaved than anyone else.

Staffing levels are very low in supermarkets. It means restocking is difficult. Secondly the delivery regs screw things up. Sunday and local delivery licences will need loosening temporarily, in some cases a lot.

It does get worse. Nothing compared to everyone in italy wearing ffp3 masks and queueing for ages to get into a supermarket or online systems crashing.

 

[Dayvo]

Looks like I'll be having an unexpected extension to my winter migration! 😳
It will extend well into the spring, if not the summer and (fortunately) it has only broken out in a few areas to date.

So, back to the beach. 😎

 

[fossyant]

On a lighter note, I have a whatsapp group with some colleagues/ex colleagues, so it's got busy again as we are working at home and posting pictures. Me and another colleague have issues with the cat's plonking themselves on our laptops. Another new group has been set up for some of the managers from one of my Faculties - this again has descended into pics of home working ! One posted a a very 'swish' pic of their new flat, one a pic from Hebden Bridge, and another said, I'll have to tidy up first !

 

[Ming the Merciless]

Wife coughing last night but that stopped before morning. No temperature. But each time a cough is more than one or two you begin to think is it starting, is it incubating and multiplying even now?

 

[fossyant]

Wife coughing last night but that stopped before morning. No temperature. But each time a cough is more than one or two you begin to think is it starting?

My wife has had a persistent cough since the winter bug - her's arrived late January, mine was December. Batteries arrived yesterday for the digital in ear temperature gizmo - we found it in a cupboard. Had it since the kids were little, about 19 years.

 

[Milzy]

Wife coughing last night but that stopped before morning. No temperature. But each time a cough is more than one or two you begin to think is it starting is it incubating and multiplying even now?

We have loads of clowns coming into work unwell. People won't get full sick pay so they will spread it all over. That's why maybe the full lock down method could be wiser.

 

[Mugshot]

It has been done to settle a trade war between China and the West.

@Milzy you're such a cheeky scamp.

 

[Rocky]

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More lies

 

[Milzy]

More lies

I hope so.

 

[C R]

We have loads of clowns coming into work unwell. People won't get full sick pay so they will spread it all over. That's why maybe the full lock down method could be wiser.

My wife's company are refusing to allow any working from home. On Tuesday one of her colleagues came in with a cough saying his wife had the same. The site manager said, oh it'll be fine, and the colleague stayed for a couple of hours in the office until the same manager came and sent him home. That colleague is now showing all symptoms, and told to self isolate by 111.

The company is still refusing to allow home working.

 

[winjim]

Hang on, there's too many Coronathreads, I meant to post in this one. Anyway, poorly baby so it's isolation for us.

https://www.cyclechat.net/threads/what-are-your-lock-down-plans.258517/post-5918562

 

[GM]

It's crossed my mind how people suffering from autism are coping. My daughter is autistic, she would not be able to cope with the supermarkets at the moment, fortunately there is no reason for her to come shopping with us.

I was thinking that. I wonder if Morrison's still do their Autism hour, I don't think I could get up that early though!

 

[winjim]

I was thinking that. I wonder if Morrison's still do their Autism hour, I don't think I could get up that early though!

At the stroke of 10.30 the klaxon sounds and the shopping centre once again becomes an overstimulating hellscape.

 

[GM]

At the stroke of 10.30 the klaxon sounds and the shopping centre once again becomes an overstimulating hellscape.

Reckon I might just be able to make it before 10.30 though.

 

[winjim]

Reckon I might just be able to make it before 10.30 though.

Saturday morning, wake up, get showered, dressed, breakfast, brush teeth, get to shopping centre, do all your shopping and be away and on the way home by 10.30? And that be your only opportunity in the whole week?

As I said before, it's bullshit lip service. Dim the lights and switch the music off in that first hour of Saturday morning when no bastard wants to do their shopping anyway and you can claim that you're all autism friendly by making seriously minimal farking effort to change anything about your shop that might make it less of an overwhelming and hyperstimulating experience for the other 53 1/2 shopping hours in the week.

But... do you even get an hour? According to the website, this shopping centre doesn't even open til 10.

So you want a load of confused and potentially very anxious autistics standing around from 9.30 on a Saturday morning who are then expected to do all their shopping and be out of there and on the way home within half an hour? You're forcing an autistic person to make a choice about what clothes to buy in a state of anxiety and under considerable time pressure? They will more than likely leave with nothing, or the wrong thing, and hate the entire experience.

Just make the shops less farking awful in the first place.