Corona Virus: How Are We Doing?

[Accy cyclist]

It's worse then that they've also told they no longer have to send in any proof for anything. The limit of the MP's credit cards has been put up too. Quite few already had the cards taken of them due being investigated for miss use before all this.

Yeah but don't forget.... we're all in this together!

 

[newfhouse]

this isn't the best idea -

Not enough beer?

 

[fossyant]

I think CV-19 is in MIL's nursing home. They've had a few deaths (as you'd expect in a care home) but it's more than usual, and had three rooms next to each other that residents are poorly. Limited info coming out, and only because my SIL is working there. It's not been on MIL's 'nursing care' floor though - probably stricter controlls.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

I'm not quite sure why that's "naughty", given that there are no regulations forbidding walking.

Unless it was 10 miles walking up and down the aisles at your local supermarket.

In the non essential aisle🤫

 

[C R]

The daughter of a friend of a friend of my wife, 26, just qualified as a doctor, died yesterday from coronavirus.

Every time you leave the house, think, do I really really need to be out, and spare a thought for the people who have no choice but to put their lives on the line day after day.

 

[tom73]

But still if you ask any of them they say we are only doing our job.
I keep telling Mrs 73 no your not it's now more than that.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

Still all good here and Lovely Wife is looking forward to her first NHS Responder mission.

Done 13 hours on duty so far, but no alerts come through yet.

 

[Mrs M]

The daughter of a friend of a friend of my wife, 26, just qualified as a doctor, died yesterday from coronavirus.

Every time you leave the house, think, do I really really need to be out, and spare a thought for the people who have no choice but to put their lives on the line day after day.

So sad to hear this.
Awful times.
A colleague lost a child this week.
Living nightmare.

 

[vickster]

Done 13 hours on duty so far, but no alerts come through yet.

ditto, but 20 hours here

 

[glasgowcyclist]

Inside sources say we have 3 more weeks of this then people's works will be phoning them all back in.

That will not be the case for my colleagues. We’re working non-stop to equip ~500 government staff with the IT kit to allow them to work from home and are only about 1/3rd through after two weeks. It’s a major undertaking in terms of equipment, logistics, security considerations and ongoing support.

It is certainly not the sort of response that would be considered for a period that would be measured in weeks. This will be for several months.

Who are these ‘inside sources’?

 

[Milzy]

That will not be the case for my colleagues. We’re working non-stop to equip ~500 government staff with the IT kit to allow them to work from home and are only about 1/3rd through after two weeks. It’s a major undertaking in terms of equipment, logistics, security considerations and ongoing support.

It is certainly not the sort of response that would be considered for a period that would be measured in weeks. This will be for several months.

Who are these ‘inside sources’?

Someone high up in the South Yorkshire NHS. If next week is a true peak then you'd think actually mid May would be a reasonably safe time to unlock.

 

[Slick]

Someone high up in the South Yorkshire NHS. If next week is a true peak then you'd think actually mid May would be a reasonably safe time to unlock.

The company I work for have set a target date for the 25th of May but it's more to aid with planning as any knowledge or information.

 

[glasgowcyclist]

Someone high up in the South Yorkshire NHS

Ok, that’s still pretty vague. And when you said inside sources I took that to be people actually involved in the decision-making process of lifting the restrictions.

 

[Milzy]

Ok, that’s still pretty vague. And when you said inside sources I took that to be people actually involved in the decision-making process of lifting the restrictions.

Don't know the advisors of Bojo sorry. Next week is going to be hell. They have people who were working happily from home deployed into hospitals with or without adequate PPE

 

[marinyork]

Out in the garden. Despite having not left the house since Wednesday this is really nice.

Only blot on it is a neighbour has developed a cough the last 24 hours... . I can hear it it's so quiet. This is the neighbour that has three household mixing most days.