Coronavirus outbreak

[tom73]

Not good at all. I wonder how many TMS podcasts are available on line?

I'm not sure though I doubt enough to last the season

 

[randynewmanscat]

I do wonder if the attitude of those folk in Benidorm is simply because they feel removed from the situation because they are on holiday. It simply hasn't sunk in yet how serious things are. Nice bit of footage in the paper yesterday though of a British woman breaking the lock down and going for a swim in the hotel pool. Someone (police I guess), dived in and she was very roughly dragged out, dragged across the concrete, and cuffed.

You are being too generous I think.

 

[randynewmanscat]

It's a curious thing, but many of our favourties seem to have been conspicuous by their absence recently.

Bill Hicks lookalike would be anything but absent if his amplifiers had not been closed by the tech giants. His acolytes soldier on though.

 

[tom73]

Corona? No thanks, Ben Shaws D&B for me thank you.

Given that for a good few hours 12 in the case of wife many will have been up close with this virus. A quick hand over at a distance is not exactly high risk.

 

[Pale Rider]

ECB has asked for all club level cricket to stop indefinitely tomorrow they meet to talk about calling of 1st class games.
Not looking good now this outbreak is getting serious.

Aye, it's brave man who deprives a Yorkshireman of his club cricket.

 

[MarkF]

McDonald's and burger king are now offering free hot and cold drinks free to NHS staff. (Only drive-through parts are open)
Not a bad way to start or finish your shift.

Hospitals have hot and cold drinks for staff you know, like any workplace. Am I am going to go out of my way to queue and get a drink from these well known altruistic businesses, just because I can? Hmmm, I really doubt their sincerity here, top publicity though.

 

[Pale Rider]

McDonald's and burger king are now offering free hot and cold drinks free to NHS staff. (Only drive-through parts are open)
Not a bad way to start or finish your shift.

Marks and Spencer in Durham City offer the local coppers and PCSOs free access to and some free food in their staff canteen.

But they draw the line at traffic wardens.

 

[randynewmanscat]

Given that for a good few hours 12 in the case of wife many will have been up close with this virus. A quick hand over at a distance is not exactly high risk.

I jest, badly. Corona was the pop of my youth, from the back of a Bedford 3 tonner. Ben Shaws was the competition. Its late, I have a glass and with the news beginning to sink deeply into the British psyche probably not the best post on my part.
I read all of this thread a week ago, from start to finish and I saw the initial levity, doubt and scorn be replaced by more words per post and real concern as of late.

 

[Rusty Nails]

Hospitals have hot and cold drinks for staff you know, like any workplace. Am I am going to go out of my way to queue and get a drink from these well known altruistic businesses, just because I can? Hmmm, I really doubt their sincerity here, top publicity though.

Do they have free coffee or just free instant rubbish?

Don't get me wrong I drink the instant rubbish when I am in work, but give me the MacD stuff any day.

 

[tom73]

@randynewmanscat
Ben Shaws I remember it well it was a treat as kid when the pop van came our way.

 

[randynewmanscat]

Marks and Spencer in Durham City offer the local coppers and PCSOs free access to and some free food in their staff canteen.

But they draw the line at traffic wardens.

Now there was me apologising for a crass post and you mention traffic wardens. Not the 9 o'clock news, the doner kebab sketch.

 

[tom73]

Aye, it's brave man who deprives a Yorkshireman of his club cricket.

Too right are we really sure this virus is not some Lancashire plot to stop us winning at all cost.

 

[MarkF]

Do they have free coffee or just free instant rubbish?

Don't get me wrong I drink the instant rubbish when I am in work, but give me the MacD stuff any day.

The rubbish stuff and I too like MacD coffee, the only thing I buy from them when out cycling. But most NHS front line staff live on coffee at work, what they'd like to grab into work or out of, is food. That's more pennies though.

 

[randynewmanscat]

Aye, it's brave man who deprives a Yorkshireman of his club cricket.

The sound of willow on a sheeps head somewhere in the west riding at dead of night.

 

[tom73]

Hospitals have hot and cold drinks for staff you know, like any workplace. Am I am going to go out of my way to queue and get a drink from these well known altruistic businesses, just because I can? Hmmm, I really doubt their sincerity here, top publicity though.

They do if you get a break that is. But many NHS staff don't work on sites with easy access to food and drink. Agree it's publicity same as other placers giving discount. But if you can why not? Mrs 73 will not be the only one who on the way home just some times feels like a cold coke she not going out her way it's on the way home. Anyway given the about the Ambo's spend at MD every shift it's about time they got something free.