Coronavirus outbreak

[Rezillo]

One of the outcomes of lesser importance so far is the carefully orchestrated vanity display of books on shelves behind pundits being interviewed at home.

On a large tv, you can make out all the spine titles, although some have taken care to have a couple or so with their front covers facing the camera, just in case we might not make them out. Not a low-brow book to be seen.

 

[tom73]

Mrs 73 has heard from SIL. BIL on way home from work high temp and feels like crap. Turns out a few days ago a guy came to work who mrs was self isolating. He did not feel too good but came in anyway. By time they found out and sent it home it was too late.
So now SIL is in a right flap now Mrs 73 has been trying to claim her down. It's the two young kids she is more bothered about.
(The guy had no worry about staying off the company are fine about people bring off and pay them. So it's not an issue.)

This is how it happens folks we have to start pulling together or we have little hope of sorting this anytime soon.

 

[CanucksTraveller]

If it was me, I think a call to a locksmith to change the locks would be very tempting!

I want to say that to her, in fact I want to point out that for me that'd be grounds for divorce (I seem to remember something about caring for each other in sickness being in marriage vows). But it's not my place and I'm just having to make sympathetic noises and bite my lip to a large extent.

 

[Rezillo]

Went to our local farm shop this morning. A school support worker shopper, the only other customer there (we had a slightly surreal conversation across each end of the shop), was saying he's just been ordered back to work because his school is opening up to people who are happy with having their children attend. Words fail me.

Anyway, that's us staying at home now for the foreseeable future.

 

[tom73]

Operation fresh food and pasta and tea a success. Operation get milk later.

Good luck with the milk I've not found any for 3 days. Going to try again later.

 

[Joey Shabadoo]

One of the outcomes of lesser importance so far is the carefully orchestrated vanity display of books on shelves behind pundits being interviewed at home.

On a large tv, you can make out all the spine titles, although some have taken care to have a couple or so with their front covers facing the camera, just in case we might not make them out. Not a low-brow book to be seen.

My company has set up Microsoft Teams so those working at home can video-conference (booooo!).
I noticed my line manager had a perfectly framed background of his ornate fireplace and chandelier - nobber.
Our first group conference, because of a few prior phone calls, the sales managers all wore silly hats

I have a projector and a screen, I wonder if I can project an amusing backdrop for the next one?

(last year I was on holiday during a sales meeting but joined it by Skype. My wife arranged for a bevvy of attractive women to join me in a jacuzzi by the pool as she held the phone up )

 

[Unkraut]

There is very little to cheer you up at the moment, but the Robert Bosch hospital in Stuttgart is organising concerts in the hospital grounds. The idea is to open all the windows so the patients can hear, and hopefully cheer them up a bit as visits are of course no longer allowed (I avoided saying 'forbidden'!). I thought that was a nice touch.

@deptfordmarmoset the figures here show 55% of cases are men for the over fifties.

Less good news: the police are having to break up corona parties amongst the yoof. 200 to 300 gathering together. It may not matter so much if they get infected, but it will matter if they pass it on to grandma.

 

[Mo1959]

Less good news: the police are having to break up corona parties amongst the yoof. 200 to 300 gathering together. It may not matter so much if they get infected, but it will matter if they pass it on to grandma.

This is what worries me about our schools being off from Friday. There isn’t the discipline in this country to keep them at home, so I can’t help thinking there will large groups of youngsters roaming around, in and out of each others homes and any shops that are still open. Could be a bunch of super carriers as they will probably have no or minimal symptoms themselves. Hope their parents can mostly keep them occupied at home.

 

[deptfordmarmoset]

@deptfordmarmoset the figures here show 55% of cases are men for the over fifties.

So that echoes with the Swiss figures, though, given the longer life expectancy of women, the older age groups will have fewer men, making the true positive testing rate for men far, far higher. Do you know if there's such a preponderance of women in their 20s testing positive as well?

 

[vickster]

If it was me, I think a call to a locksmith to change the locks would be very tempting!

And the divorce department of his firm...

 

[randynewmanscat]

Farage's account appears to have been hacked by Trump...


View: https://twitter.com/Nigel_Farage/status/1240341861119791104?s=20

Such useful and constructive words at this time. He's feeding his Daily Express fans, they are on the same page. I bit my tongue to visit that midden and reported 30 posts for racial slurs. Serious racial slurs that had been up for an entire day, against Chinese, black people and Muslims. Worse I have ever seen in the below the line slime, by a long way.

 

[randynewmanscat]

I'm hoping this chap has got a shop


View: https://twitter.com/danyomii/status/1240241784212643840?s=20

I'm going to send that to a friend who emailed me his experience of Wednesday evening. Here is what he said.
"Went to Sainsbury's yesterday 6pm for beer. No lager no meat no chicken no veg no milk no eggs no pasta no bread and I mean NONE.
Loads of other stuff not there.
Limit of two for each item.
Two would have done".

 

[Johnno260]

And the divorce department of his firm...

Why not see if they have a friends and family discount..

 

[Johnno260]

I'm going to send that to a friend who emailed me his experience of Wednesday evening. Here is what he said.
"Went to Sainsbury's yesterday 6pm for beer. No lager no meat no chicken no veg no milk no eggs no pasta no bread and I mean NONE.
Loads of other stuff not there.
Limit of two for each item.
Two would have done".

I think they need to have strict rations, and have it enforced with security at main supermarkets, people have been asked to play nice and they have ignored this request.

On a plus library is empty and we can take 40 books per family, my 6yr old has got a comprehensive reading list now.

 

[randynewmanscat]

Unfortunately, how important your job is to society does not equate to the money you will be paid. I can't remember when it ever was, although it does appear to be getting worse. It is all about market forces and about how many are available and prepared to, and can meet the skill requirements of any job.

This will never change.

People need to organise their labour and force government to strong arm business leaders to the table. It won't happen. I earned 7 times more than the contract cleaner at my last office and 9 times less than the CEO of the disaster capitalist fund that gutted the place.
It could be worse, in India you need a power of notation to describe the differential.