Coronavirus

[ewerk 30632]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-53038255

I'm confident that the government will continue to be led by the science on this.

[NJS 4389]

I think it would work if they said 2m OR 1m and masks all round - problem is that's too complicated for the masses.

[Kid Dynamite 7033]

It doesn’t matter whether it’s 2m or 1m as most fuckers are ignoring it all anyway 

[ewerk 30632]

It makes a massive difference to the hospitality sector.

[Toonpack 9443]

Hundreds in queue's at Primark/shops  utterly predictable !!

[Dr Gloom 21940]

there are a few things you'd have to pay me to do but queueing to shop in primark is one of them 

[Meenzer 15550]

But we can't have parkrun back because it doesn't make anyone any money. Keep spending, plebs!  

 

[Renton 21636]

So now we are expected to endure the discomfort of face masks in the office all day. This is 3 months too late and all for show imo. I asked if that implicitly meant we were at risk and if so why can't we work from home? I was told yes, you are at risk and you should work from home. But you're not allowed to work from home so keep coming in and wear a face mask at all times. Honestly, this place is a mad house. 

[Toonpack 9443]

It's fecking madness, everything slackening off so the plebs think it's gone away !! Infection rate are same as 16th March evidently, it's going to rocket again just as it has in parts of the US.

I'm not changing what I do in fact will likely me more "safety conscious" as the idiots are out in force.

[Tdansmith 3259]

39 minutes ago, Dr Gloom said:

there are a few things you'd have to pay me to do but queueing to shop in primark is one of them 

"a few"  

[PaddockLad 17284]

1 hour ago, Renton said:

So now we are expected to endure the discomfort of face masks in the office all day. This is 3 months too late and all for show imo. I asked if that implicitly meant we were at risk and if so why can't we work from home? I was told yes, you are at risk and you should work from home. But you're not allowed to work from home so keep coming in and wear a face mask at all times. Honestly, this place is a mad house. 

 

We got an email on Friday to wear face masks but only in clinical areas. What you're being subjected to is ridiculous bordering on pathetic....

[Sonatine 11393]

 

[Kid Dynamite 7033]

1 hour ago, Renton said:

So now we are expected to endure the discomfort of face masks in the office all day. This is 3 months too late and all for show imo. I asked if that implicitly meant we were at risk and if so why can't we work from home? I was told yes, you are at risk and you should work from home. But you're not allowed to work from home so keep coming in and wear a face mask at all times. Honestly, this place is a mad house. 

You’re missing the point. Track and trace has started. If someone in your office gets Corona then the whole office needs to self isolate for 14 days. If everyone in the office had a mask on, they don’t need to self isolate.

 

None of this is about protection of the public. It’s about protection of the economy 

Edited June 15, 2020 by Kid Dynamite

[Renton 21636]

40 minutes ago, Kid Dynamite said:

You’re missing the point. Track and trace has started. If someone in your office gets Corona then the whole office needs to self isolate for 14 days. If everyone in the office had a mask on, they don’t need to self isolate.

 

None of this is about protection of the public. It’s about protection of the economy 

 

So wearing a face mask means I don't need to self isolate if I get the call? I hadn't heard that and it's not on any of the information sheets we've received. 

 

I've taken it off anyway, fuck this. I'll use it when out and about. If the stasi catch me I'll just pretend I'm eating. 

[Kid Dynamite 7033]

11 minutes ago, Renton said:

 

So wearing a face mask means I don't need to self isolate if I get the call? I hadn't heard that and it's not on any of the information sheets we've received. 

 

I've taken it off anyway, fuck this. I'll use it when out and about. If the stasi catch me I'll just pretend I'm eating. 

That’s how my trust are interpreting it. 
 

No mask if youre sat 2m away from everyone, masks for everyone if keeping 2m away is not possible 

Edited June 15, 2020 by Kid Dynamite

[Renton 21636]

6 minutes ago, Kid Dynamite said:

That’s how my trust are interpreting it. 
 

No mask if youre sat 2m away from everyone, masks for everyone if keeping 2m away is not possible 

 

That sounds sensible, and is what I'm going to do. I'm in favour of appropriate use of masks. For some reason, very few people seem to bother with them in supermarkets etc. Wish the government would make it a requirement like they have o  public transport. 

 

 

[Kid Dynamite 7033]

5 minutes ago, Renton said:

 

That sounds sensible, and is what I'm going to do. I'm in favour of appropriate use of masks. For some reason, very few people seem to bother with them in supermarkets etc. Wish the government would make it a requirement like they have o  public transport. 

 

 

In my team alone we have about 20 staff on shift between 9am-5pm. Given you’re supposed to change your mask when it becomes moist (ie: hourly) we would need 160 masks a day for those that work office hours.
 

Add another 40 masks for the late shift and night shift staff.

 

That’s 1400 masks a week the team would go through.

 

Extrapolate that across the entire hospital and we would run out of masks pretty quickly 

Edited June 15, 2020 by Kid Dynamite

[Gemmill 44934]

Renton won't get 5 minutes out of his if you have to change them when they get moist. 

[Meenzer 15550]

 

 

 

And yes, it has Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia, USSR etc. too.

 

 

[ewerk 30632]

Pubs opening here on 3rd July.

[RobinRobin 11282]

13 hours ago, Meenzer said:

 

 

 

And yes, it has Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia, USSR etc. too.

 

 

If only they had blue passports 

[RobinRobin 11282]

10 hours ago, ewerk said:

Pubs opening here on 3rd July.

They opened up for drinking (as opposed to eating) last weekend here.  I went past our local and saw a lengthy queue outside mid-afternoon.  I thought that there was little point in queuing then, because anyone who had already got in probably had no intention of leaving before midnight at the earliest  

[Gemmill 44934]

@Andrew @Kitman

 

You're welcome. 

[Andrew 4771]

Gee, thanks.

[PaddockLad 17284]

This seems very positive....

 

Coronavirus: Dexamethasone proves first life-saving drug https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-53061281