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5 minutes ago, Gemmill said:

I'd wayyyyyyyyyy rather be able to wfh than not. 

 

Been doing it since 2004 so I'm hardly going to argue with the principle, but it does rely on actually having places to go, too. If we get to a full-on quarantine situation like in some countries where we're not even allowed to go out for a walk/run by ourselves... well, fuck it, I'll be doing laps of the back yard and uploading the activity to Strava :lol: 

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:lol:

 

Come on, no pubs, restaurants, cinemas, holidays or get togethers is going to be tough. It's just sinking in for me. 

 

I am really lucky though. I'm still getting paid. So is the wife. Recently moved house with a garden, right next to a park and the beach. If this had happened last year I would have been cooped in a flat with a half built house, which would have been even more delayed. Many people are in a much worse position and I feel very sorry for them. 

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I'm really struggling to motivate myself to work though. I provide evidence to committees, committees that almost certainly won't take place now this year. Plus I think the schools will be disbanding this week, so I'll probably have to become a full time Dad to the little shits kids for a while. 

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5 minutes ago, wykikitoon said:

Renton, I think you need to take some time offline.  Honestly dude, for your own mental health.

 

That's amusing coming from you. ;)

 

This is literally my only place of human contact until tonight so you're out of luck. :) 

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Noises coming from our occupational health wife who I’m conducting an online affair with at the moment are disappointing...they’re going to assess how well asthma symptoms are “controlled” She’s an RGN with an MSc & a NEBOSH cert. I’m fairly certain the good old Corvid 19 virus isn’t going to take into account whether I’m taking my fuckin inhalers correctly before it assaults my respiratory system. But I’m standing by to be corrected by my employers who are clearly keen to show that their employees health is at the top of their agenda at this time  :glare:

 

 

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I’m currently watching Loose Women debate the government’s coronavirus strategy and Janet Street Porter telling millions that there’s no need for over 70s to self isolate and to go about their business as normal.

Never mind that it’s incredibly dangerous information but if this is what self isolation has in store for me then just kill me now.

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14 minutes ago, PaddockLad said:

Noises coming from our occupational health wife who I’m conducting an online affair with at the moment are disappointing...they’re going to assess how well asthma symptoms are “controlled” She’s an RGN with an MSc & a NEBOSH cert. I’m fairly certain the good old Corvid 19 virus isn’t going to take into account whether I’m taking my fuckin inhalers correctly before it assaults my respiratory system. But I’m standing by to be corrected by my employers who are clearly keen to show that their employees health is at the top of their agenda at this time  :glare:

 

 

I've been thinking about this. If you are stage 2 or above, you need to be careful imo. You can prove this status through your asthma review notes and last years prescriptions. However, if you're stage 1 like me and rarely even use a reliever, pragmatically I think this quarantine doesn't apply. I hope so cos I'm clearly not cut out for isolation! But then again, I also have ulcerative colitis so fuck knows. 

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43 minutes ago, Renton said:

I'm really struggling to motivate myself to work though. I provide evidence to committees, committees that almost certainly won't take place now this year. Plus I think the schools will be disbanding this week, so I'll probably have to become a full time Dad to the little shits kids for a while. 

By the end of this, Renton will be a tin-foil hat wearing, flat earth, steel-beams-can’t-melt loony, massively overweight and with a crippling addiction to extreme tentacle porn. 
A man has to fill his time :lol:

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4 minutes ago, Renton said:

I've been thinking about this. If you are stage 2 or above, you need to be careful imo. You can prove this status through your asthma review notes and last years prescriptions. However, if you're stage 1 like me and rarely even use a reliever, pragmatically I think this quarantine doesn't apply. I hope so cos I'm clearly not cut out for isolation! But then again, I also have ulcerative colitis so fuck knows. 


I’m under the care of a respiratory consultant at Poole hospital..was referred by my GP. They couldn’t take treatment any further. 

 

 

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Meanwhile, our place is ploughing on, despite barely being able to cope with the demand as it is and I’m spending all of my day politely explaining why chemists in the arse end of nowhere are not allowed to have our entire stock of paracetamol. There’s no contingency plan that I know of and our supplies are rapidly emptying :lol: 

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@PaddockLad a mutual friend just been ordered home on full pay to wait and see how things progress because he also has asthma and even his workmates have been told to go home and only work in pairs for emergency call outs. They work on maintenance around the transport system. Meanwhile I'm expecting not to be able to socialise in pubs with friends or visit relatives but am ok to work alongside colleagues and sit with them in a relatively small bait room in my vital confectionery job. :lol:

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I think the current situation in China is a more positive sign, they have it under control and people are going back to work and stores opening again. Hopefully Europe can get on top of it and normality resumes within the next 4-6 weeks. 

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1 minute ago, Anorthernsoul said:

I think the current situation in China is a more positive sign, they have it under control and people are going back to work and stores opening again. Hopefully Europe can get on top of it and normality resumes within the next 4-6 weeks. 

 

Unfortunately not. It's like having Gripper Stebson in an arm lock, or when Walter White had Crazy 8 tied up in his cellar. What next? You let them go, and you're still fucked. You either continue imprisoning them, or you kill them. I guess the latter analogy is get a drug or vaccine. Still months if not years away. 

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17 minutes ago, Howmanheyman said:

@PaddockLad a mutual friend just been ordered home on full pay to wait and see how things progress because he also has asthma and even his workmates have been told to go home and only work in pairs for emergency call outs. They work on maintenance around the transport system. Meanwhile I'm expecting not to be able to socialise in pubs with friends or visit relatives but am ok to work alongside colleagues and sit with them in a relatively small bait room in my vital confectionery job. :lol:


Oh that mutual friend, tell the lucky wee fucker to stay safe :lol:

 

The whole country are now trying to minimise risk whilst continuing to maximise income/profit. Not going to the pub reduces risk. Me at home reduces the risk to the current Mrs PL who, along with her mother, are FUMING that Poole Lighthouse have cancelled this Friday’s  opera performance ;)

 

 

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7 minutes ago, Anorthernsoul said:

I think the current situation in China is a more positive sign, they have it under control and people are going back to work and stores opening again. Hopefully Europe can get on top of it and normality resumes within the next 4-6 weeks. 


I don’t believe a single fuckin syllable coming out of China

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13 minutes ago, Renton said:

 

Unfortunately not. It's like having Gripper Stebson in an arm lock, or when Walter White had Crazy 8 tied up in his cellar. What next? You let them go, and you're still fucked. You either continue imprisoning them, or you kill them. I guess the latter analogy is get a drug or vaccine. Still months if not years away. 

 

 

Well I never for once expected any sort of positivity from you, after all you revel in misery.

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