Anyone caught out and about without good reason should stop getting any furlough money / benefits. Simple.
SARS CoV-2 coronavirus / Covid-19 (No tin foil hat silliness please)
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Anyone not following the rules should be made destitute?
Interesting way to resolve society in a crisis mate.
Or make them walk the plank.
If the whoppers are willing to spread the virus and cause potential manslaughter then why not, you actually need something to make people realise this is serious. The thought of then losing their money / home / car etc should be enough to make people actually do what they're told.
I'm down for that too.
There's always been small but sizeable part of the population who love going around judging and denouncing their fellow citizens and by being as petty and spiteful as possible.
As this thread shows, they are having the time of their lives right now.
Just found out my uncle died this morning. Didn't even know he had it. NHS doctor.
Intriguing that poor access to healthcare is considered a pre-existing condition.
Passport Office told to go back to work
Anyone see this before it got bumped off the BBC front page? HMPO planning to send their workforce back into offices to clear non-urgent applications which have built up because they sent everyone home a couple of weeks ago but didn't turn the online application route off. Staff being told that they have to come in, but aren't designated as key workers so can't access childcare/justify their travel to the police. The HO expert claiming on an All Staff Call that being in an office for 8 hours is no riskier than sitting at home or going to the supermarket. Staff cohabiting with people in risk groups have been told that it will up to their line manager to decide if their personal circumstances are serious enough to disqualify them from having to come in, otherwise they'll have to take annual leave.
Anyone see this before it got bumped off the BBC front page? HMPO planning to send their workforce back into offices to clear non-urgent applications which have built up because they sent everyone home a couple of weeks ago but didn't turn the online application route off. Staff being told that they have to come in, but aren't designated as key workers so can't access childcare/justify their travel to the police. The HO expert claiming on an All Staff Call that being in an office for 8 hours is no riskier than sitting at home or going to the supermarket. Staff cohabiting with people in risk groups have been told that it will up to their line manager to decide if their personal circumstances are serious enough to disqualify them from having to come in, otherwise they'll have to take annual leave.
Sorry to hear that mate, that's awful.
It's not very scientific to count Asians as a group, NE Asians and SE Asians or Middle Easterns differ more in DNA makeup than NE Asians v EuropeansFrom the BBC:
This is intereting. The occurrence of diabetes is fairly high in the British South Asian community.
Feck knows what they're thinking. Why do people need passports if the country is on lockdown anyway? Cant see people busting to get their passports anyway.
In Germany, the Higher Administrative Court of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania today overturned a travel ban for Easter issued by the state government. Residents of the state are free to travel to the coast and the islands in the Baltic Sea now.
Seems the courts are going to be busy with this stuff. There is another lawsuit by a medical lawyer who issue a 20-page statement in which she explains why the current measures are unconstituational. Which is fine but then she also called for nationwide demonstrations. Now the criminal police is investigating her for incitement to commit a crime.
Raab actually goes back to the asker to make sure they're satisfied with the answer.Amazing.
Thanks mate.
Sorry to hear that.
Actually I don't mind what the Philippines president has said. If they break the curfew ( they have a curfew) and if they create trouble, shoot them. That will stop all these caravans and parties and booze ups and getting together that creates more infected people.
I’ve seen this word batted around this thread a lot.
I don’t think they fully comprehend what they’re saying .
Stop people dying by shooting people, that’s A novel idea.
My condolences. My brother in law is a consultant in the NHS and I try to text to him everyday too. He said it's a war and he never expects to come home unscathed. He said he is resigned to whatever may happen. His job is to save lives he said as is what everyone else is doing. He is worried that NHS staff is only tested if they show symptoms but he has so many positive cases under his care. His colleague is already down and in quarantine. The heroes are the health workers yet the politicians and pundits will take the credit.
Had this been posted? Satellite photo showing air pollution levels in Europe (from February)
Sorry to hear that. May he RIP
Why not? Desperate times need desperate solutions. Shoot one and rest stay at home.
The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few.
You’d only have to threaten to shoot them
Very sorry to hear that.
Even so, I bet that was a worry for you. It’s never nice seeing your baby poorly but I can imagine your mind was racing this time?
Why would Northern Italy be giving off the most pollution? I obviously know that it’s been a badly hit area but can’t see the correlatio, unless they’re taking no notice of any curfew?Had this been posted? Satellite photo showing air pollution levels in Europe (from February)
Interestingly and excitingly my company has been enrolled to perform Covid testing. As of soon we will be receiving swabs for testing on our PCR machines.
This is from February, before the shutdown. The point is that one of the reasons Northern Italy (and Madrid as you can see in the photo) was so badly hit is the bad air quality. Which makes sense as the virus attacks the respiratory system.
Also isn’t the Philippines President the guy who wants to stop drug dealers by shooting them? Fairly sure he has a fairly limited range of solutions to problems.
From what I gather, there's political pressure on the senior civil servants from the minister to keep the service running for reasons of optics. Applications have still been coming in (albeit fewer than usual) because people are using lockdown as a chance to do some life-admin so HMPO are sitting on an increasing backlog that is going to cause massive issues when travel opens up again and the world and his wife want to book a holiday. Given a choice between standing up to the minister and endangering their workforce, senior management has unsurprisingly opted for the latter.
He’d probably solve this by shooting everyone who tests positive for Covid-19 rather than quarantine, easier innit?
So your staff can all test themselves? Nice.
Atleast it would look good on his low stats for deaths from covid 19.
This is what is happening in my home town and we are flying up the tables on cases/100 000. The people around here are so self centred.
Yes he is the guy. Credit to him he has cleaned up the place a lot as it's a lot safer everywhere now compared to the previous administration.
Could just be prevailing winds massing it up against the Alps.
Sorry to here that. My condolences to you and your family.
It is the swab test / diagnostic test not the antigen. Bit yes, theoretically if one of us goes down with symptoms we would be able to check if we had it. Whether we’d be allowed to is another thing.
Good point. Win win