Older people and social media is such a bad combination. We're gonna spend the rest of our lives trying to tell them the shit they read on Facebook or read in the Whatsapp group isn't true.
SARS CoV-2 coronavirus / Covid-19 (No tin foil hat silliness please)
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In the latest episode of the United Hour Podcast, Nik @Rood and Imran @Annihilate Now! start with the good news by celebrating Manchester United Women's emphatic FA Cup win over Spurs at Wembley and the future of manager Marc Skinner.
Then it's the bad news and the ever worsening form of our Men with losses to Arsenal and Palace.
Finally the main debate - ETH Out now or keep him until the end of the season - if not longer. Are you Team Nik or Team Imran?
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Weird time in Iran.
Our new year begins on friday morning at around 7.
There aren't many people on the streets which is very strange at this time of the year. But still even those few people shopping outside are worsening the situation.
My 78-year-old uncle has been hospitalized for about a week now after testing positive. Plus I am worried about my father who is suffering from some kind of a respiratory disease. The thought of him getting infected is really killing me.
How are businesses supposed to keep paying people full wages when they're not there and revenue streams dry up? Many businesses are not making big profits like FTSE 100 companies, they generally just get by year to year. It would be impossible to keep paying full wages through all this.
But surely they have some sort of insurance? I've come to terms with the fact I'm going to be absolutely financially fecked within a month.
Governments need to act to either
1) insure payment of wages for the duration of the crisis
Or
2) insure that bill payments are deferred for the duration of the crisis + additional time so that workers can recover lost wages
I've come into the office as I've no symptoms and have some client meeeings, the amount of people walking around coughing is really pissing me off.
The office which is around 1500 is more or less completely full despite doing 2 test says last week of people wfh.
The office which is around 1500 is more or less completely full despite doing 2 test says last week of people wfh.
We had that option in December last year and it lost. So who knows where we go from here(Mostly likely some right wing authoritarian government or just simple chaos).
It's not, it depends what's your in contract. Most of us have contractual sick pay but it's not an automatic right.
That is incredibly dumb logic.
We switched our regular meeting to a video call and the first thing I see behind a speaker in the office is someone picking their ear and nose and continuing with their day.
I don't want to do that either, but nonetheless it's what I'll be doing for the coming 3 weeks, except for going to the store to buy the essentials of course. I believe anyone who can do that, should. Not everyone will be able to of course, so that's why I think it's important for everyone else to do so. At the very least you should seriously consider it, it makes an immense difference in the hospitals and it saves lives.
My brother in law here in CZ has had his working week cut from 5 days to 3 days. For the next 2 weeks he is compensated by the state for the 5 days, after that he has to take the loss. He is stressing about bills etc. Desperate times.
You could have given any political party a majority and given them 20 years, and they still wouldn't have shaped the country to be resilient to this pandemic. This is going to be one of, if not the, most impactful event since the Second World War. It will change the country far more than a Jeremy Corbyn win would have done.
Fully agree with this. There should be some form of compensation for those people who take a financial hit
I'll vote 2) then please. 1) doesn't help the self-employed.
What annoys me in my situation is I know the company I work for will still keep collecting their weekly fees for the children even if we have to close so they wont be out of pocket. They wont extent that to their staff though, despite the fact our headteacher let slip management and directors will get full pay.
I'm talking about the response to this virus. It would be vastly different had Labour won just a few months back. It turns out politics actually matters.
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Also if the politics of Corbyn and Sander had been in power for last 20 odd years then yes of course we would be more resilient to a global pandemic. The tweet I posted which you quoted explained this.
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Especially as you can get it twice.
I heard a representative from some insurance body saying that many small and medium businesses don't take out pandemic cover because its expensive and well, we've not had one for 100 years so there will be many that do not.
I agree that there has to be some major government intervention here, deferment of mortgage payments (this will definitely happen) and essential bill subsidies
Are you saying that with this attack we'd not have a better chance of winning?
Burgon-----------------Abbott
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Why does that not come as a surprise?
Should probably just give it Giggsy until the end of the season.
An old mate of mine is head chef of a restaurant which is one of four owned by the same couple, I'm in a whatsapp group with him and a few other chefs and they've been discussing the situation at their places. He said that between the four restaurants and the admin team in the main office they have just under £4.5k a week they pay in salaries to a dozen permanent staff. Then they have about another 20 staff on zero hour contracts, some just students making pocket money but the junior chefs and some waiting staff rely on the money to live.
They're just coming out of winter and it's usually Easter -> October when they make their money so the restaurant cash reserves is at it's lowest point. If they have to shut for more than a fortnight it's likely that all four restaurants will close and that's nearly 40 staff out of a job. What they are most worried about though is that this is going to be common place. So while the chef industry has just seen a bit of a shortage of chef's (because it's tough work in shit hours) and wages had begun to be more competitive, this is going to be completely out the window and it's going to be back to square one with really talented chefs opting to be labourers instead because the money is better. The trouble is that there won't be enough labouring jobs this time either.
We think we have it bad. They are panic buying guns and ammo in the states.
https://eu.usatoday.com/story/money...eople-line-up-gun-stores-stock-up/5054436002/
https://eu.usatoday.com/story/money...eople-line-up-gun-stores-stock-up/5054436002/
I'm a contractor so I'm in the same boat. You're not going to get much sympathy from posters in here though.
Same situation here, pretty much everyone coming in as usual, and loads of coughs around me. Colleague stupidly went to London over the weekend to party and has come back with cold-like symptoms, so I have taken my own decision to move desks a few blocks away. Not risking getting this due to someone else's carelessness.
There's plenty of us who did try to the stress why you have to keep it going as long as possible and not just tank the economy and leave people out of work, unable to pay bills!
Why wouldn’t you get sympathy? You guys are in a horrible situation.
Not looking for sympathy. There'll be millions in the same boat as me, just looking for advice from anyone who has already be directly affected by the same issues.
If your office closes up temporarily without offering work from home, and your on a set salary as defined by your contract, do they still have to pay you said salary?
Or whats the legal ramifications here does anyone know?
Secondly how do they change of the government initiates a lockdown?
Or whats the legal ramifications here does anyone know?
Secondly how do they change of the government initiates a lockdown?
You're right. "She would get pumped". How about that?
Practical suggestions:
1. Do you have an emergency fund to sustain yourself for a little while without income?
2. Do you have family members who could perhaps lend you some money in the short term?
3. Perhaps look for alternative work? I imagine delivery services and such are taking on additional staff to meet increased demand.
There was one poster saying we should have built up savings for these scenarios.
And anyone arguing to delay a lockdown for economic reasons gets jumped on by the majority.
60%? That's terrifying. Thought this was closer to 15%.
There’s no good reason to delay the lockdown. Government should be ensuring continuity of peoples economic health via mortgage/rent holidays and basic cost of living payments to those who need them. They definitely shouldn’t be risking a worse outbreak as an alternative.
That ‘should have built up savings’ stuff is shite. It’s like some people don’t know how many of us have to live.
I have no savings due to me recently breaking up with my ex which has left me with no savings.
I may have to look into a second job if I'm forced to quarantine but my car is currently off road with a fault I cant afford to get fixed.
Set up an only fans.