Yeah, you're right. My post was very impetuous.
SARS CoV-2 coronavirus / Covid-19 (No tin foil hat silliness please)
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The average marathon runner is waaaaaay healthier than the average person.
I know what you’re saying. Fitness doesn’t equal health. But it’s a very silly and deluded point that’s only true of a tiny tiny subset of runners.
Yep, my post was shite.
Tbh I would have thought a former Goldman Sachs banker would be in favour of people making a ton of money and not having to worry about paying it back.
Should have done it last week. But yeah poor people are fecked more than anyone else.
Hope clarity is given on what services will continue to operate. Most likely it would be the same as currently in force.
Nar, it both was and wasn't.
The point you made which was good is that you wouldn't want to be running hard marathon training or running a hard marathon race right now! Not at all.
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We're not there with the numbers yet though, so locking down now is just kicking the can down the road. We'll lockdown when the time is right, it aint now. Right now it's about building the massive field hospital at the exhibition centre and preparing for the worst to come.
Boris bikes should be free too. I know people touch handlebars but gloves could be mandatory.
Exactly. It's better to be sat down the pub with affluent, like-minded folk than out accumulating all of that wear and tear.
Being a one-man-band business owner, a renter, and a father of 2 that spend time with their grandmother whilst I try to work...I've been royally fecked over by the lack of any help or clear information.
Yeah, it's one thing to risk things for yourself but she's happy to put others at risk
The Rochdale one is brilliant. If they go bust and there’s a fire sale I’d come out of retirement to take it on.
The actual power to fine, and the closings may have been mentioned but weren't enforced until last night.
I have no idea where we're going to get the money for this and I imagine my wage packet will be paying for it for years to come, but glad to see we're looking after all those laid off, including the self employed who'll be earning more money anyway 
To an extent. Someone who is running one of those twenty day marathons in a row is just asking for trouble.
The Regal Moon is a fantastic building for a pub!
The Up Steps Inn in Oldham has some rough cnuts in it though.
Wasn't really necessary though, should have locked down only the cities with confirmed cases. Of course, in this case no ones going to complain about the over zealousness of the govt. Not that I think they won't find other reasons to criticize the government. Already chidambaran is saying that the financial package should've been declared in 4 hours. As if you can make such a decision in 4 hours.
People grasp a hold of these outliers and extrapolate.
Simple matter of fact;
- If the entire planet started marathon training today, fewer people would die from Corona Virus.
Fitter people are healthier. Healthier people live longer. It’s that simple.
Some people cannot balance a training schedule, they’ll run 100 mile weeks in a calorie deficit and get sickly. That’s such a tiny fringe few that it’s stupid to talk about.
As a whole; almost all runners are healthier than non exercisers. Most Marathon runners are fitter and healthier than most runners.
This creep of acceptance of distance running not being a good idea probably correlates nicely with Obesity rates.
Edit : Shouldn’t need to say I obviously DONT mean everyone going for a run together. It’s an illustrative Point, not a literal one.
Yeah and our government is talking about people coming back to work and living as normal as early as Easter. That's just silly. If we have any sports/events/normal life by the end of this year I'd be shocked.
I couldn't have said it better. A friend of mine told me to stop doing these home workouts because I would tire and hurt my immune system. Everyone thinks he's a scientist and a doctor these days. It's fecking doing my head in
An 80-year-old woman is the first person in the UK to die after contracting coronavirus in hospital, our colleague, Matthew Weaver, reports.
Marita Edwards, a retired cleaner and keen golfer, went to Newport’s Royal Gwent hospital for a routine gallbladder operation on 28 February.
The otherwise fit 80-year-old then caught an infection in hospital that she and her family were initially told was pneumonia. Last Thursday, almost three weeks after arriving at the hospital, she tested positive for Covid-19 and died the following day.
“If she had not been in hospital she would be still be alive,” said her son, Stuart Loud. “Clearly there was a coronavirus infection in the hospital which claimed my mum’s life.”
Marita Edwards, a retired cleaner and keen golfer, went to Newport’s Royal Gwent hospital for a routine gallbladder operation on 28 February.
The otherwise fit 80-year-old then caught an infection in hospital that she and her family were initially told was pneumonia. Last Thursday, almost three weeks after arriving at the hospital, she tested positive for Covid-19 and died the following day.
“If she had not been in hospital she would be still be alive,” said her son, Stuart Loud. “Clearly there was a coronavirus infection in the hospital which claimed my mum’s life.”
The aim isn't to recompense it's to give people a basic lifeline ffs.
What self employed people are 'making hay'? Most people are either in isolation, so aren't going to be employing anyone, or are worrying about money, so again aren't employing anyone.
All the self employed people I know, are bunkered down at home, wondering how they're going to keep paying the bills.
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Cleaning companies, absolutely smashing it at the minute.
Just been told I’m back in the office on Friday, after finally being allowed to work from home today.
We apparently need a small number in to keep operations going, although there is absolutely zero that cannot be done remotely. Absolute madness. Can’t be in the same room as the workshop engineers who have to be in, but have to use the same kitchen and appliances. Expect you in to work but won’t even let you leave to grab a sandwich. Half way nonsense.
We apparently need a small number in to keep operations going, although there is absolutely zero that cannot be done remotely. Absolute madness. Can’t be in the same room as the workshop engineers who have to be in, but have to use the same kitchen and appliances. Expect you in to work but won’t even let you leave to grab a sandwich. Half way nonsense.
One run a day allowed remember
But you are right, I have seen some whose running masks certain issues.
But I suppose it's always a shock when someone who has done some athletic feat is brought down by a virus, as they've laboured the point it's those of old age, or underlying conditions that are the most vulnerable.
The government should have a website where you can submit the names of companies that fanny around their employees like this. The guideline explicitly says if you can work from home then that is what you will do.
An old cinema like a few of them are. I used to like the Waterhouse too when I was working in the city. Wetherspoons has some good locales in its ranks. A shame the owner is such a cnut.
A cleaning company isn't a self employed person. It's a company.
But assuming you mean a self employed cleaner, then possibly. Although most places are in lock down now. The only places employing cleaners will be offices and public spaces, neither of which will be using self employed folk.
But if a couple of cleaning ladies are doing OK out of this, is it really worth even considering, given the other 4.99m self employed people who will be struggling.
Please state your location with news like this, so as not to cause a panic amongst Americans.
I could almost understand it if we were busy. But work has dried up and it’s a total waste of time. We’re struggling with the oil price too, so I’m worried that speaking up or refusing to go in with result in my name being marked in case of any redundancies. Shit situation.
And people she calls friends.
Dreadful stuff.
My mum's had such an operation, so that scenario leaps out as being of horrible bad timing.
Plenty of IT support companies are doing well at the moment and a lot of delivery drivers are registered as self employed, freelance journalists will have a lot on covering the virus. Lots of lawyers are self employed and will have plenty of new work around rent, mortgages and wills. That's just off the top of my head. The fact is that there will be a small minority of self employed who have found a way to benefit from this scenario. That's the nature of business.
I'm not writing off the idea that the vast majority are struggling right now and I fully support their cause, I was just playing devils advocate to see if the situation is more complicated than it seems which I reckon it probably is, whether it's something close to the reasons I have suggested, I have no idea. Just trying to look for another point of view.
India declares full lockdown for 21 days. People ordered to stay in whichever city/village you are. All inter state, inter city air, rail and road transport services grounded.
https://www.bbc.com/news/live/world-52013888
https://www.bbc.com/news/live/world-52013888
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Further 6k tested