Slow news day? The real deal? End of the world? 
 

They’re saying it probably came from an animal, has Somebody been shagging monkeys again? 

10 minutes ago, stevieb said:

Been announced at work we can nominate ourselves for furlough and keep 80% of our full salary, uncapped. 

My Mrs is already furloughed so not sure if I need to be furloughed myself for childcare and if I did the others at work would have to pick my work up. 

Tough one. I'd love some time off to spend with the kids but without the structure of a working day I reckon I'd turn into a crusty piss can within a few days. 

ONE OF US ONE OF US ONE OF US

1 hour ago, peelyfeet said:

have you seen the news from Ecuador?

they've reported 403 covid deaths, however one province has reported 14.5k total deaths in the last 6 weeks, usually they have 3K in the same period

they aint got the facilities to deal with the bodies so they're putting some out in the street!

puts our situation into perspective a bit

 

Where have you got that from? Most reports i can find state 6700 in April but nothing for March..

Worrying...

14 minutes ago, stevieb said:

Been announced at work we can nominate ourselves for furlough and keep 80% of our full salary, uncapped. 

My Mrs is already furloughed so not sure if I need to be furloughed myself for childcare and if I did the others at work would have to pick my work up. 

Tough one. I'd love some time off to spend with the kids but without the structure of a working day I reckon I'd turn into a crusty piss can within a few days. 

I’m thinking plenty furloughed staff will be deemed surplus to requirement when this is all over so I wouldn’t be volunteering. 

1 hour ago, Casino said:

Speaking to our finance woman earlier and she said that 27th Feb cut off was scrapped

So anybody starting early March was now in

Nearly but not quite right.

Been moved to 9th March, but RTI had to be submitted to HMRC by then.

So early March starters that were to go on payroll end of month for example can’t be furloughed 

Figures from the first antibody tests showing that up to 50 times the number who knew they had the virus

9 minutes ago, boltondiver said:

Figures from the first antibody tests showing that up to 50 times the number who knew they had the virus

??

41 minutes ago, jules_darby said:

Nearly but not quite right.

Been moved to 9th March, but RTI had to be submitted to HMRC by then.

So early March starters that were to go on payroll end of month for example can’t be furloughed 

Cheers

Tbh it was just in the middle of a conversation about other stuff

It affected 2 of ours. One walked into another job day after we shut up

58 minutes ago, only1swanny said:

Where have you got that from? Most reports i can find state 6700 in April but nothing for March..

Worrying...

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-52324218

 

Half way down the page

5 minutes ago, peelyfeet said:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-52324218

 

Half way down the page

That's terrifying! 

I reckon some less connected countries will have a similar problem

 

14 minutes ago, only1swanny said:

That's terrifying! 

I reckon some less connected countries will have a similar problem

 

Grisly stuff. There's loads of countries poorer than Ecuador. Looks like the high temperature there hasn't had much effect either. 

1 minute ago, peelyfeet said:

Grisly stuff. There's loads of countries poorer than Ecuador. Looks like the high temperature there hasn't had much effect either. 

Which in itself is very worrying and it seems there’s some hope that the warmer weather will at least slow it down. 
 

Any more news on it being transmitted to animals?

1 hour ago, Mounts Kipper said:

I’m thinking plenty furloughed staff will be deemed surplus to requirement when this is all over so I wouldn’t be volunteering. 

That's my thoughts as well

1 hour ago, boltondiver said:

Figures from the first antibody tests showing that up to 50 times the number who knew they had the virus

Sorry, I've read this a few times, and I'm not sure what you're actually saying

4 minutes ago, Sweep said:

Sorry, I've read this a few times, and I'm not sure what you're actually saying

I’m guessing it suggests that shitloads of people have had it and never knew.

I think.

Hes getting stuck into his fancy birthday wine at the minute so can be forgiven for a grammar error 🍷🍷🍷

1 minute ago, Spider said:

I’m guessing it suggests that shitloads of people have had it and never knew.

I think.

Hes getting stuck into his fancy birthday wine at the minute so can be forgiven for a grammar error 🍷🍷🍷

Yes, that’s right

Birthday next week, so just an ordinary OTT Friday night

48 minutes ago, Morizio said:

Which in itself is very worrying and it seems there’s some hope that the warmer weather will at least slow it down. 
 

Any more news on it being transmitted to animals?

Not that I've seen. 

5 minutes ago, Mr Grey said:

Making batches of vaccines before they have been tested and working. Is that normal standard practice, or is it just for Covid-19.

Would you be a Guinea Pig if you had Covid-19 ?

When I was ill with it the other week, I'd have happily tried anything

2 minutes ago, Sweep said:

When I was ill with it the other week, I'd have happily tried anything

Sweep 

how does it compare with any other illness you’ve ever had? Flu etc? Not a loaded question just interested to know for a relatively healthy guy how it compared 

8 minutes ago, Mr Grey said:

Making batches of vaccines before they have been tested and working. Is that normal standard practice, or is it just for Covid-19.

Would you be a Guinea Pig if you had Covid-19 ?

Not much point having the vaccine once you've got COVID.

1 minute ago, Mr Grey said:

I suppose once you get to that place were you are really scared because your that ill (like you were), you would chance any vaccine that they are testing. I probably would.

How would a vaccine work if you already had it?

1 minute ago, dave2980 said:

How would a vaccine work if you already had it?

It wouldn't. We will need a new one frequently though, and once the initial one is made, they'll tweak it every year or so 

12 minutes ago, Mr Grey said:

Making batches of vaccines before they have been tested and working. Is that normal standard practice, or is it just for Covid-19.

Would you be a Guinea Pig if you had Covid-19 ?

Normal, they make multiple ones, see which works best

https://www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/gowns-nhs-ppe-shortage-coronavirus-covid19-a4417516.html

Worrying shortage of PPE gowns is imminent for NHS staff. 

I hope the alternative suppliers are able to provide some instead.  

10 minutes ago, dave2980 said:

How would a vaccine work if you already had it?

https://www.vaccinestoday.eu/diseases-vaccines/diseases/flu/

17 minutes ago, Sweep said:

When I was ill with it the other week, I'd have happily tried anything

Not sure about you, 

but for me it was the fear of spreading it that was the worst part, more than the feeling like shite