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? 

Dont know if it's been on here but Danish government refusing tax relief to businesses based in tax havens is a move I can get behind. Felt sorry for the government theyve put in policy to help keep economy going and it's been taken advantage of.

6 minutes ago, Morizio said:

Add accountability and transparency into that. 

Two more things he’s less keen on it seems. 

6 minutes ago, Ghana White said:

Dont know if it's been on here but Danish government refusing tax relief to businesses based in tax havens is a move I can get behind. Felt sorry for the government theyve put in policy to help keep economy going and it's been taken advantage of.

They’ve told Branson to get fucked. He’s sent a begging tweet now, the absolute shithouse 

for anyone who's interested - this is the feed from the NHS that shows the breakdown of daily deaths by NHS trust

https://www.england.nhs.uk/statistics/statistical-work-areas/covid-19-daily-deaths/

you can see that around 50% of the numbers that feeds into Public health England for the daily deaths are at least 3 days old,  up to 6 days old in some cases.

doesn't look like we are plateauing around here - bolton, wigan,preston, chorley all still growing, maybe my NHS trust planner mate was correct in the peak being this Saturday for this area.

6 minutes ago, mickbrown said:

They’ve told Branson to get fucked. He’s sent a begging tweet now, the absolute shithouse 

Yet another thing we agree on

25 minutes ago, only1swanny said:

Same boat, some of the classes won't be an issue with social distancing, however bigger classes you have no chance..

Add into that air conditioning and fans in rooms as it gets warmer.. Constant need to clean touch points etc, it's much too much risk. 

Problem is i can see primary schools opening before hand as there is the arguement that "I need to return to work", however this creates a problem. Do you invite back just the kids of those where both parents are working? What about the pupil premium kids who need the stability or SEN students.. Will it be compulsory, and if so what about parents at home that are at risk?

The antibody test would be ideal, but again how can that be managed when we don't even have them yet. 

The government is getting a lot of Grief atm and I wouldn't fancy their jobs. I'm applying for jobs at the moment and interviews will be done via zoom, educations been turned upside down and it's harder work than it should be. Schools are also thinking that there is much more time for other work now. 

 

what about staggered return for different age groups, or weeks/days with limited numbers in

5 minutes ago, peelyfeet said:

for anyone who's interested - this is the feed from the NHS that shows the breakdown of daily deaths by NHS trust

https://www.england.nhs.uk/statistics/statistical-work-areas/covid-19-daily-deaths/

you can see that around 50% of the numbers that feeds into Public health England for the daily deaths are at least 3 days old,  up to 6 days old in some cases.

doesn't look like we are plateauing around here - bolton, wigan,preston, chorley all still growing, maybe my NHS trust planner mate was correct in the peak being this Saturday for this area.

Was in the MEN that that Bolton is becoming the North West epicenter.

Part of that is down to there being a large percentage of minority groups and the cultural lifestyle they lead. I've been told that a lot of people currently at Bolton Hospital are from ethnic groups. Both neighbors on both sides have had visitors everyday staying for a few hours. There were 5 kids all the same age playing next door, 2 were their own. I have reported one side already but shouldn't have to and nothing will have come from it. It's a cultural thing and a general distrust of the government. How can you implement new rules when there are huge language barriers??

That combined with communal living (2 families next door, 1 has 2 kids the other has a new born meaning 5 people in a small ex council semi), I have been to some houses on the cleaning work with 16 people living in one house! Every room aside from the Kitchen and Backroom is a bedroom. This combined with communal eating and meal times, shared kitchen leads to cross contamination issues.  How can you isolate away when you have young keyworkers in the same house as older and more vulnerable people?

The mosques have closed so a large chunk of vital communication lines have been lost. 

Might come across as a racist post, it isn't, it's highlighting where there is a major issue due to a cultural difference. Most Asian (grouping together here) houses I've worked on are ultra clean and tidy, but it's the volume of people in them that will cause problems. 

7 minutes ago, peelyfeet said:

what about staggered return for different age groups, or weeks/days with limited numbers in

 

Simply won't work, logistical nightmare and still holds all the risks of kids passing from one to the other.

I reckon year 10 will be back in before September, maybe even just for key subjects (Maths English and Science)

Similar for year 5's who will be doing Sat's next year

Logistical nightmare is a phrase im rapidly becoming tired of hearing

What it means is that sounds like a lot of fcuking about

1 minute ago, Casino said:

Logistical nightmare is a phrase im rapidly becoming tired of hearing

 

Try getting anything shipped from the Far East to Europe, that weights more than 50kg, now that is a logistical nightmare 😀

 

DHL China have such a big backlog now, they reckon that if you book for them to collect something from a factory for airfreighting, then they might get to pick it up the first week of May

 

1 minute ago, Sweep said:

Try getting anything shipped from the Far East to Europe, that weights more than 50kg, now that is a logistical nightmare 😀

 

DHL China have such a big backlog now, they reckon that if you book for them to collect something from a factory for airfreighting, then they might get to pick it up the first week of May

Try helping my 12 and 15yr old sons with their daily school work, running a business, keeping the dogs quiet all day because the mrs is on conference calls, whilst trying to have a sneaky wank.

now that is a logistical nightmare

7 minutes ago, Casino said:

Logistical nightmare is a phrase im rapidly becoming tired of hearing

What it means is that sounds like a lot of fcuking about

Ok

 

It would be more hassle than it's worth and risky as, not to mention impossible to put into action. 

3 hours ago, Tonge moor green jacket said:

 

Why should his work be publicised?

Just to satisfy a small number of screechers?

You've already made your mind up, so it would be to no avail anyway.

 

It's their angry blog, not mine, so obviously they see some value in responding. Given the ST piece is primarily about Boris skipping meetings and spending an inordinate amount of time doing fuck all during the early parts of the crisis, they don't really refute any of that beyond platitudes. Much like Michael Gove didn't until he had a bollocking in between interviews yesterday.

Anyway, these progressively shirtier missives from the government are giving me deja vu. How long until one slags off Ben Amos and calls Neil Bonnar an alcoholic?

2 minutes ago, peelyfeet said:

 

Try helping my 12 and 15yr old sons with their daily school work, running a business, keeping the dogs quiet all day because the mrs is on conference calls, whilst trying to have a sneaky wank.

now that is a logistical nightmare

Summat’s gotta give; what will it be?

Just now, boltondiver said:

Summat’s gotta give; what will it be?

let the dogs bark

18 minutes ago, Tombwfc said:

 

It's their angry blog, not mine, so obviously they see some value in responding. Given the ST piece is primarily about Boris skipping meetings and spending an inordinate amount of time doing fuck all during the early parts of the crisis, they don't really refute any of that beyond platitudes. Much like Michael Gove didn't until he had a bollocking in between interviews yesterday.

Anyway, these progressively shirtier missives from the government are giving me deja vu. How long until one slags off Ben Amos and calls Neil Bonnar an alcoholic?

I'm getting to the point where I can understand the shirty replies..

Slating someone who is recovering having just been in intensive care, people asking why he's "hiding", calling for him to resign etc.

Meanwhile the opposition do nothing to help (Despite saying they would) and just snipe away. But at least SKS wrote a letter to a newspaper eh..

The usual reply will be "They're not there to help", true, but they need to and the leader stated he would.. he hasn't.

 

24 minutes ago, peelyfeet said:

 

Try helping my 12 and 15yr old sons with their daily school work, running a business, keeping the dogs quiet all day because the mrs is on conference calls, whilst trying to have a sneaky wank.

now that is a logistical nightmare

Your Mrs is having a sneaky wank, whilst on a conference call. Good Girl!

25 minutes ago, peelyfeet said:

 

Try helping my 12 and 15yr old sons with their daily school work, running a business, keeping the dogs quiet all day because the mrs is on conference calls, whilst trying to have a sneaky wank.

now that is a logistical nightmare

Same boat, aside from the wank bit..

5 and 9 year old, a puppy, wife's school want her teaching lessons via video link, I'm setting lessons and replying to students, whilst making constant snacks (how do you fill a 5 year olds belly??) stopping fights, filling in job applications and getting email after email of "extra work you can do whilst not teaching"...

Least i can come on here and vent.. gotta go do a big shop shortly.. I've had lists emailed to me from various family members that are isolating. 

17 hours ago, Mounts Kipper said:

Not sure wtf you are on about, being in Northern Europe we are geographically close to Italy, Spain, France, Germany, Belgium and Holland, 4 of those have worse death rates than us, Holland very similar, only Germany doing much better. We all wished we’d done better but your comments highlighted are made with out context and frankly disingenuous. 

We don't know how many people have died in the UK but we do know it's a lot higher than the "hospital deaths" figure, so claiming that those 4 countries have a higher death rate than us is illogical. Potentially we have the worst death rate in the world. Apart from San Marino obviously.

1 minute ago, Hoppy510 said:

We don't know how many people have died in the UK but we do know it's a lot higher than the "hospital deaths" figure, so claiming that those 4 countries have a higher death rate than us is illogical. Potentially we have the worst death rate in the world. Apart from San Marino obviously.

The answer would have been to close all borders immediate..

imagine the outcry if we had

21 minutes ago, Hoppy510 said:

We don't know how many people have died in the UK but we do know it's a lot higher than the "hospital deaths" figure, so claiming that those 4 countries have a higher death rate than us is illogical. Potentially we have the worst death rate in the world.

We also don't know for sure the total deaths in any other country, do we know for sure that other countries are counting all deaths, or just those in hospitals?  It's like some sort of grim Top Trumps

21 minutes ago, only1swanny said:

The answer would have been to close all borders immediate..

 

Talking of which, these 150 Romanians that we flew in the other day to pick our fruit, do we know if they've all been tested, or if they're going into a two week isolation before they start work?  -  if neither of these things is happening (and I'd guess it's not) then it's just utter madness surely

Just now, Mr Grey said:

I would have thought Romanians would be more into collecting and picking up scrap metal than picking fruit 🙄

Racial stereotype alert here, but....

you can bet some of them will be on the fucking rob too.

Pretty sure they went in to lockdown

And theres loads more on their way

Which is odd as youd have thought we couldve done it ourselves

3 minutes ago, Mr Grey said:

I would have thought Romanians would be more into collecting and picking up scrap metal than picking fruit 🙄

Begging is the career of choice for them in Edinburgh. Each have their own spot daily (although suspect not currently). They get dropped off in the morning in a sprinter van and all collected at night and taken back to the large detached house in the street behind my in laws. In laws house is worth about 0.5m and the Romanians house is slightly bigger with a bigger corner plot as well. Go figure