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Good luck mate. I'm an ecom manager and been asked to work from home. Ecom sales are the only avenue to bring cash into our business at the moment.

Thats more of a reflection on Labour than the Tories imo.

If a patient is not being judged by whether they died because of the virus, or died but happened to have the virus. Then no, we aren't making decisions on scientific data because the data doesn't exist. Also we have no idea how many people have the virus but are unnafected. The data is pointless.

A friend of mine who works on data models and is employed by the gov data analysis team sent the following: ---–------------------ It's all completely pointless to be honest mate. The questions that will never be answered but we need to model are: How many people have died with the virus? And How many have died because of the virus? The data provided by the NHS is just quick observations and the coroner. They are too busy to even bother. There's guys who've contracted the Virus in hospital but died of natural causes and the opposite. Until there's mass antibody tests, ie how many people have had the virus and been fine, we will never be able to even estimate. Everything I'm doing is completely pointless from a pandemic modelling perspective. We are now modelling potential NHS requirements and ensure they have it. If a single person dies from lack of resources the political landscape (conservative) changes forever. To them, how many die is irrelavant. Its how many people die from a lack of resources.

2 events I'm headed to have been put back 1 year.

Despite a lot being furloughed, our CEO has also asked for everyone to take their 10 days of Holiday accrued by the end of May. Mainly so we as a business can hit the ground running. As its a good business to work for, and they treat the staff very well this has been universally accepted. I could imagine it's a little different working for weatherspoons or sports direct.

They had the definite whiff of power mad Simps.

In Leicester they were questioning people outside petrol stations yesterday. I was heading from Leicester to Redditch to deliver shopping for my mother who is stuck indoors for the next few months. I put £30 fuel in and they were asking me why I needed so much, if I was working from home, can't my mom go shopping (she's 62 with failing kidneys and a heart condition). Was quite unnerving to be honest.

In the case of Bright House, I feel awful for the staff but glad that cesspit of a business is off the high Street.

Meanwhile here in Leicester, the army are being called in because some of those of a specific religious belief refuse to self isolate and still congregate in large numbers in religious buildings. I live near one and it's business as usual. Genuinely can see riots here in the near future.

Both sides of the political fence want a better NHS, they differ on how we get there. The argument of of Conservative cuts is counterbalanced heavily by extreme wastage under labour, including extortionate PFI contractors, AHPs and removing legislation on external agencies (ironically the beginning of privatisation on the front line). The save our NHS was turned into a Labour v Conservative charade. Therefore pushing the presumptuous notion that only Labour could save the NHS. That's the reason why many stayed away.

Can someone explain the US medical insurance system. If you don't have medical insurance, or lose your job and don't pay premiums do you just not get treated? Are people scared to go to the hospital because of the cost? Edit: We have family in the states who have just been made redundant. We know they pay a substantial amount for medical insurance and may need to help them out financially (with the little we have). We can't let them go without.

Probably saving 300-400 a month not going to villa!

Obesity is a huge risk factor.

It's common for the entire family to live under 1 roof, particularly in the poorer working class areas. As in grandparents living with parents and kids. As it appears exposure density affects the severity of symptoms, some poor nan and grandad could have 4/5 asymptomatic relatives passing the virus onto them. Add to that, many Northern Italian leather and textile industries were sold to Chinese firms who imported cheap labour from Wuhan. It appears that thousands returned to Italy after the Chinese new year celebrations. They have no chance.

Same here. Stag in Portugal, Hen do Ibiza in April / May. Wedding in Lithuania in July, Honeymoon USA. Doubt it will happen, lost a lot of money but in the grand scheme of things it doesn't matter.

Schools can't close yet. In fact closing the schools will only make the situation worse. Generally speaking: Schools close > Parents go to work > Grandparents look after the diseased little ones. Generally Speaking: Schools Close > Nurses have no one to look after their kids > We are down on critical NHS staff If / when the schools close, our in-laws will need to look after them (both 60s) because neither me or my partner can afford to live off sick pay. If you are in the fortunate position able to stay at home with the kids or both WFH then the government should advise that, and actively encourage those able to take the kids out of school.

We are a young family 28, 32 with a 6 and 2 year old - therefore (according to the government) highly unlikely to be very ill with the virus. My mom is self isolating herself, with me just dropping shopping off and not coming indoors. The in-laws are in Lithuania. Are we to live our lives as normal? If we catch it then contributing towards the herd immunity. This strategy surely works on many "fit people" catching it. Or do we self isolate as much as possible? Minimising contact with the outside world. That said if everyone self isolates there won't be herd immunity. I wish those in charge (the CMO, not the government) would come out and be blunt. An example of my Bi-polar nature to this conundrum was this weekend. Saturday we went to Sealife center, Sunday we battened down the hatches and didn't leave the house. What am I supposed to do!

My wife returned from a 2 - day trip to Lithuania a couple of days ago. Delayed getting off the plane by 45 minutes because a passenger said they had a fever, felt unwell and had "the virus". Ambulance arrived and escorted them off the plane. The rest of the passengers exited with absolutely no checks, advice etc. Just went home as usual. I understand there's hypochondriacs, but regardless everything should have been investigated.

With this regime at least we have sellable assets to balance against the losses. Compare to the previous regime we had spend our entire FFP "budget" and were left with Whelan, Jedinak, Hogan (I know), Adomah, Elphick, Gardner, McCormack and countless others who were worth negative equity once their wages were balanced out. From NSWE's perspective, even though they have put in affect 100m+ into the club the assets of Mings, Grealish, Mcginn, Luiz, Targett, Konsa etc FAR out weigh that.

Thanks Both. I'll be sure the try that! I'll aim for £30

The figure of confirmed cases is likely to be substantially higher, maybe even by a factor of 2/3/4x, especially as 80% of people on have "mild symptoms" and it doesn't appears to hit children hard at all. My children are basically walking diseases anyway. They always have coughs, colds etc.

Bump on this thread! I'm going to give notice to leave Virgin Media. I have the whole whack with Sky Sports, BT Sports, VIP TV and decent internet (costs a ridiculous amount). Kids only watch Youtube or Netflix and never watch "normal TV". Thinking of just getting a Broadband package and BT Sport (I access another Sky Sports if necessary). Any recommendations?

Southampton at home will be a pivotal moment for West Ham. In a tough run of fixtures it's a "winnable" game at home. Bit like us with Watford at home, it's a must win for them. For me, if they win they are huge favourites to stay up, baring in mind they have "winnable" fixtures at the end of the season.

Whoever the new Labour leader is, and their agenda will be a huge pivotal moment in UK politics. Rudderless Labour, appear to be moving further over to the left (go woke - go broke), whereas a more centrist view is the only way for Labour to have a hope in the ballot box. The woke police (see Dawn Butler) appear to have infiltrated the labour party, and to be blunt the majority of normal, hard working straight forward people can't be bothered with it. Whether you are blue, red or undecided its vital to have a credible opposition.