brogdale
Coming to terms with late onset Anarchism
Reckon the time for 'getting rid' is rapidly diminishing, tbh. But, yeah...it's many of the accommodation blocks with (yearly contracted) foreign students that just can't close.
Coronavirus in the UK - news, lockdown and discussion
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chilango
Hypothetical Wanker
LDC
On est tous des pangolins
Two weeks I'd have said very low. Today... already happening and only going to get more restrictive.
redsquirrel
This Machine Kills Progressives
After years of doing fuck all to assist workers working from home suddenly the HEI I work at has found, within a week, that it has been able to develop strategies to facilitate working at home, even the delivery of teaching sessions . Strange that isn't it.
SpookyFrank
A cheap source of teeth for aquarium gravel
Still, world leaders using amphetamines has a fine and noble history. Going all the way back to [checks notes] Hitler.
ska invita
back on the other side
excellent tv series on drug use of PMs and El Presidentes, on youtube now
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brogdale
Coming to terms with late onset Anarchism
The out-sourcing genie?
miss direct
misfungled
If there’s a lock down I’m assuming carers will still be allowed to carry out home visits?
crossthebreeze
Well-Known Member
The way this affects social care is scary. People who need care and support can't self-isolate - and if they usually receive care from family or friends who don't live with them, or they employ their own PAs under a personal budget, what happens if their carers have to self-isolate? I've replied to a friend's callout for people who can assist her with personal care and household tasks if her PAs are sick or self-isolating - she needs someone with her all the time (and she lives independently, and her family aren't close by), so its really worrying her.
redsquirrel
This Machine Kills Progressives
Not in this case. Just managers suddenly deciding that people don't actually need to be at their desks + some IT issues that, while apparently unsolvable a month ago, have now been addressed.
LDC
On est tous des pangolins
Depends how bad it gets tbh. Nothing will be off the table in the most dire possible scenarios.
(Sorry Yorkshire)
brogdale
Coming to terms with late onset Anarchism
Good to hear but, of course, the psychopathic vermin will have viewed this crisis from the outset as a series of opportunities to trial, pilot and, in the case of class-sizes, to legislate for changes that could erode job security, de-professionalise and otherwise undermine workers' rights.
redsquirrel
This Machine Kills Progressives
Oh absolutely, and people are being expected to do extra work to cope with problems.
cupid_stunt
Chief seagull hater & farmerbarleymow's nemesis.
One assumes so, I doubt they will leave people like my mother without visits, but they may have to cut down on the number of visits, if they have too many staff off.
Luckily, I am self-employed & my brother is retired, so we could cover things for our mother, if required. We have actually discussed taking over anyway, if they are struggling to cover visits, to free them up to care for others in a worst situation.
SpookyFrank
A cheap source of teeth for aquarium gravel
I suppose the thinking is that no measures can be sustained indefinitely, and that if they jump the gun they face the prospect of being forced to raise certain restrictions during a perod of acute crisis, and thus worsening it. I would think there was a lot of stuff happening behind closed doors to ensure that shutdowns of this that or the other can happen in a slightly less chaotic way, but I don't see much evidence of that happening with schools so far. Teachers are largely just assuming that they'll get word at some point that they need to close in short order, and until then it's just more 'wash your hands' stuff, although apparently with no hand sanitiser as the bellends who are hoarding it aren't just affecting the consumer market, but also the sort of places where good hygiene is vital for the general public good.
SpookyFrank
A cheap source of teeth for aquarium gravel
FFY
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
Aye, we’ve run out of gel at my work and we get a couple of thousand people through our doors every day
bimble
floofy
British government wants UK to acquire Covid-19 'herd immunity' | ITV News
The Government’s experts – the chief medical officer and the chief scientific advisor – have made two big judgements. | ITV National News
www.itv.com
If that’s accurate it explains why no drastic lock down measures are happening.
kebabking
Not a Girly Swot, but I like them....
British government wants UK to acquire Covid-19 'herd immunity' | ITV News
The Government’s experts – the chief medical officer and the chief scientific advisor – have made two big judgements. | ITV National News
If that’s accurate it explains why no drastic lock down measures are happening.
Pandemic response has never been about stopping an outbreak, it's always been about trying to spread it out so that we don't have 500,000 people needing intensive care beds at the same time, and - simultaneously - everyone else running out of food.
redsquirrel
This Machine Kills Progressives
Is it worth having Covid-19 threads/conversations especially for this type of stuff - organising with each other to help those, or family of those, that have to self-isolate?Hey KrinkAnything I/we can do to help? Send me a PM if you need anything
EDIT: thread started here
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Brainaddict
slight system overdrive
Some politicians have been saying that shutting large public events would have no effect on the spread of the virus. That's pretty counter-intuitive. What's the logic/evidence they are using?
Miss-Shelf
I'll meet you further on up the road
We never even had any. We get thousands in daily at our uni
bimble
floofy
Yep. The bit I hadn’t got my head round before is the idea that locking things down just delays the inevitable total amount of infected people, that no measures will change that eventual % who get the illness (?)
But then I still don’t get why they’re not basically banning all unnecessary crowds today?
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
We've always had them as we get a lot of people who for whatever reasons do not look after themselves very well, so it's already become routine to sanitise regularly.
We've put up signs to ask for wipes when people have finished using computers and phones and we keep wiping down the touch screens on the queue management kiosks. Only one person so far has asked for a wipe.
beesonthewhatnow
going deaf for a living
This One Graph Shows Why 'Flattening The Curve' Is So Critical For COVID-19 Right Now
Anywhere from 20 percent to 60 percent of the adults around the world may be infected with the new coronavirus SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes the disease COVID-19.
www.sciencealert.com
LDC
On est tous des pangolins
The UK is taking the opposite the strategy that China took, for a mix of reasons. We're now at a much more globally advanced spread of the virus than we were even not that long ago, so the chance of it being kept in one area of the world is now zero, which means long term the best chances for a population is slowing the infection rate but not eliminating it.
The nasty thing is that what's best for the population as a whole is not going to be what's best for some individuals.
The nasty thing is that what's best for the population as a whole is not going to be what's best for some individuals.
Gramsci
Well-Known Member
See the Uber wealthy here are making sure they are ok.
Harley Street is doing well out of this. Jump in hiring of private jets to make sure don't have to mix with the lower orders.
This virus really showing how society operates.
Lock down won't affect them.
www.theguardian.com
Harley Street is doing well out of this. Jump in hiring of private jets to make sure don't have to mix with the lower orders.
This virus really showing how society operates.
Lock down won't affect them.
Super-rich jet off to disaster bunkers amid coronavirus outbreak
‘Self isolate’ for some of world’s richest means Covid-19 tests abroad, personal medics and subterranean hide-outs
beesonthewhatnow
going deaf for a living
“Members who are travelling commercially are choosing to book elite services at airports, not your typical first-class lounge,” a spokeswoman said. “For example, private terminals where guests are greeted and given their own suite. Check-in, customs and security are all done privately and guests are then taken to the doors of the aircraft. Members can request for the jetty to be cleared so they minimise the interactions with other passengers on their way to their seat.”See the Uber wealthy here are making sure they are ok.
Harley Street is doing well out of this. Jump in hiring of private jets to make sure don't have to mix with the lower orders.
This virus really showing how society operates.
Lock down won't affect them.
Super-rich jet off to disaster bunkers amid coronavirus outbreak
‘Self isolate’ for some of world’s richest means Covid-19 tests abroad, personal medics and subterranean hide-outs
At which point they're then still sat in a sealed metal tube with everyone else anyway. Money can't fix stupid.
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