How seriously are you taking social distancing?

[Thunder Bolt]

Let’s hope the measures announced today enable all these businesses to keep on their staff and keep paying them wages.

Unlike Britannia hotels, who wrote to their staff yesterday, laying them off but also telling them to move out, rendering them homeless!

 

[OzMike]

Unlike Britannia hotels, who wrote to their staff yesterday, laying them off but also telling them to move out, rendering them homeless!

Squatters rights ?

 

[Thunder Bolt]

Squatters rights ?

With an attitude like that from the hotel chain, I doubt they’d want to squat.

 

[OzMike]

With an attitude like that from the hotel chain, I doubt they’d want to squat.

I would, with the disrespect shown by the hotel, I would like to shove it up them.
Homelessness a better alternative ?

 

[WilburySeagull]

Unlike Britannia hotels, who wrote to their staff yesterday, laying them off but also telling them to move out, rendering them homeless!

Do you have a reliable source for this? My charity uses Royal Albion for meetings and we might want to rethink if they have done this.

 

[dazzer6666]

****ish thing to do - no notice at all. Another hotel has stepped in to provide temporary accommodation and jobs to those evicted. Scottish Tourism have issued a public condemnation. Think Britannia might regret this long term



https://twitter.com/st_alliance/status/1240903705668595714?s=20

 

[pasty]

 

[Thunder Bolt]

Do you have a reliable source for this? My charity uses Royal Albion for meetings and we might want to rethink if they have done this.

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[Beach Hut]

****ish thing to do - no notice at all. Another hotel has stepped in to provide temporary accommodation and jobs to those evicted. Scottish Tourism have issued a public condemnation. Think Britannia might regret this long term

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Companies already making disasterous short term decisions that will ultimately cost them dearly in the long term

 

[Bozza]

My local coffee shop has made the decision to go takeaway only so they are doing the right thing.

Really good guys, and I’ll continue to support them in the hope they make it through...

“Financially the hardest decision to make but morally the easiest.

In light of the PM's update tonight I feel I should be doing more to encourage social distancing but instead I'm providing a place for people to meet, congregate and socialise.

We need to distance ourselves to prevent the spread of this virus, isolate where necessary and each do our bit to rid the world of this.

With that in mind from tomorrow (Friday 20th) im sorry to say we will be running a takeaway only service and also closing at 4 and not 5pm. Please do Continue to support us where you can.

We really appreciate your custom and look forward to seeing you soon. Keep smiling!”


https://www.instagram.com/p/B97ruCflfbR/?igshid=czg88ptflmmc

 

[highflyer]

On that, copied from facebook (from an Army Staff Sargeant) :


In case anyone is panicking...

To all my civvie mates who are panicking over the military "going on the streets".

This is normal during any emergency where the civil authorities require extra manpower to operate. It’s called MACA, Military Assistance to Civil Authorities.

Basically military personnel from all 3 services are utilised to assist the likes of the police(static duties/non enforcement) hospitals(medics/doctors/paramedics) Fire brigade, even down to drivers of vital supplies(oxygen/oil).

We are not there to put the country under martial law.

We are not there to shoot people with 6 bog rolls and 12 loafs of bread.

We are there to assist/help. Same as what we did during the floods, the fireman strike and the foot and mouth outbreak.

Please stop posting "troops on the streets" panic inducing bollocks.

We are here to help stop this virus.[emoji1896][emoji1902][emoji1974][emoji1968][emoji1986][emoji1980][emoji2010][emoji2004][emoji3133][emoji3161]

Amazing really that it has to be said - but I guess it does.

I am a peace-loving hippy, with some instinctive distrust of people in uniform.

And the quicker I see army personnel 'on the streets', the happeir I will be right now. They are a critical government resource - with major capacity and a structure of command that allows them to get things done quickly when needed. If we aren't using them now...what are they for (apart from the obvious)?

 

[swindonseagull]

Day 8 of self isolation after wifey was coughing and had fever.... still going strong but will miss grandsons 7th birthday Sunday..
And of course his party has been cancelled..

 

[El Presidente]

I work in Liverpool but live in Sussex. This has allowed me to spend more time in Sussex, which I love. Good news.

 

[jimhigham]

Socially distant but still running. Can go miles and hardly see a soul and wear a buff across my mouth to hopefully not scare the occasional passerby. Don’t know whether or not I should feel guilty about this.

 

[pasty]

On that, copied from facebook (from an Army Staff Sargeant) :


In case anyone is panicking...

To all my civvie mates who are panicking over the military "going on the streets".

This is normal during any emergency where the civil authorities require extra manpower to operate. It’s called MACA, Military Assistance to Civil Authorities.

Basically military personnel from all 3 services are utilised to assist the likes of the police(static duties/non enforcement) hospitals(medics/doctors/paramedics) Fire brigade, even down to drivers of vital supplies(oxygen/oil).

We are not there to put the country under martial law.

We are not there to shoot people with 6 bog rolls and 12 loafs of bread.

We are there to assist/help. Same as what we did during the floods, the fireman strike and the foot and mouth outbreak.

Please stop posting "troops on the streets" panic inducing bollocks.

We are here to help stop this virus.[emoji1896][emoji1902][emoji1974][emoji1968][emoji1986][emoji1980][emoji2010][emoji2004][emoji3133][emoji3161]

Damn.

 

[WilburySeagull]

[tweet]1240700402783244288[/tweet]

Does anyone know if this is just 1 hotel or the whole Brittania group?

 

[Thunder Bolt]

Does anyone know if this is just 1 hotel or the whole Brittania group?

Reading the replies to that tweet, I get the impression that Britannia is headed up by an unpleasant man. There was an article from 2016 by the Mirror, but I didn't think it was pertinent to the current crisis. Maybe do some digging around to see if any other hotels in the group are responding in the same way?

 

[Weststander]

Most (85%) of people are very considerate to others. I do worry with the situation I'm in and try to avoid busy food aisles in supermarkets. Having a very healthy diet helps but it's certainly not a cure.

Except that the locusts have now turned their sights to some healthy foods such as porridge and rice. They don't like fruit though do they?

 

[lost in london]

My wife has gone for a walk with the kids and a friend of hers, we've been self isolating this week after the kids started coughing. Disagree entirely with her decision but I'm not about to put a bolt on the door.

I read this and it focused my mind on the need to keep ourselves away form everyone for a while: https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2020/03/the-story-of-a-coronavirus-infection.html

 

[Palacefinder General]

Except that the locusts have now turned their sights to some healthy foods such as porridge and rice. They don't like fruit though do they?

Thankfully some of them have yet to work out that macaroni is actually pasta.