Main Coronavirus / Covid-19 Discussion Thread

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[Lyndhurst 14]

let them, will be a usful study of how the virus spreads.

Yep - there'll be a few candidates for the Darwin Awards

 

[Thunder Bolt]

Someone has just said that gardeners have been told they can’t work because they would touch petrol pumps .....they said it’s official.....is this true?

The petrol pump spam has been doing the rounds on Facebook. Everyone claims to have seen it from a hospital even though the hospital isn't named.
One message did mention Galway hospital who put out an official statement to say they haven't said anything of the kind.
Pumps are no more dangerous than door handles or trolleys at the supermarket.

 

[middletoenail]

£30 fine for breaking self isolation is a complete joke. Needs to be several times that amount!

 

[Beach Hut]

Some information coming through about helping self-employed and freelancers

 

[BBassic]

£30 fine for breaking self isolation is a complete joke. Needs to be several times that amount!

If you've just lost your job and haven't got any money coming in, £30 down the pan for stepping outside your front door won't feel like a joke.

 

[middletoenail]

If you've just lost your job and haven't got any money coming in, £30 down the pan for stepping outside your front door won't feel like a joke.

For sure, that goes without saying, but for everyone else it's hardly worth it after all of the paperwork/policing efforts.

 

[Driver8]

£30 fine for breaking self isolation is a complete joke. Needs to be several times that amount!

A tattoo across the forehead saying “Do not treat me or my family for Coronavirus” should do it.

 

[RossyG]

What about people who've had it, been tested positive for it, and have recovered?

The time will surely come when they're allowed out. They could do voluntary work for a start.

 

[WATFORD zero]

Best carry on plumbing.....I’m dithering.

Just come in from doing my garden and there's a gardening company working opposite my house cutting stuff and blowing things around from what I can see. (Don't know where they'll take it though as dumps are closed)

Don't know if this helps

 

[doogie004]

So up 87 to 422 total UK deaths terrible


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[dwayne]

So up 87 to 422 total UK deaths terrible


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Yep that is a worrying jump in numbers.

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[RossyG]

Awful jump in numbers, but not the 631 deaths we’d have had had we followed Italy’s trajectory.

 

[Napper]

over 1500 new

 

[The Wizard]

Hope all those fantastic rebellious people who went out at the weekend are proud, blood on hands.

 

[Hugo Rune]

Awful jump in numbers, but not the 631 deaths we’d have had had we followed Italy’s trajectory.

Yes. They had 168 on the same day, more than double. Our advantage is that with the exception of London, we don’t have an epicentre like Lombardy. The government are doing well to convert the Excel into a 500 capacity hospital, if we run out of ICU beds in the capital, we’ll quickly see Italy style death rates.

 

[dangull]

Worthing town centre like a ghost town today, even M&S closed which surprised me as they sell food etc. Waitrose, you had to queue up and wait to get in when numbers went down. Iceland was pretty normal though apart from till staff wearing gloves. Yes I did go there as I was in a hurry.

 

[rogersix]

I cant help you I'm afraid you're another one barking up the wrong tree
Regards
DF

you got told off again

 

[Pretty pink fairy]

you got told off again

Occupational hazard on here
Regards
DF

 

[Triggaaar]

Has anyone actually received this message that all the mobile networks were supposed to be sending telling us to stay in?

Got mine at 7 this morning. It said more info at gov.uk/coronavirus

I didn't want to click the link (in case it was a scam) so I entered the address on my PC, and it was correct and gave advice (which basically said you can go to work if you can't work from home).