COVID-19 — Coronavirus

[bluealf]

Binmen are a real essential service at the moment - anyone know the best way to go about giving them a tip ? Doesn’t seem any real nationwide appeal to do this - was thinking just running out with fiver/tenner when I see them coming round. But not sure what the etiquette is.

Oh, piss off, how about we tip all the delivery men that are still going from house to house while we are at it, they get paid to do a job and are lucky enough to be able to do that job with minimal public contact and not a bad wage for dragging a lump of plastic to a machine that then lifts and tips before they then throw it somewhere near your property.

 

[Gabriel]

Some possible great news with Oxford University 80% very hopeful they have a vaccine based on Chimpanzee virus. Trials start next week but they are so confident about it they have started manufacturing to produce 1,000,000 doses immediately with the hope it works and tens of millions can be produced by end of the year.

It certainly sounds encouraging. Individual scientists tend to be guarded and overly cautious when predicting, especially publicly, certainly more so than drug companies, so we can but hope.

As a sideshow, it'll be fascinating to see where the vaccine is discovered. Will it be in the United States with its expertise and wealth, the UK, with its centres of knowledge, Germany, with its biochemistry tradition, or China, which has had a head start and can channel massive resources into the search?

 

[sir baconface]

I'd imagine the hardest part is the accommodation.

Lots of the big farms are already geared up, having imported labour for years. They have caravans on site for fruit pickers.

 

[Vic]

We have 6,000 Nightingale with few patients to fill them. I assume the Nightingale workers are minimising the use of PPE, relative to patient demand for care.

I mean, have we got enough gowns and other PPE for all those Nightingale beds lying unused when other hospitals are desperate? Or are the Nightingale beds unusable because they have no PPE?

 

[Blue Hefner]

It’s all very well queuing up outside shops on a nice sunny day in April. In November in the freezing cold, with wind and rain battering against customers faces, not so much

I hope businesses and government have come up with ideas and strategies to mitigate this come September onwards as we don’t want people being admitted to hospital with hyperthermia!

 

[BlueHammer85]

Oh, piss off, how about we tip all the delivery men that are still going from house to house while we are at it, they get paid to do a job and are lucky enough to be able to do that job with minimal public contact and not a bad wage for dragging a lump of plastic to a machine that then lifts and tips before they then throw it somewhere near your property.

Piss off really ? And yes no objection to tip delivery guys right now or any other essential service during these times.

 

[SWP's back]

Vaccine means you don't get it in the first place. It might not give absolute protection (it may still be possible to get the disease) but an effective vaccine drastically reduces infection.

If someone who's had it can get it again the whole "herd immunity" stance by letting it move through the population was even more stupid. Vaccination would give herd immunity.

No mate. A vaccine works by making your body make antibodies. Same as having had it and therefore the issue is that if one can get it again (despite having had it and despite your body having antibodies) then a vaccine wouldn’t work.

 

[sir baconface]

Sorry mate, but our bin men are cunts.
Proper jobsworths with how the bins have to be loaded. 1mm gap on the lid (has to be shut)and they won't take it. Leave a spare rubbish bag next to it, and they will move the bin and leave the bag for foxes to rip apart.
Just to finish off, they constantly leave the bins in the middle of the driveway even though they are left in a different place to be emptied. Meaning on returning home, we have to get out and move the bins before entering the drive.
And before you think it's just us, they do it to the whole area.
All happened when a new firm took over years ago. Before that, they were great. Forget to leave a bin out? They would either knock on or just take the bin. They used to get plenty of biscuits, and a christmas tip etc.

This. Being essential workers doesn’t suddenly make them warm and cuddly.

 

[Vic]

Lots of the big farms are already geared up, having imported labour for years. They have caravans on site for fruit pickers.

Some brought people in from the EU before flights were cancelled and are paying them even though there's no picking till May. These are their regular seasonal workers who don't need training. "Pick for Britain" will have thousands of Brits turning up but growers are frankly expecting many will be given three weeks training (some dangerous machinery involved in some work) then give up after the first week; they can't afford that, hence the preference for bringing in the foreign workers they trust.

 

[blueinsa]

Piss off really ? And yes no objection to tip delivery guys right now or any other essential service during these times.

Im certain millions on 80% of their income and many on none will be waiting at the door to tip someone on full pay.

Another great idea.