COVID-19 — Coronavirus

[kaz7]

Three more nurses have died after testing positive for COVID-19, with the number of NHS staff deaths now surpassing 30

 

[Cheesy]

Actually 7 other areas do.
Would it suprise you to know that 5 of these areas are Madrid, Barcelona, Paris, Belgium and Northern Italy?
Thought not.
The others are the Dutch coast (Rotterdam) and Moscow. Whether we ever find out the real statistics in Moscow is an interesting point

Don’t shoot down the latest defence of the inept way it’s been handled over here.

The countries stated there (bar Russia - but we all know you can't trust their figure) are currently all fairing worse than us with regards to number of deaths in relation to population. Whether that remains the case we'll have to wait and see.

 

[AntonDonJuan]

It's certainly showing up the very best and worst of employers. Mine has been very similar to yours. They acted weeks before government mandates to work from home were implemented and I'll remain very impressed with the way they've behaved even if they eventually let me go. I genuinely don't think they could have handled things any better.

I guess their perspective was aided by being a global company, as they saw the initial effects on offices in China, Hong Kong, Singapore, etc. and decided to be proactive.

Meanwhile, I've heard some absolute horror stories of how other companies have been behaving. I hope their employees remember this and get out of those places at the very earliest opportunity (which sadly is likely to be a long time off yet).

We arw owned by Berkshire Hathaway so they basically tell us what we can and can't do, and being an American company they acted rapidly. I'm a QS so all our housing developments have all stopped but we mainly use subbies to do the work and under their terms and conditions we aren't liable for any compensation to them under the force majeure clause, so it's those guys i feel for as i have a feelong most will go under and it will be a nightmare for us to get nore signed up on the approved supplier list once it blows over as i don't think there will be many still around.

My mrs works for a charity event company, you know those knobs that mither you to sign up when you leave a supermarket. She doesn't do that, she works in the office. But all that has been stopped so she is now furloughed for 3 months and i don't reckon she will have a company to go back to after this so she is now worried

 

[Manchester_lalala]

It's not really though.

Comparing Ireland and the UK, England especially is the kind of thing that sounds good because they must be similar on paper but in reality they are nothing alike.

Ireland doesnt have a city with 9 million people, it's not an international hub, it doesnt have the biggest airport in the world.

All over the world we have seen that the worst effected areas are the global cities. Madrid, Turin, London, New York.

Dublin is a provincial backwater. No shit the spread is slower in country where Newcastle would be the biggest city.

Measures should still have been in place a lot more sooner than they were. Letting events like Cheltenham, Football matches and gigs go ahead is nuts. It wouldn’t have made no difference to the economy if we shut down a week or two early, the economy was always going to take a battering, we may have had the virus under control if we shut down two weeks earlier. It’s almost like governments across the world have got the mindset of ‘oh let’s wait and see if it fucks us bad like it has other countries before we lockdown’. The lockdown should have been sooner meaning it’s easier to control the virus.

 

[Craig]

The countries stated there (bar Russia - but we all know you can't trust their figure) are currently all fairing worse than us with regards to number of deaths in relation to population. Whether that remains the case we'll have to wait and see.

Yeah true but unfortunately it looks highly unlikely it will remain that way.

 

[BlueAnorak]

The countries stated there (bar Russia - but we all know you can't trust their figure) are currently all fairing worse than us with regards to number of deaths in relation to population. Whether that remains the case we'll have to wait and see.

We had an extra 2-3 weeks to prepare. We brought our lockdown forward by a week compared to Italy - though it should probably have been two. But to be fair social distancing (the biggest help) was already in place - though how many people were following the rules back then in a mute point.

 

[Claytop]

I keep seeing them tweets posted around today, 37 tweets though? Don’t have that the energy for that today.

 

[BlueAnorak]

It's moot point, you fucking neck beard.

No it's a mute point. Nobody is listening to reason.
To be expected of course.

 

[Cheesy]

Yeah true but unfortunately it looks highly unlikely it will remain that way.

Lets hope not.

 

[Gabriel]

In the Netherlands, "the number of positive tests had risen by 1,316 to nearly 25,000 on Saturday, as testing is widened to cover more healthcare workers. In total, 550 of the people to test positive in the past 24 hours work in healthcare."

https://www.dutchnews.nl/news/2020/04/more-healthcare-workers-test-positive-for-coronavirus/