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@voodoo said in Coronavirus - Overall:
@canefan are you still working or suspended?
We are now considered an essential service. But no one has the capacity (personal protective gear, surgeries set up for it) to provide anything other than dental care that doesn't involve any of our motorized gear that generates aerosols (basically everything). We are in a very high risk job as a result, and no one I know is operational. Unless it is a specialist I would imagine any general dentist open right now is flouting the rules. Even Lumino, the biggest provider in NZ has suspended all operations
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@Victor-Meldrew said in Coronavirus - Overall:
@Nepia said in Coronavirus - Overall:
I'm having bad luck with TP. Needed toothpaste this morning so shot over to the Woolies metro near my place - lots of people wandering out with TP, I get in there to see the last 24 pack get taken.
Then had to buy a hard drive for work so went to the local JB hifi and then shot down to the Coles to see people wandering round with 18 packs of three ply ... get to the cage and they're all gone.
Social pressure built up in the UK on shopping sensibly and observing the lock-down pretty quickly. Think it will happen with your area?
Social pressure works in many ways though. Yesterday Ms Cato no1 decided to combine her once a day exercise with walking the dog. Trouble is the local park and the local cemetery(yes really) are pretty busy with people doing the same. Not terrible but not comfortable either. So she walked up the road to the local Catholic Church where there is some green space and got shouted at by a group of people telling her that the dog was being aggressive (fat chance, soft sack) and that she was invading their space. They were having a picnic...
This got compounded by the priest coming out of his house to yell at her that this (the church grounds) was private property and he would call the police.
Aaah, good old Christian values.
I must say though that this was isolated, in the main, things have been pretty quiet with most people being sensible.
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@Godder said in Coronavirus - Overall:
Modelling in Minnesota shows that they can't avoid the curve with a lockdown, only delay when the peak arrives. They are doing it anyway to rapidly expand their health system in the meantime.
Imperial College London's modelling which is guiding the UK's response shows the same.
The top bloke has said demand on health services will be like a slow tsunami rather than a breaking wave and last far longer then the peak as the backlog of patients they have put on hold to fight the virus need fixing
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@Bones said in Coronavirus - Overall:
Both Manchester clubs had to band together to reach that amount.
£100k is great as Football's a cash-flow business. Read that Man C & Man U had opened their facilities/hotel accommodation to NHS workers needing a break/bed for the night.
Players from clubs in London are ringing up elderly supporters who are isolating and doing video calls with kids of essential workers still in school
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@raznomore said in Coronavirus - Overall:
@mariner4life We have effectively stopped physically accepting clients into our building. From Monday I think I will be working from home. But I think I could effectively work at the office without catching anything. Noone is allowed in my office. We all talk via phone now. The lunchroom is 2 at a time. We have almost contactless entry the building as well. I basically get in my car, straight into my office and the reverse on the way home.
To be honest I fucking love the ability to close off my office and not be bothered by anyone. It's better than having a home office. No noise, no kids playing xbox. No being tempted to rub one out in the middle of the day....Pornhub Premium is free afterall.
That is allowed in UK, which I do, but only twice a week. Amazing the unthinkers on Twitter claiming it shouldn't be allowed and that such selfishness is putting everyone at risk. Seem unable to grasp the overarching principle that 2m separation is fine.
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@pakman said in Coronavirus - Overall:
@raznomore said in Coronavirus - Overall:
@mariner4life We have effectively stopped physically accepting clients into our building. From Monday I think I will be working from home. But I think I could effectively work at the office without catching anything. Noone is allowed in my office. We all talk via phone now. The lunchroom is 2 at a time. We have almost contactless entry the building as well. I basically get in my car, straight into my office and the reverse on the way home.
To be honest I fucking love the ability to close off my office and not be bothered by anyone. It's better than having a home office. No noise, no kids playing xbox. No being tempted to rub one out in the middle of the day....Pornhub Premium is free afterall.
That is allowed in UK, which I do, but only twice a week. Amazing the unthinkers on Twitter claiming it shouldn't be allowed and that such selfishness is putting everyone at risk. Seem unable to grasp the overarching principle that 2m separation is fine.
All too common. Overheard a conversation yesterday where someone was frothing at the mouth because he saw a mother and her two kids with tennis rackets. TENNIS RACKETS - CAN YOU BELIEVE IT? The fact that it is a small family group taking their daily exercise together and keeping to themselves washed over unnoticed.
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@mariner4life said in Coronavirus - Overall:
@nzzp said in Coronavirus - Overall:
@raznomore said in Coronavirus - Overall:
No being tempted to rub one out in the middle of the day....Pornhub Premium is free afterall.
Be honest. You're tempted, you just tend to resist
why? There's no one around. Live a little
Go the full Roman Roy?
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@voodoo said in Coronavirus - Overall:
@pakman it's hard though man. Like, I agree with you, 2m seems perfectly fine. Yet here in NZ , I'm unable to shift my family between 2 totally empty apartments , with absolutely zero contact.
That doesn't make ANY sense.
One of the things I think the UK doesn't get proper credit for is having thought about the sustainability of measures. Once the population feels some measures are arbitrary and unnecessary (even if others clearly are necessary) it's only a matter of time before they start ignoring them. -
@Catogrande said in Coronavirus - Overall:
@pakman said in Coronavirus - Overall:
@raznomore said in Coronavirus - Overall:
@mariner4life We have effectively stopped physically accepting clients into our building. From Monday I think I will be working from home. But I think I could effectively work at the office without catching anything. Noone is allowed in my office. We all talk via phone now. The lunchroom is 2 at a time. We have almost contactless entry the building as well. I basically get in my car, straight into my office and the reverse on the way home.
To be honest I fucking love the ability to close off my office and not be bothered by anyone. It's better than having a home office. No noise, no kids playing xbox. No being tempted to rub one out in the middle of the day....Pornhub Premium is free afterall.
That is allowed in UK, which I do, but only twice a week. Amazing the unthinkers on Twitter claiming it shouldn't be allowed and that such selfishness is putting everyone at risk. Seem unable to grasp the overarching principle that 2m separation is fine.
All too common. Overheard a conversation yesterday where someone was frothing at the mouth because he saw a mother and her two kids with tennis rackets. TENNIS RACKETS - CAN YOU BELIEVE IT? The fact that it is a small family group taking their daily exercise together and keeping to themselves washed over unnoticed.
MOUTH BREATHER, plainly.
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@pakman said in Coronavirus - Overall:
@voodoo said in Coronavirus - Overall:
@pakman it's hard though man. Like, I agree with you, 2m seems perfectly fine. Yet here in NZ , I'm unable to shift my family between 2 totally empty apartments , with absolutely zero contact.
That doesn't make ANY sense.
One of the things I think the UK doesn't get proper credit for is having thought about the sustainability of measures. Once the population feels some measures are arbitrary and unnecessary (even if others clearly are necessary) it's only a matter of time before they start ignoring them.Or, on 2nd read, were you agreeing with the arbitrary nature of the rulings?
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@voodoo said in Coronavirus - Overall:
@pakman said in Coronavirus - Overall:
@voodoo said in Coronavirus - Overall:
@pakman it's hard though man. Like, I agree with you, 2m seems perfectly fine. Yet here in NZ , I'm unable to shift my family between 2 totally empty apartments , with absolutely zero contact.
That doesn't make ANY sense.
One of the things I think the UK doesn't get proper credit for is having thought about the sustainability of measures. Once the population feels some measures are arbitrary and unnecessary (even if others clearly are necessary) it's only a matter of time before they start ignoring them.Or, on 2nd read, were you agreeing with the arbitrary nature of the rulings?
What you were saying made perfect sense. The arbitrary ruling, not at all. Sorry for confusing post!
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@gt12 said in Coronavirus - Overall:
Japan getting ahead of the game. Tight controls on different staples (masks, rice, hand soap, toilet paper, pasta, cup noodles) at the local supermarket.
It’s coming and everyone knows it.
How have they avoided it up to this point?
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@pakman said in Coronavirus - Overall:
@raznomore said in Coronavirus - Overall:
@mariner4life We have effectively stopped physically accepting clients into our building. From Monday I think I will be working from home. But I think I could effectively work at the office without catching anything. Noone is allowed in my office. We all talk via phone now. The lunchroom is 2 at a time. We have almost contactless entry the building as well. I basically get in my car, straight into my office and the reverse on the way home.
To be honest I fucking love the ability to close off my office and not be bothered by anyone. It's better than having a home office. No noise, no kids playing xbox. No being tempted to rub one out in the middle of the day....Pornhub Premium is free afterall.
That is allowed in UK, which I do, but only twice a week. Amazing the unthinkers on Twitter claiming it shouldn't be allowed and that such selfishness is putting everyone at risk. Seem unable to grasp the overarching principle that 2m separation is fine.
Sooooo....
Rubbing one out twice a week and maintaining a 2m separation? Kudos, what restraint - I bet your co-workers are pleased. Still, watch out for the droplets eh.
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