Grendel
Well-Known Member
They could ration and distribute in isolated areas and close all supermarkets
Brilliant.
You're moving the goal posts now as if people were defending needless panic buying. The conversation is about what the government can ask you to do. They can ask you don't go to the pub, they can't ask you don't buy food.
We're a week into a self-quarantine due to my wife's health issues putting her in a high risk category. Obviously I can get out to do the essentials but prison-fever is building. My businesses are very much site-based and people-based so much restricted by the current restrictions here.Divorces will go up as well.
I bet the murder rate will too.
PEOPLE JUST NEED TO EAT TO LIVE, IF YOU GO IN A PUB YOU ARE A MURDERER
Will then become
YES BUT PEOPLE WANT TO GO AND PICK THINGS FOR THEMSELVES
PEOPLE JUST NEED TO EAT TO LIVE, IF YOU GO IN A PUB YOU ARE A MURDERER
Will then become
YES BUT PEOPLE WANT TO GO AND PICK THINGS FOR THEMSELVES
Brilliant.
You're moving the goal posts now as if people were defending needless panic buying. The conversation is about what the government can ask you to do. They can ask you don't go to the pub, they can't ask you don't buy food.
Don't fall into the trap, PVA- put the graph up instead, I don't think its argumentative enough here today
They could ration and distribute in isolated areas and close all supermarkets
Not moving the goalposts in the slightest. It has been my point all along about people queuing and cramming in.
The issue is that people have been too wrapped up in assuming that everybody going to a supermarket is just getting food for their survival and that people who go to the pub are murderers.
The government can ask you to go about buying food in a certain way so that there are no queues and to stop the spread risk from that.
It’s a great idea for a few months time when the logistics can be sorted but we are where we are. Ideally we’d have an army of home delivery people and tell everyone to fuck off but there just isn’t the capacity.
As I mentioned before though, there's also the concern how we pay for this support in the future. Does it have the knock-on effect of my job (non essential) becoming redundant as public services take a massive hit in 3-4 years' time? Do we then have to pay out in different areas?As for support from government, I'm really hoping that the chancellor comes up with something today.
It wasn't really your point all along, it has become your point as people have pointed things out to you. You were on about going to the football and having a beer a couple of days ago.
As I mentioned before though, there's also the concern how we pay for this support in the future. Does it have the knock-on effect of my job (non essential) becoming redundant as public services take a massive hit in 3-4 years' time? Do we then have to pay out in different areas?
What would be nice is to think it kind of reprogrammed a little, a bit like post WW2, so we started to think about society as a whole, rather than just individuals. I don't have much hope for that, though... and of course the post-WW2 debts brought this country nearly to its knees, too.
That would be the ideal, however unfortunately highly unlikely to happen.
You going to hide under the stairs until she finds you?
another halfway house policy causing problems.
Shut several tube stations but don't shut the whole tube so the trains that are running are mobbed.
My youngest daughter (who has asthma) has had the virus as has another daughter's husband
Both work in London and are in their 30's
It wasn't pleasant but both are starting to feel better and symptoms are going
Most people like them won't be in the official statistics as they phoned their doctors and were told to self-isolate and ride it out
Two points from this:
Hope this is useful
- The death rate is likely to be a much lower % than feared as lots of sufferers aren't tested
- Younger, relatively fit people can get through it even if they have respiratory problems
They should have cycled, ubered or driven.
Hope they are happy killing their grandparents.
Boris Bikes, he’s ahead of his time that mop haired little genius!!!Massively increasing the risk of infection.
Would have thought that would be the first to be closed, if people are able then give them a bike.
My youngest daughter (who has asthma) has had the virus as has another daughter's husband
Both work in London and are in their 30's
It wasn't pleasant but both are starting to feel better and symptoms are going
Most people like them won't be in the official statistics as they phoned their doctors and were told to self-isolate and ride it out
Two points from this:
Hope this is useful
- The death rate is likely to be a much lower % than feared as lots of sufferers aren't tested
- Younger, relatively fit people can get through it even if they have respiratory problems
And he as our PM left the stations open.Not really, they chose to get on the tube surely? Are the stations checking if every person in there is going to work?
And he as our PM left the stations open.
Glad to hear it. Just to point out the death rate isn’t based purely on tested cases. If it was ours would be something like 50% at the moment (because most cases aren’t resolved yet) There’s some data from Wuhan showing it’s likely to be 0.5% ish when you take into account all cases. Which is low, but still five times seasonal flu.
Just to clarify where our collective moral compass is after the last few days so we're all on the same page;
Going to the pub: OK
Queuing at a supermarket: Bad
Stripping the NHS budget: OK
Criticising the Tories: Bad
Using a logarithmic scale: Get to the stocks you fucking heathen.
Thanks Clint, decorate the house and when weather gets better do the garden I’ll end up with a show homeGood luck BHSB. How do you intend keeping yourself occupied?
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