Coronavirus Thread (Off Topic, Politics) (17 Viewers)

[covmark]

We’ve just had a big mental health initiative at work alongside new t&c’s where you don’t get paid for your first 3 days off sick no matter what. Covid or not. Not been a thing for the last 15 years. Absolute jokers.

I’m relatively settled money wise but that’s encouraging me to come in if I feel ill. With what’s going on right now it’s absolutely fucking stupid.

Our company policy before covid was unpaid first 3 days sick. Since March, it's been from day one if you have covid symptoms. Even paying sick pay for quarantine after a holiday, as long as the holiday was booked pre May 28th.

Seems harsh for your company to go the other way.

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[David O'Day]

Our company policy before covid was unpaid first 3 days sick. Since March, it's been from day one if you have covid symptoms. Even paying sick pay for quarantine after a holiday, as long as the holiday was booked pre May 28th.

Seems harsh for your company to go the other way.

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Yeah we have changed to if you are self isolating it's full pay up to 14 days

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[Saddlebrains]

Yeah we have changed to if you are self isolating it's full pay up to 14 days

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Some companies are great with it, but there's some utter pricks out there. I have to live payday to payday ( not proud of it) but i cant afford 2 weeks no pay/SSP so if i had symptoms i have to decide between the morally right thing or getting in shut financially.


Shouldn't be like that in a pandemic

 

[Sky Blue Pete]

Some companies are great with it, but there's some utter pricks out there. I have to live payday to payday ( not proud of it) but i cant afford 2 weeks no pay/SSP so if i had symptoms i have to decide between the morally right thing or getting in shut financially.


Shouldn't be like that in a pandemic

You won’t get a choice if you are poorly

 

[wingy]

FFS .
Better ignore my earlier post.
So much/ many different equations/sources.
So the figure I put up of 33 New case's and being down from last week is crap .
As this article says it was 65: new cases .

New Covid-19 cases rise in Coventry as nearby town tops UK list

Cases were on the rise in four out of seven parts of Coventry and Warwickshire

www.coventrytelegraph.net

 

[NorthernWisdom]

FFS .
Better ignore my earlier post.
So much/ many different equations/sources.
So the figure I put up of 33 New case's and being down from last week is crap .
As this article says it was 65: new cases .

New Covid-19 cases rise in Coventry as nearby town tops UK list

Cases were on the rise in four out of seven parts of Coventry and Warwickshire

www.coventrytelegraph.net

Can I rescind my 'good news' post too, then?

 

[skybluetony176]

Apparently the murmurs coming out of SAGE are that the country’s R rate is believed to be back above 1 again. If there’s any truth in that get ready for a return to lockdown. Just hope the government isn’t slow to react again.

 

[clint van damme]

 

[wingy]

Williamson has all the gravitas of Grayling.
But they have a majority of 80, it's the holiday season and they can do what they want.
Even things up!!

 

[shmmeee]

There used to be a joke when I was teaching about “staircase marking” where you threw the stack of coursework at the top of the stairs and those that land at the bottom get an A and those at the top an E.

It’s not a million miles off the algorithm used by OfQual.

 

[clint van damme]

There used to be a joke when I was teaching about “staircase marking” where you threw the stack of coursework at the top of the stairs and those that land at the bottom get an A and those at the top an E.

It’s not a million miles off the algorithm used by OfQual.

so that's why I left school with such shit results, I knew the truancy, suspensions etc wasn't the real explanation.

 

[The Lurker]

And greater Manchester wonders why cases are high

 

[David O'Day]

And greater Manchester wonders why cases are high

The Lurker is back with a post about Asian people!

Racist c**t

 

[clint van damme]

The Lurker is back with a post about Asian people!

Racist c**t

1100 incidents of restrictions been breached in Greater Manchester, can't think why he's chosen to highlight the ones he has?!

 

[chiefdave]

Apparently the murmurs coming out of SAGE are that the country’s R rate is believed to be back above 1 again. If there’s any truth in that get ready for a return to lockdown. Just hope the government isn’t slow to react again.

We've been told for weeks one of the keys is to stay below 1,000 infections a day. In the last week we've passed that on 5 days including 1,441 yesterday. The government completely ignored that and eased the restrictions in place so I wouldn't have too much confidence they will respond to the R number increasing.

 

[Sky_Blue_Dreamer]

We've been told for weeks one of the keys is to stay below 1,000 infections a day. In the last week we've passed that on 5 days including 1,441 yesterday. The government completely ignored that and eased the restrictions in place so I wouldn't have too much confidence they will respond to the R number increasing.

It's like if the R number/infections rises they've decided quarantine from more destinations will sort it, seemingly oblivious to the fact that if infections are rising it means it's already spreading here.

Whether they're just actually that stupid or it just plays to their crowd - don't infringe my rights, blame it all on the foreigners - I don't know. Probably a bit from column A and a bit from column B.

 

[David O'Day]

1100 incidents of restrictions been breached in Greater Manchester, can't think why he's chosen to highlight the ones he has?!



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it's a mystery

 

[covmark]

The Lurker is back with a post about Asian people!

Racist c**t

Wish I hadn't read the comments on that thread. Fucking depressing.

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[Ian1779]

I genuinely amazed that we haven’t been banned from travelling ourisd

The Lurker is back with a post about Asian people!

Racist c**t

Just got back from a fact finding mission with Nigel....

 

[clint van damme]

Wish I hadn't read the comments on that thread. Fucking depressing.

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racists gonna racist

 

[Sky Blue Pete]

Half don’t give a shit and will follow their own common sense the other half are scared witless.
I’m beyond thinking I can protect others including my close family and am just protecting those in my house and those I love

 

[Marty]

Had my results back the same day, saying they were inconclusive, so went back again on the same day for a retest (Wednesday), just gave them a call as I hadn't received anything and they haven't even bothered to complete the work their side, have another upto 48 hour wait for my results, meaning if they come back inconclusive again, I'm outside of the 5 days time frame for a retest. Bunch of amateurs.

 

[clint van damme]

Had my results back the same day, saying they were inconclusive, so went back again on the same day for a retest (Wednesday), just gave them a call as I hadn't received anything and they haven't even bothered to complete the work their side, have another upto 48 hour wait for my results, meaning if they come back inconclusive again, I'm outside of the 5 days time frame for a retest. Bunch of amateurs.

Inconclusive? I thought they'd be able to give you a yes or no.

 

[Marty]

Inconclusive? I thought they'd be able to give you a yes or no.

There's 3, Positive, negative, & inconclusive.

I've just had the results confirming a negative. Even though I was displaying classic signs and still do.

 

[clint van damme]

There's 3, Positive, negative, & inconclusive.

I've just had the results confirming a negative. Even though I was displaying classic signs and still do.

well hopefully that's the end of it as far as Covid is concerned and what you've got is just a bug.

 

[fernandopartridge]

Had my results back the same day, saying they were inconclusive, so went back again on the same day for a retest (Wednesday), just gave them a call as I hadn't received anything and they haven't even bothered to complete the work their side, have another upto 48 hour wait for my results, meaning if they come back inconclusive again, I'm outside of the 5 days time frame for a retest. Bunch of amateurs.

The brilliance of the private sector coming to provide more NHS services soon

 

[David O'Day]

Students in England must meet eight criteria to appeal exam results

Ofqual confirms process for those whose A-level and GCSE mock results were higher than grade

www.theguardian.com

So much for the triple lock

 

[Ian1779]

Students in England must meet eight criteria to appeal exam results

Ofqual confirms process for those whose A-level and GCSE mock results were higher than grade

www.theguardian.com

So much for the triple lock

Absolute fucking shambles. A scourge on every fucker that voted for these c***s

 

[wingy]

Coronavirus: Health Secretary to replace Public Health England with specialist pandemic unit, says report

Ministers are reportedly frustrated and unhappy with the way that PHE has responded to the coronavirus outbreak.

news.sky.com

 

[Sky_Blue_Dreamer]

Absolute fucking shambles. A scourge on every fucker that voted for these c***s

What's even more annoying is that they've mainly downgraded schools in poorer areas whereas 'posher' schools haven't been. Yet if anyone's more likely to have fiddled the grades it's those schools where the parents have the ability to give the teachers the 'incentive' to do so.

And once again they were given warning of the outcome with how it went in Scotland.

They're now not just privately against social mobility they're publicly trying to prevent it and couldn't give a fuck.

 

[shmmeee]

What's even more annoying is that they've mainly downgraded schools in poorer areas whereas 'posher' schools haven't been. Yet if anyone's more likely to have fiddled the grades it's those schools where the parents have the ability to give the teachers the 'incentive' to do so.

And once again they were given warning of the outcome with how it went in Scotland.

There now not just privately against social mobility they're publicly trying to prevent it and couldn't give a fuck.

The logic about cohort size is such bollocks. Like teachers of classes of 20 don’t know their kids inside out. It’s just punishing poor schools and popular subjects.

Has this government managed to do anything competently since it was formed? Serious question. Brexit: fucked it up by their own admission. Pandemic: fucked it both in health and economic terms. Exams: fucked it. Infrastructure spending: fucked it. Corruption: fucked it. HoL nominations: fucked it.

What are they even for? Are people seriously just supporting them to own the left at the point? I hated Thatcher Cameron and May but I could see their appeal. This bunch are too incompetent to manage brexit, too ideological and timid to “level up”.

What is the point of Boris Johnson?

 

[skybluetony176]

It’s all Corbyn’s fault

Did Corbyn's henchman Seumas Milne infect Boris Johnson with Covid?

On the evening of March 16 - during the last days of his party leadership - Mr Corbyn visited Mr Johnson at No 10 with his most senior adviser, former Guardian journalist Seumas Milne.

www.dailymail.co.uk

The Times not wanting to be outdone

In Corbyn’s Britain we’d all get free candyfloss at Marx & Spencer

He’d have gotten away with it if it hadn’t been for those meddling kids. “It’s not impossible,” claim Jeremy Corbyn and various former henchmen and coffee-getters, “that Jeremy Corbyn might now be in his third year as a Labour prime minister were it not for the unauthorised, unilateral action taken

www.thetimes.co.uk

 

[ajsccfc]

If the answer to that headline is no, my money's on Meghan Markle doing it somehow

 

[NorthernWisdom]

"Did Jeremy Corbyn's Marxist henchman Seumas Milne infect Boris Johnson AND Dominic Cummings with coronavirus during Downing Street visit?" is just a superb headline!

 

[Sky_Blue_Dreamer]

The logic about cohort size is such bollocks. Like teachers of classes of 20 don’t know their kids inside out. It’s just punishing poor schools and popular subjects.

Has this government managed to do anything competently since it was formed? Serious question. Brexit: fucked it up by their own admission. Pandemic: fucked it both in health and economic terms. Exams: fucked it. Infrastructure spending: fucked it. Corruption: fucked it. HoL nominations: fucked it.

What are they even for? Are people seriously just supporting them to own the left at the point? I hated Thatcher Cameron and May but I could see their appeal. This bunch are too incompetent to manage brexit, too ideological and timid to “level up”.

What is the point of Boris Johnson?

Ive been asking myself the same question. What have they done right? Even being incredibly generous I came up with the setting up of the Nightingale hospitals (even though they were never needed so you could argue that was a mistake although the way it is at the moment I expect them to be dismantled a couple of weeks before the next wave hits) and the furlough scheme, which could have been better but at least was something. And those are a small part of the pandemic which they've royally fucked up overall.

I can see the appeal of Johnson because he has character. Unfortunately that's all he is - a comedy character. But we live in the age of celebrity and personality so competence doesn't even matter. But then look beyond him and who've you got - Gove, Raab, Patel, Hancock, IDS, Grayling, Schapps, Truss. It's a shitshow. The only one who, despite being far from ideal, looked like they might have an ounce of competence was Rory Stewart and they fucked him off.

I'm not saying any of the other parties are particularly blessed with talent either but the level of incompetence in this government is bewildering. It's like they've tried to handpick the biggest bunch of charlatans they could (but with it being chosen basically on Brexit ideology and a pledge of allegiance to Johnson maybe it shouldn't be such a surprise).

They are the living embodiment of the Confuscious quote "the superior man knows what is right, the inferior man knows what will sell"