@unhurt yes. understand that. but travel is different....
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Do we need a coronavirus thread?
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Oh, I agree! I'm very frustrated.
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@gembo, "Not an exceptional circumstance as such"?
So a global pandemic on a scale not seen since 1918 is not an exceptional circumstance?
"Panic truancy rather than panic buying? Or not meekly accepting government's attempt to infect people now so thAt they will be recovered for later?"
More the latter. We don't regard it as truancy, we would like to work with the schools/council education service so our kids can continue to be educated. Within the bounds of possibility of course.
Apparently government plans to shut all schools from Easter break until mid-August anyway, my son's teachers have already started setting up Teams for remote teaching and learning.
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"Canada I imagine will be better than south of border?"
THe majority of canadians live in urban areas and within 2 hrs of the border. The gov't seems more sensible, but there's a significant bunch of Trump lovers who will fight anything the Liberal gov't proposes unless Trump also does it. :s
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Mass WFH for my firm starting tomorrow. Will be interesting to see if the systems cope... (we have already selected the 'lucky' 60% if we have to limit)
Didn't get a straight answer as to whether I could transfer my specialist desk equipment from office to home so raided Currys today :-(
Panic buying there was centred around chest freezers...
Meamwhile, I have run out of Lapsang tea and sainsburys was empty. Send thoughts and prayers...
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FWIW I'm keeping mine off school
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@hankchief waitrose had the large b boxes of twinings on sale recently. i got an extra box of lady grey. can't recall if they do lapsing in that size?
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@SRD, I 'coping' with Lady Grey. When they run out there will be real trouble...
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@the canuck - surely no Canadian could believe that people in a city 400+ miles away is better than their own government? :-)
Daughter in South Africa worried. President Ramaphosa made announcement today about travel bans and revoking visas of foreign nationals from high risk countries (UK being a top one). She's not been home for a year and has a work visa.
Ironically the main introduction of the virus has probably been from rich (mainly white) jetsetters going skiing in Italy or on trips to Europe.
Much of the SA population's world is township to city and back in a crowded minibus taxi. Most can't afford any private health care and even 'better off' people struggle and worry about 'what ifs' (as in USA).
The concept of self isolation is a luxury to most in the world.
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Guess the next few days will see some major announcements. the UK line looks very isolated so may well go for close down of everything? Presumably as the cases increase exponentially and tragically the people dying increases. Still not clear how long these lock downs are meant to go on for of course. Hong Kong schools never really went back after Xmas.
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Still not clear how long these lock downs are meant to go on for of course
its up to the people really, is it not.. a long pent-up release into collectivism or authoritarianism
interesting times for our little island
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If I had teenage offspring at school in Aberdeen I'd be concerned now. Football all called off, but first Cheltenham festival and now this...
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@Stoviesplz
Across Europe: everyone isolating at home to save lives.
Aberdeen: 11,000 folk pack in to watch Lewis Capaldi.....Posted 5 years ago # -
ABDN always a special case, crowriver-san
granite-conferred immunity
and rowies
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Is the end of fake news near?
(Ok, I need some optimism.)
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Earlier this evening, at a White House press conference, Trump said the government has “tremendous control” over the virus. In contrast, Dr Anthony Fauci, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, said moments later that the worst of the crisis was still yet to come in the US.
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Covid19 does appear to catch out Trump Lies
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Personally, I don't think we'll get to Easter.
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@bax
Eating a rowie as I type. Lard immunity.
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Train very quiet today.
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News from Czech Republic
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Today a complete quarantine for the whole country
Some villages are locked off
People are stil supposed to go to work though
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This will be why the UK Gov is trying to pace things:
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I've come into the near deserted office, I'm as likely to catch something here as I am from the kids at school and I'm less likely to kill one of them if I'm not in the house.
However, we've been encouraged to work from home by the top brass. Not sure if I've actually made the right call.
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“Not sure if I've actually made the right call.”
And you’ll never know.
Whatever happens, no point in thinking ‘if only’/‘what if’.
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It's completely understandable that government seeks to manage things, it's what government does.
My cousin is an epidemiologist. You may have seen him on the news in the early days of the outbreak. He wrote a report over a decade ago in the context of another airborne coronavirus, the swine flu pandemic. The main focus was on the closing of schools to help stop the spread of the virus.
Government are balancing the economy and availability of key workers versus faster spread of the virus. That's certainly rational, but the same rationality also dictates that you or your loved ones will get infected in order that the economy doesn't suffer or that emergency workers are free from childcare duties.
Given this situation individuals and families face choices about how to minimise risk of infection...
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I'm working from home - I'd taken Friday as annual leave and in the middle of the afternoon my line manager rang to say that we were being to told to work from home from Monday and did I need stuff out of the office? Fortunately I'd taken my laptop home on Thursday just in case...
Most people will know that Mr fimm is Austrian - they'd locked down one valley (foreigners go home and self isolate, Austrian citizens who were on holiday there, you are not going home for now...) but have now gone for a full lock down - at least for the whole of Austrian Tyrol (where my in-laws are). Mr fimm showed me a video of the Brenner Pass motorway, one of the main routes from Austria to Italy - absolutely deserted, one car, then you hear the birds singing, then another car...
(Also a funny video from his sister of someone "ski touring" up and down their balcony...)
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I'm less likely to kill one of them if I'm not in the house
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Here's Steveo
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@bax - :-) social unrest can also take place indoors!
Skiing contact on way back from Morzine in France by bus as no flights home. French government just closed all the slopes on Sat just as they arrived. Ski industry is huge revenue source. Empty roads to Callais.
Maybe going to Glenshee instead - as long as less than 500 turn up?
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Enquired after the well-being of my pal in northern Italy. No reply.
I hope he's just busy.
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