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For the first time today I attended someone who maintained a good two meters between us consciously. Works slowed a lot in my sector. Have noticed a little bit of shortness of breath this afternoon. Not in work for to days as shifts have been cancelled. If no better will be self isolating for two weeks.


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My landlord (who owns the dry cleaners below us) knocked on the door earlier. Had a quick chat about maintenance and so forth. Mentioned we were thinking of using this time to do the place up a bit.

He gave us carte blanche to paint the kitchen any colour we want, and bill him for the paint.

I mentioned I was in the process of giving the balcony a good scrub, and he offered to lend us his pressure washer if we need it.

He's in talks with next door to get some trees removed, repair the joint fence, and clean up the mud filled alleyway.

He asked how work was, I told him that since all my gigs were sport, not going at all. But the Mrs works in news, so she's fine for now. I was about to say, "so we can cover the rent for the foreseeable..."

...And then... he said he's working something out with the other company directors to delay our rent, and he'll be in touch soon!


That's a massive stress reduction right there. There is hope guys, some humans out there are still good people! :D
 
DiogoJ42 said:
My landlord (who owns the dry cleaners below us) knocked on the door earlier. Had a quick chat about maintenance and so forth. Mentioned we were thinking of using this time to do the place up a bit.

He gave us carte blanche to paint the kitchen any colour we want, and bill him for the paint.

I mentioned I was in the process of giving the balcony a good scrub, and he offered to lend us his pressure washer if we need it.

He's in talks with next door to get some trees removed, repair the joint fence, and clean up the mud filled alleyway.

He asked how work was, I told him that since all my gigs were sport, not going at all. But the Mrs works in news, so she's fine for now. I was about to say, "so we can cover the rent for the foreseeable..."

...And then... he said he's working something out with the other company directors to sort delay our rent, and he'll be in touch soon!


That's a massive stress reduction right there. There is hope guys, some humans out there are still good people! :D
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That's fantastic Diogo, if only all landlords were like yours. :)
 
Having to fill out a risk Assessment before entering any customers house.
They can’t be in the same room as me while working
Have to wear nitrile gloves. Double bag and dispose of them within 72 hours every visit

I know I’m a bit OCD but :rolleyes:

I’m only there to fix a tap washer :mask:
 
I won't deny that I'm lucky. I just hope this kind of common decency spreads to other private landlords as well. If the government won't lift their fingers to help the common renting classes, the people will come together to solve it themselves! Right comrades‽

... Sorry, wrong forum. I mean, go Boris! Go BREXIT!

Phew. Almost broke character for a second there.
 
DiogoJ42 said:
My landlord (who owns the dry cleaners below us) knocked on the door earlier. Had a quick chat about maintenance and so forth. Mentioned we were thinking of using this time to do the place up a bit.

He gave us carte blanche to paint the kitchen any colour we want, and bill him for the paint.

I mentioned I was in the process of giving the balcony a good scrub, and he offered to lend us his pressure washer if we need it.

He's in talks with next door to get some trees removed, repair the joint fence, and clean up the mud filled alleyway.

He asked how work was, I told him that since all my gigs were sport, not going at all. But the Mrs works in news, so she's fine for now. I was about to say, "so we can cover the rent for the foreseeable..."

...And then... he said he's working something out with the other company directors to delay our rent, and he'll be in touch soon!


That's a massive stress reduction right there. There is hope guys, some humans out there are still good people! :D
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At least your landlord's really understanding of the situation. Just a shame your letting agents are pains.
 
GaryH said:
Wuhan is still in lock down though.....
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Other parts of China are beginning to reopen without major consequences, however; in terms of theme parks alone, Shanghai Disneyland partially reopened on 9th March, Happy Valley Shanghai reopened on 17th March and Shanghai Haichang Ocean Park is planning to reopen today (20th March). Schools are also preparing to reopen and many shops are already open in these other regions of China as well. Even though things are now back open, however, China has reported no new domestic cases whatsoever for the last 2 days; all 34 of their new cases yesterday were imported from other countries.

Bearing in mind that China did not go into lockdown until the end of January (I think the exact date was something like 25th January?), I'd personally say that Boris' 12 week prediction is very much attainable. I'm not saying that the outbreak will be completely over and the disease will be eradicated in 12 weeks' time, but I think social distancing measures will have become far less extreme and we will have passed the peak of our outbreak. I think that we will have returned to some degree of normality by the summer.
 
China who repress their own journalists, doctors and general population to try and distort figures and cover up the scale of the virus should not be used with any comparison. Of course they are going to say 'there are no new cases' or say 'only x thousand (instead of x hundred thousand) have died'. They are a dictatorship who restrict human rights.
speedy said:
If everyone could stop sharing pictures of old people in front of empty shops now that would be great. We get it. It's not me buying all the food.

I'm now out of a job as my work is prioritising the older ones who have rent and bills. Went in for a coffee and they were already closing 45 minutes early as hardly any customers. I really feel for them when the government is telling the public to stay away, my colleagues will struggle with no wages. Sad times.
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Sorry that you are out of a job.
I get what you mean with your first point. But that's social media for you. People care more about preaching and showing off how morally superior they are than they do about actually helping vulnerable or elderly people.
 
There is a list of key workers. Well i think it not a list more of a well though areas, work out who yourself list.

I have spoilers the list as it is sooo long.
Health and social care

This includes but is not limited to doctors, nurses, midwives, paramedics, social workers, care workers, and other frontline health and social care staff including volunteers; the support and specialist staff required to maintain the UK’s health and social care sector; those working as part of the health and social care supply chain, including producers and distributers of medicines and medical and personal protective equipment.

Education and childcare

This includes childcare, support and teaching staff, social workers and those specialist education professionals who must remain active during the COVID-19 response to deliver this approach.

Key public services

This includes those essential to the running of the justice system, religious staff, charities and workers delivering key frontline services, those responsible for the management of the deceased, and journalists and broadcasters who are providing public service broadcasting.

Local and national government

This only includes those administrative occupations essential to the effective delivery of the COVID-19 response, or delivering essential public services, such as the payment of benefits, including in government agencies and arms length bodies.

Food and other necessary goods

This includes those involved in food production, processing, distribution, sale and delivery, as well as those essential to the provision of other key goods (for example hygienic and veterinary medicines).

Public safety and national security

This includes police and support staff, Ministry of Defence civilians, contractor and armed forces personnel (those critical to the delivery of key defence and national security outputs and essential to the response to the COVID-19 pandemic), fire and rescue service employees (including support staff), National Crime Agency staff, those maintaining border security, prison and probation staff and other national security roles, including those overseas.

Transport

This includes those who will keep the air, water, road and rail passenger and freight transport modes operating during the COVID-19 response, including those working on transport systems through which supply chains pass.

Utilities, communication and financial services

This includes staff needed for essential financial services provision (including but not limited to workers in banks, building societies and financial market infrastructure), the oil, gas, electricity and water sectors (including sewerage), information technology and data infrastructure sector and primary industry supplies to continue during the COVID-19 response, as well as key staff working in the civil nuclear, chemicals, telecommunications (including but not limited to network operations, field engineering, call centre staff, IT and data infrastructure, 999 and 111 critical services), postal services and delivery, payments providers and waste disposal sectors

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Whether China are skewing the figures or not (I don't think they are, as they have no reason to and the WHO have praised them for their cooperation), it is known that things are beginning to reopen over there, and it is known that they closed their last coronavirus hospital earlier this week because there weren't enough new cases to warrant it being open. From my perspective, there's definitely evidence that China has seen the worst of it and is starting to recover to an extent. I'd say the same for the rest of Asia as well, as Japan has also lifted its social distancing restrictions in places.
 
Doesn't surprise me. I'm not in London but up here in the Midlands I've been out dog walking with my folks (taking all precautions) and most of the cafe's and shops we've passed have had elderly people just chilling out and mingling as if nothing's changed. If this was just in one town/village just multiply it across the UK.
 
China is not even close to re-opening, I checked yesterday and lead times for parts is 39 WORKING days, and that's for an item that's manufacturing is 99.9% automated, it's even longer for parts that heed more human involvement.

Youll also note how the world is praising Japan on their handling of this, well I have a friend who lives there and he says they have completely burried their heads in the sand, much more so than many accused Boris of doing, and there is not even "advice" on offer on what to do, Japan is itself, a massive ticking time bomb that will probably explode worse than Italy when this is all done according to him, however, in their favour, they already don't have a big social scene or interaction, so maybe that will help.
 
Well we all saw that coming.

Hopefully it works, because these kind of measures are an utter disaster if it doesn't significantly slow the spread.
 
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