Coronavirus

[Batch]

... and they're having to decide who gets treatment, and who does not. Some people are literally just being left to die. and Italy has more ICU beds per person than Britain does.
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I'm reliably informed you don't want to be over 65 in a hotspot

[Private Fraser]

Football closedown extended until end of April (at least)

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/51962751

[Batch]

"The Football Association has also agreed that the current season can be "extended indefinitely" beyond the original end date of 1 June."

[Costanza]

Still don't think it's as simple as that RE: extending indefinitely but, meh, whatever.

[4D]

Does that mean our Tuesday night games will be on a Saturday? 

[horlock07]

Does that mean our Tuesday night games will be on a Saturday? 

I suspect that if/when it happens it will be 3 or 4 weeks of games Saturday - Tuesday - Saturday.

[Audrey]

A group of us were due to fly to Hamburg tomorrow for a stag weekend. The hotel have given us a full refund, HSV have said they’ll be refunding our match tickets but Easyjet have refused to allow us refunds on the grounds that the government have only advised against travel and haven’t banned it. That despite warnings that if you do travel, you could well end up stuck abroad with no government help to get back. Obviously not going so have rebooked for October at an extra cost of £48. Easyjet seem to be at the front of the queue with the begging bowl at the moment but charity only seems to work one way with them.

Ive just been refunded my EasyJet ticket money - Athens-Gatwick and Gatwick-Kefalonia. I left it as late as possible as up until yesterday they were only  offering changing for future flights for free.

[RobertT]

Same situation with RyanAir and a cancelled kids' football tour to Ireland. Hotel, catering, everything else have all agreed to full refunds. RyanAir are holding out. TBF don't think either are at the front of the queue with the begging bowl - billionaire tax exile Richard Branson sharp-elbowed his way to the front of the queue asking for a multi-billion pound handout for his Virgin Airways over a week ago.

In all fairness, my brother had a full refund from Virgin.

[BoA Vagabond]

I confess I have bought in some extra dry food and a few extra bog rolls two weeks ago and stored it all in case of lockdown, which, at the time, I thought would be for maybe two weeks. Things have moved on. I have then shopped as normal, except I grabbed a couple extra beers this week, once work kicked me out. I don't consider this unreasonable as my wife is disabled to the extent that she cannot walk or drive anymore. All happened in quick time so we and young daughter are still coming to terms with it. She can't go to even the local shops, even with the mobility scooter, as the roads are full of nutters and cars are parked all over the paths. If I get sick, and I have a long-term illness that enables a free flu-jab, then they are screwed. I can't be the only one who has had to think like this and therefore, I declare me, very slightly less of a dick than the rest of the relatively healthy scrum shoppers.
Just saw an old boy in a supermarket forlornly walking the empty aisles for food. He had some salt and nothing else. Enough said.

[Ardiles]

Just saw an old boy in a supermarket forlornly walking the empty aisles for food. He had some salt and nothing else. Enough said.

That's heartbreaking.  I genuinely fear for older (70+) folk who live on their own when the lockdown period happens.

[pauld]

In all fairness, my brother had a full refund from Virgin.

Fair do's. That in no way alters the fact that Brason's a cunt though

[tans]

TBF this increase was announced 2 months ago and our price increase letter came 2 weeks ago before this mass isolation started happening.

I just rung up, my discounts ran out and my bill was et to increase by £20.
Rung them, asked and got it for £20 less than what im paying now

[pauld]

I confess I have bought in some extra dry food and a few extra bog rolls two weeks ago and stored it all in case of lockdown, which, at the time, I thought would be for maybe two weeks. Things have moved on. I have then shopped as normal, except I grabbed a couple extra beers this week, once work kicked me out. I don't consider this unreasonable as my wife is disabled to the extent that she cannot walk or drive anymore. All happened in quick time so we and young daughter are still coming to terms with it. She can't go to even the local shops, even with the mobility scooter, as the roads are full of nutters and cars are parked all over the paths. If I get sick, and I have a long-term illness that enables a free flu-jab, then they are screwed. I can't be the only one who has had to think like this and therefore, I declare me, very slightly less of a dick than the rest of the relatively healthy scrum shoppers.

Think you're entirely reasonable there. And this and cases like this is why the online judging of people is just as bad as the panic buying. A mate of my missus works as a home help/carer in Wroughton. By the nature of it, her clients are elderly and/or vulnerable so she offered to get some bits in for them. Which led to her being all but hounded out of Tesco in tears by people who assumed they "knew" that she was being selfish, when she was actually trying to help. She's now had to get a uniform made so she can "prove" she is a carer (it doesn't prove anything but seems to work to be able to point to it when the witch-hunt mobs start up).

[RobertT]

All those people with their 1980's Bidet's are having the last laugh now.

Does anyone know if Reg is alright?

[RobertT]

The Police had to be called to shut down a Church flouting State rules on gatherings greater than 50 people in Louisiana:

https://www.foxnews.com/us/coronavirus-police-church-defy-state-order

“The virus, we believe, is politically motivated,” Spell told WAFB. “We hold our religious rights dear and we are going to assemble no matter what someone says.”