Coronavirus

[pauld]

Best option I guess would be to allow 2 more weeks?

Safest probably, yes. But I guess the PHE advice is geared toward getting people back to work/out of isolation quicker. So depends what you mean by "best". Certainly the UK approach appears to have been geared from the outset toward doing the minimum to avoid economic damage, first with the "herd immunity" nonsense which has now been abandoned. The isolation timeframes though I think were set during the phase when the strategy was still herd immunity.

[@mwooly63]

They won't even confirm whether those vulnerable workers who are currently off work will still get paid once they've used all their sick pay period...

Ouch.
In the PO it's gone down as special leave so doesnt impact your sick record.
Well for the first month at any rate, will see what happens if that gets extended.

[mystical_goat]

Been waiting to see what the banks did, and knew it would be fuck all unless made to.

my one hope form all this, and it's a big hope, is that the power of the banks and shady financial institutes  and systems are broken, and have to be restarted ethically

Thought this might happen after the crash that the bankers engineered. They always miss out that last key word when rebuilding.

[suttonred]

Be different this time. My worry on the flip side, is they wont have learned anything and will try to extort rapidly when they think it's all clear, and that might be a spark for social disorder. There's a shit load to think about for old boris, that hasn't even come into thoughts yet.

[REDBUCK]

They have stocks apparently, not sure what you want them to do? Throw them over the wall of 10 Downing St?

Well find out where they are needed a deliver them.

[pauld]

Well find out where they are needed a deliver them.

Not sure you've quite got the hang of how govt procurement works tbh

[pauld]

This might provide a bit of light relief for parents with younger kids trying to home school/fend off feral infants for a while, the author of the Gruffalo is starting a weekly broadcast this afternoon at 4.00:

https://twitter.com/TheRealGruffalo/status/1245685651623870466

[@mwooly63]

569 today's figures , 2921 total
RIP
Climbing towards Italian and Spanish levels daily.

[RobertT]

And this is where the timelines come into play- the deaths today are the result of infection 14-28 days ago.  There are a few examples of people who were infected in group congregations that are showing how this spreads rapidly.

[Sippo]

There are still people not from the same family congregating though. Still non key workers going to work. We need to be stricter.

What else can the country do?

[The Artist Formerly Known as Audrey]

The Phillipines president, Duarte, has told police to shoot anyone breaking Coronavirus lockdown.

[Chubbs]

The Phillipines president, Duarte, has told police to shoot anyone breaking Coronavirus lockdown.

Assuming this is the same president who's crack down on drugs was to shoot anyone dealing or purchasing, then this does not surprise me.

[RedRag]

On a more mundane meander, as a two car family and driving neither I'm thinking of SORN-ing one of them. 

[swindonmaniac]

On a more mundane meander, as a two car family and driving neither I'm thinking of SORN-ing one of them.  

Bit late now for this month,  should have done it on March 31st.

[RedRag]

 .  Thanks anyway.  Car insurers can't be too busy.