Scrutable

Gfamily wrote: ↑

Tue Mar 24, 2020 10:17 am

bagpuss wrote: ↑

Tue Mar 24, 2020 9:59 am

discovolante wrote: ↑

Tue Mar 24, 2020 9:49 am

Oh I see Dobbies is staying open. Well I'm sure that won't pose any problems for Señor von Laté's 83 year old mother, and potentially vulnerable brother, who live with someone who works there.

I thought it was only shops selling essential supplies that are allowed to stay open? Or does the fact that they sell veg seeds/plants make them exempt? Mind you, our local one has a food shop within it so that bit could stay open, but it's a separate building from most of the rest. The fruit and veg stall that's permanently outside, despite being allowed to open, has closed to protect their employees. Kudos to them.

They claim that 70% of their turnover falls into the "food shops, home and hardware shops, and pet shops " essential goods categories, and they'll close off their 'non essential' areas e.g. clothing.

I've emailed a complaint via their website that they are not essential and I will not be a customer in the future if they don't take this seriously.

shpalman wrote: ↑

Tue Mar 24, 2020 8:07 am

greyspoke wrote: ↑

Tue Mar 24, 2020 7:00 am

To be fair, they don't have mountains in Lincolnshire.

They have a steep hill, which is called, "Steep Hill"

Gfamily wrote: ↑

Tue Mar 24, 2020 10:17 am

bagpuss wrote: ↑

Tue Mar 24, 2020 9:59 am

discovolante wrote: ↑

Tue Mar 24, 2020 9:49 am

Oh I see Dobbies is staying open. Well I'm sure that won't pose any problems for Señor von Laté's 83 year old mother, and potentially vulnerable brother, who live with someone who works there.

I thought it was only shops selling essential supplies that are allowed to stay open? Or does the fact that they sell veg seeds/plants make them exempt? Mind you, our local one has a food shop within it so that bit could stay open, but it's a separate building from most of the rest. The fruit and veg stall that's permanently outside, despite being allowed to open, has closed to protect their employees. Kudos to them.

They claim that 70% of their turnover falls into the "food shops, home and hardware shops, and pet shops " essential goods categories, and they'll close off their 'non essential' areas e.g. clothing.

I've emailed a complaint via their website that they are not essential and I will not be a customer in the future if they don't take this seriously.

greyspoke wrote: ↑

Tue Mar 24, 2020 7:00 am

shpalman wrote: ↑

Tue Mar 24, 2020 12:09 am

greyspoke wrote: ↑

Sun Mar 22, 2020 7:27 pm

It might look like that from Italy shpallers, more like "lets go out for the first time we've had decent weather at the weekend in bl..dy ages". I am fairly sure Snowdon, Pen-y-Fan etc. would have been just as crowded this weekend without the virus.

all the major tourist destinations

To be fair, they don't have mountains in Lincolnshire.

FlammableFlower wrote: ↑

Tue Mar 24, 2020 8:15 am

Depending on what Trump does, it could go off in very different directions in the US. He's now chafing to relax restrictions to save the economy at the expense of lives. It's all "taking tough decisions" now from him now. Will the US healthcare system cope?

Turdly wrote: ↑

Tue Mar 24, 2020 9:54 am

lpm wrote: ↑

Tue Mar 24, 2020 9:08 am

This is absurd. People are just carrying on going to work. Nobody understands the rules.

A lot of employers are at fault here as well.

My partner works for a pharmaceutical contract research organisation. The companies that outsource to them are closing or WFH but expecting their research to continue at the CRO. The computational chemists etc. are allowed to work from home as they only need their computer and an internet connection. The biologists are allowed to work from home ~2 days a week on data analysis but are expected to be in to carry on the lab-based work the rest of the time. The synthetic chemists have been put on shifts to reduce the numbers present as they are almost entirely lab-based.

I think this is mad. My partner thinks this is mad (former virologist!). But when the option is follow this or lose your job what else do you do? I'm expecting hoping this might change today after BoJo's announcement last night but I expect they'll use the lay off clause when that happens.

discovolante wrote: ↑

Tue Mar 24, 2020 10:46 am

Gfamily wrote: ↑

Tue Mar 24, 2020 10:17 am

bagpuss wrote: ↑

Tue Mar 24, 2020 9:59 am

I thought it was only shops selling essential supplies that are allowed to stay open? Or does the fact that they sell veg seeds/plants make them exempt? Mind you, our local one has a food shop within it so that bit could stay open, but it's a separate building from most of the rest. The fruit and veg stall that's permanently outside, despite being allowed to open, has closed to protect their employees. Kudos to them.

They claim that 70% of their turnover falls into the "food shops, home and hardware shops, and pet shops " essential goods categories, and they'll close off their 'non essential' areas e.g. clothing.

I've emailed a complaint via their website that they are not essential and I will not be a customer in the future if they don't take this seriously.

There is something to be said for food shopping to be spread out among different retailers to avoid everyone cramming into the ones that are left but I'm not convinced Dobbies falls into that category.

dyqik wrote: ↑

Tue Mar 24, 2020 12:54 am

JQH wrote: ↑

Mon Mar 23, 2020 10:59 pm

South Africa is locking down for three weeks from Thursday. Spotted a FB thread on it which included stupid comments about foreigners exporting their diseases. Just in case you thought racist morons are a peculiarly white phenomena.

South Africa, of course, doesn't have white racists

I know you didn't mean it like that, but it did stand out...

veravista wrote: ↑

Tue Mar 24, 2020 1:36 pm

PS - Mrs V was just stopped by the police going into Nottingham and asked what she was doing - going to visit her mother for possibly the last time in the care home seemed to cut it. Just in time as she died about 10 minutes ago.

Aware of his extensive travel and compromised health, Sen. Rand Paul quietly got himself tested for the novel coronavirus on March 16.

But for the six days that his results were pending, the Kentucky Republican took no steps to self-quarantine — continuing to cast votes on the Senate floor, delivering a speech lambasting a coronavirus aid bill, and meeting with other GOP senators in strategy sessions that defied federal advisories warning against gatherings of more than 10 people.

On Monday, Paul was defiant that he did nothing wrong, despite bipartisan criticism for his behavior and even sharper private furor among senators and aides because he had potentially exposed them to a virus whose debilitating effect on the nation’s health and economy lawmakers were working so ferociously to combat.

Paul’s diagnosis has landed at least two other senators in self-quarantine and prompted others to seek medical guidance from the congressional physician. It has only deepened the sense of urgency and fear at an already panicked Capitol, where lawmakers were scrambling to finalize a roughly $2 trillion package to rescue an economy that is at risk of cratering as the coronavirus continues to spread.

bmforre wrote: ↑

Tue Mar 24, 2020 4:26 pm

Rand Paul active and positive
WaPo reports

Aware of his extensive travel and compromised health, Sen. Rand Paul quietly got himself tested for the novel coronavirus on March 16.

But for the six days that his results were pending, the Kentucky Republican took no steps to self-quarantine — continuing to cast votes on the Senate floor, delivering a speech lambasting a coronavirus aid bill, and meeting with other GOP senators in strategy sessions that defied federal advisories warning against gatherings of more than 10 people.

He says he did nothing wrong:

On Monday, Paul was defiant that he did nothing wrong, despite bipartisan criticism for his behavior and even sharper private furor among senators and aides because he had potentially exposed them to a virus whose debilitating effect on the nation’s health and economy lawmakers were working so ferociously to combat.

Others must now in quarantine:

Paul’s diagnosis has landed at least two other senators in self-quarantine and prompted others to seek medical guidance from the congressional physician. It has only deepened the sense of urgency and fear at an already panicked Capitol, where lawmakers were scrambling to finalize a roughly $2 trillion package to rescue an economy that is at risk of cratering as the coronavirus continues to spread.

More at WaPo.

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