The General Covid19 Thread

Jules72

alistair

Along_the_Wire I don’t have a problem with subscribing for content that I really want (FT and The Athletic for football). The Guardian will never meet that bar.

alistair

Along_the_Wire Owen Jones 🤮

Along_the_Wire

bosstrabs But there are more and more of the moral dilemma about using nail salon bollocks. There was something in there last week about creating a new pantone for the colour of periods.

Amps

Along_the_Wire Surely Pantone 200 has that boxed off?

mono-stereo

The Guardian seems to be suffering from a permanent identity crisis. The left (by which I mean Corbynites/Momentum wonks) viscerally hate the paper because derp neoliberals…. They all read Novara media anyway now.

Then you have the likes of Owen Jones putting the traditional readership of geography teachers off their bovril.

Seems like they aspire to be some kind of Washington Post investigative paper with the Panama stuff. Fuck all money in that though and no one seems to give a toss.

seanc80

Smallman1
Hilarious.
Head to toe in sanitiser and flat out telling everyone you have the app, yet happy to interrail around Europe.
You are exactly the sort of statistic that Boris loves to advertise.

bosstrabs

Smallman being a total wand.

Nothing out of the ordinary here, lads, move along now…

Smallman1

Sorry for being a total cunt by downloading the track and trace app lads, what am I like?!

seanc80

Smallman put the crayons down and come sit by me.

The fundamental thing is to try and stay put. Not bound off to other countries, 4 times during a pandemic lockdown.
That’s the one thing every Country in the world’s government has asked people NOT to do.
Were you not aware of this?

bosstrabs

seanc80 Sean, it’s an absolutely impossible waste of time trying to educate this stupid bastard about anything.

Far better to just metaphorically slam his head into the Jaded Clubbers workbench every time you pass him.

Millsy

seanc80 sean on fire today. Proper lolled at least twice.

IndustryStandard

My wife works for NHS contact tracing and says its going nuts at the moment. She used to speak to about 1 person an hour a few weeks back, now its more like 4 or 5 an hour. She reckons the UK are trying some sort of “stealth” herd immunity. Sending Uni students back, opening pubs and restaurants up was a dumb move……all the cases she’s getting fall into either Students living on top of each other/being in a pub/restaurant or working in a care home.

jonattonyeah

IndustryStandard

4 or 5 an hour? How on Earth? Maybe ’cause it’s the NHS were a lot of information is already stored, but I cannot see 12-15 minutes being enough time for the level of detail we get into. We also have major issues with monolingual Spanish and Chinese (many of whom have poor health literacy), which slows things down considerably.

We’re also doing really well. Peaked at 14-17 per/100K/day back in July. Down below 4 now. So the workload could be more manageable.

Hursty

Anyone else had unintended benefits of Covid-19, for example not having annoying family visit due to the social distancing rules?

Definitely seems to be the case for me anyway, ’We’d really love to visit you, but unfortunately due to the Rule of 6 we can’t’ 🙂

C_J

Hursty I got the all time fastest 100-pager on the old board out of it, which was nice.

Every cloud etc.

Millsy

My loss of taste has really helped with the wife’s cooking.

mono-stereo

Millsy

Try the fish etc

bosstrabs

Smallman’s loss of smell has helped him.

Because he lives in Tooting and he hasn’t got a proper roof.

Amps

Get Ed a pint:

IndustryStandard

jonattonyeah Some go to VM. Some haven’t been out too much so the calls last shorter. High level its completely different to the volumes a month ago. They even sent a “call to arms” email blast to get more people to work on Sunday as it was so full on.

Happy winter everyone…….

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