Covid-19 Pandemic Thread

[Joan]

I might be being a bit picky here but, ideally, I want one that replicates Virgil Tracy's uniform. I guess that I could live with Gordon's at a pinch.

[LowlifeDes]

For the supermarket, I will change into something more like this

[Regulator]

For the supermarket, I will change into something more like thisMad-Max-5-Production-Update-2019.jpg

If you change into Tom Hardy please let me know...

[LowlifeDes]

If you change into Tom Hardy please let me know...

As I am in a super good mood, have this to be going on with.

[Mister Paul]

So the government announced 24 hours ago that the children of key workers can still go to school. Waiting now for no10 to say what jobs are on the list. Meanwhile businesses across the country have been planning based on assumptions of what those roles are. Why are they delaying these messages?

[Joan]

If you change into Tom Hardy please let me know...

And if you change into Virgil, let me know.

#3 preschool crush behind Davy Jones of the Monkees and David from my kindergarten.

[Lullabelle]

This is constant talk in the office day in day out and it is getting tiresome, all the focus on is the death rate!
One guy (a total d**khead) was boasting about contacting his wine supplier to order 2 crates and his wife has bought 2 crates of beer. If that necessary then they have a problem to address.

[Whiskeyjack]

I’m in placement at the mo and it’s a popular topic. Haven’t had any cases near me though, fortunately. A lot of students with kids are wondering if they are classed as key workers since they are expected to stay in placement.

[Joan]

So the government announced 24 hours ago that the children of key workers can still go to school. Waiting now for no10 to say what jobs are on the list. Meanwhile businesses across the country have been planning based on assumptions of what those roles are. Why are they delaying these messages?

I think it is because they don't have those messages. There is no planning, the Australians think we have swung wildly from herd immunity to containment. They said that thing about key workers, because obviously there are key workers but I don't think they know who they are.

I wish Gordon Brown was pm. He is the last serious person in that role.

[Joan]

(Australia has a pentecostal pm. I don't even want to know what he is doing)

[LowlifeDes]

And if you change into Virgil, let me know.

#3 preschool crush behind Davy Jones of the Monkees and David from my kindergarten.

Too many strings attached.

[Whiskeyjack]

I hope that once we get through this, it will be a wake-up and there will be a plan for what happens when this occurs again. Procedures to stop panic buying and making sure the NHS is equipped with proper PPE would be a start.

[Iris]

I finally got around to reading the famous Imperial College paper on the basis of which Johnson did his u-turns this week. I don't know whether other mathy types have done so? My reading is that if the measures announced by Johnson hold we'll be in a manageable phase within a few weeks, with ICUs not overwhelmed nationally, and restrictions released within three or four months or so.

Looking forward, the bad news is that we could be up for a year or 18 months of this, imposed and released in cycles. It will change the world in ways that are a mixture of the appalling and the positive.

All of that could be a misreading, of course - and there are plenty of risks.

[Lullabelle]

We were supposed to be going to Australia in September for my big birthday, the hotel owners emailed us, they have closed until further notice and sending us our money back. Poo!!!!

[Joan]