Chat about Novel Coronavirus - 2019-nCoV - COVID-19

Indeed. I gave up on HRV a it was useless for me.
I did caveat the post. But it is interesting. And likely an area for future research and development.

Mutual aid groups are popping up for helping those that are unable/at risk/afraid of going out right now. Here's a link to the hackney one, but there are more about.

https://m.facebook.com/groups/280285692955390?view=permalink&id=280307612953198

Oh no the Ocado website doesn't even work anymore

https://youtu.be/qf3Ih0kNvlU

@chalfie @lowbrows

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Is it phe/who/CDC/eucdc?
No?
Then

Try
https://www.healthysupplies.co.uk/

Or you local corner shop?
Ours local shops are well stocked and not busy

Guess representing the businesses not the workers sadly.

At the moment, they are one and the same thing.

I run a small hospitality / events business. The panic surrounding Coronavirus has, to all intents and purposes, shut down our business.

For the moment, all of the staff are getting paid, but we will, at some point very soon, run out of cash.

Our industry is also choc full of people who work as 'Freelancers' - there is simply no work for them, and won't be until the winter. A hell of a lot of people won't be able to pay their rent this month, never mind panic buying fucking toilet paper.

Did score some bog roll from Waitrose tho

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You could teach English as a foreign language to Chinese students via Zoom/similar, seems to be a handy way of making money for those stuck indoors

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You didn't even watch it punk...

It's 10 mins long and I saw you check in after 4!

Watch it! You're our sense check!

No one is going to go to the list you suggested cause they're not for normal ppl. WE need things that are RELATABLE.

We are depending on you Damo!

Be great for a few students to not get the standard International School trans-Atlantic accent.

Ok.

Vitamin d!

Does that work?

Harmless

"are you Australian?"

No. Damo taught me.

Worth a watch

https://edition.cnn.com/videos/world/2020/03/12/rory-stewart-coronavirus-boris-johnson.cnn

Anyway. @ChainBreaker that guardian article is very sensible and says a lot of the stuff about "depending on who gets infected alters the mortality rate"
If lots of young healthy people, not many deaths.low mortality but high morbidity.

If lots of people who have underlying health conditions and are old and who smoke for example. Probably lots of infection and high death.

Am actually going to look at this.

This will be a huge challenge. I really do wish you all the best. I myself am worried and in a fairly safe job.

I’m not sure how temporary redundancies would help both employers and employees? I’d be interested in your opinion.

Ma wife is a public health expert specialising in infectious disease control. She isn't working with COVID-19 but her colleagues are and have been cited in this thread. Anyway, here's her opinion on the UK gov's response based on a several recent posts in this thread:

'The UK has the largest pool of public health experts in the world. The decision to delay the closure of schools for example is to balance the benefits of containment whilst the reducing the risk of public complacency because of prolonged or premature containment policies. The disruptions to social and economic normalcy also have significant consequences which are too numerous to list. There is no Tory agenda with our [current UK] method, the government is deferring to experts who have a well thought-out plan. It's up to the government to convey the messages properly, their credibility issues notwithstanding. Finally, herd immunity is real and there are too many people who know don't know anything speculating and spouting off on a subject of which they have no real understanding. And they don't need to understand it anyway. Just follow the fucking advice of experts, we have plenty of them and their only agenda is public well-being. We're [the UK] not being complacent.'

And I would add, don't kill your grans, wash your hands