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

I just taught my first remote seminar. So embarrassing, even w video turned off, students were great tho.

How so? It's your money, they've not provided you with the service you paid for and as you said, they're effectively giving you a coupon instead of a refund.

As you note, it's likely they'll go into administration by the time you could redeem your flights, by which time it may be too late to do a chargeback anyway... Seems daft not to use the consumer protection your credit card gives you to protect yourself-it's not like the receivers will be giving full refunds unless obligated by similar card protection/ATOL provisions anyway.

Boom time for chemists.

Triggered an incorrect earworm.
I've always thought on 'Panic' Morissey intones 'boom time for Disco'
(but web tells me he sang 'burn down the disco'),
but anyway;
Boom time for Chemists,
Hang the politicians,
Because the nonsense they constantly say
Says nothing to me about my life,

Two people in my partner's team have it, possibly her sister (who came round to our house on Saturday for dinner) who is now hacking and coughing too.

Doesn't take long, does it?

On another subject, this is a shit time to put an offer in on a flat, isn't it?

gf returned from southern Italy a week ago and has been self-isolated without symptoms since then, in line with 14-day guidance. We're now a bit perplexed as the 14-day guidance seems to have been taken down and replaced by guidance which doesn't refer to returners, and people who actually have the disease are just being told to stay at home for a week. We're keen to do the right thing, but it's not entirely clear what that is right now.

Wait a few weeks, clean the bodies out of the one you fancy, profit.

Pretty complex but when we bought around Brexit vote we considered;
Affordability?
How long do you plan to live there vs how does that compare to your economic forecast?
Potential to expand if trapped?
Also negotiated the price down.

I’m debating if I hold off on extending ours

If you are buying it’s a ‘good’ time

Three people in my studio have it.
Best mate isolating, suspecting has it
Best mate mum a confirmed case, 85, already in hospital for illness and not expected to beat it.

Its really getting to be the wolf at the door now

If I'm still alive you mean... my parter and I got lyme disease almost 4 years ago now and it seems to have royally fucked our immune systems so expecting this to hit us quite hard, for all the japes and joshing about this.

Local supermarket absolutely gutted today after the weekend, no meat, no pasta, no rice, no paracetamol, no toilet roll, no flour, sugar, eggs, almost no milk of any description. staff looking bemused. Feel very sorry for old folk having to deal with this shit.

All the icu bed comparisons we germans win leave out that you need a human to monitor the patients in those beds.

And, if my info is correct, our staff to bed ratio is 1 nurse for 4 beds, whereas most countries have 1 on 1 rules.

Good example that a lot of the numbers are relative.

we were looking at getting somewhere that needs a fair bit of work so at the low end of the market anyway, so affordable but with potential to add value over the next few years.

The offer we put in has been accepted (a couple of k over asking and conditional on a building warrant for historic work being obtained) but nothing signed yet. Just don't want to be left in negative equity more than any desire to profiteer from the situation-or be left with huge increases to interest rates.

Whose model is at higher risk do you think??

All depends on your stability and financial circumstances.

Interest rates cant get much lower, however as the FTSE has nose dived then a recession is v. likely and so prices are no doubt going to come down IMO

Look to lower the offer, but wont make much difference to your financial position.
Saving say £10k will only put a small amount in your pocket as mortgage will cover most of the cost right?

No, at the moment the flight is still scheduled to happen but they're preempting a full shutdown by offering it (also, I think they have to fly to keep their landing slots open legally speaking even if the flight is empty or some shit).

So, they are trying to do the right thing, which is why I'm not jumping up and down and going immediately to Destroy mode. But a voucher isn't much use if they go under or if there's still no flights in 12 months so I dunno, I'd prefer a proper refund if we can't go.

Wow scary times, good luck to you and your people

.

Not if they do this:
https://www.brujulabike.com/cycling-banned-Spain-Coronavirus/

$$$ question. I think there probably will (mid term)- it's beginning to look like spring so once people have been through isolation and might not want to go back to public transport it makes sense to cycle. Hopefully.

Lime or Jump hire bikes + plenty of sanitiser?

I honestly have no idea, but what it comes down to is that we have 4 times as many beds as others. But not 4 times as much staff.

Cheers! Studio is looking at WFH, so that'll be in the next few days. Big man and his mum can do nothing but sit it out. As he's in isolation, he can't even get up to the hospital.

Yeah I wondered that. Home made pasta?