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

So can I travel back to Scotland for work now?

Only if you drive, walk or cycle

If you can’t work from home. But try to avoid public transport if at all possible.

Sounded like a social experiment with manual workers as the cannon fodder.

There’s a new COVID warning meter too

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At this point I’d make that a one way trip.

What about fly?

I have worked on my own bikes, did not die, would do proper checks but don't want to risk any legal hassle

You could get people to sign an agreement that you aren't liable on handing over the cycle.
(I may be able to share such a doc with you J)

What about fly?

And be quarantined for 2 weeks on return to England?

Just fly to Paris and get the Eurostar back.

I thought that was interesting - he definitely emphasised "air", so presumably the Eurostar is quarantine free.

It's been announced France is quarantine free.

Cool that can work too :)

I will ping the local cycle / bake group / CTC etc. before I accidentally duplicate efforts.

At least one heartening of covid is the collective action, the local pub cooks and delivers mail, people offer shopping help etc.

Hope all good with you, everyone healthy up here.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-52609952

Ok so he wants people to get back to work if they can't WFH, but not on public transport, that's a hell of a walk/cycle for some carless in the countryside... and there are guidelines for companies but nothing on enforcement?

Hope all good with you, everyone healthy up here.

(All good with us will give you a call this week)

Stay Alert everyone
Wut?

I can't see people venting their frustration on anglers being out for hours breathing fresh air.

I can not for the life of me understand how the SNP think they can have different guidelines.

We going to have a now temporary border force?

Ps I’m in Budapest, got a project in Dufftown I should be doing.

The main feedback from various NHS staff is that they need food, not just cakes/sweets. There are plenty of groups that are cooking healthy meals for NHS workers and delivering them (en masse) to hospitals. A local group to us is providing 600+ meals every evening to the night shift at a bunch of local hospitals.

One comment from "M.D." in the current Private Eye was:-

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The two best ways to avoid a Covid-19 death are a) not to catch it and b) be as healthy as possible. Those with chronic diseases are most likely to die prematurely from any cause, including Covid-19, and yet 80 percent of chronic diseases are preventable with a healthy diet, regular exercise, refreshing sleep and good mental health. We put off getting healthier for the future because coping with the stress of the present is tough enough. We deliver killer donuts to thank NHS staff. But what we put in our mouths is easily as deadly as what we breathe into our lungs. It just tastes better. Meanwhile, South Korea boasts the healthiest diet, lowest rates of obesity and longest projected life expectancy in the world. We have a lot to learn..."

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Boris could have said...
‘Don’t travel to work by public transport. Instead walk or cycle and if either of these are not possible then use your car’.
What he effectively said was fill up the roads with your cars.

I noticed this. By leading with "by Car", he firmly pulled the rug from yesterdays funding news.

Soooooo....

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Thanks, I think?

He’s just sent a bunch of people back to work or be sacked right?

I'm a hottie and don't I know it

If this goes as badly as it has potential to could we be looking at a general strike of sorts? most of these workers are going to go back to a workplace void of senior management, hr and accounts, who can all mostly work from home and all generally receive much higher wages in comparison whilst they're forced to go in and make other people money whilst risk their lives on even more overcrowded public transport etc.
Receiving commands and management via text, email and zoom at great risk to their lives whilst being held to ransom by landlords that are protected for their rental payments, banks no longer offering payment holidays (everyone's back at work why would they), and a universal credit system that doesn't work and leaves you much worse off with a minimum 5 weeks wait for any money anyway