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

It's like he's got the opposite of the Midas touch, everything he touches turns to shit.

It's tempting though, isn't it? No return quarantine to worry about.

Out of interest why do you go back at 9?

'Cos he forgot one of his kids at home...Dur. Now I am imagining a home alone situation of mashton child saving the house from burglars trying to steal his andres toilet paper and quinoa stash

Or at a guess different start times.

Drop off kid the first for band at 8am. Then kid the second for normal school at 9am.

You could, theoretically, just read the guidance and digest what you are and aren't allowed to do?

Edit: Sorry, didn't mean to sound that snarky, but if nobody read it and just asked questions in here the thread would be a big hot mess.

400 and 500 deaths the last two days respectively, I know a lot of that will be corrections to prior periods but large increases to go unnoticed by many while the US drama goes on

Yup. Everyone seems to be carrying on as usual minus the things which have shut as others have already said here.

I do think that if people saw more of the human cost of these numbers they might act a bit more responsibly. E.g. this very sad story which was on C4 News last night and the BBC later picked up.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-54828574

did boris do a " you MUST stay at home " speech this time, last time he made it clear to the general population that staying at home was essential, now there are so many sub clauses people don't have a clue what they can and can't do

No he mumbled it after talking about all the differences, schools staying open this time etc.

Officially the message is stay home, save the NHS, again, but it's not been clearly communicated at all and there are so many exemptions...

We had a note from our primary school (which is going to significant lengths to ensure compliance and has had no cases so far to my knowledge) that a member of the public had complained, taken pictures of and threatened to call the police because a group of the school kids were too close to each other in a park after school - identifiable by their uniform.

Were I the Head, I'd be solely tempted to thank the person for the information, and inform them that I'd forwarded it to the police to lookout for someone taking pictures of kids in parks. Instead, there's now teachers on patrol around the routes to school; seems a pretty senseless use of their time.

I'm not condoning that the kids were together or their parents for allowing it, but it seemed a slightly sad and petty incident.

Complete waste of teacher's time. WAC.

Turns out 'Blitz spirit' is more like 'Stasi spirit' for some people.

Taking pictures in public places isn't illegal, even if it is creepy sometimes.

yeah - I know, but I'd be tempted to say it anyway :)

except that in the blitz people weren't going out lighting flares to attract the German bombs

Relevant meme

🤣 did you just make that?

Nah, saw it the other day! Did the rounds on twitter.

I have a strong feeling that this DID happen during WW2.

Especially when people had their children shipped off to the countryside.

Hard to argue with a bombing though.

Hard to argue with a bombing though.

American foreign policy thread >>>>>>

Stoke Newington Church St, midday today. FFS.

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The guy ripping his mask off was so like “This pandemic is OVER”

What is the deal with mink farms and Denmark? Sounds scary

Yup. This is gonna be a long hard winter.