Also my flatmate and his gf both were coughing earlier.
He says he doesn’t have a temperature so it’s apparently just a “normal” cough…
Yeah people like him are how this thing spreads.
spiffy
8021
Yeah, well. Believe me, I’m taking it very seriously, not touching anything at all into my commute unless it’s a button I press with a kleenex I then discard, etc. Until I can work from home.
But I think your info is a bit out of date. Central London is a ghost town right now, most people avoiding close brushes in the street, etc. Yes, I see a few twenty-somethings in a restaurant in the evening or having a defiant pint, but they stand out now. Kids will be home on friday, that will be the last step to having decently solid lockdown without the authorities checking your papers (yet).
However, we will very soon need reassurance or at least info from teh government about restocking groceries… if the supply chain will continue and food will keep coming, people will be fine. But right now there isn’t a shelf with food on it, not even brussel sprouts. This can’t be the case for too long.
That’s pretty much the point of it. But, as with the mortgage holidays in the UK, the liability doesn’t go away. The rent/interest accrues, and once the grace period is up, you have to pay it back or you get evicted.
I don’t know. Nothing has been said about the 3 months rent being payable afterwards.
Mortgages yes.
There was yesterday, at the smaller places where I stocked up some basic stuff for last night’s dinner.
I’m going to finish my workout, then get in the car and drive to Aldi and Sainsbury’s, will let you know.
edit: being in the reserve forces and mobilised means that income stream is safe for the next few months.
My current tenants are a doctor (so presumably she’ll be busy and won’t have issues with money) and my flatmate, who does some plumbing sort of work 2 weeks a month (because he has his kids the other 2 weeks) and he is the main concern rent wise.
But that rent is low.
spiffy
8024
Our local Wiatrose, Lidl, Aldi and Sainsbury’s are emptied. Last I went to our local middle eastern store, they were quite stocked, lots of canned goods too. I think the little local mom and pops will be better stocked than the bigger mainstream places, but not for long, I imagine. But then, I really don’t think supply should be a problem, once everyone has reached the limits of their small London flat’s hoarding potential… if I was the Gov, the one thing I would let keep going as a mandate would be food creation/distribution. What is Italy and Spain doing with their harvests/food prep/exporters etc? We get so much food from there.
From the official announcement:
I used the little supermarket at Gatwick airport and at the motorway service station where I filled up on petrol.
Well, we did want Brexit…now we will get it!
Less flippantly, goods are allowed to be transported within the EU.
edit@Ginger_Yellow.
I read the announcement.
Your bolded part says nothing about recuperating the money from the 3 months.
What else would the repayment plan be for?
the whole Brexiters are suicidal idiots being driven off a cliff whilst cheering the driver on meme has been unfortunately confirmed as a fact.
and yes, local 'spoons is full of old people. RIP Idiots.
The national radio news show, Radio 4s Today Show, listened to by more old people than anyone else had this c*nt in this morning, giving him platform to spread his quite frankly, murderous advice.
The Brexiters are now where Fox News and Trump were two weeks ago. They are going to be culled en masse. On socmedia they are attacking anyone following the advice of the EU/US simply because all they know is contrarianism and cultish group think for Britain to do the opposite of everyone else.
and to repeat the words I’ve said a thousand times in this thread. The Idiocracy is here.
New Official Scapegoat™ for the racist Brexiters confirmed
China is dealing with it better than the white ethno-nationalist vermin you represent are Farage.
Also worth noting that Martin spent the majority of his company’s earnings announcement whining about the corporate governance concerns of investors and proxy advisors.
Tim Martin is a total scumbag who just doesn’t want to lose money over this.
There are what? 300? MPs in total, and not all of them will be needed in parliament, and the ones that are, are there to be making important decisions.
The biggest decision made in a pub by someone there who isn’t working is which pint.
His only argument, imho, is the economic damage of all those pub employees out of work and of the supply chain being stood down.
In Idiocracy the President found someone smarter than him and gave him the power to fix the problems.
This ain’t it. :D
FCA tells mortgage lenders to stop repossessions.
The front page of the Hull Daily. OK, it’s a local paper but we now live in a country where white supremacists can openly state this and the media promote them. This is “unity” Brexiter style
Non apology from the paper. no one is being sacked. it needs to be charged with hate crimes
Look at the replies to this. This is Britain. A fascist, racist shithole populated by utter fucking scum.
KevinC
8037
So how much of a crazy conspiracy theory garbage person am I to wonder if BoJo’s government’s strategy was in part a desire to overwhelm and destroy the credibility of the NHS in order to replace it with a private system?
I mean, on a crazy scale where do I fall here? Maybe my mind has been poisoned by watching the Trump administration over the past three years and seeing Richard Burr and the likes directly lie to the American public to keep them going to hotels long enough for them to dump all their stock, knowing full well what our response was going to be?
Aceris
8038
BoJo doesnt have hat kind of ideological attachment to anything really. Enough of his voters care about the NHS that he’d never pick the fight.
If he does have ideologiy it’s a kind of vague nationalistic classical liberalism, which explains both brexit, and the fact that the coronavirus measures have all been advisory.
I think it’s clear that the science advisory group got into some groupthink with some bad estimates, and then testing was held up by PHE not being in the loop about how quickly demand was going to increase. Combine that with a lack of competence not jsut from the PM but from most of the cabinet, and you get this ratehr vague, rather gradual approach. There’s no need for a conspiracy theory here.
The real indictment of BoJo isnt his handling of coronavirus, its his support for a brexit for which he had no real ideological attachment, making common cause with some of the worst people in politics and advocating something that he knew would have concrete negatives for the country (and only nebulous benefits), purely because it would give him his best shot at leadership.
KevinC
8040
Welcome to the forum, @DeliciousBiscuits! Glad to hear that it seems like it sounds unlikely! Just to be clear, I’m not arguing that’s was case, it was just something that I wondered about. The UK’s initial plan/response was really odd and frankly dangerous. They obviously backpedaled, but that’s where I wondered if there had been element of “never waste a crisis” until it became more clear just how dangerous this thing was going to be.
