Coronavirus

[integrale_evo]

Trump suggesting the US is near the peak of the curve We're probably still not at our peak and they're at least a week behind us!

[Swervin_Mervin]

Our small business grant from the local authority is apparently being transferred today, for anyone who thought that it may take a while. Get on and claim it if you are eligible.

Do you have to pay it back or is it just a free 10 grand?

Everyone will pay it back. But the company doesn't have to pay it back direct no.

Ours should be this week apparently but no sign yet

[Jobbo]

Our small business grant from the local authority is apparently being transferred today, for anyone who thought that it may take a while. Get on and claim it if you are eligible.

Do you have to pay it back or is it just a free 10 grand?

It's a grant; there's no clawback so long as you satisfy the conditions to claim it. It's not going to make up for the tax hit to pay back the £40 billion which the furlough scheme is costing the exchequer, but cashflow now is probably the important thing.

[duncs500]

Just been furloughed. Allegedly the company are going to top up to the original 75% pay cut. They bloody better!

[Zonda_]

I've been furloughed from a supply company I stopped working for last month! According to their email it goes from the 28th Feb and even though I've started a new job I'm still entitled to it. Read the email 3 times to make sure.

[DaveE]

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[unzippy]

There's just as much chance that China will come out of this crisis first (already is), and get a headstart and a bigger manufacturing foothold. I'm not sure I see much liklihood that we'll rely on China less after this.

Our relationship with China won't change one bit.

Firstly, most people have short memories. Secondly, everyone loves a bargain. And lastly, most people underestimate just how intertwined we have become with them, not just from consumer products perspective but across many, many industries including strategic construction projects and developments.

Aye, don't they own Africa now, what with all the roads and railways they put in?

[Mito Man]

Road and Belt scheme, third world countries getting more broke because of it.

[V8Granite]

There's just as much chance that China will come out of this crisis first (already is), and get a headstart and a bigger manufacturing foothold. I'm not sure I see much liklihood that we'll rely on China less after this.

Our relationship with China won't change one bit.

Firstly, most people have short memories. Secondly, everyone loves a bargain. And lastly, most people underestimate just how intertwined we have become with them, not just from consumer products perspective but across many, many industries including strategic construction projects and developments.

Aye, don't they own Africa now, what with all the roads and railways they put in?

The ones built by prisoners and where they burn down villages and kill large groups of animals, yep that’s the ones.

Some of the work practices they do are scary and they are hellish to deal with.

Dave!

[jamcg]

I've been furloughed from a supply company I stopped working for last month! According to their email it goes from the 28th Feb and even though I've started a new job I'm still entitled to it. Read the email 3 times to make sure.

Read an article on bbc that was about this. Apparently people are being encouraged by some mp’s to approach former employers to see if they can put them into the furlough scheme like yours appears to have done

[Orange Cola]

Fuuuuuuck!

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-m ... r-52221688

[Ascender]

Fuuuuuuck!

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-m ... r-52221688

Holy shit. That's properly insane. Brace yourself for the idiots this Easter weekend then....

[Simon]

I think transgressors should be shot on site. No second chances. We need to be doing Darwin's work for him.

[mik]

Went out on the bike earlier.....

[integrale_evo]

Shame the stupid cunts can't all be locked up together and let their immune systems battle it out without risk of passing it on to anyone else.

[Simon]

[duncs500]

These stats are annoying. They're giving 765 'new' deaths in England, but apparently only 140 occurred yesterday, the rest seem to be scattered around March and April. It's difficult to compare.

[nuttinnew]

Manc More than likely far too much everywhere though, it just hasn't been reported like that.
I'm sure I heard an ice cream van earlier...

[Explosive Newt]

These stats are annoying. They're giving 765 'new' deaths in England, but apparently only 140 occurred yesterday, the rest seem to be scattered around March and April. It's difficult to compare.

They're very hard to interpret - there is always a dip at the weekends because reporting goes down then a bump on Mon/Tues as weekend deaths go into the system. I think you have to look at a week's average to make any sense of it.

[Ascender]

Manc More than likely far too much everywhere though, it just hasn't been reported like that.
I'm sure I heard an ice cream van earlier...

To be fair, an ice cream van!!!!!

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