Coronavirus

[Broccers]

Back to work safely or people won't have jobs to go back to! We do need to get the economy going but in a safe and responsible manner. At our factory in NW London we are spending a lot of money to try and make it as safe as possible for people to return to work.

The kind of flippant bollocks imaged above does a disservice to responsible businesses who take very seriously their duty of care to their employees. It's just leftie bullshit.

It is flippant and good for your company for putting the work in but a lot of people in the service industry will be needlessly put at risk if we push to reopen early.

Not talking about you here but I think it’s interesting that a lot of people who were pro brexit regardless of the consequences are now very worried about the economy.

The economy will suffer more if we have to bounce back to this once or twice more over the next year or so.

The bounce will be interesting depending upon many things. Only hindsight will tell us if we and/or the government have made the right decisions at the right time. Personally I think we need to be able to get industry going in but in as safe a way as possible. Very difficult in some circumstances like large building sites, as I have witnessed last week. The problem is that if we don't try and get the money flowing then by the time things do get better there will be fuck all cash left in the government and private industry for a bounce to happen.

Furloughing people has been a good thing to help businesses prepare themselves for when things pick up but if the market conditions aren't right when the virus has settled down enough then there will be mass redundancies. We would then see lots of people being released into the worst job market of our lifetimes.

The whole thing is a really difficult juggling act and only in the fullness of time will we see how good or bad of a job we or the Government have done. This hindsight will also be the only true time we can tell whether our government has done the best for the UK in comparison to other Countries.

Bang on.

Unfortunately what I'm seeing more and more are people looking at this an opportunity to score points or drag people down to their level.

[Orange Cola]

There’s been some interesting reactions and the roads are definitely busier today.

I feel Boris needs to have made the clarifications before they made any changes, the weekend is looking nice and apart from the shops being shut it’ll basically be a free for all. I am fully expecting a second spike.

[NotoriousREV]

[Orange Cola]

Roads will be rammed then

Coronavirus: What are social distancing and self-isolation rules? https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-51506729

[Swervin_Mervin]

Roads will be rammed then

No they won't

[integrale_evo]

Roads around here are busiest at weekends with people going shopping, and during the week at school drop off / pick up times.

With schools, shops, hotels, restaurants, pubs etc shut where will everyone be driving to?

Sure, there will be more people about but it's not going to instantly go back to normal levels is it?

[Mito Man]

Well the tube is packed already

[Orange Cola]

Roads will be rammed then

No they won't

They were already busy this morning, so yes they are

[NotoriousREV]

Checked the M56 cameras at 8am by Manchester Airport, a busy section in normal times. It was empty.

[integrale_evo]

Quick finger in the air guess from my journey to work just now, about 1/4 of the normal traffic.

A bit more than the last few weeks but still a long way off normal levels.

[dinny_g]

Do you think Labour have the wrong political strategy at the moment?

Leaving aside their primary goal of supporting the people for a moment, should they not play a longer game. Support but not Endorse the government response and when the dust settles and the effectiveness of the government response is more quantifiable, use this to strike at the heart of Government ?

[ZedLeg]

I’d rather people in a position to voice objections did it now rather than using it as ammunition later on.

It’s not like Boris won’t give them other examples of his buffoonery.

[dinny_g]

Fair point Zed...

[Jobbo]

The M5/M6 past Birmingham before 8.30am today was less busy than last week.

[duncs500]

Local recycling centre has queue times on the website, dunno how accurate it is, but it only says 15mins right now. Tempting, but I'm still going to leave it for this week.

[Ascender]

I’ve just drilled into a hot water pipe in the house while doing something I was getting nagged about this morning. Apparently “coronavirus or not you’re going back to the office as soon as possible.”

[DeskJockey]

Local recycling centre has queue times on the website, dunno how accurate it is, but it only says 15mins right now. Tempting, but I'm still going to leave it for this week.

Ours is by appointment only now. No slots until June!

[Broccers]

I’ve just drilled into a hot water pipe in the house while doing something I was getting nagged about this morning. Apparently “coronavirus or not you’re going back to the office as soon as possible.”

[Orange Cola]

I’ve just drilled into a hot water pipe in the house while doing something I was getting nagged about this morning. Apparently “coronavirus or not you’re going back to the office as soon as possible.”

I hope she was joking?

[Ascender]

Sorted. Time for a beer.

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