Working from Home

[ha_banos]

Isn't the biggest risk the impact on the NHS?

If 10-15% of everyone who's affected needs med care and the numbers peak fast. The NHS impact will be felt well beyond the corona virus problem.

Keep the peak low, no?

[puropunch]

it's scary how far and wide it has spread. it feels like only a few weeks ago we hear about in a town we all have probably never heard of in china, next thing its all over asia, europe and now its knocing on our doors locally. so it has to be a concern, its also scary that the best advice we get for prevention of spread is to wash our hands and sing happy birthday..but i guess what else can we do.

the whole toilet roll thing is just hysteria, people will look back in years to come and say wtf were they all thinking! heard mentality at its finest. The mrs went for nappies the other night and all the shelves were completely bare, why not just take what you need.

[Emaresee]

had a client take their teenage son to hospital yesterday... he wasnt at all well. 2 weeks back from an italian ski trip.

no underlying health problems but struggling with breathing.

Its a sh*tter .... stay well ppl.

[puropunch]

Isn't the biggest risk the impact on the NHS?

If 10-15% of everyone who's affected needs med care and the numbers peak fast. The NHS impact will be felt well beyond the corona virus problem.

Keep the peak low, no?

it needs to be, our local gp has shut. they are only carrying out telephone consultations. i cant see how that can help in the short term as people need treatment not for corona but everything else, day to day, elderly and babies etc. It's like calling the fire bregade and them saying sorry we cant attend in case we can burnt! (probably a bad analogy )

[Shaun]

Isn't the biggest risk the impact on the NHS?

If 10-15% of everyone who's affected needs med care and the numbers peak fast. The NHS impact will be felt well beyond the corona virus problem.

Keep the peak low, no?

Exactly, and we have half the capacity of critical care beds in this country compared with Italy as well.

[PeeJay]

Worst case scenario 500,000 deaths. If its no one you know and love the country could do with downsizing.

[SHAMZ84]

WFH with kids is a bit hard...end up working more in the evenings.

But gonna be WFH from next week for a while... hopefully it won't be too long and maybe lucky enough to have a cigar at lunch

[PeeJay]

WFH with kids is a bit hard...end up working more in the evenings.

But gonna be WFH from next week for a while... hopefully it won't be too long and maybe lucky enough to have a cigar at lunch

The FSA; for whom my daughter in law works, are considering instructing staff to work from home for 3 months .

[SHAMZ84]

O lord I hope not


At least I'll have enough toilet roll hahaha

[grumpybaldy]

The FSA; for whom my daughter in law works, are considering instructing staff to work from home for 3 months .

All this is just ridiculous. The 'Blitz generation' would be laughing at us. Whatever happened to 'Keep Clam and Carry On'? I'm working on the basis that I'll take the basic precautions on handwashing etc, but I may well get it, in which case I'm hoping that it'll be mild as it will be for most people, and I'm thankful that, unlike the 1918 pandemic, it isn't such a problem for young people. I am sympathetic to the situation of old people and, in particular, non-oldies who have, say, respiratory problems - that must be very scary. Yes, there are things that should be done, but I'm fearful there will be the CYA response where companies are running scared of being accused of not doing the right thing for Health & Safety where, actually, there may not be much that can be done, but you're still damaging your business and the economy anyway.

[simwells]

The 'Blitz generation' would be laughing at us. Whatever happened to 'Keep Clam and Carry On'?

As a side note the Blitz generation never saw "Keep Calm and Carry on" did they? Wasn't it an advertising slogan that was never really seen until 15 years ago or something?

[geoffbot]

All this is just ridiculous. The 'Blitz generation' would be laughing at us. Whatever happened to 'Keep Clam and Carry On'? I'm working on the basis that I'll take the basic precautions on handwashing etc, but I may well get it, in which case I'm hoping that it'll be mild as it will be for most people, and I'm thankful that, unlike the 1918 pandemic, it isn't such a problem for young people. I am sympathetic to the situation of old people and, in particular, non-oldies who have, say, respiratory problems - that must be very scary. Yes, there are things that should be done, but I'm fearful there will be the CYA response where companies are running scared of being accused of not doing the right thing for Health & Safety where, actually, there may not be much that can be done, but you're still damaging your business and the economy anyway.

I mean, if 1m old people die that's still bad. Staying at home is probably an idea to avoid spreading it.

[cohibaIV]

As a side note the Blitz generation never saw "Keep Calm and Carry on" did they? Wasn't it an advertising slogan that was never really seen until 15 years ago or something?

?Keep Calm and Carry On? was first used at the beginning of the Second World War, so the Blitz generation grew up with the slogan I believe

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[cohibaIV]

Found this online


Keep Calm and Carry On? was one of three key messages created by Britain?s wartime propaganda department, the Ministry of Information, made famous as the Ministry of Truth in George Orwell?s novel, 1984.

The now-ubiquitous ?Keep Calm and Carry On? phrase was chosen for its clear message of ?sober restraint? and was coined by the shadow Ministry of Information at some point between 27 June and 6 July 1939.

It was one of a series of three posters that would be issued in the event of war (the others read ?Your Courage, Your Cheerfulness, Your Resolution; Will Bring Us Victory? and ?Freedom is in Peril; Defend it with all Your Might?). The ?Keep Calm? design was never officially issued and only a very small number of originals have survived to the present day.

2.45 million posters displaying it were printed, only to be pulped and recycled in 1940 to help the British government deal with a serious paper shortage.

It wasn?t until a copy was discovered in a bookshop in Northumberland in 2000, and reproductions of it began to be sold a year later, that its fame was established.


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[Moley]

Found this online


Keep Calm and Carry On? was one of three key messages created by Britain?s wartime propaganda department, the Ministry of Information, made famous as the Ministry of Truth in George Orwell?s novel, 1984.

The now-ubiquitous ?Keep Calm and Carry On? phrase was chosen for its clear message of ?sober restraint? and was coined by the shadow Ministry of Information at some point between 27 June and 6 July 1939.

It was one of a series of three posters that would be issued in the event of war (the others read ?Your Courage, Your Cheerfulness, Your Resolution; Will Bring Us Victory? and ?Freedom is in Peril; Defend it with all Your Might?). The ?Keep Calm? design was never officially issued and only a very small number of originals have survived to the present day.

2.45 million posters displaying it were printed, only to be pulped and recycled in 1940 to help the British government deal with a serious paper shortage.

It wasn?t until a copy was discovered in a bookshop in Northumberland in 2000, and reproductions of it began to be sold a year later, that its fame was established.


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The government never recycled the paper back then, it was this guy who took it all

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