Coronavirus: Please use this thread for all COVID19 talk!

Boris has thrown teachers under a bus and as a family with daughters and lots of nieces working in schools as teachers and in other roles we have had to be even more careful about our isolation.

 

People are conditioned to believe that things can't get *that* bad, that if we just carry on things will be fine in the end. Sadly, that doesn't apply to everything, and with a disease that grows at an exponential rate and is often invisible in some carriers, by the time people recognize that the situation is severe, it'll have spread to most corners of society.

The moment when a lot of people finally accept reality will be when someone prominent dies. An athlete, a film star, a politician, someone like that. At that point, there will be far more political will to do something. But it should have been done already; there's no way to avoid massive economic and societal disruption, it's just a question of whether we're making the choices that lead to it, or the choices are being made for us.

Italy's efforts have slowed the growth, but the key word there is *slowed*: it's still growing, despite the country being on virtual lockdown, but it's starting to level off. We need to make the choices they have, and immediately, because every day that the rate of growth continues exponentially means several thousand extra cases in ten days.

 

Glastonbury 2020 cancelled, not surprisingly:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-51942898

 

On a brighter note, which maybe wishful thinking, but wouldn't it be nice .....

 

Just been to dentist...they are expecting to be told to stop fillings and scalings….get in quick before there's a rush on.

 

Good news! Eurovision has been cancelled.

 

I'm fighting back the tears

 

I really can’t get my head around what they are trying to do, by keeping schools open.
I understand that some grandparents regularly mind their grandchildren, whilst the parents are working, so I understand that the grandchildren, if infected, could pass the virus on.
But surely the chance of the grandchildren contracting the virus is greater if they continue socialising, at school, than if they just stay at home or with their grandparents.

 

You're joking but Lapras will be genuinely heartbroken...

 

It is good news but there's still a long way to go. What they should be looking at now is cancelling anything that includes;

Ant & Dec
David Walliams
Mrs Brown's Boys
Miranda
The One Show
Michael Mcintyre
Anything with "celebrity" in the title
Strictly Come Dancing
Simon Cowell

That's just for starters, there's tons more. The government have asked us to self isolate but who will obey that with this as "entertainment". I'd rather take my chances down the pub. If there was anything good to come from this disease it would be not having to suffer this heap of ****.

 

As of a few days ago schools were still supposed to get OFSTED inspections! Oh, just the most stressful time in the school calendar but get on with it folks, never mind the pandemic!

 

Eastenders and Casualty filming suspended, showings to be rationed.

 

That's another thing they've got in common with toilet rolls

 

Here's aittle ditty I just made up whilst shopping

Old Mother Hubbard went to the cupboard
But the cupboard was bare
She went to the shops
Then got the strops
Coz they had f*ck all there

 

I forsee a load of Miranda and Mrs Brown's Boys repeats coming up....

 

I wondered why there was no bog roll in the shops

 

I haven't checked, mostly because I haven't got SKY, but what are the multitude of SKY (and BT, etc) sports channels showing, now? Re-runs of old football matches? Live coverage of paint drying, with commentary and punditry?

 

That's scaremongering. People will be panic buying Only Fools and Horses box sets.

 

Desperate times