Off Topic Coronavirus

as of midnight tomorrow only essential businesses are allowed to continue
everyone else must stay at home for four weeks
crime rate will drop but expect the family violence numbers to increase

there seems to be an awful lot of people who are essential
one of the big three supermarkets wants to employ 3000 extra staff
even uber drivers who would be daft to carry on

theres a lot out there who can continue to spread/catch the virus at work and then go home to the family

Essential businesses
Essential businesses, and those that support them, will continue to provide the necessities of life for everyone in New Zealand.

This means food, medicine, healthcare, energy, fuel, waste-removal, internet and financial support will continue to be available.

What are essential businesses?
Entities and their workers carrying out the following services are considered essential. This also includes entities in their supply chains (eg those providing IT and data infrastructure to an entity providing an essential service).

This list will evolve over time. It was last updated at 8 pm, 23 March 2020.

Sectors Entities providing essential services (including their supply chains)
Accommodation
Lead agency: Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment

• Any entity that provides accommodation services for essential workers, isolation/quarantine, and emergency housing

Border
Lead agency: Customs New Zealand

• Customs New Zealand, Immigration New Zealand and the Ministry for Primary Industries

Building and construction
Lead agency: Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment

• Any entity involved in building and construction related to essential services and critical infrastructure
• Any entity involved in building and construction required immediately to maintain human health and safety at home or work
• Any entity that performs or is involved in building and resource consenting necessary for the above purposes

Courts, tribunals and the justice system
Lead agency: Ministry of Justice

• Courts of New Zealand, tribunals
• Critical Crown entities (eg Electoral Commission)

Education
Lead agency: Ministry of Education

At level 3 only:

• Any person employed or contracted as teaching, nursery and childcare staff, including specialist education professionals and others who provide support (eg to disabled children)
• Any person employed by or contracted to an educational facility
• Any entity supplying educational facilities or educational materials (eg printers)

Fast-moving consumer goods
Lead agency: Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment

• Any entity involved in the supply, delivery, distribution and sale of food, beverage and other key consumer goods essential for maintaining the wellbeing of people, but not takeaway shops

Financial services
Lead agencies: Financial Markets Authority and Reserve Bank of New Zealand

• Banks, insurers and other financial institutions, including any entity that contracts or provides services to them (eg secure money delivery services)
• Securities registries
• NZX

Health
Lead agency: Ministry of Health

• District Health Boards (and all of their facilities), Pharmac, New Zealand Blood Service, Health Promotion Agency, Health Quality and Safety Commission
• Any person employed or contracted as a doctor, nurse, midwife, pharmacist, paramedic, medical laboratory scientists, kaiāwhina workers, social workers, aged care and community workers, and caregivers more generally
• Hospitals, primary care clinics, pharmacies, medical laboratories, care facilities (eg rest homes)
• Any entity providing ambulance services
• Any entity involved with the deceased/tūpāpaku (eg funeral homes, crematories, cemeteries)
• Any entity producing health sector equipment, medicines and PPE

Local and national government
Lead agencies: Department of Internal Affairs (local government) and State Services Commission (national government)

• Any entity involved in COVID-19 response, enforcement, planning or logistics or that has civil defence/emergency management functions (including any entity that supplies services for these purposes)
• Key public services (see note below for agencies)

Primary industries, including food and beverage production and processing
Lead agency: Ministry for Primary Industries

• Any entity involved in the packaging, production and processing of food and beverage products, whether for domestic consumption or export
• Any entity involved in relevant support services, such as food safety and verification, inspection or associated laboratory services, food safety and biosecurity functions
• Any entity providing veterinary services
• Any entity whose closure would jeopardise the maintenance of animal health or welfare standards (including the short-term survival of a species)

Public safety and national security
Lead agency: National Emergency Management Agency

• The Department of Corrections, Fire and Emergency New Zealand, Ministry of Defence, Ministry of Justice, New Zealand Defence Force, New Zealand Police, New Zealand Security Intelligence Service, Government Communications Security Bureau
• Courts of New Zealand
• Any person employed or contracted in a public safety or national security role

Science
Lead agency: Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment

• ESR, GNS, GeoNet, NIWA, MetService
• Any entity (including research organisations) involved in COVID-19 response
• Any entity (including research organisations) involved in hazard monitoring and resilience
• Any entity (including research organisations) involved in diagnostics for essential services like biosecurity, public health
• Laboratories and Physical Containment level 3 (PC3) facilities that could provide essential services and products that could be used to respond to COVID-19
• Other significant research facilities including animal facilities, clinical trials and infrastructure that requires constant attention (eg samples, collections and storage facilities) that are important to New Zealand

Social services
Lead Agency: Ministry of Social Development/Oranga Tamariki

• Those entities, including non-government organisations, that provide welfare and social services to meet immediate needs, to be specified jointly by the Ministry of Social Development and Oranga Tamariki

Transport and logistics
Lead agency: Ministry of Transport

• Ministry of Transport, New Zealand Customs, New Zealand Transport Agency, Civil Aviation Authority (including Aviation Security Service), Maritime New Zealand (including the Rescue Coordination Centre), Airways NZ, MetService, KiwiRail (including Interislander), and any entity which is contracted by these entities
• Any entity that provides, or is contracted to an entity that provides, logistics services, including New Zealand Post and courier services
• Any entity providing, or is contracted by an entity that provides, transport services to the Ministry of Health, a District Health Board, a Medical Officer of Health, or a Controller (as defined in section 4 of the Civil Defence and Emergency Management Act 2002)
• Any entity which provides services related to the maintenance and ongoing operation of critical infrastructure (eg roads, rail, ports, airports)
• Any entity which operates or is contracted by an entity listed in Schedule 1 of the Civil Defence and Emergency Management Act 2002, an aerodrome, a passenger and/or freight aviation service, a passenger and/or freight shipping service, a road freight service, a rail freight service, a vehicle recovery service; or a public transport service (under contract with a Regional Council)
• Any small passenger service vehicle driver (who holds the relevant licence)
• Any entity providing services to keep vehicles operational for essential work purposes (eg vehicle testing, mechanics, tyre services)

Utilities and communications, including supply chains
Lead agency: Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment, and Ministry for Culture and Heritage (for broadcasting)

• Any entity involved in the production, supply, sale distribution or disposal of electricity, gas, water, waste water (eg sanitation), waste (eg rubbish collection), fuel, telecommunication services, and any entity that is contracted by these entities
• News (including news production) and broadcast media
• Internet service providers
• Any entity that provides maintenance and repair services for utilities and communications, including supply chains
• Any entity supplying services to an essential workplaces that are required for the safe operation of that workplace (eg cleaning, security services)

 

What’s that? I guess it’s a porn site.

 

I received this from our managers today, so looks like I'll be out-and-about...


Help us keep the nation’s mobile networks running during the coronavirus outbreak
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MBNL manages the telecommunications infrastructure of EE and Three, two of the UK’s leading mobile operators
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In line with the Government’s advice regarding social distancing to combat the coronavirus outbreak, it is of paramount importance that people of all ages and from all walks of life have uninterrupted access to mobile connectivity for:
• 999 emergency & medical services
• Online learning amid potential school closures
• Working from home & remote working
• Staying in touch with family, friends, and the outside world

How can you help?

Now, more than ever, we need to work together with all our site providers in the national interest to ensure that the UK’s mobile networks can meet this unprecedented capacity demand. To that end, we need your help in making sure a contingency plan is in place that continues to facilitate site access to the telecommunications apparatus. This is vital in enabling us to rapidly carry out repairs to any service-affecting faults, as well as continuing our scheduled capacity upgrades which are crucial for overcoming the growing strain on the networks amid Government advice regarding self-isolation and social distancing. Engineers from our network partners must also be able to access sites quickly to carry out critical repairs that may be necessary to maintain access to the mobile networks for all users. Please be assured that we and our partners are taking stringent measures to ensure the health and safety of both your and our workforce as well as the public.

As a result of the ongoing outbreak, it is expected many sites will have more staff working remotely. Please ensure you tell us of any changes or additions to your “call out” procedure, and also take any measures necessary to ensure that it can be used at all times. If you don’t have a procedure like this, we would like to request that you establish one and would be happy to support you in doing so. You can contact us by emailing [email protected] stating the premise name and postcode in the subject heading.

The Telecommunications Code of Practice is available here which highlights how Operators and Landlords should work together.

For latest Government updates regarding coronavirus, please check here.

MBNL is working hard with EE, Three and our suppliers to safeguard the nation’s wellbeing and livelihoods. We will continue to monitor the latest Government advice and keep you informed. We appeal to you for your continued support to work with us to help everyone in this country to ride out this crisis. Thank you.
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It’s gonna be very interesting as to how this will be enforced....Road Blocks ? Random Stops ?. I’ll wait for my eldest to give me some idea.
This is getting very surreal now and wouldn’t be amiss in a movie

 

Everyone will be down the fancy dress shop buying up nurse and doctor outfits

 

The majority of survivors will never have been diagnosed in the first place.

 

It’s been a long time since the Mrs has dressed up for me.....Every cloud.......

 

At least I can continue to go to and from work, whilst not interacting with anyone.
It's impossible for me to work from home and I can work all day without getting anywhere near anyone.

 

Would your work be classed as ‘essential’, Col ?
It all seems very fuzzy at the moment.......for example are Uber drivers classed as ‘essential’ ? If they aren’t there are a load of Aussie Paramedics, who we have a lot of in the LAS, who are gonna find it impossible to get to work

 

ubers have been made essential here staines
not sure I would want to do it though
all those coughing passengers well within any 2 m distance

 

I’ve concluded that my work - electrical installation - is essential, essential to the well being of my family. I can get in my van, drive to site and work isolated pretty much all day.

I’m not going to sit around, blow the tiny pot of savings I’ve got, then wonder how the **** I’m going to pay my bills and feed my kids while the weirdest ****ing period of our lifetimes plays out in front of us, with the global economy inexplicably destroyed and an inevitable recession that will **** the vast majority of us like we can only imagine over the next months and years, because of a virus, similar to others we know and accept as part of life.

 

Great answer.......and I’m totally in agreement mate......but does the government think the same ?

 

My company had two new members of staff join today. And in the next breath they are putting some colleagues on the 80% salary. It does make me wonder whether the government know a lot more than what they are saying. Our manufacturing site - in China - roughly 8 hours away from Wuhan are in production again........maybe someone does have a cure....

 

My work has been.......

 

They don’t, and they’ll let me know that over the next few days tip toe phases, but right now, I don’t give a ****, I want to know what’s going on.

 

Hopefully one of the good things to come out of this will be that the skills and worth of common men and women, and their importance to society is truly recognised.......the cleaners, the bin men, the school TA’s, the shop workers......all far more important, imho, than the ****ing bankers and bosses.

 

That is terrible mate. I wish I had an answer.....I hope you get one soon

 

Respect to you mate.

 

We have a couple of Gtech vacuum cleaners at home, a hand held one and an upright one. They are very good.

On our local news, Midlands Today, they were at the GTech factory in Worcester as they completed the testing of a ventilator which doesn’t even require electricity, going straight into production today. Brilliant.

Dyson is doing the same but can’t go into production yet because it needs to fly parts in from overseas. That’s what happens when you decide to go offshore, eh Jimmy?