Coronavirus (Non-Politics)

[Tinks]

It is really sad you're right. Until the end of March is a long time. Where's this money coming from, it's also got to be paid back.

I think they are forward planning here and likewise one has to ask where is this money coming from and more importantly at some point this money/s will need to be repaid.
As selfish as it sounds I am glad I am at the age I am and now towards the end of my career and it is the younger generation who I feel for

 

[THE SEVENTIES NORTH BANK]

It is really sad you're right. Until the end of March is a long time. Where's this money coming from, it's also got to be paid back.

We the people will be paying that back for many years. We just don't know how yet.

 

[blueblueblue]

We the people will be paying that back for many years. We just don't know how yet.

Spot on, that's what I mean.

You can just imagine, tax on drivers, drinkers and smokers will go through the roof.

 

[THE SEVENTIES NORTH BANK]

Some idiot conspiracy theorist is posting leaflets in Rochford, saying the covid virus is a fake. I hope he isn't seen by that guy that has just lost both his parents to covid.

 

[blueblueblue]

Some idiot conspiracy theorist is posting leaflets in Rochford, saying the covid virus is a fake. I hope he isn't seen by that guy that has just lost both his parents to covid.

I despair at these people, the NHS are near on it's knee's because of Covid.

 

[jackj13]

I despair at these people, the NHS are near on it's knee's because of Covid.

I’m in no way saying it’s fake but there’s the data to show the NHS is on its knees?

 

[blueblueblue]

22 hospitals in the UK are full of Covid patients.

 

[Chalky]

I despair at these people, the NHS are near on it's knee's because of Covid.

Yes there the conspiracy theorists are utterly dangerous but the NHS is absolutely no where near to being on its knees.

Suggest you go check out @sepsisUK on twitter, his name is Dr Ron Daniels BEM who is a official Intensive care doctor within the NHS. He is constantly saying how the NHS is categorically not being even close to being overrun, also NHS occupancy as of right now, is actually lower than last year (when Covid did not even exist to our knowledge)

 

[GBJ]

I’m no economist, but I’m sure if we managed to borrow £500bn in 2008 to bail out the banks, then borrowing money to protect lives, jobs & businesses now (currently estimated at £210bn) is worth it?

 

[Napster]

I’m no economist, but I’m sure if we managed to borrow £500bn in 2008 to bail out the banks, then borrowing money to protect lives, jobs & businesses now (currently estimated at £210bn) is worth it?

its all figures on a screen.

 

[londonblue]

I’m no economist, but I’m sure if we managed to borrow £500bn in 2008 to bail out the banks, then borrowing money to protect lives, jobs & businesses now (currently estimated at £210bn) is worth it?

Don't forget a lot of what they borrowed then was used to buy the banks, which were then sold off to recoup some of the money, although I'm not sure how much.

 

[blueblueblue]

Don't forget a lot of what they borrowed then was used to buy the banks, which were then sold off to recoup some of the money, although I'm not sure how much.

Yes I remember that. Wasn't the average Joe promised shares with there banks at the time?

 

[Ricey]

Drove back from London for work and it was like any normal day. Loads of cars on the road and just doesn’t appear like a lockdown.

 

[Ricky Otto]

its all figures on a screen.

I’m no economist, but I’m sure if we managed to borrow £500bn in 2008 to bail out the banks, then borrowing money to protect lives, jobs & businesses now (currently estimated at £210bn) is worth it?

The bank of England upped it's QE today, now at £470bn since March. For context that is more QE than in the last 11 years! We have always thought of hyperinflation as being something reserved for "banana republics" but it is coming. The national debts that were an issue pre covid are rising exponentially, the major currencies of the world are getting heavily diluted and the value of the £ in your bank/pocket is not going to go anywhere near as far as we are used to.

 

[blueblueblue]

Drove back from London for work and it was like any normal day. Loads of cars on the road and just doesn’t appear like a lockdown.

I thought it would be like that, lot's of shops open everywhere.

This isn't going to work at all.

 

[londonblue]

Yes I remember that. Wasn't the average Joe promised shares with there banks at the time?

Not that I'm aware of, no. But the government had shares in the banks when they bought them, which by extension means we all did.

 

[OldBlueLady]

The virus isn't going away, and it's certainly not going to be contained when this kind of stuff goes on:

Drinkers hit pubs for final night of freedom before second lockdown begins

Partygoers became rowdy before England entered a second national lockdown at midnight.

metro.co.uk

 

[RHB]

I thought it would be like that, lot's of shops open everywhere.

This isn't going to work at all.

Exactly what shops are open? Are any of them in the 'banned' category?

 

[Massimo Giovanni]

True story.
A friend has a work colleague who got very ill with C19, tested positive, hospital but not ventilators etc yet. Another work colleague got tested because of association but had only symptom of loss of smell but nothing else, another positive test and into isolation etc, otherwise all okay.

It must be, is, nigh on impossible, to control this, stop spread etc when it's effects are so disparate on random folk.

Unconnected but,
Another covid death at Southend this week, hospital becoming stretched is my information.

 

[OldBlueLady]

Exactly what shops are open? Are any of them in the 'banned' category?

As far as I can work out, it's clothes shops, anything where human contact is necessary (i.e. beauticians, tattooists/removals, hairdressers, barbers etc), and hospitality venues, pubs, bars, tea rooms etc. Everything else seems to be open.