[Cherie]

Originally Posted by GoldHeart

It's ruining everything

jeez you would have been great in the War Goldie

[arista]

Originally Posted by Kate!

So Boris has announced that in effect I can't go to bingo for the foreseeable future. Was supposed to be going tonight. Not now.

Well pissed off.

Try to Cheer Up
Kate

We all Love You............

[Kate!]

Originally Posted by arista

Try to Cheer Up
Kate

We all Love You............

Awwww Arista. Thats very sweet. you too.

[Jordan.]

Sending my best Kate, here's hoping you'll have the dabber back out in no time

[Kate!]

Originally Posted by Jordan.

Sending my best Kate, here's hoping you'll have the dabber back out in no time

thanks Jordan you little sweetheart. X

[michael21]

Originally Posted by Kate!

So Boris has announced that in effect I can't go to bingo for the foreseeable future. Was supposed to be going tonight. Not now.

Well pissed off.

Bloody brois

[user104658]

Thing is, I totally get it if all of this really is just temporary (until we get health services bolstered to handle it as an ongoing disease), but I just don't really see how it can be "just a few weeks" or "just a few months"... and so, I am conflicted. It feels a bit like in exchange for the best chance at staying alive, we all have to give up living, and so what is the point? The ironic part being, the people I see mostly agreeing with that attitude are the over-70's that all of the isolation is designed to protect. We can't isolate forever. Even right now this is a totally untested phenomenon - we have absolutely no idea what the damage of essentially suspending society for months is going to be. I think it's going to be an absolute disaster if I'm being entirely honest. I currently feel VERY, VERY privileged that I can work 100% from home, and that more than 50% of my wife's income is freelancing from home as well.

[Vanessa]

I was out tonight and everything seemed normal. Plenty of people out and about.

[Smithy]

Originally Posted by Vanessa

I was out tonight and everything seemed normal. Plenty of people out and about.

Stupid and selfish people then

[Vanessa]

Originally Posted by Smithy

Stupid and selfish people then

We're not on lockdown yet.

[Smithy]

Originally Posted by Vanessa

We're not on lockdown yet.

That’s not the point

[Morgan.]

Originally Posted by Vanessa

We're not on lockdown yet.

Just because the government haven’t enforced it doesn’t mean we can’t start.

For someone who has ties to Italy, surely you understand the importance of locking down and self isolating before things get to that point

[Smithy]

Screaming, sorry Vanessa, I didn’t mean for it to seem like I was coming for you, I just meant a lot of people clearly don’t think about the bigger picture

[Vanessa]

Originally Posted by Smithy

Screaming, sorry Vanessa, I didn’t mean for it to seem like I was coming for you, I just meant a lot of people clearly don’t think about the bigger picture

I usually go straight home after work. But I needed a few things from the shops.

[Marsh.]

"Yeah, back in ma day we had coronavirus. None of this going t'shops whenever you feel like it..."

[Marsh.]

Put a nicotine patch on. That'll give you a rush.

[Niamh.]

A friend of mine who is a bar manager in London made the point that advising people not to go bars while not ordering the shut down of bars is going to put them out of business with no social welfare support

[user104658]

Originally Posted by Niamh.

A friend of mine who is a bar manager in London made the point that advising people not to go bars while not ordering the shut down of bars is going to put them out of business with no social welfare support

What I read was, most bars/restaurants etc. have insurance for things like mandatory shut-downs so if they were TOLD to close they would get an insurance payout and could survive... but if they're allowed to stay open - while everyone is being told not to go - that's a loophole in the insurance and the insurer doesn't have to pay out because it's technically just a lack of customers, not a mandatory shutdown.

Countless hospitality and retail businesses are going to go under, and this is global... the impact on people's livelihoods is frankly going to be catastrophic. I really don't feel like, in the desperate scrabble to control the virus/protect frontline healthcare, enough has been done to mitigate the secondary damage at all and there are going to be a lot of actual deaths by the end of this that have nothing to do with catching the virus.

[Cherie]

Originally Posted by Niamh.

A friend of mine who is a bar manager in London made the point that advising people not to go bars while not ordering the shut down of bars is going to put them out of business with no social welfare support

pretty much

[Smithy]

Originally Posted by Niamh.

A friend of mine who is a bar manager in London made the point that advising people not to go bars while not ordering the shut down of bars is going to put them out of business with no social welfare support

People elected a clown and now they’re living in a circus congrats to them I guess

[Mystic Mock]

Originally Posted by Kate!

So Boris has announced that in effect I can't go to bingo for the foreseeable future. Was supposed to be going tonight. Not now.

Well pissed off.

Sadly this could've all been avoided if every country had've decided to temporarily shut down the boarders with China whilst they were dealing with the Coronavirus, and the funny thing is that China are recovering now as well so life would be continuing as normal for the most part if the leaders had've done what I said. But sadly they favoured money over health which has put people like you and my Nan in this position.

I think at this point it is the right decision, but it could've been easily avoided imo.