Whitey Grandad

Hypo, have you found anything yet about how you will receive payments?

I very much doubt that what you think he earns is true and if it is then he is into tax avoidance big time.

Me? Why me? I was simply giving one trivial example of why a total lockdown (for a limited section of society) can cause problems. It's a sensible move but all this should have been thought out weeks ago. Still no news about the business support schemes. Might be in place by May, which will be too late for many much as I applaud the provisions.

On this I agree with you completely.

The virus will not live long on your hands especially if you wash them regularly. There must be quite a bit of immunity or a vaccine would not be much use. It may not be complete immunity but enough to prevent a serious illness.

Key workers gotta get to work too. What’s crazy is reducing the number of services leading to overcrowding.

Every silver lining has a cloud. France you say? DIY? This is not the France that I know and love.

Ah. Ok. Won’t you get two sets of fans gathering outside? I guess that the latest “two’s company, three’s a crowd law would prevent that.

Why would it have to be neutral? I don’t like the idea of closed doors myself anyway. We’ve all played each other at least once so the outstanding games will mainly involve teams that are due the home leg of their pairing. Home advantage still applies to some extent since the players don’t have the travel disruption.

Phew! We can all relax. “The DIY and Hardware store sector has been categorised as an essential retailer by the government.” B&Q stores are closed today, Tuesday, but open after that. https://www.diy.com/customer-support/#icamp=HP_Hero_customersupport

Clear as mud. What counts as “absolutely cannot be done from home”? I can think of loads of examples.

The government aren’t doing anything at the moment. At the moment it’s all promises but no actions.

I’m not talking about companies that make goods and then hope to sell them. There are many companies that have contracts to fulfil and if they don’t supply these contracts then they so get paid and if they don’t get paid then they can’t pay their staff.

But if he says that only key workers can go out hundreds of thousands of businesses will go bust in a matter of days, not weeks.

But if that business employs several people who would otherwise lose their jobs? Please don’t mention the government’s lans to offer financial help. There are no details yet as to how that will be arranged, and anyway somebody has to be there to try to get the help. At both ends of the line.

“Obvious really” What is that supposed to mean? If you have a business that desperately needs some finance to see it through the next month how do you “do that from home”? If you have manufacturing contracts to fulfill, how do you “do that from home”?

That’s because it isn’t. Too many unanswered questions. “Travelling to and from work”. Work is not always done at just one place. It might be clear to certain people in certain situations, but there are many instances where this guidance is undefined.

[smug mode] Fortunately I bought the box set of Sharpe back in January, just after I bought the complete set of novels from Amazon

Glad to hear it. I loaded them all onto my phone and iPad so that I could watch them on long flights. It's going to be a long time before I finish them all.

I have the complete Palin travel series on dvd. If there's any way that I can help, let me know.

Don’t you dare try telling me to stop posting you little ...

As I said, it’s not all about MOTs but if that’s all that you can understand then fair enough. Try thinking about all the other aspects of life that need dealing with.

Because it’s my NHS too. Don’t you realise that the NHS is not going to cope at all. It is going to be overwhelmed by a factor of ten or twenty. Whatever older people do is going to make no difference. Tens of millions of people isolating themselves from society is not going to make a blind bit of difference. It won’t ‘give the NHS a fighting chance’.

You really don’t get it either, do you? What threat is anybody over 70 to you? Why are they more of a threat than a thirty year old? Answer - they aren’t. Smokers are also more at risk. Should we tell every smoker to stay at home?

You really don’t get it do you? You won’t get infected by an old person. You will get infected by someone you work with or someone you live with. Old people are not a threat to you. If an older person gets infected it will most probably be from a youngster. Getting this virus is not a death sentence, far from it. There are nowhere near enough ICU beds for the numbers that will need them, something like 3,700 out of tens of thousands. It won’t make any difference if those over 70 self-isolate. Most of them never go anywhere near a youngster anyway.