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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-52048213 LOL! Corbyn is such a moron.

I was replying to your question about who davefoggy meant by "they". Asked and answered. I guess you missed my earlier post: "No one is saying the numbers have been overestimated. One potentially credible person has said that our current measures may keep deaths lower than 20,000. That's not the same thing."

Sounds like an interesting nature programme.

No I was talking about the original post which said that numbers were overestimated.

"they are starting to say today that the numbers have probably been overestimated." Where is there any mention of 500k UK deaths figure if we did nothing?

No one is saying the numbers have been overestimated. One potentially credible person has said that our current measures may keep deaths lower than 20,000. That's not the same thing.

And we have people who still have to work. Asking people to risk their health and potentially their lives every day is weighing very heavily on me. I do have to say though that everyone has been so understanding and kind.

Professor Neil Ferguson for one.

We are paying everyone 100% for March as we got all our income a month in advance. We now have a month to decide what we are doing next month. Going to look at it and make the decision as we will have to go through everyone manually and make the changes.

Numbers will be lower due to the actions taken. Would you have preferred we did very little and allowed it to claim thousands more, many of whose deaths could have been entirely prevented? What price a life?

I'm a demisexual other-kin. Can I participate?

Can you furlough yourself? I'm a company director and I wasn't sure.

Probably for the best that he's taking a break.

Thanks for that

That's a tough one. Our head admin person is one of the few we haven't put on furlough for that reason. Does someone else know how to do it? You could maybe do it unofficially. I think it's a bit dodgy with furlough but my hope is that there is a recognition of this emergency situation.

Managed to speak to someone this morning. I've been told by HMRC that all tax liability is automatically deferred from 20th March until 20th June. Not sure if that includes NI for staff on furlough though. Still have to pay NEST pension contributions apparently.

Well I've got no idea. We have enough cash with no business rates and with less electricity, gas etc to pay everyone for the next three months but not sure after that. Let's hope we can have some semblence of normality from June for at least a little while.

Does soggy have the virus? No word from him in over a week.

That was my original thought but my understanding is that everyone gets full pay and 80% of it is subsidised. That's what my accountant said anyway. Happy to be told otherwise thoigh. Very difficult to know the truth in all this. Its really hard, I haven't ever had to make decisions loke this before.

It's an absolutely massive thing to basically make up in a week or two so I'm not surprised it's light on detail. My focus is on keeping my staff in a job and keeping them healthy and safe as much as possible. Currently I have enough resources to do that for the next three months then we will see what happens after that. I assume the employer will still have to pay everything like normal and the government just reimburses you for 80%. I hope so anyway.

That's an issue I have. Some of the staff have said that if it comes to it in an emergency situation that they will volunteer but I'm not sure where we stand on that legally.

I believe we have to pay staff as normal and then get reimbursed by the government for 80% of wages. I was told this will be happening next month but it's all a bit wait and see at the moment.

Has he said it how it is? In reality no one really knows until we see death tolls.

Yep. About 90 of my staff are now on furlough. Should be comfortable for at least three months with the government measures. May struggle if its extended to six

Like you say that's a separate issue with its own pros and cons. Corbynism was roundly rejected by the public and thank goodness he isn't in charge of all this.