United Kingdom V: Son of a beach

[Neon Ignition]

Given the money involved I assumed the bigger ones would have funds, insurance etc for eventuality's like this rather than be on the edge of collapse whenever something comes up. Everytime something happens that affects any business/service it feels like none ever have a plan for disruption in services despite it always being a threat.

[Neon Ignition]

https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2020/mar/16/coronavirus-live-updates-us-cdc-events-europe-lockdown-uk-deaths-australia-france-italy-spain-update-latest-news

Woolworths in Australia is to begin operating a dedicated hour for elderly shoppers to protect them from being screwed over by stockpilers. Should work well here... oh, we lost Woolies too.

[Dogg Thang]

Given the money involved I assumed the bigger ones would have funds, insurance etc for eventuality's like this rather than be on the edge of collapse whenever something comes up. Everytime something happens that affects any business/service it feels like none ever have a plan for disruption in services despite it always being a threat.

Yeah, I was wondering about that too. With so much money involved and lots that can go wrong, I would have thought they are insured up to the eyeballs. But then I was reading about SXSW not giving refunds because they said that their insurance didn't cover pandemics - not sure what happened there as I didn't get the end of the story.

[Neon Ignition]

Heard about a few events doing that which I kind of get but they might feel it next year because from a customer service point of view it's awful

[Dogg Thang]

We have a local fast food chain here called Supermacs (yeah...) and they're now giving free meals to anyone in the emergency services. That's pretty cool... although I'm not quite sure what it means for the staff of Supermacs. Large amounts of Irish people seem to be doing the right things at the moment. The one obvious problem was people going to the pubs but that's a non-issue now that they are closed.

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[vanpeebles]

Looks like Arnie is well sorted for meat.

[Dogg Thang]

The other thing going on here in Ireland now is that apparently they have massively widened out the testing. If you even have just normal cold or flu symptoms, you're to call your GP to see if they should test you. Up to now they have been sending people out to houses in full on hazmat suits to collect them for tests but I'm guessing that has to change because they couldn't keep that up if they are doing loads of tests.

[Asura]

And again while we’re all looking at the death figures, it seems that if you pull through there is a chance you can be left with permanent lung damage - https://www.sciencealert.com/even-th...ath-afterwards

I wouldn't have thought that particularly notable; even a bad bout of normal 'flu can leave you with lung scarring.

[Dogg Thang]

Yeah, 20-30% drop in lung function is grand. Barely worth mentioning. Carry on.

[charlesr]

On the plus side, lots of new organ donations

[QualityChimp]

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Looks like Arnie has got some Coronavirus symptoms.

He's feeling a little horse...

[Asura]

Yeah, 20-30% drop in lung function is grand. Barely worth mentioning. Carry on.

What? They've said it has symptoms similar to pneumonia. Lung damage is a symptom of pneumonia.

[MartyG]

No need to panic, the numbers are going down. Thanks Johnson.

[Dogg Thang]

Wait, what am I looking at? That can’t be right...?

[Brad]

If you stop testing people then you have less new people with the virus than you did when you were testing for it. Simples! If we didn’t test at all we’d be a corona free country!