Topic: Corona Virus Panic/Discussion Thread

@nessisonett Ah you're gunna get it mate.

No one socializes anymore anyway. I don't know why these young folks are crying as they know darn well they just get together and stare at their phones.

Also they all have phones. Video calling, texting, voice... whatever you want, it's there. Can you imagine this hitting back in the seventies or eighties when you only had the one rotary phone and the internet didn't even exist? Now that's isolation.

@zupertramp Yeah, they probably would have sent everyone with COVID to a sanatorium like they did with TB back in the day.

@nessisonett sorry mate. I thought you were, drink and Corona is a bad mix for sure.

Getting a bit beyond a joke now, giving up weeks of our lives for the lockdown all feels like a waste of time now. I'm in the eye of the storm on Merseyside and if everywhere else starts falling down like it has round here we will have the most ridiculous mass unemployment ever seen. As mentioned months ago my job is relatively safe and we have done amazing since our return from lockdown but it's all fallen like a house of cards. Appointments can't visit as they are isolating, diagnosed or worse. Sales can't complete for the same reasons and I'm watching businesses on the literal cliff edge being forced to close. It's an absolute nightmare.

This tiered system won't work, the folk around here are petrified for their jobs and livelihoods. What a disaster.

The government has learnt nothing and that nice stretch since June may as well be a lifetime away. Back into it we goooooo!

@themcnoisy all you can do is carry on as best you can, things should pick up in the Spring. It’s been a nightmare year for me, just damage control and putting out fires really and I haven’t stopped and it is going to get worse again as we go through the winter. I’ve a week off (planned) in November which will be the only break I have this year. BUT I will optimistically say, it has been an interesting one.

(Oh I also have 19th November booked off to try and intercept my PS5 which is being delivered to the wrong address 😂)

Mmmmmm alcohol/gear, the cure for Covid blues. Who needs to leave their house, I’m getting the student experience in my room with a jumbo pack of Monster Munch, a crate of Tennant’s and supplies from my neighbour who inexplicably has teenage boys on bikes chapping their door and then cycling away with a filled backpack. At least the delivery boys are wearing masks.

Honestly, cycling has kept me going this year. I’d be much worse off without it. I’m not drinking anymore than usual fortunately.

(And one or two Valium, naturally 😂)

@kyleforrester87 That may as well be 10 years away. Honestly mate it's an absolute mess. We have no support. It's bad round here like pre lockdown was in London but we have no financial support. Awful mate, left to fend for ourselves when a pandemic is raging outside. How can we sell cars in this environment?

It's massively under reported how bad it's getting. Schools are closing left and right, I'm hearing about peoples parents being carted away a street away. Ambulances flying everywhere. It's going to get to a stage when this tiered garbage fails to work that there will be Hurst's lined up at the hospital. No lessons have been learned. Eat out to help out is the sickest joke I've ever heard.

The fact politicians are even debating NOT having a supported lockdown, even a 2 week one is a disgrace. They work. The vaccine is due within 6 months we need financial support now and for the vulnerable to be give a fighting chance or we will have 30-40pct unemployment in Merseyside with every sick or vulnerable person dead. It's getting this bad.

@themcnoisy they had to run furlough tbh. But more importantly everyone should have been back to work at some point this summer, if it's valid you would have been doing it.

But I'm really not buying into the can't afford it rubbish. Watching what's happening in Liverpool is death to business by a thousand cuts.

Looks like a whole bunch of football fans will be travelling down south from round here to somewhere the pubs are open because it’s the Old Firm tomorrow. Absolutely barmy.

Not about to go into the music thread for this but I need to get it off my chest how disappointed I am to find out Van Morrison has released a trio of anti-lockdown songs. He's easily in my all-time top ten artists and I really could have gone the rest of my life knowing nothing about his politics. Sigh.

@zupertramp Yeah, I think I mentioned this somewhere on the articles before but I know a guy who grew up in his street. He’s not well liked. Cranky old bugger. But hey, there’s been rather a few ones come out with anti-lockdown nonsense. Ian Brown from the Stone Roses and Noel Gallagher from Oasis also came out spouting nonsense. I guess there’s the dude from the Corrs but who even likes The Corrs? I dunno, Morrissey’s a tw*t but I still listen to The Smiths.

Cranky seems about right but I guess I just didn't expect him to be some kind of Covid truther. Nor was I expecting to hear him in a new song talking about being enslaved by the government. But he's got a right to his opinion same as anyone else. If I can still listen to Kanye, I'll manage with Van.

A colleague of mine tested positive and I got a call from my boss this morning telling me to stay off, oh well looks like I have some free time to game/read and watch a load of movies/t.v. Seriously though hope I haven't got it and am not holed up in the house for long!

@MightyDemon82 Enjoy it while you can and hopefully you're not incurring any financial loss while being away from work. Also hope the colleague has no issues.

@zupertramp Thanks, I'll still be getting paid so that's not a problem. As far as I know they are fine. Just feels weird getting told not to come into work when I feel absolutely fine. Better safe than sorry I guess!

Looking like it’s going to be tier 3 for all of England. Hope you lot south of the border get by alright.

lol
So, yesterday, the U.S. hit 101.4K new cases in one day (according to Worldometer, at least; CNBC is saying 99,321). And we still have Republican politicians publicly questioning the existence of the virus, and others threatening cities that try to lockdown in hopes of slowing the spread a bit.

And in the midst of all this, the president is hosting superspreader events every single day, and threatens to hold back federal aid from states that try to push back against this.

It's so fun living in a country that's being held hostage by a fascist death cult.

@Ralizah Apparently he who shall not be named actually teased Laura Ingraham about wearing a mask. Somehow we've gotten to the point where Laura Ingraham isn't sufficiently loyal to the cause.

I'm just staying in as much as possible, trying not to spend any money, and hoping election day/week doesn't get us all killed. So not what I was expecting from 2020.

@nessisonett Tier 4 actually

Such a farce though as this has been coming for ages but yet again the government have delayed making any decisions and crossing their finger. And then Boris has the audacity to push the press conference back to during the rugby!

From a personal perspective, I'm meant to be moving house a week on Thursday so want to know where that leaves us, especially as our first move fell through because of the first lockdown :/