One Team In Keynsham

Hopefully this is confirmed and implemented ASAP https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/mar/25/uk-government-set-to-pay-self-employed-workers-80-of-earnings

I think there needs to be definite science supporting immunity before thousands of people are allowed to run wild. I get the "we can't go on like this forever" argument, I really do. But weigh that against the alternative of trying to get on with normal life whilst a lethal virus is being passed around unchecked. There is no perfect answer, but given the choice, and assuming support for ALL people, I'd vote for remaining in the bunker for as long as we can.

Is that Richard Branson I see lingering just off-stage?

Who would have thought Wetherspoon would take this sort of action? Were there any signs? That said, in the interests of balance, if someone finds it to be a hoax, please put up a link.

Cheers for that. Mine is due in May.

For all the times I read the news and chalk up another reason why I have given up on people, I then read stories like this and see that maybe I shouldn't be so cynical all the time. There are many, many good people out there, and if you're doing some volunteering through the mainstream NHS app, or with another organisation, or something off your own back like @And Its Smith, then fair play to you. And, for what's it's worth, you have my thanks. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/mar/25/astonishing-170000-people-sign-up-to-be-nhs-volunteers-in-15-hours-coronavirus

More a Maria Whittaker fan (saw her once at Alton Towers, tiny thing, well, not all over)

I see these tweets and continue to hope they are fake, and then consider the number of c>nts out there.

As I told a client once, after dealing with a support case, "there's no such thing as a stupid question, just stupid people who ask them."

Common sense prevails: 2020 Olympic Games Postponed Due To Coronavirus, Japanese Prime Minister Says https://www.huffpost.com/entry/2020-olympic-games-postponed-coronavirus_n_5e693115c5b66ceffa29dfb9

Maybe this situation is the purge society needs. We all stay in, let the likes of Chris go walkabout, we can clean up the mess in a month or so.

Typical Britain: we can't even do a lockdown properly.

My level of hate of, and despair for, large swathes of humanity continues to be reinforced when I read stuff like this:

I stopped giving a F about football some time back. I was chatting to a friend of mine over the weekend (oft-mentioned on here, PNE st holder), he similarly is glad of the break from having to watch shite upon shite week upon week. In all seriousness, I agree, who gives a stuff about anything but the real priorities of health and safety right now?

Not having met your Mrs, I couldn't possibly comment.

My own lot is pretty shite, but this tops anything I have encountered to date. Best of luck that something, anything, takes a turn for the better.

Just make sure you don't lamp the one with the sweats and coughing.

Meanwhile in NYC: 17 Employees, 21 Inmates Test Positive For Coronavirus In NYC Jails https://www.huffpost.com/entry/38-positive-coronavirus-nyc-jails-rikers_n_5e76d6a6c5b6eab77949a435 Getting into an environment like a prison, or any place where self-isolation is nigh on impossible, is going to hurt.

To be fair, it was an eventuality that no scientist or doctor could have reasonably foreseen.

Small consolation I know, but there are worse American companies you could be working for. Take Hobby Lobby for instance:

I have no faith in humanity doing the right thing. There are sufficient selfish w@nkers and ***ts in the world that it will eventually turn to shite again.

If not already mentioned, Green Wing (either on C4 player or ITV hub, can't recall) is worth watching.