RedM

I did think this a couple of days ago. The concourses are bloody cold, even more so when the stadium is empty of people so some industrial heaters would be needed. Plenty of toilets though and the area could be divided up quite easily. Aprt from the concourses the rooms and facilities both for hospitality and the boxes are fantastic, as as the kitchens etc behind the scenes. I think our stadium if not already being considered would be a strong possibility. Nearly all staff have now been furloued so the place is empty too.

That’s a great point. There have been some lovely people and great acts of kindness shown.

That is very poor by Asda, if they have had a regular order for a long period of time surely they should take that into consideration. Great point about home delivery slots. I’ve no experience of home shopping but get the feeling from chatting with neighbours that it’s a bit of an elite thing, ‘too posh to shop’ in normal times. Many both work and have deliveries as they can’t to arsed to shop, even though they have time and vehicles. They want it delivered to them and even moan about having to put it away! No doubt these people who are now both home as their jobs are non vital, or they could even be laid off, are still putting in their orders. If only they would see sense and leave the slots for people who don’t have any choice but to use them. My experience of observing people over the past few weeks hasn’t been very positive I’m afraid. Greedy, lazy, abusive and selfish. Makes me sad, it’s not only this virus that has attacked society.

At a guess stuff to do repairs rather than ‘makeovers’.

Priorities given to key businesses for fault repair, and even then only if a guaranteed 2m can be assured. It’s at the engineers discretion, if they don’t feel safe entering a building their managers will fully support them not attending.

Same as the London tubes then. My son is already planning to walk a 7 mile round trip to work each day ?

Exactly. How could it possibly be monitored how many periods of exercise a person who wants to be out takes a day. Dogs have to be walked, horses exercised etc, some more than once a day I've seen. One of my neighbours walks her little dog every couple of hours, doesn't ever go far but out often for a short length of time. He' s a yappy little thing, the dog not the neighbour, so I think he's just taken out to keep him quiet. I think he's spoilt rotten and bored stiff, quite sad really. Don't know how he will be if he doesn't go out more than once a day!

You couldn’t make it up.

This is a list of Key Workers from the .Gov website regarding schools if this helps Health and social care This includes but is not limited to doctors, nurses, midwives, paramedics, social workers, care workers, and other frontline health and social care staff including volunteers; the support and specialist staff required to maintain the UK’s health and social care sector; those working as part of the health and social care supply chain, including producers and distributers of medicines and medical and personal protective equipment. Education and childcare This includes childcare, support and teaching staff, social workers and those specialist education professionals who must remain active during the COVID-19 response to deliver this approach. Key public services This includes those essential to the running of the justice system, religious staff, charities and workers delivering key frontline services, those responsible for the management of the deceased, and journalists and broadcasters who are providing public service broadcasting. Local and national government This only includes those administrative occupations essential to the effective delivery of the COVID-19 response, or delivering essential public services, such as the payment of benefits, including in government agencies and arms length bodies. Food and other necessary goods This includes those involved in food production, processing, distribution, sale and delivery, as well as those essential to the provision of other key goods (for example hygienic and veterinary medicines). Public safety and national security This includes police and support staff, Ministry of Defence civilians, contractor and armed forces personnel (those critical to the delivery of key defence and national security outputs and essential to the response to the COVID-19 pandemic), fire and rescue service employees (including support staff), National Crime Agency staff, those maintaining border security, prison and probation staff and other national security roles, including those overseas. Transport This includes those who will keep the air, water, road and rail passenger and freight transport modes operating during the COVID-19 response, including those working on transport systems through which supply chains pass. Utilities, communication and financial services This includes staff needed for essential financial services provision (including but not limited to workers in banks, building societies and financial market infrastructure), the oil, gas, electricity and water sectors (including sewerage), information technology and data infrastructure sector and primary industry supplies to continue during the COVID-19 response, as well as key staff working in the civil nuclear, chemicals, telecommunications (including but not limited to network operations, field engineering, call centre staff, IT and data infrastructure, 999 and 111 critical services), postal services and delivery, payments providers and waste disposal sectors. If workers think they fall within the critical categories above, they should confirm with their employer that, based on their business continuity arrangements, their specific role is necessary for the continuation of this essential public service. If your school is closed, then please contact your local authority, who will seek to redirect you to a local school in your area that your child, or children, can attend. We are grateful for the work of teachers and workers in educational settings for continuing to provide for the children of the other critical workers of our country. It is an essential part of our national effort to combat this disease.

Are you classed as a Key Worker, that might make things clearer?

I’ve been off for two days, let’s see what today brings when a start in half an hours time. I will report back later...

They can only believe that the seaside, a dose of sea air made popular by the Victorians, is good for them and virus free. Same with the Snowdon mountain climbers. These people are either pretty clever having decided these would be great places to be or totally stupid by thinking thousands of others wouldn’t think the same.

So sorry to hear this, you must be absolutely shattered. I really hope you have other family or friends that are supporting you as you can’t deal with all this by yourself, and all the other stuff which is around at the moment. Take care, stay strong and safe. M x

Common sense?

Many seem to be treating it as extra holiday time. I read somewhere that quite a few are pretty pissed that Primark has closed its doors now, they had planned a shopping day tomorrow. Makes my blood boil when I no doubt will be in a high risk situation tomorrow, for just doing my job. I just read on my companies Facebook forum that the bosses are assuring us protection is on its way in the form of gel, masks and gloves but delivery time is 10 days plus for these items. WTF, I feel like quitting.

I understand you. Over here Food retail workers are being told its your duty to feed the nation and being bullied into doing extra shifts, all whist the tills are ringing £££’s.

This is great concern of mine. All well and good allowing elderly and vulnerable exclusive shopping times, and now NHS workers are joining the list, byt they are all going to shops and being served by workers who have had a huge amount of people through the rest of the time. Yes shops are cleaned, but not deep cleaned every couple of hours which would be what is needed but impossible to carry out. In short the most at risk people, and the people we most need are going into one of the places most likely to be infected from. But we all need to eat.

Don’t think my plan will work then ? Also it’s the least of the concerns at this time but there is always someone who would complain about any additional noise made out of normal hours.

Oh I fully understand, I really do. All the best to you and stay safe. It’s easy to be sucked into the manic world that is food retail right now and exhaust yourself mentally and physically. Good point about the availability of the specialised delivery vans, I admit I know little about this service as I have never used it and don’t deal with it. What’s the earliest/latest slots normally available, maybe these could be extended an hour or two each end of the day, and have two shifts for drivers? Maybe if most people are off the roads the traffic situation will be much easier, making the runs quicker, so a couple more deliveries could be added each day? As I said I don’t have the answers but if home delivery is to be relied on going forward it has to be reworked somehow.

Apologies, it wasn’t clear that I was responding to the post above mine which mentions the football team.

Well the clubs won’t be paying out bonuses in any form, win, appearance etc. Would that account for 25% ish across the board? The clubs can issue a statement saying the players are taking a cut, but in reality as we all know they are paid well above the norm anyway.

Yes, of course. I just assumed that was a given. More online slots should be made available and processed quickly. I think people are finding though that there are no slots, or a long wait for one and having to physically shop anyway, and many online orders are missing the vital things people need

I have no idea, in all honesty with the amount of people on here I am interested in other peoples opinions and view points. I guess many still expect to walk into the shops and be served with no idea or understanding how the items get there and no thought to these places and staff. As mentioned it's very, very selfish out there. Limiting the amount of people in shops at a given time would be a start, one in one out queuing system. LImiting payments to contactless only, or have only one cash till. Hand gel and wipes provided on entry and exit. Maybe shops closing for an hour in the middle of the day to allow cleaning and restocking Staff provided with gloves/handgel/masks Just a few suggestions. Yours?

People don’t like being told what to do I guess, especially by the Government, even if it is for their own good.

If you think about it the shops are most likely a virus heaven. I’m not trying to scare anyone as we all have to eat and drink but these are large areas, little or no fresh air, and the items and surfaces, even the trolleys and baskets touched by numerous people per hour. The aisles can’t be much more than 2m wide so you inevitably come into contact with people just walking around never mind queueing. All other mass gatherings have been banned, but hundreds can shop at once. This cannot be safe.