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refitman wrote:Morning all.

PorFavor wrote:Good morfternoon.

RogerOThornhill wrote:Morning all.

Prince Charles eh?

That moment when the rest of the country discovers what it’s been like for years for chronically sick and disabled people dependent on DWP for their survival.

AnatolyKasparov wrote:

RogerOThornhill wrote:Morning all.

Prince Charles eh?

Well, it can't go much higher than that. And arguably the crucial thing about genuine pandemics is that they don't just affect poor people.

frog222 wrote:

PorFavor wrote:Good morfternoon.

It is too ! It was freezing this morning and now I'm installing a table against my sunny south wall for plants and sowing trays.

Coronavirus and homeworking in the UK labour market: 2019

- Of the 32.6 million in employment, around 1.7 million people reported working mainly from home, with around 4.0 million working from home in the week prior to being interviewed for the survey.
- Around 8.7 million people said that they have worked from home; this is less than 30% of the workforce.
- Some industrial sectors, such as transportation and storage, accommodation and food services, and wholesale, retail and repair provide relatively few opportunities for people to work from home.
- Other industrial sectors, such as information and communication, professional, scientific and technical activities, financial and insurance activities, and real estate activities, provide far more homeworking opportunities.
- Occupations requiring higher qualifications and experience are more likely to provide homeworking opportunities than elementary and manual occupations.
-Younger workers are the least likely to be working from home, whereas those who continue to work beyond State Pension age are increasingly likely to be working from home.

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frog222 wrote:

PorFavor wrote:Good morfternoon.

It is too ! It was freezing this morning and now I'm installing a table against my sunny south wall for plants and sowing trays.

GetYou wrote:DWP: You are in the queue to register an account. There are 111,321 users ahead of you

citizenJA wrote:

frog222 wrote:

PorFavor wrote:Good morfternoon.

It is too ! It was freezing this morning and now I'm installing a table against my sunny south wall for plants and sowing trays.

Your ingenuity and resourcefulness are an example to us all.
Let's all learn French and take refuge in the continental lair.

PorFavor wrote:Essential journeys to non-essential construction sites. I'm having trouble with that concept. Boris Johnson obviously has a mind far more agile than mine.

gilsey wrote:Eeeuuuuwwww.

GetYou wrote:As someone on that thread commented, he's mid-regeneration in that pic

citizenJA wrote:While pandemics affect everyone and no one's wealth protects against catching a virus, historically, having more resources allow greater opportunities for effective and comfortable isolation and access to swift, effective treatment.

frog222 wrote:---
Haha JA ! Lots of people are sowing toms on their windowsills etc, one healthy way of getting away from the TV, computer, spectating politix and worrying .

GetYou wrote:As someone on that thread commented, he's mid-regeneration in that pic

AnatolyKasparov wrote: Absolutely true. Though it shouldn't be forgotten that Spanish Flu got its name because that country's monarch nearly died from it.

citizenJA wrote:Charles got tested for COVID-19 displaying only mild symptoms while most everyone else requires admittance to an ICU ward before getting one.

Thousands of 15-minute home tests for coronavirus will be delivered by Amazon to people self-isolating with symptoms or will go on sale on the high street within days, according to Public Health England (PHE), in a move that could restore many people’s lives to a semblance of pre-lockdown normality.

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GetYou wrote:

AnatolyKasparov wrote: Absolutely true. Though it shouldn't be forgotten that Spanish Flu got its name because that country's monarch nearly died from it.

It's my understanding that the Spanish Flu got it's name because the other nations were suppressing news of its effects due to the war, whereas Spain was a neutral country without the same restrictions.

citizenJA wrote:Let's all learn French and take refuge in the continental lair.

AnatolyKasparov wrote:Thought it was Corbyn's last PMQs last week, it was actually today.

Again, he did well.

"We can all now see that jobs that are never celebrated are absolutely essential to keep our society going. Think of the refuse workers, the supermarket shelf stackers, the delivery drivers, the cleaners, those grades of work are often dismissed as low skilled.

But I ask them this question, who are we least able to do without in a crisis? The refuse collector or the billionaire hedge fund manager? Who is actually doing more for our society at this very moment? Let’s value people for the contribution they make, respect the skill of the cleaner, the refuse worker, the postal delivery worker, all of those. Let’s have respect for those that actually are part of the glue of our society.

Right now they need our help and if we look beyond this crisis, I hope they will continue to get our respect because people we respect should not be treated the way they have been treated through the last decade of austerity."
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AnatolyKasparov wrote:My local Tesco was doing a one in one out system this morning, I suppose that is only practical in the smaller stores though.

JD Wetherspoon has told its suppliers it will not pay them until pubs reopen after the coronavirus lockdown, but promised staff will get their wages beyond Friday provided the government agrees a reimbursement scheme fast enough.

As a backlash grows against its behaviour during the crisis, the pub chain confirmed that it had told firms supplying food, drinks and other services that they would not be paid until its 874 pubs were allowed to reopen.

Tim Martin, the company’s founder and chairman, had already told its 43,000 staff that could not afford to pay them after Friday.

Sky'sGoneOut wrote:

citizenJA wrote:Let's all learn French and take refuge in the continental lair.

I don't know if I've ever told this story here but years ago I was friends with a couple of French women who were doing teacher training in the North East. One day we went out to Whiltley Bay for a walk when one of them, much to my utter bemusement, ran off along the beach and began repeatedly shouting fuck at a bin bag. It turned out she thought it was a seal and had been shouting 'phoque'. To this day this remains one of the funniest things I've ever had the pleasure of witnessing.

tinyclanger2 wrote:

Sky'sGoneOut wrote:

citizenJA wrote:Let's all learn French and take refuge in the continental lair.

I don't know if I've ever told this story here but years ago I was friends with a couple of French women who were doing teacher training in the North East. One day we went out to Whiltley Bay for a walk when one of them, much to my utter bemusement, ran off along the beach and began repeatedly shouting fuck at a bin bag. It turned out she thought it was a seal and had been shouting 'phoque'. To this day this remains one of the funniest things I've ever had the pleasure of witnessing.

How utterly marvellous.

No 10 appears to be enamoured with “scientism” – things that have the cosmetic attributes of science but without its rigour. This manifests itself in the nudge group that engages in experimenting with UK citizens or applying methods from behavioural economics that fail to work outside the university – yet patronise citizens as an insult to their ancestral wisdom and risk-perception apparatus. Social science is in a “replication crisis”, where less than half the results replicate (under exact same conditions), less than a tenth can be taken seriously, and less than a hundredth translate into the real world.