They have no idea what they are doing. Waiting to see if i continue working from home or get furloughed.
I wear a mask to save grief but I'll still be seeing friends.
Don't get me started on The Great Reset as well 😉
Ah man, yeah... just crazy.
I'm going to continue keeping my sister and niece 'in my bubble' because we are the only family we have left and BJ has talked way to much shite for me to care about what he is saying.
I'm not in to politics at all but for fuck sake whatever he comes up with just doesn't work.
Thankfully i'm a key worker and the nature of my job means i will never be in a position where i'm not needed so i'm grateful for that.
If anyone needs help or advice during the new lockdown or just someone to chat to then my DM's are open, here or on twitter.
It’s looking like Scotland is heading for the same with a full lockdown again and this time around my work has told me I will be in the shielded category because I told them I am getting treatment for testicular cancer and I’m unsure about the criteria that will be needed to enter the furlough scheme 🙈 even if I am eligible it’s still a massive drop in wages and makes it worse being the time of year we all send Santa pennies fs 😂😂
I hope your treatment goes well
Any difficulties with them cancelling appts because of Covid?
Yeah
That's naughty
Hmm well I have to WFH, I know some people have lost thier jobs, which, I did at the start of the pandemic.
and that hurt big time, but I was rather enjoying going into the office.
Pilo Profile - 03/11/2020 at 09:55
Hmm well I have to WFH, I know some people have lost thier jobs, which, I did at the start of the pandemic.
and that hurt big time, but I was rather enjoying going into the office.
I've had to go in the office since everything opened but love working from home now
I was one of the unfortunate people to contract Covid-19 and was hospitalised for over three and a half weeks and anyone who tells you this only affects those over 80 and that if you catch it you'll get over it is just simply poorly informed. I am in my mid fifties and reasonably healthy, have never smoked, do not drink. only slightly overweight and would have considered myself low risk.
There was a period of around four days where my family was left fearing the worst. The prolonged gasping for air and sensation of suffocation, even when surrounded by doctors and nurses, is one of the single most terrifying events of my life. Even some months later I do not feel fully recovered and I remain fearful for my friends and family.
Once I began to recover I befriended a fellow patient with much less severe symptoms who was great company at a really horrible time. We chatted about golf, poker, decorating and almost every subject known to man and we agreed to play a round at St Andrews, where he was from, as a celebration once we were discharged. I'll never forget until my dying day the commotion in the middle of the night, the raised voices and the flurry of activity in the section next to mine. I am a grown man and I could not hold back the tears when I realised my new friend had been taken by this merciless disease. He was younger than me with two children at secondary school.
Every death matters and no matter how poor our politicians are - it's up to the community in general to protect everyone. Sadly, there are politicians and non-politicians alike who care so little for others. The lockdowns may be inconvenient and cause a raft of other problems but they are nonetheless needed.
I hope that everyone is staying safe and please take it from someone with personal experience of this disease - do not underestimate the threat to you and your families.
Good luck Paul, You have my best wishes and I pray that you will have a full and speedy recovery
Darn
No doubt Covid exists but i feel the contradictory rules, flip flopping and figures that are not accurate due to what they count towards those figures, does not help towards people being told they are in lockdown.
Be a fly on the wall in a hospital and what would be more startling than anything to you is the sheer number of dedicated and qualified staff required to look after so few patients.
The politicians have been an absolute disaster and appear able to look even more clueless than they actually are. Even the decision to lock down England was leaked to the press and the announcement delayed by hours. Boris Johnson is a useless oaf surrounded by almost equally useless incompetents . Small countries , with far less resources, like Vietnam and Greece have handled the pandemic far better than the UK. The Test and Trace is so bad it is actually counterproductive, the sleaze around contract awards and the squabbling between devolved governments just illustrates that no-one is in control. Our "world beating" track and trace testing regime is patently a poorly organised shambles administered by people only capable of very little.
This is the reason for the rising case numbers and the lockdown - nothing else. The experts will of course disagree but the politicians must be guided by scientific fact before making informed decisions. At any lesser level of restrictions to date, given those undeniable failures, we would be in a much worse position. Arguably, we are entering the winter in around the worse position possible given the sacrifices already made by the population and the gargantuan effect on our economy and our lives for generations to come.
The UK needed a real leader, someone capable of delivering unpalatable news and being respected and believed, not the incompetent liar who people just ignore as a fool floundering in his vocabulary of nonsense.