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Working in a post office in the UK, my boss has had to self isolate and 4 of the 11 staff have pretty bad lung issues. Another is pregnant, and I myself am a high risk individual but gently caress it, I have to work or I won't make rent. I'm also the closest worker and a manager, so uhhh, I'm running the place. Today was hell. Apparently 'only carry out essential tasks' means 'everyone come to the loving post office, young old, sick, well, who cares, just loving mingle in that room while the post office staff wear gloves and disinfect every loving thing. Queue's out the door? be mad, its only the correct response.' It was just two of us holding down the fort, there's usually 3-4. I served so many elderly today I had a moment where I had to go out back and try not to panic. Half those fuckers will be dead by the end of the year, but they won't listen.
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So my husband accidentally got someone fired back around the holidays by drawing attention to a mistake that she had made on construction plans and refused to fix. She came to his office today to scream at him and cough on him. loving Biological warfare, y'all.
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Our casino is staying open for now, their biggest concession is shutting down 3/4 of the slot machines(open machine must have two closed machines on each side to create a 6ft distance) and blackjack tables can only have two players at a time they still had a huge whiskey giveaway today for st patty's however
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they closed all the bars in florida today (keeping them closed for a month) right at 5 PM before any of the St Patricks day parties so I expect liquor stores are gonna be jammed packed for a long while it figures I find this out on the day I was going to go to Coppertail (best brewery in existence imo) for that new collaboration brew they made (the Wawa one they released earlier was fantastic). They said they are staying open tonight + tomorrow because they technically have their own restaurant there but I wonder when the city will step in since we are at nine known cases of coronovirus in Tampa and DeSantis is shutting poo poo down (try keeping tourists from grouping up more than ten people at the beach lol)
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Mar 18, 2020 00:03
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Had to stop at 7-11 to get some gas on the way home. I noticed the lotto counter was completely cleaned out of scratchers. So I guess with social distancing and taking care of your basic needs, it's ALSO TIME TO WIN IT BIG! WOOOO!!!!
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Bloody Hedgehog posted:Had to stop at 7-11 to get some gas on the way home. I noticed the lotto counter was completely cleaned out of scratchers. drat I should have bought a few and saved them that would have been mildly amusing
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There’s a bar in Florida staying open until 2am, serving booze as long as you order food, lets see how long that lasts.
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Stelio Kontos posted:There’s a bar in Florida staying open until 2am, serving booze as long as you order food, lets see how long that lasts. Just till after spring break
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bollig posted:Switzerland is sort of botching this. The Federal government had a press conference and shut businesses and stuff. And have really tried to emphasize "stay home" but are in no way enforcing it. The total number of cases is unknown because they rely on the cantons to report. There are like 3 different official tallies. It is astounding how many old people are out and about. This country certainly has a "meh I'll be fine attitude" which otherwise gives confidence but couple with "well I've got to live my life" means just a slow reaction to this thing. Isn't Switzerland like, a few rich people, a few nerds colliding their large hardons and a few suicide clinic workers? How the gently caress can the government not successfully quarantine a population of 25 people? Disgusting Coward fucked around with this message at 00:17 on Mar 18, 2020 |
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Mar 18, 2020 00:14
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Louisgod posted:I rarely ever drink these days (think the last time I had whiskey was like a month ago?) but I feel compelled to hit up the liquor store to get a few bottles. Smart move. When you run out of hand sanitizer you can wash your hands with Everclear.
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QuarkJets posted:West Virginia will be reporting 0 cases even as they fill gymnasiums with beds to treat Mystery Pneumonia COVID-19 is running rampant in WV, but it's death toll is completely masked by the deaths from Black Lung.
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Burt Sexual posted:Just till after spring break Statewide ban on bars serving liquor started at 5 lol
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Mulaney Power Move posted:Apparently my company will be offering paid sick leave for work impacted by coronavirus, including caring for a family member or any lack of work caused by facilities closing. This is separate from and will not impact our existing PTO balance. Almost seems too good to be true. My employer did the same, with the caveat that you or your family member must test positive with the 'Roni. Unless the state of testing changes well, lol. E: not complaining, I know plenty don't have any policy in place or a job at all. Just lol'ing at the state of things.
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angryrobots posted:My employer did the same, with the caveat that you or your family member must test positive with the 'Roni. Unless the state of testing changes well, lol. Listen to this once and I promise you'll pass any test. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5CU7CUQGO6A
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Stelio Kontos posted:Statewide ban on bars serving liquor started at 5 lol There’s gonna be 50k hotel room party’s with kids packed like sardines
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Hopes Fall posted:So my husband accidentally got someone fired back around the holidays by drawing attention to a mistake that she had made on construction plans and refused to fix. Sounds like he made the right call.
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Natalie Fartman posted:Apparently 'only carry out essential tasks' means 'everyone come to the loving post office, young old, sick, well, who cares, just loving mingle in that room while the post office staff wear gloves and disinfect every loving thing. Queue's out the door? be mad, its only the correct response.' It was just two of us holding down the fort, there's usually 3-4. Yeah, I went shopping today and it was like a loving street party out front, everyone stood around chatting. Everyone's got this 'yeah, but I don't count, I'll nip out and do X' attitude. No-one's used to having any responsibility that isn't legally enforced. So people are going to die.
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Stelio Kontos posted:Statewide ban on bars serving liquor started at 5 lol  nope Orlando restaurants can continue serving alcohol
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Cacafuego posted:
Haha drat, well happy st pattys Orlando
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pro starcraft loser posted:I've been snifflely which is fine, but reading the news yesterday got me on edge which suddenly meant my chest was heavy which got me anxious which got my chest tight which... 
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Same too keep postin buddies
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bollig posted:Switzerland is sort of botching this. The Federal government had a press conference and shut businesses and stuff. And have really tried to emphasize "stay home" but are in no way enforcing it. The total number of cases is unknown because they rely on the cantons to report. There are like 3 different official tallies. It is astounding how many old people are out and about. This country certainly has a "meh I'll be fine attitude" which otherwise gives confidence but couple with "well I've got to live my life" means just a slow reaction to this thing. looks like there are several other smaller counties in EU doing essentially the same thing. locking down but with so many exceptions. got to wonder if it is but just going to end up making things worse by starting the economic damage earlier and making everybody even more complacent.
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So I had a heart attack back in Nov, been going to cardiac rehab twice a week since. Today I was told that the program is suspended effective immediately and they are reassigning staff to prepare for incoming patients. Yikes.
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Natalie Fartman posted:Working in a post office in the UK, my boss has had to self isolate and 4 of the 11 staff have pretty bad lung issues. Another is pregnant, and I myself am a high risk individual but gently caress it, I have to work or I won't make rent. I'm also the closest worker and a manager, so uhhh, I'm running the place. Today was hell. Apparently 'only carry out essential tasks' means 'everyone come to the loving post office, young old, sick, well, who cares, just loving mingle in that room while the post office staff wear gloves and disinfect every loving thing. Queue's out the door? be mad, its only the correct response.' It was just two of us holding down the fort, there's usually 3-4. We went out for a walk by the park and to drop clothes to the homeless charity shop (we called beforehand and dropped them in front of the shop) it seemed like business as usual in South London. The charity told us they'll be closing for a month and I hope it's just the stores not the care/food centers. The nightlife venues finally caved in and closed doors en-masse after yesterdays press conference but wasn't that like two weeks late? I swear the Bussey Building (a very popular rave warehouse) hosted a massive party on Saturday. It was an absolute cock move to gamble with herd immunity thing and not simply enforcing the ban so that people didn't had to keep open their venues/pubs until the last moment to pay the bills/employees. Insurance companies are safe because the moment WHO designated this as a pandemic they highfived each other due to Force Majeur clauses meaning they don't get to pay poo poo for lost business anyway. I'm new to the UK and todays press conference sounded like absolute gobbledegook but at least some actual figures about the relief package was in there, no?
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Cacafuego posted:
Gotta keep the dollars rolling in, its spring break!! We truly are loving doomed.
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Kerosene19 posted:So I had a heart attack back in Nov, been going to cardiac rehab twice a week since. Today I was told that the program is suspended effective immediately and they are reassigning staff to prepare for incoming patients. What city/state are you in? What is cardiac rehab? Also good luck to you and best wishes for your ticker, that's a spooky answer to receive. Captain Beans fucked around with this message at 01:06 on Mar 18, 2020 |
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Galewolf posted:
A very important category was missing from that press conference: Relief for people renting. They got mortgages in there but I'm basically screwed right now if I have to stop working. I really really hope they add to it, because I'd like to not feel like my options are work and get sick, or isolate and get homeless. Or work, get sick, and then also homeless.
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935 posted:Unpopular opinion - this will fizzle out regardless if drastic quarantine measures are taken or not because the infection rate is actually much, much higher than reported but the death rate is accurate, making this less deadly than models state. Please tell me what a moron I am for literally wishing death on people by saying these words out loud, shower me in graphs, etc. I know I'm going against the grain but this happens every single year. For every single infectious disease. There's charts and graphs from scientists that show why this one is the big one and it just never happens. It's already petering out in China of all places. God, I hope you're right. IDK if every dumb Boomer chud relative holds it over my head the rest of my life if this ends up being mostly hype. Right now, everything just feels like a bad dream.
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Now is the time for all genx and mills to finally break free from the chains of being the embarrassing ones in the family, because we get to do poo poo like yell, "shut the gently caress up dad, get back inside the house." And "You're embarrassing us all by licking church floors and breaking quarantine policies, get the gently caress in the house." And "NO. You're the one acting like a literal child. You wanna die from this? Fine! Stay outside and have a barbeque with the other boomer neighbors!" It's gonna feel like a greatest hits tape on repeat for a lot of people.
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Captain Beans posted:What is cardiac rehab?
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It's been whack seeing the confirmed cases coming closer this past week. City by city, one business related handshake at a time.
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Disgusting Coward posted:Isn't Switzerland like, a few rich people, a few nerds colliding their large hardons and a few suicide clinic workers? How the gently caress can the government not successfully quarantine a population of 25 people? No? It's a pretty densely populated country with amazing train service.
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There's a chance that I've got the roni since I have almost all the symptoms, but my doctor won't test because I haven't been to China or Italy lately whelp guess I'm dead of a mystery illness
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Lucky Guy posted:There's a chance that I've got the roni since I have almost all the symptoms, but my doctor won't test because I haven't been to China or Italy lately whelp guess I'm dead of a mystery illness That's still happening? Wtf?
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WithoutTheFezOn posted:Monitored gradual increase of exercise after a cardiac event. Also known as “sweating with the oldies”
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Natalie Fartman posted:A very important category was missing from that press conference: Relief for people renting. They got mortgages in there but I'm basically screwed right now if I have to stop working. I really really hope they add to it, because I'd like to not feel like my options are work and get sick, or isolate and get homeless. Or work, get sick, and then also homeless. I'm kinda in the same position. My visa is a startup visa so I've been expected some (20k+) turnover in less than one year and my renewal is up for end of the April. So basically I need to keep working to keep my clients to fill the gap (I was already behind due to Brexit/Election) and I can only do freelance work. So either I work (currently WFH but might need to show up for audits), get the roni during my 2.5 hour commute to Essex or get my extension rejected due to low turnover and have to return (lol good luck Turkey shut down all flights) and get into quarantine for 14 days in a student dorm where bunch of boomers spitting on quarantine police to make them get the roni. My sister just had a baby, my mom has both lung condition from past smoking and have type 2 diabetes which makes me anxious af. I hope for either HMRC to give some tax suspension or the Home Office be slightly understanding about the situation. I'm not eligible for any kind of public funding so not even that 95 pounds a week for me. Gonna call the new Home Office immigration hotline to see if I am eligible for anything at all. Hope you and others get that rent relief my man. There are like millions of people in London literally surviving on weekly paychecks with scummiest landlords. Galewolf fucked around with this message at 01:31 on Mar 18, 2020 |
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sweet thursday posted:That's still happening? Wtf? yeeeeep
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Xenocides posted:Mexicans are now jokingly offering to send individual donations to build the wall if Trump promises to get it up in a week. That's a lot to ask from a man in his 70s.
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sweet thursday posted:That's still happening? Wtf? Yeah, it's easy to mentally fast forward based on all the talk of "oh sure yeah we'll get plenty of tests" and forget that there is currently little evidence of this actually happening in many places.
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