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Oodles: Oct 31, 2005

What I don�t really understand, is when is this deemed over?

Is it when our healthcare can cope with the projected cases? Is it when we have no more cases? Is it when we stop going exponential?

146 is CXLVI in Roman numerals.

# ? Mar 19, 2020 16:40

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# ? May 26, 2024 10:08

MeinPanzer: Dec 20, 2004; anyone who reads Cinema Discusso for anything more than slackjawed trolling will see the shittiness in my posts

So I just started a job up in Scotland in February but my wife for now is still living in the Midlands. Luckily I'm in England with her for the foreseeable future on lockdown, but I had a bunch of travel booked for the trip back and forth up until May as well as some international travel for conferences. Airlines, hotels, and AirBnB have been very flexible, fully refunding costs up until the end of May.

Trainline, however, state that you can't get a refund - EVEN though I purchased their "Trainline Protect" insurance just in case already more than a month ago -- but can only re-book your tickets, although they generously will not charge a re-booking fee. OK, that would be fine, except that every ticket for the late summer and fall is now listed as �153. So the way they prevent you from actually recouping your losses is by forcing you to spend way more to change the ticket than you would just giving up the ticket in the first place. So basically I'm now on the hook for 4 tickets ranging in price from �20-50.

# ? Mar 19, 2020 16:41

Jaeluni Asjil: Apr 18, 2018; Sorry I thought you were a landlord when I gave you your old avatar!

MeinPanzer posted:

So I just started a job up in Scotland in February but my wife for now is still living in the Midlands. Luckily I'm in England with her for the foreseeable future on lockdown, but I had a bunch of travel booked for the trip back and forth up until May as well as some international travel for conferences. Airlines, hotels, and AirBnB have been very flexible, fully refunding costs up until the end of May.

Trainline, however, state that you can't get a refund - EVEN though I purchased their "Trainline Protect" insurance just in case already more than a month ago -- but can only re-book your tickets, although they generously will not charge a re-booking fee. OK, that would be fine, except that every ticket for the late summer and fall is now listed as �153. So the way they prevent you from actually recouping your losses is by forcing you to spend way more to change the ticket than you would just giving up the ticket in the first place. So basically I'm now on the hook for 4 tickets ranging in price from �20-50.

A friend was supposed to be coming over from the US next week and then on to Cairo. All her flights are being cancelled but American Airlines and British Airways are only offering her vouchers, no refunds.

# ? Mar 19, 2020 16:44

MeinPanzer: Dec 20, 2004; anyone who reads Cinema Discusso for anything more than slackjawed trolling will see the shittiness in my posts

Jaeluni Asjil posted:

A friend was supposed to be coming over from the US next week and then on to Cairo. All her flights are being cancelled but American Airlines and British Airways are only offering her vouchers, no refunds.

You're right, sorry -- from airlines I've managed to get vouchers, not full refunds. But I'll take vouchers any day, since I can actually use those and I don't need to, you know, purchase an exorbitantly expensive ticket at some hazy future date to use them.

# ? Mar 19, 2020 16:48

floofyscorp: Feb 12, 2007

I'm not expecting to use my annual season ticket for the train now before it expires in May, so I asked SWR if I can get a refund on the time that's left. They said yes - but only if I take it to the station where I bought it, which is fifty miles away in the town where I normally work, and then I'd have to buy myself a train ticket to get back home. Why they can't process a refund at any of the stations they operate I do not loving know.

# ? Mar 19, 2020 16:51

stev: Jan 22, 2013; Please be excited.

floofyscorp posted:

I'm not expecting to use my annual season ticket for the train now before it expires in May, so I asked SWR if I can get a refund on the time that's left. They said yes - but only if I take it to the station where I bought it, which is fifty miles away in the town where I normally work, and then I'd have to buy myself a train ticket to get back home. Why they can't process a refund at any of the stations they operate I do not loving know.

Can you post it to them? I did that when I cancelled my Greater Anglia ticket a few years ago.

# ? Mar 19, 2020 16:53

Pesmerga: Aug 1, 2005; So nice to eat you

Camrath posted:

Fudge Related Announcement

As you�re all no doubt aware, there�s a bit of a supply crisis going on right now due to mass panic buying and the coronavirus. This has hit my operation particularly hard- in my area you can�t find butter, brown sugar or condensed milk for love nor money. And it�s a bit hard to make fudge without those! In addition rationing being instituted at all my local stores makes acquiring sufficient amounts of what they /do/ have near impossible.

I am putting alternative supply chains in place to make up for this, but there is a lead time involved. Thus the current batch will, I�m afraid, not be able to ship on time.

The announced shipping date was March 26th. Currently It looks like I�ll need to delay that by a week in order to provide time for supplies to make it through and then be converted to fudge. So now the provisional ship-date will be April 2nd.

I can only apologise for this. The UKMT as a community has been absolutely incredible in the support and encouragement of my fledgling business, and is also responsible for a large majority of my online customers. I feel like I am letting down friends and comrades with this, and failing to come through on the good faith you have all shown in me.

If any of my current customers with orders on the books wish for a refund given this delay, please let me know by pm or email to Fudjit.orders@gmail.com and I will action that immediately. I can only hope that I have not lost your good will or future custom in happier times.

Tl;dr:

* No ingredients, can�t cook
* Exploring alternative supply chains
* Current orders delayed by a week.

I don't think anyone would blame you for this. When all this is over I'll definitely be putting in another order.

# ? Mar 19, 2020 16:53

Guavanaut: Nov 27, 2009; Looking At Them Tittys
1969 - 1998; Toilet Rascal

TACD posted:

https://twitter.com/iresimpsonsfans/status/1240630994417455106

Whoever complained that the threads were too short and boring post-election needs to have a word with themselves.

# ? Mar 19, 2020 16:53

mrpwase: Apr 21, 2010; I HAVE GREAT AVATAR IDEAS
For the Many, Not the Few

Camrath posted:

Fudge Related Announcement

As you’re all no doubt aware, there’s a bit of a supply crisis going on right now due to mass panic buying and the coronavirus. This has hit my operation particularly hard- in my area you can’t find butter, brown sugar or condensed milk for love nor money. And it’s a bit hard to make fudge without those! In addition rationing being instituted at all my local stores makes acquiring sufficient amounts of what they /do/ have near impossible.

I am putting alternative supply chains in place to make up for this, but there is a lead time involved. Thus the current batch will, I’m afraid, not be able to ship on time.

The announced shipping date was March 26th. Currently It looks like I’ll need to delay that by a week in order to provide time for supplies to make it through and then be converted to fudge. So now the provisional ship-date will be April 2nd.

I can only apologise for this. The UKMT as a community has been absolutely incredible in the support and encouragement of my fledgling business, and is also responsible for a large majority of my online customers. I feel like I am letting down friends and comrades with this, and failing to come through on the good faith you have all shown in me.

If any of my current customers with orders on the books wish for a refund given this delay, please let me know by pm or email to Fudjit.orders@gmail.com and I will action that immediately. I can only hope that I have not lost your good will or future custom in happier times.

Tl;dr:

* No ingredients, can’t cook
* Exploring alternative supply chains
* Current orders delayed by a week.

UKMT Essential Travel Classifications
- ~~work~~
- shopping
- exercise
- collecting ingredients and going on a pilgrimage to London to offer them to Fudgemaster Camrath

# ? Mar 19, 2020 16:57

Josef bugman: Nov 17, 2011; Pictured: Poster prepares to celebrate Holy Communion (probablY)

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Mebh posted:

Someone nicely summed up the "flattening the curve for a few weeks is BS and we're not going back to normal anytime soon" discussion we've been having on and off in the thread.

https://www.technologyreview.com/s/...tent=2020-03-19

Good link to send your relatives if they're still being shits.

This can't be accurate. Just because someone has this illness somewhere at some time doesn't mean we have to start closing everywhere all over again right?

That isn't a life at all and I say that as someone who loves being at home in the house. gently caress me running.

# ? Mar 19, 2020 16:57

Bardeh: Dec 2, 2004; Fun Shoe

I'm starting to think I've got the roni, but I don't know if I'm just overthinking things and letting anxiety get the better of me.

I had a flu a couple of weeks ago, which was around 5 days of fever and coughing up green poo poo - since then, my chest has been occasionally tight, but coughing brings up some clear mucus and all is good. But last night I woke up feeling short of breath, managed to cough up some more completely clear mucus, felt better if a bit shivery, and went back to sleep. Woke up this morning feeling completely fine. But as the day's worn on my chest is starting to feel tighter, and it's like I can't cough the crap up, it's just stuck there. Still no fever, and no tickle in my throat compelling me to cough, but I kinda need to in order to try and shift whatever's in there.

Ugh, if I had a fever I'd be pretty certain, but because I haven't had one I'm second guessing myself and wondering if I'm just overthinking and worrying over nothing. I guess I'll see what happens tonight - not really looking forward to it

# ? Mar 19, 2020 17:00

NotJustANumber99: Feb 15, 2012; somehow that last av was even worse than your posting

MeinPanzer posted:

AirBnB have been very flexible, fully refunding costs

Interesting. I had heard they were keeping their fees whilst refunding the rest, the hosts share which is usually against the preferences the hosts have set. Meaning they're all pissed off and going to sue Airbnb out of existence.

# ? Mar 19, 2020 17:01

learnincurve: May 15, 2014; Smoosh

I�m at �Not sure if iron deficiency or the rona�

# ? Mar 19, 2020 17:02

kecske: Feb 28, 2011; it's round, like always

going to B&Q for some paint before non essential retail gets closed down so I can pass the next week or so at home brightening up the place

# ? Mar 19, 2020 17:05

Apraxin: Feb 22, 2006; General-Admiral

https://twitter.com/britainelects/status/1240641478575230976

All hail the World-King.

Apraxin fucked around with this message at 17:07 on Mar 19, 2020

# ? Mar 19, 2020 17:05

Jaeluni Asjil: Apr 18, 2018; Sorry I thought you were a landlord when I gave you your old avatar!

NotJustANumber99 posted:

Interesting. I had heard they were keeping their fees whilst refunding the rest, the hosts share which is usually against the preferences the hosts have set. Meaning they're all pissed off and going to sue Airbnb out of existence.

I have a long weekend booked for end of June. I went on Airbnb to see what the cancellation policy was - if you booked before a certain date in March for a holiday to be taken before the same date in April (can't remember the day numbers, 13th? 14th?) they would refund you all. Our trip was booked before that March date but is not til June so if we cancel now we will take a 50% hit. I asked my co-traveller what she wants to do and we're just going to wait and see until the date in June when the whole thing will be forfeit and hoping airbnb will offer full refund if CV still ongoing y then.

# ? Mar 19, 2020 17:05

StarkingBarfish: Jun 25, 2006; Novus Ordo Seclorum

Today's garden bird is a rather pissed-off looking Robin:

# ? Mar 19, 2020 17:06

radmonger: Jun 6, 2011

Oodles posted:

What I don�t really understand, is when is this deemed over?

Is it when our healthcare can cope with the projected cases? Is it when we have no more cases? Is it when we stop going exponential?

146 is CXLVI in Roman numerals.

I think at one stage there was a plan. It�s just that the plan would lead to the death of about a quarter million people.

This was judged unacceptable once it was actually said out loud. So now the plan is to not have a plan.

# ? Mar 19, 2020 17:07

Guavanaut: Nov 27, 2009; Looking At Them Tittys
1969 - 1998; Toilet Rascal

Josef bugman posted:

This can't be accurate. Just because someone has this illness somewhere at some time doesn't mean we have to start closing everywhere all over again right?

That isn't a life at all and I say that as someone who loves being at home in the house. gently caress me running.

Yup, that plus universal tracking of everyone, which definitely won't be abused by the government that hires indefinite detention rape camps and sends autistic teenagers to die overseas in countries they don't even remember.

And requiring all gatherings to be subject to approval.

And you just know, like the bollock fondler brigade that got brought in at the airports after 9/11, and the shoe checks and liquid bans that followed, this would just become the new normal, they won't let something like that go easily.

# ? Mar 19, 2020 17:08

keep punching joe: Jan 22, 2006; Die Satan!

https://twitter.com/chrisshipitv/status/1240670815709999104

:sickos:

# ? Mar 19, 2020 17:10

goddamnedtwisto: Dec 31, 2004; If you ask me about the mole people in the London Underground, I WILL be forced to kill you; Fun Shoe

Guavanaut posted:

Yup, that plus universal tracking of everyone, which definitely won't be abused by the government that hires indefinite detention rape camps and sends autistic teenagers to die overseas in countries they don't even remember.

And requiring all gatherings to be subject to approval.

And you just know, like the bollock fondler brigade that got brought in at the airports after 9/11, and the shoe checks and liquid bans that followed, this would just become the new normal, they won't let something like that go easily.

I am extremely confident that somewhere in an SV slidedeck are the words "Virus tracking via facial recognition".

# ? Mar 19, 2020 17:12

Oodles: Oct 31, 2005

radmonger posted:

I think at one stage there was a plan. It�s just that the plan would lead to the death of about a quarter million people.

This was judged unacceptable once it was actually said out loud. So now the plan is to not have a plan.

How the gently caress can you plan in your business, if you don�t know what the plan is. Borders may shut, they may not. Schools are shutting and may open at the end of the summer holidays, or they may not.

Seriously, what the gently caress. I picked the wrong year to come off my anti anxiety meds.

# ? Mar 19, 2020 17:12

Guavanaut: Nov 27, 2009; Looking At Them Tittys
1969 - 1998; Toilet Rascal

goddamnedtwisto posted:

I am extremely confident that somewhere in an SV slidedeck are the words "Virus tracking via facial recognition".

Maybe East Asia has the right idea with face masks.

# ? Mar 19, 2020 17:15

Josef bugman: Nov 17, 2011; Pictured: Poster prepares to celebrate Holy Communion (probablY)

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Guavanaut posted:

Yup, that plus universal tracking of everyone, which definitely won't be abused by the government that hires indefinite detention rape camps and sends autistic teenagers to die overseas in countries they don't even remember.

And requiring all gatherings to be subject to approval.

And you just know, like the bollock fondler brigade that got brought in at the airports after 9/11, and the shoe checks and liquid bans that followed, this would just become the new normal, they won't let something like that go easily.

Jesus Christ.

This whole staying at home for ages/problems going out. That I can all deal with, I can understand and empathise with the feeling of needing security. But that article makes me feel fear and loathing on a level I don't usually comprehend.

Surely once we have a vaccine and make it widely available this thing goes the same way as Measles. An irritant/actually dangerous for people with lowered resistance, but something treatable?

# ? Mar 19, 2020 17:15

Guavanaut: Nov 27, 2009; Looking At Them Tittys
1969 - 1998; Toilet Rascal

It mutates too quickly for a single vaccine, but it'll probably end up more like a seasonal flu once vaccines and natural immunity protect enough of the population.

The problem is getting that to happen slowly enough to not kill millions while not falling for "tech disruptors say, let Priti Patel and the Dom Cum weirdo squad track your every movement and association, there's an app!" type 'solutions'.

# ? Mar 19, 2020 17:20

Jaeluni Asjil: Apr 18, 2018; Sorry I thought you were a landlord when I gave you your old avatar!

Guavanaut posted:

Yup, that plus universal tracking of everyone, which definitely won't be abused by the government that hires indefinite detention rape camps and sends autistic teenagers to die overseas in countries they don't even remember.

And requiring all gatherings to be subject to approval.

And you just know, like the bollock fondler brigade that got brought in at the airports after 9/11, and the shoe checks and liquid bans that followed, this would just become the new normal, they won't let something like that go easily.

Will they be providing smart phones for everyone then to keep track? Mine's on its last legs and if the new battery I ordered from China never arrives (and it might not be that anyway), I'll have to get a new one. If govt is going to buy me one I won't waste �100.

# ? Mar 19, 2020 17:22

Jaeluni Asjil: Apr 18, 2018; Sorry I thought you were a landlord when I gave you your old avatar!

A relative has heard from a friend who has a mate in the police that the whole country will be locked down from tomorrow.
Given they have only 20000 army and lack of police (who are already considering cutting services) it's not feasible even if it is true.
I said I think it's just London but the govt is denying it so it will be policy by tomorrow.

# ? Mar 19, 2020 17:25

Josef bugman: Nov 17, 2011; Pictured: Poster prepares to celebrate Holy Communion (probablY)

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Guavanaut posted:

It mutates too quickly for a single vaccine, but it'll probably end up more like a seasonal flu once vaccines and natural immunity protect enough of the population.

The problem is getting that to happen slowly enough to not kill millions while not falling for "tech disruptors say, let Priti Patel and the Dom Cum weirdo squad track your every movement and association, there's an app!" type 'solutions'.

How long do we think that will take?

I think if anything staying at home for long periods just means people will learn to hate Landlords/smug online fucks more. I know it did with myself.

# ? Mar 19, 2020 17:25

Guavanaut: Nov 27, 2009; Looking At Them Tittys
1969 - 1998; Toilet Rascal

Jaeluni Asjil posted:

Will they be providing smart phones for everyone then to keep track? Mine's on its last legs and if the new battery I ordered from China never arrives (and it might not be that anyway), I'll have to get a new one. If govt is going to buy me one I won't waste �100.

*looks at the DWP/Universal Credit* probably not. People that don't install the app will get smart anklets instead.

Anyway, if anyone fancies idling away some time indoors on trying to get a response (lo) to a non-poo poo possible solution, there's a UBI petition.

# ? Mar 19, 2020 17:27

XMNN: Apr 26, 2008; I am incredibly stupid

Apraxin posted:

https://twitter.com/britainelects/status/1240641478575230976

All hail the World-King.

lmao the field work for this was conducted when the plan was still to write off 250,000+ lives

wonder if the percentage will have dropped now they've tacitly admitted that their initial handling was a gently caress up?

lol

# ? Mar 19, 2020 17:27

keep punching joe: Jan 22, 2006; Die Satan!

Man I'm glad Boris and all his chums are libertarians, would hate to think that they would use this crisis to push through some authoritarian fash bullshit.

# ? Mar 19, 2020 17:27

Ratjaculation: Aug 3, 2007

Jaeluni Asjil posted:

A relative has heard from a friend who has a mate in the police that the whole country will be locked down from tomorrow.
Given they have only 20000 army and lack of police (who are already considering cutting services) it's not feasible even if it is true.
I said I think it's just London but the govt is denying it so it will be policy by tomorrow.

there are rumours/hoaxes like this circulating for everywhere

fw:fw:fw:fw:fw:fw:fw:fw: cornwall being fenced off! tanks on bridge!

# ? Mar 19, 2020 17:29

Niric: Jul 23, 2008

Apraxin posted:

https://twitter.com/britainelects/status/1240641478575230976

All hail the World-King.

52%. Fifty-two percent.

I think the virus must be a punishment from God

# ? Mar 19, 2020 17:29

Wachter: Mar 23, 2007; You and whose knees?

Jaeluni Asjil posted:

A relative has heard from a friend who has a mate in the police that the whole country will be locked down from tomorrow.
Given they have only 20000 army and lack of police (who are already considering cutting services) it's not feasible even if it is true.
I said I think it's just London but the govt is denying it so it will be policy by tomorrow.

Yeah I've been hearing this kind of stuff drifting through group chats and suchlike for a week now. I fully expect that coppers are being briefed on it but that doesn't mean it's actually happening

# ? Mar 19, 2020 17:33

Borrovan: Aug 15, 2013; IT IS ME.
🧑‍💼
I AM THERESA MAY

Boris Johnson this morning: there will be no restrictive measures in London

Boris Johnson now: the literal tanks rolling down the streets are just to transport oxygen, what is "truck"?

(don't have an article but I'm reliably told that there are literal tanks rolling down the streets of London rn. To transport oxygen. Obviously)

# ? Mar 19, 2020 17:34

learnincurve: May 15, 2014; Smoosh

Of all the people who end up in hospital with coronavirus 52% die.

# ? Mar 19, 2020 17:34

NotJustANumber99: Feb 15, 2012; somehow that last av was even worse than your posting

So when they said nearly half of people approved and took that to mean we were broadly supportive of Boris presumably they meant the majority think hes a useless gently caress?

# ? Mar 19, 2020 17:35

ThomasPaine: Feb 4, 2009; We have no compassion and we ask no compassion from you. When our turn comes, we shall not make excuses for the terror.

Oodles posted:

What I don’t really understand, is when is this deemed over?

Is it when our healthcare can cope with the projected cases? Is it when we have no more cases? Is it when we stop going exponential?

146 is CXLVI in Roman numerals.

sorry pal we're all on mr bones' wild ride now

More seriously, there's no single day it's 'over'. I imagine that things will begin to transition back to 'normality' once recoveries are outnumbering new cases and we're back below the threshold that can be effectively managed by the health service

# ? Mar 19, 2020 17:35

Jaeluni Asjil: Apr 18, 2018; Sorry I thought you were a landlord when I gave you your old avatar!

Ratjaculation posted:

there are rumours/hoaxes like this circulating for everywhere

fw:fw:fw:fw:fw:fw:fw:fw: cornwall being fenced off! tanks on bridge!

I know I'm being a typical Old with my revolution stories, but: protests in Cairo were particularly big on Fridays (it's the standard day off, like Sundays here). The second Thursday night, Twitter was absolutely full of messages along the lines of "OMG the tanks are rolling in, they're massacring us they're killing us" (which 'they' weren't). Basically fake messages aimed at putting people off going. It didn't.

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Aramoro: Jun 1, 2012

We were supposed to get our rescue chickens this week but all the collections are suspended now due to excessive demands, everyone is getting chickens it seems.

# ? Mar 19, 2020 17:37

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