Azza Bamboo posted:

I'm curious to see if the Tories have to execute their plans to have the army empty the bins.

Doctor_Fruitbat posted:

Just to clarify, would that include offices as well?

In which case giant lols, because I'll have basically no work to do. Most of my job is prepping laptops and I won't be able to access any of them.

hemale in pain posted:

boris - "we've done what we can to contain the virus."

??? like what

Communist Thoughts posted:

i mean really taking any measures against infecting yourself or anyone around you is directly going against bojo's master plan

JeremoudCorbynejad posted:

No More Toast posted:

When this first started feeling serious I thought Boris & Co would be able to swing this to their advantage. As each day goes by this seems less and less likely but even if this somehow does tank the Tories I'd rather it also didn't result in thousands of people dying needlessly.

Julio Cruz posted:

it’ll probably be like the last day of school when the teachers didn’t give a poo poo and just let everyone watch films all day

Doctor_Fruitbat posted:

I hate to say it, but: is there a private option for testing?

Mebh posted:

In Sheffield there's a bar called Meltdown. A few friends who were cancelling various events there today talked to the manager. He said bars and restaurants have insurance in place already so that they get a payout if the government forces them to shut.
So by not enforcing it the government is saving the insurance companies from having to payout.

Guess which party has a looooooong history of donations and ties to insurance industry? Go on. One guess!

Daww did you miss his face?

Edit: 111 is the number you can ring to be rung back and told off for bothering them about your corona symptoms.

Jose posted:

loving lol boris said no when asked if he'd get a brexit extension because of this

Ash Crimson posted:

You speak only for yourself; it's madness up here, no toilet paper, flour is low, no tins of tomatoes, pasta is gone, etc.

Aramoro posted:

It's a really interesting bit of history about how the War office and rationing influenced our diets in such a dramatic way. We basically eat brown bread because of WW1 flour rationing.

Wiggly Wayne DDS posted:

yeah just post this 4pm on a friday it's fine: https://www.gov.scot/publications/coronavirus---school-and-elc-closures-guidance-on-critical-childcare-provision-for-key-workers/

and social landlord guidance did get posted but it was backdated to appear released march 18th, document was finalised 19th at 2:40pm: https://www.gov.scot/publications/coronavirus-guidance-for-social-landlords/

perhaps the government should accelerate their actions just a bit

peanut- posted:

loving hell, every shop near me is absolutely empty of beer.

I had to buy Strongbow

large_gourd posted:

not much that can really be done about that, is there? unless you want to go full on patrols and arrests, but even then there aren't enough police to be catching everyone. you're gonna get some goofs.

as long as it isn't 90% goofs then we'll still reduce the number of deaths significantly.

Azza Bamboo posted:

Let me tell you about Nutella and cottage cheese sandwiches.

peanut- posted:

I figure it's because 90% of microwave meals are for one person, which is no use for entire families stuck at home.

forkboy84 posted:

You've got 2 hours notice so can rush out if need be, and anyway, even in Italy you're still able to get a pass to go to the shops. You're going to be able to get food. Don't panic, please.

EvilHawk posted:

I've been going along with the assumption that the government really, really, doesn't want to be seen as inconveniencing anyone. They only closed the pubs after getting pressure from Scotland/the NHS (and even then didn't really close them, until there was news reports saying the pubs were full on Friday night). They haven't put in a full lockdown until loads of people were absolute idiots over the weekend and the media criticised the public. At no point has the government taken the load and acted before they "had" to. They're using the media (and their own briefings to the media) to make all their actions look like they've been forced to do it. If only the public had all been 100% rational actors and voluntarily self isolated for two months at the same time we'd be fine!

This is why the public are approving of the government. They're merely waiting until the last moment and doing the bare minimum.

Strom Cuzewon posted:

So what's happened in the past 24 hours that we're (probably) going from "oh please don't stand too close together" to full on lockdown?

Marmaduke! posted:

If people in this thread seriously thought that they would get into trouble for watching the bojo broadcast without a TV license then we should let them believe they'll totally get arrested for leaving the house twice in one day. Possibly by the TV detector vans pulling double duty

Soylent Yellow posted:

Am I right in thinking Hancock is rolling back yesterday's announcement almost completely with regard to closing workplaces?

goddamnedtwisto posted:

There's gonna be so many hosed up fetishes coming out of this.

duckmaster posted:

My local SPAR is out of non-dairy milk (ok, “non-dairy drink”) but the fresh dairy milk shelves are full. I can only assume people are taking it because it’s all got best before dates as opposed to use by so you can keep it in a cupboard until you want to use it.

Not a huge issue for me because veganism is a choice etc etc, but I have a friend who is severely lactose intolerant and it seems a bit selfish that there are presumably now cupboards full of soya milk “for emergencies” and her and people like her have to eat their cornflakes with, I dunno, water?

I wouldn’t be pissed off about it at all if there was a shortage of dairy milk, but there isn’t!!


Edit: unless of course the oat milk supply line is the first to collapse, but I doubt it

fridge corn posted:

As an IBS guy that sounds like IBS. Gluten doesn't affect me much but onions sure as hell do

Jose posted:

https://twitter.com/AbiWilks/status/1243976522270216192?s=20

Communist Thoughts posted:

and the gov have mostly sat on their hands that entire time.

forkboy84 posted:

This is the sort of thing that could be forwarded to a paper. Probably both a local paper and a national

pumpinglemma posted:

As far as I can tell basically nothing. They pass your data to Google Ads (which isn't great but I'm pretty sure every free service does similar), and they have a feature where the host of a meeting can get an alert if you defocus the window for 30 seconds (which is apparently Unacceptable Spying on Your Data).