Coronavirus outbreak

[cyberknight]

Im waiting for us to be sent home
Couple of thousand people with deliveries from all around the world coming in on a just in time basis , the vast majority cant work from home and the workforce come from a large area so big chance of infection .

 

[fossyant]

I think the IT side should be OK, but because she's involved in lots of events, its more hands on, in-the-office and at venues type stuff. Also, there won't be nearly as much to do because the events probably won't be happening now.

Yeh, we are looking to go virtual events where we can. I'm finance, so bills/budgets etc still need looking after.

 

[Blue Hills]

The culural film showing thing i referred to upthread, actually the Austrian cultural forum in london, has now announced a total suspension of events until further notice. And the wellcome collection a very popular gallery, library, cafe,chill-out space, is closing its doors from monday until further notice. The wellcome collection does of course have a long and distiguished medical history.
Wheelbuilding here i come.

 

[tom73]

The culural film showing thing i referred to upthread, actually the Austrian cultural forum in london, has now announced a total suspension of events until further notice. And the wellcome collection a very popular gallery, library, cafe,chill-out space, is closing its doors from monday until further notice. The wellcome collection does of course have a long and distiguished medical history.
Wheelbuilding here i come.

That's a shame it's a great place to visit not to mention the cheep lockers and free loo's the coffee is quite nice too.

 

[kingrollo]

Mrs 73 has issues with this idea bringing them in to do care up to the level they are at is one thing but say they they are now qualified is another.As 3rd year students they can do quite a bit already with out just signing them off early. How are they able to be supervised and supported by fully qualified staff ? Bring them in and once this is over are they going to be removed from the register and made to do the 6 mouths they will have missed? It would be a bit bad to get them in pay them on band 5 then to take it all away at a later date.
The NMC is a waste of time as it is so can't see any help or support coming from them any time soon either. I know this is all part of longer term planning but it leaves many questions.

There was an article in the independent - I think. About although there is talk of bringing retired doctors back and fast tracking nurses/doctors - there is actually no govt directive or advice on. It.
Seems to be a common theme with the handling of it....all imo of course.

 

[Fab Foodie]

My wife just emailed me to say her department at Cambridge University is likely to close until at least May due to the virus. She'll work from home on full pay, but thinks she won't be able to do much from home.
The garden is going to look amazing!

Nottingham Uni is having a shut-down as well. My daughter is now unable to analyse samples she has stored in the lab freezers for her Ph.D. :-/

 

[Fab Foodie]

Yeh, we are looking to go virtual events where we can. I'm finance, so bills/budgets etc still need looking after.

...and nobody in the organisation cares if you perish ;-)

 

[gavroche]

They just said on the Welsh news that they expect 20000 people to die from the virus in Wales !! That is very worrying.

 

[Mugshot]

Good news everyone, get on in here and heal yourselves. I'm not sure how much the gentleman is charging but I'm sure it's worth it. Praise the Lord.


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[roubaixtuesday]

Very odd leaving work this afternoon.

Not many people around, many like me won't be back for some time.

"See you soon"
"Well, soonish"
"Some time anyway"
"Maybe May??"

Then a conversation in the cycle change hoping that we will, in fact see everyone again...

Strange times.

 

[marinyork]

I am waiting to see if uni is shut down. I reckon it'll be one of the last if it is. One supervisor's admin people is sending out loads of coronavirus stuff. The other lot are rather different.

I went to see the main supevisor, was quiet as it is Friday and many usually vanish anyway. The lecturers thought it a bit carry on up the khyber dinner party until I mentioned sorry I hadn't been around as much to group events as father in hospital with a cough. Oh right...

I am worried about a massive event next week I'm expected to attend. I reckon other unis would have said provisional or pulled it.

 

[marinyork]

In Wuhan, which at the height of their epidemic is several orders of magnitude worse than hopefully we will face, all hospital employees were allocated frontline jobs, regardless of background. For example western doctor was assisted into full health PPE by someone. Doctor asked if that person was also a doctor. Turns out she was the receptionist who was assigned the role and learned on the job

An order of magnitude less would be fantastic. I suspect that's the best that can be hoped for.

Iirc Hubei about 50 million population and getting 4000 new cases per day. Not that as we have found out recently the tests mean much. 400 would be great. Already more than half way towards that. These figures may be wrong, but less than an order or magnitude would be amazingly good news. Unachievable I expect .

 

[Ming the Merciless]

 

[Vapin' Joe]

They just said on the Welsh news that they expect 20000 people to die from the virus in Wales !! That is very worrying.

That is the worst case scenario, not what they are predicting at all. Spreading blind panic helps no one at all.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

I see the mass gathering of people in close proximity called Sport Relief has gone ahead.