19QOS19 Posted March 16, 2020 Share Posted March 16, 2020 Anyone else noticed the decrease in PPI and scam phone calls. A bit of a pleasant surprise.The time to claim PPI passed in August. I now get phone calls about the car accident I wasn't in. I usually hand the phone to my 3 year old. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Florentine_Pogen Posted March 16, 2020 Share Posted March 16, 2020 From Grauniad....... Mass gatherings in Scotland could be postponed until the summer due to the coronavirus outbreak, as the first minister, Nicola Sturgeon, defended the country’s response to the pandemic. As of today, the Scottish government is issuing advice that mass events should not take place to reduce the impact of the outbreak on frontline services. Sturgeon confirmed at a press briefing on Monday morning that this advice could be in place for several months and she can’t rule out it remaining even longer. The first minister said “significant steps” have been taken to slow the spread of the coronavirus and reduce its impact, amidst growing criticism of the UK response to the outbreak. Health Secretary Jeane Freeman said 700 additional ICU ventilators have been commissioned. In Scotland, authorities will continue to test key workers, including critical frontline NHS staff, to ensure the people who are so essential to managing the disease but also keeping a critical infrastructure going are not self-isolating unnecessarily. Scotland is taking the same approach to the rest of the UK in considering asking elderly people to reduce social contact amid the coronavirus outbreak, the first minister said. Sturgeon would not comment in detail about the stringent approach other countries have taken, but said: “I’m not privy to the advice and decision making in those countries. My responsibility is to follow the scientific advice we’ve been given, to interrogate and scrutinise that advice and to apply judgement to it.” The first minister said that Scotland has already taken “quite significant steps” to tackle the outbreak and possibly prevent a second severe spike. “Asking everyone who has a fever or a cough to stay in their house for seven days is a significant step and behaviour change that we’re asking people to apply.” She added: “That advice of course is about how we slow the spread and reduce the impact, but we do that in a way that perhaps avoids a later perhaps just as severe spike later on.” The Scottish government’s ban on mass gathering does not currently apply to schools, travel, shopping and work. Dr Catherine Calderwood, Scotland’s chief medical officer, described blanket school closures that lasted a few weeks as ineffective. [You need] a minimum of three months in order to really suppress the spread of the virus in these type of institutions. The thought that children won’t mix together for three months is impossible. We therefore risk having children congregate to other areas together, the virus is spread amongst them, so you actually have measures put in which are ineffective in keeping virus from those groups of children. To compare talking about closing the schools for two weeks, it’s very very clear from the science that is not a scientific way to either prevent the spread of the virus nor indeed to protect vulnerable people. Updated at 12.46pm GMT 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yoda Posted March 16, 2020 Share Posted March 16, 2020 Some of the resident experts in this thread, man Quote Now I don't know anything about zoology, biology, geology, geography, marine biology, cryptozoology, evolutionary theory, evolutionary biology, meteorology, limnology, history, herpetology, palaeontology, or archaeology, but I think... Spoiler 9 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jamamafegan Posted March 16, 2020 Share Posted March 16, 2020 Virgin asking there airline staff to take 8 weeks unpaid leave ffs Branson could afford to pay his staff for that leave the rich c**t 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guts Posted March 16, 2020 Share Posted March 16, 2020 15 hours ago, Alert Mongoose said: Where did you find this image...? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FrankChickens1 Posted March 16, 2020 Share Posted March 16, 2020 I was particularly outraged at Virgin's use of the word "bean-counting" in their press statement about a bailout. As if anyone who will benefit from said bailout, being the owners and directors who hoard money, would ever use it in the context of funds assigned for caring for those in need. Truly deplorable. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Savage Henry Posted March 16, 2020 Share Posted March 16, 2020 Some of the resident experts in this thread, man Now I don't know anything about zoology, biology, geology, geography, marine biology, cryptozoology, evolutionary theory, evolutionary biology, meteorology, limnology, history, herpetology, palaeontology, or archaeology, but I think... Spoiler Sam Cooke was the original P&Ber. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jacksgranda Posted March 16, 2020 Share Posted March 16, 2020 4 minutes ago, Guts said: Where did you find this image...? You forgot to add "Asking for a friend". 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
buchan30 Posted March 16, 2020 Share Posted March 16, 2020 Bookies will certainly know if anyone does. Wouldn’t bet on it. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Melanius Mullarkey Posted March 16, 2020 Share Posted March 16, 2020 2 minutes ago, Jacksgranda said: You forgot to add "Asking for a friend". ^^^ “a friend” found 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
welshbairn Posted March 16, 2020 Share Posted March 16, 2020 Yellow means partially closed. Hope our boffins and decision makers are better than theirs. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/mar/12/how-do-coronavirus-containment-measures-vary-across-europe 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Venti Posted March 16, 2020 Share Posted March 16, 2020 1 hour ago, L'immortale Par said: Any self-respecting P&B poster will simply have this in their death certificate: Getting your ashes scattered by a pepper mill would be quite appropriate for a chef TBH 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sergeant Wilson Posted March 16, 2020 Share Posted March 16, 2020 59 minutes ago, zidane's child said: I work for an online retailer and one of our top selling products this week and last has been stand alone freezers... Do I have to isolate my freezer? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shandon Par Posted March 16, 2020 Share Posted March 16, 2020 1 minute ago, Sergeant Wilson said: Do I have to isolate my freezer? Once your family put you in it, yes, your freezer should be isolated. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest JTS98 Posted March 16, 2020 Share Posted March 16, 2020 1 hour ago, Florentine_Pogen said: Hmmm.......I think Jean Paul Sartre might have beaten you to that when he wrote "L'enfer, c'est les autres" in his book 'Huis clos, suivi de Les mouches' in 1946. Hell is other people doesn't mean other people are c***s. It means we can never escape the feeling of being judged by them and this perceived judgement following us through life causes us pain. Like a manky b*****d who doesn't want to wash his hands after a pish in a public toilet, but feels he has to because others are watching. Happy to help 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted March 16, 2020 Share Posted March 16, 2020 That's the Dow opened 2,000 points down and the FTSE currently 410 points down. Countrywide, Investec & Restaurant group all being slaughtered along with Capita & DFS who are already on life support. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Florentine_Pogen Posted March 16, 2020 Share Posted March 16, 2020 1 minute ago, JTS98 said: Hell is other people doesn't mean other people are c***s. Aye it f*ckin' does. -1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Venti Posted March 16, 2020 Share Posted March 16, 2020 FYI Tesco Greenock was actually well stocked earlier apart from bog roll & handwash. Managed to even get anti-bac spray. If you want to venture down. (Probably most would rather die of Covid19) 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Moomintroll Posted March 16, 2020 Share Posted March 16, 2020 That's the Dow opened 2,000 points down and the FTSE currently 410 points down. Countrywide, Investec & Restaurant group all being slaughtered along with Capita & DFS who are already on life support.Restaurant Group have been on the brink for a while. Mental to see M&S with a Market Cap of only £1.6b when they have reported annual profits of £1b at their peak. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ICTChris Posted March 16, 2020 Author Share Posted March 16, 2020 DFS would surely benefit from loads of people having to stay inside for ages. You'd want a new sofa to make it worthwhile. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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