Vimto90 Posted March 28, 2020 Share Posted March 28, 2020 I am sorry if I have not been clear. I just think that the NHS staff's job has not changed, in a sense of they signed up to care for and treat patients, while at the same time avoiding infections themselves. They have always been good at their job, as I said before, the NHS saved my life. They are grossly underpaid for what they do for a job, if folk feel the need to clap them, do it every day as they are caring for and treating patients as they always do. I don't see myself as a hero, I was just making a comparison to another essential service, one I could relate with. I hope this clears it all up.Didn't read.Weapon. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Derry Alli Posted March 28, 2020 Share Posted March 28, 2020 36 minutes ago, philpy said: Sorry, but unless it can be proven otherwise, in my eyes covid19 didn't exist in fucking January. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
throbber Posted March 28, 2020 Share Posted March 28, 2020 It certainly hadn’t arrived in East Lothian in January anyway! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Melanius Mullarkey Posted March 28, 2020 Share Posted March 28, 2020 6 hours ago, Vimto90 said: snoglesnoodle. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tight minge Posted March 28, 2020 Share Posted March 28, 2020 A Shrimp seller in Wuhan, Wei Guixian is being touted as the Jules Rimet of the Covid-19 World Cup AKA patient zero (she was in the first 27 sick). As she survived and if truly patient zero, wonder if she feels a little guilty.China propaganda also suggests they have found patient zero. An American serviceman. See they have the equivalent of the daily mail in China as well. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tight minge Posted March 28, 2020 Share Posted March 28, 2020 As was kind of known and now starting to see evidence, that the first cases appeared in Wuhan around 10th December. It's is therefore feasible the virus started to spread late December. Probably unlikely to be about early January in the UK, but anything from mid-January onwards is possible.It is also plausible the virus came to Europe, not by a Chinese but a European (speculation). 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SlipperyP Posted March 28, 2020 Share Posted March 28, 2020 1 hour ago, Tight John McVeigh is a tit said: Think with the cuts and changes around 2008 they lost the personal touch. Every interaction I have had with the embassies in the last fifteen years has been shit. Prior to that they used to fantastic. In fairness cuts ripped them apart. As for out sourcing their visa applications, that's extra crap. Arranged a visa for my wife a few years ago to go on holiday to the UK. I wasn't allowed to enter the centre. They charged £100+ for the visa. Asked the wide if she wanted text updates on the application. She said yes, they said that will be £2.00 a text. Told them no. They then offered email, exact same scenario, £2.00 an email. The following year applied for a Shenghen via at the French embassy absolute breeze, friendly service, visa in 4 days (UK took several weeks) and the icing was as the UK was still a member of the EU, the visa was free. The UK clearly was strapped for cash. As for their travel advice, it's general at best and mostly over cautious (which is of course understandle. Don't get me started on visas & passports, this virus is less stressful. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Derry Alli Posted March 28, 2020 Share Posted March 28, 2020 22 minutes ago, throbber said: It certainly hadn’t arrived in East Lothian in January anyway! It wouldn't be that surprising if it started in East Lothian tbqhwy. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
throbber Posted March 28, 2020 Share Posted March 28, 2020 12 minutes ago, Tynierose said: Started by throbber having a threesome with a bat and a squid. Philpy and his wife were great hosts tbf. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Futureboy Posted March 28, 2020 Share Posted March 28, 2020 Some real self indulgent waffle over the past couple of pages. Risking life by getting on a helicopter? Your more likely to die as a result of an accident at home or getting in a car. Spending weeks on end away from home? Did you have to do a three weeker? Preventing another Piper because you worked on valves? No you worked on a valve that was subject to other barriers being in place to make sure you hadn't f*cked up. The Piper comment is just crass. I'll quantify my opinion on the above by having worked offshore for over 20 years. I'll finish by saying fair play and a doff of my cap to all the workers currently keeping things going at the moment, from the young lass cleaning the local Coop, the Postie's all the way through to frontline NHS staff. 18 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DA Baracus Posted March 28, 2020 Share Posted March 28, 2020 Sunny and warm out today. Big fear that the morons will be out in the same places, not observing social distancing and freely spreading and catching the virus. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
invergowrie arab Posted March 28, 2020 Share Posted March 28, 2020 18 minutes ago, DA Baracus said: Sunny and warm out today. Big fear that the morons will be out in the same places, not observing social distancing and freely spreading and catching the virus. Police are allowed to shoot them now though 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jagfox Posted March 28, 2020 Share Posted March 28, 2020 11 minutes ago, Tynierose said: Which one was the squid? Philpy obviously... 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Granny Danger Posted March 28, 2020 Share Posted March 28, 2020 Just been out for a walk, passed very few folk until the last 20 minutes. Others out walking being very respectful of social distancing, joggers and cyclists acting like p***ks. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hk blues Posted March 28, 2020 Share Posted March 28, 2020 20 hours ago, Gaz said: Many years ago I worked for Prudential and took part in an 'emergency' training day to simulate what we would do if our call centre at Craigforth was compromised. We were shuttled by bus to a remote office somewhere near East Kilbride and upon entering the office we were set up at wee booths to simulate what it would be like working from home. We had to dial in to VPNs and when we did we had exactly the same facilities we had at Craigforth - we could transfer calls to managers, we could access all systems as if we were in the office, we could write up calls, we could control our idle codes, calls could be recorded and listened back. It was literally just like being in the call centre, except we were in wee offices to simulate an individual room and didn't have the facility to chat up the new starts. This was in 2004. Madness to think that this couldn't be done sixteen years later. So you did a dry run of what it would be like working from home in a facility already set up for such a trial? Didn't anyone wonder why they didn't do the trial in a real setting i.e. at home? Seems like a box ticking exercise to me..yes, we can absolutely say our staff can work effectively from home because we tested it in a, well, wee place with cubicles. That said, I do agree that in hindsight call centres maybe should have invested in contingency measures but clearly they haven't because people are still working in them in the current climate. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
throbber Posted March 28, 2020 Share Posted March 28, 2020 10 minutes ago, Tynierose said: Which one was the squid? The one with the tentacles 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marshmallo Posted March 28, 2020 Share Posted March 28, 2020 27 minutes ago, DA Baracus said: Sunny and warm out today. Big fear that the morons will be out in the same places, not observing social distancing and freely spreading and catching the virus. "Beer garden weather" -3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Archie McSquackle Posted March 28, 2020 Share Posted March 28, 2020 The wife is convinced me and her had it at the start of the year [emoji85]. I had really bad flu - sore as f**k all over, chest infection, sweating like f**k and severe headaches, as did she. Sorry, but unless it can be proven otherwise, in my eyes covid19 didn't exist in fucking January. You do realise the 19 part of the name means it originated in 2019? It was very unlikely to be in Scotland that early if that's what you mean though. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Granny Danger Posted March 28, 2020 Share Posted March 28, 2020 1 minute ago, Archie McSquackle said: 2 hours ago, philpy said: The wife is convinced me and her had it at the start of the year . I had really bad flu - sore as f**k all over, chest infection, sweating like f**k and severe headaches, as did she. Sorry, but unless it can be proven otherwise, in my eyes covid19 didn't exist in fucking January. You do realise the 19 part of the name means it originated in 2019? It was very unlikely to be in Scotland that early if that's what you mean though. The parts of Fife that the Plague hasn’t reached yet. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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