Have you spoken to your employer? What are the safety measures they're taking in the office? Can you do your work from home? If you've not spoken to them, this should be your first port of call.
SARS CoV-2 coronavirus / Covid-19 (No tin foil hat silliness please)
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In the latest episode of the United Hour Podcast, Nik (@Rood) is joined by CEO Duncan Drasdo and Financial Director Andy Green from the Manchester United Supporters Trust for a special episode on all things behind the scenes at Old Trafford including a brief history of MUST and their aims today, views on INEOS and Sir Jim Ratcliffe so far, and the Old Trafford regeneration.
Have you spoken to your employer? What are the safety measures they're taking in the office? Can you do your work from home? If you've not spoken to them, this should be your first port of call.
Some interesting conclusions on where we imported all our cases from in the UK. Mainly France and Spain apparently.
Funny how the imports from Spain peak on March 11, the same day as the Liverpool game.
Could be, that would be an interesting subset to follow.
That said, as soon as half-term is over, in early March is when a lot of (no kids!) Brits head to Spain, especially those with holiday homes or similar links and ones traveling in groups.
I was preparing to travel (and so were my next door neighbours) to Spain when Italy's cases started to rise - I cancelled, so did my neighbours. Some of my family did go though and one of them died three weeks after his return.
Seems like a great idea. Any flaws?
Riff Raff in my safe space.
Just one more reason to withold the premier league trophy from them
Also a small price to pay considering the result of that particular game.
Sorry to hear that about your family member, and i think a lot will have similar stories. Travelling i expect will be the last thing to resume - Italy categorises airports at the highest risk level, alongside working in a hospital. I was flying on a weekly basis before this but i haven't stepped on a plane since February, and don't plan to any time soon. They can say what they want about air circulation and HEPA filters, flights were a major source of transmission during SARS and are proving to be so again now.
I had a lot of friends who were planning to go or were out skiing in France around those dates.
I don't think we can underestimate how much repatriation has had an impact to the infection rate. The lack of quarantine restrictions at that time is looking to be a tragic lack of leadership in the UK government.
Not that the distinction matters but i imagine the airports themselves are the major spreader rather than being in the plane itself?
The amount of people going through an airport often crammed together it's perfect conditions for something to spread.
It is not certain yet, however during SARS it was proven one person infected 20% of all passengers on his flight, and there were a disproportionate number of cabin crew catching the virus in the early days of the Covid outbreak.
I'd guess that is the plane travel itself rather than the airport. Recirculated air, general lack of cleanliness and hygiene with seating, trays etc
I see that Tegnell is essentially on repeat and that numbers in Sweden are still shit.
Wow just noticed that Brazil have 750k cases, having run 1m tests 
My guess would be that sitting in an airplane with a bunch of strangers for a couple of hours wouldn’t be much more risky than doing the same in a bus or train. If all of those strangers were from your local area.
The risk comes because that bunch of strangers can come from all over the world and have interacted with a load of other people, from all over the world, to get on that plane. So you’re a couple of steps removed from an enormous geographical spread.
I would, personally, be even more nervous in a massive sport event. Especially when a whole bunch of the people attending travelled there on a plane!
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Great, I'm flying to SF on the 22nd.
How about a cruise instead?
14 states + PR hit their highest 7 day average for cases. Some of this will be increased testing, but at a glance hospitalizations are also up. They might try to spin this as the result of protests, but it is early for those to have that much of an effect on a 7-day average. Also, it doesn’t correlate to where the largest protests were: the trend seems to be Sunbelt states that were more likely to open up early.
Too early for any infections picked up during protests to feature in those stats, I’d say.
People who live alone can choose a household where they can act like they live with them.
1003 cases, coming down.
'Support bubbles' ???? They're ramping up the nonsense.
Probably all the plane jumping up and cramming in like cattle upon landing when there’s a mad scramble for bags.
never understood that. I always wait and usually see most of those people in the airport so they haven’t got anywhere any quicker
If you live alone you can merge with another household.
He also said 200 million people could have died through bird flu, 282 people did.
NZ used the same concept a while ago. And they’re the golden boy of this whole thing.
It’s much harder to predict the future than comment on what’s already happened.
support bubbles then....
Oh look Tory sympathiser alert
So new guideline is top and tail for sleep overs?
Slight add on to Ferguson's earlier comments.
Also @Dancfc, he said 200 million people could die from bird flu if it mutated into a form as deadly as the Spanish flu. "If" being the operative word in that sentence.
@11101 @Penna
What do you think about this?
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2...-questions-from-families-over-covid-19-errors
Italian PM faces questions from families over Covid-19 'errors''
What do you think about this?
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2...-questions-from-families-over-covid-19-errors
Italian PM faces questions from families over Covid-19 'errors''
Nothing in it imo. The vast majority of Italians think the country did a good job getting the virus under control and Conte has seen his approval rating soar, it basically saved his government.
Do enough people in the UK even live alone for this to be significant?
About 8.2 million people.
I would have thought ......than being wise after the event. Always amazing how many experts fall into that category. Just a thought.
A lot more than I expected
Yes. That’s true. But isn’t he being wise after the event about the mistakes that he contributed to? Which is basically how we learn.