Coronavirus

TiltyShaun

TiltyShaun

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I have an 8 & a 6 year old and they will not be starting back at school in June. I doubt they will be going back this year. The council or whoever can fine me or do what they want but I am not putting my family at risk unnecessary after going through the last 10 weeks. They are getting some great home schooling and even know ratios after mixing up some muck for me the other day :cool:
The current guidance is that attendance from the 1st June is not compulsory!!
 
Regy53

Regy53

I like cake
I kid you not we are as busy now as we were pre furlough i dont know why but its just flat out. Kit to come in is a little drier than before as big fleets are parked but auction prices are high, machines are selling and people are buying diggers.

I am also looking to buy a higher end car and they are not dropping in value at all yet, they are just the same.

I am yet to see anything that says run scared and save your money tbh

People struggling

Mortgages suspended 6 months
tax bills suspended if you ask ( you need to call)
VAT bills deferred until March 2021
Staff paid to be at home until october / nov, there is a huge loophole for many in this, for those having work done? builder is furloughed but gets offered a ££ job???
Grants from government for business paying reduced rates
Bounce back loans of up to 50k basically guaranteed to anybody and paid in a day
CBLIS loans of huge numbers
1 year no loan payments
interest paid by government for 1st year
the loans being offered basically mean very little interest rate movement for the next 6 years as it would cripple those who borrowed, meaning mortgages cheap
self employed loans grants available
car payments suspended
bank loans suspended
finance suspended

never ever has the bill payer had it so easy tbh.....and never has money been so easy to borrow if you want it

and im sorry if you are one that has or is struggling, we to took a hit in April when it all kicked off for about 3 -5 weeks but the recovery has been insane
 
JD450A

JD450A

Feral as Fk 🐾
I kid you not we are as busy now as we were pre furlough i dont know why but its just flat out. Kit to come in is a little drier than before as big fleets are parked but auction prices are high, machines are selling and people are buying diggers.......


never ever has the bill payer had it so easy tbh.....

Free Money is being spent ATM..... I have received 13k without any loans, that is just grant money.....

End of the year it will bite. I'm sure of it!
 
GazCro

GazCro

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It's a bit too easy at the mo in many ways but as rory says it'll bite late in the year. 80% wages and mortgage holidays is making some better off than they have been for a long time but what if there's no job to go back to?
 
Antony Holmes

Antony Holmes

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A new virus which is spreading a hundred times quicker then Coronavirus has been discovered, the imasthickasshit virus affects people’s ability to social distance properly, people with the imasthickasshit virus will go out to parks and beauty spots in their droves with no worries about spreading the Coronavirus. Doctors think that Coronavirus and imasthickasshit virus could be connected, but are worried by the speed imasthickasshit virus is spreading, if you see a group of people drinking tinnies in a public area please keep well clear, stay safe my friends.
 
V8Druid

V8Druid

do it as well as you can,but learn to do it better
I have an 8 & a 6 year old and they will not be starting back at school in June. I doubt they will be going back this year. The council or whoever can fine me or do what they want but I am not putting my family at risk unnecessary after going through the last 10 weeks. They are getting some great home schooling and even know ratios after mixing up some muck for me the other day :cool:
absolutely understand that Boyo ...... after 10 weeks of isolation, shielding, the last thing you need is the little uns bringing anything into the household .. stay safe and locked down ..... for however long you have to (y)
 
Regy53

Regy53

I like cake
I do agree that this money is kicking the can down the road but perhaps just perhaps it will kick it far enough that it may blow over enough to not be as bad as we thought. Optimistic yes but who knows

I suppose the housing market will suffer first, mortgages are going to be a lot harder to get, it your furloughed you wont get a mortgage and in short it will all fall from there, a big issue i have and listening to LBC or radio 4 the other day was 40% of people borrowing bounce back loans had no intention to or diddnt think the goverment would chase them for the payments.
 
V8Druid

V8Druid

do it as well as you can,but learn to do it better
A new virus which is spreading a hundred times quicker then Coronavirus has been discovered, the imasthickasshit virus affects people’s ability to social distance properly, people with the imasthickasshit virus will go out to parks and beauty spots in their droves with no worries about spreading the Coronavirus. Doctors think that Coronavirus and imasthickasshit virus could be connected, but are worried by the speed imasthickasshit virus is spreading, if you see a group of people drinking tinnies in a public area please keep well clear, stay safe my friends.
spot on Boyo ...... there was a prog. on BBC Wales the other night ... I would like to think it was broadcast nationally .. it was filmed in the ICU in the Royal Gwent hospital in Newport ... a serious 'hot spot' in Wales .... absolute ****ing heroes, every one of those people ... not only do they have to endure the grief caused by all of the PPE, but they walk into a ward full of potential killers every day ..... one of the consultants on there - head honcho - said they're fully expecting another 'wave' in July ... worse than the first and another in October ... they have come very close to having to make decisions about who gets ventilated or not this time .... they fully expect to be having to make those decisions in the next wave .... when a top ICU consultant admits on camera, on TV, that 'next time' "we're going to be f***ed" -- his words - verbatim - s**t is seriously deep
 
pettsy

pettsy

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Im eligible for the s.e support, and went through the online process a couple of weeks ago. Heard nothing since 🤷🏻‍♂️
 
GazCro

GazCro

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Im eligible for the s.e support, and went through the online process a couple of weeks ago. Heard nothing since 🤷🏻‍♂️
Did it not give you a date you can claim it from. I went through it tells you straight away if your eligible and when you can claim from. Go back on after that date tick box to say you've been affected and that's it. I would go online and check again.
 
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Jimoz

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I'm getting more optimistic that the virus will fizzle out like SARS or MERS. apparently these coronaviruses have a habit of burning themselves out. I wouldn't put too much faith on any hospital employees predictions of what will happen with this virus, none are likely to be optimistic and all after more funding for the ever cash consuming nhs. My old man's partner has been off work for over 9 weeks on full pay, some kind of nhs admin person. She's scared of getting the virus so keeps coming up with excuses to get signed off, on full pay obviously. Yet her employer is supposed struggling for money! Just wouldn't happen in the real world.
 
Lancs Lad

Lancs Lad

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I'm getting more optimistic that the virus will fizzle out like SARS or MERS. apparently these coronaviruses have a habit of burning themselves out. I wouldn't put too much faith on any hospital employees predictions of what will happen with this virus, none are likely to be optimistic and all after more funding for the ever cash consuming nhs. My old man's partner has been off work for over 9 weeks on full pay, some kind of nhs admin person. She's scared of getting the virus so keeps coming up with excuses to get signed off, on full pay obviously. Yet her employer is supposed struggling for money! Just wouldn't happen in the real world.
Hmmm don't want to be harsh but some of the tales Ive heard of NHS are an absolute joke (not knocking front line teams as such) it's the back end non jobs that are leaching it. I know someone who won a contract that would have saved the NHS a stack of cash...he never got an order for 12 months...someone couldn't be bothered to switch suppliers..to much hassle...about time NHS had a massive shakeup.
 
JD450A

JD450A

Feral as Fk 🐾
NHS like all Government bodies is over funded but the funds are pillaged by overpaid wankers with titles. Needs a serious shakedown!

Doctors are overpaid in the vast majority of cases IMHO. As it would seem are the highest echelons of nursing. Cut the crap.... share the rates so those at the lower levels get paid a sensible amount for the excellent service they provide! I'm not saying for a second those on low incomes deserve what they get! Quite the opposite..... BUT I've seen some very very wealthy NHS GP'S who without a doubt do not deserve the ridiculous salary's they are on!

Cleaners, Nurses, Porters..... none of them are on massive wages for what they actually do each day!
 
Quattromike

Quattromike

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NHS like all Government bodies is over funded but the funds are pillaged by overpaid wankers with titles. Needs a serious shakedown!

Doctors are overpaid in the vast majority of cases IMHO. As it would seem are the highest echelons of nursing. Cut the crap.... share the rates so those at the lower levels get paid a sensible amount for the excellent service they provide! I'm not saying for a second those on low incomes deserve what they get! Quite the opposite..... BUT I've seen some very very wealthy NHS GP'S who without a doubt do not deserve the ridiculous salary's they are on!

Cleaners, Nurses, Porters..... none of them are on massive wages for what they actually do each day!
Even worse than that are the jobs worth's that throw money at stupid things. My sister, I think I've mentioned before, works in a hospital heading up a ward and between her and the other ward manager they decided it would benefit the ward if there was a sink it a room at one end of the ward, there was no sinks near by for hand washing and or other sink duties and the plumbing was there for such to be installed, they got a local plumber who has done lots of work in the hospital before to come and set it up, also did a little unit thing for the sink,at a Cost of £4,500. Or there abouts. Then . A few months later someone within the hospital management team noticed this sink wasn't on the asset register and enquiries were made and the situation was explained. This was put further up the management tree and the sink was put out of use until a feasibility report was completed. Duly it was decided that a sink was required there and they would do it properly. Tenders were put out to upgrade this to a substantial setup that everyone in the ward thought was over kill but it went ahead, the local plumber didn't have a look in some company from far and wide appeared in and did the work. A few months later someone up high made a decision one day that room should be a store room only and it was all ripped out the next week. Now they are back to square one with no sink near by and the whole lot cost them £135k 😶 who can sustain that kind of logic!
 
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Smiffy

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Even worse than that are the jobs worth's that throw money at stupid things. My sister, I think I've mentioned before, works in a hospital heading up a ward and between her and the other ward manager they decided it would benefit the ward if there was a sink it a room at one end of the ward, there was no sinks near by for hand washing and or other sink duties and the plumbing was there for such to be installed, they got a local plumber who has done lots of work in the hospital before to come and set it up, also did a little unit thing for the sink,at a Cost of £4,500. Or there abouts. Then . A few months later someone within the hospital management team noticed this sink wasn't on the asset register and enquiries were made and the situation was explained. This was put further up the management tree and the sink was put out of use until a feasibility report was completed. Duly it was decided that a sink was required there and they would do it properly. Tenders were put out to upgrade this to a substantial setup that everyone in the ward thought was over kill but it went ahead, the local plumber didn't have a look in some company from far and wide appeared in and did the work. A few months later someone up high made a decision one day that room should be a store room only and it was all ripped out the next week. Now they are back to square one with no sink near by and the whole lot cost them £135k 😶 who can sustain that kind of logic!


I don't have anything to do with the NHS but can easily understand that
And it's the same with anything publicly funded, my boss does a. Lot of L.A work and the way they poor money down the drain is unbelievable
And the amount of people I talk to on a daily basis and I still don't understand what there job is beyond consting the public unnecessary money
 
GazCro

GazCro

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The problem is it's not their money they are spending. In the case of private contractors they get used to dealing with the same ones who realise how far they can push it price wise.
 
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