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Just announced ..........

....... Sophie Gregoire Trudeau's tests for covid-19 came back positive, so she is in quarantine at home. PM Justin is in self-isolation for 14 days ............ and will be working from home. Apparently he is planning to give a nation-wide TV address some time tomorrow (Friday).

Yeah but where's the fun in that LaGooner :-D :-D

We run a small business and cope ok. We are not millionaires but we earn a living and do not need to boast about it :-D

La Gooner :-D :-D :-D :-D :-D

All businesses will suffer a penalty one way or another as will many employees.

A company with 200 employees is far better placed to survive this than a company (or family concern) with a dozen or so staff. If it doesn't there is something wrong with their management planning and execution for many different scenarios not just Coronavirus.

My son is supposed to be in Berlin from tomorrow on his mate's stag weekend!

He is packed ready to leave but still dithering, he should leave here at 2am! His fiancee and I both think he should stay home and not risk anything.

Silly man didn't take out insurance till 2 days ago so will probably lose his £220 but I think his health and the fact that he has a 'stepson' of 11 with diabetes isn't worth taking the chance

Lizxx

What has all that guff got to do with the virus :-S :-S :-S

Que sera sera :-D. I will just behave sensibly and take what comes my way.

Just completed my YouGov survey re the coronavirus and overall I'm content with the government's actions to date.

I'd rather defer to expert knowledge than random opinions.

We all have a responsibility to safeguard ourselves and others close to us. No authority can guarantee our safety and it's obvious from remarks here and elsewhere that whatever action our government takes it will be criticised.

Regarding the UK's exemption from the USA's travel ban, I found the following article interesting

https://tinyurl.com/uwq6qu8

And I'm in line to receive $750.00 as part of the Australian Government's Covid19 economic stimulus package.....however the money wont be spent on loo rolls because I couldn't be bothered queuing up at 5.00 am waiting for the stores to open at 8.00am

Ontario has closed all it's public schools for an extra 2 weeks after this coming week March break. The theory being families will go off on holiday for March break so we're forcing kids to stay away for 2 weeks.

Sophie Gregoire Trudeau came down with symptoms a couple of days after returning to Canada after several days in England attending meetings.


First we get Harry and Meghan from you, and they won't leave

now you send our PM's wife back in a very infectious state.

I don't know whether to thank you or curse you :-D

The ongoing briefing seems to be both honest in its brutality and informative in it’s understandable content.

I must say I have much less of a problem with 'fear mongering', ie predicting the worst case scenario, that may not happen, than I have with people who ignore it or who try to play it down. If fear mongering is what it takes to convince idiots coming into the country to then self isolate, or to not ask b* silly questions like "should we have a corona virus party like they do with chicken pox?" ...then I am all for instilling a bit of fear!

IF I am on the Titanic I don't want to be told "everything will be fine, don't worry, she's unsinkable " blah blah, I want to be told ( or forced) to put on a life jacket, how best to get off the ship, and how to stay afloat as long as possible. ( I watched "A night to remember" yesterday ).

Bojo is playing a very dicey game, it could sink him quicker than hitting that iceberg if he gets it wrong. As for Trump, well we already knew he was ..... expression deleted.... insert your own....!

Don't you just love self-appointed 'experts'!

fwiw - this is what the Andrex website says about Andrex:

"ANDREX®, one of the UK’s most recognisable and celebrated brands, launched in 1942. We have been the nation’s favourite toilet tissue ever since. UK households use over 8 million miles worth of Andrex® every year.
Andrex® takes its name from the St Andrew’s Mill, Walthamstow, where it was first produced in 1942. It was originally developed from a design for a gentleman’s disposable handkerchief, sold exclusively in Harrods department store, London.
Andrex® was endorsed by Hollywood films stars of the day, who demanded that studios stock softer toilet tissue. By 1961 the brand achieved market leadership – and it has stayed there ever since."

Wiki says this:
"The concept of two ply luxury paper had been inspired by the facial tissues used by American women, as witnessed by the man who created the name Andrex, Ronald Keith Kent. It was the first two-ply tissue."

So basically, an English creation.

Joy ......... or they'll fly to Canada and try for a land border crossing.


The problem for you is that you don't seem to have good controls at the border entry points. We hear of people flying into the UK and not even being given advice on what to do if they begin to feel ill .............. they're just let go! For example, you got people from the cruise ship Grand Princess the other day ..... quarantined on the ship for several days after days of cruising, with people having caught coronavirus on the previous cruise and people becoming sick on this last cruise. AND they're allowed to leave the airport in taxis and just go home!!

Ridiculous!!!

Canadian passengers from the same ship, who were under the same conditions for days, are in quarantine for 2 weeks on the airbase in Ontario.

Well! Here's something daughter has come up with - Trump has just put us right in the firing range for the virus by allowing flights from the UK to the US. Everyone from the banned countries will simply travel to the UK for an onward flight to the US!!

Boris needs to get a grip NOW!

" 'We also most definitely do not want fear mongering along the lines of Rollo's posts on here.'
No that's right people should listen to D Trump & B Johnson, they are the men in charge and know what they are doing ...(?) "


Nope. we don't want any fear mongering at all, period. full stop.

As far as I am concerned both Trump and Johnson are idiots ....... they lost the battle before it even began because they didn't believe it. They know/knew better than any expert!

Well, Trump said he was a genius and knew all about coronavirus because his uncle had been a specialist in viruses :-S . IMHO Johnson is just a twit.

Rollo is fear mongering by all the statistics he's posting.



FWIW ............... our PM Justin Trudeau announced this morning that he and his family are self isolating. His wife showed symptoms yesterday and has been tested. They are self isolating while they await the results even though the symptoms have since subsided.

There was a meeting planned for today between the PM, all the provincial Premiers and other cabinet ministers. That has been cancelled and replace by phone discussions.

There are places other than supermarkets where loo rolls may be had.

It's also possible that the people hitting the shops for quantities of hand gel etc are employed carers, whose company bosses don't provide adequate ( if any) supplies.

For eg my friend has 3 carer visits to her each day, she is at very high risk, so the carers are particularly careful, as she is. She can't get out to buy soap or hand gel (or anything in fact ) so the carers go above and beyond to make sure she has what she needs to be safe as well as for themselves. They see many people in the day, all at risk.

As someone said to me elsewhere, " I may be "old and have health issues" but there are things I still want to do! "

Not one loo roll in our Sainsburys this morning and it was announced over the tannoy that stocks of EVERYTHING would be limited.

Chatting to the lady in Wilko (where there were three packs of four left on the shelves, but no hand gel for the last few days, she told me that at 8.30, when they open, a few people get straight in and buy up the hand gel . Wilko staff members believe they are then being sold online at a vast profit.