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Originally Posted by Chris (Post 36033617)

I expect they're anticipating a long list of preconditions for reopening offices that will be more trouble than they're worth if you can all work from home.

Bang on the money. All 3 sites have lifts (one has 6 floors) which would obviously be off limits. All floors would need to have the seating arrangements changed as very few if any of us have someone more than a metre or so away from our desks. We have always had a robust BCP but this is obviously the first time we’ve needed to put it in to action and management are massively impressed at how well we have all adapted. Other than calls usually taking a little longer to answer than normal it’s very much been business as usual. Management has told us that business such as ours would be towards last on the list to reopen fully.

Interactive map from the ONS ;

https://www.ons.gov.uk/visualisation...map/index.html

Four obvious hotspots in the country, London, Birmingham, Liverpool & Manchester.

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Originally Posted by Russ (Post 36033609)

The company I work for has several thousand employees over 3 cities with the vast, vast majority able to work from home.

We’ve been told that regardless of the government’s recommendations we should not expect to see the office this side of summer.

My sister works from home, she has daily video calls with the partners.

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Originally Posted by Paul (Post 36033614)

Yep, I look forward to the smart phone they will be providing. :angel:

The vast majority already have one.

https://www2.deloitte.com/uk/en/page...he-market.html

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Adoption remains strongest with 18-24 and 25-34-year-olds, among whom mobile ownership is almost universal: 93% and 94% adoption respectively. Within the previously resistant 45+ groups, adoption has leapt from 60 to 90% for the 45-54 age band, and up to 80% for the 55-75 band.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-52294896

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A contact-tracing app could help stop the coronavirus pandemic, but 80% of current smartphone owners would need to use it, say experts advising the NHS.

The University of Oxford's Big Data Institute has modelled a city of one million people to simulate the software's impact.

If there is lower uptake, academics say the app would still help slow the spread of Covid-19.

They add that letting people self-diagnose the illness could be critical.

That means users would only have to answer an on-screen questionnaire before being judged to be at significant risk of infection. They would not have to speak to a health advisor or wait for a medical test result.

This would send a cascade of alerts to people they had recently been in proximity to, advising them to go back into self-isolation.

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The over-70s have not been factored in, on the basis they would remain "shielded" by staying at home, he added.

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The team estimates that 56% of the general population must use the app to halt the outbreak. Prof Fraser said that equated to 80% of all existing smartphone owners, based on data from Ofcom.

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Prof Fraser said that officials were discussing giving smartphones to those without - or cheaper, wearable Bluetooth devices - in order to boost the number of citizens involved.

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Originally Posted by RichardCoulter (Post 36033623)

Legal challenge to the lockdown:

https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/12...5oFjvnLhm1BWf4

Not a hope in hells chance of winning it l would say Richard.

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Originally Posted by RichardCoulter (Post 36033623)

Legal challenge to the lockdown:

https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/12...5oFjvnLhm1BWf4

Some people truly deserve a good hard kick in the bollards.

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Originally Posted by denphone (Post 36033625)

Not a hope in hells chance of winning it l would say Richard.

If he takes it to a Scottish court he'll probably win.

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Originally Posted by papa smurf (Post 36033627)

If he takes it to a Scottish court he'll probably win.

l doubt it.

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Originally Posted by denphone (Post 36033629)

l doubt it.

Never underestimate their hatred of any thing they perceive as English.;)

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Originally Posted by papa smurf (Post 36033632)

Never underestimate their hatred of any thing they perceive as English.;)

Hate is never good papa l have always found.

Another ONS map, that goes down (almost) to postcode level.

https://www.ons.gov.uk/visualisation...map/index.html

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Originally Posted by Paul (Post 36033652)

Another ONS map, that goes down (almost) to postcode level.

https://www.ons.gov.uk/visualisation...map/index.html

Having an idea of the number of people dying in my area is sobering. I hope it will be possible to up date the map.

Be interesting to compare population numbers for areas.

Visually Derby seems to have more than would be expected. Stanley, County Durham seems even more so, 18 just in South Stanley. That's 29 deaths for a population of 31,000(?), about twice the national average(?).

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Originally Posted by papa smurf (Post 36033627)

If he takes it to a Scottish court he'll probably win.

Scotland has its own lockdown. Any similarity to the English one is purely coincidental. ;)

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Here are the unlocking plans for Ireland. Might give us a clue what to expect here:
https://assets.gov.ie/73722/ffd17d70...dde548f411.pdf