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Originally Posted by OLD BOY
I get your sincerity on this, tweetiepie, but the government's responsibility is to its own citizens. It won't be giving away any equipment that we need for our own people to other countries until we are sure we can cope without.[COLOR="Silver"]
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But it would be helping us. If as expected things quieten down over our summer months and get worse in the southern winter, sending help there to control the virus will help us but lowering risk of reintroduction. The is a global issue and need to be dealt with as such.
The government also has a duty to businesses that employ it's citizens. To secure supplies and markets. And those businesses need to trade so need people earning, moving, spending.
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Reading on the BBC today that some second home owners (in Wales) are claiming business rebates on their second homes. The rules let them set these homes as businesses if they are available to let for 140 days and actually let for 70 days per year. So not only are some moving to small locations to get away from virus they are also getting money from it.
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Help some small businesses buy buying now for later delivery. For example I get guitar strings from
New Tone Strings. At the moment they are operating with just one person so may not be able to get strings out as quickly as possible but if players who don't need strings now but can order now (with delivery note to that affect) it may help them keep going, pay their bills are recover quicker. There are likely other traders maybe in your area you can help. This is all part of helping the fight against COVID-19. A sort of futures market as it were.