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Old 20-10-2020, 22:11   #427
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Re: Coronavirus

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Originally Posted by jfman View Post
Eh? Most businesses? I assume you've never worked in warehouses, call centres, open plan glass buildings full of 'hot desking' with 80 staff sharing 1 microwave at lunch. And have no solution for the loss to the city centre economies from the default position of working from home for many.
In a warehouse it should be easy to set up a safe system of working........amazon seem to be doing well don’t they? Call centres? absolutely, already being done successfully. Offices? Ours have already been back safely for weeks. Microwave? Make sandwiches at home, it’s not difficult.

Then those firms not using furlough, leave the funds available for the city centre cafes to access.

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Once again you're demonstrating an ignorance of the subject matter at hand and pushing your own agenda in absence of any real facts or scientific basis for doing so.
on the contrary you are the ignorant one. As evidenced in your above Paragraph
Citing how difficult it is for firms to employ safe systems of work, when they’ve already doing it.........

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I'm unsure the value and/or purpose of this comment - I presume you don't contend that this is the genuine aspiration of the Government but that begs the question of what it will do that is good for British jobs, the British economy, the taxpayer, living standards or any other barometer by which the country could conceivably be considered a 'success'.
It’s a pop culture reference, albeit a dated one, that means I regard your statement akin to deranged individual.

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It's little wonder you admire this Government so much given the parallels of you both floundering from one incoherent position to another with no real goal in mind.
just shows how much attention you actually pay, nearly all my posts on this issue about the government response have been critical.

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241 deaths today - remind me how high does it have to go before you consider it a problem?
No problem. 241 was a weekend bounce, but I agree rates have increased - an undeniable fact.

Highest daily total so far was 1,172 and at the peak of the pandemic, so we’re still approx at 25% of those levels

And then the NHS was not overwhelmed. Everybody that needed a bed had one, everybody that needed a ventilator had one. Current ICU beds occupied is around 620

At peak it was 3,281

So, yes I believe we have a way to go before it is a “ problem”

But what we will see now is politicians and scientific leaders actively willing numbers to go higher - otherwise they’ll look like they got it wrong or overreacted...........and we can’t have that.
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