Covid 19
Mar 30th 2020, 11:24 am
#406
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Re: Covid 19
We always try and stay ahead of the game on the employee welfare side . We've had to suspend leave for obvious reason but those guys will have been paid a full encashment has been given . We're also paying the guys we have overseas on leave there full entitlements which is around 850 people .
We've had a full sanitisation of accommodation and vehicles and are only running people in vehicles at 25% capacity which is a very challenging logistic when you have to move 5,000 people per day to sites and back .
Obviously we review everything as things change but its a really tough time .
We've had a full sanitisation of accommodation and vehicles and are only running people in vehicles at 25% capacity which is a very challenging logistic when you have to move 5,000 people per day to sites and back .
Obviously we review everything as things change but its a really tough time .
Mar 30th 2020, 2:09 pm
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Re: Covid 19
DUBAI (Reuters) - Expo 2020 Dubai is set to be postponed by one year due to the global coronavirus pandemic, according to a draft statement seen by Reuters and two sources familiar with the matter.
Oh, and schools out until Summer.
Oh, and schools out until Summer.
Mar 30th 2020, 7:58 pm
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Re: Covid 19
Are internet hookers still available?
Mar 31st 2020, 4:47 am
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Mar 31st 2020, 9:18 am
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Re: Covid 19
Very valuable observation, We would be well advised to remember that women are much more emotionally complex than men, Whilst sensibly distancing them selves during sex trade transactions, they do compensate at other times. The remoteness from interaction must be having a greater cost to women because normally they engage more emotionally than we do. We should take time to reach out to our female friends at this time and remind them we are here to listen. Remember guys they don't want you to fix it just understand it.
Mar 31st 2020, 9:59 am
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How are the authorities going to deal with the Ramadan? Left to the there own devises the locals will party on and create a wild fire of cases. Unchecked it will burn the health care system to the ground.
Mar 31st 2020, 10:06 am
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Why do you think they are slowly increasing the lockdown each day and stepping up cleaning etc. This isn’t going to be over by Ramadan.
Mar 31st 2020, 11:07 am
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Re: Covid 19
Looking forward to my best Ramadan ever. This isn't going away any time soon . I have zero work to do . Merely show my face and sit in the office for 3 hours every other day . 3 days a week one week, 2 days a week the next . Ramadan is normally very tough for me. Think after Ramadan things will slowly get back to normal. That's what I'm hoping anyway
Mar 31st 2020, 11:17 am
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Re: Covid 19
I was never in denial about the mass hysteria and the over-response to this, nor how there is no obvious end to it now that the media has whipped everyone up into a state of perpetual fear over it. I am in justifiable denial about the seriousness of the issue: most models are saying 70-80% of populations will get it. That means 3 people in my house of 4 will probably get it. Why I'm locking myself up for months on end only to get it in September is still a struggle for me. Yes, I understand flattening the curve, save the health system etc - but not at the cost of everything else. We will have a much larger issue on our hands with no jobs, people hitting the financial wall, food security, rising crime etc. if this ever ends.
I also don't understand the PR exercise of spraying the roads and streets each night. The only person I know who kisses roads is the pope and so I don't see why we need to go to all this effort to make it safe for him.
I also don't understand the PR exercise of spraying the roads and streets each night. The only person I know who kisses roads is the pope and so I don't see why we need to go to all this effort to make it safe for him.
Mar 31st 2020, 11:25 am
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I was never in denial about the mass hysteria and the over-response to this, nor how there is no obvious end to it now that the media has whipped everyone up into a state of perpetual fear over it. I am in justifiable denial about the seriousness of the issue: most models are saying 70-80% of populations will get it. That means 3 people in my house of 4 will probably get it. Why I'm locking myself up for months on end only to get it in September is still a struggle for me. Yes, I understand flattening the curve, save the health system etc - but not at the cost of everything else. We will have a much larger issue on our hands with no jobs, people hitting the financial wall, food security, rising crime etc. if this ever ends.
I also don't understand the PR exercise of spraying the roads and streets each night. The only person I know who kisses roads is the pope and so I don't see why we need to go to all this effort to make it safe for him.
I also don't understand the PR exercise of spraying the roads and streets each night. The only person I know who kisses roads is the pope and so I don't see why we need to go to all this effort to make it safe for him.
The cost is going to be huge....but not to many people in the UK initially. If you get furloughed for 5 months you've lost a month of salary (assuming 2,500 quid is 80% of your salary, which it must be for many people). That's it. A month of pay, job has been guaranteed, company survived and you've lived off yellow freezer dinners and Netflix for a few months. They'll probably end up paying for it for generations though, the taxes needed to fund such lavish protections are going to hurt.
It's a different story overseas, I do worry about my work and being paid and all those bits. Guess we earn more as part of that balance of risk.
Still, stiff upper lip. Let's hope those models work and that we're already far more infected as a global population than the numbers of confirmed cases say. I imagine it's significantly more but a long way from 70%+. I had a horrid cold over the weekend, still a bit of a cough now but very phlegmy, so not a covid symptom, shame as I want it to get it over with and hope it makes me immune, but also relief because nobody wants to be poorly.
Mar 31st 2020, 12:36 pm
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Re: Covid 19
Lol at the spraying. I thought the same.
The cost is going to be huge....but not to many people in the UK initially. If you get furloughed for 5 months you've lost a month of salary (assuming 2,500 quid is 80% of your salary, which it must be for many people). That's it. A month of pay, job has been guaranteed, company survived and you've lived off yellow freezer dinners and Netflix for a few months. They'll probably end up paying for it for generations though, the taxes needed to fund such lavish protections are going to hurt.
It's a different story overseas, I do worry about my work and being paid and all those bits. Guess we earn more as part of that balance of risk.
Still, stiff upper lip. Let's hope those models work and that we're already far more infected as a global population than the numbers of confirmed cases say. I imagine it's significantly more but a long way from 70%+. I had a horrid cold over the weekend, still a bit of a cough now but very phlegmy, so not a covid symptom, shame as I want it to get it over with and hope it makes me immune, but also relief because nobody wants to be poorly.
The cost is going to be huge....but not to many people in the UK initially. If you get furloughed for 5 months you've lost a month of salary (assuming 2,500 quid is 80% of your salary, which it must be for many people). That's it. A month of pay, job has been guaranteed, company survived and you've lived off yellow freezer dinners and Netflix for a few months. They'll probably end up paying for it for generations though, the taxes needed to fund such lavish protections are going to hurt.
It's a different story overseas, I do worry about my work and being paid and all those bits. Guess we earn more as part of that balance of risk.
Still, stiff upper lip. Let's hope those models work and that we're already far more infected as a global population than the numbers of confirmed cases say. I imagine it's significantly more but a long way from 70%+. I had a horrid cold over the weekend, still a bit of a cough now but very phlegmy, so not a covid symptom, shame as I want it to get it over with and hope it makes me immune, but also relief because nobody wants to be poorly.
Anyone for a mask ?
