Coronavirus (Covid 19)

[Ghosttrain]

Hi lotus,yes i am fine thanks....and i too was wondering why there are not many posts,as you say hopefully from boredom and not anything else.....

[Pol]

If anyone is wondering,  I'm good,  using the lockdown to lose weight and get a bit fitter,  been out walking most days approx 5/6  miles sometimes more , have cut out all the crap from my diet n have lost about 20 pounds or 8kg ? .
See today that bald men are prone to the virus . Everything still a bit behind in Scotland,  hopefully phase 2 will go ahead after the 18th . Missing family and friends and of course the gigs .

[Ghosttrain]

Good to hear you are fine Pol,maybe a few others we have'nt heard from for a while could just post to let us know they are o.k.?..

[fiddlesticks]

All ok here. Just downloaded the Where I Am stems from the main site (thanks NMA!) : not sure whether to do a techno remix or a family singalong with it.

[Ghosttrain]

Glad to hear you are o.k.

[witch]

Get well very soon
All the best for you

[ldopas]

Hi lotus,yes i am fine thanks....and i too was wondering why there are not many posts,as you say hopefully from boredom and not anything else.....

Not many posts hopefully because I'm hoping that people are getting back to work.

As you can see from my earlier posts in this thread, the uncertainty and the misery of lockdown's early where days for me, where my partner and I had to shut our construction business down in the lockdown. Well logistically shut it down, as she is my life partner as well we continued doing stuff from our home.

We started it up three weeks ago with all the guideline rules in place and it is massively busy I'm glad to say. It seems everyone wants construction. So much so we are hiring more people in the next month and we are having to turn work down. Hope it continues, fingers crossed touch wood etc. And I'm proud to say we lost not one person, 2 of them we have set them up in their homes with IT equipment as they need to shield.

Sad thing is the three business parks we operate from are only about 1 quarter full of the companies that were here, most have still not started back. We have a £300 billion hole to fill folks!!! Taxes to pay to keep the NHS going. Lets mobilise! 

Plus I'm fed up of being told by this limp government that they are talking about it while we watch rioters on the streets, discussions about statues while people are dying in a pandemic, idiots gathering on beeches and government ministers of both parties not obeying their own guidelines.

[Wessexy Witch]

What kind of construction do you do ?
Where are you based?
What areas do you cover?

If it's useful, I can spread the word amongst my friends (face to face and interwap) to get you some customers.


 

[Tarsier]

Just wanted to express my joy for being properly back at work after four months! So here I am at work, quiet night, productively browsing memes and this forum
When the lockdown started in CZ somewhere in mid-March, I've succesfully done...pretty much nothing. First few weeks of lockdown were interesting... Stuck at home with limited options what to do. Got bored with cleaning after first week It didn't help much that I'm a bit ''technologically challenged'': I don't have internet at home and I'm still using old stupid-phone. Just books, radio and old laptop full of music keeping me company But I'm a lucky one as I still got paid. I got paid to sit at home, scratching my arse. Gotta count one's blessings!

[Ghosttrain]

More clarity from Bumbling Boris again today..... ...


A full scale lock down only a matter of time (imho).....?.

[Tarsier]

Covid, covid... Where to start?

Maybe someone has noticed I haven't visited the forum for a while... Not because I'm ill or anything, but, I still do not have the internet at home and now the situation seems to be that I also do not have a job anymore

I've been working in the same hostel for over seven years and truly love my job (minus the two years when I had to manage the place ). It's obvious and not hard to guess that the travel industry is one of the most hard-hit during this pandemic. The result being, they closed the hostel two weeks ago. Past two weeks I've been scratching my arse at home. Except of course now... I came to empty reception to use computer 

Although I should not complain too much... As the new lock-down measures started yesterday, my boss called and told that as the government is now going to pay 100% of our wages, it seems better to keep people in the payroll still. And there's a minuscule chance that they'll re-open the place on March, I'm waiting for any updates on that but not with high hopes. Also, as I happen to have permanent contract, the labour laws are on my side which means that when they'll kick me out, the company has to pay me quite a few more months after that - I can count myself being incredibly lucky   

But I am complaining because I love(d) my job. 

I wanted to open a new topic but well, the covid topic is perfectly suitable for this... As I'm curious, I wanted to ask from all of you:

Is your job essential, and how has this pandemic affected your jobs?

[Ghosttrain]

Sorry to hear your news....hope it all works out well in the end.

[Bunny]

Well im isolating as of today as someone I was on a course with tested positive. Test booked for tomorrow. Happy days.

[Ghosttrain]

Good luck with your test...

[Bunny]

Cheers dude. For anyone who doesnt know you have to swab your tonsils, gag repeatedly, the shove the same swab up your hooter. Such fun