It's a cultural thing. Most organisations just don't trust their employees, so people feel like they need to prove that they're genuine.
SARS CoV-2 coronavirus / Covid-19 (No tin foil hat silliness please)
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It's a cultural thing. Most organisations just don't trust their employees, so people feel like they need to prove that they're genuine.
Patriotism, what a lot of crock.
I'd argue patriotism is good, nationalism is bad.
It's fine to want to improve your country for the common good.
It's even okay to be proud of some of your country's achievements: technological, humanitarian or otherwise.
But it's not good to have a sense of superiority over other nationalities, or to belittle people and think less of them based solely upon where they were born, or worse still upon their race. I guess this is for another thread really, but I do think there's still a place for patriotism and even being proud of one's own country, but not for blind nationalism and resentment/superiority.
And for anyone still defending this government and explaning to us all how not testing is a good thing really because we don't have the capacity.
I didn't say it was ok, but there are confusing choices that people are having too make that have far reaching consequences. So whilst we all agree that it isn't on that she is using public transportation in that state, there might be a very delicate economic situation that she is dealing with that could be the difference between children eating or not. A little understanding on all sides is needed.
By coming in during a pandemic when reporting symptoms?
Without going into detail, a lack of trust is warranted in her case after a number of occasions exploiting the trust put in her.
I fully understand that but surely loss of life trumps all? It's very irresponsible and to me selfish. Her symptoms are blatantly obvious yeah she's sat on the train coughing away. No mask, gloves, tissues. No nothing. At least try ffs.
Yes but if patriotism is all that which is to may the individual feel good about himself and with a sense of belonging. But what good is that if there is little concern for those of your own community.
Its a purely a selfish endeavour then.
Yes - like you said, at this stage you doubt she has it. Now, in a couple of weeks or months - she might genuinely have it, so are these two instances going to be enough to trigger a warning/firing etc?
I understand there are genuine pisstakers in the system. However if your businesses culture spends most of its efforts on focusing on them, it puts a lot of your employees in a defensive position.
Other line reports are pissed off that I've trusted her for too long!
Either way she is quarantined from work now and she was silly for coming in against policy. I fed back to her that it was not sensible and i can't see it going further than that unless she does something else stupid related to breaking self isolation
I'm in Djibouti so very close to you, a colleague of mine tested negative for the corona but rumors say that someone else has been tested positive.
I'm afraid for the population here, people living in close proximity to one another, a population with a poor immune system (thanks to that fecking legalized drug khat imported from ethiopia). At least the airport is closed (starting tomorrow) and the borders monitored but I'm very scared for the local population.
Surely the governmnet would close the banks to withdrawals if there's a run?
My calculation would be which country I'd rather get sick in or be present in in the case of civil unrest. I'm thinking that Denmark is by far the country I'd rather be in. Transmission on planes and in airports is not as bad as you might think. In a crowd if there's an infected person and they pass it on to someone else that person will not become infectious for a number of days so there would be no chain infection effect. So long as you're a metre away from an infected person you ae likely to be OK so once on a plane you're not in any great danger. I'm assuming that you're young so you are low risk of getting ill if infected anyway.
Yeah I'm mainly worried about the local population as well. There's sooo many people here many of whom have their daily lives on the streets due to all the small shops etc. being there. Then you have the food culture of sharing things and eating with your hands. It could explode.
With regards to me and my partner, I'm mainly worried that if we do see an epidemic here that we'll have great big targets on our backs. But that's not really that bad in the grand scheme of things.
As in getting robbed or worse ? Or something else ?
Regarding what you said, it's not "it could explode", it will explode. It'll just be matter of being lucky enough to survive it.
Are people’s organisations paying people if they are self isolating or will have to have time off if schools close or is it unpaid leave?
Unpaid.
Cloth nappies and a flannel.
Nope. I’d get SSP which is about £94week I think. That’s 5 times less than I normally pick up, happy days.
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Let's not add runs on banks to this doomsday scenario. They're in a much better position than they were a decade ago so much so that the BOE has allowed them to release some counter-cyclical capital as stimulus.
Just seen Amazon are on an recruitment run given the shift to delivery. This pandemic will kill our high streets for good and put even more power towards the likes of Amazon.
Just seen Amazon are on an recruitment run given the shift to delivery. This pandemic will kill our high streets for good and put even more power towards the likes of Amazon.
Will the hotter weather in europe come May / June / july / august more or less see an end to this virus? I dont recall myself or others ever getting ill in the summer. Is this strain different?
Pardon my lack of knowledge on the subject.
Pardon my lack of knowledge on the subject.
I'd guess that gig economy workers are more likely to be OK for jobs throughout this. There's a massive demand for delivery drivers growing.
He has been in @esmufc07 's thread wondering why his gym will shut as you don't socialise at the gym.
Really?My normal gym time will now be spent with Jeff Cavaliere at Athlenex.com.
Ladies with experience you say...
No one knows for sure, some experts say yes there will be an easing but feel there will be another explosion next winter.
I’ve just realised that @Starkie_1 probably thinks that affluent is to flu what asymptomatic is to symptoms.
Yeah I considered that as well, but as of right now the Danish system is under way more pressure. That could change quickly though.
And I'm foolishly betting on being someone who doesn't need a hospital bed if I do get it.
Yeah robbed I suppose. Get blamed from bringing the virus into the country with whatever consequence that might bring along.
Yeah, this will no doubt just improve big guns position on the market. Our biggest food companies here are breaking their records every day, oil companies are raising prices despite the biggest downfall in decades(transport inside the country is still on high level), and supermarket chains probably have no idea what to do with extra money, of course they raised their prices on many products.
And yes, I agree about the banks, but can't help but feel the biggest banks will earn even more from this somehow, probably with the help of goverments.
I disagree. You're in the UK yes? There is a safety net to protect them. It might put her in a difficult situation but her children will be survive, she will be survive. The people she infects might not. It's irresponsible regardless of her person circumstances.
Went to Lidl near my home today to get some supplies, zero issues. There were maybe 20 people in store total, everyone was keeping good distance, there wasn't any shortage of anything. It was actually a pleasant experience. I'm starting to enjoy those empty streets, life is much slower and working from home is actually pretty efficient.
I would argue it's the other way around. Pride is a dangerous thing at the best of times but being proud of someone else's (such as your country's) achievements? That is just completely non-sensical. Alarm bells are ringing for me when someone proclaims they're proud of their country. Because it leads to the things you are rightly worried about in your last paragraph.
Political nationalism, as in having strong independent nation states, I would regard as a good thing and very important however. Now more than ever.
Ole is manager of United
United still not won a title
Can barely get into top 4 still
Exactly, there is no way people would just be allowed to go back to living their normal lives unrestrained after the lockdown, so how could you possibly see the same exponential curve in infection rates for the second outbreak? Makes zero sense to me.
This is what I thought as soon as I saw that headline. I'm not sure it will kill them for good but will certainly make a massive dent in them for a good while.
My normal gym time will now be spent with Jeff Cavaliere at Athlenex.com.
Jeff is awesome
Sums up a lot of what's happened in the UK during the last ten years.
Jake?Jeff is awesome
You do realise that there is no guarantee that you will be ok if you do end up getting it? Not sure why you would want to be in one of the poorest countries in the world over one of the richest in that scenario.
Yep
My normal gym time will now be spent with Jeff Cavaliere at Athlenex.com.