I'm very happy to hear everything turned out alright!
How has COVID-19 affected you personally?
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Totally agree. I mean, have you seen some of my recent Facebook posts on the subject?
here in sweden the schols are not closet jet. i fells like we are the only contry that still for some reson hase not close them yet. but i think we will do it this week. for my personal plans i was hoping to go to cyperus in early may but that is a no now.
Bar the football being cancelled for the next month (Don't see why they can't play behind closed doors like the rest of Europe? And God knows what's happening with the Euro's!) the most shocking thing I've heard is that Ireland (of all countries) is to close it's pubs for the foreseeable future! I'm not sure we will follow suit as most pubs I drink in aren't getting 50 punters a night, let alone at one time...
The rest of Europe has also cancelled all football last weekend. Only in Russia, Ukraine, Serbia and Turkey there were still games...
There was a run on coffeeshops (they sell weed not coffee
) last night in the Netherlands, as they, as well as all restaurants and bars have been closed for a few weeks. ..
Thank God for that, I thought we were going to be absolutely screwed at the Euro's. And on a football related note, Birmingham City played Leicester a couple of weeks ago, several days later several Leicester players were quarantined. amazingly Birmingham decided to take no such precautions after finding out.
taun
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Euros are not happening this year. Don't see how you can...whole impact on sport probably needs a whole new thread. I have tickets for all our remaining games but don't expect to see them.
Fully expect we will be told to work from home by the end of the week. Lucky I can but my parents have no such luxury and in a higher risks group.
I live within a an hour of all my close family members but expecting not to see them for a few months now, why risk it.
Work has seen a 47% reduction in visitor numbers since last week. I'm used to empty galleries before they open, but the hushed quiet of near-empty galleries at midday was eerie. I've worked here on-and-off for most of the last 11 years, and have never seen the place so empty.
PM BoJo is asking and recommending people work from home and avoid pubs/theatres/etc. I think that not much will change unless the govt change track, stop asking and start *telling* people to stay home. I'm fully expecting the big London museums to take things into their own hands and close before too long. University College London Museums and the Wellcome Collection have closed already.
PM BoJo is asking and recommending people work from home and avoid pubs/theatres/etc. I think that not much will change unless the govt change track, stop asking and start *telling* people to stay home. I'm fully expecting the big London museums to take things into their own hands and close before too long. University College London Museums and the Wellcome Collection have closed already.
taun
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Didn't want to mention what action the government are taking as its all deem political and will be deleted it seems. Even a joke...
But fully expect my company will take the advice to heart...if they don't I think I will just start working from home anyway. I am not even doing any work with my team in my office its all for a team in Birmingham, so effectively working remotely now....doesn't matter if I do it here or at home.
My line manager is waiting for the company to make a decision, if I was him I would tell everyone just work from home its not worth it.
AmbikaFan
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A good article describing why closing public schools was such a hard call to make:
The pros and cons of coronavirus school closures, explained
The pros and cons of coronavirus school closures, explained
AmbikaFan
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My college was one of 89 announced last Wednesday to be switching to online education starting this Thursday through semester's end in mid-June. With instructors and students mostly off-campus, it was deemed safe for both to be able to use campus facilities as needed; indeed, as a faculty, we've been using the campus for subject meetings and computer tutorials to prepare for the semester.
Things changed significantly last night when we were advised that staff was also being told to work from home, with only "essential personnel" like security and buildings and grounds and custodians. Effectively, the campus was being closed, with many of us needing to get necessary materials we had left in our offices. It's been a crazy day. Meetings are being held via tele-conferencing; I had to make special arrangements with security to go to my office tomorrow, and security insisted that I leave coursepacks for students who had enrolled late with them, as students at the front gate are only being admitted to go to security.
Last week was highly-energized, and we were feeling really good that we had been able to come together so quickly and successfully. Our president said our school would not close. As of today, security levels have gone through the roof and the campus is essentially locked down. I don't think any of us were scared last week, but this is suddenly so much more policed that it's hard not to wonder what changed. Two students in our 25-college university "family" had contracted the virus, one at the school closest to us in Brooklyn, and we're worried that perhaps
one of them has died (with no announcement) to have caused such a shift. Coincidentally (?) at the same moment, the NYC public schools were finally closed.
Things changed significantly last night when we were advised that staff was also being told to work from home, with only "essential personnel" like security and buildings and grounds and custodians. Effectively, the campus was being closed, with many of us needing to get necessary materials we had left in our offices. It's been a crazy day. Meetings are being held via tele-conferencing; I had to make special arrangements with security to go to my office tomorrow, and security insisted that I leave coursepacks for students who had enrolled late with them, as students at the front gate are only being admitted to go to security.
Last week was highly-energized, and we were feeling really good that we had been able to come together so quickly and successfully. Our president said our school would not close. As of today, security levels have gone through the roof and the campus is essentially locked down. I don't think any of us were scared last week, but this is suddenly so much more policed that it's hard not to wonder what changed. Two students in our 25-college university "family" had contracted the virus, one at the school closest to us in Brooklyn, and we're worried that perhaps
one of them has died (with no announcement) to have caused such a shift. Coincidentally (?) at the same moment, the NYC public schools were finally closed.
FunkyGibbon
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CGTN is owned by the Chinese government. I will watch this when I have time, but I think people should be aware of that going in. It is not, remotely, an unbiased source.
That's good to know, I found it interesting to watch. Even with the heavy bias probably put into it, it did give a shimmer of hope to my anxiety that we could get through this situation.
Because we all could use a(n) (educational) laugh.
~Thylo
~Thylo
Imperator Furiosa
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My workplace is closed though April 10th, our very busy spring season was supposed to start this week. Since I'm considered seasonal staff I don't qualify for financial compensation from my workplace or for unemployment. I have no guaranteed source of income until then. Conventions I was supposed to vend at also got cancelled so there's more income gone. I have the money to get through the next couple weeks but it scares me that this might last more than 4 weeks and I'll potentially lose the money I currently have by then. If worst comes to worst I'll sell off my fossil and bone collection because even though I use those regularly for side jobs and art references it's worth a few thousand dollars and I can get by for a couple extra months on that. And I can't ask for help/accept financial help due to external circumstances unrelated to the current situation.
Very sorry to hear that... that's pretty harsh. I sincerely hope you're able to make it without having to sell your collection.
So my boss has decided to close the shop I work in, and open it on a customer by customer basis, so no need for me for the time being. No work for me for the next three weeks. 
I'm also sat in my house alone, I'm not self isolating though, I'm just anti-social!
I'm also sat in my house alone, I'm not self isolating though, I'm just anti-social!
The worst part of this is, all of us are sitting at home with no zoos to visit! There was one zoo near me I was expecting to stay open through all this and it just closed.