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Whilst the government acted reasonably in protecting capital the other day which whilst needed is the tory way , rather less has been forthcoming on those who haven't any capital to lose .The renters equated to low pay , ZHC's , those laid off unpaid by their companies and obviously the people who have the virus or those in their household who have it too , those who are down to one wage so their partners can look after their school children comes in to this category .Whilst we aren't at the point of the causes of the French Revolution just yet , something before early next week would be rather a good idea because eating cake doesn't tend to turn out well in times such as these .I'd give that money tree another shake chancellor if I was you and it better be enough to feed the family , pay the bills and keep a roof over the head whilst not able to work for the immediate future .
Not blaming you mate. Or him. It's a fast moving issue.What I'm saying is that, looking at the data, it's clear as day to me that we are currently pretty much exactly tracking the Italy numbers from 2 weeks back.
...Wiltshire has just tripled (thats cases, just one death so far reported)
One of my mates is convinced he had it over Christmas and it was here before we thought.Anyone else have these suspicions?
Wilts.Choosing to plot the graphs with a common datum of the date on which they hit five deaths entirely arbitrary. In fact, it's actually a relatively poor way of comparing. Because in the early stages, the deaths occur at relatively random times because there were so few. And I know that comes from Johns Hopkins Uni, but that doesn't change the argument. Even leading universities don't always make flawless calls.If you shift our trend back 2 weeks it matches Italy astonishingly closely as the numbers get into the high 10s and more
Quote from: mushRTID on March 19, 2020, 08:46:09 pmOne of my mates is convinced he had it over Christmas and it was here before we thought.Anyone else have these suspicions?My father and son had remarkably similar symptoms pre xmas and in January
Country by country animated tracker from the FT;https://twitter.com/sdbernard/status/1240742053979598854Shows the progression towards the peak, with a note of the measures taken.
While the BBC continues to report "uncontrolled" "numbers soar" and "sharp rise" in italy, meaningless hyperbolic statements, if you look at the rate of increase of deaths it is actually slowing going down.In the last 5 days it was an average 17.2% daily increase in deaths.The 5 days before that it was 23.8%The 5 days before that, 34.2%
Seems to be good news for employees but what about the self-employed? They are hardly likely to self-isolate for £90 a week are they? Sunak needs to go further and quicker.
So it seems that people who’s employer would otherwise have to temporarily lay them off, will get 80% wages from the government, via their employer getting a government grant, up to £2500 a month.?Some of you on here are employers, yes? This is a big help.?What I haven’t yet seen, is the step up from “strongly advising” the vulnerable groups to implement social distancing, to actual self isolation.? That was supposed to be “in a few days” when the PM announced this on Monday.?