Quoting for truth. The issue was not that there was not enough stock in the supply chain but that it was in the wrong place, i.e. not at point of sale but at hub / spoke dc's. There is little flex in a JIT supply chain to allow surge resupply to all the customer facing locations.
As mentioned in passing by Gareth, if you have a LTD company and pay yourself a small salary then take dividends, you will need to claim via the company/employee route. If your PAYE salary is small, any eventual relief will be as well. HMRC haven't wanted the plebs to utilise this perfectly legal renumeration method since 2000, when IR35 was introduced by Gordon Brown (after lobbying by the large cheap labour suppliers), there is no way in hell they are going to offer any kind of relief to dividend earners. To be honest, even though I am currently one of them, I don't think they should - imagine all the millionaires claiming relief on the loss of their dividends.
If you want to have a look at the numbers in a bit more detail, check out http://91-divoc.com/pages/covid-visualization/ You can see number of cases, deaths, new cases per day, and either in total or per capita. And you can switch the scale from log to linear if you want to scare yourself.
I don't watch a lot of TV, nor do I spend any time on social media sites, so I was a wee bit surprised to discover a bunch of neighbours out in the street, cheering and clapping. I appreciate our health service workers - my sister is one and my mother was until she retired last year - but what sappy ******** is this? Neither of them would have any interest in people clapping and cheering in the street - I can see my sister cringing at the thought.
I've learnt that the Orange-in-Chief want to deploy the army on the US/CANADA border. Some kind of political move to give the impression that he's protecting his subjects? It's not as if Canadians will try to escape the virus by fleeing to the US.
I liked the fact that a load of people came out of their houses and expressed solidarity with each other and NHS staff. My Dad particularly went out as his neighbour is a GP. Soppy? Maybe, but some cohesion and breaking isolation
It did make my good lady feel a bit uncomfortable. I mean she could see the intent behind it but you can't help how you feel. Mind you getting free things, or should I say being offered free things, has made her feel a bit funny too - she's been avoiding taking much or anything tbh, knowing that there are people in greater need out there. But then she's a frickin hero.
I appreciate the sentiment that people are expressing. I find the whole idea weird and uncomfortable TBH, but that's just me. But the worst part is that if people really want to support and appreciate the NHS then why in the name of **** do we keep voting in a party that wants to tear it to the ground?
Yeah, that's my take on it. The closest I've experienced is when a customer server craps its pants and the customer is your best mate, promising to buy a new x,y,z, pay you for your time and so on - But before it went pop, and the instant it's working again, they couldn't give a **** about IT bills, or preventative maintenance, or reasonable replacement schedules.
People are being really proactive now. First we put a sad emoji on a status about people dying, then we put a French flag on our profile picture, then we took pictures of ourselves with concealer I mean no makeup to fit in I mean to raise awareness of a little-known condition called cancer. Now we're actually stepping out our house and making noises. Imagine what we could achieve in 5 years. MAKE FIRE!
Well lets look at your original point: This is not really the case: miss regular fertiliser distribution and yes, crops WILL reduce yields, up to potentially an order of magnitude drop. Getting 1/10 if your expected crop output would definitely not be something you can shrug off when everyone else is in the same boat. Can't import from an unaffected nation when there are no unaffected nations. Just In Time production and delivery isn't just something that car makers do. It's how global production and distribution works now. There aren't big stockpiles of vital essentials sitting in warehouses 'just in case'.
