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The Coronavirus Thread

Discussion in 'Serious' started by d_stilgar, 13 Mar 2020.

  1. Vault-Tec

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    adidan Guesswork is still work

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    Mr_Mistoffelees The Bit-Tech Cat. New Improved Version.

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    I thought perhaps Boris might learn something from experiencing Covid 19 first hand but, it made no difference, he's still a self serving, arrogant, ignorant c*nt.
     
  7. adidan

    adidan Guesswork is still work

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    Oooh, £10 to eat out.....

    No you hapless Government, it's not money that's stopping me eating out it's your inability to do anything other than spout hot air. Do one.
     
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  8. RedFlames

    RedFlames ...is not a Belgian football team

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    No, just [up to] £10 off your bill [if i've read it right]
     
  9. adidan

    adidan Guesswork is still work

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    You're right, 50% upto the value of £10 per head.

    The cabinet still snorting coke or something?
     
  10. RedFlames

    RedFlames ...is not a Belgian football team

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    #shockedface

     
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    Dag nammit, who'd a funk it?
     
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  13. Gareth Halfacree

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    To put this into perspective, the government had to be shamed into giving children who would otherwise go hungry £15 a week in food vouchers.

    That means that a family of four living in poverty get, at best, £30 a week from the government to feed their children; a family of four that can afford to eat out (pfft, seriously, did nobody think "dine out" would have been a better slogan?) at a 50-percent-off rate will receive up to £120 a week to do so. (Basic maffs, innit: £10 per head, times four heads, times three days a week: 10*4*3=120.)

    Again: hungry family in poverty, £30 a week; family earning up to and including the top 0.0001% in the country, £120 a week.

    Thanks, Tories(!)
     
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    Also how much does it even help business?

    I mean the administrative cost to claim back that "up to £10" from the Government certainly won't be zero...
     
  15. RedFlames

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    Also the VAT reduction on certain things will almost certainly be used to raise margins for the business rather than drop prices for the customer.
     
  16. Arboreal

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    Listening to You and Yours on R4 in the car just now, that seems to be the case with newspaper subscriptions and some e-book sales.

    Many of the newspapers are charging the same as before and now getting to keep more, supposedly to help prop them up
     
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  18. RedFlames

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    The VAT cut only applies to hot food iirc, [cold or takeaway food isn't VATted iirc]
     
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    Anybody got a reliable stats site for current UK cases/deaths info? Having a discussion with the missus over whether to relax standards slightly - I say nothing is at that level yet, but will stand corrected if need be.
     
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    Maybe this https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/uk/ it graphs the PHE data.

    I think what is hoped is that as lockdown is released any activity is done in a covid aware manner, so we don't head straight back to mid-March on the trend lines.
     

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