How is The Coronavirus affecting your life?

Captain Tinkle

Honorable
We have not had anywhere near a full year of this pandemic yet. You have an apples and oranges comparison of an actual (incomplete) count over a few months versus a retrospective estimate. In Britain many more have died of Covid than the annual influenza toll in just a few months, and outside of the peak flu season, despite fairly stringent regulations to attempt to prevent the spread, whereas none are in place for seasonal flu.

The last seasonal influenza report prepared by the Office of National Statistics indicates that there were only 5,505 hospitalizations in England for influenza between week 40 of 2018 and week 15 of 2019, and a peak of 692 in one day. There were up to 3,000 hospitalizations a day in England at the peak of the Covid-19 epidemic in early April.

https://assets.publishing.service.g...tory_viruses_in_the_UK_2018_to_2019-FINAL.pdf
https://assets.publishing.service.g...VID-19_Press_Conference_Slides_with_Annex.pdf

I stand corrected. I was of the opinion it was a lot more each year.
 

Standingstones

Celestial
Today my wife and I decided to head over to get some drive in ice cream. I guess the wearing of masks is fading quickly. I counted twenty plus people waiting to order food. Exactly one person was wearing a mask, my wife. We got our ice cream cones and sat in our vehicle eating them. I wonder how events will transpire in the near future.
 

Standingstones

Celestial
I've been furloughed from my job going on ten weeks now.

The Government is paying 80% of my wages so losing 20% of my income. However this is ofset by the fact that I am not having to put fuel in my car, along with the usual expenditures of lunch etc... at work. Not had to fill my car in the last ten weeks whatsoever.

As everything is still pretty much closed apart from Supermarkets and Garden centres, there is little to do so quite boring but I'm in a better situation than most so cannot complain.
The question becomes: how long will the government pay unemployment benefits?
 

Standingstones

Celestial
How has the virus affected my life? It's made me f*****g sick. Not 'tested positive' sick but absolutely, totally fed up with Life, the Universe and Everything.

I find myself stuck at a s**t job but it gave me an interesting opportunity to see firsthand how this area is faring. It might as well be useful for something and I am a believer in going and doing on my own. Several people I know and family members suck in their personal preference of media all day and believe all of it, never once looking out the window or even taking a drive around for a look. I took a week off and went back out of necessity. I could have just quit but didn't for personal reasons that, unfortunately, are practical to a sufficient degree to motivate me out the door. My only PPE for quite some time was a little badge that said 'stay back six feet' and that was just too much to ask of some. Masks, gloves, soap, plastic shields and sanitizer are available in abundance and yet there are still people who will destroy a public bathroom and walk out without washing their hands.

I've worn a mask in public for some weeks now as ordered by the governor. Probably a good idea but it's damned annoying and again, too much to ask for some. Work in it a while and you're constantly suffocating. I've found myself standing at the store entrance like a doofus with a counter (not voluntarily) , limiting people from 50 to 75 to 100 and then 200 at the door. Being there reminds me of the blow-up punching bag-clown-thing I had as a kid. You beat the snot out of it and it keeps coming back for more with that same stupid grin painted on. Except in this case nobody can see the grin. My observation on all that: when they put a kid or a woman at the door people just steamroll them. I stand there and a line forms. The vast majority are polite, just want to go to one of the places that are open to buy non-essential crap so they can have things to do while at home. And then there's that vocal minority that want to spew their hatred, stage a loud demonstration, yell politics at me.

If they would let me be an actual bouncer I'd do it for free gladly. Honestly right now I'd love to just pound the living shit out of somebody with a smart mouth.

But curiously after several weeks even the most ardent seem to have have conformed and just line up with the rest of the a******s. Now they don't count anybody. Masks will be the 'new now' and are unlikely to go away anytime soon.

I am sick of politics, completely. My brother likes to spew his hatred of Trump at me. Others want to spew their love of Trump on me. I am done with Gov.Cuomo completely - read up on the nursing home stuff. Not a media creation, I know people directly with horror stories. As I've said, it's like watching the back end of a cow. You can't be surprised at what comes out.

Sick to death if ALL of it.
In the early 1990s I found myself stuck in a shitty job similar to your position. Here I was with a degree in electronics and I was laid off and had to work in a menial position at Toys R Us. What a come down. My immediate supervisor was a young girl fresh out of college who didn’t know her a** from a hole in the ground. I got through it somehow until I found a position with VZ phone company. You just have to grit your teeth and see it through, as tough as that may be.
 

Captain Tinkle

Honorable
The question becomes: how long will the government pay unemployment benefits?

October is the current plan.

I believe in August, companies are going to be expected to contributed 20% towards the cost of the Government paying your wages.

So looking forward to the tax rises next year to pay for all this!
 

nivek

As Above So Below
October is the current plan.

I believe in August, companies are going to be expected to contributed 20% towards the cost of the Government paying your wages.

So looking forward to the tax rises next year to pay for all this!

What percentage of your income are you receiving?...

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nivek

As Above So Below
I haven't had any tests done yet to see if I have or had covid-19, I recently found a site which shows me all of the testing centers close by and their requirements...Some have anti-body testing, some do not offer that...I want to get both tests performed sometime soon...

NC DHHS COVID-19: Find My Testing Place

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nivek

As Above So Below
I have not spoken to anyone directly this day, and to no one outside this forum nor have I left the house for any reason...It feels like the beginning when the coronavirus first started spreading rapidly when we began self-imposed lockdown...There's 30 new cases in the small town near my place, I don't think they had that many new cases in one day before...

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michael59

Celestial
I have not spoken to anyone directly this day, and to no one outside this forum nor have I left the house for any reason...It feels like the beginning when the coronavirus first started spreading rapidly when we began self-imposed lockdown...There's 30 new cases in the small town near my place, I don't think they had that many new cases in one day before...

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I am pretty sure I had it already. Seriously, I had every symptom listed and it lasted about 7-8 weeks. I had already quit smoking and I could not believe that this cold/flu was making me cough louder and harder and more often than I had ever coughed before. I was worried about my heart giving out. One day I would feel on the mend and the next I was sicker than ever. I honestly thought I may die.

Once it passed, then the information about corona virus hit the media worldwide. I haven't done anything to guard myself against it because I honestly think I already had it. I go shopping without a mask or gloves. I don't travel with hand sanitizer or wet wipes of any kind and I wash my hands but, no more than I usually would.

Why do you feel you need to be tested, Nivek? Did you have something similar happen to you?

What about your job? Are they okay about you staying away?
 

nivek

As Above So Below
Why do you feel you need to be tested, Nivek? Did you have something similar happen to you?

What about your job? Are they okay about you staying away?

I wanted to get tested to know for certain if I had it or have it, I don't think I have been exposed to it yet, and never really showed any combined symptoms since this pandemic began, although a few times it's been close calls on exposure with people at work falling ill because of covid-19...When this first started here I stayed out of work for two weeks, then gradually started going back in more and more back to regular hours, now the virus is flaring up again so like it or not at work I'm making the call if it feels safe to be there...If work doesn't like it that's their problem not mine, my life is worth more than that job and I don't want to get the virus unknowingly and spread it to others who would die from it, like my mother...I can get another job without much trouble, I have only one life and I do not want to go out laying in a hospital bed on a ventilator...This isn't fear but common sense and rational reasoning, I don't fear dying, but I'd like to have some say in how I go out if possible lol...

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Standingstones

Celestial
I know that in the county I live in there was a total of one place (a hospital) that did testing for the Corona virus. I had to travel to this hospital and be tested before I had an operation a few months ago.

I had to go in alone to get my test. I had to wear my mask. I went into a secluded room where the nurse or technician pushed a swab up both nostrils. No one took my temperature. Thankfully I was found to be negative to the virus.
 

michael59

Celestial
I wanted to get tested to know for certain if I had it or have it, I don't think I have been exposed to it yet, and never really showed any combined symptoms since this pandemic began, although a few times it's been close calls on exposure with people at work falling ill because of covid-19...When this first started here I stayed out of work for two weeks, then gradually started going back in more and more back to regular hours, now the virus is flaring up again so like it or not at work I'm making the call if it feels safe to be there...If work doesn't like it that's their problem not mine, my life is worth more than that job and I don't want to get the virus unknowingly and spread it to others who would die from it, like my mother...I can get another job without much trouble, I have only one life and I do not want to go out laying in a hospital bed on a ventilator...This isn't fear but common sense and rational reasoning, I don't fear dying, but I'd like to have some say in how I go out if possible lol...

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Well, I know I'm not in danger of spreading it because I keep my distance from everyone just like I am supposed to and I only go out maybe 2 -3 times a month and that's just to get what I need from the stores, but that's a normal amount for me to go out. I like staying home. I have been a bit of a hermit for about 20 years now.
The pharmacist across the street says that the first reported case of the virus here in Alberta was in Calgary in March. I had it in January & February. I told him that there were probably a lot of people like me that don't bother going to a doctor when they think they have a cold or flu. What would be the point?
He asked me how I would have contracted it. I told him I shop at Walmart, everything they sell comes from China.
 

nivek

As Above So Below
Well, I know I'm not in danger of spreading it because I keep my distance from everyone just like I am supposed to and I only go out maybe 2 -3 times a month and that's just to get what I need from the stores, but that's a normal amount for me to go out. I like staying home. I have been a bit of a hermit for about 20 years now.
The pharmacist across the street says that the first reported case of the virus here in Alberta was in Calgary in March. I had it in January & February. I told him that there were probably a lot of people like me that don't bother going to a doctor when they think they have a cold or flu. What would be the point?
He asked me how I would have contracted it. I told him I shop at Walmart, everything they sell comes from China.

Have you been tested?...How do you know for sure you had Covid-19?...It's symptoms are similar to many other viruses, without testing one cannot know for sure...

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nivek

As Above So Below
Nice to be appreciated and a worthy recipient of such credit.

It was very short-lived and insulting in the end...He sent out an email last week stating he was making salary "adjustments" across the board claiming business losses and profit losses necessitated these "adjustments"...He said he was reducing our salaries between 5% to 20% depending on what each of us made and once business was better again he would reinstate that percentage taken...Well everyone I talked to said their salary was cut 20% including mine which took back most of the increase I was recently given...He knew he was going to take it back, I just know he knew it...He lost a couple good people over this "adjustment" and he lost me as well...What he did was quite insulting to me and I cannot get over it, working hard for him only to play with my income this way...He's also been bitching and complaining so much lately about every little thing, talking down to his employees, making the workplace even more stressful than it needs to be, I don't need it...

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Standingstones

Celestial
It was very short-lived and insulting in the end...He sent out an email last week stating he was making salary "adjustments" across the board claiming business losses and profit losses necessitated these "adjustments"...He said he was reducing our salaries between 5% to 20% depending on what each of us made and once business was better again he would reinstate that percentage taken...Well everyone I talked to said their salary was cut 20% including mine which took back most of the increase I was recently given...He knew he was going to take it back, I just know he knew it...He lost a couple good people over this "adjustment" and he lost me as well...What he did was quite insulting to me and I cannot get over it, working hard for him only to play with my income this way...He's also been bitching and complaining so much lately about every little thing, talking down to his employees, making the workplace even more stressful than it needs to be, I don't need it...

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What will happen when this owner starts to lose key managers and employees to his wage cuts. Will he be able to keep the doors open then?
 

michael59

Celestial
It was very short-lived and insulting in the end...He sent out an email last week stating he was making salary "adjustments" across the board claiming business losses and profit losses necessitated these "adjustments"...He said he was reducing our salaries between 5% to 20% depending on what each of us made and once business was better again he would reinstate that percentage taken...Well everyone I talked to said their salary was cut 20% including mine which took back most of the increase I was recently given...He knew he was going to take it back, I just know he knew it...He lost a couple good people over this "adjustment" and he lost me as well...What he did was quite insulting to me and I cannot get over it, working hard for him only to play with my income this way...He's also been bitching and complaining so much lately about every little thing, talking down to his employees, making the workplace even more stressful than it needs to be, I don't need it...

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{{{{{Nivek}}}}}

Gone are the days of appreciation to employees and loyal customers. I am sickened by how many people are being treated the same way you are by their so called formally "terrific" bosses. Especially now when so many people went above and beyond the call of duty to keep their business' running smoothly while their bosses stayed home, safe and protected.

You do realize that this is that time of year where fiscal profits are tallied? It's as though all these bosses took some kind of seminar on how to blame the employee so they can keep from loosing their regular fiscal profit.
 

nivek

As Above So Below
 

pigfarmer

tall, thin, irritable
What will happen when this owner starts to lose key managers and employees to his wage cuts. Will he be able to keep the doors open then?

Whatever managers and especially owners do will be characterized as a win-win and as the solution to a problem. They get to write their own press releases - while their companies swirl around the porcelain.
 

Standingstones

Celestial
One thing I have noticed from past job experiences. Once an employee leaves a company and then returns for a second time, you can bet the farm that person will be leaving again down the road. The reason(s) they left in the first place won’t be corrected the second time around, more than likely.
 
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