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I must admit I'm worried as she's still breathless and is on a course of steroids which will reduce her immunity to other infections - such as the one that happens to be going around at the moment. 111 told her what she has at present "probably" isn't corona virus but obviously, as she isn't a member of royalty or the tory party, no test for her.<br /> <br /> My son is still going to work at his insurance company, which involves a busy train journey. His office was also packed and only permitted any sort of distancing in the last few days*. It would be easy for the company to let him work from home. All of his work, which is casework, is done on one PC, which is a laptop in a docking station. They have homeworking VPNs in place which can access the exact same systems that he works on. He has a steady caseload, so it's not as though he's going to loaf around all day - he couldn't get away with it. I suspect that it's a combination of terror amongst some managers that they'll actually have to do some organising and sheer bloody-mindedness (this is how we do things).<br /> <br /> My daughter, on the other hand, who works for the civil service, was sent home clutching a laptop even before the advice came out.<br /> <br /> *it still barely meets H&S spec for individual space let alone distancing.<div class="edit_text">EDITED: 28 Mar 2020 12:01 by WILLIAMA</div> </div> <div class="message_footer"> <div class="message_footer_links"><a href="lpost.php?webtag=DEFAULT&reply_to=42590.1&return_msg=42590.1" class="reply"><span class="image post"></span>Reply</a></div> <div class="message_vote_form" data-msg="42590.1"> <span class="rating">0/0</span> <span class="image vote vote_down vote_down_off" title="Vote Down"></span> <span class="image vote vote_up vote_up_off" title="Vote Up"></span> </div> </div> </div><a name="a42590_2"></a><div class="message" id="message_42590_2"> <div class="message_header"> <div class="message_from"> From: Dave!!<span class="message_time">28 Mar 2020 12:05</span> <div class="clearer"></div> </div><div class="message_to">To: william (WILLIAMA) <span><span class="image post_read" title="Read: 28 Mar 2020 12:56"></span></span> <span class="message_count">2 of 32</span><div class="clearer"></div> </div> </div> <div class="message_links"> <a href="lmessages.php?webtag=DEFAULT&msg=42590.2">42590.2</a> In reply to <a href="lmessages.php?webtag=DEFAULT&msg=42590.1#a42590_1" target="_self">42590.1</a></div> <div class="message_body"> Both my wife and I are working from home. I've actually been WFH for around 3 years now, so already have a nice setup in my man-cave with a proper desk, 3 screens, dock for my work laptop etc. My wife meanwhile has her own office upstairs (being a university lecturer, she has worked odd days from home in the past). Hence from our point of view, we're both very lucky really.</div> <div class="message_footer"> <div class="message_footer_links"><a href="lpost.php?webtag=DEFAULT&reply_to=42590.2&return_msg=42590.1" class="reply"><span class="image post"></span>Reply</a></div> <div class="message_vote_form" data-msg="42590.2"> <span class="rating">0/0</span> <span class="image vote vote_down vote_down_off" title="Vote Down"></span> <span class="image vote vote_up vote_up_off" title="Vote Up"></span> </div> </div> </div><a name="a42590_3"></a><div class="message" id="message_42590_3"> <div class="message_header"> <div class="message_from"> From: CHYRON (DSMITHHFX)<span class="message_time">28 Mar 2020 12:06</span> <div class="clearer"></div> </div><div class="message_to">To: ALL<span class="message_count">3 of 32</span><div class="clearer"></div> </div> </div> <div class="message_links"> <a href="lmessages.php?webtag=DEFAULT&msg=42590.3">42590.3</a></div> <div class="message_body"> My last day in the office was Monday. I spent most of the rest of the week getting my home software infrastructure up to scratch. Yesterday I did some actual work, and it went pretty smoothly.</div> <div class="message_footer"> <div class="message_footer_links"><a href="lpost.php?webtag=DEFAULT&reply_to=42590.3&return_msg=42590.1" class="reply"><span class="image post"></span>Reply</a></div> <div class="message_vote_form" data-msg="42590.3"> <span class="rating">0/0</span> <span class="image vote vote_down vote_down_off" title="Vote Down"></span> <span class="image vote vote_up vote_up_off" title="Vote Up"></span> </div> </div> </div><a name="a42590_4"></a><div class="message" id="message_42590_4"> <div class="message_header"> <div class="message_from"> From: Matt<span class="message_time">28 Mar 2020 20:52</span> <div class="clearer"></div> </div><div class="message_to">To: william (WILLIAMA) <span><span class="image post_read" title="Read: 28 Mar 2020 21:02"></span></span> <span class="message_count">4 of 32</span><div class="clearer"></div> </div> </div> <div class="message_links"> <a href="lmessages.php?webtag=DEFAULT&msg=42590.4">42590.4</a> In reply to <a href="lmessages.php?webtag=DEFAULT&msg=42590.1#a42590_1" target="_self">42590.1</a></div> <div class="message_body"> Been working from home for over 2 weeks now.<br /> <br /> I had already been WFH at least 1 day a week for the past year, but Pennsylvania's Governor closed all non-essential business in my county so my employer was forced to close the office temporarily.<br /> <br /> The first week Schools here were on Spring Break but they've now also closed too, so Rebecca has joined me in WFH. She however has a much more difficult time as she is a Elementary School Teacher who is now spending most of her day trying to keep 7-8 years old focused via Zoom, while answering emails and supporting her colleagues as they try to work out how to use online teaching resources.</div> <div class="message_footer"> <div class="message_footer_links"><a href="lpost.php?webtag=DEFAULT&reply_to=42590.4&return_msg=42590.1" class="reply"><span class="image post"></span>Reply</a></div> <div class="message_vote_form" data-msg="42590.4"> <span class="rating">0/0</span> <span class="image vote vote_down vote_down_off" title="Vote Down"></span> <span class="image vote vote_up vote_up_off" title="Vote Up"></span> </div> </div> </div><a name="a42590_5"></a><div class="message" id="message_42590_5"> <div class="message_header"> <div class="message_from"> From: william (WILLIAMA)<span class="message_time">29 Mar 2020 10:47</span> <div class="clearer"></div> </div><div class="message_to">To: ALL<span class="message_count">5 of 32</span><div class="clearer"></div> </div> </div> <div class="message_links"> <a href="lmessages.php?webtag=DEFAULT&msg=42590.5">42590.5</a> In reply to <a href="lmessages.php?webtag=DEFAULT&msg=42590.1#a42590_4" target="_self">42590.4</a></div> <div class="message_body"> TBH it's not such a big deal for me either. Heading towards my 4th year of retirement and on a daily basis, my trips into the outside world have largely been 1) walking around the area 2) shopping. Although both of these are curtailed by the emergency powers, and the fact that there's no point in going to the local shops and queuing for eggs that they haven't got, that remains the same. I can still do both of these, although I have no wish to be attacked by a drone or the local plod, so I tend to restrict my walking to one outing a day and a bit less than I used to. <br /> <br /> Spend a lot of time online and watch less and less TV, except in the evenings when we binge on box sets. Currently just about to finish <em>Lost</em> again. Doing odd things around the house, but then I was doing that anyway. Yesterday bleached the ceilings in the bathroom and the little en-suite shower room where some mould was beginning to appear (that was a treat!), and the day before I gave the garden gate its 6-monthly refresh of stain and preservative (I know how to live). Today I will probably investigate searching and finding files on usenet. <br /> <br /> I have observed some of our neighbours who are under the impression that the back garden is a safe zone where no viruses may spread. This would explain how they can congregate for drinks and a natter on a Saturday afternoon as though all's well with the world. I could be generous and assume that they were all actually self-isolating households and hence safe to meet up. But I suspect that they are the people who bought all the bog roll and are now panicking over where to store the 17 tins of Borlotti beans they don't know what to do with.</div> <div class="message_footer"> <div class="message_footer_links"><a href="lpost.php?webtag=DEFAULT&reply_to=42590.5&return_msg=42590.1" class="reply"><span class="image post"></span>Reply</a></div> <div class="message_vote_form" data-msg="42590.5"> <span class="rating">0/0</span> <span class="image vote vote_down vote_down_off" title="Vote Down"></span> <span class="image vote vote_up vote_up_off" title="Vote Up"></span> </div> </div> </div><a name="a42590_6"></a><div class="message" id="message_42590_6"> <div class="message_header"> <div class="message_from"> From: Manthorp<span class="message_time">29 Mar 2020 12:39</span> <div class="clearer"></div> </div><div class="message_to">To: william (WILLIAMA) <span><span class="image post_read" title="Read: 29 Mar 2020 13:23"></span></span> <span class="message_count">6 of 32</span><div class="clearer"></div> </div> </div> <div class="message_links"> <a href="lmessages.php?webtag=DEFAULT&msg=42590.6">42590.6</a> In reply to <a href="lmessages.php?webtag=DEFAULT&msg=42590.1#a42590_1" target="_self">42590.1</a></div> <div class="message_body"> God, that's dreadful. Love to you both.<br /> <br /> I sent myself packing a week before the Uni did, and took a week's holiday last week anyway.</div> <div class="message_footer"> <div class="message_footer_links"><a href="lpost.php?webtag=DEFAULT&reply_to=42590.6&return_msg=42590.1" class="reply"><span class="image post"></span>Reply</a></div> <div class="message_vote_form" data-msg="42590.6"> <span class="rating">0/0</span> <span class="image vote vote_down vote_down_off" title="Vote Down"></span> <span class="image vote vote_up vote_up_off" title="Vote Up"></span> </div> </div> </div><a name="a42590_7"></a><div class="message" id="message_42590_7"> <div class="message_header"> <div class="message_from"> From: william (WILLIAMA)<span class="message_time">29 Mar 2020 14:41</span> <div class="clearer"></div> </div><div class="message_to">To: Manthorp <span><span class="image post_read" title="Read: 30 Mar 2020 09:57"></span></span> <span class="message_count">7 of 32</span><div class="clearer"></div> </div> </div> <div class="message_links"> <a href="lmessages.php?webtag=DEFAULT&msg=42590.7">42590.7</a> In reply to <a href="lmessages.php?webtag=DEFAULT&msg=42590.1#a42590_6" target="_self">42590.6</a></div> <div class="message_body"> Some responses from employers has been as dreadful as you might imagine. The usual suspects such as Tim Martin and Mike Ashley have been beaten into behaving properly, or at least better, but probably don't really understand why they're being criticised. There are others, such as Hastings Direct, where my son works, who are keeping quiet and flying under the radar because they can get away with it. Plenty of other businesses are doing the same. Business as usual but a handful of sympathetic sounding emails with platitudes about 'this difficult time' etc. <br /> <br /> My wife is in a difficult position. She had/has a bad chest infection, but she works in a psychiatric unit and simply can't take endless time off, because it's a mixed unit which can't close. If she takes time off the pressure on other staff rises. She tells me that she intends to spend as much time as possible tucked out of sight in an office.<br /> <br /> But it's not all gloom and disaster. My daughter works for the excitingly named Dept for business energy & industrial strategy. When the first hints of the virus were around, their boss was telling them to prepare for home working and they were out of the office, lickety spit, way ahead of the lockdown. <div class="edit_text">EDITED: 29 Mar 2020 14:41 by WILLIAMA</div> </div> <div class="message_footer"> <div class="message_footer_links"><a href="lpost.php?webtag=DEFAULT&reply_to=42590.7&return_msg=42590.1" class="reply"><span class="image post"></span>Reply</a></div> <div class="message_vote_form" data-msg="42590.7"> <span class="rating">0/0</span> <span class="image vote vote_down vote_down_off" title="Vote Down"></span> <span class="image vote vote_up vote_up_off" title="Vote Up"></span> </div> </div> </div><a name="a42590_8"></a><div class="message" id="message_42590_8"> <div class="message_header"> <div class="message_from"> From: milko<span class="message_time">29 Mar 2020 21:31</span> <div class="clearer"></div> </div><div class="message_to">To: ALL<span class="message_count">8 of 32</span><div class="clearer"></div> </div> </div> <div class="message_links"> <a href="lmessages.php?webtag=DEFAULT&msg=42590.8">42590.8</a></div> <div class="message_body"> We were out of the office about a week or so ahead of the official word, so that was nice. I had approx two thirds of a day working with the house to myself, blissful concentration at the desk I recently built, it was lovely. Then the school sent my boy home with a fever, which we suffered for a few days before the doc diagnosed an ear infection by phone and prescribed antibiotics, that took about a day or so to see it off. So yeah, a week ahead of the school lockdown I was already doing the childcare plus work thing, fun times. Then they shut the school and at least Tina also got sent home so we can do split shifts. And now I reckon I’m on approx day 5 of having COVID-19, although I can’t really fathom how, maybe I incubated for a full 2 weeks? I’ve barely left the house or anything otherwise. Bah. </div> <div class="message_footer"> <div class="message_footer_links"><a href="lpost.php?webtag=DEFAULT&reply_to=42590.8&return_msg=42590.1" class="reply"><span class="image post"></span>Reply</a></div> <div class="message_vote_form" data-msg="42590.8"> <span class="rating">0/0</span> <span class="image vote vote_down vote_down_off" title="Vote Down"></span> <span class="image vote vote_up vote_up_off" title="Vote Up"></span> </div> </div> </div><a name="a42590_9"></a><div class="message" id="message_42590_9"> <div class="message_header"> <div class="message_from"> From: milko<span class="message_time">29 Mar 2020 21:33</span> <div class="clearer"></div> </div><div class="message_to">To: milko <span><span class="image post_read" title="Read: 29 Mar 2020 21:33"></span></span> <span class="message_count">9 of 32</span><div class="clearer"></div> </div> </div> <div class="message_links"> <a href="lmessages.php?webtag=DEFAULT&msg=42590.9">42590.9</a> In reply to <a href="lmessages.php?webtag=DEFAULT&msg=42590.1#a42590_8" target="_self">42590.8</a></div> <div class="message_body"> Oh yeah I probably will be furloughed this coming week too. Just hoping the business survives really, we rely on professional sport and things like flagship retail stores that are very much not key infrastructure so it kinda sucks for us right now. Not the most important thing by a million miles, but still a thing. </div> <div class="message_footer"> <div class="message_footer_links"><a href="lpost.php?webtag=DEFAULT&reply_to=42590.9&return_msg=42590.1" class="reply"><span class="image post"></span>Reply</a></div> <div class="message_vote_form" data-msg="42590.9"> <span class="rating">0/0</span> <span class="image vote vote_down vote_down_off" title="Vote Down"></span> <span class="image vote vote_up vote_up_off" title="Vote Up"></span> </div> </div> </div><a name="a42590_10"></a><div class="message" id="message_42590_10"> <div class="message_header"> <div class="message_from"> From: Kenny J (WINGNUTKJ)<span class="message_time">30 Mar 2020 08:25</span> <div class="clearer"></div> </div><div class="message_to">To: milko <span><span class="image post_read" title="Read: 30 Mar 2020 13:24"></span></span> <span class="message_count">10 of 32</span><div class="clearer"></div> </div> </div> <div class="message_links"> <a href="lmessages.php?webtag=DEFAULT&msg=42590.10">42590.10</a> In reply to <a href="lmessages.php?webtag=DEFAULT&msg=42590.1#a42590_9" target="_self">42590.9</a></div> <div class="message_body"> Sorry to hear of your woes Milko. Hope your symptoms clear up soon. As far as your work goes, any luck in getting your animated boards mounted on large autonomous airships which broadcast slogans like "STAY THE FUCK HOME", "REALLY STAY THE FUCK HOME" and "A NEW LIFE AWAITS YOU IN THE OFF-WORLD COLONIES"?</div> <div class="message_footer"> <div class="message_footer_links"><a href="lpost.php?webtag=DEFAULT&reply_to=42590.10&return_msg=42590.1" class="reply"><span class="image post"></span>Reply</a></div> <div class="message_vote_form" data-msg="42590.10"> <span class="rating">+1/1</span> <span class="image vote vote_down vote_down_off" title="Vote Down"></span> <span class="image vote vote_up vote_up_off" title="Vote Up"></span> </div> </div> </div></div> <div class="message_page_footer"> <ul> <li class="right_col"><form accept-charset="utf-8" method="get" action="lmessages.php" target="_self"><input type="hidden" name="webtag" id="webtag" class="bhinputtext" value="DEFAULT" dir="ltr" /><input type="hidden" name="msg" id="msg" class="bhinputtext" value="42590.11" dir="ltr" /><input type="submit" name="submit" id="keep_reading" value="Keep reading…" class="button" /></form></li> </ul> </div> </div> </body>