New coronavirus in/from China

[vtsnowedin]

They are beginning to bring out the bad news now.

Between 160 million and 214 million people in the U.S. could be infected over the course of the epidemic, according to one projection. That could last months or even over a year, with infections concentrated in shorter periods, staggered across time in different communities, experts said. As many as 200,000 to 1.7 million people could die.

And, the calculations based on the C.D.C.’s scenarios suggested, 2.4 million to 21 million people in the U.S. could require hospitalization, potentially crushing the nation’s medical system, which has only about 925,000 staffed hospital beds. Fewer than a tenth of those are for people who are critically ill.

https://dnyuz.com/2020/03/13/the-worst- ... us-deaths/

[UndercoverElephant]

The Likely Beneficiaries replied:

We've had a long family meeting where we all gave it LOTS of thought, and everyone's decided to come to visit Gran daily, before any horrible lockdown, (and while there's still cash in her bank account from the house sale. Cough, cough)

I am in precisely this situation. My mother went into a nursing home last week. Has dementia and a leg ulcer that has been getting worse for 2 years. She has savings that will pay for about 8 months of care, and a house worth about £500K.

We saw her yesterday, maybe for the last time.

[adam2]

The Likely Beneficiaries replied:

We've had a long family meeting where we all gave it LOTS of thought, and everyone's decided to come to visit Gran daily, before any horrible lockdown, (and while there's still cash in her bank account from the house sale. Cough, cough)

I am in precisely this situation. My mother went into a nursing home last week. Has dementia and a leg ulcer that has been getting worse for 2 years. She has savings that will pay for about 8 months of care, and a house worth about £500K.

We saw her yesterday, maybe for the last time.

So sorry to hear that.
Regarding the house, it is presumably empty and therefore vulnerable to burglars or squatters. You may need to arrange extra insurance cover against such.
Most household insurance is void if the property is empty for more 28 days, or one month.
Hopefully you, or someone else sensible has power of attorney ? Anyone elderly, with dementia, and owning property is vulnerable to various scams and frauds.

[PS_RalphW]

Just visited Morrisons. Flour shelves completely empty

[clv101]

We've cancelled another event. Total personal cost to us is now at least £700 in lost income.

[Vortex2]

Just visited Morrisons. Flour shelves completely empty

Same here - found some expensive posh stuff in a farm shop.

Luckily it's the only key thing we forgot.

[stumuz1]

My company has just sent this to all clients and everyone on the e-mail list.


We have been monitoring and reviewing the current situation and have decided to put in place specific social distancing measures as advised by the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control in order to manage the resulting risks and mitigate the risk of spread of COVID-19 (Coronavirus).

This includes cancellation of non-essential travel and suspension of all visits to customer sites with immediate effect, until further notice. Wherever possible, we are offering customer meetings to be "online" rather than face-to-face.

[stumuz1]

One good thing to come out of all this is that the Buy-To-Let landlords might regret their life choices.

That was the idea in 2008.

You bailed the Buy-To-Let landlords, via tax payer bank bailouts.

They thank you very much.

BTW, i would love to see the BTLer's trashed, it should have happened 12 years ago.

That's how capitalism works.

US Fed to print 4.5 TRILLION DOLLARS IN THE NEXT 4 WEEKS!!

Chware teg as we say in ancient British.

[eatyourveg]

We've cancelled another event. Total personal cost to us is now at least £700 in lost income.

Ha ha peanuts, I'm in for more like £40k but still smiling, in a maniacal lost it sort of way.

[Vortex2]

The World Health Organisation has acknowledged that the crisis is generating stress,

Is it really? Hadn't noticed personally. <sound of maniacal laughter>

[Vortex2]

New Dr Campbell video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BYTFk34nhoI

He fully supports the Boris action plan .. you know, the one which contains no actions.

Dr Campbell seems to totally respect his betters.

One thing : exactly what was done in the now passed 'containment phase'?

[Vortex2]

YouTube comment: "I think they are going long on graves, short on ventilators".

[Mean Mr Mustard II]

Most household insurance is void if the property is empty for more 28 days, or one month.

Being an executor at the moment, I can confirm there is specialist insurance for unoccupied houses. Essentially buildings cover, due to the house being cleared right down to floorboards.

[Mean Mr Mustard II]

New Dr Campbell video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BYTFk34nhoI

He fully supports the Boris action plan .. you know, the one which contains no actions.

Dr Campbell seems to totally respect his betters.

One thing : exactly what was done in the now passed 'containment phase'?

Perhaps he's prioritising continuing to broadcast his good info when it really counts, over having digs at the Powers That Be, only to get shut down for dissent by the Digital Police State.

[Initiation]

A big increase:

As of 9am 13 March 2020, a total of 32,771 people have been tested:

31,973 negative
798 positive