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lemonjelly said:
I'm on a main road and been feeling the same. Also, I ca't understand why there are still cars out and about after 8/8.30. Everything is shut then, so where the fuck you off to?

House opposite us has had visitors every day now for 4 days. One guy in his van (though today it was a car). They brought a mattress with them one day this week, and took it into the house. today, 3 people visited and went in. when they left, on of the visitors stayed, and someone from the house went with them.
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I'd seriously consider reporting that.
 
lemonjelly said:
I'm on a main road and been feeling the same. Also, I ca't understand why there are still cars out and about after 8/8.30. Everything is shut then, so where the fuck you off to?

House opposite us has had visitors every day now for 4 days. One guy in his van (though today it was a car). They brought a mattress with them one day this week, and took it into the house. today, 3 people visited and went in. when they left, on of the visitors stayed, and someone from the house went with them.
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I've seen kids having a chat to each other from opposite sides of the road round here. The demographic of who isn't playing by the rules is very very clear.

Worst generation in history.
 
Paddingtonwolf said:
Hospitals don't shut then and so have shift changes.
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Plenty of industries will still be working night shifts, going to be a lot of logistical work gone into overtime to try and cover for shortfall elsewhere in these conditions. Even some construction sites working considerably longer hours and introducing shifts as a way to maintain the 2m distancing and get some worthwhile output.
 
Quite - my place was thinking of going to two shifts of production, but we are now short of manpower as the MD has furloughed anybody either in the high risk group or with a member of the household in the same boat.
 
Jabbawolf said:
Is spend going up, or are you just getting a bigger share of wallet with other licensed premises closed?
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Good question. I don't have a definitive answer. Our biggest sales were when bars were still open and people were preparing for "lockdown". Now that bars are closed we are not gaining customers, it's just people spending more per visit. The big joke currently going around is "This is the third time this week I have bought two weeks worth of liquor". So for two weeks there absolutely was a huge amount of increased spending, but I do not know how much the closing of bars has affected that.
 
Have to keep telling myself how lucky I am compared to most - same 4 walls, but have space outside in the garden to get away from those & some (fairly empty) open space not too far away if I want a different view & a bit of exercise.

With the pension arrangements I have then more secure financially than the vast majority of the population (if I get in problems with money then the whole country is completely fucked)

Doesn't stop you having 'down' times though - not been nearer than 6 ft from anyone else for at least 10 days & phone calls/skype/whatsapp talks are not the same at all.

Not particularly anti or pro this Gov't but there are things they could (& still can) do to improve this situation.
 
I haven't actually seen anyone (bar paying shop staff, and my lovely Asda delivery driver who is a really nice guy) since the Brighton game. Like I've said, I place a lot of value on my friendships and relationships with people as I've had to totally rebuild all that since I was totally fucked up. I like to think I'm a decent bloke to have a pint with if nothing else. And now I don't have any of it, except remotely. So it's tough.

But - I've got through way, way, way worse shit than this. So I'll come out of this the right way as well.
 
STates of Jersey announces that the construction industry in Jersey closes on Friday 3 April with the exception of infrastructure works. All other construction activities will be considered and permission given by the States on a case by case basis. States of Jersey will bankroll construction workers pay to the tune of £200 per week.
 
I am now effectively housebound. Work is making a decision on furlough. Likely to be home for a while. If anyone just wants a chat, face time , cheering up or a rant pm me and you can have my number.
I am avoiding the news as its repetitively depressing. Now on my second season of pes 2020. Wolves won the cup,ceuropa league and were second in the league BTW. Just sold Raul for 90 m close season and bought some rapid replacements. Sold Rui for 29 m too. Sorry, speculate to accumulate. Moutinho got snapped up for 34m in the January transfer window! Good price for a 34 year old.

I know its not real but its fun!
 
2nd week of furlough. State of Georgia has just issued a 'shelter in place' for the next 2 weeks.
Looks like I won't be going back to work anytime soon.
Just received a text from the kids high school stating that their school year has ended and probably won't physically go back to school till August!
 
My furlough kicks in officially from Monday, but today was my last day at site. Daily video call to attend from home tomorrow and Friday and that's it. Been told to expect it to be 8 weeks off, but at times may get taken in and out of furlough depending if something needs doing. Going to have to find a hobby
 
One of the flats in my building of 8 is being renovated. Owners/plumbers/sparkys/plasters in and out all day for a week or more. One of them collard me on the stairs, I was willing to be polite but he started going on about how the virus will die out in the summer. Humph
 
Deutsch Wolf said:
Christ, Toby Young is a piece of shit.

https://twitter.com/toadmeister/status/1244966049117765632

Not breaking news I know.
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This isn't a "debate": this is intellectual garbage disposal. No credible economist denies there are tradeoffs/lockdowns have costs. Equally, strong consensus among economists that current lockdown is clearly justified; difficult tradeoffs are down the line. Toby Young's piece makes a sensible debate harder in 2 ways (gives CBA a bad name, and injects common and gross errors into the mix
Jonathan Portes
Professor of Economics, King's College London; Senior Fellow, UK in a Changing Europe
 
Deutsch Wolf said:
It shouldn't be really...basically my own existing health issues don't get impacted by this. I had good days and bad days six weeks ago, it happens now. But the thing is then I could think "well this is shit, but I'm doing xyz in the next few days/weeks, I'm seeing so and so, it'll all be worth it". There isn't any of that now so I was just musing on how futile things seem at the moment.

As I say, existing for the sake of it - it gets very much magnified for me as I'm on my own, no-one depends on me, I'm not actually doing anything at the moment work-wise so I'm just here and nothing else. It's like our crappy midfields of the 1990s - there's a body in the shirt and they're filling space on the pitch at any given moment, but they aren't contributing anything to the piece, they have zero value.

If you have weeks or even months of this, and the only battle really is whether you can keep your fridge moderately stocked, and there's nothing at all on the horizon bar more of the same...I think a lot more people will start to question it too. Not just the likes of me who 30%+ of the time don't even enjoy life when everything is normal.
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This has been preying on my mind the last couple of nights. Having suffered with long term mental health issues, and now having to learn to deal with the late on-set of epilepsy at just the right moment in time and hey, why not throw insomnia into the mix and I can empathise with any struggles
you're currently enduring.

You've got a large network of friends on here, I think it's true to say youre one of the most loved posters on the site and I'm sure that they will do everything they can to support you in any way they can.

From a purely selfish point of view, I'd be happy for you to spend the entire lockdown sharing any, and all of your thoughts on the club I love that.

No one quite manages to encapsulate what it means to be a Wolves fan quite like you can. Not only do you have an encyclopedic knowledge of all things Wolves that doesnt require the use of Google, you have the rare ability to express the full gamut of football fan emotions in a way that we can all relate to that is entertaining, informative, concise, rich and detailed and that frequently puts fully paid up professional journalists to shame.

I've rarely, if ever read you get anything wrong. It's not a case of always agreeing with everything you've ever put down, if everyone automatically shared the same opinions the world would be a very boring place, it's more that whilst sometimes it may take time, your opinions consistently turn out to be the most well thought out, the most accurate and the most justified.

Counter productively, I'd give my right arm to be able to write the way you're capable of.

On a less selfish note and given your ability to accurately predict Wolves outcomes with signings, results and managers a well as a host of other subjects, have you ever applied to join this project?
https://www.gjopen.com/

"Good Judgment Open is owned and operated by Good Judgment, a forecasting services firm that equips corporate and government decision makers with the benefit of foresight.

Good Judgment’s co-founder, Philip Tetlock, literally wrote the book on state-of-the-art crowd-sourced forecasting."

It was started after but not necessarily because the military intelligence community got the call on Iraqi WMD's so badly wrong. People do it more or less for fun, my understanding of the original project was that you commit to x ammount of time a month to read up on certain subjects and then predict the likelihood of future outcomes, such as https://www.gjopen.com/questions/1542-how-many-fatalities-caused-by-the-wuhan-coronavirus-covid-19-will-the-world-health-organization-who-report-as-of-1-june-2020 Even if you don't decide to volunteer, I think the site makes an interesting read.

Good luck with it if you do get involved, and if not, never forget the pleasure that your unique way of
expressing your thinking on Wolves gives to hundreds, if not thousands of other Wolverhampton Wanderers fans. It's something I don't think I've ever said thankyou for. Shouldn't really take a global pandemic to get round to saying something as simple as Thanks to someone you take for granted, but I suspect I'm not alone in finding myself trying to address that with a few people at the moment.
 
Rui_CostCo said:
Good luck with it if you do get involved, and if not, never forget the pleasure that your unique way of
expressing your thinking on Wolves gives to hundreds, if not thousands of other Wolverhampton Wanderers fans. It's something I don't think I've ever said thankyou for. Shouldn't really take a global pandemic to get round to saying something as simple as Thanks to someone you take for granted, but I suspect I'm not alone in finding myself trying to address that with a few people at the moment.
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Well said Rui, I agree wholeheartedly.
 
Not sure where you all live but Penn is quiet. Made very few ventures to the Penn road but when I have it is quiet. When I’m walking the dog everyone crosses over onto opposite sides. I see sons dropping off stuff to their elderly parents but they talk to each other through a window. If there’s people talking to each other in the street they are miles away from each other, sometimes on opposite sides of the road.

Yesterday went in Tesco express which was the first time I’d been inside any building that wasn’t my house since pre lockdown (managed 9 days with the previous big shop), and it was again quiet, mostly well stocked with social distancing lines everywhere.

So I’ve not been anywhere central to see how “busy” places are but round me it’s very quiet.
 
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