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Re: Corona Virus

Posted: Wed Feb 12, 2020 1:59 pm
by Loralei
We have three Chinese boarding students booked in for half term and we've already been asked to keep rooms free for them at Easter as the school have said they can't go home (or, more specifically, if they go home they can't come back until the outbreak is over). I feel so sorry for them; they only get to go home three times a year as it is so to miss one of those visits must be gutting. Although they're teenagers so maybe not :))

Re: Corona Virus

Posted: Wed Feb 12, 2020 2:36 pm
by Bat Macdui
Poor K brother. I think I'd find that really claustrophobic and frustrating.

Re: Corona Virus

Posted: Wed Feb 12, 2020 2:53 pm
by Topcat
I'd be more pissed at the dinners than I would the time off. For some reason I thought they would be living it right up.

Re: Corona Virus

Posted: Wed Feb 12, 2020 3:23 pm
by emma_p
I saw your brother's photos of the food on offer on his twitter account. Grim! I hope the end is in sight for him soon.

My cousin and her family live in Singapore and they are having to take their temperature three times a day and submit the results to a government agency. Eeek.

Re: Corona Virus

Posted: Wed Feb 12, 2020 3:56 pm
by smalex
Really! My cousin and his wife live in Singapore too. I haven't heard they've had to do that (not that I'd be the first person they'd tell!).

Re: Corona Virus

Posted: Wed Feb 12, 2020 4:04 pm
by Froozy
Oh no! I think my aunt and uncle are visiting my cousins in Singapore right now. (It's clearly a Turtle cousin enclave!)

Re: Corona Virus

Posted: Wed Feb 12, 2020 6:22 pm
by Marth
That poor Walsh bloke. Anyone would think from the media reporting he was roving around infecting old ill people for laughs.

I am antibacing more often at work as I pass through a very busy transport hub constantly throughout the day.

We all got our temperatures taken in Venice airport as we went through passport control.

Re: Corona Virus

Posted: Wed Feb 12, 2020 8:31 pm
by Kenickie
My brother's getting out tomorrow (with everyone else). They've finally tested them all and none of them have it.

I definitely feel sorry for that guy. It's the virus that's at fault, not him!

Re: Corona Virus

Posted: Thu Feb 13, 2020 8:49 am
by nineseven
Did they have to wait for the incubation period to be over to test them? Have I just made up the phrase “incubation period”? I bet he’s happy to be escaping, Ken!

Re: Corona Virus

Posted: Thu Feb 13, 2020 9:30 am
by Kenickie
No, other countries were testing on arrival.

He's definitely very happy to be getting out!

Re: Corona Virus

Posted: Thu Feb 13, 2020 9:46 am
by Bat Macdui
Yay for free brother!

Re: Corona Virus

Posted: Thu Feb 13, 2020 9:59 am
by Lily
Hoorah! I was going to release a single in the style of the Specials: "Freeeee- KenIckie's BROTher...." :sing:

Re: Corona Virus

Posted: Thu Feb 13, 2020 9:59 am
by Lily
Marth wrote: Wed Feb 12, 2020 6:22 pm That poor Walsh bloke. Anyone would think from the media reporting he was roving around infecting old ill people for laughs.
I can't believe he was even named. How is that legal?

Re: Corona Virus

Posted: Fri Feb 14, 2020 11:53 am
by Figaro
I think he contacted the press himself, as far as I'm aware. It has been a bit odd that so many others have been named including one of the GPs and a child. I hope they have all consented.

Re: Corona Virus

Posted: Fri Feb 14, 2020 8:36 pm
by rosy
There's a programme on C4 just starting now (or on +1 at 8.30) which seems (from the first two minutes) to be stoking up fear and panic - NHS can't cope, people are dying on the streets in Wuhan... It doesn't seem to be particularly troubled by actual facts, just innuendo.

Re: Corona Virus

Posted: Fri Feb 14, 2020 8:57 pm
by Lily
Why would he contact the press himself, the halfwit?

Re: Corona Virus

Posted: Wed Feb 26, 2020 11:54 am
by Zoomer
My work jolly to Panama has been cancelled because of this mofo. :tantrum:

Re: Corona Virus

Posted: Wed Feb 26, 2020 12:19 pm
by Glint
Zooms :(

Mr G is wondering if his will be called off too, but his is just to Ams next week. The Italians aren't going anymore.

Re: Corona Virus

Posted: Wed Feb 26, 2020 12:29 pm
by Lily
Gutting! I'm sorry to hear this.

Re: Corona Virus

Posted: Wed Feb 26, 2020 1:00 pm
by Texaco Shirley
My friend has just got back from Milan with a cold and is declaring that the world has gone mad because she’s expected to self isolate :ella: I bet she would be singing a different tune if it was someone else she could then be in contact with.