Coronavirus

Quoted from ska face

Denmark -
🇩🇰 Danish state will pay 75% of the salaries of laid off workers (so long as they’re not fired)
🇩🇰 ceiling is 23000 Danish Crowns per month (£2800)
🇩🇰 government picks up bill from employers for sick pay

Norway -
🇳🇴 Full pay for those laid off for 20 days.
🇳🇴 Self employed get 80% of their average income the last 3 years - ceiling 600k NOK (£48000).
🇳🇴money for carers of Covid patients.

Sweden -
🇸🇪 (£25bn) package. Includes measures for those affected by COVID19
🇸🇪 Laid off workers guaranteed 90% of their income.
🇸🇪 Govt will pay 50% of that and the employer picks up the other half
🇸🇪 govt will pay sick pay, rather than employer

Italy -
🇮🇹 Mortgages suspended
🇮🇹 Rent suspended
🇮🇹 Household bills suspended

South Korea -
🇰🇷 Aggressive testing (20,000 tests daily, "drive through" testing)/isolation
🇰🇷 School holiday extended
🇰🇷 Large events cancelled
🇰🇷 Free drive-in testing for all with results texted the next day


U.K. -
🇬🇧 Squash the sombrero

Pathetic.

I assume then that you will be emigrating to Denmark then?

Finland -
🇫🇮 Public gatherings limited to 10 people.
🇫🇮 Schools and universities closed.
🇫🇮 borders closed.
🇫🇮 State & municipal cultural institutions closed.
🇫🇮 Prohibition on visiting elderly people.

Quoted from Croxton

I will be social distancing from The Fishy from now on due to the puerile politicising by Ska Face. Thanks for your efforts Rob and my very best wishes to all who are most at risk for whatever reason. Many posters have tried to inject some positivity, humour and helpful comments  but Ska has single handedly tipped the balance towards the twitterisation of a once great forum.  

Does the truth frighten you that much?
Don’t go to the pub but send you kids to school? None of it makes sense,
Someone pointing out that the government is following a completely different path to every other country. More wish washy advice today . No one trusts Johnson and the health secretary Hancock looks like a rabbit in the headlights.
We have known this is coming but the planning and foresight seems to have been totally lacking

It’s no good pointing out all those facts about what other governments are doing to help their people Ska. People don’t want to believe facts. They’ll only dismiss it by saying something like “but  the Soviet Union collapsed”, and “don’t politicise” a crisis as if politics had nothing to do with government decision making.

Quoted from Croxton

I will be social distancing from The Fishy from now on due to the puerile politicising by Ska Face. Thanks for your efforts Rob and my very best wishes to all who are most at risk for whatever reason. Many posters have tried to inject some positivity, humour and helpful comments  but Ska has single handedly tipped the balance towards the twitterisation of a once great forum.  

I feel he has provided factual information entwined with humour. Also, he has managed to point out what a completely arrogant and self serving PM we currently have. His blundering approach to the current crisis we face will be magnified as the drastically under funded NHS (through ten years of austerity) will come under immense strain.

Quoted from Croxton

I will be social distancing from The Fishy from now on due to the puerile politicising by Ska Face. Thanks for your efforts Rob and my very best wishes to all who are most at risk for whatever reason. Many posters have tried to inject some positivity, humour and helpful comments  but Ska has single handedly tipped the balance towards the twitterisation of a once great forum.  

Quite pathetic tbh.
The government should be questioned & rightly so.
Certainly hasn't politicised the discussion,rather questioned the UK approach in regards to the actions of others.
A case of not hearing what the poster likes,sulking and disappearing.

Boris got it wrong with herd immunity, because the virus is not harmless it will kill people.

What we should do is CLOSE borders to protect US, for once care about US instead of GDP.

The virus is only curable by the immune system there is no cure, if you get pneumonia then go see a doctor because that is treatable with antibiotics.

intercourse the Chinese government its their fault tbh

Quoted from Mayaman

Cuba has been marginally successful.  One of the best health care systems on the planet. One of the highest rates of literacy on the planet. Some of the best music on the planet . All achieved with sanctions from it's bully boy neighbour.  Not all sweetness and light though but name a country that has it. Kerala  in India is also a state with an elected social government.  The only state in India with free schooling.  When you cross the border with Karnatka you see a massive difference.

I've been to Havana ( the relatively wealthy and successful bit of their country) if that's success I'd hate to see a failed communist state. Dirt poor and laughably understocked shops that lìterally celebrate having anything to sell at all.

Quoted from hheh2

Boris got it wrong with herd immunity, because the virus is not harmless it will kill people.

What we should do is CLOSE borders to protect US, for once care about US instead of GDP.

The virus is only curable by the immune system there is no cure, if you get pneumonia then go see a doctor because that is treatable with antibiotics.

intercourse the Chinese government its their fault tbh

This virus causes pneumonia. Pneumonia is just the Latin name for inflammation of the lungs. It is a condition normally caused by an infection but that could be bacterial, viral or even fungal. Antibiotics will only work if you've got a bacterial infection. You are right that there is currently no cure.

Can't believe the backlash ska is receiving for pointing out the pathetic dithering of Boris and his "advisers". Still we are no clearer today despite the latest round of advice. It's pretty much asking us to self mangage and self isolate, with no clear instructions or steps to force people do what should be done. We have queues of people at supermarkets waiting to get in so they can literally come to blows over bog roll and pasta. People being told they are to be laid off for up to eight weeks with no pay and not a single mention of any financial help from the Government. They are asking folk to stay at home and not travel, but should still go out and exercise.

I watched the news tonight and was literally gobsmacked by what i was seeing. While the rest of Europe locks down it's citizens and puts financial plans in pace to help those who need help, we bumble along asking people to do the right thing and offering no help whatsoever for people to do so.