Good point re Cucking, thoughtless of me

Yup, pm me

Solid advice, thanks, shall do as you suggest.

As a woman, I can step aside, or step up my game...

Or we could just try funding the NHS properly.

Essentially we’re in for another 10 years of austerity after this. Minimum. However as some like to think ‘this is the beginning of the end’ good luck with that. The system will survive at the expense of the commoner just like it always has for centuries. Millennia.

Anyway - onto the how is it going to affect the working man - one really interesting development coming out of this (and I do return to this often but only because it’s just around the corner and alarming how little people are aware of the scope creep even today) companies are now front loading investment in automation and AI that they were previously punting further down the road. Debt and austerity should be the least of people’s concerns - if you have young kids you need to think hard about the path they will need to take to go with rather than against the grain of work over the next 40 years.

It ain’t going to be accounting that’s for sure. It’s not just the working man that’s in the firing line - the public school default job of choice will be no longer in the not very distant future. I should know. I’m working on the products that will create those job losses this very minute.

Finally the mass social and behavioural changes that will come out of this and last long after we ‘return to normal’ are going to be fascinating to observe.

For example - how long will it take for people to not react immediately to a cough or sneeze with paranoia and or stigma. Or at best make a joke every time someone is ill?

Edited by SW19 CPFC (03 Apr 2020 12.37am)

Did you know? 98.0000001% of people are morons.

We also need to recognise the value of people ... particularly, all our lower paid citizens who are working hard to keep the nation going.

Twelve years ago, we (the taxpayer) bailed out the Banks to the tune of tens of billions to keep them from going under. It would be nice to see some combined response from them to help out in this crisis. Payment holidays are only 3 deferred payments plus interest.

It would be wonderful to see more self suffiency and local initiatives to provide jobs here and to reduce our carbon footprint.

Great Britain will always be Great Britain because it refers to a land mass ... but I understand what you mean.

Edited by Henry of Peckham (03 Apr 2020 1.31am)

Denial is not just a river in Egypt

And that's it then. Solves everyone's problems.
Before this C19 on any given day 99% of people generally got the treatment and attention they needed. Might have taken a while but they got it.
Btw the NHS wasnt formed to keep people alive it was to make people better. That is Stirlings point in his take on this lockdown. I dont agree with him but fundimently we are ruling this with our hearts not our heads. Look at the money spent on keeping people and children alive who have no chance of survival. Charlie guard for one.that poor kid never had a chance but got emotionally forced at the cost of millions to stay alive. There are 100s if not 1000s more whereby death was guaranteed but law was making the decisions.
How many bad NHS experiences have you or yours had then danh. All services could be better but you cannot fund these services for a potential 100 year pandemic. You have to be reactive when it comes to money in the huge amounts that the government has to spend.