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Anyone's companies limiting travel and in-person meetings 16:07 - Mar 4 with 5705 viewshomer_123

Just had three clients email me today saying this.

Anyone else?

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Anyone's companies limiting travel and in-person meetings on 16:09 - Mar 4 with 5684 viewsartsbossbeard

Yep, see toilet paper thread.

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Anyone's companies limiting travel and in-person meetings on 16:10 - Mar 4 with 5680 viewsDyland

Yep. Only between countries though.

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Anyone's companies limiting travel and in-person meetings on 16:11 - Mar 4 with 5664 viewsitfcjoe

Hard to get my guys working from home when it's a construction company....!

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Anyone's companies limiting travel and in-person meetings on 16:15 - Mar 4 with 5643 viewsJakeITFC

Yes, as of about an hour ago.

Currently in Manchester though so hopefully I’m allowed to go home!
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Anyone's companies limiting travel and in-person meetings (n/t) on 16:26 - Mar 4 with 5609 viewsmonytowbray

The company I'm contracting for ATM sent out a generic NHS advice email saying if you've been in contact with a potentially infected person or show symptoms of flu stay home for two weeks. Other than that, business as usual.

Still can't figure out if it's a big deal or not yet. I don't remember this level of panic over swine and bird flu, but I also think social media may be ramping up the fear on these things now.
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Anyone's companies limiting travel and in-person meetings (n/t) on 16:37 - Mar 4 with 5576 viewshomer_123

Anyone's companies limiting travel and in-person meetings (n/t) on 16:26 - Mar 4 by monytowbray

The company I'm contracting for ATM sent out a generic NHS advice email saying if you've been in contact with a potentially infected person or show symptoms of flu stay home for two weeks. Other than that, business as usual.

Still can't figure out if it's a big deal or not yet. I don't remember this level of panic over swine and bird flu, but I also think social media may be ramping up the fear on these things now.
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I think the threat is more to do with the potential impact on health and social care services than the actual virus itself.

In that if there are lots of cases where people require treatment in a short space of time, it will overwhelm our services. Hence the sensible need to flatten out cases as opposed to it spiking.

If we are overwhelmed then people will suffer and die but this is likely to be things like being dying from heart attacks, strokes and other issues that might normally be resolved and cared for but will be missed if we are overwhelmed.

So - I can see the logic from that perspective of being sensible about travel and meetings.

Research and evidence suggests that the virus isn't overtly deadly.

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Anyone's companies limiting travel and in-person meetings (n/t) on 16:39 - Mar 4 with 5564 viewsmonytowbray

Anyone's companies limiting travel and in-person meetings (n/t) on 16:37 - Mar 4 by homer_123

I think the threat is more to do with the potential impact on health and social care services than the actual virus itself.

In that if there are lots of cases where people require treatment in a short space of time, it will overwhelm our services. Hence the sensible need to flatten out cases as opposed to it spiking.

If we are overwhelmed then people will suffer and die but this is likely to be things like being dying from heart attacks, strokes and other issues that might normally be resolved and cared for but will be missed if we are overwhelmed.

So - I can see the logic from that perspective of being sensible about travel and meetings.

Research and evidence suggests that the virus isn't overtly deadly.


Good thing we've got that extra £350m a week for the NHS then I guess!

Earlier someone said OMG 85 PEOPLE IN THE UK HAVE IT NOW as if that's bad. It's still 0.0001% of the population.
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Anyone's companies limiting travel and in-person meetings (n/t) on 16:42 - Mar 4 with 5556 viewsartsbossbeard

Anyone's companies limiting travel and in-person meetings (n/t) on 16:39 - Mar 4 by monytowbray

Good thing we've got that extra £350m a week for the NHS then I guess!

Earlier someone said OMG 85 PEOPLE IN THE UK HAVE IT NOW as if that's bad. It's still 0.0001% of the population.
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Reading earlier that it's 34x more potent than your standard flu bug.

This really is bad news for us blokes.

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Anyone's companies limiting travel and in-person meetings (n/t) on 16:42 - Mar 4 with 5556 viewshomer_123

Anyone's companies limiting travel and in-person meetings (n/t) on 16:39 - Mar 4 by monytowbray

Good thing we've got that extra £350m a week for the NHS then I guess!

Earlier someone said OMG 85 PEOPLE IN THE UK HAVE IT NOW as if that's bad. It's still 0.0001% of the population.
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Yep, although you need to use the iceberg analogy, in that we 'know of' 85 cases, there will be many, many more that have it but we are not aware of them, yet, or even ever will be.

That being said - it's still extremely small numbers.

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Anyone's companies limiting travel and in-person meetings (n/t) on 16:43 - Mar 4 with 5548 viewshomer_123

Anyone's companies limiting travel and in-person meetings (n/t) on 16:42 - Mar 4 by artsbossbeard

Reading earlier that it's 34x more potent than your standard flu bug.

This really is bad news for us blokes.


proper-man-flu then?

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Anyone's companies limiting travel and in-person meetings (n/t) on 16:44 - Mar 4 with 5539 viewsartsbossbeard

Anyone's companies limiting travel and in-person meetings (n/t) on 16:43 - Mar 4 by homer_123

proper-man-flu then?


Exactly! We're doomed.

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Anyone's companies limiting travel and in-person meetings (n/t) on 17:00 - Mar 4 with 5500 viewsmonytowbray

Anyone's companies limiting travel and in-person meetings (n/t) on 16:44 - Mar 4 by artsbossbeard

Exactly! We're doomed.


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Anyone's companies limiting travel and in-person meetings on 19:03 - Mar 4 with 5398 viewsIllinoisblue

Yep. All our travel is frozen right now. Which makes sense as Asia and Europe are our two biggest markets

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Anyone's companies limiting travel and in-person meetings (n/t) on 19:13 - Mar 4 with 5375 viewsLord_Lucan

Anyone's companies limiting travel and in-person meetings (n/t) on 16:44 - Mar 4 by artsbossbeard

Exactly! We're doomed.


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Anyone's companies limiting travel and in-person meetings on 19:19 - Mar 4 with 5354 viewsjas0999

Yep. To be fair we don’t want a company in Northern Italy to travel to the UK!
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Anyone's companies limiting travel and in-person meetings on 19:25 - Mar 4 with 5337 viewsCheltenham_Blue

I got into work this morning asking if Coronavirus could close down Universities.

I can only hope it does. A fortnight of Homes Under The Hammer would go down quite well at the moment.

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Anyone's companies limiting travel and in-person meetings on 19:27 - Mar 4 with 5330 viewsLesta_Tractor

My employes haven't, half of my team are heading to Pune next week!

My Dad's employers have, he was supposed to be travelling to the East Midlands from Stowmarket this week but it's been canned due to the coronavirus outbreak...

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Anyone's companies limiting travel and in-person meetings on 19:27 - Mar 4 with 5327 viewsSpruceMoose

Anyone's companies limiting travel and in-person meetings on 19:03 - Mar 4 by Illinoisblue

Yep. All our travel is frozen right now. Which makes sense as Asia and Europe are our two biggest markets


Same. Never seen the office so busy. Usually 1/3 of people are elsewhere in the world.

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