The government has issued new guidance on how different workplaces should be made safe for staff during the coronavirus pandemic : Working in a vehicle

[clashcityrocker]

On a slightly separate note, shouldn't the advice to avoid "hot-desking" also mean an end to double prep?

Wouldn't axing double prepping actually mean having more staff in the DO?

Not necessarily - it would depend how it was organised.

[sledger]

space suits with personal oxygen supplies thats the answer

[rambo1]

I personally wouldn't have any problems van sharing. Both use a mask. How long are you actually in the van with someone? 20, 30 mins tops and your just as close to multiple people in the office in a morning if it's owt like ours. People are getting a bit carried away with this thing now. Look at the stats. Of all CV deaths only 18% were under the age of 70! The country just needs to get moving and working again IMHO. Maybe a contaversial view, but there's a lot of people share it. There's a vastly greater number of young fit and healthy people will die and suffer great hardship from the economic fallout coming and it's not going to be pretty.

[sindba]

I personally wouldn't have any problems van sharing. Both use a mask. How long are you actually in the van with someone? 20, 30 mins tops and your just as close to multiple people in the office in a morning if it's owt like ours. People are getting a bit carried away with this thing now. Look at the stats. Of all CV deaths only 18% were under the age of 70! The country just needs to get moving and working again IMHO. Maybe a contaversial view, but there's a lot of people share it. There's a vastly greater number of young fit and healthy people will die and suffer great hardship from the economic fallout coming and it's not going to be pretty.

18% is about the same chance of throwing a 6 on dice. Or holding a 6 barrel revolver to your head with one bullet in it, and pulling the trigger. Feeling lucky, punk?

This sort of attitude is why our workplace is so dangerous. It doesn't matter how careful you personally are, there are plenty of others there who don't give a monkey's.

[Woody Guthrie]

Maybe a contaversial view, but there's a lot of people share it.

There's a lot of people share a lot of dumb things on a lot of things.
Are you offering up an elderly relative as a sacrifice or maybe you want to be one of the 18%?

There's a vastly greater number of young fit and healthy people will die and suffer great hardship from the economic fallout coming

I see this thrown about as cover for selfish views often but nobody ever backs it up with any science. Poverty does kill but where's the science that proves the inevitability that Covid-19 should make us all poorer?

There's no war or famine here. If you want to discuss overreacting why aren't we discussing people shitting themselves from a financial crisis that doesn't really stack up.

I mean look at it this way, every country in the world is in financial meltdown apparently and borrowing money to stay afloat. Who are they borrowing it from and what part does Quantative Easing play in the whole murky pond?

[aiden01]

I personally wouldn't have any problems van sharing. Both use a mask. How long are you actually in the van with someone? 20, 30 mins tops and your just as close to multiple people in the office in a morning if it's owt like ours. People are getting a bit carried away with this thing now. Look at the stats. Of all CV deaths only 18% were under the age of 70! The country just needs to get moving and working again IMHO. Maybe a contaversial view, but there's a lot of people share it. There's a vastly greater number of young fit and healthy people will die and suffer great hardship from the economic fallout coming and it's not going to be pretty.

So basically just let anyone over 70 die an look after the young.wtf personally hope my dad who is over 70 lives for many years.

[sindba]

People are getting a bit carried away with this thing now.

I started watching the woman in the bed diagonal to me. She slipped into a coma, and I watched her daughter come and say desperately: "Mum, it's me! Mum, it's me!", and it was pitiful because the woman was already "gone". It sounds awful but I was waiting for her for two nights to actually die, which was very distressing. The woman next to me was getting better and she commented that we were in a bay where 50% had died and 50% had lived and that we were on the lucky side of the room.

I had fought to stay alive. After being almost ready to give up at the start, I had told myself: "No, I've got to carry on, I'm not going yet. I'm 49, I'm not ready to die, not just for me but for my kids and my family and friends."

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[HTPostman]

I personally know of 1 person who’s died from it, and 1 who possibly did (my gran) but no way of telling now. My mother in law had the virus and a good friend had it too, the latter was in a very bad way but is better now.

So I don’t think in any way are people getting carried away with all this.

Hopefully single vans will remain for as long as is necessary to minimise the risk of picking it up or spreading it to loved ones.

[postiewhite]

Apparently you can go down the conduct code if found van sharing. Basically sacked!!!