Poundland are reopening 36 stores on Monday mostly in Shopping Centres and Retail Park's in the UK and Ireland. Most high street stores remained open as they are an essential retailer 

The following will be reopening

• Ayr - Central Shopping Centre


• Basildon - Eastgate Shopping Centre


• Belfast - Castlecourt Shopping Centre


• Bootle


• Bradford - Westfield Shopping Centre


• Chatham - Pentagon Shopping Centre


• Colchester - St Johns Shopping Centre


• Cork - Merchant Quay Centre (Dealz)


• Doncaster - Wheatley Retail Park


• Dublin - Mary Street (Dealz)


• Eastleigh - Swan Shopping Centre


• Enniskillen - Erneside Shopping Centre


• Gateshead - Metro Centre


• Great Yarmouth - Regent Road


• Harrogate


• Harrow - St Anns Road


• Ipswich - Carr Street


• Kendal


• Kingston upon Thames - Wheatfield Way


• Lowestoft - Britten Shopping Centre


• Maidstone - Chequers Shopping Centre


• Mansfield - Four Seasons Shopping Centre


• Milton Keynes Centre


• Mullingar - Fairgreen Centre (Dealz)


• Newport, Gwent - Kingsway Centre


• Newry - Buttercrane Shopping Centre


• Newry - Quays Shopping Centre


• Northampton - Gold Street


• Norwich - Castle Mall


• Romford - Brewery Retail Park


• Shrewsbury


• Southend - Royals Shopping Centre


• Sunderland - High Street West


• Thurrock - Lakeside


• Waltham - Abbey Retail Park


• Wembley - High Road

https://www.mirror.co.uk/money/poundland-reopens-36-closed-stores-22025319

 

If you could lower your standards to Tesco or Iceland, I've had no problem with getting slots. Indeed, I now get orders from the neighbours each week, so my Tesco deliveries have been getting bigger and bigger!

 

Tesco delivery slots are like gold dust round here, you were looking at 3-4 weeks lead time last I looked. Asda Click and Collect has been the life saver.

 

They're paying the price of having to be always scared of it lurking undetected. A completely naive population is at greater risk than one which has a buffer of 1-in-20 or 1-in-10 being immune. All it takes is one case (as in that nightclub, made more awkward because it was a gay nightclub and people use fake IDs there due to homophobia) and you have problems.

Remember that graph showing spread, then repeating with "this guy stayed home"? Even a 5% immunity rate means that transmission will be slowed, of the 20 people someone comes into contact with, one now won't transmit it forwards. With a 10% immunity rate, that means two wouldn't transmit it and so on - again, figures are averages here.

The benefit of having these immune folks is that they reduce R over and above of all the other things we're doing... it's like compound interest, it all adds up.

 

I was just wondering if as and when the world starts to open its borders again, there will be such a wide array of how countries have dealt with this. While the EU is contemplating opening up some summer resorts to try and rescue holiday industries and economies here, places like NZ when on earth will they open their borders again? No one can really or want to afford fly to a destination and have to quarantine for two weeks before they can move around.

As the world moves on, the keyword here will be adapt, in just about everything, that's how man has survived throughout history. Just made me think of travelling through counties in this country. In Cornwall, we see a lot of disused tin mines as times changed. Could there be some structures around now, but will never be used again and in future the reason given because of Covid.

Paul Harrison (PNE Paul) had Covid 19. Not sure if he is still a member here

I'm very sorry to learn of this and pray he pulls through. Hope his church and parishioners will support him if he battles it out.

Paul is still a member, Dave, and although he hasn't posted for a couple of years, he does occasionally visit the site.

I'm very sorry to learn of this and pray he pulls through. Hope his church and parishioners will support him if he battles it out.

Thanks John

He is out of hospital now and doing well. He avoided the dreaded ventilator but spent two weeks having oxygen

 

 

At the moment things like pubs, restraurants, cinemas are way too risky, as you say, but as that immune portion continues to swell then the likelihood of being able to open them - with social distancing, mind - without causing a massive second spike rises. We're still months away from that though!

 

Any more risky than supermarkets and public transport? I feel very sorry for people who are working in these sectors. On the last two occasions I have been to Tesco, an idiot was walking around coughing everywhere. He may not have had it, but whatever he did have was being spread around and most people, including me, were not wearing masks

Has anyone on TWO had COVID-19? If so, I'd be keen to know their experience.

I find it hard to believe that nobody on here has had it. 

I know 4 people who have definitely had it (tested positive). 

A woman who I work with who was shielding due to underlying health conditions. Along with her husband and two kids they had stayed in for weeks until he (a teacher) had to go into work for a day. A week later he woke up with terrible back pain and a fever. He was in in bed for 4 days sleeping most of the time. His wife with the underlying conditions had much less severe symptoms - "more like a cold". Both in their late 20's and the two young children didn't seem affected.

My cousin - a Down Syndrome lady in her early 30's, was unwell for a few days but not severe at all.

Two of my wife's friends have had it  - both in their 40's and both felt worn out, cough, fever and one of them short of breath when going upstairs.

I also know a few people who think they've had it but didn't have a test.

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Buses are free of course at the moment, not that even I would want to get on one, unless I really had to!

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Thanks John

He is out of hospital now and doing well. He avoided the dreaded ventilator but spent two weeks having oxygen

 

Tesco delivery slots are like gold dust round here, you were looking at 3-4 weeks lead time last I looked. Asda Click and Collect has been the life saver.

You are lucky - Asda click and collect here is a killer - touch screen to enter your order number while you wait around in a queue inside the store. No sanitisation. Luckily I have been able to get delivery slots from them since that experience.

This superb video has now clocked past 3 million views.

It’s a brutal 3-minute summary of New Zealand’s success vs the UK’s failure. Keep sharing it.pic.twitter.com/ABZ6sXbI96

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I hope you are correct but other opinions differ...

Virus Survivors Could Suffer Severe Health Effects for Years

More than one million people around the world have been deemed recovered from the coronavirus, but beating the initial sickness may be just the first of many battles for those who have survived.

Some recovered patients report breathlessness, fatigue and body pain months after first becoming infected. Small-scale studies conducted in Hong Kong and Wuhan, China, show that survivors grapple with poorer functioning in their lungs, heart and liver. And that may be the tip of the iceberg.

The prospect led Nicholas Hart, the British physician who treated Prime Minister Boris Johnson, to call the virus “this generation’s polio” — a disease that could leave many marked by its scars and reshape global health care.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-05-12/covid-19-s-health-effects-can-last-long-after-virus-is-gone

Anyone dismissing this as "well, there's always a small number that get long term issues from every disease" is a dangerous and irresponsible fool.

 

You are lucky - Asda click and collect here is a killer - touch screen to enter your order number while you wait around in a queue inside the store. No sanitisation. Luckily I have been able to get delivery slots from them since that experience.

I was forced to use the check out machine in Tesco yesterday because the normal queue was too long. I don't have any hand sanitiser so I was desperately trying not to touch my face as I went home. But any germs would have got on other things like wallet, and clothes etc

Vile woman, ranks alongside Alison Pearson and Julia Hartley Brewer as right wing media trolls

Tonight thousands of teachers will clap for the NHS. Time for teachers to show the same bravery! The risk in schools is nothing like the risk in hospitals. Millions of children now need teachers to step up.

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Any more risky than supermarkets and public transport? I feel very sorry for people who are working in these sectors. On the last two occasions I have been to Tesco, an idiot was walking around coughing everywhere. He may not have had it, but whatever he did have was being spread around and most people, including me, were not wearing masks

 

I think I've mentioned before I have a 54 year old cousin with special needs who is a trolley man at a Sainsbury's in York. He says the staff get abuse every day for just trying to enforce the rules, especially only one person per trolley. He says they queue up in pairs then go ballistic when they can't both go in.

Has anyone on TWO had COVID-19? If so, I'd be keen to know their experience.

I find it hard to believe that nobody on here has had it. 

One family on my street. One member was hospitalised but apparently recovered quickly.

Given the expansive range of symptoms COVID-19 now appears to be encompass I would estimate a 4% to 8% chance that my wife and I had it in March. 

 

I think I've mentioned before I have a 54 year old cousin with special needs who is a trolley man at a Sainsbury's in York. He says the staff get abuse every day for just trying to enforce the rules, especially only one person per trolley. He says they queue up in pairs then go ballistic when they can't both go in.

York has clearly gone downhill since I lived there. 

 

One family on my street. One member was hospitalised but apparently recovered quickly.

Given the expansive range of symptoms COVID-19 now appears to be encompass I would estimate a 4% to 8% chance that my wife and I had it in March. 

My Uncle is now recovering and coming home tomorrow

A colleague of mine (caught it from his wife who works at the JR ) is still really bad , not hospitalised but still quite rough .

 

York has clearly gone downhill since I lived there. 

It'll be the posho types who think rules don't apply to them. 

Probably more civilised at the Lidl in Acomb