Whilst it kills me that so many countries had outbreaks before us that we could’ve learnt from, I fully appreciate that our shitty society couldn’t handle a more extensive lock down as proved by our newspapers just deciding that its over
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I really was expecting it to go a bit mad max/riots of 2011. I had my welder at home , all my tools and materials to board up the house . I’m so glad I was wrong haha.
The fear was defo put into most which we now see the results of. And a clam lockdown is a good result all bar the unnecessary death toll.
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Very true
Many people and establishments took it upon themselves to close themselves down or away before the government enforced anything.
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100% man! I feel like we were at least 2 weeks behind.
Have to agree about the initial lockdown going ok in the grand scheme of things, just feels like it’s fallen apart now with no way of being able to enforce it again now without great difficulty if needed
People would think why should I? Now they’ve had a little taste of freedom and bending the rules as much as they can. Mother in law is trying to guilt trip my Mrs about seeing our kids. Even though she has had COVID. She’s been round to her mums house, saying she stood at the gates and the conservatory today. And to top it off she’s had her daughter and bf round collecting a fish tank or something. And what makes it worse is they each other children with shared custody so the spider web of contact gets even bigger.
The majority of Cambridge’s teaching isn’t done via lectures for a lot of degrees. They do a lot of small group teaching and tutorials, which they have yet to make a decision about. The majority of universities have held off from making a full decision yet on whether face-to-face teaching will take place. The uni I work(ed) at is asking teaching staff to prepare for both online and face-to-face, which is a great way to cripple staff with teaching preparation.
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The funniest aspect of this whole online teaching thing is that (in my experience at least) University academics (at least in Arts/Humanities/Education) are all retards when it comes to technology. Most of them don’t even know how to embed a YouTube link into a Power Point, never mind conduct degree-level teaching remotely.
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The older ones definitely, but all the younger ones will have had to engage in various public outreach projects and just grown up with the technology so it is changing a bit.
But the idea that a whole university could become competent in online teaching over a summer is laughable. Open University takes years to develop its courses, normal universities are just stretching their regular services and hoping new students won’t know the difference.
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Does anyone feel this should just be for the whole year?
They’re still charging interest on it though
I feel like it should be for the rest of my life. That’d be great.
As it is, happy to take six months off and pay an extra fiver a month for the next twenty years or whatever it is.
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I wonder how many people with buy to let mortgages who are enjoying their holiday are still charging their tenants. Some dodgy ethical grounds there
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And its only deferment.
It’s not written off. Are they pushing the calendar of mortgages down the line or expecting missed payments to be recovered monthly once this is all over and increasing a mortgage payers monthly mortgage repayments?
That’s only ever what it was going to be though right? I couldn’t see them putting free months on mortgages.
The missed payments will be added to the amount owed overall. Extra payment months won’t be added to the term and nobody will be expected to pay double any time to make up for this break. It’ll be a few quid extra every month, although anybody who isn’t on interest-only that doesn’t switch mortgage every three years is probably pissing money away anyway.
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The landlords will still have to pay the full amount eventually though, and they’ve banned evictions for the same time period. So it’s down to tenants to arrange a rental holiday if they need one and the landlord can’t refuse. Problem with that though is a tenant will eventually owe two loads of rent so it’s probably going to cause more problems down the line for many
ahh cheers for explaining
I have tenants that are struggling paying, I’ve given them a payment holiday, I am still paying full whack on the mortgage.
Is at landlord’s discretion.
I’m a nice landlord.
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Same. Dude is a joiner so he’s got no work on, but he’s the perfect tenant because his hobby is doing up flats.
