The privilege of working with software is being able to start social distancing even if the UK government seems to be waiting it out. Effective today my company has moved to be fully distributed for the foreseeable future. What about the rest though? [1/-]
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You can't stop working. How will you afford the rent here in London? Government inaction is exposing millions to the risk of contagion, in turn endangering their loved ones who might indeed be more vulnerable either because of age or pre-existing conditions. [3/-]
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It will take much more than funding to the NHS to get through this: small and medium businesses will have to be subsidised, rent and loans waived or restructured, workers will have to be protected from the wave of layoffs that's about to strike. [4/-]
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COVID-19 might not collapse the healthcare system, but it will probe the health and cohesion of the social contract of the societies we live in. Not many reasons to be optimistic. [5/-]
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