Coronavirus Disease Outbreak COVID-19 #15

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What if you've only been self employed since October? Do you not qualify for this help? Do they need to file a self employment tax form even if its not been a year yet? Asking for a friend who isn't sure.

Good news for my dad though. He's very relieved at least half his wage will be supplemented as his tax accounts are accurate to his job unlike some - I did like Rishi's little jab about that lol
 
Ok this is (very) badly formatted but here are the updated figures 🤪
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The deaths will rise and rise. It could get into the 1000s. I wish I had a crystal ball so I knew how long this will go on for.:cry:

The deaths aren't necessarily within the past 24 hours either. Some could be from a couple of days ago but they have to get family consent before adding the death to the official total.
 
idk2 said:
What if you've only been self employed since October? Do you not qualify for this help? Do they need to file a self employment tax form even if its not been a year yet? Asking for a friend who isn't sure.
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Those who are recently self-employed and do not have a full year of accounts will not receive any help under this scheme.

The scheme does not cover people who only became self-employed very recently - the chancellor said they would have to look to the benefits system for support.
 
Lime_Lemonade said:
First time poster on this thread. I have to admit, it's comforting to know that I am not the only one suffering from extreme anxiety right now. I guess it doesn't help that mine manifests in shortness of breath, gasping for aid and chest tightness :-( I am just coming out of an anxiety attack which lasted 4 days. 4 days of feeling I will suffocate and pass out from lack of air :-(

I am slowly trying to reduce the amount of information I get and look at numbers and numbers only,. For me sensational media coverage of singled-out cases is not helpful at all :-( We have long known that death rate under 50 isn't exactly 0 but it is very low. While it is heartbreaking to look at the faces of people who'd passed, I prefer to look at the overall picture and the amount of recoveries. But still...anxiety gets the best of me, because we don't really know, we might be the unlucky ones.

I also worry what happens after all the restrictions are lifted. They can't keep a lockdown forever, it's not feasible. I am lucky that my financial situation remains the same as wfh for a large corporation but so many people aren't.

Whilst I understand the need to scare people right now into obedience, I would like the media to focus more on the actual facts and statistics because we will all end up getting it sooner or later and the way they're portraying it now is as it's 90% death rate when it's not even 1% in all likelihood...

Sorry for the rambling, I have got two brains right now - the one trying to rationalise everything and look at the situation calmly and one ridden with anxiety and fear so deep I have rubbed my hands dry from washing them so much :(
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I have had those exact anxiety symptoms you've described since Monday at which point I was telling my husband I felt short of breath like I couldn't breathe and I keep getting chest pain- all of this I've had before and it's only the past 24 hours having promptly burst into tears a handful of times and feeling really irritable that I can see it's built up anxiety over the whole situation!
 
AfroCircus said:
Can someone talk me down please? Husband has come down with cold / flu symptoms - blocked nose, tired, headache. Last 24 hours. No cough or temperature. I’m panicking.
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Im pretty sure a temperature is key - but even just half a degree too high is a sign. If his temp isn't high then he probably doesn't have it but I would monitor.

Peartree said:
I randomly looked at USA figures 😮
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Yes it's shocking isn't it!
 
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