Our April booking being cancelled we took the 1/6/20 . Having got the new advisory from UKGOV wonder whether that will be cancelled. Spoke to site manager and it seems the club are looking into this period.
I’d agree and it may only be a partial opening with no site facilities opened up initially. So it would mean using the units own shower and toilet possibly. There also may be a reduced number of pitches offerEd although the spacing between units meets social distancing requirements. Be interesting to see how it “pans” out.A large number of “at risk” people have received a NHS letter telling them to stay home and self isolate for 12 more weeks. I too will be very surprised if sites open before July
Initially it was reported that 1.5 million Extremely Vulnerable people would be contacted but then it was reported that only 900000 (approx) had been identified in the first tranche. HMG was then to contact GP practices to assist in finding those who had not been contacted. I guess this two part approach was necessary because the HMG, NHS and GP record data bases aren’t totally joined up. Two of my relatives in the Midlands received text messages and a letter at the outset.Hi DD, I read your post about people on the shielded list receiving NHS letters about an extension to the 12 week lockdown, being one of the so called vulnerable group who had the NHS letter back when Boris first announced it I did some googling to see if anything was being mentioned, I think rather than existing letter recipients getting extensions it seems to be people who haven’t yet had letters receiving them late, what then happens is what myself and my wife had happen, I received my letter on 22/3 stating 12 weeks from that date, my wife had hers on 2/4 which means her 12 weeks ends almost 2 weeks after me, if someone gets a letter tomorrow it would probably be dated 18/4 and so on, I think this is where people are thinking it’s getting extended, that’s my take on what seems to be happening but if your right I apologise unreservedly.
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Many of the well known high street names were already teetering on the brink before coronavirus hit. Even if companies and organisations had foreseen a pandemic with a potential lockdown lasting potentially 2-3 months with only a slow return to “ normality of sorts’ there are many who would still have been badly hit or destroyed. Manufacturing can hardly work from home, the supply chain would have been broken, customer confidence will have gone if they are loosing or at risk of loosing their jobs.Benjamin Franklin is credited with saying "If you fail to plan, your planning to fail" and that sentiment has been well proven throughout history.
The present Covid-19 pandemic has really thrown into sharp relief the difference between organisations that had and had not developed an effective disaster strategy. Just look at the number of High Street big names that are teetering on the edge, and some have already admitted failure and will be lost.
"Disaster planning" was a buzz phrase that was bandied about during the later part of the 20 century, how many recall the threat of the year 2000 computer bug, which was suggested might bring the world to a stop? It didn't, and I suspect becasue we got through that event virtually unscathed, many organisations may have taken their eyes off the ball.
However most business insurers will have been reminding organisations that it makes good sense to have a disaster plan in place to deal with things like fires, floods, customer debt, legal defence, Some insurance policies were only agreed when, an organisation could demonstrate they had a plan and were actively working to protect data and property.
One of the difficulties of this type of planning is you won't know how effective you have been until a disaster actually occurs. To be competitive in today's markets businesses have to be lean, and I suspect many have pared down on activities which have rendered them far more vulnerable to the social and financial effects of this pandemic.
Part of a good plan should consider how to recover from the disaster. Ideally it would be nice to have a detailed plan already written, and it just needs to be got down from the book shelf and dusted off, but that is impossible becasue until you know the exact nature of the disaster you can't make detailed plans. So you need to have identified a team of people who will monitor the progress of events, and to use what knowledge is known of the disaster to look forward and to plan a exit strategy. I suspect this is what the caravan clubs and site owners have been been doing, so they can be ready to spring back into action when the restrictions are removed.