SARS CoV-2 coronavirus / Covid-19 (No tin foil hat silliness please)

esmufc07 said:
Yeah but you're a sensible person Penna, sadly a large part of the populace is not.
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Well, I think it's more that we've got used to eating very simply here, because there's just not the choice that there is in the UK - particularly with sweet things. The only thing we'd struggle without is our breadmaker, because I make a fresh loaf every day. Toast for breakfast, sandwich and yoghurt for dinner, usually pasta and veg for tea.
 
Grinner said:
I reckon Corbyn is breathing a sigh of relief that he isn't having to run the country right now. There are no winning solutions.
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Im quite glad he isn't too. Managing this situation isn't in his or current Labours locker.
 
esmufc07 said:
Yeah but you're a sensible person Penna, sadly a large part of the populace is not.
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Until there are roadblocks stopping you moving between towns, which there will be soon enough, nobody is going to do that through choice.

OnlyTwoDaSilvas said:
Yep, it's sickening. He even posted it on Facebook that he was at the pub last night, and all his boomer mates were commenting shite like "good on ya mate!". ffs.

Bizarre how those who are high risk or close to high risk are not giving a feck, and generally younger people are the ones shitting it, not wanting to contract it or pass it on to elder relatives.
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The UK has this weird attitude, particularly amongst the older generation, that they have to show they know better. I hear a lot from my parent's friends that they think it's all an overreaction by youth who have never seen tough times, we've seen worse, we survived the war after all (despite the fact it was their parents that did that and most of them have never even seen a gun).
 
Penna said:
Well, I think it's more that we've got used to eating very simply here, because there's just not the choice that there is in the UK - particularly with sweet things. The only thing we'd struggle without is our breadmaker, because I make a fresh loaf every day. Toast for breakfast, sandwich and yoghurt for dinner, usually pasta and veg for tea.
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You have a pasta dish after your dinner?
 
Adam-Utd said:
WTF is the military going to do, apart from cause more fear and panic :lol:

They can't exactly say just 1 pack of pasta lad or i'll shoot you?

The shops just need to be stronger and set limitations. Eventually this'll die down anyway, how many people can stock up much more?
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There'll is the initial surge of panic buying but I think people will realise the shops still get re-stocked and things will calm down a bit.

The shops over here in Ireland have also introduced limits on some goods so you can't walk out with 65 boxes of jax roll you'll never need.

EDIT: They've already begun introducing limits in the UK too:

https://www.moneysavingexpert.com/n...ce-purchase-number-limits-on-some-items---fo/
 
Grinner said:
they can arrest you and detain you.

Do you fancy that or do you prefer to behave reasonably?
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@Adam-Utd

I very much doubt the military will be used for anything other than support initially. I also doubt they will be given any powers of arrest unless it is when assisting a constable. The implications of doing so would be too far reaching and unnecessary. Their role will be to assist front line staff, not take over.
 
Still not working from home, even with all the tools to do so easily. It's got really quiet expecially with the Oil price plummeting, it seems mental that we are still fully staffed in the office.

It seems that it's going to take a number of people actually getting sick before we do something.
 
Penna said:
I can almost guarantee that when this has all settled down, lots of people will have cupboards full of stuff they bought, didn't really want and won't use. And it'll get thrown away.
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Yes, but at least they prevented someone else from having it.
 
AbusementPark said:
ive been looking at the dashboard for the virus spreading and one concern I have is the amount of people recovering from this, its very low for each country compared to the confirmed cases. Is it a timing issue that we have to wait a few weeks for the isolation period to elapse to update it as a recovered number?
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Not an expert, but I was wondering if it's just that checking people off as recovered is less of a priority. I think at one point the process for being officially recovered required 3 negative tests - has that changed? Can't imagine Italian doctors are particularly fussed about carrying out a third test on someone that's had no symptoms for a few days.
 
I dropped my girlfriend to work this morning and thought I'd nip into Sainsbury's as it was nice and early (8am) and I assumed they'd have stocked overnight and we've had 3 failed shopping trips in the evenings this week.

It was absolutely packed. Busier than I have seen it on any Saturday morning and the shelves were already empty. Some really weird rules though. The woman in front of me had 5 frozen bags of veg: 1 chips, 1 carrots, 1 green beans, 1 peas and 1 broccoli/cauli mix and the lady told her she had to put two of them back. Absolutely baffling. If you're buying fresh vegetables are you only allowed 3 different types of vegetables? If you get loose potatoes are you only allowed 3 potatoes? Is two potatoes and two carrots too many?
 
After seeing how the (british) public have reacted to this virus I am now against governments disclosing an alien invasion or an incoming meteorite.
 
Basically in my place of work, if you've got someone at home who is high risk like I have, my choice is statutory sick leave, unpaid leave, annual leave or quit. I work in hospitals across Northern Ireland.

I would imagine most places would be the same.

I normally have 12 weeks full sick pay, but if I where to take off it wouldn't be because I'm sick
 
What supermarkets should do is make up hampers of food & basics for different sizes of families and sell them instead of individual items for now. That will keep it fair
 
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