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

Steve Bruce said:
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
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NI Civil servant here and we are the same, would probably get 5 days paid special leave but that would be maximum at a push.
 
golden_blunder said:
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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Morrisons seem to be setting up some standard packs for home delivery. They say it'll make it easier for people to order by phone. It'll also mean they can put the packs together in their warehouse quickly rather than having single orders picked.

I wouldn't be surprised if others, maybe even at government request, do something similar. Particularly for the "special precautions" group who are getting messages from the NHS this week.
 
golden_blunder said:
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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That’s far too logical.
Too many idiots this morning bulk buying meat. Chillers are probably empty now
 
Pexbo said:
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?
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I just did Asda. Saw a little old lady with 6 bottles of bacardi. No idea if anyone dared try and tell her to put some back.
 
Is there any food items that are fair game to stock pile? Couldn’t help but notice the ‘burgers in a tin’ were basically untouched in Farmfoods... not sure why, they seem suitable as they’ll last a while.
 
Grinner can you stop spamming this thread with the pasta discussion, you are very strict about spam in your thread, and gave me 3 points for nothing in this thread, that's not how staff member should operate here. If you want to spam you have your stickied thread.
 
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11101 said:
Ah ok so it's deaths taking place in nursing homes they are not testing. Some are likely to be virus related but a lot won't be.

It does not surprise me if they are doing this though, and i bet other countries are or will be doing it too. All along the government has been getting annoyed that Italy is testing so many more people than anybody else in Europe and it's making the picture look worse.
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Unfortunately the father of a friend of my wife died yesterday.

Had likely symptoms but also had underlying health issues. Friend been told they'll record death under that generic phrase they use for breathing (or lack of).

To be honest, if it was me/my parents, I probably wouldn't be arsed about a load of tests to give me a definitive reason. Wouldn't change anything?
 
Jack-C20 said:
Is there any food items that are fair game to stock pile? Couldn’t help but notice the ‘burgers in a tin’ were basically untouched in Farmfoods... not sure why, they seem suitable as they’ll last a while.
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Chunks of steak in a tin can be used for stews and casseroles, mince in a tin can be used for cottage pies, corned beef can be used for all sorts. Tinned veg obviously, but frozen is better.
 
Tea is a drink, not a food.
Stupid Brits!
 
Jack-C20 said:
Is there any food items that are fair game to stock pile? Couldn’t help but notice the ‘burgers in a tin’ were basically untouched in Farmfoods... not sure why, they seem suitable as they’ll last a while.
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Mmmmm, sound yummy.

im guessing people haven't exhausted other avenues and got down to burgers in a tin... yet.
 
Jack-C20 said:
Is there any food items that are fair game to stock pile? Couldn’t help but notice the ‘burgers in a tin’ were basically untouched in Farmfoods... not sure why, they seem suitable as they’ll last a while.
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There's no reason to stockpile. Just buy what you need as usual.
 
OutlawGER said:
There's no reason to stockpile. Just buy what you need as usual.
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Was only joking, I’d never do that. I wouldn’t even make it past the queue to get in. I hate queue politics. I’d somehow get there first but literally let everyone go before me in fear of feeling like I’ve cut someone up.
 
InLevyITrust said:
Pretty much what the general thought process was, question still is does milder/no symptoms make you less contagious or indeed not contagious at all?
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I'm not sure where the confusion is coming in here.

Isn't it fairly well accepted that the asymptomatic are infectious and that those who've been infected can infect others before their symptoms show?

I know you've got this idea that it 'dies' in kids and they don't transmit it but I've not seen this anywhere else apart from your posts (granted I could be missing something)
 
OutlawGER said:
There's no reason to stockpile. Just buy what you need as usual.
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The problem is mate that in the UK at the moment you can’t buy what you need because inconsiderate cnuts are emptying all of the shelves.
 
Withnail said:
I'm not sure where the confusion is coming in here.

Isn't it fairly well accepted that the asymptomatic are infectious and that those who've been infected can infect others before their symptoms show?

I know you've got this idea that it 'dies' in kids and they don't transmit it but I've not seen this anywhere else apart from your posts (granted I could be missing something)
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The last paragraph, they are clearly asking that very question.

Asymptomatic infections were not uncommon. Determination of the transmission potential of these asymptomatic patients is important for guiding the development of measures to control the ongoing pandemic.

I have no idea but plenty of other people have asked the question, if you have kids you know how easily they catch and spread every infection under the sun, clearly they is something going on with COVID 19 and children.

As for the dying thing there have been children born with Covid 19 only to be clear of it hours later.
 
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Garethw said:
The problem is mate that in the UK at the moment you can’t buy what you need because inconsiderate cnuts are emptying all of the shelves.
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They did the same in Ireland last week, when school closures were announced. Turns out there’s only so much people can panic buy and the supplies keep on coming. You can expect shelves to look less and less bare as the days go by.
 
Jack-C20 said:
Is there any food items that are fair game to stock pile? Couldn’t help but notice the ‘burgers in a tin’ were basically untouched in Farmfoods... not sure why, they seem suitable as they’ll last a while.
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I was just almost sick in my own mouth remembering the one time I tried burger in a can. Thanks for that..
 
Is anyone else still going in the office like I am? They have split us all up and allowed half to work from home but as I'm relatively newer member of the team where I work....I'm still coming in. I don't really mind either. I'd hate to be stuck inside at home.
 
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