Coronavirus.

Bob

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The shops were empty still/again yesterday, I found somewhere with milk, limited to 1 per person. That’s fine but come Tomorrow morning I’ll be back to black coffee and having to yet again brave the shops. I tried and failed again to get hold of loo roll, ended up ‘borrowing’ two rolls from my mum I swear my kids eat the stuff. Not to mention the delightful gentleman in the frozen isle of eccleshall co-op with a hacking cough.

Dirty selfish prat!
 

Lucy

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@Lucy

That is such a lovely offer and I'm touched you thought of me .
I've only lived here a short amount of time so please forgive me when I say I've no idea where rickerscote rd actually is .
I'm mobile enough to manage at the moment even though my hip says otherwise.
I am one of those people that's to damn proud to ask for help but rest assured I will know who I can rely on for it should the need arise.

You are a wonderful person , thank you.
Near Tesco Express - I may have wrongly thought you lived on Silkmore.
 

Lucy

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The shops were empty still/again yesterday, I found somewhere with milk, limited to 1 per person. That’s fine but come Tomorrow morning I’ll be back to black coffee and having to yet again brave the shops. I tried and failed again to get hold of loo roll, ended up ‘borrowing’ two rolls from my mum I swear my kids eat the stuff. Not to mention the delightful gentleman in the frozen isle of eccleshall co-op with a hacking cough.

Dirty selfish prat!
If you want to keep a milk supply up look for ADW Milk on Facebook. He's opening his books to new customers again next week I think.
 
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Mikinton

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What do they say about every cloud? Unintended consequences and all that. This has just been posted on my other forum ....

Surely with the global shut down supplies of class a drugs are gonna fall away. Yer average smack head or coke dick is gonna be forced to get clean. I should imagine some serious price spikes, which will lead to some pretty desperate people.
 

The Hawk

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No room at the inn...

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BBC: Coronavirus: Hotel made staff homeless in 'admin error'
 

staffordjas

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I've just been sent this message :' Assistant Director of Nursing at QE has said they've had a message today that virus seems to be spreading quickly via petrol pumps so they advise to wear gloves when filling up or use paper towel and bin straight away.


How many of us are wiping down with a bacterial wipe all of our shopping before we put it away?
I wipe down tins and packets , washed fruit etc before putting it away. Even the loo roll packets and tissue boxes get a quick wipe down as I think of the germs landing on them on the chemists shelf.Going on hygiene courses , and catching Salmonella years ago, has made me paranoid about cleanliness.
 

Gramaisc

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I've just been sent this message :' Assistant Director of Nursing at QE has said they've had a message today that virus seems to be spreading quickly via petrol pumps so they advise to wear gloves when filling up or use paper towel and bin straight away.
One imagines that a similar situation applies to shopping trolley handles.

It tends to be the same trolley that get used most of the time, though the recent/current frenzies will have mixed them up a bit more than usual, I suppose.

And the basket handles. Etc...


It was noticeable in Ireland a week or more back, that most unnecessary manually-operated public doors were being wedged or tied open, to avoid multiple handling.

You're going to struggle to avoid all possible contacts, but you can reduce things considerably, with little real effort.

We seem to have largely squandered the leeway that the Chinese, particularly, and the Italians have handed us.
 

littleme

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Things seemed a little more normal at work today, still not up to full stock, but enough for everyone to have a bit... maybe the panic buying is over.
 
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Carole

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Some people will have weeks of fresh food they need to somehow eat.


How is it going to work with the fresh fruit and vegetables?
Will it eventually stop coming for a while if there are no planes to bring it over or will certain countries still allow cargo planes to land?
I'm talking about pineapple, oranges, strawberries etc.
There's a whole generation of people who are used to everything being readily available all year round but when I was a lass we only had things that were locally grown and in season.
We really loved those strawberries though for the 3 weeks every year that we got them.
 

staffordjas

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Hubbys company makes specialist laboratory ware. They mostly ship over here by road & sea, but urgent deliveries are flown over. The German company is more concerned whether the end user warehouses over here are still open. They are checking whether our warehouses are still open for delivery , as they may be short staffed with so many off due to the this virus.
 

Gramaisc

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Adjusting the advanced options to get it as close as I can what I am guessing actually goes on here, as I don't actually have a written procedure, it says that my eight rolls will do me for 144 days.

I have noticed that the programme that is running in the background in my head has, without me instructing it or it discussing it with the conscious me, taken it upon itself to adjust the disposal regime to somewhat reduce the frequency of the events, though it hasn't taken it as far as a 'dead otter' scenario.

This lines up with a rough guess I took, minutes before you posted that, based on how often I think I buy a nine-pack of rolls. Luckily, I bought this pack around Christmas, when the end was in sight (not literally!) for the previous lot.

There must be people out there with a decade, and/or a delusion that this is a cholera epidemic..
 

Mikinton

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That's prompted me to do a stock check. We've got 39 rolls (rounding down) thanks largely to Mrs Mikinton being in the right place at the right time (Tescos) and grabbing a 24-pack.
 
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