Off Topic SARS-CoV-2 Covid-19

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dennisboothstash said:
I do understand, but the big problem is highlighted by your last point. No one knows if they’ve actually got it at first so can’t decide safely to go to work if they have symptoms
As opposed to Korea where you could nip out now to the drive through test place, then get your diagnosis texted to you tomorrow. Worse case (other than positive test of course!) one day off, maybe just the morning.
Surely that makes economic sense for the country?
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The problem is that Europeans and Americans have a different response to authority compared to South Korean
TIGERSCAVE said:
I was thinking about this when I read it this afternoon. I've stood in a queue in the Post Office while pensioners have drawn their pension and operate mainly with cash. Perhaps many don't use credit cards or such. Is someone going to go to a PO and use their card for them, would the PO even allow or sanction that...Some may not have immediate relatives. How will they access money, even if its for someone to drop food off for them. How would they pay an electricity bill or gas bill without a debit or credit card. Lots of questions that should have had ? after them. I've offered to deliver grocery orders in the local area, even through a window out to a door step, but my local shop doesn't even seem geared up to sort that !!!!!
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If you got an elderly neighbour, can just shout through the door and offer help.

Utilities companies should be offering a 3 month payment open delay period as part of their community responsibility, that the government should enforce on them.

The government/tax payer will probably end up bailing out the share listed companies as per... If that prick Branson gets a penny, then every Brit should refuse to pay tax, but it will be the self employed and small businesses that bear the brunt.
 
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TIGERSCAVE said:
I was thinking about this when I read it this afternoon. I've stood in a queue in the Post Office while pensioners have drawn their pension and operate mainly with cash. Perhaps many don't use credit cards or such. Is someone going to go to a PO and use their card for them, would the PO even allow or sanction that...Some may not have immediate relatives. How will they access money, even if its for someone to drop food off for them. How would they pay an electricity bill or gas bill without a debit or credit card. Lots of questions that should have had ? after them. I've offered to deliver grocery orders in the local area, even through a window out to a door step, but my local shop doesn't even seem geared up to sort that !!!!!
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No reason for us all not to simply help the old and vulnerable though.
Elderly people either side of us. One has son nearby so not an issue, although we keep an eye on her anyway
Other side we’ll pop and get them stuff if needed
Daughter is in London and dropped her elderly neighbour a note offering to pick her anything she needed up.
My Mum is only a couple of miles away, so easy for me to see her, but her neighbours popped round today and offered to get her anything while they were shopping (she took them up in the offer for essentials ..,as she’d run out of Merlot!)

look after yourself, but others too
 
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dennisboothstash said:
I partly agree, but if the option was there I think many would use it
I would
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I'm sure many would use it, just not certain how many would or will follow the recommendations.

Anyway, this reason for social distancing and isolation is a good excuse for those of us who don't don't always enjoy company outside of direct family. Every cloud etc. I've already swerved a wedding, a baptism, an Easter meal and potentially accompanying my son to the Gothia Cup off the back of it.
 
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originallambrettaman said:
It’s obviously going to get worse and the numbers will rise, but that being the case, you’re probably best off going to work now and taking time off later.

That said, people need to be conscious of the fact that this situation is going to cost tens of thousands of people their jobs, best to not put yourself at the top of the redundancy list (unless you’ve actually got it, obviously).
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Supermarkets are starting to limit the things you can buy.

Latest purchase limits placed on shops, in light of the Coronavirus due to panic buying;
ASDA: 2 hand sanitisers and a 4 pack of toilet rolls.
TESCO: 1 hand sanitiser, 500g of rice and 4 pack of toilet rolls.
WAITROSE: 1 lobster, 6 quails eggs and 100g of Foie Gras.
ALDI: a MIG welder, a pink sports bra, 2 trumpets and 1 wetsuit.
 
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balkan tiger said:
Supermarkets are starting to limit the things you can buy.

Latest purchase limits placed on shops, in light of the Coronavirus due to panic buying;
ASDA: 2 hand sanitisers and a 4 pack of toilet rolls.
TESCO: 1 hand sanitiser, 500g of rice and 4 pack of toilet rolls.
WAITROSE: 1 lobster, 6 quails eggs and 100g of Foie Gras.
ALDI: a MIG welder, a pink sports bra, 2 trumpets and 1 wetsuit.
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Woolworths: 1/2 pair of nickers and 1/2 pair of socks. Double price for a bra with 2 cups.
 
Forgive the gallows humour but I can't help noticing the cultural stereotypes:

The Italians have been singing opera from their balconies;

The Dutch have closed the cannabis cafes;

The Irish have closed the pubs (!);

And the British ...

have stockpiled toilet rolls.

Yes, I know it's serious.
 
Some people are wrapping toilet roll around their heads in the belief that it will prevent them catching the virus...
So if you see some twat walking along a Hull street mummified in Andrex or Cusheen quilted you know their game.
 
Things are getting frighteningly serious now: From the Beeb

The three states bearing the brunt of the coronavirus pandemic in Europe have all recorded their highest death tolls for a single day.
Italy saw 368 deaths bring its total to 1,809, Spain recorded 97 more deaths for a total of 288, and France reported 29 deaths, giving a total of 120.
The UK also saw a single-day record, with 14 new deaths and a total of 35.
 
Ullofaman said:
Things are getting frighteningly serious now: From the Beeb

The three states bearing the brunt of the coronavirus pandemic in Europe have all recorded their highest death tolls for a single day.
Italy saw 368 deaths bring its total to 1,809, Spain recorded 97 more deaths for a total of 288, and France reported 29 deaths, giving a total of 120.
The UK also saw a single-day record, with 14 new deaths and a total of 35.
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They say we are only 2 weeks behind Italy levels !
 
I think in a few months we’ll either be living in a weird futuristic society under total lockdown. Or we’ll have gone stir-crazy, thought “****-it” and be living a vaguely normal life at six feet from anyone else.
 
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