Some people are total w@nkers https://www.kentlive.news/news/kent-news/kent-coronavirus-police-disperse-ramsgate-3971361
Just wasted an hour of my life in the Tesco early opening for NHS workers , by the time I got there the shelves had already been stripped and queues were resembling Black Friday , I wish people would just get their normal shop ffs
Madness , absolute madness , what is worse is the fact that a very large store is full of our key workers tightly packed together- hope they were all healthy! Told my wife I won’t be doing it again
Electricity demand is going to rocket up if millions of people are staying at home. And that is without all those extra freezers running. I would not be surprised if there are power cuts somewhere along the way. It would be best if the Government could schedule those cuts, spread them out fairly, and announce them in advance. My advice would be Have two or three torches about the house, and some spare batteries. Buy some safe night lights (little candles) Keep your mobile & laptop charged as fully as you can as often as possible. Have a battery powered radio handy, and spare batteries for that too. I'm not trying to scaremonger, just following a logical line of thought. Electricity demand usually only peaks in the early evening. Now demand is going to be pretty high all day. Perhaps the system has the capacity to cope, but I wouldn't be certain of that. Electricity 'rationing' may be necessary at some point.
This incident is really bringing out the worst in London society. One of the downsides of importing so many sub humans from the Third World is that we have imported their behaviours as well.
I think it would be wise for the Government to designate a network of small supermarkets close to hospitals for the use of Key Workers Only. Nobody else allowed to use them at any time. And get in enough security (army) to make certain they are protested. The Government must stop giving lip service to health workers, carers etc. and then failing them. Action is needed.
There may be some truth in the point you are making Royston, but is posting it like this really going to have any positive effect now? And (if I may say so) that is pretty nasty language you're using. 80 years ago the Nazis described Jewish people and Slavs as 'sub humans'. Surely we also all have a duty now not to raise tensions within communities. That could place an extra burden on police resources. We are where we are. We have to beat this crisis - then we can look at changing things in the future.
We presently have food banks for the poor, these (with Government assistance) could be converted to food banks for essential service providers, people would still have to pay for the food but only people who provide essential services could use them.
Loads of people are panic buying yet whoever I talk to are claiming that they are only buying as normal... people panic buying know they are doing wrong but refuse to change their ways!
I'll confess my buying volume has roughly doubled in the last fortnight. About 20% of that increase is me getting in a few extra tins and packets for myself. The other 80% is me having to buy basic stuff for my old mum, who is housebound and has not had a delivery of shopping from Sainsbury's in two weeks. My sister is also helping out in that regard. I'm sure there are thousands upon thousands of people in the same position as me. Some of the so-called "panic buying" can be explained by shoppers being forced to collect from stores, what those stores are no longer delivering - often to elderly and vulnerable folk. Let's remember that before we condemn all of the increase in footfall at the supermarkets.
An interesting idea. One possible snag though - those food banks are badly needed by the poor people who currently use them. If only Key Workers were allowed to go to existing food banks comandeered for them, where do the poor people who previously used the food banks go?
I think some food banks have been forced to close. My impression is it was a small minority so far. I believe Supermarkets are channeling food to them now in some kind of new 'emergency basis' manner.
