Well we will have to hang them to dry a bit first.
Funny really how horses don't wipe or clean themselves like that.
Coronavirus
- Thread starter Trewsers
- Start date
Funny really how horses don't wipe or clean themselves like that.
I watch the news but I’m not really changing anything in my day to day life. No panic buying no restrictions on movement.
I am allergic to my dog and stuff sneeze a lot in the morning I use tissues just the same as normal.
I worry for my elderly parents but I can’t stop them going out. They need to go out to keep active and for mental well being.
I am not stupid I wouldn’t go to a large event but due to my job I am surrounded by people that travel everywhere all the time
I am allergic to my dog and stuff sneeze a lot in the morning I use tissues just the same as normal.
I worry for my elderly parents but I can’t stop them going out. They need to go out to keep active and for mental well being.
I am not stupid I wouldn’t go to a large event but due to my job I am surrounded by people that travel everywhere all the time
I have 7 bars of soap, bought in a sale, all the nice hand made stuff. I bought 8 I am still using the first one. so I guess we will survive!
My friend tried to buy 3 packets of that microwave rice in Tesco in London for their family dinner last night, was told it is now being rationed and she could only buy 2! This is ridiculous now, why is anyone buying anything extra at all, I really don't understand why you would change your normal shopping habits unless you never washed your hands before all this or if you've got sick since.
That's crazy @Jessey . I wonder if it's worse in the bigger cities, simply because there are so many people and I guess the majority of supermarkets operate on a daily delivery system? So shelves can empty quickly, then people panic and grab whatever is there. Rationing maybe is the way to go, but it needs to be done properly so you can buy according to the number of people in your house - my needs are very different to my friend with five children at home!
Seeing what people buy at Christmas it's not really a surprise to me.
When our local supermarket closed for a refit they didn't restock the shelves. The second day all the bread, milk, butter etc etc was completely gone. Not from panic buying, but simply because it hadn't been stocked up. By the fifth day it looked horrendous. If your job is stacking shelves it's important.
The shops stock what sells and we have twenty thousand people here, plus tourists.
If each person just buys two of the same products they usually do, the shelves will soon be empty until the shop calculates the increase and adjusts their ordering.
Panic buying though causes the shortage the person is trying to avoid, hence why they maybe saying two only so the next person doesn't panic.
We could have mad hysteria.
That's pretty much a year's supply. It really does last ages. Some handmade more than others. I gave up shower gel ages ago as you can support local people with handmade.
Ignore this post if you want - I am just writing down where my brain is with all of this, you know that talking to yourself thingy.
Apparently
The virus will be mild for most people.
Even in severe cases the person will recover.
It can be killed by simple soap and water.
There is no vaccine, so the at risk people have no extra protection.
It's worse than flu, as it affects the lungs, perhaps it could lead to other medical conditions. (I know that pneumonia can leave a person with other complications)
People will and are dying.
The flip side of this is
Why are people being taken away in an ambulance like they have the plague under a police escort
Why does it look like a scene from E. T
Apparently the elderly are going to be told next week to stay indoors and have someone bring them essentials. The person that could have the virus comes to the door then! What if they need to isolate!
I wonder if what I have watched as fictional sci-fi will become a reality for some people. Is there more to it than just we don't have a vaccine, if soap kills it. Do we have the beds?
It's crossed my mind that's why it's here, but I can slap that part of my mind with a wet kipper and move on.
By next Saturday I estimate the UK will have at least 1000 cases. Its here but I don't plan on inviting in for dinner.
Apparently
The virus will be mild for most people.
Even in severe cases the person will recover.
It can be killed by simple soap and water.
There is no vaccine, so the at risk people have no extra protection.
It's worse than flu, as it affects the lungs, perhaps it could lead to other medical conditions. (I know that pneumonia can leave a person with other complications)
People will and are dying.
The flip side of this is
Why are people being taken away in an ambulance like they have the plague under a police escort
Why does it look like a scene from E. T
Apparently the elderly are going to be told next week to stay indoors and have someone bring them essentials. The person that could have the virus comes to the door then! What if they need to isolate!
I wonder if what I have watched as fictional sci-fi will become a reality for some people. Is there more to it than just we don't have a vaccine, if soap kills it. Do we have the beds?
It's crossed my mind that's why it's here, but I can slap that part of my mind with a wet kipper and move on.
By next Saturday I estimate the UK will have at least 1000 cases. Its here but I don't plan on inviting in for dinner.
Empty supermarket shelves are fairly the norm here - island life. When the boat don't go, we dont have no food in the shops.
where I used to live people were just silly at Christmas. They even got trolley rage!!!! Thankfully not here.
Did you see that documentary on the Spanish flu that killed so many people during and after the 1st world war? Basically it caused your lungs to fill with fluid and you drowned. That was a really scary program.
I think pneumonia is one of the worst complications of flu (along with septicaemia). When I had flu during the 2001 epidemic (not the Spanish type thank goodness) I struggled to breath and couldn't lie down to sleep. I just spent my days sitting on the floor with my back against a radiator thinking I was probably going to die and feeling too ill to care or do anything about it.
I do worry that the same would happen if I caught the Corona virus but I'm not going to blow it all out of proportion. I think I'm probably more likely to be killed on the M62 on my way to work.
Why on EARTH are people panic buying loo rolls? That'll be what brings this country to its knees, I'm telling you..... not the actual coronavirus!!!!
Our behaviour isn't that far away from the horse really.
The herd has split, some are running around in a panic and have raised the alarm, the next group have stopped to watch what happens, and the last group don't care and are still eating, because the other two groups will deal with it.
I am trying to take a leaf out my horses book and be the watching what happens like she would be.
The herd has split, some are running around in a panic and have raised the alarm, the next group have stopped to watch what happens, and the last group don't care and are still eating, because the other two groups will deal with it.
I am trying to take a leaf out my horses book and be the watching what happens like she would be.
Well I think people will run out of food first. Most people have silly little freezer compartments these days. Not many people have large chest freezers. Perhaps there will be a rush on freezers so people can store food. It's all very well stacking up on pasta and rice and tin food. But those supplies won't last long if we have to isolate.
I believe because you are being told to blow your nose and throw that away. If you have a cold that's easily a loo roll gone if you do that?
Tinned curry is your friend. I have loads of it in anyway, we couldn't walk to a shop even if we wanted to where we are, so my cupboard generally has quite a bit stashed away. I have to in winter, not due to snow, but sometimes the wind makes it dangerous to be out and about.
On a slightly lighter note - a memory from way back in the day - my mother always kept a store cupboard pretty full with tinned goods, a big deal really as we lived on the bread line most of the time........all there just for an emergency or very special occasions. One day she went to the store cupboard to get something and found EVERY single tin had been pierced on two sides of the tin, one of my brothers had apparently drained all the nice fruit tins of their delicious syrup - and just left all the ones he didn't like the taste of pierced and rotting lol!
What a little horror - I would have killed one of mine, dear old Mum just sighed and cleared the cupboard out after quietly explaining to all of us how difficult it was to store food for emergencies and now we would not have anything if 'things got difficult' - as an Irish immigrant family she was always worrying about 'things getting difficult' <3
What a little horror - I would have killed one of mine, dear old Mum just sighed and cleared the cupboard out after quietly explaining to all of us how difficult it was to store food for emergencies and now we would not have anything if 'things got difficult' - as an Irish immigrant family she was always worrying about 'things getting difficult' <3
@Cortrasna - your Mum was nicer than I would've been.
Up here, we keep one and a spare of everything this time of year.
Up here, we keep one and a spare of everything this time of year.
newrider.com