Coronavirus
- Thread starter Trewsers
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If I had done that I would be dead, my mum once attacked me with a knife, and only my bedroom door saved me. Dad said he was going to leave home and let us sort it out between us. Nothing much has changed....
It only two weeks isolated not two months. This is getting way out of hand. Supermarkets can still deliver food the whole country is not infected and will not all be infected fir the same two weeks
Its picking up faster over here.
every day cases are growing quickly.
Im not panicking but I worry.
Thankfully ive been i stores when they were not that busy to avoid close contact.
I have noticed there must be many more people actually USING cart wipes FINALLY.
It used to amaze
Me people flowing into stores you go to grab a wipe its dead bone dry
So how many never bothered.
My husband and I both got hair cuts yesterday.
I had to push in him to GET ON THE STICK
lets go before it was busy.
I really needed a hair cut cause under my helmet and hats etc too much hair aggrivates my sensitive scalp.
I REALLY REALLY Wasn't thrilled for
Close contact a cape and scissors etc.
Being used on others.
Thankfully no one seemed sick in there..
More compacted urban areas and cities seem to be getting much worse much
Faster.
There was the most stupid comment on the news this am.
A St Patricks day parade went on as planned yestetday OHHH ITS OUTSIDE
They touted...NO DANGER THERE.
THEN they had a big AFTER PARTY
INSIDE...
packed in like Ants...
REALLY. what are they thinking..
WE thankfully don't have too many cases
Here yet.
I would not be surprised to see it jump
After stupidity like that.
I think that was the big RI parade.
Next weekend Is the big Boston one.
every day cases are growing quickly.
Im not panicking but I worry.
Thankfully ive been i stores when they were not that busy to avoid close contact.
I have noticed there must be many more people actually USING cart wipes FINALLY.
It used to amaze
Me people flowing into stores you go to grab a wipe its dead bone dry
So how many never bothered.
My husband and I both got hair cuts yesterday.
I had to push in him to GET ON THE STICK
lets go before it was busy.
I really needed a hair cut cause under my helmet and hats etc too much hair aggrivates my sensitive scalp.
I REALLY REALLY Wasn't thrilled for
Close contact a cape and scissors etc.
Being used on others.
Thankfully no one seemed sick in there..
More compacted urban areas and cities seem to be getting much worse much
Faster.
There was the most stupid comment on the news this am.
A St Patricks day parade went on as planned yestetday OHHH ITS OUTSIDE
They touted...NO DANGER THERE.
THEN they had a big AFTER PARTY
INSIDE...
packed in like Ants...
REALLY. what are they thinking..
WE thankfully don't have too many cases
Here yet.
I would not be surprised to see it jump
After stupidity like that.
I think that was the big RI parade.
Next weekend Is the big Boston one.
I wouldn't normally worry over a bug like for instance if it was the norovirus. It's because it's respiratory and Mr T having asthma and another long term illness that makes him vulnerable. I worry about him not me. If I get it then he'll catch it from me. I think the food situation has just got people flustered and they are buying things - like toilet rolls in huge quantities because it makes them feel better! I read an article about it, something to do with the rolls being prominently displayed in supermarkets and when people are in panic buy mode they just grab them because of their size and position.
Honestly - you wouldn't think we are civilised sometimes.
Honestly - you wouldn't think we are civilised sometimes.
This.
Each day that someone is confirmed, someone has recovered.
Though its looking like a month if you are quarantined overseas, you are then told another two weeks here.
Our shelves can look like locusts have been through, we are coastal so get hungry tourists. Be interesting to see what Easter looks like this year.
We might think we are, but a lot of planning goes into displaying things in a supermarket.
Some people are falling back into their hunter gather mode. As I said when it comes down to it, we aren't so different from wild animals. People fight over parking spaces, I can't see me arguing over loo roll, now with the last packet of polos, maybe, it effects the cob. But she's got enough of those as someone sent her some.
Well we have home grown veg (not that big but better than nowt). We have pot noodles. What more could I need?! Oh and fudge. Yep plenty of Orkney fudge going here. 
I think a lot of the panic buying is people panicking they wont be able to buy basic supplies because all the other panic buyers will have bought them first!
I think we could probably live for a month on all the stuff we've got in the cupboards and freezer and it would probably do us a favour to have a jolly good clear out. Mind, some of the sell by dates might be several years in the past ...
I'm wondering about all the people who use public transport to get to work. I drive in now but I used to catch the train and you could be jammed like sardines on the rush hour, there were always people coughing and sneezing and even throwing up on occasions. But you can't not go to work so what do you do? It must be terrible for people who are genuinely terrified of catching this bug.
Tbh I still can't understand why we seem to be panicking so much more about this one than any of the others. I think I'd rather have Coronavirus than Ebola and I seem to remember that swine flu was portrayed as equally as dangerous at the time, but I dont remember all the panic buying, or maybe I've just forgotten.
I think we could probably live for a month on all the stuff we've got in the cupboards and freezer and it would probably do us a favour to have a jolly good clear out. Mind, some of the sell by dates might be several years in the past ...
I'm wondering about all the people who use public transport to get to work. I drive in now but I used to catch the train and you could be jammed like sardines on the rush hour, there were always people coughing and sneezing and even throwing up on occasions. But you can't not go to work so what do you do? It must be terrible for people who are genuinely terrified of catching this bug.
Tbh I still can't understand why we seem to be panicking so much more about this one than any of the others. I think I'd rather have Coronavirus than Ebola and I seem to remember that swine flu was portrayed as equally as dangerous at the time, but I dont remember all the panic buying, or maybe I've just forgotten.
I don't think the swine flu was as talked about. Mr T caught it and was really ill for a while poor man.
I worry over him more than me. I am genuinely terrified of either of us getting it and thank my lucky stars neither of us has to use public transport. We both work from home so that's a plus though no guarantee we won't get it another way. We both have to see the dentist soon. And the local gp.
I don't remember anyone panic buying over swine flu, but like I said before, I can't remember folk hearing so much or reading so much - every headline seems to be about this corona thing.
Bet you are glad you drive to work now.
Well OH and I went in to town today as well needed items and about six different shops.
It was the as always very busy with people going about their daily lives as they should. We are in a hugely multi cultural city but appreciate people have jobs to do and lives to live.
We got all our stuff then went to the pub for our usual glass of wine.
When or if it travels our way we will do as recommended but two weeks isolation to protect others is a small ask when vulnerable people are losing lives. But I refuse to live in the what if... the number of people getting it and survive far out weight the other poor souls.
Sorry if I seem harsh but if you think you are in the vulnerable category then it is up to you to take precautions stick piles and panicking is not one of them
It was the as always very busy with people going about their daily lives as they should. We are in a hugely multi cultural city but appreciate people have jobs to do and lives to live.
We got all our stuff then went to the pub for our usual glass of wine.
When or if it travels our way we will do as recommended but two weeks isolation to protect others is a small ask when vulnerable people are losing lives. But I refuse to live in the what if... the number of people getting it and survive far out weight the other poor souls.
Sorry if I seem harsh but if you think you are in the vulnerable category then it is up to you to take precautions stick piles and panicking is not one of them
I work in retail. Some bosses are delighted about the panic buying and doing everything they can to almost promote it. By locating items in prominent areas and then withholding some items from sale to look like they have been hoarded up already. We've been struggling because of the weather and with tough times forecast ahead I suppose they are cashing in whilst they can. All seems very wrong..
Having worked in retail and advertising, I know this goes on behind the scenes. Advertising was my least favourite as you selling a brand, but it's more fake and artificial.
The rubbish weather has probably impacted everyone unless you sell boats!
I accidently locked myself in the store cupboard under the stairs. I couldn't get out of the window so I just sat happily and munched the contents.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
As a result my parents changed the lock which auto shut the door behind you, it was a lift up and dropped down fitting - probably got a name.
I wonder how many people still have old larders?
I would love an old proper larder with a marble shelf, and fly net to the outside.
It may seem a small ask, but a livery at the yard I'm on has just (yesterday) come back from north Italy and turned up at the yard this morning. She doesn't feel self isolating is necessary, despite the action Italy has just taken, and is apparently quite happy to possibly expose the whole yard buy coming up at one of the busiest times and days. We have quite a few people who would fall into the at risk categories, I'm actually quite cross the yard owners haven't asked her to stay away particularly when north Italy was developing a lot of cases before she went so she knew what she was going into.
Jeepers @carthorse , that is really thoughtless. Some people are just so impervious.
Okaaaaaay........ - so I am very much in the vulnerable category Ownedbychanter and it is almost 100 per cent a given that if I get this thing I will die - no if ands or buts. - Not being facetious here but please do tell me what precautions you think me and the many others like me should be taking to protect ourselves when half the very robustly healthy population is seemingly just intent on stocking up on bog roll and taking all the hand sanitizer and soaps before me and the OH, in my usual 'laid back not panicked mode' even turn up to the supermarket for our usual weekly shop? What are these precautions you speak of?
This is when self isolation is/will fail.
She 'should' have called 111 who would have advised she get tested, hell there are drivethroughs you can do this at now.
Apparently 111 are now saying only self isolate or test if you're showing symptoms and you aren't infectious if you aren't showing symptoms. Rather different advice than before!
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