Coronavirus outbreak

[ozboz]

I went back to our local Sainsbury’s this evening to get the stuff I couldn’t carry earlier , I learned that if I get there tomorrow between 7-8 i can get in and have first dibs before the crowd swamp it, I also noticed that three vans that had a builders logo on them from about 30 miles away with three passengers in each , each of them grabbed a trolley and hurried into the store obviously intending to fill them and take stuff back to their area, if a lot of this is going on it’s putting more strain on this store’s allocation goods to replenish shelves ,
but their mission was a failure as I would say that 90% of all foodstuffs were gone ,

 

[perplexed]

One way of stopping hoarding/panic buying...

Denmark

 

[randynewmanscat]

I like that there is an exchange of what to do for your more vulnerable neighbours here. This is the only British website with forums that I view or post to and its heartening to see people looking out for others aside from their immediate clan. Chapeau.

 

[Mugshot]

One way of stopping hording/panic buying...

Denmark



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That is BRILLIANT!

 

[Joey Shabadoo]

https://www.theleader.info/2020/03/...6-mgAAtIL24gCVlXpfPwxQCf2oqOPHizcHEcNr-VAu8so

One person per car in Spain

 

[randynewmanscat]

That is BRILLIANT!

Effective I would say but it makes me somewhat angry to think that those empty shelves cleared by stupid scroaty people are scenes from the country of my birth. Spirit of the blitz my arse.

 

[deptfordmarmoset]

I think the discrepancy is because Germany has been doing a lot more testing, whereas the UK has only been testing people with symptoms (ie more likely to actually have it) so the fatality rate will appear higher.

Delivery wise, I have had 3 deliveries this week and all 3 couriers had abandoned signing for stuff. They just noted my name. Common sense really. It seems such an obvious, easy precaution. Bit like putting till staff behind perspex screens - could be done fairly quickly and easily I would have thought.

Quite, but if you want to account for the number of deaths by cases identified alone, the UK should have over 100,000 cases. Unless, the testing difference is not tenfold and more, but that the Germans are looking after their patients far more successfully. The truth may be somewhere in between. So test more and care better. And learn more about best practice, which in Europe, seems to imply learn from what Germany is doing.

 

[deptfordmarmoset]

https://www.theleader.info/2020/03/...6-mgAAtIL24gCVlXpfPwxQCf2oqOPHizcHEcNr-VAu8so

One person per car in Spain

So cabbies are to drive around without fares! Buses without passengers!

 

[randynewmanscat]

https://www.theleader.info/2020/03/...6-mgAAtIL24gCVlXpfPwxQCf2oqOPHizcHEcNr-VAu8so

One person per car in Spain

They should make an exception to allow this creature to get to the nearest airport to return home to loot supermarket shelves of stock. A vox pop of Britons stuck in Benidorm three days ago. You can make up your own words for what this pond life had to say, bladdered obviously but the sober version was probably much the same.

 

[Fab Foodie]

I know Tesco Dover - it is what we raid on our way back from hols in England, and hardly a corner shop. You can just about keep frozen stuff frozen during the journey home. Best not to use their dirty and cheap fuel though. Diesel!

Amazing pictures. This kind of behaviour brings about the very thing that causes it in the first place - fear of shortages. If people won't discipline themselves, and if the supermarkets won't or can't either, then the govt will have to do it. And I say that as someone with an element of libertarian in their thinking.

I was staggered. As you imply, it’s a bloody big store, completely cleared out in areas. Amazing. :-(

 

[Fab Foodie]

A golden opportunity for Netflix and Amazon to provide "emergency" free TV for those lucky enough to have an internet connection, the PR value is huge as I see it.

Apart from a lack of internets due to all the homeworkers.....
Oh wait, maybe we should ban streaming movies between 0800 and 1800...

 

[Mugshot]

They should make an exception to allow this creature to get to the nearest airport to return home to loot supermarket shelves of stock. A vox pop of Britons stuck in Benidorm three days ago. You can make up your own words for what this pond life had to say, bladdered obviously but the sober version was probably much the same.
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Let's head over to our correspondent in the USA:


View: https://twitter.com/nowthisnews/status/1240375906159472640?s=20

 

[randynewmanscat]

I was staggered. As you imply, it’s a bloody big store, completely cleared out in areas. Amazing. :-(

The poorly stored pasta will be good news for weevils at least. What a waste. Good news for Shippams though!

 

[Mike_P]

Done a quick stock check of food and do not need anything till Monday surely everyone over buying will have no more space to buy anything by then In what is probably the first round of cut backs in public transport East Lancashire and North/West Yorkshire services operated by Transdev will largely run to Saturday times from next Monday.

 

[Joey Shabadoo]

Still vegan stuff left for some reason -