Awol Posted March 22, 2020 Share Posted March 22, 2020 This is an amazing graphic representation of the outbreak in the NYT. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coda Posted March 22, 2020 Share Posted March 22, 2020 27 minutes ago, Kuwabatake Sanjuro said: https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/coronavirus-tesco-shoppers-fight-crush-21733637 What is wrong with people. There's a cluster of cases in Wolverhampton/Black Countray that's the worst outside London. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chrisp65 Posted March 22, 2020 Share Posted March 22, 2020 Supermarkets locally here were in meltdown yesterday. Crowds at the door waiting for them to open, people getting angry in their cars trying to get in and out of the car parks. Today, all calm, plenty of stock in all of them. I’m hoping that eventually when people have nowhere left to stack rice and they see it keeps getting restocked, they will get the message. Literally choices of brands and pack sizes in everything on the usual panic list. Hadn’t realised how wound up I was until that news came through and I felt myself physically relax. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
markavfc40 Posted March 22, 2020 Share Posted March 22, 2020 Anyone who knows Tesco at New Oscott these were the scenes this morning. Not taken by me by the way. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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sne Posted March 22, 2020 Share Posted March 22, 2020 7 minutes ago, markavfc40 said: Anyone who knows Tesco at New Oscott these were the scenes this morning. Not taken by me by the way. Let's say just 1% of the people there were infected this morning, then how many of them are now? 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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markavfc40 Posted March 22, 2020 Share Posted March 22, 2020 On 21/03/2020 at 08:39, Morley_crosses_to_Withe said: @markavfc40 It’s in a hotel. I was expecting the same thing to happen and that the venue would cancel, but apparently not. It’s probably greed i.e. that the wedding represents a healthy profit for one day to the venue so they’re just unwilling to cancel. Did you go mate? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Awol Posted March 22, 2020 Share Posted March 22, 2020 Chinese state propaganda machine switched from story 1 (US special forces covertly spread the virus in Wuhan), to a new line pinning the blame on Chinese migrant workers becoming infected in N Italy and bringing it home. While we rightly focus on managing our public health emergency, it’s worth remembering all the normal chicanery and inter-state competition continues as normal. China is positioning hard for the post-COVID blame game. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rjw63 Posted March 22, 2020 Share Posted March 22, 2020 47 minutes ago, chrisp65 said: Supermarkets locally here were in meltdown yesterday. Crowds at the door waiting for them to open, people getting angry in their cars trying to get in and out of the car parks. Today, all calm, plenty of stock in all of them. I’m hoping that eventually when people have nowhere left to stack rice and they see it keeps getting restocked, they will get the message. Literally choices of brands and pack sizes in everything on the usual panic list. Hadn’t realised how wound up I was until that news came through and I felt myself physically relax. Well, even though Ocado are getting plaudits for their continuance of delivery, I and many others who've used them for up to 10 years are now faced with a THREE week wait to get a delivery slot, and ALL the special offers have been removed (that I took advantage of in recent months) AND dozens of ordinary items I order weekly are all out of stock. All because a load of greedy words removed have gone **** mad. Sorry Ocado but that's not good enough, looks like your loss is adsa's gain. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Awol Posted March 22, 2020 Share Posted March 22, 2020 Just now, rjw63 said: Well, even though Ocado are getting plaudits for their continuance of delivery, I and many others who've used them for up to 10 years are now faced with a THREE week wait to get a delivery slot, and ALL the special offers have been removed (that I took advantage of in recent months) AND dozens of ordinary items I order weekly are all out of stock. All because a load of greedy words removed have gone **** mad. Sorry Ocado but that's not good enough, looks like your loss is adsa's gain. Wot, no Razzle? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rjw63 Posted March 22, 2020 Share Posted March 22, 2020 Just now, Awol said: Wot, no Razzle? It';s not 1979 you know! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xela Posted March 22, 2020 Share Posted March 22, 2020 52 minutes ago, markavfc40 said: Anyone who knows Tesco at New Oscott these were the scenes this morning. Not taken by me by the way. Jeez! How can anyone standing there think that is a smart thing to do. I bet the Lidl and Aldi nearby were similar as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rjw63 Posted March 22, 2020 Share Posted March 22, 2020 My dishwasher broke down last week, had a new one delivered yesterday. Thought I'd take the old one to the local tip to dispose of. A thirty minute **** queue to get in! Why the **** is everyone dumping rubbish at the same time? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jareth Posted March 22, 2020 VT Supporter Share Posted March 22, 2020 7 minutes ago, rjw63 said: Well, even though Ocado are getting plaudits for their continuance of delivery, I and many others who've used them for up to 10 years are now faced with a THREE week wait to get a delivery slot Think they've just switched off all slots until they re-write some code to change the website - they need to stop overbuying and over booking... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sne Posted March 22, 2020 Share Posted March 22, 2020 11 minutes ago, Awol said: Chinese state propaganda machine switched from story 1 (US special forces covertly spread the virus in Wuhan), to a new line pinning the blame on Chinese migrant workers becoming infected in N Italy and bringing it home. While we rightly focus on managing our public health emergency, it’s worth remembering all the normal chicanery and inter-state competition continues as normal. China is positioning hard for the post-COVID blame game. Yeah I still think they've might been withholding the real numbers for a while now and will soon present a huge increase that they will blame on other countries not handling it correctly. Leaves the party more or less blameless and looking like the only ones who handled it correctly. Very well aware that this is a tin foil hat theory. But it's China so honestly would not surprise me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leighavfc Posted March 22, 2020 Share Posted March 22, 2020 1 hour ago, markavfc40 said: We could very quickly get to a stage where nurses won't want to go into work for fear of getting ill themselves. It is an absolute disgrace that many of our NHS staff on the front line of this don't even have the basic PPE. I mean we have known about this for weeks and the government are still spouting crap about it being on the way. It makes me so angry. My wife and daughter are both community mental health nurses both for the NHS expected to visit patients with mental health issues who are saying they may have coronavirus. They work for different trusts and no one has any PPE. My partner works in a hospital, she says in her hospital they have got the correct PPE etc as far as she knows. She also told me that idiots are not just going into the hospital with symptoms they are also arguing about having to put it on... wtf are these people on? I have also been told that the masks are useful for around half an hour before being overloaded with germs etc. This is a big concern if true!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leighavfc Posted March 22, 2020 Share Posted March 22, 2020 1 hour ago, chrisp65 said: I don’t know why this made me laugh quite so much. Dont want to be catching that scouse disease... worse than the Corona Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ferguson1 Posted March 22, 2020 Share Posted March 22, 2020 1 hour ago, chrisp65 said: I don’t know why this made me laugh quite so much. Blimey, Peter Reid just doesn’t age does he? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leighavfc Posted March 22, 2020 Share Posted March 22, 2020 1 hour ago, Xela said: Scared, reckless, uneducated and plenty of others. I'm avoiding the super/hyper markets now. Will stick to the convenience stores. As a single bloke living on his own, I don't need huge amounts to get by anyway. I agree and have been trying my local co op... they have been ransacked. No bread for days, no toilet roll for 2 weeks, no eggs... barely anything. Getting bad now 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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