Corona Virus: How Are We Doing?

You have the virus

  • Yes

    Votes: 57 21.2%
  • I've been quaranteened

    Votes: 19 7.1%
  • I personally know someone who has been diagnosed

    Votes: 71 26.4%
  • Clear as far as I know

    Votes: 150 55.8%

  • Total voters
    269
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marinyork

Resting in suspended Animation
Location
Logopolis
Sometimes keeping it simple is the best policy

Yeah if you want everyone in society to fall out. By the sounds of it that is what DaveReading and Electric Andy actually want. Everyone can be arses and get cleverer and cleverer until everyone falls out. We have ones on here that are pretty obtuse and provocative in normal times, let alone coronavirus times.
 

screenman

Squire
Accy if your shopping local daily and paying attention to hand washing and being careful about distancing then that's ok.

This is about being considerate to others.
So if your particular situation is as such Just be aware of the need to follow the guide as far as possible in your daily life.


I'm sure you as much as any of us wouldn't want to be responsible for passing this awful disease around

I disagree, so do the experts, fewer movements mean fewer chances.
 
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Accy cyclist

Legendary Member
On about hand gel/sanitizer. They've been putting electric cables down,outside an old dilapidated building near here,this week. A bloke who lives directly opposite the place told me that he's spoken to the boss of those laying the cables,who told him it's going to be used for making 1 million bottles of hand gel a week. I don't know how they've been given permission to use the building as it's been empty for many years and as far as I know no work has been done to it. It seems 'health and safety' go out the window in times of need!!
 

Levo-Lon

Guru
I disagree, so do the experts, fewer movements mean fewer chances.

True, but everyone has their own situation.

You I would imagine have a decent chest freezer and live rural and I would think a good well stocked dry store food wise.

The poorer in society have to live day to day.
I also agree with you ,we shop once a week but we have had to get a loaf mid week and milk ect, you cant buy a weeks worth "for us 4, 2 pint cartons, wife wont the lift a 4." Weak wrist

But we can thank the panic buyers for this.
 

Electric_Andy

Heavy Metal Fan
Location
Plymouth
Yeah if you want everyone in society to fall out. By the sounds of it that is what DaveReading and Electric Andy actually want. Everyone can be arses and get cleverer and cleverer until everyone falls out. We have ones on here that are pretty obtuse and provocative in normal times, let alone coronavirus times.
Please don't dramatise it, I do not want anyone to fall out, I have better things to do than stir up unrest online! All i was doing was giving my opinion on what someone else had said regarding movement of kids between co-parent households.
It would be safer for everyone if they didn't. The child acts as a point of contact between two households that otherwise would be isolated from each other. Precisely what the social distancing is meant to avoid.

All I'm saying is that kids moving between parents is one of the child's emotional needs that needs to be met (in most cases). But if you want to think you're in charge of these threads then you're free to remove mine if you want, I won't mind
 

screenman

Squire
True, but everyone has their own situation.

You I would imagine have a decent chest freezer and live rural and I would think a good well stocked dry store food wise.

The poorer in society have to live day to day.
I also agree with you ,we shop once a week but we have had to get a loaf mid week and milk ect, you cant buy a weeks worth "for us 4, 2 pint cartons, wife wont the lift a 4." Weak wrist

But we can thank the panic buyers for this.

I am glad you agree that the fewer times people venture out the less chance of this killer spreading. Even the very poor can lessen the need to go out, some people with mental problems maybe not so.
 

MontyVeda

a short-tempered ill-controlled small-minded troll
I would have thought very few people would go out after 8pm.
I work in Aldi and a few weeks back, we started closing the store at 8pm instead of 10pm. However from next week, we're going back to 10pm closing. Apparently other supermarkets are doing the same thing, to spread to opening hours and aid social distancing.

Just thought I'd mention it :smile:
 

PK99

Legendary Member
Location
SW19
Had an appropriately distanced chat with a motorcycle policeman yesterday.

He said that generally, they are having few problems with stupid behaviour and are preferring friendly chats rather than £30 fines - there is as much paperwork (he said 1hr) back at the station for a £30 Covid fine as for a full blown arrest.
 

Accy cyclist

Legendary Member
I work in Aldi and a few weeks back, we started closing the store at 8pm instead of 10pm. However from next week, we're going back to 10pm closing. Apparently other supermarkets are doing the same thing, to spread to opening hours and aid social distancing.

Just thought I'd mention it :smile:
why have Aldi stores hidden all the baskets this last week or so? I've been using my plastic shopping bag to put items in,then emptying it at the checkout. It's been a bit like those old Jeremy Beadle shows where actors did something unusual in view of the unsuspecting public. I drop stuff in my big 'bag for life' and watch the reaction of the nearby (6 feet away of course!) shopper. Some must think i'm 'on the rob'.:okay:
 

Milzy

Guru
Inside sources say we have 3 more weeks of this then people's works will be phoning them all back in.
 

icowden

Veteran
Location
Surrey
Remember the aim of this is not to prevent people getting Covid-19. That isn't achievable.
The aim is to stop everyone getting it at the same time. Many of the people who will die from Covid-19 are people who could also have died from something else. The government also has to balance keeping a reduced infection rate / death rate from Covid-19 against possible increases in domestic violence, child abuse, and deaths from inactivity, suicide, poverty etc.

Small bendings of the rules aren't too problematic to the model. It's when they turn into much larger bendings of the rules (so mass gatherings for example) that the spread increases much faster and therefore the peak starts to overwhelm the emergency services.

There is a pretty good write up from MD in this fortnight's Private Eye. MD does also point out that there are positives. For example many people have now found that lots of things don't actually need a visit to A&E...
 

icowden

Veteran
Location
Surrey
why have Aldi stores hidden all the baskets this last week or so? I've been using my plastic shopping bag to put items in,then emptying it at the checkout. It's been a bit like those old Jeremy Beadle shows where actors did something unusual in view of the unsuspecting public. I drop stuff in my big 'bag for life' and watch the reaction of the nearby (6 feet away of course!) shopper. Some must think i'm 'on the rob'.:okay:
Simple - all those basket handles would be a primary way to spread infection.
 

DaveReading

Don't suffer fools gladly (must try harder!)
Location
Reading, obvs
Exactly, and we may get another 3 weeks added today.
Easter behaviour will dictate what happens next week.
Fingers crossed the idiots get the message.

Sadly I think we're going to see more stringent measures

No decision likely today, according to the media, but I think we can be confident that the review next week will not result in any significant easing of the restrictions - possibly the opposite, depending on how the Great British Public behaves over the weekend.
 

MontyVeda

a short-tempered ill-controlled small-minded troll
why have Aldi stores hidden all the baskets this last week or so? I've been using my plastic shopping bag to put items in,then emptying it at the checkout. It's been a bit like those old Jeremy Beadle shows where actors did something unusual in view of the unsuspecting public. I drop stuff in my big 'bag for life' and watch the reaction of the nearby (6 feet away of course!) shopper. Some must think i'm 'on the rob'.:okay:
We've not hidden the baskets in our store (yet)... but i suspect it's an attempt to stop the spread. We have antibacterial wipes and hand sanitiser next to the stack of baskets so customers can clean the handle and their hands before they shop.

Plenty of customers do what you do (use their own bag instead of a basket). As a member of floor staff, I'll mention it (you) to the checkouts to double check your bag for life ^_^. But I wouldn't worry about it, it's not uncommon to use your bag instead of basket, and as things are, it's probably more sensible :okay:
 
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