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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screenman

Squire
To be honest Joey you are doing no different from myself, I also had to tell someone to back away whilst in the supermarket queue to get into the building.
 
winjim

winjim

Smash the cistern
Joey Shabadoo said:
I've been to the supermarket twice in the last three weeks and found it quite stressful. At home I can control things and keep my wife shielded - I've moved a bed into the living room, we have separate bathrooms and everything coming into the house is disinfected by spraying or wiping down. At the supermarket I put nitrile gloves on when I go in (disposing of them in the bin by the door when I come out) and pull my cycling buff over my mouth and nose but it's other people who are the hazard. People who have no idea about keeping their distance, people who stop to chat with friends in the aisles and block them. I got snippy with one woman and her son at the cakes section because she was picking them all up, checking the date, then putting them back. I may have called her a farking muppet but it didn't stop her.

Back home it's a case of wiping down the shopping then sticking my clothes in the wash and showering.

How anyone can just nip out to the shops every day bewilders me.

OK, I might be going over the top but I'm not going to kill my wife by being careless.
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I've got sympathy with this but we're trying to strike a balance. We get the bulk of our shopping delivered, I did consider wiping it all down or taking it out of the packets but we've got two young kids so I don't want to make the situation any weirder for them than it already is. The four year old knows about the virus obviously but we don't want to make her anxious and paranoid. She seems to be just getting to grips with the change of circumstances.

All this might change of course when we go back to work next week and the kids go to the childminder.
 
MontyVeda

MontyVeda

a short-tempered ill-controlled small-minded troll
Location
Lancaster... the little city.
screenman said:
Tesco had 4 people on handle wiping, it just seemed to be in the wrong place.

Please be assured I am extremely grateful to the front line people like yourself MontyVeda, I cannot even start to imagine the stress you are under and if there is anything as shoppers you think we could do better please let us all know.
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Probably what you're already doing. Most people on here seem to get it.

If wipes and sanitiser is available then use it on your hands and the handles before and after you shop. This reduces the chance of bringing anything in to the store and also taking anything home with you. I give my debit card a good wipe whilst I'm sanitising my hands after paying.

Use contactless payments when possible... cash is filthy at the best of times.

I've noticed that my local Iceland and Home Bargains don't provide any hand sanitiser. It's probably worth dropping a big hint by informing their till staff that other stores are providing hand sanitiser for their customers to use. This might get fed back to management and they might hopefully follow suit. :okay:
 
Stephenite

Stephenite

Membå
Location
OslO
MontyVeda said:
Probably what you're already doing. Most people on here seem to get it.

If wipes and sanitiser is available then use it on your hands and the handles before and after you shop. This reduces the chance of bringing anything in to the store and also taking anything home with you. I give my debit card a good wipe whilst I'm sanitising my hands after paying.

Use contactless payments when possible... cash is filthy at the best of times.

I've noticed that my local Iceland and Home Bargains don't provide any hand sanitiser. It's probably worth dropping a big hint by informing their till staff that other stores are providing hand sanitiser for their customers to use. This might get fed back to management and they might hopefully follow suit. :okay:
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You must go through a lot of hand sanitiser!

I work at IKEA in Norway.. We are open and have lots of customers. Not as many as normal but we can have about a hundred people in the queue spread over several tills. We have measures in place to keep people separated and reduce the risk of contamination. We wash down surfaces regularly in the checkout. If there is the time after each customer. We don't have hand sanitizer available to the customers though, at least, not in the checkout. We would go through litres of it. When customers ask for it they're encouraged to wash their hands with soap and water in the toilets.
 
Julia9054

Julia9054

Guru
Location
Knaresborough
AuroraSaab said:
Heard the ice cream van again this afternoon. Doubt he's enforcing the 2m rule when the kids are queuing.
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Wow! I am amazed he’s still allowed to operate!
Tbh - all I’ve wanted since lockdown is an ice cream!
 
Joey Shabadoo

Joey Shabadoo

My pronouns are "He", "Him" and "buggerlugs"
This might be useful -

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newfhouse

newfhouse

Resolutely on topic
Day fourteen of isolation tomorrow. If that was it - who knows? - I think we got off very lightly. Symptoms for both of us never got beyond a slight temperature elevation, a little breathlessness and sore throats.
Anyway, all being well I’ll have a real bike ride on Saturday :bicycle:

I shall probably visit work on Monday, when there’s unlikely to be anyone there, to do a few things that can’t be done from home.
 
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