My Waitrose has a lady wiping handles of trolleys between each use and done away with the 1£ trolley deposit
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My Waitrose has a lady wiping handles of trolleys between each use and done away with the 1£ trolley deposit
Rusty Nails
We remember
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So has the local Sainsburys. But they have a gentleman wiping the handles.
Accy cyclist
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I'd like this wiping down trolleys,baskets,using hand gel etc to continue after this virus is over(if that ever happens). People are slowly becoming aware of to put it bluntly,how dirty they are and how they pass germs on to other people. Maybe some good will come from this tragic situation!
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iandg
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Clear still. One of my boys had all the symptoms but didn't get to the state that needed hospital treatment so he wasn't tested and we can only assume he had it and recovered (no option in poll) - he's back at work now in Cameron Toll Sainsburys, Edinburgh
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Accy cyclist
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I'll give a 
to this! https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar...ims-coronavirus-great-leveller-rich-poor.html
For those who won't click the link to DM articles,it's about a news reader who says that the virus is not,as now often stated,a great leveller of rich and poor. She said quote..
'Hello, good evening.
'The language around Covid-19 has sometimes felt trite and misleading. You do not survive the illness through fortitude and strength of character, whatever the Prime Minister's colleagues will tell us.
'And the disease is not a great leveller, the consequences of which everyone, rich or poor, suffers the same. This is a myth which needs debunking.
'Those on the frontline right now - bus drivers and shelf-stackers, nurses, care home workers, hospital staff and shopkeepers - are disproportionately the lower paid members of our workforce.
'They are more likely to catch the disease because they are more exposed. Those who live in tower blocks and small flats will find the lockdown tougher. Those in manual jobs will be unable to work from home.
'This is a health issue with huge ramifications for social welfare and it's a welfare issue with huge ramifications for public health.
'Tonight as France goes into recession and the World Trade Organization warns the pandemic could provoke the deepest economic downturn of our lifetimes, we ask what kind of social settlement might need to be put in place to stop the inequality becoming even more stark.'
to this! https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar...ims-coronavirus-great-leveller-rich-poor.htmlFor those who won't click the link to DM articles,it's about a news reader who says that the virus is not,as now often stated,a great leveller of rich and poor. She said quote..
'Hello, good evening.
'The language around Covid-19 has sometimes felt trite and misleading. You do not survive the illness through fortitude and strength of character, whatever the Prime Minister's colleagues will tell us.
'And the disease is not a great leveller, the consequences of which everyone, rich or poor, suffers the same. This is a myth which needs debunking.
'Those on the frontline right now - bus drivers and shelf-stackers, nurses, care home workers, hospital staff and shopkeepers - are disproportionately the lower paid members of our workforce.
'They are more likely to catch the disease because they are more exposed. Those who live in tower blocks and small flats will find the lockdown tougher. Those in manual jobs will be unable to work from home.
'This is a health issue with huge ramifications for social welfare and it's a welfare issue with huge ramifications for public health.
'Tonight as France goes into recession and the World Trade Organization warns the pandemic could provoke the deepest economic downturn of our lifetimes, we ask what kind of social settlement might need to be put in place to stop the inequality becoming even more stark.'
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The direct advice from my long term chest consultant (i emailed her a few weeks ago when going down with the bug) was that the probability was of a mild illness, even given my past history.
We have both had "classic" COVID-19 symptoms at the very mild end of the range and are already fully recovered. (A naughty 10 mile walk yesterday!)
I know a number of people, locally and through cycling, who also appear to have had the COVID-19. One is serious (pneumonia on a ventilator) all others have been mild/moderate managed at home. One who at one time looked to be serious had ignored early symptoms and continued a heavy cycling load
Once again, we need to remember the issue is population-level control to protect the NHS from overload - a small serious % of a huge number of infections is still a very large number - that was the message at the start and it is the message now.
It is a great relief to have got off lightly, and I feel great sadness and sympathy for those who do not and for their families, but the data clearly show that most infections are mild.
newfhouse
Resolutely on topic
100% agreement. I wasn’t downplaying the extent or effect of the pandemic overall, merely noting our apparent inclusion in the fortunate majority. We will continue to comply with the spirit and letter of the current restrictions, for all the reasons you cite.
Accy cyclist
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- The hills of Accrington
Just heard on the radio that MP's are to receive £10,000 each for their 'hardship' (having to buy laptops to communicate etc) during the lock down! Surely they had fecking laptops before the virus,so why do they need new ones?! 
View: https://medium.com/@jurgenthoelen/belgian-dutch-study-why-in-times-of-covid-19-you-can-not-walk-run-bike-close-to-each-other-a5df19c77d08
Source: NHS Emergency medicine consultant
Fab Foodie
hanging-on in quiet desperation ...
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She’s not alone....I'll give a
For those who won't click the link to DM articles,it's about a news reader who says that the virus is not,as now often stated,a great leveller of rich and poor. She said quote..
'Hello, good evening.
'The language around Covid-19 has sometimes felt trite and misleading. You do not survive the illness through fortitude and strength of character, whatever the Prime Minister's colleagues will tell us.
'And the disease is not a great leveller, the consequences of which everyone, rich or poor, suffers the same. This is a myth which needs debunking.
'Those on the frontline right now - bus drivers and shelf-stackers, nurses, care home workers, hospital staff and shopkeepers - are disproportionately the lower paid members of our workforce.
'They are more likely to catch the disease because they are more exposed. Those who live in tower blocks and small flats will find the lockdown tougher. Those in manual jobs will be unable to work from home.
'This is a health issue with huge ramifications for social welfare and it's a welfare issue with huge ramifications for public health.
'Tonight as France goes into recession and the World Trade Organization warns the pandemic could provoke the deepest economic downturn of our lifetimes, we ask what kind of social settlement might need to be put in place to stop the inequality becoming even more stark.'
https://www.theguardian.com/comment...-zoom-cleaners-offices?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
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Still all good here and Lovely Wife is looking forward to her first NHS Responder mission.
DaveReading
Don't suffer fools gladly (must try harder!)
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I'm not quite sure why that's "naughty", given that there are no regulations forbidding walking.
Unless it was 10 miles walking up and down the aisles at your local supermarket.
pawl
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The prat’s that get caught by the police for flouting the rules should be locked in a room to watch reports and similar ones until they are screaming to be released.and are to quote chapter and verse the correct regulations
Joey Shabadoo
My pronouns are "He", "Him" and "buggerlugs"
Just a note for anybody about to go shopping, this isn't the best idea -
Just heard on the radio that MP's are to receive £10,000 each for their 'hardship' (having to buy laptops to communicate etc) during the lock down! Surely they had fecking laptops before the virus,so why do they need new ones?!
It's worse then that they've also told they no longer have to send in any proof for anything. The limit of the MP's credit cards has been put up too. Quite few already had the cards taken of them due being investigated for miss use before all this.
