Coronavirus outbreak

[rockyroller]

it's nice having polite customers

+1, I have a 2nd job, part time (retail home improvement) & while everyone shud get equal service, the cranky rude ones don't elicit any special consideration. while, for others, I'll definitely help a lot more

 

[mjr]

I had to go out to get food for the first time in a good while and shops bonkers today. Busiest I've seen it since before covid.

Saw this coming. It's usually bonkers for a few days after Xmas as people fail to cope with shops shut for one day and this year will be worse due to earlier panic buying shortages. We're currently wondering how many more days we can spin out leftovers for, and whether we need a full shop this year or if village stores will suffice to spin it out until most of the morons have to be back at work.

 

[potsy]

Went supermarket shopping this morning, never seen it so quiet, I was expecting chaos and crowds!

 

[midlife]

Over 41,000 cases today not including Scotland or NI. Inching nearer to lockdown v3?

 

[mjr]

Over 41,000 cases today not including Scotland or NI. Inching nearer to lockdown v3?

Boris won't risk a vote which will mean a debate where the frothing loons among his MPs can soil their copybooks again. We will just go into Tier 11 which looks suspiciously like a lockdown. A Tier In Name Only...

 

[nickyboy]

Brits in Verbier for ski holidays are told to isolate . What do the Brits do, do a runner in the middle of the night. They are on a different planet.

I think there is a need for some perspective here. You're on holiday with the family and Switzerland suddenly announce isolation protocol. If you sit there, the family are stuck in the hotel room for 10 days straight. Alternative is you leg it and go home.

Of course there will be folk who say "were I in these circumstances I'd force my family to isolate for those ten days". Get real, I'd expect almost everyone who could get out would get out. I certainly would.

 

[vickster]

COVID is also rife in Switzerland. My uncle who lives in Verbier has been in an induced coma for 4 weeks (my aunt had it before him but has recovered)

 

[roubaixtuesday]

I think there is a need for some perspective here. You're on holiday with the family and Switzerland suddenly announce isolation protocol. If you sit there, the family are stuck in the hotel room for 10 days straight. Alternative is you leg it and go home.

Of course there will be folk who say "were I in these circumstances I'd force my family to isolate for those ten days". Get real, I'd expect almost everyone who could get out would get out. I certainly would.

Sorry, but people travelling for holidays now know the risks of being quarantined.

If they don't fancy a quarantine, they should stay the fark home.

 

[mjr]

Of course there will be folk who say "were I in these circumstances I'd force my family to isolate for those ten days". Get real, I'd expect almost everyone who could get out would get out. I certainly would.

That sounds suspiciously like the "Get real" that the Association of Bad Drivers use to defend going 10 over the speed limit, claiming everyone does it. They don't.

I would quarantine as required. If you cannot adopt a plan that will cope with such disruption, now is not the time to travel.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

I think there is a need for some perspective here. You're on holiday with the family and Switzerland suddenly announce isolation protocol. If you sit there, the family are stuck in the hotel room for 10 days straight. Alternative is you leg it and go home.

Of course there will be folk who say "were I in these circumstances I'd force my family to isolate for those ten days". Get real, I'd expect almost everyone who could get out would get out. I certainly would.

Going on a skiing holiday during a pandemic, including driving across France. There is the perspective of a different reality.

 

[nickyboy]

Sorry, but people travelling for holidays now know the risks of being quarantined.

If they don't fancy a quarantine, they should stay the fark home.

That sounds suspiciously like the "Get real" that the Association of Bad Drivers use to defend going 10 over the speed limit, claiming everyone does it. They don't.

I would quarantine as required. If you cannot adopt a plan that will cope with such disruption, now is not the time to travel.

Going on a skiing holiday during a pandemic, including driving across France. There is the perspective of a different reality.

Dead easy to say what you hypothetically would have done. That butters no parsnips

 

[Rocky]

Dead easy to say what you hypothetically would have done. That butters no parsnips

I do know the Swiss are absolutely incandescent about it. My friend Gaby lives near to Verbier and there’s a huge anti-Brit feeling. Whatever the rights and wrongs, it’s left a bitter taste.

 

[roubaixtuesday]

Dead easy to say what you hypothetically would have done. That butters no parsnips

I wouldn't have gone for a skiing holiday in a farking pandemic.

In fact, come to think of it, I will not be going on a skiing holiday. Because there's a farking pandemic.

What exactly is hypothetical here?

 

[vickster]

It’s pretty bizarre that Switzerland decided to keep the slopes open in the midst of a pandemic in the first place.
I guess they like the huge sums of money that tourism brings to the resorts too much so they can’t gripe too much about the Brits other than they didn’t quarantine in resort still spending money?
Can’t have it all ways

 

[Rocky]

It’s pretty bizarre that Switzerland decided to keep the slopes open in the midst of a pandemic in the first place.
I guess they like the huge sums of money that tourism brings to the resorts too much so they can’t gripe too much about the Brits other than they didn’t quarantine in resort still spending money?
Can’t have it all ways

I think the Swiss had thought that Swiss people would like to ski over the Xmas holidays (my friend Gaby is a great skier for example). What they also expected was that people living in areas where there's a near total lockdown wouldn't travel and that once they did, they'd follow local laws and go through quarantine. They clear didn't understand the Brits.