Coronavirus outbreak

[Joey Shabadoo]

Step-son saw someone filling jerry cans of petrol at a filling station this morning. A one-off? I certainly topped off my tank yesterday.

 

[nickyboy]

Step-son saw someone filling jerry cans of petrol at a filling station this morning. A one-off? I certainly topped off my tank yesterday.

I'd have thought the opposite was true. Petrol companies will have to figure out what to do with all the unsold product in their supply chain as people travel less

It's started...Tom Tom real time congestion stats shows Manchester rush hour much quieter than normal

 

[Johnno260]

Are you able to ask for some more inhaler refills now? not in a panic buy way, just if the health care systems being stretched you know you're covered, same for diabetics are you able to get a little bit more insulin and needles to tide you over? also in both cases means less movement for vulnerable groups during the virus peak.

 

[Johnno260]

Step-son saw someone filling jerry cans of petrol at a filling station this morning. A one-off? I certainly topped off my tank yesterday.

Petrol I wont stock up on, my boiler oil was less than a 1/4 and thanks for Putin and the Saudi I got a good price on getting the tank filled.

 

[lazybloke]

Step-son saw someone filling jerry cans of petrol at a filling station this morning. A one-off? I certainly topped off my tank yesterday.

I wondered the same at the weekend when I was at a very crowded Tesco filling station. Panic buying isn't particularly logical, a rumour can self-perpetuate. However, as more at-risk people self-isolate, and other restrictions come into play (either voluntary or mandatory), I'd expect demand for fuel to reduce.

 

[Twilkes]

I haven't read the whole of this thread by any means but have popped in from time to time. I thought this might be interesting for people.

My wife is a very experienced retired medical professional of 40+ years. Two days before New Year she became very ill, more than I have seen in a 42 year partnership, with all the Covid-19 symptoms in the now expected order. Our immediate neighbours on either side had the same symptoms at the same time and were equally ill. Independently our neighbours have reached the same conclusion.

We had a big trip planned for late January and I distanced myself at home. Slept in the spare room for nearly three weeks as Mrs P had very disturbed sleep. My actions were what we would now call self-isolating - common sense in fact.

Mrs P is not prone to exaggeration but is convinced she had Corona virus. Her view is no one can be sure of the origin, when, if China is the source, it "escaped" and Wuhan is simply the first identified occurrence.

I'm offering no medical basis for this just my wife's opinion. I do know she was extremely ill to an extent I haven't seen in 42 years.

If that was the case there would have been a spike in hospitalisations and deaths, which there wasn't, and far more cases detected when they started testing, so consensus is that whatever was around at Christmas wasn't what we have now.

 

[fossyant]

MIL is insisting on going to the GP and pharmacy today - farking madness

I'd have thought the opposite was true. Petrol companies will have to figure out what to do with all the unsold product in their supply chain as people travel less

It's started...Tom Tom real time congestion stats shows Manchester rush hour much quieter than normal

30 minutes into work !!

 

[fossyant]

The Christmas bug was nasty, but not as bad. This progresses to pneumonia fast.

 

[mjr]

https://www.gov.uk/government/publi...protecting-older-people-and-vulnerable-adults

A vague list of examples that this "includes" is rather annoying at this point.

 

[Levo-Lon]

I can honestly say I'm so glad I don't have my paving business anymore..
This would destroy it.
I really do feel for the small businesses.
They'll do well to survive this year.

As will a lot of larger ones.

 

[Dave7]

I keep thinking that any day now the panic-buyers will have filled their boots and then the rest of us can carry on as normal. But it doesn't seem to be happening yet.

That was my thought. Surely they can only store so much pasta and bog roll.

 

[Mugshot]

I can honestly say I'm so glad I don't have my paving business anymore..
This would destroy it.
I really do feel for the small businesses.
They'll do well to survive this year.

As will a lot of larger ones.

Not related but Carphone Warehouse is shutting its standalone shops. 2900 people out of work is devastating for them at any time, but while this is going on must be unbearable.


View: https://twitter.com/SkyNews/status/1239814079226707969?s=20

 

[mjr]

MIL is insisting on going to the GP and pharmacy today - farking madness

Why so? I'll be going to the pharmacy tomorrow. I have slowly built two weeks extra stock of my meds, which was intended to cover trips away but it doesn't look like that will happen now!

 

[Johnno260]

Like I said anyone who requires regular meds should see if the GP can prescribe some safety stock, my wife has done so with her anti epileptics.

 

[delb0y]

Just come back from Tesco. Thought an early(ish) visit might see me beat the panic-buyers. Happy to report that half the shelves are full. Alas, the half that are already empty (assuming they were restocked overnight):

Hand-soap
Headache Tablets (sorry I can't spell paracetamol)
Baked Beans
Tins of Tomatoes
Rice
Pasta
Fresh chicken
Toilet Roll
Kitchen Roll

I will have to try earlier tomorrow...

Did buy a Hello magazine for the missus, some dog-food for the dog, and a bag of bagels for us all.