Coronavirus outbreak

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Joey Shabadoo

My pronouns are "He", "Him" and "buggerlugs"
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Apparently you can't get a Fray Bentos for love nor money.



Not sure if that's a good or a bad thing :wacko:
Its a good thing, to know other people you may not like eating them.
Do what I did this morning, refuse to sign it or touch it. Apparently I wasn't the first today.
They may need to scrub it for the moment, I sometimes get the postman to sign it himself if i'm out.
 

mjr

Comfy armchair to one person & a plank to the next
It's soap and paracetamol I'm worried about. Not been able to get hold of any soap for a two weeks and that's what many others have told me when discussions have gone beyond bog roll, soup, chicken and so on.
I saw soap yesterday in Holland and Barratt (but I was looking for yeast) and bought paracetamol today in the Premier-branded shop two villages over. The pharmacy there had none and were not able to order any from their wholesalers except for prescriptions and staff generally sounded rather peed off with the panic-buyers. Usually the doctors there tell you to buy it over the counter rather than pay the £9 prescription charge but if people don't stop panicking soon, there are going to be a lot of prescriptions written for it.
 

mjr

Comfy armchair to one person & a plank to the next
Small company, need to work from home, don’t have the infrastructure to cope? Cloudflare have made this option free to small businesses till 1st September.

https://blog.cloudflare.com/cloudfl...mall-businesses-during-coronavirus-emergency/
Depending on your view, that's simply a commercial decision, or altenatively an unethical exploitation of the crisis. Last time I looked at it, there's basically no exit route from that system, so any business adopting it will have the choice to either pay whatever price is demanded or bear the costs of setting everything up from scratch again.

And yes, I have a slight axe to grind against Cloudflare. If I never have the door slammed in my face on someone else's website by their use of the reCaptcha eyesight and hearing test, it'll be too soon.

Relatedly:
My son's surgery refused to let him turn up yesterday, so we did the whole thing via Whatsapp. Seemed to work fine. It could be the future.
Facebook are probably wetting themselves at the amount of medical info they're going to gather on everyone. Why on earth are people trusting a company which has admitted experimenting on users' moods by manipulating their newsfeeds? There are loads of other video calling services out there, including aTalk, Jitsi Meet, Nextcloud Talk and many others. Even Skype's owner hasn't committed as unethical acts as facebook (as far as we know yet).
 
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