Coronavirus outbreak

[CanucksTraveller]

Good luck with the milk I've not found any for 3 days. Going to try again later.

It's really strange isn't it, that while there are shortages across the country there are actually different shortages in different places. All supermarkets here are pretty much fully stocked with loads of milk, all types, all brands.
@glasgowcyclist mentioned earlier in another thread that they had plenty of meat up there, but all my local shops are completely out of meat full stop. They have been for about a week. Not a piece of chicken to be seen.

I think the constant for all of us is this obsession with loo roll. I have about 4 left and when they go I'm just going to showers and a flannel, I don't see the emergency in a lack of paper.
Finding some flour would be nice. Not for me, but literally all my elderly neighbours have requested it on their shopping lists despite having bread on there too. I wonder if they're planning secret night time pancake parties?

 

[mudsticks]

At last.

An explanation for these things..

They're for smuggling contraband paper goods.

 

[tom73]

It's really strange isn't it, that while there are shortages across the country there are actually different shortages in different places. All supermarkets here are pretty much fully stocked with loads of milk, all types, all brands.
@glasgowcyclist mentioned earlier in another thread that they had plenty of meat up there, but all my local shops are completely out of meat full stop. They have been for about a week. Not a piece of chicken to be seen.

I think the constant for all of us is this obsession with loo roll. I have about 4 left and when they go I'm just going to showers and a flannel, I don't see the emergency in a lack of paper.
Finding some flour would be nice. Not for me, but literally all my elderly neighbours have requested it on their shopping lists despite having bread on there too. I wonder if they're planning secret night time pancake parties?

very true

 

[vickster]

M&S at Heathrow T2 had plenty of milk...try an airport!

 

[vickster]

Finding some flour would be nice. Not for me, but literally all my elderly neighbours have requested it on their shopping lists despite having bread on there too. I wonder if they're planning secret night time pancake parties?

Virtual WI cake baking sessions I reckon

 

[tom73]

M&S at Heathrow T2 had plenty of milk...try an airport!

it really is a different world down south

 

[Unkraut]

So that echoes with the Swiss figures, though, given the longer life expectancy of women, the older age groups will have fewer men, making the true positive testing rate for men far, far higher. Do you know if there's such a preponderance of women in their 20s testing positive as well?

The Robert Koch Institute fortunately does the figures in English, and the link gives the current situation that is updated at midnight every day. The average here is 56% for men at the moment, and the section you want is on p. 3 just after the map. Shows men as the majority across all age ranges. You will note on your way through the fairly rapid increase in the number of infections even from yesterday, although mercifully the death rate has been relatively low to date.

https://www.rki.de/DE/Content/InfAZ...chte/2020-03-19-en.pdf?__blob=publicationFile

 

[vickster]

it really is a different world down south

No M&S at manchester?

 

[Johnno260]

Seriously...

 

[mjr]

In the UK working in pharmacy will become permanently like closure/catching up from closure conditions these coming days/weeks/months. I think it'll completely collapse and you could have a lot of support staff off sick or walking out. They are working for minimum wage anyway.

Our local small pharmacy (two villages over - still Norfolk) seemed to have stopped sales of retail products (they had only maybe 10m of shelves of it anyway) and only do prescriptions and over-the-counter products, with the counter doubled in depth (you could barely reach the staff unless you jumped onto the counter now), contactless payment preferred and customers queuing 1.5m apart (apart from the refuseniks). Postbox in the car park for repeat requests.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

Panic buying solution is easy.

Close all supermarket car parks. Use the car park for the queue with sufficient spacing. Only so many allowed in the shop at any one time. Shoppers must arrive on foot or by bike. No trollies, baskets only. You can only buy what you can carry. Can't carry it, then fark off.

 

[mjr]

You mean a simple message in simple language that most people can understand?

What exactly did you understand from it? It seemed devoid of any detail and packed full of jingoistic rhetoric that will further fuel the panic buying to build support for the forthcoming martial law. You can really tell Boris is a lying journalist and not a statesman at times like these.

 

[mjr]

I was like John McClane prowling the Nakatomi Plaza yesterday, but I managed to come home with a bag of flour.

You had to crawl in through the heating ducts?!? Or was it just that you didn't want to queue?

 

[Sterlo]

Just an idea if you're short of loo roll, order something small from Amazon, they usually send it in a big box packed with loads of tissue paper as packaging. Problem solved.

 

[mjr]

One of the outcomes of lesser importance so far is the carefully orchestrated vanity display of books on shelves behind pundits being interviewed at home.

Yes, I find it rather odd. I have two places at home where I take video calls: one has one of work's conference logo banners set up in the background (partly to hide a huge stack of regulatory paperwork); and the other is a plain wall. Any effort the video call software spends encoding detail of books is effort that it's not spending on your face, so overloading the backdrop means you get to look like a blockier, jerkier jerk.

The other thing that I find odd is how many people don't put their laptop or phone on a stand or at least a stack of books to raise the camera to eye level, even for TV. You can see some of the male callees have more hair up their nose than on their head, which seems a very odd feature to emphasise.