Coronavirus outbreak

[GM]

I’m hearing from my son, via his medical friends, that a number of doctors in London have been mugged at knifepoint and had their NHS badges stolen.

These are doctors who have completed long shifts and have left the hospital wearing their NHS id badges round their necks.

I’m struggling to think of anything more disgusting.

That is absolutely shocking, can these scumbags stoop any lower. Hope Gravel stays safe!

 

[Fab Foodie]

I’m hearing from my son, via his medical friends, that a number of doctors in London have been mugged at knifepoint and had their NHS badges stolen.

These are doctors who have completed long shifts and have left the hospital wearing their NHS id badges round their necks.

I’m struggling to think of anything more disgusting.

8 ambulances in Ramsgate having their tyres drilled over the weekend?

 

[Rocky]

That is absolutely shocking, can these scumbags stoop any lower. Hope Gravel stays safe!

Thanks - the fact that one of the victims was his boss, brings it home. Luckily he wasn't hurt just taken aback. What makes me slightly cross is that people are taking to Twitter to call this fake news (when the Prof originally tweeted about it). I know for a fact it happened. However, I'm not going to waste my energy on the sceptics.

 

[Rocky]

8 ambulances in Ramsgate having their tyres drilled over the weekend?

How are you feeling? And more important, how is Basil?

 

[Duffy]

If my household was infected I’d stop exercising as I’d place the health (and possibly the lives) of others over my need to get out on my bike.

A bit selfish otherwise, no???

Nope, allowed out to exercise. I have mixed with my family and nobody else since day 1.

 

[Blue Hills]

eh?

I've never favoured Lidl or Aldi for anything. When I've bought their fresh or own brand stuff it's been no cheaper than Asda and to me less palatable (and I hate queuing to pay in supermarkets so choose ones with self check outs)

Am well aware that you don't favour lidl or aldi. I think in the past you have said that you don't like the "shopping experience". I too favour self checkout and seems to me more valuable in these times, particularly if using cash. Two lidls near me - one is pushing 100 per cent self checkout and has been for months maybe years. Other one is well well over 50 per cent selfcheckouts. Ditto in practice the third one in peckham.
Haven't been in any of them for over a week - biding my time.

 

[Edwardoka]

I'm not sure if this has been mentioned upthread but these measures should have been taken weeks ago in the UK, when the full scale of the crisis that Italy and Iran were facing became apparent.
https://www.tvnz.co.nz/one-news/new...prime-minister-jacinda-arderns-address-nation

Very impressive leadership. That New Zealand, with its 2 known cases of internal transmission, is taking steps that are more drastic than the UK, with its 5000+ cases, should tell you all you need to know about how far up schitt creek we are as a country.

Ardern will be immensely unpopular because of this (at least until the dust has settled and the final death counts become clear).

 

[mjr]

When do you intend to put the gloves on ? before you walk out the door? before you get your car keys? the list go's on.
It's impossible to be clinically clean in none clinical environments. You are going more harm than good with gloves.

Essentially, I put them on when I cross the threshold outbound and remove them on the reverse, as usual but the difference at the moment is I'm not removing them in shops. It's not going to be clinically clean but why do you think it's better to remove them in shops? (And I'm not riding bare-handed when it's this cold.)

Just wash your hands every time you possibly put yourself at risk.

Install many many more hand sinks around town and I will, but that's just not possible yet.

 

[Mo1959]

I'm not sure if this has been mentioned upthread but these measures should have been taken weeks ago in the UK, when the full scale of the crisis that Italy and Iran were facing became apparent.
https://www.tvnz.co.nz/one-news/new...prime-minister-jacinda-arderns-address-nation

Very impressive leadership. That New Zealand, with its 2 known cases of internal transmission, is taking steps that are more drastic than the UK, with its 5000+ cases, should tell you all you need to know about how far up schitt creek we are as a country.

Ardern will be immensely unpopular because of this (at least until the dust has settled and the final death counts become clear).

I think Boris is terrified of being unpopular by closing everything down. He will be a whole lot more unpopular if his lack of action results in several hundred or more deaths!

 

[Fab Foodie]

6. ambulances in Ramsgate having their tyres drilled over the weekend?

Edit: Beaten to it by fast-fingers @Mugshot

 

[tom73]

Which is why I do not use gloves. We seek to minimise risk and with a trip to the shops we have to contend with people who maul and inspect fresh produce and even bread. Up thread I mentioned watching an old bloke pick up and maul every single head of batavia lettuce in a supermarket, squeezing them and fondling them as some shoppers do.
I made a mental note there and then not to buy salad veg for the foreseeable future. You can boil root veg but I ain't going to wash salad in soap and the way the old guy was mauling the stuff I expect any of the crap on his fingers was bruised into the soft flesh of the leaves.
I will say leaving your hand washing until you get home is a bad idea if you shop in your car, you leave anything on your hands all over the controls and contaminate yourself the very next time you pull the door handle of your car before you even get inside it.

I'd never get in the car once Mrs 73 had used it. However you clean the car it will only ever be socially clean at best. So Unless your getting up close with the inside or snack on the steering wheel it's fine to wash your hands once home.
Pulling the door handle is way too late you've already contaminate yourself long before then.

 

[roubaixtuesday]

I think Boris is terrified of being unpopular by closing everything down. He will be a whole lot more unpopular if his lack of action results in several hundred thousand or more deaths!

Suggested amendment...

 

[mjr]

If my household was infected I’d stop exercising as I’d place the health (and possibly the lives) of others over my need to get out on my bike.

A bit selfish otherwise, no???

Far more selfish to stop taking care of your health and be hospitalised with an avoidable inactivity-induced illness at this time, no?

 

[Fab Foodie]

How are you feeling? And more important, how is Basil?

Basil better, me same as yesterday, bit wheezy but nothing major. Much better night, less fever. Hopefully slowly getting there....

 

[tom73]

Anyone still in the dark over this ?

Let's try this one