Coronavirus outbreak

[Joey Shabadoo]

Cooking meth amphetamine in East Kilbride?

 

[fossyant]

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Cooking meth amphetamine in East Kilbride?

Mobile meth lab, whoda thought it..... might find my 'photo' from the Breaking Bad Cocktail lab.

 

[mjr]

This is starting to be shared on Facebook: [...]
5. If it drops on a metal surface it will live for at least 12 hours - so if you come into contact with any metal surface - wash your hands as soon as you can with a bacterial soap.

It's a virus, so what exactly do they think antibacterial soap will do? This coronavirus seems to be showing just how many people spread shoot online uncritically.

 

[kingrollo]

It's a virus, so what exactly do they think antibacterial soap will do? This coronavirus seems to be showing just how many people spread shoot online uncritically.

Wash it from your hands ?
Not that it has to be antibacterial soap specifically.

 

[mjr]

You might think that being armed with the right advice gives you the citizen enough marbles to make good choices, not if the people fomenting lies have anything to do with it.

It's not like anyone has been trying to damage foreign economies and public confidence while keeping a strong grip on their country's media...

 

[mjr]

Wash it from your hands ?
Not that it has to be antibacterial soap specifically.

It did according to that faceberk. Let's get people wasting their time looking for scarcer products...

 

[nickyboy]

It did according to that faceberk. Let's get people wasting their time looking for scarcer products...

That's right. To clarify the position on "hand cleaners" any surfacant (so that's solid soap, liquid soap, foams) works. This virus (like many others but not all) comes with a lipid shell. Surfacants dissolve this shell and render the virus inert. That's why 20 seconds minimum hand washing is important...it takes time for the surfacant to dissolve the lipid layer. So even if you leave bits of virus on your hands it's dead

 

[mjr]

I spent a while trawling medical sites and even phoning - there is no hand gel to be had.
someone has a serious stash of it somewhere

Are other alcohols any use? Alcohol cleaning wipes, switch cleaner, undrinkable strong schnapps? I'll check which say to avoid skin contact, of course.

 

[philk56]

It's gone crazy here in Ozland. Our local supermarket toilet-roll shelves

 

[mjr]

I have heard the virus comes from hand gels !

Yeah, that's why it's been removed from shops(!)

 

[mjr]

What do people think about booking summer holidays?
I’m probably going to leave it late to book but I suspect anyone who hasn’t already booked will be doing the same, so what do you think, will costs go up or down?

About the same. Less demand but also less supply of some things as firms go bust, like https://www.thejakartapost.com/news...ollapses-as-virus-hits-flights-worldwide.html

 

[Dave7]

It's gone crazy here in Ozland. Our local supermarket toilet-roll shelves
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We have decided to re-use our used bog paper. We keep the used sheets until we have a full wash load then bung it in the washing machine on a hot wash. We will then tumble dry it.
TBH we only put the first lot in this morning so it will be interesting to see how it turns out

 

[nickyboy]

About the same. Less demand but also less supply of some things as firms go bust, like https://www.thejakartapost.com/news...ollapses-as-virus-hits-flights-worldwide.html

I would strongly suggest folk don't commit irrecoverable funds to travel. It is very probable that things will get a lot worse before they get better and where you're thinking of going to may be ok now but may not be ok soon. For example if I had a hol to Milan booked now I couldn't cancel and claim on insurance. But there is no way I'd be going as I have high-risk members of the family

If you're after bargains then it's the hotels where you'll find them. To some extent airlines can reduce capacity to match demand as they are doing now. Hotels can't really do that. They're either open or they're not and they need to keep occupancy levels up

 

[MarkF]

A more optimistic expert outlook, the sort I like.

https://theunionjournal.com/leading-doctor-claims-coronavirus-isnt-as-deadly-as-feared/

 

[Dave7]

I would strongly suggest folk don't commit irrecoverable funds to travel. It is very probable that things will get a lot worse before they get better and where you're thinking of going to may be ok now but may not be ok soon. For example if I had a hol to Milan booked now I couldn't cancel and claim on insurance. But there is no way I'd be going as I have high-risk members of the family

If you're after bargains then it's the hotels where you'll find them. To some extent airlines can reduce capacity to match demand as they are doing now. Hotels can't really do that. They're either open or they're not and they need to keep occupancy levels up

Yes, as I said earlier, anyone booking now will not be covered by insurance.
We are (possibly/maybe) fortunate in that we booked and paid our insurance some time ago. Even so they could refuse to pay up if we wish to cancel.
Edit.
I was just reading conflicting information that says......if you book a holiday and get the insurance then, providing your destination is not anywhere the FO have advised against then you are covered if you catch CV while on holiday.
So......I don't know