Rewulf Posted March 9, 2020 Report Share Posted March 9, 2020 3 minutes ago, panoma1 said: As I have heard no reports........I guess they ain’t got it in places such as Russia or North Korea? Plenty of time to blame them yet 🤣 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
islandgun Posted March 9, 2020 Report Share Posted March 9, 2020 5 minutes ago, panoma1 said: As I have heard no reports........I guess they ain’t got it in places such as Russia or North Korea? N Korea is in permanent lock down ! very few in and none out..🙃 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mungler Posted March 9, 2020 Report Share Posted March 9, 2020 Here's another interesting one - riots in 17 Italian prisons. So what happens when there's not enough staff to run the prisons? That's not just security but food etc. Time to dig out for the back garden bunker? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SpringDon Posted March 9, 2020 Report Share Posted March 9, 2020 You’ve all finally convinced me that this is serious. So I went to the cash and carry in Taunton. Entering the shop with a forward roll, I demanded pasta and toilet rolls. “They’re over there”, the flustered assistant said. i managed to negotiate my way to the tills by commando crawling and combat rolls (not easy with a trolley full of pasta, toilet rolls and cat litter). Where I paid twice the usual price (they didn’t charge me that at first, I had to haggle). It was lucky I got out when I did, as I overheard a staff member talking about some nutter loose in the shop; didn’t see him personally. After this terrifying experience I don’t plan to leave the house again. Protect yourselves before it’s too late. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
das Posted March 9, 2020 Report Share Posted March 9, 2020 15 hours ago, DoolinDalton said: My wife's friend has recently returned from Thailand and only spent 2 nights there deliberately, as she has a business to run here in the UK. She has gone into 'self isolation', not seeing her husband or kids for 2 weeks, just in case she is infected. No signs so far and she's due to 'emerge' on Tuesday! At the other extreme (or not!)...when illegal immigrants are found here in the UK, either in the back of a lorry or on a boat, are they NOW checked for Corona virus and / or other contagious diseases? If these people have travelled through Europe from Turkey, Iraq, Syria, Pakistan, etc, it is possible that they may have contracted something! Probably have, but they won’t give a toss about it, will probably be put in a private hospital as well. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
old'un Posted March 9, 2020 Report Share Posted March 9, 2020 57 minutes ago, Mungler said: Here's another interesting one - riots in 17 Italian prisons. So what happens when there's not enough staff to run the prisons? That's not just security but food etc. Time to dig out for the back garden bunker? They are fighting in the super markets for toilet rolls and hand wash, gawd help us if we have a real disaster and the brake down of law and order. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Retsdon Posted March 9, 2020 Report Share Posted March 9, 2020 5 hours ago, JohnfromUK said: Would it be possible to do at least some of the course in an 'on line' form Exactly what's going to happen. In fact, the whole thing is going online. Happy days - no delays! I'm not a math person at all, but I still found this an informative and interesting presentation on the math behind epidemics. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oowee Posted March 9, 2020 Report Share Posted March 9, 2020 49 minutes ago, old'un said: They are fighting in the super markets for toilet rolls and hand wash, gawd help us if we have a real disaster and the brake down of law and order. They were stacking so many rolls of loo paper in Tesco this morning that it was stacked on pallets on the floor. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
old'un Posted March 9, 2020 Report Share Posted March 9, 2020 6 minutes ago, oowee said: They were stacking so many rolls of loo paper in Tesco this morning that it was stacked on pallets on the floor. They will be fighting over food next. If this does get out of control (brake down of law and order) I wonder if the police will ask/force gun owners to hand their guns in for safe keeping? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnfromUK Posted March 9, 2020 Report Share Posted March 9, 2020 33 minutes ago, Retsdon said: Exactly what's going to happen. In fact, the whole thing is going online. Happy days - no delays! Good sensible result. 18 minutes ago, oowee said: They were stacking so many rolls of loo paper in Tesco this morning that it was stacked on pallets on the floor. Our local Morrisons was just as normal. The only thing I spotted that was out of stock was samphire. Pasta, low but stock, Baked Beans, plenty, several choices and multipacks, loo roll, several choices available, bottled pasta sauces , no gaps in visible stock ......... etc. 14 minutes ago, old'un said: I wonder if the police will ask/force gun owners to hand their guns in for safe keeping? If they have enough time on their hands to take that on - then there is no emergency. There is NO WAY they could receive, records and store the guns for a whole police area inside months of planning. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DoolinDalton Posted March 9, 2020 Report Share Posted March 9, 2020 23 minutes ago, old'un said: They will be fighting over food next. If this does get out of control (brake down of law and order) I wonder if the police will ask/force gun owners to hand their guns in for safe keeping? We'll need our guns to protect us from looters....especially toilet roll thieves😲 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Doc Holliday Posted March 9, 2020 Author Report Share Posted March 9, 2020 1 hour ago, Retsdon said: Exactly what's going to happen. In fact, the whole thing is going online. Happy days - no delays! I'm not a math person at all, but I still found this an informative and interesting presentation on the math behind epidemics. Interesting post, thank you. A friend of mine, who is a business analyst (originally from Russia) was telling me about the exponential growth factor on Saturday. She is seriously concerned to the point where she was initially thinking of locking herself away for a month. She now thinks that be closer to 3 months. The thing is, and I know it is just because of the unknown aspect of how this whole virus thing is going to play out, but the stocks & shares have really taken a big old knock. Some reports saying the biggest drop since before 2008. One can't help but wonder how this is going to pan out especially when you add to this people fighting over toilet paper & hand sanitiser as well as deliberately cough at fellow commuters because someone tells them to cover their mouth when they cough. It really is a sad state of affairs and makes me wonder what has happened to the human race to have such blatant disregard for their fellow man (or woman for that matter). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
islandgun Posted March 9, 2020 Report Share Posted March 9, 2020 I read today that new cases are at there lowest now in China and S Korea Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Retsdon Posted March 9, 2020 Report Share Posted March 9, 2020 50 minutes ago, islandgun said: I read today that new cases are at there lowest now in China and S Korea Yes, Italy seems to be the epicentre at the moment. A very high death rate too. https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bavarianbrit Posted March 9, 2020 Report Share Posted March 9, 2020 (edited) There was a fella managed to get two knives from an all night shop in Westminster yesterday was happily hopping about and look what they did to him. Edited March 9, 2020 by bavarianbrit Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
figgy Posted March 9, 2020 Report Share Posted March 9, 2020 (edited) First time I have seen this advert on the forum. I haven't been looking at rep masks either before someone says it's due to cookies and targeted advertising. Edited March 9, 2020 by figgy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave-G Posted March 9, 2020 Report Share Posted March 9, 2020 I just got an email that our surgery has blocked all online and pre-bookable appointments and closed the walk in blood test clinic to minimise covid 19 yada yada. All appointments to be made to reception or via phone to reception. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ditchman Posted March 9, 2020 Report Share Posted March 9, 2020 just seen on local TV my surgery Brundall Medicle practice has been closed for a deep clean cause some muppet came back from holiday in the far east feeling sick ....and walked into the surgery.................. we are all waiting for the test results...........if i get it im dead fact... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rob85 Posted March 9, 2020 Report Share Posted March 9, 2020 Think I'm all sorted Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Retsdon Posted March 9, 2020 Report Share Posted March 9, 2020 https://www.scmp.com/news/china/science/article/3074351/coronavirus-can-travel-twice-far-official-safe-distance-and-stay Stay off buses! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
roadkill Posted March 9, 2020 Report Share Posted March 9, 2020 Italy has now locked down the whole country, not sure if I'm more worried about the virus or the stock market crashing Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Retsdon Posted March 10, 2020 Report Share Posted March 10, 2020 On February 28th, Italy had 328 cases and 3 deaths .Today's latest figures are 9,172 cases and 463 deaths and the rate of increase on the graph is still pointed due north. The UK, on an almost carbon copy of trajectory, currently has 326 cases and 5 deaths. In other words, the UK is less than a fortnight behind Italy. Yet the advice from the government is still to simply wash your hands and carry on as normal. Highly, highly, irresponsible imho. It's not like Italy is a unique case. Depending on the transmissability of the disease, absent timely measures, these epidemics will follow a mathematical progression of development. Here in Saudi, whilst there are probably more, there are only 20 reported cases. And yet the government has looked over the water at Iran and decided that they don't want to end up in the same boat. Consequently the schools are closed, public gatherings are banned, the shrines at Mecca and Medinah are closed, etc etc. Land borders are closed too. Will it work? Who knows, but at least the government is proactively trying to avert the inevitable public health disaster in the absence of any such measures. It's quite shocking because I never, ever thought I'd see the day when a Saudi government was more responsible and showed more concern for its population that did the government in Westminster. But perhaps it's not cynicism on the British government's part. Perhaps its like a rather painful and one-sided conversation I had with my father many years ago when I was about 17. He was driving and talking, and I was sitting next to him and listening, and we were on our way to view the wreckage of my mother's car which I'd put through a hedge the previous evening. He was normally a pretty tolerant man, but he was well wound round the axle this time, chiefly because the car hadn't been long back from the repair shop following a previous encounter with the wall of a pub. He was saying plenty, but one thing I still remember was '..there are three kinds of people in the world. There are intelligent people and they learn from other people's mistakes. Then you have most normal people who learn from their own mistakes. And then you have the cretinous bloody fools who will never learn!!! Cynicism or stupidity. Not much of a choice really. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord Geordie Posted March 10, 2020 Report Share Posted March 10, 2020 (edited) 14 hours ago, ditchman said: just seen on local TV my surgery Brundall Medicle practice has been closed for a deep clean cause some muppet came back from holiday in the far east feeling sick ....and walked into the surgery.................. we are all waiting for the test results...........if i get it im dead fact... The diesel in your blood stream will kill off any earth born virus! besides, I am sure if fat Sarah offered you mouth to mouth, the shock alone would see you back on your feet, and running for your bunker, I mean shed! Edited March 10, 2020 by Lord Geordie Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord Geordie Posted March 10, 2020 Report Share Posted March 10, 2020 I am not too happy about the whole thing! My son has heart disease and my old man has many health issues. Diabetes, heart disease, chest issues to name a few! Both are in the high risk group. If anything were to happen to them, my whole purpose is gone! Quite simply, it would destroy me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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