Corona virus

Ok chaps. Should we scared of a virus named after a crap 1970’s fizzy drink? I’ve seen some interesting videos on YouTube. Looks like the Chinese are taking things a little more seriously!

Anyone have a secondhand hazmat suit for sale?

 

[Kryten]

Ninje, would it be wrong to point out the similarities between your self-isolation picture and what I believe would constitute "a great Sunday afternoon" in the Ninjarabbi household?

 

[ninjarabbi]

Ninje, would it be wrong to point out the similarities between your self-isolation picture and what I believe would constitute "a great Sunday afternoon" in the Ninjarabbi household?

There is a large amount of rubber, Swarfega and ball bearings. Use your imagination!

 

[busby1971]

Remember when we used to moan about all the news being about Brexit.

 

[Tin basher]

Just back from a weeks golf in Spain. The coronavirus was barely mentioned by the locals they were more interested in our views on Brexit and football. With the exception of 2 Finnish nationals (They would only bump elbows??) everyone I played with Swedes, Germans and Spanish shook hands and behaved totally as normal. So back in UK this morning off to the supermarket to restock on essentials. WTF is going on!! I never realised the pharmaceutical properties of simple bog roll. Shelves almost empty of the stuff. I saw, on the news, the info about regular hand washing, using hand sanitisers, self isolating if required etc but must have missed the bit of government advice that stated that bulk buying bog roll will save you from this virus. People flapping like a tap dancers hem line because of this Man Flu lite.

 

[ninjarabbi]

In the light of what has happened, is it perhaps time to ‘decouple’ from China and bring the more important aspects of our manufacturing back to the U.K. ?

 

[Mustang]

Just for Mustang. I’ve sorted your self-isolation kit out for you....

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You're so kind, but you could have put some real whisky in stock and none of that yank ersatz stuff.

 

[Kryten]

The World Health Organization has just announced that dogs cannot contract Covid-19.

Dogs previously held in quarantine can now be released.

So to confirm, WHO let the dogs out.

 

[Witty_Banter]

In the light of what has happened, is it perhaps time to ‘decouple’ from China and bring the more important aspects of our manufacturing back to the U.K. ?

Not just China, from lots of places. Bring back the manufacturing, which will bring more jobs (albeit with 10 hour working weeks for the snowflake millenials.....can't have them working too hard, bless their little cotton socks). Trouble is, the multinational companies that own the manufacturing are far more concerned about the profit margins than they are about whether we can buy stuff locally. They will move to wherever provides the optimum result for minimum financial input. Things like COVID-19 aren't even a consideration until it starts impacting output.

 

[ninjarabbi]

Not just China, from lots of places. Bring back the manufacturing, which will bring more jobs (albeit with 10 hour working weeks for the snowflake millenials.....can't have them working too hard, bless their little cotton socks). Trouble is, the multinational companies that own the manufacturing are far more concerned about the profit margins than they are about whether we can buy stuff locally. They will move to wherever provides the optimum result for minimum financial input. Things like COVID-19 aren't even a consideration until it starts impacting output.

This idea they have of 'last minute stock replacement' doesn't work when the supply chain has collapsed. Until China manages to sort it's end out we'll see a lot of issues throughout manufacturing.

 

[justintime129]

Update from UK supermarkets

In light of recent of panic buying UK supermarkets have introduced purchase limits.

Asda: 2 hand sanitisers, 24 toilet rolls max.

Tesco: 1 Hand sanitiser, 18 toilet rolls & 2kg rice.

Co-op: 12 rolls toilet paper, 1Kg rice.

Aldi: 2 Trumpets, 1 diving suit & a MIG welder.

 

[ninjarabbi]

Update from UK supermarkets

In light of recent of panic buying UK supermarkets have introduced purchase limits.

Asda: 2 hand sanitisers, 24 toilet rolls max.

Tesco: 1 Hand sanitiser, 18 toilet rolls & 2kg rice.

Co-op: 12 rolls toilet paper, 1Kg rice.

Aldi: 2 Trumpets, 1 diving suit & a MIG welder.

Aldi have trumpets?! I am literally out the door!

 

[vim_fuego]

I think Aldi is the answer. Went to Asda and its like a plague of locusts has been through the pasta, rice, tins and now flour section (no bread flour...I can see what people of a certain generation are thinking). Went to Aldi and plenty of everything and their workers were dragging out pallets like there was no tomorrow to restock.

Anyway I have panic-bought 3 bottles of red and a large bag of dry roasted nuts for later on. I also panic bought a large bottle of Whyte & Mackay last night because I may make a bit of a pig of myself over the weekend.

 

[justintime129]

I think Aldi is the answer. Went to Asda and its like a plague of locusts has been through the pasta

And the shelves are overflowing with pasta sauces.

 

[justintime129]

I was in my local last night and the queue for the sink was bigger than the queue for the urinals.

 

[ninjarabbi]

Remember kids, the best survival is ‘personal distance’....

 

[vim_fuego]

So is the policy that the Guv'ment is following, and as some commentators are stating, the 'short, sharp shock' approach...akin to ripping off a band-aid? They want to create a herd immunity by basically carrying on a normally as possible for as long as possible, so up to 60% of the country get it real quick and become immune. It does lean towards overloading the care sector meaning that more of the vulnerable may well cop it than by following the 'smoothing and delaying route' but that might cause further infection spikes and a longer dalliance with COVID.

Thoughts?

 

[Kryten]

Update from UK supermarkets

In light of recent of panic buying UK supermarkets have introduced purchase limits.

Asda: 2 hand sanitisers, 24 toilet rolls max.

Tesco: 1 Hand sanitiser, 18 toilet rolls & 2kg rice.

Co-op: 12 rolls toilet paper, 1Kg rice.

Aldi: 2 Trumpets, 1 diving suit & a MIG welder.

Brilliant! I doff my cap to you - absolutely brilliant!

 

[justintime129]

So is the policy that the Guv'ment is following, and as some commentators are stating, the 'short, sharp shock' approach...akin to ripping off a band-aid? They want to create a herd immunity by basically carrying on a normally as possible for as long as possible, so up to 60% of the country get it real quick and become immune. It does lean towards overloading the care sector meaning that more of the vulnerable may well cop it than by following the 'smoothing and delaying route' but that might cause further infection spikes and a longer dalliance with COVID.

Thoughts?

Forget politics but would any government be prepared to put up with the amount of deaths the herd immunity would bring.

 

[Rocket_Ronster]

So is the policy that the Guv'ment is following, and as some commentators are stating, the 'short, sharp shock' approach...akin to ripping off a band-aid? They want to create a herd immunity by basically carrying on a normally as possible for as long as possible, so up to 60% of the country get it real quick and become immune. It does lean towards overloading the care sector meaning that more of the vulnerable may well cop it than by following the 'smoothing and delaying route' but that might cause further infection spikes and a longer dalliance with COVID.

Thoughts?

Thoughts...?

It's a f**king plaster, not a band-aid.

 

[busby1971]

So is the policy that the Guv'ment is following, and as some commentators are stating, the 'short, sharp shock' approach...akin to ripping off a band-aid? They want to create a herd immunity by basically carrying on a normally as possible for as long as possible, so up to 60% of the country get it real quick and become immune. It does lean towards overloading the care sector meaning that more of the vulnerable may well cop it than by following the 'smoothing and delaying route' but that might cause further infection spikes and a longer dalliance with COVID.

Thoughts?

I thought they were working to smooth out the bump to avoid the overwhelming quick up and down that we don’t have the resources for.

just need to make sure the cure isn’t worse than the diseare.