Coronavirus

[Mikero]

Can't get hand sanitiser? put a teaspoon of vodka into your dispenser with the soup, that will kill the little buggers.

Mikero

[slacker]

As the UK and most other “Western” countries start to shut down normal operations and gatherings, I think we’ll find out exactly how true that famed stiff British upper lip and “keep calm & carry on” meme we’re so fond of blathering on about are.

From the country where 999 got called because KFC ran out of chicken I’m expecting mass panic stockpiling and social paranoia to kick in this weekend, before the hysteria peaks and people start to adjust to the new normality for a month or two. Businesses in the leisure sector are going to really suffer, mind, as we all scale back social interactions to unavoidable public contact only.

Stay safe, everyone. Look after the most vulnerable oldies etc around you, and I hope for those that catch the bug it’s just a mild inconvenient illness rather than life threatening.

[JimbO]

As the UK and most other “Western” countries start to shut down normal operations and gatherings, I think we’ll find out exactly how true that famed stiff British upper lip and “keep calm & carry on” meme we’re so fond of blathering on about are.

From the country where 999 got called because KFC ran out of chicken I’m expecting mass panic stockpiling and social paranoia to kick in this weekend, before the hysteria peaks and people start to adjust to the new normality for a month or two. Businesses in the leisure sector are going to really suffer, mind, as we all scale back social interactions to unavoidable public contact only.

Stay safe, everyone. Look after the most vulnerable oldies etc around you, and I hope for those that catch the bug it’s just a mild inconvenient illness rather than life threatening.

Pretty spot on mate people just need to take the necessary proportionate responses.

[Lucky7]

Can't get hand sanitiser? put a teaspoon of vodka into your dispenser with the soup, that will kill the little buggers.

Mikero

Not true vodka is only 35% proof has to be 60% or above
You need rubbing alcohol

[Chief crazy horse]

I know we like to believe that the stiff upper lip still exists in this country but this is a place where people phoned 999 over KFC running out of chicken. People are going to be pricks as long as the panic lasts.

I can't believe 'this place' where people ring KFC because chicken has run out. Out of interest, where are all these people walking around with stiff upper lips? I never seem to see any. Didn't they all disappear after the British Empire..

[spen666]

Can't get hand sanitiser? put a teaspoon of vodka into your dispenser with the soup, that will kill the little buggers.

Mikero

What sort of soup? Is broth an acceptable substitute?

[NuneatonO's]

I know we like to believe that the stiff upper lip still exists in this country but this is a place where people phoned 999 over KFC running out of chicken. People are going to be pricks as long as the panic lasts.

I can't believe 'this place' where people ring KFC because chicken has run out. Out of interest, where are all these people walking around with stiff upper lips? I never seem to see any. Didn't they all disappear after the British Empire..

Not if the readership figures of The Daily Mail are anything to go by.

[tuffers#1]

We have food been shopping 3 times since this so called hysteria began

Tesco Leytonstone Aldi Lea Bridge Rd
Got everything we needed each time

Theres an aldi on lea bridge road ?

Yep just off it

https://www.google.com/maps/place/ALDI, ... 6?hl=en-gb

Blimey , the old B&Q

Not been down that side for a while.

[Disoriented]

Any boarders tested positive yet?

[Chief crazy horse]

I know we like to believe that the stiff upper lip still exists in this country but this is a place where people phoned 999 over KFC running out of chicken. People are going to be pricks as long as the panic lasts.

I can't believe 'this place' where people ring KFC because chicken has run out. Out of interest, where are all these people walking around with stiff upper lips? I never seem to see any. Didn't they all disappear after the British Empire..

Not if the readership figures of The Daily Mail are anything to go by.

Oh I see what you mean , you're making assumptions.

[Ronnie Hotdogs]

Any boarders tested positive yet?

Luckily we're nearly all negative on here.

[one o in huntingdon]

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[Bernard Mandeville]

At last, some common sense:

https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video ... eople.html

Since you still seem to be struggling to understand what is going on - -

Coronavirus: what happens to people's lungs when they get Covid-19?

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/ ... t-covid-19

[Howling Mad Murdock]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-51868904

Tube driver has got it now.

OK all out.

[Clive Evans]

It hasn't taken long. Some small kids are playing football and being noisy outside my house, woke me from my nap. You can beet your boots that a couple of teachers have sneezed and they have sent the little darlings home. I thought this was not what Boris wanted.

[Chief crazy horse]

Out of interest, are they playing with a holding midfielder?

[Clive Evans]

Out of interest, are they playing with a holding midfielder?........................................no they are playing one and half a side ( mixed )

[Lovejoy]

London Marathon postponed due to coronavirus.

[ComeOnYouOs]

London Marathon postponed due to coronavirus.

Good decision by the organizers....pity the crufts & cheltenham organizers wernt so astute

[Long slender neck]

This herd immunity gamble had better pay off.

[Howling Mad Murdock]

This herd immunity gamble had better pay off.

Just going to slow it.We dont want to catch it all at once.

Still theres always the tube.

[Mikero]

Indeed, the NHS is going to struggle as it is. They have always known that it would not be able to cope with the same sort of rise in cases seen in other countries and have been using measures to try to spin it out. The worry for the over seventies is that when facilities reach saturation point they are going to be written off.

Mikero

[tuffers#1]

I suppose it could be worse,
much worse .

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Death

[Currywurst and Chips]

London Marathon postponed due to coronavirus.

Good decision by the organizers....pity the crufts & cheltenham organizers wernt so astute

Crufts insists it's acting on advice from the World Health Organisation so blame them

Who let the dogs out? WHO WHO WHO WHO

[Mikero]

When the Ebola outbreak occured President Obama set up a Contagion Control task force with their own offices in the White House and a group of scientists on a secure network. This would have allowed the President to receive advice about the news of a new outbreak within minutes and a plan to be formed within hours.

Unfortunately for the American people President Trump sacked them all in 2018.

Mikero