Coronavirus

[Brendan]

Meant to be going in a stag do to benidorm in may and Disneyland Paris in june.
It's easy for amounts to double when they are very low figures, 10 becoming 20 is hardly panic stations. If it was 1000 suddenly the next day being 2000 would be a different story

 

[doobin]

Yeah n 21 people died in floods in Egypt yesterday?people die all the time

You keep posting about your stocks and shares, surely you've heard of compound interest?

 

[JD450A]

Death Toll has doubled because it will in these low figures.

I reckon it'll probably cause pandemonium until it warms up in July IMHO

 

[Rob 210]

Seriously thinking about one of these for myself and she who must be obeyed
ttps://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/GENUINE-POLISH-ARMY-PANORAMIC-GAS-MASK-MP5-in-BLACK-FILTER-in-BAG/313020221345?_trkparms=aid%3D777001%26algo%3DDISCO.FEED%26ao%3D1

 

[JD450A]

On another note @Gunners I'm off to the pub for the first time today... wish me luck

 

[V8Druid]

Seriously thinking about one of these for myself and she who must be obeyed
ttps://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/GENUINE-POLISH-ARMY-PANORAMIC-GAS-MASK-MP5-in-BLACK-FILTER-in-BAG/313020221345?_trkparms=aid%3D777001%26algo%3DDISCO.FEED%26ao%3D1

can only find this one ... and in XS adult size

GENUINE POLISH ARMY PANORAMIC GAS MASK MP5 in BLACK + FILTER in BAG | eBay

Drinks tube can be rotated from outer of mask. Lightly used, possibly unused. Filters are unused.

www.ebay.co.uk

got a couple of very similar masks somewhere ... acquired from a pharmaceutical company's workshop stores I cleared out years ago .... bought their entire maintenance workshops when their parent company shipped their £40M order book back to America and closed the place

might have to find the damned things ....... am now wracking my brains trying to remember which cupboard they're in ?????

plenty more listed though

PANORAMIC GAS MASK | eBay

Find great deals on eBay for PANORAMIC GAS MASK and p3 40mm filter. Shop with confidence.

www.ebay.co.uk

 

[Monkeybusiness]

Good vid this -

 

[JD450A]

What I have noticed from that video is that the more people that are in the healthcare system the more pressure there is and the faster they get better.... if we add some extra stories to hospitals then the extra pressure will speed up people getting better

 

[Monkeybusiness]

What I have noticed from that video is that the more people that are in the healthcare system the more pressure there is and the faster they get better.... if we add some extra stories to hospitals then the extra pressure will speed up people getting better

Or bigger back doors!

 

[Lynchy]

You keep posting about your stocks and shares, surely you've heard of compound interest?

Yeah panic is mentioned.....nowhere amongst that topic,why keep trying to worry people,aren't the press n social media doing a good enough job?

 

[Lynchy]

 

[DaveDCB]

The news is grimmer and grimmer every day... Really seeing a impact around the place now especially if you follow stocks and money.

Anybody been affected?

Oh yeah only lost 20k in a week... But given the last 5 huge economic drops the eventual gain was more than double the loss, so I’ll keep fingers crossed for a positive outcome(both financially and for everyone’s health)

I have taken the next 6 months off work to renovate my house so at least I won’t be bumping into as many random corona folks!

 

[Gecko]

Shopping Restrictions Imposed

Morrisons: 2 hand sanitisers, 24 toilet rolls

Tesco: 1 hand sanitiser, 18 toilet rolls, 2kg rice

Co-Op: 12 rolls toilet paper. 1kg rice

Aldi: 2 trumpets, 1 diving suit, 1 Mig welder

 

[Shovelhands]

That is bloody funny

but on a serious note, there are purchasing restrictions in Aldi now. I nipped in this morning, as I was just passing, it was like armageddon in there

 

[V8Druid]

That is bloody funny

but on a serious note, there are purchasing restrictions in Aldi now. I nipped in this morning, as I was just passing, it was like armageddon in there

every where sounds like it's worse than Crimbo, after everyone has won the lottery .... if you can give it a week or so, everyone'll be spent out / have no more room to hoard any more and'll hopefully return to some level of normality... as long as the supply chain holds up
been told this morning that Spain and Italy's gov.s have suspended all mortgage and loan repayments for the duration

 

[tinydigger]

That is bloody funny

but on a serious note, there are purchasing restrictions in Aldi now. I nipped in this morning, as I was just passing, it was like armageddon in there

A mates wife is a manager at aldi she put up last night it was max 4 of anything. Amie is no push over but even she said it was going mad and had customers giving her crap for it to the point she joked she was going to pay a few of us big lads to go in and act as bouncers for the store to kick them out lol

 

[Komatsu]

every where sounds like it's worse than Crimbo,

That is exactly what the women at Tesco’s said this morning....apparently it was still manic at 10:30 last nite!! With restrictions on the restricted items

 

[Komatsu]

One things for sure, if we do all have to self-isolate, we might get a few more new members to the forum.....every cloud and all that

 

[Furniss]

Businesses in France have just been informed we can defer our monthly social charges - so we will be properly in the s**t trying to catch up when we get going.

 

[Cyberprog]

If you or any of your "loved ones" get the pneumonia version it is going to be varying from bad to really bad, but for everyone else the virus won't be the problem, it will be the over reaction and panic measures that will f**k the economy if we are not careful. I am not a huge Boris fan, but I think he is going about it the right way, taking scientific advice rather than knee jerk reactions of shutting everything to be seen to be acting.

Agreed, I'm not worried myself - the missus spends all day watching the media however and is in full on panic mode.

From a reliable source in a major NHS hospital. Guidance issued today to be prepared for the worst. Emergency isolation ward being set up with clear guidance on procedures for Treatment. Bear in mind the only treatment for those in severe cases is a ventilator. So the guidance, no one over 70 gets a ventilator, ventilator goes to the youngest that requires it, even if that means taking someone older off the ventilator. How f***ed are we, who yet knows!! Just heard that a friend of a friend has got it. Pretty sure that we are going to see a mass escalation of cases in the UK. The map showing where cases are now in the UK means someone near you has it. Italy was very concentrated in the North hence there drastic action. We will either explode far worse than Italy or flatline. My wife’s Italian colleagues are very concerned for us!!

Which makes total sense. The vast majority of the over 70's are a drain on the economy - 40 years ago life expectancy was around mid-70's but we now have people living longer and longer, and often the standard of life for those people is very poor. I'm a pragmatist, the Herd immunity thing sounds like perfect sense. We need to protect the youngest, else nobody will be there to care for us in our old age!

My contacts in the city tell me they are already bracing themselves for what they see as a relatively short duration but very hard recession this year. People I know who are teachers are already being told that Easter holidays might come early and there's no guarantee they will go back after. Batten down the hatches boys, its coming.

But the big question is - whos going to get it first on here? Thinking we should get a syndicate going.
Druid is already self isolated so he's going to last a while. Old age might get him first
Rory lives in the middle of nowhere but goes to the pub at least twice a day so could be on the risk list
Doobin works for grannies so he has to be up there too.
And TiltyShaun has kids so its inevitable, so unfortunately mate you're my top seed

I'm out in the Country, but in my late 30's - the missus in her early 40's - but I've got enough bog roll for a few months and my freezer is normally fairly full. I reckon I have 2-3 weeks at our normal standard of eating, but if we needed to economise we could last far longer.

yeh we're not that far from shops in a few directions - 20-30 min.s, but see no point in trekking every few days /week ... when we're there (well me actually - I do our shops usually-Pam hates it) I 'hit it' ... and really fill up ... but as said every two/three weeks ... leave it as long as poss. Milk tends to be the one thing that 'drives' me out for supplies .. 3 gallons'll usually stretch two and a half weeks and can 'top up' from the little garage shop in the village - at twice the price!!
two freezers (and a third that I could / might switch on today) will store a LOT to keep us provisioned for a good month plus ... Might sneak into town 'bout half eight tonight, when the rest of the world's in the pub / watching the box and 'top up' ... late night opening is great ... real quiet usually, but run the risk of shelves being depleted ....... we're ok really for a couple of weeks, but by that time the tish may well have deepened considerably, so better to try a top up now

as Rory rightly says ... in this JIT world, when the supply chain starts to break down, then the crap'll hit the fan

We're good friends with the Dairy farm over by work, so we'll be fine on that one!

“Every society is three meals away from revolution”

― Vladimir Lenin

Amen to that one!


In other matters, my friends in the events industry and facing potential ruin - lots of stuff being cancelled left right and centre. They're going to look at laying off all their freelance staff straight away, with their retained staff going soon after. How they will make the finance payments for their gear I have no idea.

My work is ok presently, no more travel outside the UK, but we're all still working from the office. We all have laptops and can work from home already so there's no concerns for us there if it happens.