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Coronavirus - how is it/has it affected you?

Slab said:
I agree, I was in the UK exactly one month ago and with one exception (gloved shop asst) no individuals I saw cared a jot about taking any preventative steps to limit the spread
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Incidentally, I think your point is sound though, it was not taken in full seriousness at that stage. In all fairness, we have never seen anything like this before so I think most people felt a level of 'it wont really come here'. That wont happen again.
 
Just called my future mil to see if she needed any shopping. We’ve got a list of stuff that will feed a small army for a few months
 
pendodave said:
No offence taken, but when putting a strategy in place, it needs to reflect the environment in which it is placed. A small population and a relatively simple economy is not the same as a big one, and will have vastly different options
Spain and Italy have far worse results (so far) than many European countries which have implemented far less rigorous lockdowns. Why then should we assume that their approach is the one to be followed, and not the others?
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Good point on the approach. I'm not sure that any one approach is having, or will have, a major impact on the numbers. If one country goes for a full on, hard lockdown the disease is still out there waiting for when its lifted. And if they're waiting for a vaccine, will that have to wait for a full year, as predicted? Whichever way its done, I don't expect any country to come through this without having some serious hits.
 
Kaz said:
Maybe I haven't read enough on this but I don't see why this is getting so much stick. My mum is 75 and lives alone. Every time I speak to her I ask if she's able to get everything she needs and if she wasn't able to get something she absolutely needed and nobody more local could help her, you better believe I'd be straight in the car and driving the 60 miles to get it to her!
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I haven’t seen you on the news Kaz telling us not to go out.;)

The question is, who decides what is essential?

I’m the same as you, but he claimed the neighbours have been great in looking after his parents, and if it was “essential” medicine then pharmacies do home delivery.
 
Is it just me, or are the "heartwarming" and " uplifting" stories that keep getting on the news, now starting to get tiresome?? Do I care that some family somewhere are singing a virus-adapted version of Les Miserable in their front room. Or showing online videos of cats acting out goodwill messages to disabled pensioners? How about just sticking to the news.
 
backwoodsman said:
Is it just me, or are the "heartwarming" and " uplifting" stories that keep getting on the news, now starting to get tiresome?? Do I care that some family somewhere are singing a virus-adapted version of Les Miserable in their front room. Or showing online videos of cats acting out goodwill messages to disabled pensioners? How about just sticking to the news.
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Attention seekers looking for a spot in the limelight.
Trying to look more important than they are.
 
2blue said:
What non essentials would they typically be then, Bri?
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Beer and crisps. The police are even going into supermarkets and taking stuff out of trolleys. Alicante region and Huelva region are the worst. Minister for the Interior has instructed the police to stop.

What's not helping is the police get to keep a percentage of the fine. Its a pain having to go and argue the toss with the desk sergeant.
 
Hobbit said:
Beer and crisps. The police are even going into supermarkets and taking stuff out of trolleys. Alicante region and Huelva region are the worst. Minister for the Interior has instructed the police to stop.

What's not helping is the police get to keep a percentage of the fine. Its a pain having to go and argue the toss with the desk sergeant.
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Wow...... thought it might be ironing boards or similar........ they would have a heyday over here then.
So have you actually been to argue your case then?
 
Hobbit said:
Beer and crisps. The police are even going into supermarkets and taking stuff out of trolleys. Alicante region and Huelva region are the worst. Minister for the Interior has instructed the police to stop.

What's not helping is the police get to keep a percentage of the fine. Its a pain having to go and argue the toss with the desk sergeant.
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Well, at least you've a desk sergeant to go and argue the toss with... Not many of those left in these parts...
 
Hobbit said:
Beer and crisps. The police are even going into supermarkets and taking stuff out of trolleys. Alicante region and Huelva region are the worst. Minister for the Interior has instructed the police to stop.

What's not helping is the police get to keep a percentage of the fine. Its a pain having to go and argue the toss with the desk sergeant.
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Sure that won’t cause any additional problems with a law that is already subjective in its nature... ?
 
Billysboots said:
I look at the figures, and there are half a dozen or so countries being hammered. Everywhere else it doesn’t seem a particularly big deal.

I get why the UK have an issue - we’re a multicultural society with Heathrow being one of the busiest, if not the busiest, airport in the world. The cat was well and truly out of the bag long before we even realised.

Personally, I would have liked to have seen far stricter border controls far sooner. I cannot, for example, understand why, as soon as the crisis in Northern Italy became evident, EVERYONE returning to the UK from there wasn’t placed into mandatory and monitored quarantine for 14 days. Instead, we gave them “advice” and allowed them to exercise choice whilst many of them spread the virus unknowingly.

As an island nation, and I accept I’m perhaps being hugely naive here, we could have got on top of this far more quickly.
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The stricter borders controls should have been in place early January, and the blame lies directly with China and the WHO, they lied and covered up how bad the situation was.
China saying it couldn't be transmitted human, to human, while they had thousands of cases.
The WHO telling Trump his ban on flights from China was wrong, doctors being silenced in Wuhan, these were crimes against humanity and should not be forgotten.
 
hovis said:
just drove past asda on my way home from work. I have never seen a queue so long. according to the coppers the local supermarkets have been nuts since Wednesday! what's going on. people planning family get togethers no doubt ?
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8 houses on my lane. 3 of which are doing exactly what you thought!
 
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