Nearholmer Posted April 3, 2020 Share Posted April 3, 2020 6 minutes ago, Ian Hargrave said: Naming names,the first was the Coop and the second a Sainsbury’s Local.Far better and safer to queue with the trolley at the larger shops Reinforces my View/experience. I think the co-op have got a few questions to answer. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phaeton Posted April 3, 2020 Share Posted April 3, 2020 14 hours ago, BoD said: My wife works on the till in one of the big supermarkets.... Please give your wife my deepest thanks & ask her to pass my appreciation onto her colleagues, I do not know you nor her, but I & every other person in this country owes her & her colleagues a huge debt of gratitude, if they weren't prepared to go to work this country would have collapsed by now. I know the NHS workers are on the front-line & if people want to stand on their doorsteps & clap the NHS, I have no problem with that, but our shop workers should also be included. 1 13 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
friscopete Posted April 3, 2020 Share Posted April 3, 2020 (edited) I am on lockdown and an at risk category .I spray everything that comes in with Iso propyl .I bought a lot before the virus struck after reading reports from China .Washing it all works well too and we also isolate quite a bit of incoming for at least a week or two in the car boot .Cant be too careful .My daughter in Surrey thinks she has had it .She may have caught it while getting her house rabbit well as the vets had to close and scrub down after a an assistant had symptoms.There is a chance the rabbit got the virus from there as rabbits are susceptable .Also so her daughters preschool teacher was coughing etc after husband came back from China as flight crew and she was getting symptoms .She asked my daughter whether she should stop going to school which left my daughter shocked ....doh Bunny survived being very ill which surprised the vet as and so did Sally and probably her son as he had all the symptoms too .my Son in law was surprised by the vets bill Edited April 3, 2020 by friscopete 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ouroborus Posted April 3, 2020 Share Posted April 3, 2020 14 hours ago, adb968008 said: I wear gloves and a mask, if you have neither, wear winter gloves and scarf.. it might not offer much but it’s better than nowt. I work as an NHS dentist. We can't buy masks - none available through our suppliers. Usually made in China, the importers are diverting them to Amazon and Ebay because the mark up is so much better. Ditto sanitisers. Some people are doing very well. I usually pay £3.50 for a box of 50 masks. I see on Amazon that they're £15 for 5. Sanitisers cost me £40 for 3*1200mls (except i can no longer buy them). Online its around £30 for 500mls. The emergency treatment centres due to open are being hampered by a lack of PPE and we're being asked to donate whatever stock we have remaining. I see people wearing gloves and masks, opening doors, taking the gloves off and then touching the same door handle shortly later. Unless you have cuts or abrasions on your hands, gloves do FA. We didn't wear them in dentistry until the AIDS crisis in the 80s, which is blood borne, before than we had bare hands. I have a plentiful supply of gloves that i could wear to go out, but i choose not to because instead i'd rather think very carefully about what i'm touching and in particular, what the person before might have touched. Regards masks, the paper 'surgical' masks stop things ("splatter") hitting you in the face. End of. They're not sealed. I read a journal report published a few years ago that swabbed the inside of surgical masks for bacteria and viruses. 80% had bacteria behind them, 100% had viruses behind them. I understand why people use this PPE, but as the old phrase says, don't die of ignorance - contaminated PPE is a greater risk to you than nothing at all. 5 8 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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duncan Posted April 3, 2020 Share Posted April 3, 2020 The one thing that is not being enforced is the indiscriminate discarding of fag buts, wonder how long the virus could live on that damp material ? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold adb968008 Posted April 3, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted April 3, 2020 Sadly we seem to have lost one from the railway enthusiast fold ... https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-glasgow-west-52151530 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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rockershovel Posted April 5, 2020 Share Posted April 5, 2020 Our local small Co-op is quite a good design, being a new purpose-built structure. Tesco Extras, less so, being mostly converted from other uses (at least two around here, are converted former pubs). I’m not an admirer of Budgens but again, quite a roomy place, once again a purpose-built structure about ten years old. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
rockershovel Posted April 5, 2020 Share Posted April 5, 2020 On 02/04/2020 at 23:14, Nearholmer said: Oh, yes, definitely! Just between you and I, when theyre all out, I even sometimes eat a small pork pie for lunch. Small pork pies are a delight from heaven, one of the things I greatly missed in my wanderings around the Oilpatch. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baby Deltic Posted April 5, 2020 Share Posted April 5, 2020 A virus expert gives advice on shopping with potential Coronavirus contamination. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jcm@gwr Posted April 7, 2020 Share Posted April 7, 2020 I couldn't think of a better place to add this. Does anyone else agree, that the 'Important Update, by the Government' is actually counter productive. It's not an update, it's just repeating the same old message, which is now, like the boy who cried wolf, in danger of being ignored. If they said 'This is a reminder', or they actually started updating it with new information/advice, (daily, or at least every other day), we (as a nation) might take more notice. Am I alone in this? 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nearholmer Posted April 7, 2020 Share Posted April 7, 2020 (edited) If they say nothing for a day, the vacuum will be filled with speculation and conspiracy theories; if they say something, but it isn’t new news, some people will get bored and itchy with it. The latter is possibly safer, if a bit tedious. We need to see the captain on the bridge (well the first lieutenant now) once each day, it’s part of making sure it’s ‘one ship’. And The Rear Admiral of the Fleet (=HMQ) needs to appear every few weeks too. Edited April 7, 2020 by Nearholmer 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jcm@gwr Posted April 7, 2020 Share Posted April 7, 2020 (edited) 6 minutes ago, Nearholmer said: If they say nothing for a day, the vacuum will be filled with speculation and conspiracy theories; if they say something, but it isn’t new news, some people will get bored and itchy with it. The latter is possibly safer, if a bit tedious. It would not have been difficult (or particularly expensive) to have created/recorded a few of those messages/bulletins, with a few different faces, said in a slightly different way, just to keep them a bit fresher, and less monotonous, on a weekly rota. (lets be honest, the one they used does have a face for radio!) Edited April 7, 2020 by jcm@gwr 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
raymw Posted April 7, 2020 Share Posted April 7, 2020 Not sure how they could. If the advice is stay at home, then say 'stay at home more'. I guess it was necessary to send letters, because it maybe that some folk are not aware of the situation, so maybe it is aimed at them. You need to be aware that much of the population are pretty ignorant, so it can't be too complicated. Of course, whatever was said, there would always be those who would complain. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nearholmer Posted April 7, 2020 Share Posted April 7, 2020 26 minutes ago, raymw said: Of course, whatever was said, there would always be those who would complain. You can’t please all of the people, all of the time. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Reorte Posted April 7, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted April 7, 2020 31 minutes ago, raymw said: I guess it was necessary to send letters... Has anyone actually received one yet? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sprintex Posted April 7, 2020 Share Posted April 7, 2020 1 hour ago, Reorte said: Has anyone actually received one yet? Nope, not here. Paul Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
34theletterbetweenB&D Posted April 7, 2020 Share Posted April 7, 2020 2 hours ago, raymw said: ...I guess it was necessary to send letters, because it maybe that some folk are not aware of the situation... Ours arrived today, and I support the necessity. We have a pair of elderly near neighbours who - by choice - had no electronic communication at all since the radio packed up, and they hadn't thought it important to sort out a replacement; and I expect there will be plenty more such. Fortunately their friends nearby were aware of the situation, and 'did the necessary' in keeping them informed; and since then a suitable radio (set to receive R4) has been provided... 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baby Deltic Posted April 8, 2020 Share Posted April 8, 2020 Spotted at Tesco Highwoods Colchester. The Gimp Man Of Essex who does a lot for charity: 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sol Posted April 8, 2020 Share Posted April 8, 2020 18 hours ago, jcm@gwr said: I couldn't think of a better place to add this. Does anyone else agree, that the 'Important Update, by the Government' is actually counter productive. It's not an update, it's just repeating the same old message, which is now, like the boy who cried wolf, in danger of being ignored. If they said 'This is a reminder', or they actually started updating it with new information/advice, (daily, or at least every other day), we (as a nation) might take more notice. Am I alone in this? same as TV update for any news, not an update but the previous headlines repeated. To me update means this is later news to what was advised an hour or so ago. 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
NIK Posted April 8, 2020 Share Posted April 8, 2020 1 hour ago, Baby Deltic said: Spotted at Tesco Highwoods Colchester. The Gimp Man Of Essex who does a lot for charity: Hi, Is Charity an unusual girl?. Take care. Nick 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baby Deltic Posted April 8, 2020 Share Posted April 8, 2020 5 hours ago, NIK said: Hi, Is Charity an unusual girl?. Take care. Nick Not sure. :0 Apparently he’s married with kid but he raises a lot of money for Mind. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
NIK Posted April 8, 2020 Share Posted April 8, 2020 8 minutes ago, Baby Deltic said: Not sure. :0 Apparently he’s married with kid but he raises a lot of money for Mind. Hi, Good on him, but is it a kid goat?. Take care. Nick Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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