Wuhan virus.

[JoM]

Jo I think it's going to end up with the police or military involved.
Unless people stop their behaviour. MrsC has just been to Aldi and B@M in Featherstone. she knows a girl who works in Aldi who told her that people were queuing to get in the Aldi car park this morning when they opened. People were snatching stuff out of the hands of staff trying to fill the shelves. No toilet roll, no tissues or kitchen roll, no bread etc etc.
There is obviously no end to the selfishness and greed of some people. Appealing to their better nature won't work because they don't have a better nature.
So some form of rationing or force is going to have to be used to stop them.

I’ve been listening to our local BBC radio station and they had a caller on earlier who worked in a supermarket and they said that rationing the number of items sold is pretty pointless because there’s nothing stopping people making their purchase, going to their car with their shopping and then returning to the store to buy up to the limit again.

[Workingman]

Jo, that's exactly what the man at Morrisin's was hinting at yesterday.

Mum goes in and shops to the max, then dad does the same, then the kids. The next day they are back again.

We need cures for stupidity and greed as much as we need one for the virus.

[cromwell]

Food riots it is then.

[Kaz]

Not seen any behaviour like that here. Apart from some shelves being empty everything in Sainsbury's was entirely normal, apart from people chatting more in the till queues!

[Workingman]

The BBC has announced it will focus more of its programmes, including The One Show, on the coronavirus outbreak.

The broadcaster will also offer more about education, fitness, religion and recipes for those stuck at home.

Give it a rest for God's sake.

Just about every article on the website, every item on the TV and radio news is about coronavirus: 24/7. The little git even has its own dedicated web pages! How about the BBC doing something novel for once and entertain us, after all it is part of the charter?

[cromwell]

The BBC has announced it will focus more of its programmes, including The One Show, on the coronavirus outbreak.

The broadcaster will also offer more about education, fitness, religion and recipes for those stuck at home.

Give it a rest for God's sake.

Just about every article on the website, every item on the TV and radio news is about coronavirus: 24/7. The little git even has its own dedicated web pages! How about the BBC doing something novel for once and entertain us, after all it is part of the charter?

The BBC gave up entertaining people a long time since, maybe when Morecambe and Wise packed in.
It's just a preaching set up now.
Interestingly I read that one way to cheer yourself up is to watch programs that make you laugh.
Whoda thought it eh?

[Suff]

Mrs S asked me to call Brittany Ferries yesterday to change our ferry to today. When I called, I found out our ferry had been cancelled for Thursday and all ferries are cancelled until April 12th.

I asked to get the ferry changed to the evening, then had a rethink and changed it to this morning. We left Sleaford at 2am, arrived at Eastliegh Asda at 05:40, where we filled up with fuel, just to be sure.

They were queueing at the door. We decided to pick up a few things before crossing over as we were not sure about how it would be in France. The sad part was that we couldn't get milk because we had no way of chilling it. There was plenty of milk.

By 6am there was a queue of trolly's 100ft long waiting to get in. When the doors opened, they all raced in and started stripping the shelves all over again. There was no bread at all and only three small boxes full of half dozen free range eggs.

We got the stuff we needed and left. By this time the car park was 3/4 full and they were still streaming in.

The UK has turned into a self serving bunch of panicking media junkies who share half a brain between them. Present company excepted.

People supposed to be on lock down in holiday resorts are drinking and partying as if they are indestructible. They are making us the scum of the EU. Sober citizens of other countries are horrified. The fact that we are disgusted by thus idiocy is lost in the whole condemnation.

Meanwhile the number of cases, worldwide, has just missed 20,000 new cases in a day. Italy has reached 4,000 new cases in a day and over 400 new deaths in a day.

There are now 173 countries and territories affected. This is now truly world spanning and one of the best countries in the world to be in, right now, is China.....

On the job front, this mania for buying the whole country out of everything that can be bought, has driven Tesco to a change freeze which has blocked me from working with them.

The government has just decided to suspend IR35 for a year.

But the numbnuts haven't worked out that the damage is already done, companies mass assessed inside and that can't be changed by saying "OK well implement next year".

Never mind the fact that they have just tacitly admitted that IR35 is damaging both businesses and the economy. Way to go HMRC dickheads.

We don't just need a vaccene for the virus, we need a vaccene for the attitudes in the country. That is going to take a lot longer than 18 months to find. People have no shame any more.

[cromwell]

The UK has turned into a self serving bunch of panicking media junkies who share half a brain between them. Present company excepted.

We don't just need a vaccene for the virus, we need a vaccene for the attitudes in the country. That is going to take a lot longer than 18 months to find. People have no shame any more.

This, x1000.

[cruiser2]

We will be going shopping tomorrow at our local Tesco. We wat bread and milk and any other items such as coffee and tea and some frozen food.
But we are not panic buying, just being sensible.
As other people have said, how much food will be thrown away by those who have been panic buying.

[Workingman]

I have just received an e-mail from my local councillor.

Asda will be reserving the first two hours of opening on Fridays for OAPs, vulnerable, carers and key workers.