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04 March 2020 15:46:25


Barmy - much worse things to worry about being on shortage - like beer !


Just cut up squares of newspaper, punch a  hole in them, put some string through and  and hang them in the khazi .  Next !


Originally Posted by: Bugglesgate 


Solves the paper problem and more hygienic. 


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Anyway newspaper can cause blockages. Each to their own I suppose.


But was this a reason for the spike in Italian cases? Poor hygiene?


https://www.theflorentine.net/2015/07/16/the-italian-mystery-of-the-missing-toilet-seats/


 

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westv
04 March 2020 15:47:28


Flybe is in trouble because of a sudden drop in bookings and wants the government to give it a loan of £100 million in the next few days.


Originally Posted by: JHutch 


They have been in trouble for ages.

At least it will be mild!
Brian Gaze
04 March 2020 15:48:41


Occurs to me that one of the best places to spread Covid-19 would be in a packed Indian cold-call center ...... So with luck, it'll take off big time on the sub-continent and the number of calls to UK phones will half overnight


Originally Posted by: Essan 


They often have dodgy English names to make them sound more familiar. Perhaps a lot will soon call themselves "Corona". It has a nice ring to it.

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Saint Snow
04 March 2020 16:01:50


 Perhaps a lot will soon call themselves "Corona". It has a nice ring to it.


Originally Posted by: Brian Gaze 


 



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Gandalf The White
04 March 2020 16:05:31


 


I don't. Its why I posed the question.


What point were you making?


Originally Posted by: bowser 


The point I was making....... was exactly the point I was making.....


To help you out here I'll quote the relevant part:


"It's just another example of why outsourcing and assuming open trade with far flung countries is fraught with potential risks.  It links perfectly with the report at the weekend about the UK not needing a farming sector: this is exactly what happens in a time of crisis - countries quite rightly put the needs of their people first."


 

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springsunshine
04 March 2020 16:08:46


 


Yes, I think that in the coming weeks many companies could go to the wall and this will become just as big a story.


Originally Posted by: Heavy Weather 2013 


This is being blown out of all proportion and the fearmongering and ensuing panic will do much more damage than the virus itself.The best advice would be is to keep calm and carry on and use common sense and wash your hands frequently. The media are not helping at all with all the speculation of mass school closures,sick pay or lack of,the nhs crashing and making out this is the bubonic plague part 2 is very irresponsible!! The bottom line is containing a virus like this is impossible and if you get it you get it and if you don`t you don`t, and by the time a vaccine is developed the virus would have mutated anyway.Things need to continue as normal in the uk for as long as possible,if 10`s of thousands test positive then emergency steps may need to be brought in but until then people should keep calm.


As Essan said in a previous post,a thousand people have been tested positive for cancer today!!

bowser
04 March 2020 16:22:04


 


The point I was making....... was exactly the point I was making.....


To help you out here I'll quote the relevant part:


"It's just another example of why outsourcing and assuming open trade with far flung countries is fraught with potential risks.  It links perfectly with the report at the weekend about the UK not needing a farming sector: this is exactly what happens in a time of crisis - countries quite rightly put the needs of their people first."


 


Originally Posted by: Gandalf The White 


So why the bollocks about the EU in the original post?

Quantum
04 March 2020 16:39:48


 


This is being blown out of all proportion and the fearmongering and ensuing panic will do much more damage than the virus itself.The best advice would be is to keep calm and carry on and use common sense and wash your hands frequently. The media are not helping at all with all the speculation of mass school closures,sick pay or lack of,the nhs crashing and making out this is the bubonic plague part 2 is very irresponsible!! The bottom line is containing a virus like this is impossible and if you get it you get it and if you don`t you don`t, and by the time a vaccine is developed the virus would have mutated anyway.Things need to continue as normal in the uk for as long as possible,if 10`s of thousands test positive then emergency steps may need to be brought in but until then people should keep calm.


As Essan said in a previous post,a thousand people have been tested positive for cancer today!!


Originally Posted by: springsunshine 


Cancer doesn't have an exponential time dependence like a viral outbreak does hence why comparisons to time independent diseases don't make much sense.


The consequences of doing nothing will be a health service that is functionally non existent for several months. The reason people are so complacent is that a truly dangerous viral outbreak is extremely rare, but when it does happen it's devastating.


 

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Gavin D
04 March 2020 16:41:36
5 new cases reported in Los Angeles County state of emergency declared.
Essan
04 March 2020 16:42:30

With regards WHO reporting a scaremongering 3.4% death rate ....

https://www.sciencemediacentre.org/expert-reaction-to-who-director-generals-comments-that-3-4-of-reported-covid-19-cases-have-died-globally/

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idj20
04 March 2020 16:44:42


 


Just cut up squares of newspaper, punch a  hole in them, put some string through and  and hang them in the khazi .  Next !


 


Originally Posted by: Bugglesgate 



Probably the only time when the likes of The Mail and Daily Express might notice a sudden surprise surge in sales. 

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Brian Gaze
04 March 2020 16:45:34

I think it's clear who the 51,317 smuggest people in the world are right now.

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Essan
04 March 2020 16:47:29


Cancer doesn't have an exponential time dependence like a viral outbreak does hence why comparisons to time independent diseases don't make much sense.


The consequences of doing nothing will be a health service that is functionally non existent for several months. The reason people are so complacent is that a truly dangerous viral outbreak is extremely rare, but when it does happen it's devastating.


Originally Posted by: Quantum 



The real consequence of what is currently happening will be thousands of businesses going bust and more people made unemployed than who die.  


Of course the big difference between cancer and covid-19 is that the former kills people of all ages whilst the latter mostly kills only the very old or those already suffering illnesses such as cancer ....

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speckledjim
04 March 2020 16:47:59


 


This is being blown out of all proportion and the fearmongering and ensuing panic will do much more damage than the virus itself.The best advice would be is to keep calm and carry on and use common sense and wash your hands frequently. The media are not helping at all with all the speculation of mass school closures,sick pay or lack of,the nhs crashing and making out this is the bubonic plague part 2 is very irresponsible!! The bottom line is containing a virus like this is impossible and if you get it you get it and if you don`t you don`t, and by the time a vaccine is developed the virus would have mutated anyway.Things need to continue as normal in the uk for as long as possible,if 10`s of thousands test positive then emergency steps may need to be brought in but until then people should keep calm.


As Essan said in a previous post,a thousand people have been tested positive for cancer today!!


Originally Posted by: springsunshine 


Once the media have something else to talk about then this will just be background noise.

Thorner, West Yorkshire


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xioni2
04 March 2020 16:50:15


 


Solves the paper problem and more hygienic. 


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Originally Posted by: NMA 


Even better. Westerners who use them in Japan swear by them and many Japanese consider Westerners to be filthy due to the lack k of them and the use of toilet paper. 

NickR
04 March 2020 16:52:41




The real consequence of what is currently happening will be thousands of businesses going bust and more people made unemployed than who die.  


Of course the big difference between cancer and covid-19 is that the former kills people of all ages whilst the latter mostly kills only the very old or those already suffering illnesses such as cancer ....


Originally Posted by: Essan 


No, the big difference is that a) the latter is contagious; b) it will lead to 1000s of people all needing in many cases substantial in patient treatment at the same time.


 

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Joe Bloggs
04 March 2020 16:53:14


 


Even better. Westerners who use them in Japan swear by them and many Japanese consider Westerners to be filthy due to the lack k of them and the use of toilet paper. 


Originally Posted by: xioni2 


Using toilet paper is absolutely disgusting. All you do is push it around, it isn’t very clean. 


If and when I eventually buy a house I will be getting a bum-gun installed. After my trips to SE Asia I absolutely swear by them. 


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Justin W
04 March 2020 16:55:01

I find the attitude of some quite extraordinary. No, millions of people are not going to die but the NHS is very likely to be overwhelmed by just a few thousand serious cases. That is a very big deal.

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Gandalf The White
04 March 2020 16:58:53


 


So why the bollocks about the EU in the original post?


Originally Posted by: bowser 


Er, because this sort of issue is less likely to happen if we were to source more locally and were still in the EU.  I accept that there are two points conflated here but that doesn't make it invalid.  The broader point about long-distance trading being riskier at times of uncertainty or crisis is perfectly valid; the point that falling out with our neighbours is not sensible is all valid.


It wasn't 'bollocks' any more than much of the anti-EU guff you pour out.


You need someone to remove your blinkers for you.


 

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xioni2
04 March 2020 16:58:54


Using toilet paper is absolutely disgusting. All you do is push it around, it isn’t very clean. 


If and when I eventually buy a house I will be getting a bum-gun installed. After my trips to SE Asia I absolutely swear by them. 


Originally Posted by: Joe Bloggs 


Most Japanese models have separate settings for women and men and some have massage modes for both. 



 

Gandalf The White
04 March 2020 17:01:24


 


Using toilet paper is absolutely disgusting. All you do is push it around, it isn’t very clean. 


If and when I eventually buy a house I will be getting a bum-gun installed. After my trips to SE Asia I absolutely swear by them. 


Originally Posted by: Joe Bloggs 


Aren't you supposed to sing Happy Birthday at least twice whilst doing it, or am I confusing it with another aspect of personal hygiene?



 

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xioni2
04 March 2020 17:06:08


Just visit Milan if you can get a flight.


Originally Posted by: Maunder Minimum 


True, but some people prefer their viruses to be English. No foreign muck please. 


Justin W
04 March 2020 17:07:39

We should make like dogs: squat and use our sphincters for what they were designed for: chopping off the stool cleanly and quickly.

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Retron
04 March 2020 17:09:00


 


Using toilet paper is absolutely disgusting. All you do is push it around, it isn’t very clean. 


If and when I eventually buy a house I will be getting a bum-gun installed. After my trips to SE Asia I absolutely swear by them. 


Originally Posted by: Joe Bloggs 


Indeed. The first time I used a Japanese toilet it felt almost like I was being violated. The second time I got a spray in a painful area.


The third time and onwards? Perfect. I feel a bit like a barbarian scraping away with toilet paper back here!


I've an eye on a proper Japanese toilet here (Toto is the main brand out there and you can get them here), but I'd have to spend some serious money on electrics and getting the bathroom reconfigured for one to fit (my loo seems to be plumbed into the floor, which doesn't fit with the more modern way of doing it). One day I might well go and spend the £5,000+ to do it!


EDIT: Looks like you can get knock-offs that'd fit my S-trap setup for £1,200+fitting. That's actually quite tempting!

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Gandalf The White
04 March 2020 17:10:00


I find the attitude of some quite extraordinary. No, millions of people are not going to die but the NHS is very likely to be overwhelmed by just a few thousand serious cases. That is a very big deal.


Originally Posted by: Justin W 


 


Which is more extraordinary, Justin, talking up the crisis and precipitating panic buying and over-reaction or playing down the threat?


Some of us are trying to provide balance in here.


'A few thousand serious cases' implies a handful per hospital: is that going to 'overwhelm' the NHS?   It seems to me that your comment is equally extraordinary.  If we reached tens of thousands of serious cases then it would become an issue.

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