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Retron
15 March 2020 13:39:19


 I was to make a forecast I think there will be some blocked drains in the next few weeks because kitchen roll isn't the same weave as toilet paper.


Originally Posted by: NMA 


Lots of people on the Sheppey group talking about cutting kitchen rolls in half to make toilet paper. You're right: these people will be causing all sorts of blockages by using it.


(My own drains are prone to block up if people further up the road flush dodgy stuff... the only good point is that legally the water board has to unblock them for free, now that the rules have changed. The street's pipework runs under my back garden and of course my drains connect to it, so that if it blocks downstream I get the sewage! It's the perils of moving in 37 years ago, when there were only 4 bungalows and one house on my side of the road, whereas now there are 7 houses and 3 bungalows.)

Leysdown, north Kent
Caz
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15 March 2020 13:40:08

 



I've registered the folks (mid 80s) for on-line shopping this   morning and shoved their first order through fro next Sat.  No real problems. 


.... they don't like it though, especially Mum, who thinks it's a total crime  to buy anything you can't see first hand - It's a generational thing.  Fortunately Dad is more than capable of  buying on line and frequently uses Amazon, but many of that age  won't be able to do this stuff and may not even have an internet connection.  I am sceptical that a lot of this age group will be able to isolate to any sensible  degree.


Originally Posted by: Bugglesgate 

  I even wonder if it would be fair on them.  I lost my mum almost three years ago and my mum in law last year, both in their 80’s.   Popping to the shops was the highlight of their days and more like a social event than a chore.  If we take away their routine and their normality, what else do they have?  


Most don’t have Internet, computers or mobile phones, unlike the younger generation, who you can’t get off them. 

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Brian Gaze
15 March 2020 13:43:00

Spain: 2000 new cases and 100 deaths in the last 24hrs.

Horrific


Originally Posted by: Heavy Weather 2013 


I'm losing track but that sounds like a horrendous increase.

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speckledjim
15 March 2020 13:43:55

Spain: 2000 new cases and 100 deaths in the last 24hrs.

Horrific

Originally Posted by: Heavy Weather 2013 


Yes but when you drill down then perhaps things could be improving. The increase in new cases for the last 2 days is 21% and 22%. However for the previous 6 days the figures are 66%, 38%, 33%, 37%, 83%, 57%.

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Retron
15 March 2020 13:44:22


I'm losing track but that sounds like a horrendous increase.


Originally Posted by: Brian Gaze 


The rate of increase is actually lower there today (it's 1300-ish new cases).


https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/spain/


Of course, with policies like ours there will be a massive under-reporting of cases.

Leysdown, north Kent
Gooner
15 March 2020 13:44:34


  I even wonder if it would be fair on them.  I lost my mum almost three years ago and my mum in law last year, both in their 80’s.   Popping to the shops was the highlight of their days and more like a social event than a chore.  If we take away their routine and their normality, what else do they have?  


Most don’t have Internet, computers or mobile phones, unlike the younger generation, who you can’t get off them. 


Originally Posted by: Caz 


My Mother and her husband don't have a computer or internet , I will be organising home deliveries for them , but of course not everyone can afford to do that for relatives 

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Banbury
North Oxfordshire
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bledur
15 March 2020 13:51:02

All this panic buying is fuelled by social media. 40 years ago you would not have much clue what was going on everywhere. From my observation older folk take precautions and just get on , young ones panic as this problem cannot be solved  on a smartphone.

Saint Snow
15 March 2020 13:55:45


Now is not the time to panic.


Yes it's going to be a rough few months but we are going to get through this.


 


Keep calm and carry on.


 


Originally Posted by: Quantum 


 


Like I said earlier, it would be so ironic if the same ignorant, we-don't-trust-experts plebs, whose anger and prejudice was so successfully harnessed by both the Brexit shysters and Bozo/Rasputin in the last election, turned on this shambolic and lying government for not pandering to hysteria.


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The Beast from the East
15 March 2020 14:02:46


 


I did notice in my local Tesco last week (as I bought a pack of Imperial Leather bar soap, the same stuff I've used since the 90s) 


Oh, there was loads of shower gel too and I believe that works the same as soap.


Originally Posted by: Retron 


Yes, and the morons don't realise that anti bac floor wipes are the same as the surface wipes, just thicker


I like the Imperial leather shower gel that foams up. 

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Brian Gaze
15 March 2020 14:06:23


Nike temporarily shuts up shop






Nike is temporarily closing hundreds of stores across the world from Monday.


All of its branches in the US, Canada, Western Europe, Australia and New Zealand are going to remain shut until 27 March, the company says. The company has almost 400 stores in the US alone.


Nike told US media that its workers would be paid in full during this time off.


Its stores in South Korea, Japan, most of China and "many other countries" are going to stay open.



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The Beast from the East
15 March 2020 14:08:13

It doesn't matter how many ventilators you have if you don't have the trained staff to use them.

Originally Posted by: Arcus 


And thanks to Priti's point system, we aren't going allow these "low skilled" workers in anyway

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Gooner
15 March 2020 14:09:35




Nike temporarily shuts up shop






Nike is temporarily closing hundreds of stores across the world from Monday.


All of its branches in the US, Canada, Western Europe, Australia and New Zealand are going to remain shut until 27 March, the company says. The company has almost 400 stores in the US alone.


Nike told US media that its workers would be paid in full during this time off.


Its stores in South Korea, Japan, most of China and "many other countries" are going to stay open.




Originally Posted by: Brian Gaze 


The Nike store in Bicester village shut last week due to illness 

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Marcus
Banbury
North Oxfordshire
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Chunky Pea
15 March 2020 14:12:24

Confirmed no. of global cases (blue) vs mortality rate (orange) as of 8am this morning:


 



 


 

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Brian Gaze
15 March 2020 14:12:38

We've got 30,000 people to repatriate from the French ski resorts. This will turn into another massive fiasco I expect.


https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/mar/15/coronavirus-chaos-as-30000-british-tourists-told-to-leave-french-ski-resorts

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The Beast from the East
15 March 2020 14:12:40


The fiasco that some of us have been predicting for a few weeks is now unfolding. This Government is unfit to handle this national emergency.


Originally Posted by: Justin W 


Latest YouGov puts Tories on 50%, 21 points ahead of Labour


The morons voted for this and love Boris for some reason I cannot understand


I say f*ck them and f*ck England. I hope this country collapses and I will dance on its grave

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Gavin D
15 March 2020 14:13:24




Nike temporarily shuts up shop






Nike is temporarily closing hundreds of stores across the world from Monday.


All of its branches in the US, Canada, Western Europe, Australia and New Zealand are going to remain shut until 27 March, the company says. The company has almost 400 stores in the US alone.


Nike told US media that its workers would be paid in full during this time off.


Its stores in South Korea, Japan, most of China and "many other countries" are going to stay open.




Originally Posted by: Brian Gaze 


 


Lots of firms seem to think that by the end of March this will all have magically cleared up, and they'll be able to open again. Some shops could be shut for a very long time...

Brian Gaze
15 March 2020 14:13:53


Confirmed no. of global cases (blue) vs mortality rate (orange) as of 8am this morning:


 



 


 


Originally Posted by: Chunky Pea 


The interesting thing is the mortality rate has increased as the virus has spread across the low smoking developed world. It's the opposite of what many pundits were suggesting early on. 

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Caz
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15 March 2020 14:14:24


All this panic buying is fuelled by social media. 40 years ago you would not have much clue what was going on everywhere. From my observation older folk take precautions and just get on , young ones panic as this problem cannot be solved  on a smartphone.


Originally Posted by: bledur 

And the irony being, the panic was started on a smartphone!  

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Gooner
15 March 2020 14:17:58


 


 


Lots of firms seem to think that by the end of March this will all have magically cleared up, and they'll be able to open again. Some shops could be shut for a very long time...


Originally Posted by: Gavin D 


Its interesting that people are using the end of March / start of April as a point of return , I'm struggling with this bit

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Marcus
Banbury
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Heavy Weather 2013
15 March 2020 14:19:11
Germany to close some of its borders tomorrow.
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Beckton, E London
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speckledjim
15 March 2020 14:21:38


 


Latest YouGov puts Tories on 50%, 21 points ahead of Labour


The morons voted for this and love Boris for some reason I cannot understand


I say f*ck them and f*ck England. I hope this country collapses and I will dance on its grave


Originally Posted by: The Beast from the East 


Why can’t you take your politics elsewhere, your posts are pathetic 

Thorner, West Yorkshire


Journalism is organised gossip
Saint Snow
15 March 2020 14:24:06


 


Latest YouGov puts Tories on 50%, 21 points ahead of Labour


Originally Posted by: The Beast from the East 


 


Why is political capital not being made of the shambolic performance by this government and Bozo's 'invisible man' thing (following his similarly couldn't-give-a-toss approach with the floods)


A Labour government performing this badly would be ripped apart. 


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Retron
15 March 2020 14:25:09
The local rag reports hand gel has been stolen from dispensers at my "local" hospital (in quotes as it's still half an hour away by ambulance!)

https://www.kentonline.co.uk/medway/news/hand-sanitzer-stolen-from-hospital-223778/ 

Leysdown, north Kent
Gooner
15 March 2020 14:25:52


 


Why can’t you take your politics elsewhere, your posts are pathetic 


Originally Posted by: speckledjim 


I quite enjoy them actually certainly brings a smirk 

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Marcus
Banbury
North Oxfordshire
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The Beast from the East
15 March 2020 14:25:57


Now is not the time to panic.


Yes it's going to be a rough few months but we are going to get through this.


 


Keep calm and carry on.


 


Originally Posted by: Quantum 


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