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| coppice:
--- Quote from: dunkemhigh on March 12, 2020, 10:14:18 am --- --- Quote ---Still no pasta or toilet paper here --- End quote --- Try Aldi. All the supermarkets here (Tesco, Waitrose, Sainsburys, Lidl) have nothing, but Aldi had pallets of loo rolls being ignored when I was there yesterday. Maybe it's stiff crinkly stuff :) Hmmm. Knowing my luck I've just jinxed them and they'll be sold out before I can run up there today. --- End quote --- The supermarkets in York just look normal. They have plenty of loo rolls, pasta, rice, and flour. They just aren't on special offer this week. |
| bd139:
London is fucked. Missing stuff: anything italian, canned fish, beans, chopped tomatoes, pasta, arse paper, medicines, sanitary good all gone :-- Also Ocado's web site has just fallen over. |
| james_s:
--- Quote from: nctnico on March 12, 2020, 05:26:38 pm ---In general I agree but it still is good to slow the outbreak down so the health care system isn't flooded with people in one big surge. Germany's prime minister (Merkel) already announced that it is expected that 70 to 80% (IIRC) of the German people will likely get infected at some point. It wouldn't surprise me if it turns out the actual number of infected people is 100 times more than the current count. --- End quote --- Obviously yes, but there is a very wide range between being careless and cavalier and freaking out and panicking. We should all try to be sensible and stem the spread. That doesn't mean we should be cowering in fear or imploding the entire economy in a likely futile attempt to avoid spending a few days sick in bed. |
| Yansi:
Our country breached the 100 level. Another stricter actions taken by the gov, almost everything starting to get closed, gatherings of more than 30 ppl forbidden. ... and I am becoming quite scared tbh. |
| FriedLogic:
--- Quote from: james_s on March 12, 2020, 04:11:56 pm --- Even if I end up very ill that still doesn't change the fact that most who contract it will recover without complications. --- End quote --- All this talk of most people not having complications is very misleading. The exact stats for how many need hospital treatment varies, but 12% is the lowest that I've seen, and was often much higher. That is the really big problem here. If great care is not taken then the healthcare system will get overwhelmed. If there are 50,000 people in an area who need intensive care but only 5000 beds, there will be a very large number of people who will not make it. That is why there is so much effort (but probably not enough) going into slowing the spread of the virus. |
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