Chat about Novel Coronavirus - 2019-nCoV - COVID-19

I noticed nothing out of the normal. Pasta and toilet paper well stocked up in Aldi, same amount of cunts on the road.

A rinse with boiling water isn't enough to kill a virus usually.

Business as usual in Sainsburys Harringay. Didn't buy bog roll cos I've just opened a four-pack and am not a dick. Bought pasta cos I needed it.

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That is true!

Does still seem a bit of an odd choice though. Presumably non-disposable cutlery is still being used in cafes?

US Congressman Matt Gaetz, who came to prominence last week when he wore a gas mask to show what he said was the over reaction to coronavirus, has put himself in quarantine after he was exposed to someone with the virus.

I lol'd.

Does still seem a bit of an odd choice though. Presumably non-disposable cutlery is still being used in cafes?

Catering washing machines are at a temperature and cycle length that is designed to kill the germs that cause most food poisoning (and Coronavirus too by the looks of it).

Obviously doesn't help if someone infected rifles through a tray of (clean) cutlery.

The restrictions in Italy have now been extended to the entire country.

I was more thinking along the lines of staff handling them after customer use, along the same lines as the reusable cup use.

Probs not nearly as dangerous as handling cash still.

Yep, I said a while ago in this thread that a likely infection vector will be something to do with catering.

There are HSE guidelines on washing hands after handling used cutlery, no idea how it relates to washing after handling customer supplied cups. I guess the chances of infection is very low if there's no highly contagious bug going round.

A dishwasher sterilises.

Oh definitely! People tend to get a bit up in arms when places stop accepting cash though!

And it isn't the customers loading the dishwasher.

There are HSE guidelines on washing hands after handling used cutlery

Had no idea about that, can't imagine a large proportion of staff do that (at least until recently!)

I ate about that much for dinner

Yes exactly this. They weren’t not touching the sandwiches etc when customers passed them over to be scanned.

Had a funny thought that it’s a shame rain isn’t 60% alcohol, or Mr Coronavirus wouldn’t stand a chance here.

Cue Mad Scientist sending rockets of absinthe into the sky....

I was in France today, a handful of people in masks on the train, then this at Ebbsfleet:

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I'm flying to Copenhagen tomorrow until Thursday, then back to London for a day, then to Chatel for a week, back for two days and then Australia for just under two weeks.

I might wrap myself in clingfilm before heading to Heathrow tomorrow.

Ebbsfleet

Yes, it's not somewhere that I'd choose to spend my leisure time, but it's significantly easier to get too than St Pancras from my place.

I was planning to go to Copenhagen as well, leaving on Friday and back on Saturday. The following week similar scenario to Stockholm.

Happy I didn’t book flights yet because by the looks of it now, I might not be able to get back home. Don’t want to risk getting quarantined plus my gf would probably kill me before any virus could.... Latina sigh

That is a bit much really....

@Tenderloin the presenter on LBC just said that the Government just changed its advice on those returning from Italy recently, and that they were saying they had to self-isolate for 14 days

Is that countrywide? My gf gets back from Italy tomorrow am. Deep south, but they had their first case in the town today.

It is now countrywide, since the announcement of the lockdown of the whole of Italy.