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

I'm a Windows dude, dude.

Have been asking my dad to register for online shopping for a few days.

My sister set and account up for my dad last night. Earliest delivery slot was the 7th of April. He’s being pretty sensible, but he survived the 1957 flu pandemic so has a mildly blasé attitude “of course some people died but we didn’t go on about it back then” 😩

Or tell others, for fear of their high horse.

A 29er counts as a high horse, right?

No delivery slots at all in my area

Last week I nabbed one for the middle of next week and have also scheduled one for a week later. Benefits of being house husband and having some time on my hands.

Earliest delivery slot was the 7th of April

Just checked for us, same... I thought we would steer away from mass disruption in somerset

Thats super lucky because I believe all super markets have stopped taking new customers.

I work for one of them, and we are about to enter a design sprint to try and solve the problem of getting food and supplies to the most vulnerable.

Demands are Xmas season level atm and this week is going to be a tough one resource and supply wise.

Worth mentioning: Nothing has actually changed supply chain or availability wise the shortages are caused by people stockpiling, because they are being asked to stay in doors for a few weeks. So if everyone acted with a little bit of decorum this issue could be avoided, but you know, people...

On the behavioural front, I had a thought.
If schools are to close eventually it makes sense to isolate elderly first, so that behaviour is set.
Making it less likely parents turn to grandparents I’d think...?

Stanley Johnson says people should still go to the pub. Who to believe?!

Nothing has actually changed supply chain or availability wise the shortages are caused by people stockpiling, because they are being asked to stay in doors for a few weeks.

That's reassuring to hear from the inside, do you foresee any reason this could change?

Maybe not a sensible speculation

enter a design sprint

Thank goodness!

(Hatred of wanky IT terms aside, it's good to see supermarkets are looking to do something about this.)

I remember the bad weather around Christmas 2009 when supermarkets were unable to do all of their deliveries. We got ours after a few phone calls but it was mostly due to my wife being almost 9 months pregnant.

After this has all eventually blown over I hope supermarkets will also do enough data mining to work out which of its customers were utter utter cunts during this time. (Either determining stockpiling or landgrabbing delivery slots.) They can be punished with targeted special offers for odd items or items they probably have cupboards full of already.

I'm having to terminate staff contracts this morning. Feel awful.

Never easy either end of that one!

Same goes for the emails from cycle companies i thought i had unsubscribed from .

nice work buddy!

From the BBC on pub insurance:

More now on the issue of whether venues in the UK can claim on
insurance if they're not ordered to close by the government.

Pubs, restaurants and theatres in the UK are hitting out at Boris
Johnson's advice to the public yesterday - telling them not to visit
the venues, without ordering businesses to close.

Many from the entertainment industry say without a direct order from
government, they will not be protected by their insurance.

But the Association of British Insurers claims most companies would
not be covered anyway, even if there were to be a dictat from Downing
Street.

In a statement, the organisation says: "Standard business interruption
cover - the type the majority of businesses purchase - does not
include forced closure by authorities as it is intended to respond to
physical damage at the property which results in the business being
unable to continue to trade.

"A small minority of typically larger firms might have purchased an
extension to their cover for closure due to any infectious disease. In
this instance, an enforced closure could help them make the claim.

"But this will depend on the precise nature of the cover they have
purchased, so they should check with their insurer or broker to see if
they are covered."

When has an insurer ever openly said people are covered for anything?

My guess will be pubs will band together and sue insurers if they need too but they can't do anything while the wrong words are coming out officially.

Did our weekly Aldi shop last night. No Chicken of any description, no pasta of any description, no loo roll/kitchen roll/tissues, no baked beans, no ketchup, no aubergines (not uncommon) 1 tin of soup (had to search for it), most tinned goods gone, various frozen items all gone, very little bread. However, Tunnock's teacakes had been reduced to 95p for 6 and in plentiful supply. Waaaay busier than it usually is but thankfully no one killing each other over anything, that probably happened earlier in the day.

More idiots panic buying.

Supply chains are not set up for this demand at this point in the year so supplies will be the next issue. But the entire company is looking into how to solve these issues and its quite nice to see/hear no one is talking about how it effects US as a business, but are genuinely trying to solve customers concerns and problems.

When has an insurer ever openly said people are covered for anything?

Fair point!

I'll suggest that. Seriously. Doubt anyone will listen of course.

For frog snacks. As soon as I thought I´d watch some more vijahos of a Canadian fellow taking things a-part what for taking my mind off things viral, this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7KF1j99Qd0M

This is going to be a hard ´un to unfuckulate. To think I recently tried to send over some doll hairs to Uncle Bumblefuck.

I just went to the shop. So many old people out. Madness. They don't get it.

Where do you live? Our supermarkets appeared the same. We did have to go to a 3rd place to find an Enchilada kit. Oh the horror...