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

I'm not that old.

29er is last year. 30 is the new thing

Survival is going to be the order of the game for many businesses, not just small ones.

It's a simple answer - keep spending and acting normally - but nobody is going to listen in a world where people are buying 200 fucking bog rolls.

I needed this. Thank you!

Idiots will survey the wasteland they created and ask "why didn't the govt do more?"

Sunny Bedfordshire, Luton effectively. Probably didn’t help that we generally go shopping at 8.30-9pm every week. However fruit/veg was plentiful which it often isn’t at that time.

Popped to my local newsagent and a teenage boy who has been sent home with symptoms came in to cough over everyone because he wanted some crisps. Fuck sake.

Got some rice though so swings and roundabouts.

It's a simple answer - keep spending and acting normally - but nobody is going to listen in a world where people are buying 200 fucking bog rolls.

I just had this realisation that it's up to those with salaries to spend to spend them (with local business? with smaller enterprises?) to keep these things going.
My local chippy on Brixton Hill (well work) got my lunch money today.

Belgian lockdown

Euph?

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

Can't imagine it's easy to do without picking plenty of false positives, so I guess it wouldn't fly.

(When I worked in catering we occasionally had to make up for items that weren't delivered in time, so buying 24 cucumbers in one go or even supplies like toilet rolls. You wouldn't want someone who runs a food bank or soup kitchen to get dinged because they just happened to go and buy the usual bulk of pasta or 144 toilet rolls, etc).

Me and my OH had this conversation earlier – it wouldn't take much for my work to fold, and not much more for hers, but for now we're WFH and being paid as normal. It's tempting to be as frugal as possible because I can't be sure I'll get paid at the end of April, but if everyone stops spending that will be why I don't get paid at the end of April

Have updated my comment.

I work with people living with dementia

I just had this realisation that it's up to those with salaries to spend to spend them (with local business? with smaller enterprises?) to keep these things going.

My local chippy on Brixton Hill (well work) got my lunch money today.

I said this to my wife yesterday. We need some damp treatment in our house at the moment and we have the money saved for it, going to try and find a local business to sort it out.

To confirm your comment about people not getting it.

From BBC :
Stanley Johnson, 79, said: "Of course I'll go to a pub if I need to go to a pub."

Though the poster below did it comprehensively ;)

https://www.lfgss.com/comments/15155215/

Takeaways from local restaurants that offer contact free delivery (eg. Tofu in Crystal Palace has closed its eat it services to offer contact free delivery only - or deliveroo as contact free is a delivery option) and groceries from corner shops instead of ransacking the big Tesco. We have a scheduled Tesco delivery in a couple of weeks, but the top ups that we would normally also go to a supermarket for will be from the local.

Most of you've probably seen this on the internets already. But I am posting it for the handfull of on here who are still talking about overreacting:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K0U572cjsCI

the dreaded meeting at restaurant where my daughter works in Borough Market.. all on zero contract hours.. basically shut down until further notice therefore no work, no money, no rent.. i guess its apply for universal credit and talk to landlord and letting agent. I suppose that eviction will just lead to vacant property in today's uncertain world..

that from itv i guess, who have completely failed in their duty of responsibility allowing that to air.

The old lady who lives on my floor works at a supermarket on the tills, she's still working (what else can she do)!

Anyone with an idea when things like loo roll will be back on the shelves? I am concerned as someone who hasnt stockpiled 200 loorolls i may run out soon.

Anyone with inside knowledge of the supply chains?

Im assuming the moment that they do, they will be gone, because those that werent stockpiling will now ALSO stockpile, extending the life of this stupid human trait.

It's a bit funny then PM's father is acting like a knob. I agree it should have stayed private.

Wash your arse with a bit of water from the sink and wash your hands afterwards.

As I understand it, human beings successfully evolved without bogroll.

Go to local shops like Londis and you'll be fine. My local is cleared out now but guy said it's dumb because they've had no problems getting restocked (and why would they?).

I am young, healthy and this will cause me no issue personally, quite happy to go about normal life with no bother. But I have a responsibility to not infect older people.

There is irony in the situation were the people most at risk, are the ones being caviller. And might loose the help of younger people soon...