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

Wife is now off work, we are playing it by ear. Rohloff has now closed, waiting news from other suppliers to see what the outcome is.

I envisage some bikes being ridden...

Well, I do a round trip of waitrose, Co-Op, sainsbury local, large sainsbury, Tescos Local and all have been pecked clean by the vultures. And i have done this route since saturday with no luck.

The M&S next to the royal free in hampstead only lacked some cleaning products this morning. Everything else was normal. All the other shops seemed fine. I am more than happy to pay a premium to avoid large supermarkets at the mo.

Have you tried a newsagent/local shop?

Yeah but try small independent shops/franchises etc as they don't lend themselves to folk looking to buy in bulk. My mum's local is even keeping stuff back for regulars and older folk and basically telling people panic buying to fuck off and put it back on the shelves.

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next on my list

Had to go down Church Street. Can't believe how busy it is. Adjust your sets people. This is not a drill. Etc.

We had the damp proof guys round this morning, they were very quick and remarkably clean!

https://slate.com/business/2020/03/coronavirus-groceries-supermarket.html

well the police are out here in Nyon, Switzerland watching group sizes of people walking around. I'm still rural so most groups are like 2 or 3 people, nothing massive

If people had to bet, when would they say sporting fixtures are going to be back on in general? - even in a closed environment.

September

If people had to bet, when would they say sporting fixtures are going to be back on in general? - even in a closed environment.

Not till next summer. Though by that time most of the bookies will hopefully have gone bust, so you won't be able to have a bet anyway.

Summer, 2021

On a different forum (911UK, a Porsche forum that has a very voluble Gammon portion of the membership) the view is that people will just ignore instructions to stay at home as they have to keep earning money.

How many forums are you on and where do you find the time?

One of my clients is a company running 5-6 big restaurants in my city and was told yesterday they have approx 7 more days until bankrupcy. Zero visitors right now.

All the local business down here in Teignmouth doing good business which is nice to see. Not seen much panic buying Both the butchers and veg shop thinking of becoming card only over the next few weeks to minimize having to handle cash between them and customers. Although this won't apply to older or vulnerable people.

How many forums are you on and where do you find the time?

I'm on holiday, I have all the time in the world.

The Swiss have just preemptively deployed 8000 reserves to combat the virus, primarily focused on supporting healthcare with their 'hospital battalions'.

Hancock has just told Brits they shouldn't go on holiday.

Vallance says a good result is for number of deaths to stay below 20,000 that’s shocking

Source?
Only that was what I’ve stated on another group chat so I’ll look like the best Pretend Epidemiologist going...

Not really shocking, maybe (unfortunately). The flu kills about that many every year. So that would, perhaps, be a very good result.

https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/839350/Surveillance_of_influenza_and_other_respiratory_viruses_in_the_UK_2018_to_2019-FINAL.pdf

Great stuff. I'm not sure I understand how that expertise is relevant to the efficacy of vitamin D as prophylaxis against respiratory infection though.