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

Accommodation isn't usually the problem

We just got a letter saying only March payroll is safe after which arrangements may need to be reviewed for all.

Buy booze for the homeless people when the housing market crashes?

Rough, it' s going to be tough for a lot of people out there and any one of us could end up in a difficult situation. I really think the govt needs to bring in a fund to pay people's rent/mortgage if they have significantly reduced earnings.

I'm lucky in that I now work for a TV channel and if anything our demand is going to sky rocket.

Sell your house to a homeless person for 4 tins of Tennants Extra after the housing market crashes?

Was being facetious

Hope things don’t get too bad

Don;t suppose the new plasticky notes really get as much traction as the old paper money, or I'd suggest using £60 in tenners.

Leaves. Natures plentiful bog roll.

Don;t suppose the new plasticky notes really get as much traction as the old paper money

They're definitely more wipe-clean though

Dick

1/3rd of the worlds population, namely North America and Northern Europe, use bog roll.
Everyone else washes.
I'm genuinely interested as to how bog roll became the go-to solution.
It's a skanky habit.

I know

I'm thinking the ads on ebay for £50 for used loo roll may be fake.

Plenty of cunts out there...

Amid the panic buying sweeping UK supermarkets, some people are trying to make a massive profit by selling toilet roll and hand sanitiser online, Josh Halliday, the Guardian’s north of England correspondent, reports.

The Guardian found one UK-based eBay user selling a 72-pack of Andrex toilet roll for £84.99 on Monday morning – triple its retail price.

The same user, who appears to be based in the Midlands, appears to have bulk bought dozens of cleaning products and uploaded them all to eBay at huge mark-ups since Saturday night.

They include a 48 pack of Andrex loo roll for £59.99 - triple its retail price of £18 - and Wilko anti-bacterial wipes for £10.95, nearly ten times the retail price of £1. This seller and eBay have been contacted for comment.

There appears to be no shortage of people willing to pay such extortionate prices: an auction for a 72-pack of Andrex toilet roll had reached £51 on eBay by Monday morning - nearly double its retail price of £27 – with over five hours of bidding still to go.

Other sellers were also getting in on the profiteering. One seller had flogged dozens of Regina 9-pack toilet rolls (RRP £2.49) for up to £12.99 since Saturday night. Another had sold 18 packs of Andrex for £8.50 –more than triple its retail price of £2.50.

I read that Amazon is trying to clamp down on price gouging and ebay is supposed to have/be stopping sales of any Covid-19 related products. May still rely on these sales being flagged, though.

Have a word

I can't understand if this is an attempt at a joke that isn't landing or just a weird out-of-character-as-far-as-I-can-tell-from-on-here dickmove?

Created a forum for everything COVID-19 as it's clear that the conversation in this thread is fast moving and there is good info in here and things people are trying to pay attention to.

I didn't want to stop the chat, but feel free to create other threads to deal with more specific things and information as needed.

fucking hell. Poundland Catastrophe Capitalists indeed. They'd have been better served buying shares in Andrex and Dettol when all this kicked off ffs.

PM's briefing will be broadcast on R4 for those at work/etc. like me

I was being facetious because in the hypothetical situation that homeless people are offered space in empty houses/hotels (which is a genuine thing I've seen suggested online as tourism has tanked), to write it off as the lack of accommodation not being the route cause of homelessness, misses the point that it would do some good.
"Well we could put homeless James here in this empty flat now no one will buy it, but he's homeless cause he has a drug addiction, so he should stay on the streets instead".

Of course this all ignores the point that DJ was joking, but then the first reply was serious anyway.

Or for those without a TV licence

This is a nuanced and interesting point. Unfortunately your initial reply managed to convey almost none of the nuance. I guess that's the internet for you...

I can't make it too easy

Gotta keep woke knights on their toes...

So we all have to WFH where possible and avoid contact. Here we go.