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  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    Same with fire fighters -  even the women!
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • barry islandbarry island Posts: 1,847
    edited March 2020
    So 100,000 deaths in the UK alone doesn't seem possible does it, I dread to think what the mortality rates will be when it hits Africa. Of course the greens have been saying that there are too many people on the planet, be careful what you wish for.
  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190
    100,000. In the U.K. How long will that take?
    • The UK has announced its third death from the virus. He was a man in his 60s who had underlying health problems.
    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,889
    Rik56 said:
    Hostafan1 said:
    AuntyRach said:
    Cobra meeting today... I wonder what that will bring...
    with Boris in charge??? 
    You could have had Jeremy!! 😱...or even that thicko Swanson😂
    I've said it before and I'll happily say it again. " There's not a single politician in this country from any party who deserves my trust, my respect or my vote" 
    Devon.
  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,889
    Just back from Waitrose and one of my colleagues said a delivery customer refused to "sign" his handset. 

    god alone knows what she thinks he's been doing with his handset that our colleagues haven't done with the shopping!
    Devon.
  • barry islandbarry island Posts: 1,847
    A lady on any answers radio 4 Saturday reported that while working on the till of a supermarket a customer offered a £5 note which he had been holding in his mouth, she didn't feel able to refuse it. Meanwhile I read that a youth in the USA had posted a film of himself taking an ice cream from a supermarket freezer and after licking replacing it into the freezer, apparently he later took the ice cream out of the freezer and paid for it but the authorities found him and he was jailed and was also sued by the ice cream manufacturer for potentially damaging their business. (This may have happened before the COVID outbreak.)
  • purplerallimpurplerallim Posts: 5,287
    All this panic buying. Dont people realise that it could take months for the country to get through this ( the scientists were speculating June before it is wide spread) so all the extra buying will have been used up by then (as at some point the panic will stop) and we will carry on as usual with our buying habits. Its just a case of if you dont have it use something else, we have become too used to having what we want when we want it , will do alot of people good to get back to basics.
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    Before the panic buying became a news issue, I went to Sainsbury's to get some bread flour (normal purchase). Most of the flour shelves were empty. I assumed that they'd had an attack of flour mites or something. Little did I know.
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • punkdocpunkdoc Posts: 15,039
    @Fire. You are quite right re Andrew Wakefield being struck off, but he still regularly gives lectures and still works as a doctor in the USA.
    How can you lie there and think of England
    When you don't even know who's in the team

    S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
  • barry islandbarry island Posts: 1,847
    How much of this so called panic buying is people buying stuff for £1 hoping to sell it later for £10 think Ed Sheeran tickets, my late sister was a great panic buyer mention a sugar or toilet roll shortage and she was filling her car up with the stuff, the only thing that I've ever panic bought was candles due to power cuts during the coal miners strikes iv'e still got most of them now.
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