There is a small community of home distillers in the UK some of whom have passed on the non-drinkable portion of alcohol to others to make their own sanitiser - seems it works well. Surgical spirit from Boots etc. also works well with aloe vera gel and some glycerine/glycerol if you can find any of it now. You just need to make sure the alcohol content in the final solution is above 60%. At home soap and water is still the best bet.
Feeling very curmudgeonly! I cannot get a slot for home delivery. "No slots available" for three weeks! No dates beyond three weeks are even offered. Since OH and I are both in the vulnerable group (age and health issues) I am lucky to have supplies that I can rely on, for the time being, in my larder and freezer. If I can't get a home delivery booked, I shall have no option other than to venture out. At least there will be the early shopping slot for us oldies, which is better than nothing.
Regarding the loo roll panic buying, I read a study that said that when people are at risk of infection, such as during a pandemic, sensitivity to disgust rises. People feel a greater urge to ‘keep clean’. Add to that the ‘everyone else is doing it’ mentality, and here we are...
Or maybe the rumour mill that is social medja and the press showing people buying loo rolls in Australia just triggered herd mentality? Then going into shops, people see that loo rolls or pasta or.... is diminishing - so the thought is '...there's not much left of that, I'd better buy some more....' So it all becomes a self fulfilling prophecy - as soon as people see something running short, they buy it to excess, thinking they'd better do that while there's still some left.
Having worried myself into a bad stomach I decided to walk up to the post box.felt good.birds singing,daffodils out tulips coming on my garden!then met a woman I know who said someones got that virus thingy on your road!!oh thanks!! Considering theres only 6 cases in leicester which is still miles away I doubt it.perhaps he thinks he has it and is self isolating.please think people before you say things out loud!!dont frighten us!
My BIL has a chest infection with all the symptoms of covid-19 and it sounds like he's having a bad time with it. My sister is an NHS nurse but is off work due to a back injury at the moment. They live next door to my parents who are in the 'vulnerable' group and they've got three school age kids. Yet the doctor has prescribed antibiotics and doesn't think he needs to get tested as it probably isn't the dreaded Kung Flu in his opinion. He's minimising contact with family and no one seems to have caught it yet so that's a good sign. I hope the doc is right on this one though
If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
So it all becomes a self fulfilling prophecy - as soon as people see something running short, they buy it to excess, thinking they'd better do that while there's still some left.
It was only two years ago this month that we had 'The Beast from The East' and shops ran out of everything due to lack of supplies and people having to stock up as they were snowed in. This just shows how quickly people forget. All the businesses that took lessons from the 2008 financial crash are glad they did now but we, the taxpayer, are still having to bail out the ones that didn't bother to put measures in place. Everyone was expecting a slump due to Brexit apparently but the plans for that must have been pretty poor going on current evidence.
If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
Regarding the loo roll panic buying, I read a study that said that when people are at risk of infection, such as during a pandemic, sensitivity to disgust rises. People feel a greater urge to ‘keep clean’. Add to that the ‘everyone else is doing it’ mentality, and here we are...
Or maybe the rumour mill that is social medja and the press showing people buying loo rolls in Australia just triggered herd mentality? Then going into shops, people see that loo rolls or pasta or.... is diminishing - so the thought is '...there's not much left of that, I'd better buy some more....' So it all becomes a self fulfilling prophecy - as soon as people see something running short, they buy it to excess, thinking they'd better do that while there's still some left.
That's how I see it too. Toilet paper should never have been top of the list of needed goods, but once the idea enters peoples minds, the trend started and it's spiraled out of control.
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Since OH and I are both in the vulnerable group (age and health issues) I am lucky to have supplies that I can rely on, for the time being, in my larder and freezer.
If I can't get a home delivery booked, I shall have no option other than to venture out. At least there will be the early shopping slot for us oldies, which is better than nothing.