Well, I have heard that working class areas and especially student areas didn't have nearly as much as a problem with this, so maybe that is a factor in observable differences of me (I live in Salford) and many of my friends (Who live in student areas), but that doesn't change my point that the research implies these stock issues were likely caused by large amounts of people simultaneously just buying two weeks worth of food for their households.
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KingNosser
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My local Asda has been pretty empty for the last 3 weeks, rice, pasta, fresh meats, bread ,eggs , most fresh veg/fruit, and anything tinned is bare oh and toilet roll or kitchen towel is never in. The staff say they still get the normal delivery but the supply chain isn't strong enough to restock it fully and even when stuff does come in the morning line outside strips it clean.
I always go in the afternoon at lunch it's quiet and just get what I can if you can adjust what you eat then it's not so bad really just need to be a bit more creative generally.
I always go in the afternoon at lunch it's quiet and just get what I can if you can adjust what you eat then it's not so bad really just need to be a bit more creative generally.
Dicehunter
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Same where I live but mostly with all shops but apparently we're both seeing things as "researchers" have said it isn't happening.
That's not what I said at all, I'm saying what we're seeing isn't necessarily the cause of outrageous, crazed panic buying, and that you can easily reach the figures required to empty out many stock items just with the assumption that large amounts of people are buying 2 or 3 weeks worth of food at around the same time, which is essentially what Boris' recommended people do yesterday (And 2 or 3 weeks worth of supplies for say a 6 person family looks like a LOT if you have to get it all at once, if you think some families could already fill a full size trolley with a weekly shop).
The fact that stocks have continued to empty just as rapidly even long after limits of 2 or 3 of each item has been in put in place in most supermarkets more or less verifies this (Of course, there are tricks and loopholes to that rule, people can go to multiple shops or something, but it seems to be only a rare few extreme cases and most of the British general public isn't even financially positioned to stockpile like that).
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The thing that makes me laugh about this is the stupidity of some people.
We have seen this in the news, in newspapers etc etc and most people I know with some common sense have been going to the shops early in the morning or late at night when, there is less people in there.
They have stopped going the pub's etc whilst they are open and they are staying home unless the job they have wouldn't allow them to work from home.
Then you get the morons and I have a friend who is one, who before the pubs were closed officially decides that him being a "High Risk" is a joke and decides to go to the pub for a night and get wasted and then a few days later goes round to his parents and other family members and even goes to my sisters around my nieces and nephew.
When I spoke to him a couple of days ago, I told him straight if any of them catch this because of him I am going to pay him a visit, he is now checking each day to see how they are because he knows what I will do to him, and I don't care he has to use a walking stick he has put my sister, nieces and nephew at risk and me and my parents at risk because my sister comes to my house, I will litterally beat the living daylights out of him.
Then last night even after we have all been told to stay at home etc, a group of people decided they were going to get wasted and walk down the street that my sister lives on singing "You will never walk alone" followed swiftly by a mass police appearance and all of them being arrested.
The amount of people I have heard saying "it's just a bad cold" is insane, from what I have been told by my doctor it is worse than Pneumonia which having had myself, is no joke and shouldn't be taken lightly.
When I had Pneumonia I felt like I was litterally on deaths door, so if it's worse than that, I will not and have not been taking any risk's, although I am going to have to go to Morrisons one day to get my grandads essentials because he cannot go to get them himself.
If people actually used some common sense then the country could get through this quicker, but there are to many stupid people who just don't have any, it's the same with the panic buying.
We have seen this in the news, in newspapers etc etc and most people I know with some common sense have been going to the shops early in the morning or late at night when, there is less people in there.
They have stopped going the pub's etc whilst they are open and they are staying home unless the job they have wouldn't allow them to work from home.
Then you get the morons and I have a friend who is one, who before the pubs were closed officially decides that him being a "High Risk" is a joke and decides to go to the pub for a night and get wasted and then a few days later goes round to his parents and other family members and even goes to my sisters around my nieces and nephew.
When I spoke to him a couple of days ago, I told him straight if any of them catch this because of him I am going to pay him a visit, he is now checking each day to see how they are because he knows what I will do to him, and I don't care he has to use a walking stick he has put my sister, nieces and nephew at risk and me and my parents at risk because my sister comes to my house, I will litterally beat the living daylights out of him.
Then last night even after we have all been told to stay at home etc, a group of people decided they were going to get wasted and walk down the street that my sister lives on singing "You will never walk alone" followed swiftly by a mass police appearance and all of them being arrested.
The amount of people I have heard saying "it's just a bad cold" is insane, from what I have been told by my doctor it is worse than Pneumonia which having had myself, is no joke and shouldn't be taken lightly.
When I had Pneumonia I felt like I was litterally on deaths door, so if it's worse than that, I will not and have not been taking any risk's, although I am going to have to go to Morrisons one day to get my grandads essentials because he cannot go to get them himself.
If people actually used some common sense then the country could get through this quicker, but there are to many stupid people who just don't have any, it's the same with the panic buying.
Yeah I agree there are still idiots out there. I think they're a tiny portion of the population, but it doesn't take many to cause risks. But the thing is, it's essentially a statistical certainty that some people wouldn't understand the seriousness of it, especially with the tone of the government's messaging until Monday. Many of us have had proper medical advice that the general population havn't.
Personally, I just think that this small but statistically garaunteed part of the population that are idiots, that exists in every society, means that any responsible government should have taken a heavy handed approach from day dot, it's the only responsible way forward when you're attempting to control a group of tens of millions of people.
I personally haven't seen any other Eurasian world leader who has been as breezy and lacking in leadership as Boris during this time.
Personally, I just think that this small but statistically garaunteed part of the population that are idiots, that exists in every society, means that any responsible government should have taken a heavy handed approach from day dot, it's the only responsible way forward when you're attempting to control a group of tens of millions of people.
I personally haven't seen any other Eurasian world leader who has been as breezy and lacking in leadership as Boris during this time.
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Daiyus
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It's strange. I feel like I haven't been taking this particularly seriously, and it's only the last few days that have really changed what I can and can't do. I feel kind of guilty and judged about it.
That said I never really socialised much, maybe once or twice a month, if I felt up for it. I have one club I go to weekly, but we all decided to cancel that weeks ago. The only massive changes now are that I'm working from home, and I can't see my daughter until this passes over as we don't live together and there's no way she come to where I'm having to live at the moment.
I guess I'm just one of those meme people that was already social distancing to an extent, which has made this transition pretty easy for me. I still don't get the idiots who are completely going against the advice though; it's one thing for me to feel like I'm ignoring it because I already do it for the most part, it's another to put people at risk because you just can't adapt. Is it really that hard to stay home and watch Netflix instead of going to the pub? I guess for extroverts it is, but for how long have introverts had to deal with an extroverted world? It's tough, but people really do need to accept this situation rather than fighting it.
That said I never really socialised much, maybe once or twice a month, if I felt up for it. I have one club I go to weekly, but we all decided to cancel that weeks ago. The only massive changes now are that I'm working from home, and I can't see my daughter until this passes over as we don't live together and there's no way she come to where I'm having to live at the moment.
I guess I'm just one of those meme people that was already social distancing to an extent, which has made this transition pretty easy for me. I still don't get the idiots who are completely going against the advice though; it's one thing for me to feel like I'm ignoring it because I already do it for the most part, it's another to put people at risk because you just can't adapt. Is it really that hard to stay home and watch Netflix instead of going to the pub? I guess for extroverts it is, but for how long have introverts had to deal with an extroverted world? It's tough, but people really do need to accept this situation rather than fighting it.
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YouGov polling indicates older folks are taking this much less seriously in general to be fair(With over half seemingly completely unaware of some of the long term economic impacts), probably just a matter of where we get our news from, the more international sources used by younger people probably adds a little more awareness around what's coming for us over the next 2 weeks, particularly if we don't get new ventilator designs in mass manufacture within the next week.
Taking it seriously doesn't mean you can't make jokes though, Limmy's daytime lockdown streams have kept many of us going, the self proclaimed George Formby of our era. Making the most of a bad situation is healthy, but that doesn't mean we should be lax about taking actions that will save thousands of lives. The WWII generation did both at the same time yano.
Taking it seriously doesn't mean you can't make jokes though, Limmy's daytime lockdown streams have kept many of us going, the self proclaimed George Formby of our era. Making the most of a bad situation is healthy, but that doesn't mean we should be lax about taking actions that will save thousands of lives. The WWII generation did both at the same time yano.
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Yeah 93% of the British population support the lockdown now, but it's only really in the last few days that the calls became unanimous across demographics, I'd assume from seeing that the situation in Italy continued to get much worse even 2 weeks after lockdown.
With the climate changes occurring, particularly the drying out of some areas and rise of flooding of others, the likelihood of more dangerous pandemics like this in the future becomes almost a statistical certainty though, so I think the younger generation are more worried about the fact this almost seems like a test run for what will shape the next century, the younger generations(Younger than me) will have a lifetime of wartime measures and face the greatest catastrophes in human history.
With the climate changes occurring, particularly the drying out of some areas and rise of flooding of others, the likelihood of more dangerous pandemics like this in the future becomes almost a statistical certainty though, so I think the younger generation are more worried about the fact this almost seems like a test run for what will shape the next century, the younger generations(Younger than me) will have a lifetime of wartime measures and face the greatest catastrophes in human history.
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Dicehunter
Resident Newb
So I keep getting junk email that starts out like this -
"Hey I saw you on that dating site you wanna hook up ?"
Followed by topless pics of random women, Don't get me wrong the female form is very nice but I don't know these women or any details of these women which means I do not want random semi nude pics, Also they always contain "click on this link and make a profile" or some rubbish like that.
So, Does anyone know of any way I could block images from being shown in emails ?
"Hey I saw you on that dating site you wanna hook up ?"
Followed by topless pics of random women, Don't get me wrong the female form is very nice but I don't know these women or any details of these women which means I do not want random semi nude pics, Also they always contain "click on this link and make a profile" or some rubbish like that.
So, Does anyone know of any way I could block images from being shown in emails ?
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Dark NighT
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check to see if the domain has the same name or something similar in them and then just apply a filter in your email client options to filter out emails containing @whateverspam.com for example and that the action is to delete such mails.
Add the email to spam, it auto blocks images.
What do you mean not been tested? Are you saying everyone in the UK has to get tested regardless of symptoms or not?
A few days ago he said his neighbour was confirmed to have corona, which understandably would have caused him concern. But I will point out Rob, over here you can be "confirmed" to have coronavirus without being tested at the moment, due to the small number of tests available here during the last 2 weeks most people diagnosed had not been tested yet, so they might not be lying.
But hopefully over the next few days we'll have widespread testing, until then we can't know the asymptomatic rate, with some research from the University of Cambridge implying around half of the UK could have already been infected, on the theoretical assumption only 1 in 1000 people who are infected have symptoms. The only way we can test this model is widespread testing of almost everyone, so soon (Hopefully next few days) we will have hundreds of thousands of home tests being distributed across the country.
In reality, we know more than 1 in 1000 people have symptoms because more than 1 in 1000 people across the population of Lombardy have been hospitalised with coronavirus so far, and so half the UK wouldn't have already been infected as the theoretical model suggested, but even if it's 1 in 500 get distinguishable symptoms, or 1 in 250, it could mean a lot of us have already caught the virus and developed an immune response to it, and that earlier modelling is somewhat wrong.
Finding out that asymptomatic rate is the next major step to understanding the virus and our responses to it, so widespread testing South Korea style seems to be necessary.
EDIT: It's worth noting these home tests can detect if you've ever had coronavirus previously, not just if you're currently infected, they check for the anti-bodies your immune system develops in response to it. It's a little prick of the finger to test your blood like with insulin tests.
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I know me, my mum and dad had a really bad cough in December and we were all really bad.
My brothers 3 week old baby ended up in hospital because of a bad cold which they said was bronchitis, but we have been hearing that they reckon this could have been here since November last year, and are wondering if actually she had a mild form of this.
Then we are hearing that they think it's been here since January so we don't know who to believe.
All we know is that when we were bad, all 3 of us were close to going the hospital because we all had chest pains, trouble breathing, trouble sleeping, severe head aches and muscle pains combined with blurred vision due to the head aches.
We just made sure that when we realised were ill we stayed at home and told people to stay away.
My brothers 3 week old baby ended up in hospital because of a bad cold which they said was bronchitis, but we have been hearing that they reckon this could have been here since November last year, and are wondering if actually she had a mild form of this.
Then we are hearing that they think it's been here since January so we don't know who to believe.
All we know is that when we were bad, all 3 of us were close to going the hospital because we all had chest pains, trouble breathing, trouble sleeping, severe head aches and muscle pains combined with blurred vision due to the head aches.
We just made sure that when we realised were ill we stayed at home and told people to stay away.
