The Covid-19 Thread

[eny]

From my Nextdoor Neighbourhood feed:

Folks
Please read this message then forward to all in your contacts list.

This message came from a doctor in the Royal.

“I can confirm, having been at several emergency planning mtgs that the situation is dire . If public do not lock down this weekend there will be catastrophic consequences . On current projections if lock down doesn’t work ICU beds will be overwhelmed in next 10 days . We are stopping all elective theatre work. Operating theatres are being set aside for ventilating patients. Apart from divine intervention for which we must all pray earnestly , many will die . In north Italy many doctors (possibly 12) have already died . Here all consultant ICU staff annual leave is cancelled . We have been told to go on military type rotas of 12 hours on and off . Medical and nursing staff are risking our lives for the public and rightly expect them to believe us and act. Many thanks for disseminating this warning .
From Dr William McBride”

From the R U Gvt

[The Jackal]

On a slightly lighter note, all the barber/hairdressers are closed. By the time this is over we'll all look like 70's pictures of our dads

I went a year without a haircut for a bet while at uni. I split my head open pretty badly and it needed stitches, and the bit around that had to be shaved so I put off my next haircut to let it catch up. One thing led to another and I went 13 months without a haircut. This is why in my third-year photos I look a bit like James May...

[Medicine Man]

[Achtung Englander]

it never fails to amaze me the attitude of "nah I wont get it - I feel fine".....than its than its "why didn't the govt tell us"

fuck off you bunch of morons

[Alan]

https://apple.news/AOvTNIt2bTqevu0s6GZcSBg

Silver lining.

[Animalmother]

https://apple.news/AOvTNIt2bTqevu0s6GZcSBg

Silver lining.

Makes you wonder what the virus had to do to get the part...

[Drarok]

Can we not spread chain-letter-style bullshit, please? Nextdoor, Facebook, etc are full of the shit, we don't need it spilling over. Sourced articles, sure. Barely-comprehensible gibberish written by some fuck-o? No thanks.

[Drarok]

I do not think I will drink milk again in a long time as every shop has none. Even bread.

Forget about booking a shop online - its dead. Ocado, Tesco and Morrisons have no slots - not one. We have gone through the looking glass guys. We are now in a new reality. Its fucking Mad Max time. Supermarkets are getting stripped in less than an hour of opening.

The army is coming out. I give it a week.

Where do you live, out of interest? Your situation sounds way more dire than mine.

[Achtung Englander]

Wokingham

Its partly me - I do not want to go until its quiet (late evening) but by then shelves are running low. So its a right royal quandary. Never mind...I needed to lose some weight, no really !

[Mantis]

I managed to get some pasta today. I think with various fast food outlets like McDonald's and Subway properly closing down on a voluntary basis that we will see more follow suit and soon the run on the supermarkets will get worse as they will be the only place you can buy food from. Tim Martin will be serving take-away microwave meals from every 'Spoons until the end of time though.

WHSmith's CEO has claimed that their stores are essential too and won't close down despite not providing any safety measures to their staff. Utter scumbag.

In our High Street stores, we have a retail offer that extends to every generation. We can provide essential products to our younger pre-school customers; an unrivalled education officer with accompanying stationery range to children, teenagers and students; a fantastic books offer for everyone; and a news and magazines offer that can’t be beaten, enabling communities to access information and keep up to date with what is happening at the current time.

He just doesn't get it does he. Essential products like 'fantastic book offers'.

[Rossell]

[Hatredsheart]

https://apple.news/AOvTNIt2bTqevu0s6GZcSBg

Silver lining.

Makes you wonder what the virus had to do to get the part...

[Achtung Englander]

Those retail stores which were already facing bankruptcy before Covid-19 class themselves as essential. We all know that there is a chance once closed they will never open again

Amazon market share will just dominate going forward. Bezos may become the first Trillionaire

[Achtung Englander]

I managed to get some pasta today. I think with various fast food outlets like McDonald's and Subway properly closing down on a voluntary basis that we will see more follow suit and soon the run on the supermarkets will get worse as they will be the only place you can buy food from.

I fear you are right. The run on the supermarkets is going to get tougher and tougher. When we start dropping likes flies from next week I expect the run never to end.

I genuinely foresee rationing on the way.

[Animalmother]

I hate to think of the people who depended on those fast food restaurants to feed themselves and families.