Coronavirus

[slick_mick]

Originally Posted by hagwalther

Went down town for the weekly shop and tiki-tour this morning and there was no shortage of bum fodder here my bit of En Zed.

They were even trying to sell it in local builders merchant.

'Can't even give it away...' was the response from one of the sales guys.

Regards,

Chris

Wish that was the case here! I just spent $30 to post 6 rolls to my 80YO mum interstate as she relies on online shopping and couldn't get any and is not in a position to drive around to find some.

Too many hoarders and profiteers making life more difficult for the rest of us.

Mick

[fairlie63]

Originally Posted by Drummajor

I agree with everyone who will fly to the grog,good idea, as for the toilet rolls, s**t happens. I am over 70 and I grew up using newspaper, it was a luxury on Sunday because that was the only day you got fresh bread, aaaand...It WAS WRAPPED IN TISSUE PAPER.

Phil.

Jeez, I was lucky then Phil, we got fresh bread Monday to Friday, delivered by horse and cart, and yes it was wrapped in tissue paper type stuff. No fresh bread on weekends though, if you wanted it you baked it yourself or bought a 'Weekender' baked on Friday and wrapped in tinfoil stuff to keep it fresh.

And you left your empty milk bottles on the porch with the milk money and nobody touched it except the milkman.

Keith

[Charliedog012012]

Sometimes life throws up some wonderful ironies. This morning it is reported that a member of the UK Government has tested positive for the Corona virus......the Health Minister!!!!

[Luke H]

Originally Posted by Charliedog012012

Sometimes life throws up some wonderful ironies. This morning it is reported that a member of the UK Government has tested positive for the Corona virus......the Health Minister!!!!

Clearly she didn’t follow her own advice and wash her hands enough

[mike_vee]

Number of confirmed cases in the UK - 373

Number of deaths in UK - 6 (All with underlying health problems).

Number of cases in London - 91.

Population of London - 9 million.

Should I be worried !

How many confirmed cases of seasonal flu last winter , how many deaths ?

"Keep Calm and Carry On !"

[Hoot]

Were I to be forced to make a choice between spending six months working as a hospital porter in China or a single day in the same room as the Ginger Whinger and his clinging limpet of a wife, along with the Duke of Pork and Greta Thunberg, I'd be straight on the plane to the Orient.

[mike_vee]

A quick comparison with the 2009 flu pandemic in the UK :

Number of confirmed cases - 28,456

Number of deaths - 392

Worth noting ;
"Deaths are often reported as occurring "after contracting the swine flu virus" without flu being necessarily the cause of death of people with underlying health problems."

Research from Imperial College London in 2009 said :
"the best estimate was that about 0.5% of those who get swine flu bad enough to seek medical help die from it, a figure very similar to the estimate for seasonal influenza."

Maybe my memory is going but I don't remember anywhere near the panic/hysteria that is happening now.

"Keep Calm and Carry On !"

[High Wood]

Mike,

I think that this is because this illness is such an unknown quantity and no one really knows how it will play out.

I certainly do not believe that the figures that we are being given are accurate mainly because of the methodology. The U.K. has conducted 20,000 Corona Virus tests in a highly mobile population of over 65,000,000 people and with millions of other people travelling in or out. No one, at this stage, knows how many people are infected so nobody can say what the morbidity rate is.

I do know that they do not close down entire regions and build new hospitals in a week with "ordinary" Flu.

I have a very strong feeling that we are not being told the full story, either to stop us panicking, or, because they themselves do not know the full extent.

Whether or not it is a cock up or a conspiracy I cannot say, but I do respect Hanlon's Razor, never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.

Simon

[Ian B]

Received this yesterday. Something I think I knew all along.

As we used to say in the Infantry...."If you panic, you'll lose your section!"

[Deejayuu]

Reaction in Yorkshire to the loo roll shortage

https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/111237...e-toilet-roll/

[Mike_2817]

In Yorkshire Alert has been raised to 'Put t kettle on"

[Mike_2817]

Pandemics should never be ignored;

The 1918 influenza pandemic (January 1918 – December 1920; colloquially known as the Spanish flu) was an unusually deadly influenza pandemic, the first of the two pandemics involving H1N1 influenza virus, with the second being the swine flu in 2009.

It infected 500 million people around the world, or about 27% of the then world population of between 1.8 and 1.9 billion, including people on isolated Pacific islands and in the Arctic. The death toll is estimated to have been anywhere from 17 million to 50 million, and possibly as high as 100 million, making it one of the deadliest epidemics in human history. Historical and epidemiological data are inadequate to identify with certainty the pandemic's geographic origin.

That's more than 5+ years of WW1 with an estimated nine million combatant and seven million civilian deaths as a direct result of the war!

[Mike]

One sobering point about the 1918 pandemic is that it came in two waves, with the second wave being much more lethal than the first. Let's hope this virus does not mutate the same way.

[quillquop]

The people who have stock piled toilet rolls, would have a larger problem if the supermarkets where they were purchased , found a fault ie to Thin, and have to take them back, un-used!

[slick_mick]

Originally Posted by quillquop

The people who have stock piled toilet rolls, would have a larger problem if the supermarkets where they were purchased , found a fault ie to Thin, and have to take them back, un-used!

Woolworths in Australia said No to refunds for these panic buying people

https://www.smh.com.au/business/cons...11-p5494p.html