SARS CoV-2 coronavirus / Covid-19 (No tin foil hat silliness please)

AbusementPark said:
ive been looking at the dashboard for the virus spreading and one concern I have is the amount of people recovering from this, its very low for each country compared to the confirmed cases. Is it a timing issue that we have to wait a few weeks for the isolation period to elapse to update it as a recovered number?
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Not an expert, but I was wondering if it's just that checking people off as recovered is less of a priority. I think at one point the process for being officially recovered required 3 negative tests - has that changed? Can't imagine Italian doctors are particularly fussed about carrying out a third test on someone that's had no symptoms for a few days.
 
I dropped my girlfriend to work this morning and thought I'd nip into Sainsbury's as it was nice and early (8am) and I assumed they'd have stocked overnight and we've had 3 failed shopping trips in the evenings this week.

It was absolutely packed. Busier than I have seen it on any Saturday morning and the shelves were already empty. Some really weird rules though. The woman in front of me had 5 frozen bags of veg: 1 chips, 1 carrots, 1 green beans, 1 peas and 1 broccoli/cauli mix and the lady told her she had to put two of them back. Absolutely baffling. If you're buying fresh vegetables are you only allowed 3 different types of vegetables? If you get loose potatoes are you only allowed 3 potatoes? Is two potatoes and two carrots too many?
 
After seeing how the (british) public have reacted to this virus I am now against governments disclosing an alien invasion or an incoming meteorite.
 
Basically in my place of work, if you've got someone at home who is high risk like I have, my choice is statutory sick leave, unpaid leave, annual leave or quit. I work in hospitals across Northern Ireland.

I would imagine most places would be the same.

I normally have 12 weeks full sick pay, but if I where to take off it wouldn't be because I'm sick
 
What supermarkets should do is make up hampers of food & basics for different sizes of families and sell them instead of individual items for now. That will keep it fair
 
Steve Bruce said:
Basically in my place of work, if you've got someone at home who is high risk like I have, my choice is statutory sick leave, unpaid leave, annual leave or quit. I work in hospitals across Northern Ireland.

I would imagine most places would be the same.

I normally have 12 weeks full sick pay, but if I where to take off it wouldn't be because I'm sick
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NI Civil servant here and we are the same, would probably get 5 days paid special leave but that would be maximum at a push.
 
golden_blunder said:
What supermarkets should do is make up hampers of food & basics for different sizes of families and sell them instead of individual items for now. That will keep it fair
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Morrisons seem to be setting up some standard packs for home delivery. They say it'll make it easier for people to order by phone. It'll also mean they can put the packs together in their warehouse quickly rather than having single orders picked.

I wouldn't be surprised if others, maybe even at government request, do something similar. Particularly for the "special precautions" group who are getting messages from the NHS this week.
 
golden_blunder said:
What supermarkets should do is make up hampers of food & basics for different sizes of families and sell them instead of individual items for now. That will keep it fair
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That’s far too logical.
Too many idiots this morning bulk buying meat. Chillers are probably empty now
 
Pexbo said:
I dropped my girlfriend to work this morning and thought I'd nip into Sainsbury's as it was nice and early (8am) and I assumed they'd have stocked overnight and we've had 3 failed shopping trips in the evenings this week.

It was absolutely packed. Busier than I have seen it on any Saturday morning and the shelves were already empty. Some really weird rules though. The woman in front of me had 5 frozen bags of veg: 1 chips, 1 carrots, 1 green beans, 1 peas and 1 broccoli/cauli mix and the lady told her she had to put two of them back. Absolutely baffling. If you're buying fresh vegetables are you only allowed 3 different types of vegetables? If you get loose potatoes are you only allowed 3 potatoes? Is two potatoes and two carrots too many?
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I just did Asda. Saw a little old lady with 6 bottles of bacardi. No idea if anyone dared try and tell her to put some back.
 
Is there any food items that are fair game to stock pile? Couldn’t help but notice the ‘burgers in a tin’ were basically untouched in Farmfoods... not sure why, they seem suitable as they’ll last a while.
 
Grinner can you stop spamming this thread with the pasta discussion, you are very strict about spam in your thread, and gave me 3 points for nothing in this thread, that's not how staff member should operate here. If you want to spam you have your stickied thread.
 
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