There's a stay in home order here in Illinois. Same in CA, NY and NJ I believe.
SARS CoV-2 coronavirus / Covid-19 (No tin foil hat silliness please)
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There's a stay in home order here in Illinois. Same in CA, NY and NJ I believe.
Yeah shame on him for buying things that will save thousands of lives.
Quite a few have done the same, Blackpool there were queuing from 6am !!! some NHS workers could not get near, the even managers to black the M 56 both ways, absolute feckwits all of them.
They're not panic selling, it's a calculated move. They had insider information and knew when to sell high only to buy back low. Hope them cnuts are persecuted for this.
hardly the same its it , idiots panic buys bog roll and pasta for no good reason.
NHS panic buying masks and ventilators that will save lives, give your head a wobble !!
Was the shopping frenzy today because of people buying flowers and cards for their mum?
Its generally accepted that these things will be handled at state and city level, which is why mayors and governors are at the forefront of imposing lockdowns and closures in states.
If you are fully trusting of the government and media it's easy to blindly follow their advice without question.
Do you think it's easy for people who don't trust the government and media to do the same?
Do you think it's easy for people who don't trust the government and media to do the same?
We're really screwed. Yesterday the president spoke for half an hour and said absolutely nothing helpful.
Are you in Andalucía?
Who knows, the sun is shining though so that's not helping. I drove past B&Q earlier and I couldn't believe how mental the car park was, people obviously going to get gardening stuff. We're screwed if we carry on like this the government needs to do the same as what they're doing in Italy.
People posting and tweeting photos of empty shelves or queues at supermarkets meaning that everyone else thinks they'd better get stuff before it runs out leading to more of the above etc etc
Highly doubt it. Mothers day gifts can be bought at the local shops.
Thanks, will take a look now.
I`d say complacent although the mask wearing is going strong among a lot of people.
Still no toilet paper anywhere in my part of Tokyo - I am not working at home although a significant number of Japanese are still doing so and I don`t have the leisure time of housewives to go early and clear the shelves as the selfish people among them are doing. Of course the Yakuza - organised crime for those who don`t know that word - have also played a big role in toilet paper/tissue paper/wet wipes stripping off shelves so they can send them overseas or re-sell here for high prices online or elsewhere.
Still no toilet paper in other parts of Tokyo too as well as some other shortages. Spring is here and increasing numbers of Japanese are kidding themselves that the worst has passed even while testing numbers remain irresponsibly low. I think the 1,000 plus cases and 35 deaths will jump relatively soon especially as so many Japanese have been jetting abroad to Europe etc before borders were closed or other restrictions by other countries put in place.
The virus is now being spread in waves of infections coming through international travel returnees - I doubt Japan will have any magical exemption.
For some probably, there was a lad holding a bunch of flowers in one of those Tesco vids posted on the last page.
We have presidential elections coming up on May 10 and leader of our governing party came out and said there’s no way they are going to postpone them under any circumstances (their candidate, current president, is leading all polls). We have no option to vote online in Poland either so you have to go and vote in person. All current measures are pointless if you go through with that as that will accelerate spread of the virus significantly.
It's becoming very easy to weed out the morons on here, so there's that
Whoosh
A lot of people do their groceries on Sundays, so it's usually a very busy day. Throw in a pandemic and Mothering Sunday and it's a toxic mix.
I think a lot of Americans fiercely protect their individual liberties, which will make it hard for the authorities to impose restrictive measures on lifestyles. In the UK, a lot of people won't do anything until they're forced to do it, just because of a lack of interest in/care about anyone outside their immediate families.
I'm hoping that during the additional 2 weeks much stricter measures will come in but of course it needs to be now.
Yeah, but not a touristy part. I saw this coming weeks ago, already work from home, and have stuff for at least a couple of months if careful so not going out at all. Most people around here are observing the rules, mainly foreigners seem to be carrying on as normal.
edit: German woman across the road has just come back from a 3 hour dog walk, for example. Silly cow.
It's an interesting question. We've had 4 years of the president of the most powerful country in the world waging constant war on the media and a government in the UK that has said that we've all 'had enough of experts' (Gove). If a virus was actually capable of deciding it probably couldn't have picked a better time to strike.
Wow. Just... wow. needs more white text
Yeah, gardening stuff - not necessary. B&Q - not necessary. It's annoying to hear even when you're not in the UK, because this truly is a world-wide issue.
Glad I live in fairly small Irish town now. If I arrived at Tescos and it was like that I'd lose my mind.
Went to Tescos the other day and there was maybe 20 people in there shopping.
Went to Tescos the other day and there was maybe 20 people in there shopping.
In my city too, people have to get used to doing the shopping once a week and not going for the bread every day and spending the day on the street with the dog, but except for that they are respectful and there is a good atmosphere.
We have a DJ who plays music in the morning and a while before the applause.
I imagine they will have to close gas stations and tobacconists. Take care
At this rate they're going to hand out ration cards to households. It's just fecking bizarre.
Our freezer has conked out and tried looking online for one. Everything is out of stock, presumably because people need extra storage for their fifty bags of turkey dinosaurs they've all rushed out to buy.
Our freezer has conked out and tried looking online for one. Everything is out of stock, presumably because people need extra storage for their fifty bags of turkey dinosaurs they've all rushed out to buy.
Hah, that started here last night, i thought some feckers were having a party. We've had the same on and off today, too.
Igualmente.
Why not just have mail in vote? Fool proof and doesn't especially require a big new infrastructure.
If it came to it I would use the 24hr Tesco during the night, shoould be quiet and it also means they will be restocking shelves during the night as well.
Ive just ordered hand wash and toilet roll from Tesco and im collecting it on the 8th April. Should have enough to do until then, if we arent in lockdown at this stage.
Same in Galway. There haven't really been scenes like that anywhere.
My company has just withdrawn from my current assignment. Country I'm currently working in is seen as unsafe because of weak and poor measures taken against the virus.
UK?
www.japantimes.co.jp has articles along those lines. So does www.japantoday.com
I was happy to see that you and at least another poster on here are doctors. Good to have some expertise on the caf.
What do you think of the A blood type being more vulnerable theory?
Another poster pointed out with good humour that the telegraph had something about it but I hadn`t read it.
A study from China indicated that the most severe cases tended to be in those with A blood type. I`m O positive and was told some years
ago by a doctor that the lack of antigens in blood cells of this type could be better protection against some diseases/viruses.
I might just be an outlier but I haven`t had any kind of flu since I was a teenager and no vaccinations, could possibly be down to that?
I am 67 years young. I had a lobe of my right lung removed some years ago after a car accident which also broke a good number of bones in my body. I had MRSA in hospital and the drugs they gave me buggered up my inner ear they reckon. I am at risk if some muppet sneezes on me. I would more than likely die. So folk like me and those in a worse situation are still gobsmacked at the casual way some people are treating this episode. Everyone is suddenly an expert. I would rather listed to someone qualified than some bright spark on Twitter.
It’s only natural to hoard when people say don’t hoard. Our kids have bought food mostly for us and left it on the doorstep. I have a Sunday Times on standby if we run out of bog roll just like the olden days. Please people observe whatever the experts are advising. Gary Neville has plummeted in my estimation, every time he’s on SKY it’s a party political on behalf of the failed Labour Party. Imagine if they had got in and Diane Abbott was in charge.
It’s only natural to hoard when people say don’t hoard. Our kids have bought food mostly for us and left it on the doorstep. I have a Sunday Times on standby if we run out of bog roll just like the olden days. Please people observe whatever the experts are advising. Gary Neville has plummeted in my estimation, every time he’s on SKY it’s a party political on behalf of the failed Labour Party. Imagine if they had got in and Diane Abbott was in charge.
Nope my colleagues in the UK are still active, I work in Sweden atm and the high-ups have decided to withraw us from here because they deem the measures taken here to be too insignificant.
London's going to go the same way isn't it? That surely must be the big concern currently and it probably needs the lockdown measure before any other major part of U.K.
All Tesco supermarkets have been closing at 10pm as of last week.