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1 minute ago, oldstandrobin said:

What pub did you run, I was a publican for 10 years and the bloke is a tw*t, dont accuse me of calling pot and kettle, you come across as an aggressive poster who always wants his own way

I didn't say the bloke wasn't a **** just that to boycott a place because the owner supported Brexit is childish. I can see why with the way he is treating staff someone might not want to patronise the place but not just because he supported leaving the EU that was my point which you seem to have overlooked.

1 minute ago, oldstandrobin said:

Sorry your lordship, forelock tugging you are obviously getting stir crazy already pal, try and calm down if yo

u dont like others opinions

I think the phrase pots and kettles comes to mind.

8 minutes ago, oldstandrobin said:

What the hell  is that got to do with the Brexit Vote, he is ****ng his staff about, the same staff that make him money, 

Read the effin post properly, he said he boycotted spoons because of Brexit not for what he has recently done that's what it's got to do with Brexit he had already boycotted the place before this, if you had read what he said you would have realised that.

4 hours ago, Davefevs said:

Following brexit me and Mrs F refuse to go to Spoons.....I hope a lot more people do the same now.

A bit petty in my opinion, just because you didn't get your way in the vote, I like to think if the vote had gone the other way I would not have been so childish. I admit the bloke can be a bit abrasive but to refuse to use a pub just because his political opinion is different to yours is a bit daft, you would have to boycott half the businesses in the country if that was the case.

2 hours ago, MarcusX said:

Surely it’s quite clear by now this ISNT advisory, its government orders. You play with your own health by all means but if someone at risk doesn’t care about catching it but then ends up in hospital is taking a bed from someone else. Why take the risk ffs

I’m fairly sure she knew it wasn’t real

I’m grateful for this, still not sure I should be travelling across the country next Wednesday for a funeral, but I missed my last chance to see my Nan due to this virus, not sure I could miss the funeral.

That’s not what Michael Gove has just said, this isn’t clear from the government.

Where are the Sun getting this? They’ve made this up as far as I can see.

Promising news but can’t find that original tweet now, only one I found says a proposal.

It IS advisory whatever you might think, at the moment there is no law which states if you are an at risk patient you are forbidden to leave your house read it again.

2 minutes ago, Davefevs said:

 

Had it too.  We know Joe is “vulnerable”, so have been under self-imposed isolation since last Monday.  But we were a bit surprised to get the text, re-inforcing we did the right thing.

My cousin dropped off some bread and milk today, we are Ok for rest of stuff luckily.
 

and next door’s cat helped with the fruit and veg box delivery:

FRUIT AND VEG!!! that's like gold dust around here haven't seen any in my local co op for a week.

4 minutes ago, cidercity1987 said:

'We have identified that you're someone at risk of severe illness if you catch Coronavirus. Please stay at home for 12 weeks. Home is the safest place for you. Staying in helps you stay well and that will help the NHS too.'

I don't think I have a choice, morally.

No but you may have no choice sometimes but to leave the house, what I'm saying is it's up to you if you want to risk it after weighing up the risks they wont arrest you if you ignore their advice (yet(

4 minutes ago, cidercity1987 said:

Just had text from NHS, not allowed out for 12 weeks jeeeessusss

It's advisory surely?

2 hours ago, bcfc01 said:

WTF are you talking about.

Jeez, this ignore list is getting longer by the day.

Unfortunately this crisis is not showing some on here in their best light is it, I'm afraid people want a scapegoat and Boris is an easy target, look I don't think he comes out of this blameless but the best sight in the world is 20:20 hindsight.

15 minutes ago, exAtyeoMax said:

I had the same experience when I was on JSA a couple of years ago for about a year, whereas my friend’s brother didn’t get any and he had been unemployed for over 20 years. He is just lazy, wouldn’t even help out at that housing initiative in Bemmie which could’ve used his skills as a chip pie. 

The JCP made me feel like I was a criminal, treated me like scum. It was awful. 

Do they pay JSA for a year now? you were lucky I received it for 26 weeks that was all I was entitled,  and because  my wife was working that was all the benefits I could get despite after working continuously for 35 years, made my blood boil when I personally knew people that had not worked for years and yet seemed to have a life just as comfortable as mine. 

8 minutes ago, Atticus said:

It wasn't just my own sense of pride. The guy literally made me feel like garbage from the start. And I hate to run through hoops for the tiny amount I was getting for the few weeks I was looking for a job. It was insane, and nothing I will put myself through again. 

I was the same as you 35 years of continuous employment through no fault of my own was made redundant, made to jump through hoops for £65 a week job seekers allowance (it was 10 years ago) when I think of the lazy Bast***s that had made a lifestyle choice to never work a day in their lives and lived a comfortable life with all their rent paid and 50 inch flat screen TVs ( I know because I had to wake some of them up at 10 o clock to fit their new balconies was the point I lost all faith in the system.

42 minutes ago, BS4 on Tour... said:

A leaked Gov document suggested 500k could die ... https://www.independent.co.uk/news/health/coronavirus-news-latest-deaths-uk-infection-flu-a9360271.html

Could but wont, why should our figures be worse than China that has 25 times our population you should stop with the scaremongering as it isn't doing anyone any good, most of us are doing all we can (I said most) we don't need all the pessimism, give it a rest your preaching to the mostly converted apart from completely giving up on life there is little more most of us can do.

1 hour ago, bcfc01 said:

 

As this chap says;

Not sure just straightlining UK trend from first point to last & then forward is correct. UK is following an elliptical curve on the log chart i.e. size of absolute number of new cases is increasing daily but the % change is trending downward, suggesting UK curve will level off.

We are wasting our time, it seems most on here are determined to look on the black side with all there we're doomed predictions, best we just stop trying to reason with them and let them get on with it, short of having a guard outside everyone's house and we all starve to death because we shouldn't be leaving our homes you know to shop, work, get some fresh air etc. what the hell do they expect us to do just give up on life.

2 minutes ago, bcfc01 said:

Its too many but I expected a hell of a lot more given the pattern of this bastard.

Perhaps I'm being too optimistic but unless things get much much worse I can't see the final death toll being anywhere the figure some of the more excitable posters on here are proposing, figures of tens even hundreds of thousands being bandied about.

1 minute ago, havanatopia said:

Worldometer says 180, up 3.

It was a news flash 5 minutes ago.

Death toll up 53 today to a total of 233.

7 minutes ago, Odysseus said:

Shelves are bare because almost everyone is stockpiling in a way. I stockpiled by buying a couple more bags of dried beans than I needed. Aside from that I’m continuing to buy enough food for a couple of meals and that’s it. 
 

Shelves will be bare if for instance the 50% of people who usually don’t weekly shop, start to do a large shop. It only takes thousands of people buying a couple more items to have that knock on effect. So I think in a way people are turning on each other without really understanding basic maths.
 

We may as well saying anyone who shopped in bulk before this pandemic are selfish bastards too. 

It wouldn't be so bad if after a big shop they then didn't shop again for a while, but I suspect that a lot of people are going way beyond that otherwise the shops would have been able to catch up by now, but if my experience of the last couple of days is anything to go by that's not the case. In my local shop I have not been able to buy certain item for nearly two weeks so certain people must have a house full of stuff as it's not a big community unless people from outside the village are coming in, perhaps it will have to come down to proving where you live to be able to shop in a certain store to ensure there is enough to go round not sure what else can be done.

3 hours ago, RedM said:

I have no idea, in all honesty with the amount of people on here I am interested in other peoples opinions and view points. I guess many still expect to walk into the shops and be served with no idea or understanding how the items get there and no thought to these places and staff. As mentioned it's very, very selfish out there.

Limiting the amount of people in shops at a given time would be a start, one in one out queuing system. 

LImiting payments to contactless only, or have only one cash till. 

Hand gel and wipes provided on entry and exit.

Maybe shops closing for an hour in the middle of the day to allow cleaning and restocking

Staff provided with gloves/handgel/masks

 

Just a few suggestions. Yours?

think what you have suggested just about covers it, but it doesn't seem to have made much difference re the restocking, selfish b****rds still seem to strip the shelves in minutes, I don't know if they are rigorously enforcing this certain number of everything, in Sainsburys yesterday at 10:30 the shelves were practically empty which means people become more anxious the next time they go out and over compensate, it's a difficult problem, until you and I are confident we will get what we want when we go out unfortunately it will carry on, perhaps rationing certain items is the only way for a short while.

1 hour ago, The Dolman Pragmatist said:

Not the time to blame the tories?  Why on earth not?  Their handling of this situation has been a shambles from the very beginning, reminiscent of Chamberlain’s government at the start of the Second World War, which was equally shambolic.  The fact that things are tough for all of is no reason to go soft on a misfiring leadership.  Johnson’s handling of the situation has been chaotic from the outset and he deserves no praise for his attempts to repair the damage he has already done.

Pray enlighten us on how you would have handled it? you must have an alternative plan would love to hear it.

1 hour ago, RedM said:

If you think about it the shops are most likely a virus heaven. I’m not trying to scare anyone as we all have to eat and drink but these are large areas, little or no fresh air, and the items and surfaces, even the trolleys and baskets touched by numerous people per hour. The aisles can’t be much more than 2m wide so you inevitably come into contact with people just walking around never mind queueing.  

All other mass gatherings have been banned, but hundreds can shop at once. This cannot be safe. 

What do you suggest?

4 hours ago, Maesknoll Red said:

Looking like a PM in the making.....

Looks like J mat voted Corbyn  judging by the emojis he is handing out to anyone that dares praise the governments handling of the situation, sad really as I think they have gone above and beyond what anyone could have expected.

4 hours ago, bcfc01 said:

Some already rammed as usual at this time.

Not sure when pubs will close but its odds on that people will get "one last one in".

Also, I suspect that there'll be some secret locks ins here and there.

An off shoot of this dreadful time for me is that I'm saving a shed load by staying in.

Prohibition didn't stop them in America, people will always find a way.

4 hours ago, daored said:

Agree he’s coming across extremely well and sincere. I hate to say the Tories have handled this well

Hate to say this? sorry but that doesn't paint you in a very good light there's grudging admiration but hate?

22 minutes ago, wood_red said:

I have been there a couple of times and it's been the same empty shelves over the last week, I had to go over by Cribbs earlier to pick some stuff up for my job and came back through downend on the way back, as I had to go to Lloyds bank. Popped in the Sainsburys local and loads empty and mass queue to the the checkout, and the Co-Op had plenty of empty shelves as well. Speaking to someone who works up Staple Hill and they said Iceland had a queue all along the high street before opening this morning (unsure how much exaggeration that was as obviously never seen it myself).

On the plus side surely all of these going crazy will soon have too much stuff won't they and have no need to go again? I'm hoping anyway.

 

That's my theory as well, only so much food and toilet rolls anyone needs.

23 minutes ago, Super said:

Morrisons Fishponds had Bread earlier!

Probably not now if word gets around, reckon social media and smartphones have a lot to answer for.