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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.

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

What do you suggest?

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.

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

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

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

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

You and me both.

I'm not saying everything in the garden will be rosy soon just that things will probably be a lot better than you are expecting due to past experience of other things that were going to kill us all.

The bit about lasting for decades, and to a lesser extent the civil disobedience, and what makes me so certain, past experience of this sort of thing remember aids, sars, bird flu, mad cow disease, I could go on, all were going to decimate the world what happened? exactly there seems to be no limit to mans ingenuity a cure for this will be found there are already positive news coming from various places as far as vaccines are concerned, stop swallowing all the doomsday scenario stuff it doesn't help and just fuels more panic his post was sensationalist at best and as I said complete BO***cks at worst.

I know you call yourself the eternal pessimist but that is complete BOLL***S. I predict you will look very silly in 3 months time and you can hold me to that.

Surely if there could be as many as 50,000 infected and we know the number of deaths then the mortality rate is a lot lower than feared.

Just come back from Sainsburys Portishead, not a single can of beer on any shelf and most other shelves empty or nearly empty and that was at 10:30 utter madness.

Has anybody any theories as to why Germany has 4 times as many confirmed cases as us yet one third of the deaths? there seems to be no logic to it the percentage of cases to deaths seems to vary wildly in some countries. Switzerland for instance also has a similar number of cases to us despite having a fraction of our population, yet there death rate is 25% of ours pro rata.

Well it reads differently to me, and I'm fairly sure he meant 20,000 deaths not 200 even if he didn't word it very well.

Where does he say it's only going to be 200? he said 20,000.

As I said the drugs for HIV seem to work against Covid 19, and as they are tried and already tested should enable them to be fast tracked, as for having enough for all of us well your guess is as good as mine.

These aren't normal times though, I expect to see an unprecedented fast tracking of possible vaccines, the Australian use of HIV medicines sounds very promising they are already fairly tried and tested.

Educated, and common sense, big difference.

Thanks for the comprehensive answer, should put a lot of peoples minds at rest.

Heard a so called expert yesterday on Breakfast news and when it was put to him about re infection said it would only be in exceptional cases as the bodies immune system in the vast majority of people would not let that happen.

Have run out of likes but thankyou for taking the time to answer my question, put like that it's easy to see how we have got to this.

Thanks for the explanation, it can be a bit difficult getting to the truth where the NHS is concerned.

That might explain it then, whenever you hear anyone from the government discussing the NHS they give the impression the budget has gone up year on year, sounds like they're massaging the figures a bit.