Coronavirus

Hope you soon recover from your virus you picked up last year. You are being sensible by restricting yourselves from the masses, thank heavens for online shopping.
You are not totally isolated, at least you can chat to all of us on the forum.
Just got off a bus where one of my passengers has sneezed and coughed from A-B. or L-T (Lakeside-Tilbury), not once did they cover their mouth as people pointed out.
She pointed out "the Lord will keep me safe" But what about the rest of us ?
 
Yes, thank you - who could feel lonely or isolated with such good friends to listen on here?
You should be able to stop the bus and tell a passenger to get off if engaging in any antisocial behaviour, just as you would, presumably, if she was drunk or aggressive. It sounds as if the other passengers would support you.
Online shopping is OK for as long as there are enough uninfected people to do the job. People who don't get sick pay or get less than full pay will often feel they have to carry on however bad they're feeling.
 
It had occurred to me that you must get a fair amount of that BYM. I travel into Brum on the train and am generally fed up with picking up colds on the way but have taken to not touching anything I dont have to. The train is much better than the car for carbon, speed and ease so will stick with it. There have been quite a few pictures in the paper of people wearing face masks on buses and trains and I sense that the impression is a paranoia (almost a selfishly offensive comment on others) of catching something but it can equally be seen the other way around - protecting other people!
 
Never mind Marigold, I would bring you shopping, distance no problem. Double decker bus, modern or vintage your choice
We also have the added problem of people coming up when I am controlling and having face to face conversations, about buses, timetables etc.
That's a decision made today. A notice is on all buses by the entrance requesting all customers to adhere to government guidelines, when coughing, sneezing etc, failure to do so will result in refusal to travel, or asked to leave the bus. We still take cash and issue a variety of tickets so have to interact with the public. TFL drivers are lucky that it is cashless and pre paid oyster card onto a reader.
Not seen anyone around here wearing a face mask, but panic buying is rife. Just been trying to explain to my 86 year old parents why I had only got them one loaf of bread instead of two that I usually get.
One old boy was telling us that a good pinch of snuff will keep the virus at bay, as it clogs the nasal passages up. Think I would prefer the virus, to cancer of the nasal passages
 
Marigold, I hope you're chest infection clears very soon, that's certainly not a nice thing to have. At least you now have a few weeks (hopefully weeks, not months), until you can get your next hens and the weather should be warmer, too. I'm a bit of an impulsive person and would have just risked getting more straight away, but that's not always the best way to be!
 
A local school has shut as a parent and child (not related) have tested positive and neither have been anywhere outside the borough. So all the children are now on and off our buses going to the cinema, bowling alley, etc, and mums going shopping, hope none of them have it.
At the other end of the spectrum a couple of parents have got on buses with their children and they have put plastic bags over their heads. The plastic bags are dangerous has gone out of the window temporarily. I suppose they haven't tied them on so hopefully they should be ok. Bit difficult to see through as they fog up, pretty damp also I would have thought.
 
I can't see the point in shutting schools, especially Primaries where the children have to be looked after at home by parents who would otherwise be at work. Children are the group at least risk from the virus, apparently, but the best at spreading it to everyone else - especially if roaming free as you say, BYM. At least in school one would hope they could be properly supervised and health messages hammered home by teachers. When it gets to the stage of real staff shortages in school then they might have to close, but teachers are usually expected to cope in the face of all sorts of local outbreaks - chickenpox here ATM is keeping numbers down.
As for the plastic bags - sadly, it appears that the stereotype of Essex Man and Woman is based on sound evidence. Fogged-up plastic bags over heads would be a brilliant way to contain and culture the virus, setting it free when the bag was removed. I bet the bags would be re-used as well.

Oh, and the front page of the Star today;
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Like you Marigold I thought of all damp collecting in the plastic bag. Slight update, customer with a baby strapped to her front with one of the plastic rain buggy covers over her head and shoulders and baby, and even managing to use her phone under cover. Of course she may have misplaced her umbrella and it was a handy rain hood.
I am thinking of hiring one of the old deep sea divers gear, that should create a stir at Lakeside
As I am controller this week does that make me Blakey ? We have our fair share of snowflakes working here, from having to have a lie down because someone shouted at him, and having to go home traumatised because a pigeon hit the bus. The list is endless.
 
Just read this on the BBC News website

"Prof Peter Openshaw, from Imperial College London, says people should plan to have at least four weeks' supply of medicine."

He obviously has no idea how prescriptions work!! I have 6 months of forward dated prescriptions but I can't get the drugs dispensed until the date on the prescription. Two of the drugs are dispensed 28 pills at a time, so the only time I have a monhs worth of medication is when I've just collected the drug from the chemist.

Oh and by the way, what about the people who have to empty the bins of used tissues? What if there isn't a bin anywhere around? So I sneeze into my sleeve and then walk around with germs on my arm all day!!!!

What's wrong with a handkerchief? It goes back in MY pocket or MY bag and is replaced with a clean one at the first opportunity, the soiled hanky then being washed in HOT SOAPY water.
 
Margaid said:
Just read this on the BBC News website

What's wrong with a handkerchief? It goes back in MY pocket or MY bag and is replaced with a clean one at the first opportunity, the soiled hanky then being washed in HOT SOAPY water.
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Totally agree. I would no more go out without a hanky and a pocket knife than I would go out with no trousers. Also, as anyone who’s ever had a cold would know, repeated use of tissues sends your nose red raw.
On this island we are told to have a 3week supply of prescription drugs because of the difficulty of getting drugs in. Even then the pharmacy questions why you need more drugs.
And as for the “panic buying of food” it seems like a sensible precaution should you be subject to two to four weeks quarantine.

All my hankies have my initial on. People look at you as though you e just stepped out of Georgian England. Much more hygienic, so long as you launder them, than snotty bits of tissue screwed up in your pocket.
 
Always use hankies in this house, goes in a pocket and in wash basket at end of day. Think of the money we save.
Friend of ours related a story today, he walked along the nearly empty soap aisle in a shop, all that was left were bars of soap, and a couple of young women were holding a bar and trying to work out how to use it !
OH always uses bars of ethical soap as she refuses to buy the plastic containers. She gets them from a company in Cornwall and stock up when we go on holiday. They do last well and don't go all slimy. Even the shampoo bar works well.
 
Dau makes her own soap, so no shortage of that here! My sister in Australia says the situation there is insane. Not a toilet roll to be had anywhere. She even saw a massive queue outside a shop that wasn't even open, in case they'd have some toilet rolls when they did open. She said the situation has eased a bit now, because finally, the shops are rationing them. But did you see that video of the women literally brawling in the supermarket in Australia? What price do you put on your dignity, eh?! Seems, until that video went around the internet, there was no panic buying here. But a woman in tesco told me yesterday that suddenly, they are really busy. No anti bac handwash or sanitisers, to be had. Still lots of soap though! And although the toilet roll aisles were not as full as normal, there was still loads. Hopefully, common sense will prevail. I just don't understand it though. I can see getting in a stock of rice, pasta, whatever. But toilet paper??

Meanwhile (shh! Don't tell anyone!) I've had to go back to the doctor yesterday. I was sick around early January, horrible cough/sore throat virus. Had antibiotics, and it cleared, I thought. However, since then, every now and then, my tonsils would flare up badly. I'd hit it with natural stuff, and it would subside. Then a week or two later, it might flare up for a day, and then be ok. Last weekend, it got really bad. By Monday, it was better. Then Thursday night, it got so bad I could hardly swallow. So in to doc. He reckons the antibiotics in January just kind of subdued it, but didn't kill the bugs off. So, now I've got huge antibiotics, three times a day for ten days. But, seriously, it's getting to where you would be afraid to even clear your throat in public!
 
Tell me about it Lady A. I was delving in the back of a cupboard at work, the sort of cupboard where everything that doesn't have a place gets shoved, being a bit dusty I started sneezing, talk about public enemy number one.
You do wonder how much of the dry goods eg pasta will end up in peoples dustbins once the scare is over, and they realise they don't want to eat it everyday and it's got to the BB date.
Someone in Tesco tried to buy 75 multipacks of 24 toilet roll, one of the staff was telling me, they made her put all but two back, and were subjected to verbal abuse, and told they were worse than the Nazi's. They have moved all the painkillers into the pharmacy and you have to go and ask for a pack.

Hope the antibiotics do the trick for you and really nail it this time
 
What on earth were they going to do with 1800 loo rolls? Sell them at a hiked price to everyone else, I suppose... It would serve them right if they caught fire & their house went up in smoke :evil:
Some people can be so selfish!

On a brighter note, it could be good news for real physical newspapers. They're much more practical for cutting into squares & leaving by the loo than a tablet computer is!
 
I walked to my local supermarket at lunchtime, in the SUN, because I needed the exercise and a few bits and pieces. It included loo paper as I only had three rolls left and my sister is coming to stay. One or two products were low stock (o offer) but there was stacks on the shelves. There was no sign of any panic buying ...

I remember the sugar shortage in the early '70s. Most of my husband's colleagues and their families use sugar but couldn't get any. I worked in the center of Ipswich, close to the Co-op which rationed sugar - one bag for every £5 spent, which bought quite a lot back then. So as I did mot of my shopping there, I restricted each "shop" to just over £5 and kept most of his colleagues supplied.
 
Does anyone recall a panic about buying salt a few years ago? Quite unjustified, the normal amount was available, but people were emptying the shelves nonetheless.
 
I think we need some panic buying of places on glass fusing classes! Especially in the Canterbury / Ashford area :-)
 
Me too. I have made some jewellery with dichroic and other glass and I'd love to do more. Bit far from Shropshire!
 
I've got visitors coming from the US this week. They asked if we were ok with them coming, what with going through airports etc.

It's so difficult to know about symptoms etc. though, because the symptoms are so similar to many illnesses. I mean, when I was ill in early January, I literally had just about all of the symptoms they are saying to watch for! Fever? check. Dry cough? check. Shortness of breath? check. So, has this bug actually been around earlier than they think? Or did I just have some nasty virus? Who knows. Anyway, I've more to do than be worrying about it. Working this morning, then have to pick up some cat food, chicken feed and some bits for our visitors. No toilet paper. Embarrassingly, I've got lots! Because at some stage, I bought a 9 roll pack. Then I couldn't find it, so thought I'd only thought about buying it, and bought another. And then, typically, found the first pack. I've got enough loo roll to last me probably through the Summer! :lol: :lol:
 
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