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21 hours ago, Umster said:

Pretty sure he will want to report that to the FCA, AFAIK insurance has to cover for "travel disruption". No point being an insurer if you're just going to bail when you have to pay out - would love to know the name of insurance broker and underwriter. 

He's using the Post Office, now they've told him that he should get his tickets refunded if he cancels his flight, or change the policy to cover the virus for £580. The trouble is that he is a worrier at the best of times. 

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On 08/03/2020 at 18:21, coldel said:

Supermarkets are now doing this, to prevent bulk buying. Just goes to show how stupid people are though. 

Not only the panic buying,some are exploiting the situation with rip off price increases.My daughter usualy buys follow on milk for her 8 month old baby on Amazon as we live in a rural location,in the past few weeks it has gone from £65 per pack to £110 and another supplier is £129,sickening !

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5 hours ago, grumpyoldjanner said:

Food shopping in my local Tesco yesterday and the toilet roll aisle was empty. However there was plenty of kitchen roll in the next aisle over. Thinking of buying it all and re-packaging it as 'Jumbo Toilet Roll'  :lol: 

Might want to package it up with some soothing lotion, it’s quite rough for long term use.

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2 hours ago, GranTurismoEra said:

people should be stockpiling dry pasta, soap and water instead. 

Is this your pasta dish recipe?? Yum.

 

My daughter is annoyed because she is gluten free and where shops have been running out of normal pasta people have been buying the gluten free instead so she is struggling to get any. You don't eat gluten free pasta for the hell of it (tastes awful), you eat it because you have to. Eating products containing gluten will probably make her more ill than if she gets Coronavirus.

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The whole pasta thing is bizarre, given the amount of other food available that has long shelf life that remains untouched. All based on the media frenzy unfortunately telling people how to behave and what to do.

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Whoops of delight in the office today when someone discovered 2 bottles of sanitiser in the back of a cupboard.

I immediately confiscated it and placed it in the company safe.

Staff have been informed not to disclose this information in case we become a target for a robbery.

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2 hours ago, Ponsonby said:

Is this your pasta dish recipe?? Yum.

 

My daughter is annoyed because she is gluten free and where shops have been running out of normal pasta people have been buying the gluten free instead so she is struggling to get any. You don't eat gluten free pasta for the hell of it (tastes awful), you eat it because you have to. Eating products containing gluten will probably make her more ill than if she gets Coronavirus.

Its just a scenario no ones told anyone anything :lol:. Its like when the Jehovahs witnesses say you should have a small waterproof safe and keep vital documents and emergency fruit bars incase of sudden mass flooding or natural disaster. Because who knows what will happen. Whether you want to believe it or not is another story

 

Because Dry or Brown Dry Pasta/Rice only needs heat and water to cook. Or you could eat rations, bread, fruit anything that doesnt require prep. You could survive on that . That would be priority over stockpiling toilet roll, which people will blow their nose or wipe their backside with. Soap and water will minimize infection and its spread. Surely that's more critical than stockpiling loo roll.

 

Yes specialist foods and specialist diets will be off limits. Only the basic foods would be widely available.

 

I have a colleague whos wife works in Government and shes been told that the death rate needs to reach 500 before they consider a lockdown similar to Italy for a minimum 2 weeks to contain further spread. People say well thats unlikely because like 5 people died over a week period. If you see other countries the increase of infected and dead can increase or decrease suddenly. Just depends.

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LoL. 

 

I love how people have stockpiled stuff without realising that if everyone else can sanitise then the virus still has plenty of breeding ground. 

Protecting the herd will protect yourself more than just being selfish. 

 

Mehhh, makes you wonder how the human race survived for so long. 

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6 minutes ago, Umster said:

Protecting the herd will protect yourself more than just being selfish. 

 

Mehhh, makes you wonder how the human race survived for so long. 

 

Its called the MeMeMe Movement, and unfortunately it seems to be becoming more popular. 

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13 minutes ago, ATTAK Z said:

Just a thought ... would it not be better for we oldies in UK to contract the virus now,  whilst the carers can cope, rather than later ? ... serious question

My Mrs, now a retired biomedical scientist, was musing the exact same thing last week Hugh.

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