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Coronavirus (Non-Politics)

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THE SEVENTIES NORTH BANK said:
The stock piling panic is under way people. Someone asked me to pick up some alcohol based hand gel for them. I went to ASDA last night, not only had all the hand gel gone, but most of all the hand soap as well. I asked an assistant when is the hand gel coming in, and she said everyone has been asking that all day. She said some people were buying about 10 of them, causing a shortage.
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Update. I just went in ASDA Shoebury, and all types of hand soap is gone. All the shelves are completely bare.
 
MK Shrimper said:
****ing nuts whipped up by the media. God forbid a real pandemic hits, the world will end.
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MK Shrimper said:
A huge percentage of people who get this have recovered without any side affects. You can't tell me the media have not been irresponsible in their continual 24hr reporting like it's the end of days - as per usual they report on the negative rather than the positive and now we're seeing idiots buying up stocks of toilet paper and Network Rail supplying totally pointless hand sanitiser.
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Have you been reading The Daily Mail again?
 
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And you know who caused all this? THATCHER
 
THE SEVENTIES NORTH BANK said:
Update. I just went in ASDA Shoebury, and all types of hand soap is gone. All the shelves are completely bare.
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Panic buy update. It's gone really crazy now people. Pasta, Rice, Bread, all soap, anything anti-bacterial in cleaning products and wipes, all gone. A young mum was asking an assistant for baby milk, as she must have some she said. The assistant told her it was all long gone as people were filling up half a bag full. I felt really sorry for her as she was trying not to cry. Stuff like that, that is essential to some people, should have a maximum purchase, so everyone that needs it, gets some. Letting everyone stock up as they like, is causing problems as usual. Perhaps a maximum of two of anything would help.
Feel free to add to the panic buy list if you're out there seeing this sort of thing.
 
Watched QT last night where panelists stated this would show the British public at their best, bollocks, it will and is showing the outright stupidity of the Great British public. Selfish, Arrogant and downright thick.
There will be punch ups in supermarkets in the next few days, I guarantee it.
 
Abdu Sharkawy


I'm a doctor and an Infectious Diseases Specialist. I've been at this for more than 20 years seeing sick patients on a daily basis. I have worked in inner city hospitals and in the poorest slums of Africa. HIV-AIDS, Hepatitis,TB, SARS, Measles, Shingles, Whooping cough, Diphtheria...there is little I haven't been exposed to in my profession. And with notable exception of SARS, very little has left me feeling vulnerable, overwhelmed or downright scared.

I am not scared of Covid-19. I am concerned about the implications of a novel infectious agent that has spread the world over and continues to find new footholds in different soil. I am rightly concerned for the welfare of those who are elderly, in frail health or disenfranchised who stand to suffer mostly, and disproportionately, at the hands of this new scourge. But I am not scared of Covid-19.
What I am scared about is the loss of reason and wave of fear that has induced the masses of society into a spellbinding spiral of panic, stockpiling obscene quantities of anything that could fill a bomb shelter adequately in a post-apocalyptic world. I am scared of the N95 masks that are stolen from hospitals and urgent care clinics where they are actually needed for front line healthcare providers and instead are being donned in airports, malls, and coffee lounges, perpetuating even more fear and suspicion of others. I am scared that our hospitals will be overwhelmed with anyone who thinks they " probably don't have it but may as well get checked out no matter what because you just never know..." and those with heart failure, emphysema, pneumonia and strokes will pay the price for overfilled ER waiting rooms with only so many doctors and nurses to assess.
I am scared that travel restrictions will become so far reaching that weddings will be canceled, graduations missed and family reunions will not materialize. And well, even that big party called the Olympic Games...that could be kyboshed too. Can you even
imagine?
I'm scared those same epidemic fears will limit trade, harm partnerships in multiple sectors, business and otherwise and ultimately culminate in a global recession.
But mostly, I'm scared about what message we are telling our kids when faced with a threat. Instead of reason, rationality, openmindedness and altruism, we are telling them to panic, be fearful, suspicious, reactionary and self-interested.
Covid-19 is nowhere near over. It will be coming to a city, a hospital, a friend, even a family member near you at some point. Expect it. Stop waiting to be surprised further. The fact is the virus itself will not likely do much harm when it arrives. But our own behaviors and "fight for yourself above all else" attitude could prove disastrous.
I implore you all. Temper fear with reason, panic with patience and uncertainty with education. We have an opportunity to learn a great deal about health hygiene and limiting the spread of innumerable transmissible diseases in our society. Let's meet this challenge together in the best spirit of compassion for others, patience, and above all, an unfailing effort to seek truth, facts and knowledge as opposed to conjecture, speculation and catastrophizing.
Facts not fear. Clean hands. Open hearts.
Our children will thank us for it.
 
Been shopping in Asda at Eastgate, Basildon today. Plenty of toilet rolls although the pasta and rice has taken a bit of a bashing. Of all the places where I expected overeaction, Basildon wasn't it. All rather civilised to be honest.
 
There is a piece in the Business & Money section of the Sunday Telegraph about the "race" for a vaccine by the major pharmaceutical companies and how likely (unlikely!) It was to transpire and how commercially unsuccessful new vaccines have been in the last 20 years.
A miracle cure, it would appear, is not coming over the hill.

While the majority of folks will take good measures to wash hands, not touch face etc there will always be the minority who fail to do that or follow other basic good practices.
 
Shrimpers are Magic said:
Watched QT last night where panelists stated this would show the British public at their best, bollocks, it will and is showing the outright stupidity of the Great British public. Selfish, Arrogant and downright thick.
There will be punch ups in supermarkets in the next few days, I guarantee it.
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I love watching random everyday people pushed to breaking point in the most mundane situations.

A fight in a supermarket is something to be savoured,. Why not spark a can and enjoy as long as you make sure you scan the empties on the way out.
 
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Benfleet A1 said:
Been shopping in Asda at Eastgate, Basildon today. Plenty of toilet rolls although the pasta and rice has taken a bit of a bashing. Of all the places where I expected overeaction, Basildon wasn't it. All rather civilised to be honest.
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I bet the salad section was virtually untouched.

I think it might actually be a mural.
 
Not sure whether to raise a smile or eyebrows after reading online (Mail, I think it was) about this panic buying going on; here in the UK it's loo rolls and pasta whilst out in the US it's bullets.....Guess they have a more aggressive strain ?
 
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