Its the jounalists to blame for the whole sorry situation, they just love to catastrophise any situation especially now when there doesnt appear to be any other significant news. I guarantee if 9-11 had happened a couple of weeks ago we would never have heard another peep about covid 19 it would just have appeared in the autumn as somewhat higher death rate than last year
So they have to buy extra copies of the Sun to use as toilet paper.
I think that should be in the Jokes thread ?Tescos, good, occasionally busy later.
Sainsburys, moderate to good, sale on Corn Flakes.
Asda, slight to moderate, heavy crowds by evening.
Marks and Spencers and Co-Op, fair.
Waitrose fair to moderate, spillage in aisle 7.
Lidl, rough at first, moderate later.
And that's the end of the Shopping Forecast.
The kids are off school after tomorrow which is speeding it all up even more. People are going into hyperdrive.for the first time since the 'arrival' of panic buying, the local (to me) small co op branch has a number of visible empty spaces on its shelves - toilet roll, hand washing products, eggs, rice, pasta and canned soup , baked beans, paracetamol (along with other similar painkillers) and ..... bottles of pinot grigio white wine!... are all items out of stock... with bread, pizza & various ready meals in very short supply ..... there is a delivery expected at some point today/ this evening, I'm informed
guess even though the local small co-op have been limiting certain items to two per person, extended families of serial panic buyers have gone round local, smaller grocery type shops in their people carrier transporters, and cleaned 'em out by every family member each buying 2 of the 'rationed' items? ?
They've been egging the Govt on to shutdown and now they are saying what will low wage parents do with their? Give me strength
directly Covid 19 related thoughI think that should be in the Jokes thread ?
Listen mate, if you think the government should ever be remotely responsible for looking after people during a crisis, you’re a proper loon. It isn’t like that’s the deal when people take their cushy jobs in Westminster - that in the event of crisis or catastrophe they take on the responsibility of sorting it out and protecting people.Seems reasonable to me to get the Govt to look at the impact on those hit the hardest financially.
I said to someone a couple of weeks ago that “all that smooching” wouldn’t help the likes of Italy, Spain and France with the spread of this. I’d had a couple of pints and was being particularly facetious, but you’ve convinced me that I’ve cracked it.An assessment I broadly agree with but I can't help thinking that the kissing on both cheeks greeting hasn't helped in Italy, Spain and France
Indeed. My reaction was very much “Why are they asking me to get even closer to people?”To be fair our stand offish attitude should come in pretty handy here, when they said stay 6 foot from people I did wonder who in day to day life chooses to get that close.
I said to someone a couple of weeks ago that “all that smooching” wouldn’t help the likes of Italy, Spain and France with the spread of this. I’d had a couple of pints and was being particularly facetious, but you’ve convinced me that I’ve cracked it.
This is actually a great shout.How about a return to bowing and curtsying? Those Elizabethans in plague time knew the score.