Current Affairs Coronavirus Thread - Serious stuff !!!

[Toast]

Made the mistake, three days ago, of letting my wife have a go at my hair, with my son's, beard trimmer electric razor.
Well theirs no fool like an old fool
Booked off time from work. ( supposed to be in Antalya) with wife and Grandaughter right now, so I knew I had about 10 days for these two baldish patches on the back of my head to grow. My son, who is experienced with the razor and heard the laughing from upstairs,salvaged my head somehow. Still glad I've got another five days off though. I now think hairdressers should be key workers.lol

We need pics of this mate !!

 

[Catfish Blues]

Strike a light. Phoned me elderly (obvs) parents earlier asking if they needed anything earlier.

"Nothing but some basics son, bananas, full fat greek yogurt, seedless grapes, and 4 pints of milk"

KIn biblical queue at Sainsburys, so sacked them off, but got the lot at the local Co oP. Now that sounds easy, but I challenge GOT to even find FULL FAT Greek yogurt. Hens teeth sprung to mind.

I bought some today at Tesco's ...

I have no idea what the 1+weeks means mind.

 

[roydo]

I bought some today at Tesco's ...

I have no idea what the 1+weeks means mind.

5%? That full fat?

 

[tsubaki]

I bought some today at Tesco's ...

I have no idea what the 1+weeks means mind.

looking at the protein, fat content and appearance its possibly how long it took the bloke to fill the tub

 

[tsubaki]

Just shut the computer down and now off to Wednesday.

Have no idea what to do though. It still feels so strange.

switch it back on and download Bannerlord

 

[peteblue]

5%? That full fat?

Have your parents got any other children they can call on .........

 

[ForeverBlue92]

once restrictions are lifted it ultimately will come down to free will.

I have elderly parents but ultimately I dont think I can not see them for 12-18 months until a vaccine MIGHT be found.

If anything happened to either one and I never had been to see them over the coming months that would play on my conscience just as bad as the opposite.

No right or wrong answers - we'll all just be winging it over the coming months from choices like going to the pub / out for birthday meals to visiting your family- everything will have a "risk" attached to it but ultimately we cant stay locked away from friends, family & co workers forever.

 

[mahermi1]

We need pics of this mate !!

Use a kindle mate, so don't know how to transfer them onto here, pretty hopeless at I.T. somehow managed to upload an avatar after about seven years, sorry.

 

[Catfish Blues]

5%? That full fat?

You can get 10% ( or something like that ) in specialist shops, but yea, 5% is full fat. It's similar to milk as in

0% fat yoghurt => skimmed milk
2% => semi skimmed and
5% => whole milk ( whole milk's closer to 3.5%, but you get the picture )

looking at the protein, fat content and appearance its possibly how long it took the bloke to fill the tub

Cum again lad ?
Tastes bloody good ( the yoghurt that is )

 

[RAFUH]

once restrictions are lifted it ultimately will come down to free will.

I have elderly parents but ultimately I dont think I can not see them for 12-18 months until a vaccine MIGHT be found.

If anything happened to either one and I never had been to see them over the coming months that would play on my conscience just as bad as the opposite.

No right or wrong answers - we'll all just be winging it over the coming months from choices like going to the pub / out for birthday meals to visiting your family- everything will have a "risk" attached to it but ultimately we cant stay locked away from friends, family & co workers forever.

I have far more fear of being the thing that happens to my parents/grandma. That would end me.

 

[roydo]

Have your parents got any other children they can call on .........

Well not local, no. They are screwed.

I was shamed when I popped round a few weeks ago with a few bits and bobs, thinking I was being a good son. Then later, my sister drove down from Cheltenham with £120 of Waitrose stuff ffs!

Got them some eggs from the farm shop the other day mind. And some wine.

Must check their pulse from a socially excluded distance I reckon.

 

[Catfish Blues]

Hens teeth sprung to mind.

Just noticed this.
Rather spookily, it was in the 4 bottles for 6 quid offer, so I bought some of that as well

 

[BrendanGOT]

Depends how the lockdown is lifted. It will almost certainly be phased, so the pubs won’t open for a few weeks after any lifting of restrictions start.....it will be interesting to see what happens......

Ex WHO director on twitter suggesting if the trends continue we could see restrictions lifted by the end of the month. He reckons it'll prob be businesses of 50 and under staff to start. Apparently other European countries have already started this. Whether bars etc are included in that I don't know. I'd imagine restaurants and cafes will be take away only initially or with tables and queueing 2m apart. He also suggested that schools could be reopened early May and international travel and public gatherings by early June.

 

[ForeverBlue92]

I have far more fear of being the thing that happens to my parents/grandma. That would end me.

Yeah its an awful thought - once lockdowns are over in your neck of the woods are you still not going to see any family/friends?

I think ultimately every family and their circumstances will differ and society has to allow people to make those very difficult choices without our awful media turning folk against one another as no doubt they will try to regardless of what people do - it'll be either elderly family members abandoned or selfish family killers spreading disease to try make sensational headlines and turn folk against each other.

Biggest regret of my life was not seeing my Grandad a few years back one weekend when I could have but chose to leave it and he died of a sudden heart attack that very weekend - completely out the blue and to this day I haven't forgiven myself for not making the time to have popped over that day.

There are sadly no right or wrong answers or easy solutions to this thing - you could give someone something or you couldn't and they might pass away suddenly and you'll have never got to say goodbye.

Very tough times ahead.

 

[BrendanGOT]

Was reading something the other day about a woman walking back from her local Sainsbury's in Scotland. She was pulled up by 2 coppers who demanded they showed her what was in her bag, she had a bottle of wine, crisps and a few other bits, the coppers deemed what she had in her bag as non - essential so they fined her £30.

That's ridiculous. So if she had toilet roll and some potatoes along side the wine and crisps then it's all OK? She could have very well went for essentials but they were sold out.