Current Affairs Coronavirus Thread - Serious stuff !!!

[Barnfred 55]

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Sports direct queue in Manchester.

Clearly the Mancs have missed their Lonsdale trabs and Slazenger polo shirts.

You wouldn't bother would you?

Well I wouldn't anyway. I'd turn around and come back another day.

Having said that, my missus has gone shopping this afternoon despite my advice to give it a few days to settle down. She loves shopping normally but I'm not sure whether this lockdown version of shopping is going to appeal to her.

I'm bracing myself for the fallout and will start preparing a couple of large G&Ts when I see the car pull up outside.

 

[Bruce Wayne]

https://today.tamu.edu/2020/06/12/texas-am-study-face-masks-critical-in-preventing-spread-of-covid-19/

Researchers estimate that the measure prevented more than 66,000 infections in New York City in less than a month

 

[Toast]

You wouldn't bother would you?

Well I wouldn't anyway. I'd turn around and come back another day.

Having said that, my missus has gone shopping this afternoon despite my advice to give it a few days to settle down. She loves shopping normally but I'm not sure whether this lockdown version of shopping is going to appeal to her.

I'm bracing myself for the fallout and will start preparing a couple of large G&Ts when I see the car pull up outside.

Hope she's been to Ann Summers then mate and the G&T's work their magic.

 

[Bruce Wayne]

Hope she's been to Ann Summers then mate and the G&T's work their magic.

I wonder if she's been ordering an unusually high number of items from Amazon during lockdown as well?

 

[Barnfred 55]

Hope she's been to Ann Summers then mate and the G&T's work their magic.

I think she'd need to bring some of the Ann Summers staff home with her for that to happen mate lol

 

[roydo]

I think she'd need to bring some of the Ann Summers staff home with her for that to happen mate lol

Pick and Mix.

 

[Disgruntledgoat]

I have a mate who lives in Portugal, he went back to work yesterday, he's said as far as he knows it wasn't that bad.

His family is from Belgium and sadly he did lose a few elderly relatives.

There was a headline in De Standaard here last weekend about the situation in carehomes in Belgium, the headline was a quote from a nurse there who said "We're fighting a war without weapons".

 

[Barnfred 55]

Pick and Mix.

I'm laughing at that but to be honest it went right over my head mate

 

[Toast]

I think she'd need to bring some of the Ann Summers staff home with her for that to happen mate lol

Believe it or not, I used to work for loss prevention for Ann Summers about 15 years ago.
I went into a high loss store and sorted their issues out.
It's probably the best job I've ever had that.

 

[peteblue]

Believe it or not, I used to work for loss prevention for Ann Summers about 15 years ago.
I went into a high loss store and sorted their issues out.
It's probably the best job I've ever had that.

Bra vo......

 

[BlueStevie35]

38 is the overall figure for the day, 2 up on yesterday and 17 down on last Monday. This brings the 7 day rolling average down further to 162.71 with the hospital figure falling to 82.29

 

[davek]

38 is the overall figure for the day, 2 up on yesterday and 17 down on last Monday. This brings the 7 day rolling average down further to 162.71 with the hospital figure falling to 82.29

Just 163 people dying per day on average?

Oh, that's not bad then. Open the bars and restaurants and scrap the 2 metre rule.

 

[roydo]

Just 163 people dying per day on average?

Oh, that's not bad then. Open the bars and restaurants and scrap the 2 metre rule.

No Dave.

 

[Tea_drinker]

Open the bars and restaurants ...

Civilisation at last!!

 

[davek]

Primark TK Maxx and Sports Direct. That's all I've seen mentioned today in terms of 'footfall'.

I sense a media and political class wanting to hype this up.

Teenagers and twenty somethings buying bits or gear aren't going to impact the economy much. The big spenders are middle aged and pensioners, and they will, by and large, be staying put.