Current Affairs Coronavirus Thread - Serious stuff !!!

[ForeverBlue92]

I feel sorry for your missus if that’s the expectation of an orgasm. Three second wonder?

Must admit I do suffer from the 2 pump chump after a few whiskeys down me

 

[navidson]

Isn't matalan still knocking around?

Yep - but nowhere near as cheap

 

[navidson]

A stampede to buy utter tat, and it places the public health at risk.

What a 'kin country.

It's a stampede to return to normality - which is what most people are craving

If we'd actually have locked down we'd be properly back to normal by now - instead of this garbage 'half-life' we'll be living for the next year

 

[roydo]

It's a stampede to return to normality - which is what most people are craving

If we'd actually have locked down we'd be properly back to normal by now - instead of this garbage 'half-life' we'll be living for the next year

Not gonna lie, I quite like it.

 

[navidson]

Not gonna lie, I quite like it.

I don't miss the shops - but gigs, cinema, pubs and restaurants will be affected for a very long time - makes me very sad every day

 

[roydo]

I don't miss the shops - but gigs, cinema, pubs and restaurants will be affected for a very long time - makes me very sad every day

Well yeah, I was talking from a purely personal (selfish) point of view. Me and Mrs R are 100% not going to a pub, gig, or restaurant any time soon, but we know plenty involved in the catering/pub trade, and its not great for them.

But all you can do is live through this in your own personal bubble. Other wise you will go mad, or madder. I dont get it, she doesnt get it. That is our bubble.

 

[Blues Harp]

Just had my first maccies since lockdown - oh lord was like my tastebuds were experiencing a prolonged orgasm

Good way to poison yourself.....Maccies? And folk are worried about chlorinated chicken?
lol lol lol

 

[YoboCopter]

Just had my first maccies since lockdown - oh lord was like my tastebuds were experiencing a prolonged orgasm

5 ive had

 

[Goat]

Good way to poison yourself.....Maccies? And folk are worried about chlorinated chicken?
lol lol lol

Reported.

 

[Brennan]

Online stuff, like the stuff I used to do, (not groceries) has been mental for months mate. I spoke to a lad the other day, and his depot, at Christmas, has circa 17000 items every day. Currently, well last week, its at 44000.

The most I ever had in one day was 130. The lad who took over my patch, at the last time I saw him, was doing 240. A day. (Thats 12 hours on the road, plus 2 hours loading). 7 days a week, inc Bank Holidays.

Shows that despite this stuff about the death of physical retail, there is still normally a massive amount of business being done through shops versus online.

 

[Brennan]

Good way to poison yourself.....Maccies? And folk are worried about chlorinated chicken?
lol lol lol

Maccies food standards in the UK are pretty decent tbh.

 

[jonnyboy316]

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.

This is not as black and white as a lot of people make out. Lives and health will also be impacted by the economic and psychological damage of lockdown. the earlier and stricter the lockdown the larger the impact on the economy and mental health. The virus itself is not the only factor. Although to be clear I am not suggesting the government got the balance right

 

[roydo]

Good way to poison yourself.....Maccies? And folk are worried about chlorinated chicken?
lol lol lol

lol

That is a very very good point!

 

[davek]

Coining it mate. I got 90p per drop, the lads in the vans are £1.30 iirc.

Whats that, £300 a day, ish? 7 days a week. Gross. (90% are "self employed", kinda).

One lad who pops round my house when he has a delivery in the village, (all the houses are names, not numbers, delivery lad hell), to ask me where it is/ask me to sign for it, said they are pretty pleased the shops are opening though this morning!

They've kept a lot of people shielding safe. If they get 1500 pw - good luck to them. Government Ministers get 1500 per hour for killing 66,000 people.

 

[Blues Harp]

Reported.