COVID-19 Coronavirus

Tonight is the first night I’ve stayed in for years! Every Saturday I go out. Me the wife and friends. Just round the local or up the main high street.
Been a bit of a shock to the system I must admit but it needs to be done.
I’ve just spent the last 4 hours having a right ole chuckle with the Wife playing old fashioned board games and having a few drinks at home. Yeah she kicked my ass but it was funny.

Im not on twatter or divorceface or anything so I can't  put it out there but I absolutely promise you all that I live overlooking the link A road between Yorkshire and Lancashire and its normally full of supermarket lorries. In the last two days I've counted NONE !
So something is sadly wrong.
Someone is feeding us bullshit.
I was in two supermarkets today and there's F#ck all going onto the shelves. All this " There's plenty to go round" is absolute  bollocks !

Gentlemen,

Please remember, we arent here to attack people or hand out awards, engine.

Dave's opinion may not be a popular one, but it's one that has been echoed by others elsewhere and hes also entitled to feel however he wants to.

Probably more helpful to offer an insight as to why people have to stay in, hence why I shared the Video Link.

Somewhere hot and very dry with virtually no population would be best place to go. Like the Sahara desert. But you could still catch it there and then you're stuck in some foreign country with no decent healthcare available.

Keeping it positive, I was so touched by this text I got last night.
Just neighbours from a few doors down.

Hey kids, selfishness killzz, mkay?

Herd behaviour, crowd psychology. We are all susceptible and it isn't a new thing, it's recorded as happening in ancient Rome where the behaviour of 'the mob' had to be taken into account and dealt with.

I don't think going to the beach is necessarily that bad. You're out in the open air so much harder for the virus to transfer and if you go to any beach you will see that people naturally camp some distance from each other, I think there is a study somewhere on that. Not the same as going to a concert or sporting event where the crowd is tightly packed.

Just been to Sainsbury, there's some gaps in the shelves but still got everything I needed except fresh milk. And it isn't unusual for them to be out of fresh milk on a Sunday anyway.

The main distribution warehouse is literally just up the road so that no doubt helps.

I have just come back from Tesco. They opened the doors early for all NHS staff, 9am When we got there the queue was horrendous.

We got into Tesco and you wouldn't believe how many people were shopping in there. I'm talking thousands.

They opened the doors early but the till wouldn't open until 10am. They were queuing up every Isle and so tightly packed in around the checkouts
Me and the wife put back the meat and frozen food and got out of there.

Yes there trying to do good to help all the NHS staff but myself I feel it was just making matters a lot lot worse.

The sh*t hasn't really hit the fan up here in the north east yet, and until the local braindead morons see someone drop dead right next to them they are going to carry on as normal, sod the advice!

The few elderly friends I've talked to are just as scared of starving to death, which judging by the state of the supermarkets is a real possibility, as they are this pandemic. 

I can see the government now introducing food rationing because estimates of the value of hoarded food and groceries now tops over £1Billion which is quite staggering. This to me is as much a danger to society as the virus itself. These selfish people, these greedy individuals who are currently stockpiling don't get it. If they behaved rationally and selflessly, things would tick along much as they are now, with few shortages. As it stands, more people are set to suffer because of this abhorrent behaviour of many. Because of this, the government may well introduce food rationing and in doing so increase the cost and burden of administering basic necessities of life. I'm ashamed to be British at times like this.

The death rate as a percentage of reported cases is now close to 5% in the UK, so higher than some other countries, and yes, our infection and death rate is so far mirroring that of Italy with little chance now that we'll fare any better. People need to start taking this more seriously and also need to start thinking of their neighbours and stop the hoarding.

Personally I see no change happening and within 2 weeks predict rationing will be brought in and extra control measures imposed on us all, with curfews being imposed.

 That  has never, ever happened in the entirety of human history. It's one of the reasons why socialism and communism don't work. 

There won't be any problem as long as the supply chain for essentials isn't disrupted. There's only so much people can stockpile and only so much they can afford to stockpile. And in the supermarket this morning they were limiting to 3 of any one item, or 2 for stuff that is really short like bog roll. 

Well.. just had a text from my neighbour saying there was a bag on our doorstep. Milk, bananas, grapes, satsumas.. plus he’s just told me that the supermarkets were quiet and plenty on the shelves.

It will change in a week or so. People will start to notice that their neighbor's are struggling. We have just fetched some bits for an elderly lady and I've asked for a shopping list. Said it'll take a few days and probably wont get everything all at once, but it will come.

The one thing the older generation have is the ability to make bread etc, so I have to find live yeast from somewhere lol