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That's a turnip for the booksQuote:
Originally Posted by stoneyburn hibs
Another variable that could have a bearing on a country's ability to limit the spread of the virus. Where we live in Bremen there are still a lot of small local shops, and just 1 small supermarket. When I was out shopping on Wednesday, the butcher limited us to 3 customers at a time, 2 metres apart, and our general grocer had 4 people in with similar social distancing rules. Had a look at stats online, and it seems the medium to large supermarkets in the UK have a 96.9% market share. In Germany it's 73.3%.Quote:
Originally Posted by Billy Whizz
As others have said, if you support your wee local shops it's probably safer. :wink:
Home and picking up his £94 ssp ?Quote:
Originally Posted by stoneyburn hibs
Chance for Raaab to step up.Quote:
Originally Posted by stoneyburn hibs
Hopefully, hard times for him.Quote:
Originally Posted by stokesmessiah
It's great that he managed to get tested so quickly.
Sweet Jesus please noQuote:
Originally Posted by lapsedhibee
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Originally Posted by lapsedhibee
Dominic cummings will decide
I get the arguments about NHS workers should be prioritised etc, and that most on here wouldn't have voted for/can't stand Boris (indeed, I'm one of those), but he's the PM - of course a test would have been made available for him.Quote:
Originally Posted by stoneyburn hibs
Rocketing numbers of deaths and new cases in Spain after a small drop yesterday. Runaway cases in the USA, significant rise in cases in Germany, UK breached three digits of deaths for the first time yesterday...
I was a little hopeful yesterday, but today feels darker again. Perhaps it's because I'm not long back from our local supermarket and almost murdered two people for not only failing to observe the boxes in place, but also clattered into me.
He’s only running the country FFS 😂 And doing a good job of it tooQuote:
Originally Posted by stoneyburn hibs
Again, I advise people to read Britannia Unchained to get a measure of what ****s these guys are.Quote:
Originally Posted by lapsedhibee
Hopefully, Bubble**** will be better soon!!!
I’m no fan, but.....
Now if Trump would get it that would be just desserts - although he would just lie about it.
Seriously? ****ing hellQuote:
Originally Posted by lapsedhibee
Brings it home to him how serious this is. Bet he wishes he'd lockdowned earlier. Christ's knows how many he has infectedQuote:
Originally Posted by stoneyburn hibs
His partner is pregnant. Hopefully the baby won't be affected.Quote:
Originally Posted by Colr
Indeed!Quote:
Originally Posted by Hibbyradge
I went to Asda at the jewel and there was also a queue but it wasn’t that long, it only took 5 minutes to get in. The shelves were quite well stocked, but there was no toilet roll again sadly.Quote:
Originally Posted by Billy Whizz
Just from the graphs it looks as if USA has hit the level of cases in two weeks that it took China to hit in a month. That doesn’t look good at all!!
He’s the designated survivor apparently.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mr Grieves
I must be quite luck with the supermarkets. Asda at the Jewel was quiet on Saturday evening and Aldi at Portobello was dead on Tuesday.
I'm stocked for at least a week now so won't have to brave it again anytime soon.
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Originally Posted by Colr
wonder how many were introduced to CV during their spring break,that they thought was still a good idea having this year, young adults of course but not giving a toss that they could pass it on to others
https://twitter.com/dlemmink/status/1243297680945827841?s=21Quote:
Originally Posted by cabbageandribs1875
Check this, tracking mobile phones from one beach during spring break to where they traveled in the following days shows how immensely idiotic the spring breakers selfish attitude was and goes some way to explaining how the US will become the new epicentre of the pandemic
8 more deaths today in Scotland 33 in total.
Just back from Lidl. They had yellow and black tape on the floor to indicate what was 2 metres away from the other person.
Everyone adhered to it, but it came after 10 minutes of walking up and down the isles right next to each other whilst it was the busiest I'd ever seen it.
Had most things in though.
Matt Hancock's got it now.
scary stuff, is trump still telling his nation it will all be over with just after easter, he appears to be more concerned about the economy, and that's allQuote:
Originally Posted by -Jonesy-
He doesn't really care about that either.Quote:
Originally Posted by cabbageandribs1875
If it didn't affect his chance of re-election, he'd let it crash.
Laura Kuensberg must be a little bit worried as well.Quote:
Originally Posted by Hibbyradge
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:greengrin Exactly what I said.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ozyhibby
I see it's being confirmed that Birmingham Airport is being considered as a temporary mortuary.
I said earlier such contingency plans were in place and stated where it would be for Edinburgh and the Lothians and was dismissed by some. It's not something to take any joy in being correct about but it maybe hammers home, if it were needed, just how potentially serious this could still be.
There are always plans/protocols in place for any given crisis, no matter how unlikely.Quote:
Originally Posted by Pretty Boy
All cities have detailed disaster plans in place.Quote:
Originally Posted by Pretty Boy
I remember speaking to someone who was involved in setting them up for the Scottish government. I don’t remember much about the finer details but I do remember him saying he’d done a huge piece of work for the Labour administration and then when the SNP came in they didn’t like it and made them start again.
A while ago I went to a talk by the head forensic dentist for this part of the world. He was the main man when the Lockerbie tragedy occurred and he used to speak at length about his experiences there (some of the grimmest slides I’ve ever seen and some of the grimmest anecdotes I’ve ever heard).
He spoke about disaster planning for Edinburgh and iirc the Murrayfield area was HQ. Big fields for helicopters to land and take off, ice rink as mortuary, decent transport links to large numbers of population if need be, hospital right there too. I’ve heard Murrayfield hospital has been emptied of much of its normal business, has been hired by the NHS and is currently waiting for an inevitable deluge.
Forensic dentistry btw - sounds interesting, is absolutely horrific in reality.