Caronavirus - COVID 19

[Tigeritis™©®]

Sorry but I couldn’t find a dedicated thread.

I normally do online shopping weekly and spend about $350 per week on average with a household of seven adults.
Our last two online shops have been cancelled and now online is only reserved for the elderly which is fair enough.

I went to the supermarket and there’s nothing in there. People were just walking around with baskets wondering what they can put it.

I picked up a can of corn, I don’t think I’ve ever bought corn in a can before.
I got a can of kidney beans. No toilet paper not much meat, no paper towels, no washing detergent, no hand wash or hand sanitiser, no pasta, no rice, no long life milk.
There was spam but I didn’t take it but i was able to get some mince which was restricted to two packets per person.

It was a weird feeling being there and a really strange atmosphere I guess something that isn’t going to change for a while.

[Tigeritis™©®]

https://www.dutchnews.nl/news/2020/03/total-lockdown-would-allow-coronavirus-to-bounce-back-dutch-expert/

The Dutch also don’t agree with mass lockdown.

[Tigeritis™©®]

Scomos latest update.

https://www.pm.gov.au/media/update-coronavirus-measures

[Loui Tufga]

My local Woolworths had stocked up overnight but it didn’t last long.
The smaller IGA’s seem to still have a good supply of essentials, the one I was in yesterday had plenty of hand soap, disinfect sprays and toilet paper.
Unfortunately it’s just a matter of having to travel around to find what you need.

[Chuck17]

I reckon they should triple prices at least then the dumb arse stuffers will pay for their stupidity

[Andyy]

Unfortunately there are a lot of businesses looking to make money off COVID-19 and the supermarkets are no different.

If they had an integrity they would have introduced more stringent restrictions on purchases and enforced a system that tracks home addresses to prevent people from the same household buying the same items.

Alas, they are just thrilled to be leaping over their sales targets....

[Diocletian]

Yes blame the evil capitalists for a pandemic that started under a communist regime...meanwhile the left's main concern at the start of the outbreak was "racism"....

[mightytiges]

Slowing learning which supermarkets in my local area re-stock what at which times. Mostly if you're not at the supermarket at 8am (after the pensioners' hour) then good luck getting anything likes bread and spuds later in the day. As for pasta and toilet rolls forget it. There's nothing on the shelf even at 8am.

[WilliamPowell]

Our local Coles have had nothing for days.

They usually stock shelves at 10pm. So Sunday night we ventured down around 10.30pm. Nothing, just disinfecting the shelves.

7am Monday, will nothing.

Called in this arvo on my way home, cleaned out again.  Spoke to one of the ladies who works there and she was saying they got yesterday's milk delivery at 3pm. 

She also said the elderly got looked after this morning which I'm pleased about

She went on to say they hope to start receiving normal deliveries of stock by the end of the week. They haven't been this week because the transport companies can't keep up with the demand

[Diocletian]

[1965]

For all those parents and teachers looking forward to the schools being shut down.



https://t.co/6VN5obl6vg

[one-eyed]

The Governments of New South Wales, Victoria and the ACT will proceed to a more comprehensive shutdown of non-essential services over the next 48 hours in an attempt to slow the spread of coronavirus.

Supermarkets, petrol stations, pharmacies, convenience stores, freight and logistics, and home delivery will be among the many services that will remain open.

Schools in all three states will remain open on Monday, but in Victoria school holidays will be brought forward to start on Tuesday.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-03-22/coronavirus-nsw-victoria-act-shutdown-non-essential-services/12079124

[mightytiges]

The USA (cases still growing along 35% growth curve for past few weeks), UK (especially London) & Western Europe (aside from Italy) just crazy.

Can see why we are desperately closing down. The next week is crucial. Trying to follow the South Korean curve from here on rather than Italy or the USA.




http://nrg.cs.ucl.ac.uk/mjh/covid19/

[Chuck17]

#savegreta

[Andyy]

Only thing we have going for us is a lower population density.

Elsewise, too slow to react like most of the EU + western world.

Asian countries faring much better - more experience with social distancing and lockdowns etc.