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I suspect this might be a generational thing as well as a geographical thing. But growing up in the 80's / 90's the pop man was still a thing in Lancashire I'm led to believe. Very much less so in Oxfordshire.

In the 80's in south Wales too.
 
I suspect this might be a generational thing as well as a geographical thing. But growing up in the 80's / 90's the pop man was still a thing in Lancashire I'm led to believe. Very much less so in Oxfordshire.
v.much late 60's/early-mid 1970s for me.
 
Flu is a far greater risk. You would be extraordinarily unlucky to catch this.

Fuck. I've 3 "extremely rare" autoimmume diseases...
When I was sick with the last one pre diagnosis, one dr said "you'd be extremely unlucky to develop another one"... and yet.... sigh.
If I had the equivalent measure of good luck I'd have won the lottery by now.....twice.

FFP3 masks and swimming goggles are being deployed.
 
A young friend of mine says Sheff UNi, is thinking of confining returning Chinese students to residences for two weeks, though i really think this is rumour.

Not just a rumour but complete bollocks. About as likely as UCEA suddenly deciding to give us a 10% pay rise, for much the same reasons.

We are however being provided with hand sanitiser and being asked to use it as often as possible.
 
A young friend of mine says Sheff UNi, is thinking of confining returning Chinese students to residences for two weeks, though i really think this is rumour.
Possibly hyperbole based on this: The UK Government is now advising anyone who has recently returned from Wuhan to ‘self-isolate’ for 14 days after entering the UK.
 
sadly some cases of Chinese here getting shouted at, funny looks, etc.

A local town has abruptly cancelled the Chinese Gala Show that we had put together with our (mostly Wuhan) students and various local/community groups - The first performance last week went-off really well and the few people who had been in Wuhan most recently voluntarily stayed out of it. :(
 
As a rule.

It was Alpine vans round here in the 70s. Bright, lurid liquids like in a mad scientist’s lab.
Aha, yes. I was thinking "Alpen" but that's breakfast cereal. Yes, we had Alpine lorries visiting for a short time in the mid/late 1970's. It can't have been all that profitable, because it didn't last long. Ooh! Ice-cream vans too!
 
Do you come from the North? Was it delivered by a pop man? A sugar heavy version of the milk man. I was amazed when I first heard about the concept, the Northerner I was speaking to at the time as equally amazed it wasn't a thing down South.

We certainly had the Corona man & van come round in Essex when I was growing up in the 70's, also the Mr Kipling man too.
 
On the TV news they showed 4 of those Horseman of the apocalypse coaches turning-up.
Yep, and none of the drivers had any visible anti-viral protection...unlike the service personnel sat up front who were in what looked like pretty full bio-hazard kit.
Very brave/selfless or foolhardy/conned?
 
Yep, and none of the drivers had any visible anti-viral protection...unlike the service personnel sat up front who were in what looked like pretty full bio-hazard kit.
Very brave/selfless or foolhardy/conned?

You wouldn't catch me doing it!

In fact I have a Chinese take-away as a client, I was going to pop in & see them today, until the news of these 2 cases broke, which reminded they had only flown in following their annual holiday in China on Tuesday, it wasn't urgent, so they can wait another week or so!
 
Yep, and none of the drivers had any visible anti-viral protection...unlike the service personnel sat up front who were in what looked like pretty full bio-hazard kit.
Very brave/selfless or foolhardy/conned?

Its a nice visual example of the way protection measures tend to veer between excessive and too little. I sort of wish I was surprised to see the two extremes sitting side by side, but I'm not.

Anyway I'd do the job. Except I cant drive, so the journey would probably have a much higher mortality rate than the disease. And I'd probably get in trouble for making jokes over the PA about dropping the passengers off at a Brexit party.
 
Dunno about Sharona...every time I hear about this bug I'm cast back to being about 7 years of age and gleefully glugging down the contents of these dimple-necked bottles.
My fave was the red (Cherryade) on the right.

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Has Coronavirus hit Battersea? This is getting close to home. I have already started stockpiling.

We have a thread for Corona virus.

This is a thread for discussion of door to door soft drink deliveries by region.
 
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