Coronavirus meme/panic/fear mongering general thread

[pogofish]

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That is going-up in the bogs at work tomorrow - Thanks!

 

[pogofish]

A meeting at work decided we should have some form of steriliser/cleaner in every room where shared keyboards etc are.

Needless to say, hand gel is not a viable option.

So they will buy Vodka and put it in spray bottles - but we’ve not to tell anyone .

 

[spanglechick]

A meeting at work decided we should have some form of steriliser/cleaner in every room where shared keyboards etc are.

Needless to say, hand gel is not a viable option.

So they will buy Vodka and put it in spray bottles - but we’ve not to tell anyone .

Vodka doesn’t have a very high alcohol content. You’re better with surgical spirit.

 

[pogofish]

I’m not the ones making those decisions.

A much better qualified colleague preferred that we use Gin.

 

[two sheds]

Vodka doesn’t have a very high alcohol content. You’re better with surgical spirit.

Leaves a nasty taste afterburn though

 

[Shippou-Sensei]

I bet Shippy has that manga...

budget cosplay is difficult

 

[Supine]

A meeting at work decided we should have some form of steriliser/cleaner in every room where shared keyboards etc are.

Needless to say, hand gel is not a viable option.

So they will buy Vodka and put it in spray bottles - but we’ve not to tell anyone .

Shameful. Why not just provide soap and water instead of something that may not actually work. What kind of a shitshow do you work at?

 

[hipipol]

$194 for hand sanitizer? You must be joking

Reuters | Breaking International News & Views

Find latest news from every corner of the globe at Reuters.com, your online source for breaking international news coverage.

uk.reuters.com

 

[cupid_stunt]

 

[cupid_stunt]

It's all down to 5G masts apparently.

One much-mooted theory, for example, is that the coronavirus has been caused by radiation from 5G masts.

How Facebook turned into a coronavirus conspiracy hellhole

In the wake of the Covid-19 outbreak, groups that used to share flight deals and debate Jeremy Corbyn are pivoting to coronavirus conspiracies

www.wired.co.uk

 

[SpookyFrank]

Vodka doesn’t have a very high alcohol content. You’re better with surgical spirit.

Neat vodka might be OK but all the hand sanitiser 'recipes' I've seen passed around involve cutting it with aloe vera lotion or whatever else, at which point you'd merely be getting the germs a bit tipsy rather than killing them.

Just wash your hands.

 

[SpookyFrank]

$194 for hand sanitizer? You must be joking

Reuters | Breaking International News & Views

Find latest news from every corner of the globe at Reuters.com, your online source for breaking international news coverage.

uk.reuters.com

It'll mostly be third party online sellers doing this, not sure what meangingful action you can take against them. Amazon and ebay aren't subject to mortal laws or regulations, and even if they were they'd only pass the buck.

 

[tommers]

That is going-up in the bogs at work tomorrow - Thanks!

Just blatantly nicked it too.

 

[Mrs Miggins]

 

[bimble]

I'm cunningly going to buy TWO toothpastes today. Reckon living without toothpaste for two weeks would be worse than without loo roll. Just did a few days in india where a couple of buckets is what you get instead of toilet paper and it was fine, really.

 

[Mrs Miggins]

I'm cunningly going to buy TWO toothpastes today. Reckon living without toothpaste for two weeks would be worse than without loo roll. Just did a few days in india where a couple of buckets is what you get instead of toilet paper and it was fine, really.

I think you're right. Let's all stock up on toothpaste quietly before anyone else catches in.

And washing yourself with water is much better than toilet paper IMO.

 

[Yossarian]

I think you're right. Let's all stock up on toothpaste quietly before anyone else catches in.

The Australians must have heard you.

Forget toilet paper! Now it's toothpaste that's selling out at supermarkets as Aussies panic buy | LifeStyle

Panic-buying has now switched from toilet rolls to toothpaste across Australia

www.lifestyle.com.au

 

[Mrs Miggins]

The Australians must have heard you.

Forget toilet paper! Now it's toothpaste that's selling out at supermarkets as Aussies panic buy | LifeStyle

Panic-buying has now switched from toilet rolls to toothpaste across Australia

www.lifestyle.com.au

Well I can be quite loud

 

[Nivag]

Coronavirus equals UK mortality rate of Michael Barrymore's swimming pool - The Rochdale Herald

The Government has announced that as many people in the UK have died from Coronavirus as have been found dead in Michael Barrymore's swimming pool. A -

rochdaleherald.co.uk

 

[MrSki]

 

[cupid_stunt]

 

[JuanTwoThree]

We seem to have woken up in the Middle Ages.

One confirmed case of Coronavirus in the next town was a Gitano man. So his contacts here do tend to be Gitanos too, for reasons like extended families and so on. Because of some problems with getting the message into the community there was a problem with one family not self-isolating successfully; and it's not that straightforward to get deliveries etc if you don't have credit cards or sick pay if you work as a day labourer off the system. So last night the ambulances went round with the Guardia Civil tooled up in riot vans and of course got attacked by the set-upon Gitano family in question, members of a community that have a 500 year memory of this kind of thing.

So now I'm being told that 'they' are spreading it deliberately and 'they 'all' have got it'.

One child in our primary school has been confirmed as having coronavirus. They haven't been to school since the isolation, but some of the payos (non Gitanos) are pulling their children away from their Gitano classmates and shunning the mothers. Not that they didn't before. But now they're talking about it.

 

[pogofish]

Shameful. Why not just provide soap and water instead of something that may not actually work. What kind of a shitshow do you work at?

We do - but proper wash stations are only provided in labs or other places where it is a reasonable/legal requirement. There is another layer of spaces/offices where people have to go to the bogs to wash. Plus, some of our guys are acknowledged experts in the field (eg Gin man - he’s been all over the media already).

It has been decided that we must be seen to be taking steps at every potential risk point, even if it’s just window dressing.

There was a big videoconference of senior bods from all over the U.K. on Wednesday afternoon, where they hammered out a control strategy to be followed nationally

 

[keybored]

A meeting at work decided we should have some form of steriliser/cleaner in every room where shared keyboards etc are.

Needless to say, hand gel is not a viable option.

So they will buy Vodka and put it in spray bottles - but we’ve not to tell anyone .

I buy this for work, 5 litres of 99.9% isopropanol for £20. You'd probably need to water it down to a point where it's not so highly flammable.

Pardon our interruption...

 

[pogofish]

That would have been my suggestion if anyone asked but I’ve posted on my troubles with Isopropanol before - Back when I used to order it in significant quantities for microscope/optical equipment users to clean eyepieces etc, I attracted the high-ups wrath because it comes under the drug precursors legislation and they had to explain to the DS why I was buying so much, regularly!

But nobody got any nasty eye infections or parasites on my watch, so I felt justified. Although we did agree on a target quantity that I wouldn’t exceed in stock
IIRC, a viable working dilution was @40/45%?

 

[Nine Bob Note]

No hand gel left at work, so they’re panic-buying toilet rolls and milk instead

 

[Pickman's model]

No hand gel left at work, so they’re panic-buying toilet rolls and milk instead

soap and milk will do the trick

 

[High Voltage]

WHO from wiki

Composition[edit]
Consumer alcohol-based hand sanitizers, and health care "hand alcohol" or "alcohol hand antiseptic agents" exist in liquid, foam, and easy-flowing gel formulations. Products with 60% to 95% alcohol by volume are effective antiseptics. Lower or higher concentrations are less effective; most products contain between 60% and 80% alcohol.[48]

In addition to alcohol (ethanol, isopropanol or n-Propanol), hand sanitizers also contain the following:[48]

• additional antiseptics such as chlorhexidine and quaternary ammonium derivatives,
• sporicides such as hydrogen peroxides that eliminate bacterial spores that may be present in ingredients,
• emollients and gelling agents to reduce skin dryness and irritation,
• a small amount of sterile or distilled water,
• sometimes foaming agents, colorants or fragrances.

The World Health Organization has published a guide to producing hand sanitizer from widely available chemicals. Such hand sanitizer may be used in situations where commercially produced hand sanitizer is unavailable. According to this guide, to produce 10 liters of hand sanitizer, the following are mixed together, and topped up with distilled or cold boiled water to 10 liters:

• 8333 ml of 96% ethanol, 417 ml of 3% hydrogen peroxide, and 145 ml of 98% glycerol, or:
• 7515 ml of 99.8% isopropyl alcohol, 417 ml of 3% hydrogen peroxide, and 145 ml of 98% glycerol.[49]

 

[i_hate_beckham]

 

[keybored]

it comes under the drug precursors legislation

No it doesn't. I've been buying in bulk for 2 decades, my door would be kicked off its hinges by now if IPA was a precursor