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scifisam said:
I just ordered some booze from an off-licence via Uber-eats and the offie has changed the name of Corona beer to Colona :D
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And they phoned me to change a couple of items (I said a polite no to the fruity Jacobs Creek or whatever thing which isn't actually wine - not a snob, it's fruit juice with a little wine in - but they had something else), and they added a free chocolate bar for some reason, and their delivery guy arrived wearing a motorbike helmet despite not being on a motorbike, which I have to say (and said to him from a safe distance) is a very good idea.
 
As this lockdown progresses - I think people are going to start to slowly take chances and start going out and lose discipline.
 
Just went for my daily 'exercise' a stroll around Wood Green - virtually empty - but quite a visible police prescence - seems they were looking to disperse any groups of people.
 
Letter sent to major supermarket chains and UK Government
from UK M.E. charities and the All Party Parliamentary Group on M.E. Friday 27 March 2020 ...
"While those who are house/bed-bound are not necessarily included in the Government’s official category of “vulnerable,” this does not give the full picture.
This group of increasingly desperate people are unable to visit a store and many have no friends or family to support them.
They need urgent help now – please will you:
Include those house/bed-bound by M.E./CFS in your priority access group for your online service?
Allow those with M.E./CFS, who are able to leave the house, access to priority shopping times in store?
We would be happy to provide our members with a resource they can download that shows they have a chronic neurological condition and are eligible to use this service.”

actionforme.org.uk

www.actionforme.org.uk
https://www.actionforme.org.uk/uplo...ZA1HRM4cDEIcTRr7lojX9Hoz2ytUcb9PaAIF98VBOpdJ4
 
Hollis said:
Just went for my daily 'exercise' a stroll around Wood Green - virtually empty - but quite a visible police prescence - seems they were looking to disperse any groups of people.
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When I was a student there was a careers software package that we used to try to see what our future could hold, some of the questions like do you like making sure other people stick to rules? to which my response was always no thanks. But that is police for you, they are people that love to tell others what to do, they love to enforce rules, rules that often they don't think apply to them, see speeding for example. One of the worse aspects of this epidemic is giving more power to the police to tell us what to do, more than they do already. Yes it has to be done but that does not mean we have to like it.
 
Local kids going a bit bonkers in my street, climbing over walls, throwing bricks, shouting and screaming. Cops turned up and they pissed off.
Small beer, but i would imagine this will be a growing problem, especially if we have warm weather and all the normal teen hangouts are closed.
 
Kaka Tim said:
Local kids going a bit bonkers in my street, climbing over walls, throwing bricks, shouting and screaming. Cops turned up and they pissed off.
Small beer, but i would imagine this will be a growing problem, especially if we have warm weather and all the normal teen hangouts are closed.
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I worry that families will be criminalised over stuff like this. And of course it will be poorer families with no outdoor space for their kids to play in that get the brunt of it.
 
Kaka Tim said:
Local kids going a bit bonkers in my street, climbing over walls, throwing bricks, shouting and screaming. Cops turned up and they pissed off.
Small beer, but i would imagine this will be a growing problem, especially if we have warm weather and all the normal teen hangouts are closed.
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It’s going to be a very longggg summer.
 
Just had a text off the gf - local country park has just been closed down due to too many people going.
 
One of the people who set up our street WhatsApp group has finally stepped in and said "please can we keep this group to useful local updates and helping each other".

All manner of shit has been sent round. Last night a load of really unfunny clips, mostly not even on the topic of coronavirus, were sent round and this morning, someone shares a clip from a Chinese TV show from 2002 which featured a deadly coronavirus with the comment "I don't know what to think". Then someone else sent some other cospiraloon thing that I didn't even watch. I lost it and replied that this is all ridiculous nonsense. Probably should have been more measured but the conspiracy stuff is really angering me.

Then we got the message to keep the group to useful stuff. Lots of people sent agreement, including the person who had sent the conspiracy shit in the first place.

At least my phone won't be going off every 5 minutes now. I hope.
 
Mrs Miggins said:
One of the people who set up our street WhatsApp group has finally stepped in and said "please can we keep this group to useful local updates and helping each other".

All manner of shit has been sent round. Last night a load of really unfunny clips, mostly not even on the topic of coronavirus, were sent round and this morning, someone shares a clip from a Chinese TV show from 2002 which featured a deadly coronavirus with the comment "I don't know what to think". Then someone else sent some other cospiraloon thing that I didn't even watch. I lost it and replied that this is all ridiculous nonsense. Probably should have been more measured but the conspiracy stuff is really angering me.

Then we got the message to keep the group to useful stuff. Lots of people sent agreement, including the person who had sent the conspiracy shit in the first place.

At least my phone won't be going off every 5 minutes now. I hope.
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You can mute notifications on Whatsapp groups.
 
I have just suggested to our street group that those of us with gardens consider making them available to those in the street who live on the upper floors and don't. I am also offering seeds, soil and pots to anyone living in a flat that wants to grow things on their window sills.
 
As well as the NHS staff, carers, people working in the supply chain of essentials, check out staff, utility workers, take away operators, delivery drivers, posties, should add waste and recycling workers to the list who deserve thanks and gratitude.

Thank fuck the bins and recycling are still being collected.
 
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