General Coronavirus (COVID-19) chat

[gentlegreen]

difficult to express all that.
I will stick a notice to my wheelie bin

 

[treelover]

My sister says she just suddenly lost her sense of smell yesterday, even when sticking her nose over bottle of vinegar. That must be so strange.
Sorry if it’s already been posted but looks like advice is going around to look out for this and behave accordingly even if it’s your only symptom:

https://www.entuk.org/sites/default/files/files/Loss%20of%20sense%20of%20smell%20as%20marker%20of%20COVID.pdf

happened to me i spray lemon myrtle around my flat, it has a lovely but pungent spray, can't smell nowt, could be allergy season, but think its C19.

 

[gentlegreen]

Good luck you guys ... I suppose if we're lucky, we get a minor viral hit in a non-critical place and get to make antibodies ready for bigger exposures ...

 

[Pingety Pong]

Thank fuck the bins and recycling are still being collected.

We got a message today that our council (in Greater Manchester) aren't collecting the green or blue bins anymore. Only the black ones every fortnight, and once a month the bottles.

 

[SheilaNaGig]

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.

I think they’ve been given key-worker status now.

But they’re not well protected or supported.

 

[SheilaNaGig]

difficult to express all that.
I will stick a notice to my wheelie bin

Yeah, I’m doing this too.

 

[SheilaNaGig]

happened to me i spray lemon myrtle around my flat, it has a lovely but pungent spray, can't smell nowt, could be allergy season, but think its C19.

This symptom I should now widely reported.

Zinc deficiency caused loss of small and taste. We use zinc to power up the immune syste.

It’s possible that it’s an early symptom because the immune system is detecting and responding to the infection, and so using up zinc.

Top up your zinc :
Meat
Dairy
Eggs
Nuts
Seeds (esp sesame, pumpkin)
Legumes

 

[Mrs Miggins]

They've started again on the WhatsApp group. I'm going to have to just ignore it. I'm not sure whether to just leave the group but will I then be the miserable cunt who doesn't want to pull together in these difficult times?

 

[Mrs Miggins]

It's making me feel like a real bloody awful misanthrope and I'm not. I just don't want random thoughts from someone up the street.

I think I need to quietly leave the group. If I leave the group, does a notification show up or do you just disappear?

 

[killer b]

it says [name] has left the conversation. I'd just mute it for a week - these groups are just full of crap atm because there isn't that much for them to do yet - that might be different next week. Probably will be.

 

[Mrs Miggins]

OK. I dont really want to flounce and I am in a foul mood today. I'll just ignore it.

 

[Mrs Miggins]

Maybe I am an awful misanthrope

 

[killer b]

not at all, the mutual support facebook group I've joined is full of similar bollocks - I'd have turned it off last week if I was getting an alert everytime someone posted some bullshit conspiracy or another awful meme to it.

 

[hash tag]

Rationing, stuff difficult to get hold of, black market economy, DONT PANIC
Dads Army is still showing

 

[Marty1]

Amazon have stopped drivers leaving parcels with neighbours today.

 

[kenny g]

Amazon have stopped drivers leaving parcels with neighbours today.

GOOD. Really felt for my neighbour last week. Apparently he had about five parcels for different neighbours in his front hall. New arrival so he couldn't exactly tell them to fuck off but did seem bizarre in terms of where we are nowadays.

 

[Marty1]

our street went mad, clapping, whooping, cheering and fireworks. powerful.

Yeah, same here - I nearly shit myself, didn’t know anything about this clapping, cheering thing.

 

[farmerbarleymow]

Went to Boots to see if could order some hayfever tablets online - 68,940 people ahead of me just to access the website.

 

[SheilaNaGig]

Maybe I am an awful misanthrope

I think this place serves a similar need/purpose, but is way better than a WhatsApp group. We only log in when we want to, have to opt in (not out) of alerts and only follow threads that interest us.

 

[xes]

Went to Boots to see if could order some hayfever tablets online - 68,940 people ahead of me just to access the website.

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At least you can sort out your own on hold music.

 

[farmerbarleymow]

At least you can sort out your own on hold music.

And the excitement builds - I am now at 38,415 in the queue.

 

[farmerbarleymow]

Anyone want anything ordering from Boots while I'm in the giant queue?

 

[Marty1]

Lockdown possibly till June.

Coronavirus: Boris Johnson reveals 20,000 ex-NHS staff have returned to help fight COVID-19 — Sky News

Boris Johnson has revealed 20,000 ex-staff have returned to the NHS to help fight coronavirus after Britons were warned restrictions on their lives may last for at least six months.

apple.news

 

[Badgers]

Anyone want anything ordering from Boots while I'm in the giant queue?

Codeine and Viagra

 

[farmerbarleymow]

Codeine and Viagra

I'll see if they sell that online. I've just noticed they've used a bloody awful awful phrase 'shopping the website'

Now at 15,055.

 

[xes]

Anyone want anything ordering from Boots while I'm in the giant queue?

I hope you're all 2 meters apart!

 

[xes]

There's now 146,442 in the queue.

 

[farmerbarleymow]

I hope you're all 2 meters apart!

What puzzles me is how much demand can there be for stuff boots sells? I understand the supermarkets being swamped, but there's only so much shampoo and stuff any individual can possibly buy so why do they need a queue.

 

[farmerbarleymow]

There's now 146,442 in the queue.

Blood hell! Now at 12,145. If my browser crashes I'll be very unhappy.

 

[JuanTwoThree]

This about shopworkers from Grace Dent in the Guardian

I hope we remember the selfless hard work of the till workers and midnight shelf-stackers, the people on self-service checkouts who sort our unexplained item in the baggage area problems without maintaining a safe distance. Forever touching the screens we’ve just touched, keeping the queues moving and, by default, breathing in our germs. As shoppers ransacked the pasta and fought over UHT, they had no time to plan for their own families or to watch rolling news or to think too hard if their sweat was the mark of hard work or a fever. I would hug, if I could, the team at my Sainsbury’s Local, who open at dawn every day, always jolly, with the shelves restocked with small amounts of almost all vital items. I’m especially indebted to the drivers whom I’m trusting to get to my mother. They’re taking up the slack on what is now my biggest life problem. I’m trusting total strangers to feed her, not upset her, not frighten her, to keep their distance and to leave the boxes somewhere handy. And to explain to her why there are no rich teas. I wouldn’t call that job unskilled at all.