General Coronavirus (COVID-19) chat

[bimble]

I’ve got logistical questions about how to safely do this thing today (old couple coming to eat in my garden).
It’s perfectly legal now for them to do this, and for them to use my (very clean) loo, but how do we manage sharing food . No shared cutlery I suppose everyone help yourself with your own spoon? What else should I be thinking of any ideas?

 

[Supine]

I’ve got logistical questions about how to safely do this thing today (old couple coming to eat in my garden).
It’s perfectly legal now for them to do this, and for them to use my (very clean) loo, but how do we manage sharing food . No shared cutlery I suppose everyone help yourself with your own spoon? What else should I be thinking of any ideas?

No shared anything and don't do it until you are sure about what your doing...

 

[bimble]

No shared anything and don't do it until you are sure about what your doing...

Well they’re coming in a couple of hours. We all wash hands before touching any food related things and again after. No serving spoons just take your stuff onto your plate with your own cutlery, they can sit at table and I’ll perch a distance away. It’s the practical stuff that will make a difference and that a half decent public info system could help with.

 

[Badgers]

I’ve got logistical questions about how to safely do this thing today (old couple coming to eat in my garden).
It’s perfectly legal now for them to do this, and for them to use my (very clean) loo, but how do we manage sharing food . No shared cutlery I suppose everyone help yourself with your own spoon? What else should I be thinking of any ideas?

There is nothing legally wrong with this but I just would not be encouraging old couples with this sort of thing. Not doing the same with my parents for sure!

If you must then fully wash hands, spoons and such!
A better idea would be for them to bring their own food/cutlery.
Even better idea is for them not to come at all!

 

[bimble]

Re not encouraging them, this is a fierce and opinionated Scottish woman who was having absolutely none of it when I called her to have a chat about are you sure you want to do this. Older people are not babies and these ones at least are not staying in their flat until some undefined day in the future, it’s about how to do it safely now not whether they should be leaving the house at all. All cutlery getting a big wash now.

 

[Badgers]

Re not encouraging them

Have you considered telling them no?

 

[bimble]

Have you considered telling them no?

No. They said can we come picnic in yr garden and I just said yes. Am just going to make sure we stay well distanced and everything is done safely.
There’s going to be loads of this isn’t there, people with good intentions having different views on managing risk & how to respond to the situation for the foreseeable.

 

[Badgers]

No. They said can we come picnic in yr garden and I just said yes. Am just going to make sure we stay well distanced and everything is done safely.
There’s going to be loads of this isn’t there, people with good intentions having different views on managing risk & how to respond to the situation for the foreseeable.

In that case I wish you and them good luck

 

[littlebabyjesus]

There is nothing legally wrong with this but I just would not be encouraging old couples with this sort of thing. Not doing the same with my parents for sure!

If you must then fully wash hands, spoons and such!
A better idea would be for them to bring their own food/cutlery.
Even better idea is for them not to come at all!

It's a risk assessment, no? If I were doing this, I'd ask myself who else has been in the house in the last week, who else have I been in contact with in the last week, do I work in a hospital or care home, do any of the people I've been in contact with in the last week work in a hospital or care home? There are ways of working out if you're more or less likely to be infected than the general population. Many of us can say 'less likely' with some degree of confidence depending on the answers to questions like the above.

 

[bimble]

Exactly . 0 people have been inside my house apart from me for about 3 weeks, no close contact unless you count the cat. I’ve been weekly shopping and that’s it, etc. I do feel a bit defensive but understand that we are all going to have to make these calls and won’t make the same ones.

 

[DexterTCN]

I have found that the masks are fucking great if you like singing. Along with distancing if you're not loud you can have a great time.

I've ordered a bigger one, can't really open your jaw all the way with the batman one.

Also...I'm Batman.

 

[Anju]

One of my wife's friends from school was going on about having no income and having to be cautious about spending, after she was pulled up for moaning about people not socially distancing at a market. It was pointed out that not everyone can sit at home and get ocado deliveries.

This was a couple of weeks ago and since she has purchased and put
on Facebook trainers, sun shelter, dog bed, dog agility course, 2 £260 sun loungers and the item in the picture, which when combined in my mind with the claim of cautious spending has had me in stitches. Can't work out how people can be quite so self absorbed / delusional.

 

[phillm]

One of my wife's friends from school was going on about having no income and having to be cautious about spending, after she was pulled up for moaning about people not socially distancing at a market. It was pointed out that not everyone can sit at home and get ocado deliveries.

This was a couple of weeks ago and since she has purchased and put
on Facebook trainers, sun shelter, dog bed, dog agility course, 2 £260 sun loungers and the item in the picture, which when combined in my mind with the claim of cautious spending has had me in stitches. Can't work out how people can be quite so self absorbed / delusional.

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As it says in the good book "Thous shalt not covet thy neighbours tortoise enclosure". Anyway, totally boring pets I was traumatised as a child when Blue Peter's tortoise snuffed it during hibernation. Rather have a hare.

 

[farmerbarleymow]

As it says in the good book "Thous shalt not covet thy neighbours tortoise enclosure". Anyway, totally boring pets I was traumatised as a child when Blue Peter's tortoise snuffed it during hibernation. Rather have a hare.

At least you a hare probably tastes nice when it's cooked in a stew.

 

[phillm]

At least you a hare probably tastes nice when it's cooked in a stew.

For some reason, I was reminded of the vandalism of the Blue Peter garden when I was younger. I was inwardly rather wrongly amused now I see it for what it was wanton vandalism with no excuse. Please don't vandalise your neighbour's tortoise enclosure. Not that you would.
Apologies it is Anju not you U have no idea if you covet anything untoward.

 

[farmerbarleymow]

This is interesting - describing COVID-19 as a vascular disease, rather than respiratory.

Coronavirus May Be a Blood Vessel Disease, Which Explains Everything

Many of the infection’s bizarre symptoms have one thing in common

elemental.medium.com

 

[Orang Utan]

For some reason, I was reminded of the vandalism of the Blue Peter garden when I was younger. I was inwardly rather wrongly amused now I see it for what it was wanton vandalism with no excuse. Please don't vandalise your neighbour's tortoise enclosure. Not that you would.
Apologies it is Anju not you U have no idea if you covet anything untoward.

We laughed hysterically at this when it was announced on Blue Peter. Such solemnity invited ridicule. Well, it did in my household

 

[farmerbarleymow]

We laughed hysterically at this when it was announced on Blue Peter. Such solemnity invited ridicule. Well, it did in my household

That's because you're a wrong 'un - who would laugh at the death of animals.

 

[Orang Utan]

That's because you're a wrong 'un - who would laugh at the death of animals.

They were just fish weren’t they?

 

[farmerbarleymow]

They were just fish weren’t they?

Speciesist

 

[Orang Utan]

Speciesist

Fish ain’t a species. In fact there’s No Such Thing As A Fish

 

[phillm]

We laughed hysterically at this when it was announced on Blue Peter. Such solemnity invited ridicule. Well, it did in my household

This was a goodie at a risk of a major derail...

 

[farmerbarleymow]

Fish ain’t a species. In fact there’s No Such Thing As A Fish

OK, smartarse, you're a gillophobe.

 

[two sheds]

This was a goodie at a risk of a major derail...

I'd assumed that was pig related

 

[Sprocket.]

Fish ain’t a species. In fact there’s No Such Thing As A Fish

I’ll Try queuing at the no such thing and chip shop

 

[farmerbarleymow]

I’ll Try queuing at the no such thing and chip shop

Orang Utan is certainly no expert in biology.

 

[Orang Utan]

OK, smartarse, you're a gillophobe.

Not scared of little ones, just sharks. Like eating fish though

 

[Orang Utan]

Orang Utan is certainly no expert in biology.

There really is no such thing as a fish though, taxonomically

 

[Puddy_Tat]

There really is no such thing as a fish though, taxonomically

but fish aren't liable to pay taxes

 

[Sprocket.]

but fish aren't liable to pay taxes

Not yet!