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Pandemic personal consequences

Just learnt that a mate of mine has died.
He was "elderly" and had survived cancer once. He's the first person I know who has gone during this though. Can't help wondering who else I won't see again.
Proud Scotsman, he lived for many years in Reading, working in the pub trade. Reading FC stalwart - home and away fan. One of the first members of CAMRA and a founder of Reading CAMRA. Can't believe I'm never going to have a pint with the old git again. Dave Mac, I salute you sir. :beer::beer::beer:
 
TheHoodedClaw said:
Now these shops get their stock from a cash and carry most likely, so the question is: how come cash and carry's have more robust supply chains than the big supermarkets?
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what's now known as 'logistics' isn't quite my thing but fairly sure the supermarkets work on principles of being 'lean' and 'efficient' and 'just in time' based on complicated forecasting, so stuff arrives in one end of the distribution centres and goes out the other as quick as possible without a warehousing stage, with the distribution centres working 24/7 and frequent deliveries to individual shops, that then get stuff from lorry to shop floor as quick as possible.

the forecasting systems can't have been able to cope with this happening
 
mx wcfc said:
Just learnt that a mate of mine has died.
He was "elderly" and had survived cancer once. He's the first person I know who has gone during this though. Can't help wondering who else I won't see again.
Proud Scotsman, he lived for many years in Reading, working in the pub trade. Reading FC stalwart - home and away fan. One of the first members of CAMRA and a founder of Reading CAMRA. Can't believe I'm never going to have a pint with the old git again. Dave Mac, I salute you sir. :beer::beer::beer:
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Sorry for your loss, mx wcfc x
 
Bahnhof Strasse said:
Why have they done that?
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And probably because there's more rubbish to collect cos of people being at home, so more staff are diverted to normal rubbish collections. As well as refuse collectors being off sick means numbers are down :(

I keep expecting our monthly glass collection to be suspended, and I've got at least 4 months worth of glass hanging around cos i keep missing it :mad: That's what I maintain anyway :whistles: No really, I have missed it. It's an embarrassing amount of bottles anyway.
 
Are these private waste contractors?

Our waste collection is still run by the council, and they have directed staff from other operations to cover staff shortages & maintain a regular service for all collections.
 
cupid_stunt said:
Are these private waste contractors?

Our waste collection is still run by the council, and they have directed staff from other operations to cover staff shortages & maintain a regular service for all collections.
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Our black bin was collected about 2 hrs ago, the green recycling bin (glass, plastic, tins etc) was missed the last collection but one which was three weeks ago, but was collected last week as usual. They've occasionally skipped collections in the past and come the next day so I left it out and they still didn't come and when I checked on the website there was a statement that they were short handed and we would just have to live with a missed collection.
Even under normal situations missed bin collections are trivial in the grand scheme of things never mind at the moment.
 
Just been to the supermarket, I think I'm getting the hang of this masking & gloving up malarkey. After watching a couple of videos (on here I think), and reading some of the comments in the NHS workers thread, I was much more careful this time about cross-contamination. I left my e-cig in the car so I wasn't tempted to use it in the queue, and didn't get my phone out. I masked up in the car this time, then hand sanitised and put gloves on. Last time I made a phone call while shopping and forget about cross contamination. Doh.

I still only saw a couple of other people in masks today though. At least a couple of the staff were wearing them this time. I think people are getting bored of social distancing, there were more people not respecting the 2 metres, and just barging past through tight gaps :rolleyes:

These gloves though, your hands smell of latex for the rest of the day.
 
chainsawjob said:
Just been to the supermarket, I think I'm getting the hang of this masking & gloving up malarkey. After watching a couple of videos (on here I think), and reading some of the comments in the NHS workers thread, I was much more careful this time about cross-contamination. I left my e-cig in the car so I wasn't tempted to use it in the queue, and didn't get my phone out. I masked up in the car this time, then hand sanitised and put gloves on. Last time I made a phone call while shopping and forget about cross contamination. Doh.

I still only saw a couple of other people in masks today though. At least a couple of the staff were wearing them this time. I think people are getting bored of social distancing, there were more people not respecting the 2 metres, and just barging past through tight gaps :rolleyes:

These gloves though, your hands smell of latex for the rest of the day.
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Are you using blue ones? Mine (blue) say "latex-free", and don't really smell of anything very much at all...
 
chainsawjob said:
No, they're clear, they're made by marigold. Thin like the blue ones (which I use, did use, at work, catering, and don't smell).
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Aha, right. This does mean, of course, that you're missing out on the "Look everybody, I'm gloved!" lockdown chic that bright blue ones provide :D

Still, I guess the latex smell is at least a kind of reminder to maintain precautions...
 
I'm going to the shop once every 2-3 days for supplies, I live with an at risk person so the instructions from NHS say to keep it minimum. Big 28 days later vibe but in kettering rather than London. So more like Wyndham than 28 days later, but without the triffids. IN ANY CASE its getting draining in some ways. I had a 'special' delivery posted last tuesday and its still not here, so thats a big annoyance. I mean its been easter weekend and the post bods are all struggling with the current conditions so on the list of things to moan about it seems a trivial one. Nevertheless, I must have weed for the apocalypse.
 
I'm missing physical contact. Not sexual, especially, though that would also be nice. But just hugs and ordinary interactions.

Most of my current housemates are much younger than me, so it would seem weird to go to them for my own contact needs. And although we share communal spaces and so are likely cross-contaminated, we're mostly all (rightly) being as distancy as possible.

Just 4 more days of this quarantine and then I'll have my sign up by the front gate offering "Free Hugs" :thumbs: :hmm:
 
Mation said:
I'm missing physical contact. Not sexual, especially, though that would also be nice. But just hugs and ordinary interactions.

Most of my current housemates are much younger than me, so it would seem weird to go to them for my own contact needs. And although we share communal spaces and so are likely cross-contaminated, we're mostly all (rightly) being as distancy as possible.

Just 4 more days of this quarantine and then I'll have my sign up by the front gate offering "Free Hugs" :thumbs: :hmm:
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Yeah - it's the lack of physical interaction that's been the toughest sacrifice for me...
 
Mation said:
I'm missing physical contact. Not sexual, especially, though that would also be nice. But just hugs and ordinary interactions.

Most of my current housemates are much younger than me, so it would seem weird to go to them for my own contact needs. And although we share communal spaces and so are likely cross-contaminated, we're mostly all (rightly) being as distancy as possible.

Just 4 more days of this quarantine and then I'll have my sign up by the front gate offering "Free Hugs" :thumbs: :hmm:
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Times a million.

I’m lucky, there’s just the 2 of us and there’s no distancing between my wife and I and we get on 99% of the time and there’s lots of hugs at the moment. But jeez do I miss seeing/hugging my Fam & Friends.
 
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Times a million.

I’m lucky, there’s just the 2 of us and there’s no distancing between my wife and I and we get on 99% of the time and there’s lots of hugs at the moment. But jeez do I miss seeing/hugging my Fam & Friends.
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Yup. Even when this 14 days is up, chances of me getting to hug fam are slim for now. Some friends a bit less so, I hope. But a wary hug... :(
 
Haven't been for a dog walk with the neighbours for a couple of weeks now - they came past the gate and we had a bit of a talk, Cosmo whimpered hello to their dog through the gate. A couple of hours later I went out to see where she was, she was still by the gate looking out at the road :(
 
My webcam has been appropriated, Youngest tells me that the built-in one in her mothers Macbook isn't ideal for online teaching and thus mine has been requisitioned by the Education Authority for the duration of the crisis.
The delivery drivers around here have a new modus operandi where they place the parcel on the doorstep, ring the bell and retreat to a safe distance, and then wait until we give them the thumbs up through the window.
Saw the bus again whilst out on my walk, this time there was a solitary passenger on it sat at the very back as far from the driver as they could get.
 
existentialist - hello mate, dunno if you might be able to shed some light...

i'm begining to feel a bit under seige. hemmed in, constrained, very much subject to the will and vagaries of others - and its really getting me down. again, proper first world problem, but its affecting me far more than i thought it would given the objective realities of my situation and the objectively much worse experiences i've (i think, fairly happily) gone through before.

i'm simply not used to having any constraints - apart from self-imposed ones - on what i do, and where i go, and i'm finding the whole thing very difficult: headaches, feeling stressy, etc...
 
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