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What are you panic buying?

danny la rouge said:
Oats, water, salt. Soak overnight. Cook.

Serve. Splash of milk to cool if you wish.

If you’re using rolled oats, you don’t need to soak over night.
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I read somewhere about a survival dish made with oats layered with smoked fish in a barrel. I think it was for arctic conditions as they eat it uncooked just out of the frozen barrel and warmed up to room temp. Yum yum.
 
I’ve bought a bit of extra pasta and rice, a big box of tea bags that was on special offer.
I also bought a few bags of bread mix. Mr Looby thinks this is hilarious because I’ve never made bread in my life.
I also bought a few extra packs of paracetamol. Not really panic buying as I always shop for tins etc monthly anyway.
Still no fucking sanitiser though. 😡
 
Looby said:
I’ve bought a bit of extra pasta and rice, a big box of tea bags that was on special offer.
I also bought a few bags of bread mix. Mr Looby thinks this is hilarious because I’ve never made bread in my life.
I also bought a few extra packs of paracetamol. Not really panic buying as I always shop for tins etc monthly anyway.
Still no fucking sanitiser though. 😡
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Soap and water is way better that hand sanitiser, but you could make your own, mix dettol with aloe gel, you can get little bottles and pots to put it it. :cool:

Mind you, how are the dettol shelves doing :hmm:
 
Luckily we have loads of sanitiser at work already and we use it regularly anyway. Not bothering at home though.
 
Orang Utan said:
It is big, but we didn’t have it for the other flu outbreaks, and the usual winter flu, so why start now? People need to calm down
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It's more deadly than the flu.

The swine flu pandemic of 2009 meant 20% of the world population were infected and half a million died. The case fatality rate was 0.08%

SARS was scarier as it had a case fatality rate of around 20%. Because it was so good at killing, it means it was easier to spot and control - isolate the cases and quickly you died or got better. The world was mostly saved. 8,000 were infected and 774 died. Over a two year period.

Now, this coronavirus has an estimate case fatality rate of 1% at the low end (UK position) and 3.6% at the high end (WHO position). Meaning it's way more deadly than the flu, but not deadly enough that you can carry it a long time and infect loads of people before you get too sick yourself.

It's already killed 5 times as many as SARS in only three months, and it's not really hit the world's poorest countries yet - that we know of.

It has the potential to infect 80% of the UK population, and if the fatality rate is 3.6% that's well over a million people dead. This almost certainly means people you know will die from this.

Even at 1%, it could mean half a million dead in the UK alone.

It's really fucking serious.
 
Morrisons big local store aint got any bog roll left. Keep calm and hold it in.

He who panic buys first laughs all the way to the toilet.
 
beans, lentils, rice... keeping it simple ;) Luckily have wipes and nappies from a sale BC* when I bought a load of them.

(*Before coronavirus)
 
Fez909 said:
It's more deadly than the flu.

The swine flu pandemic of 2009 meant 20% of the world population were infected and half a million died. The case fatality rate was 0.08%

SARS was scarier as it had a case fatality rate of around 20%. Because it was so good at killing, it means it was easier to spot and control - isolate the cases and quickly you died or got better. The world was mostly saved. 8,000 were infected and 774 died. Over a two year period.

Now, this coronavirus has an estimate case fatality rate of 1% at the low end (UK position) and 3.6% at the high end (WHO position). Meaning it's way more deadly than the flu, but not deadly enough that you can carry it a long time and infect loads of people before you get too sick yourself.

It's already killed 5 times as many as SARS in only three months, and it's not really hit the world's poorest countries yet - that we know of.

It has the potential to infect 80% of the UK population, and if the fatality rate is 3.6% that's well over a million people dead. This almost certainly means people you know will die from this.

Even at 1%, it could mean half a million dead in the UK alone.

It's really fucking serious.
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No point panicking though. Buying more bog roll, sanitiser etc. That’s the silliness I’m referring to. Just wash your hands more often. And be as hygienic as you already should be
 
Orang Utan said:
No point panicking though. Buying more bog roll, sanitiser etc. That’s the silliness I’m referring to. Just wash your hands more often. And be as hygienic as you already should be
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Agree with that, but I thought your beef was that it doesn't deserve its own forum?

Anyway, yes there's plenty of silliness. There will be more...
 
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