What are you panic buying?

[two sheds]

Problem there is that there is nothing to stop the dickheads going into the shop, buying their limit, loading the car with it and going back in for another load and using a different till.

Machine gun turrets, sorted

 

[WouldBe]

I found the promised land
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Mum said they were giving away 9 packs of bog roll to anyone who wanted them in Wilko this morning.

 

[WouldBe]

Went to Morrisons this afternoon. Got most of what I wanted but they had no pet food at all. May have to resort to feeding the dogs on stockpiling dickheads.

 

[Hollis]

Pet food is my main concern tbh - try online at midnight..

I'm going to be using my local shops more from now on... just went there and they seem well-stocked..

 

[GailL]

Aloe vera gel is notoriously difficult to mix with alcohol. You need glycerine. This stuff.

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Keep the gel though, you can use that on your skin as it is.

Yes, I noticed! You have to add some water too, in order to keep it gel-looking. When I mixed it at first, it was green liquid with a floating white "chewing gum" inside, then added some water as I read the alcohol shouldn't be more than 60% and the rubbing one was 96%.

 

[two sheds]

Yes, I noticed! You have to add some water too, in order to keep it gel-looking. When I mixed it at first, it was green liquid with a floating white "chewing gum" inside, then added some water as I read the alcohol shouldn't be more than 60% and the rubbing one was 96%.

alcohol content should be 60-80% to kill coronavirus

 

[Dogsauce]

Problem there is that there is nothing to stop the dickheads going into the shop, buying their limit, loading the car with it and going back in for another load and using a different till.

ahen I went in Costco last week it was one pack of bog roll per membership card, which would have stopped people getting more (though why you’d want more than the 40 rolls you get in their smallest bulk pack nobody knows).

 

[xes]

Yes, I noticed! You have to add some water too, in order to keep it gel-looking. When I mixed it at first, it was green liquid with a floating white "chewing gum" inside, then added some water as I read the alcohol shouldn't be more than 60% and the rubbing one was 96%.

It needs to be between 60-95% you need it above 60. It's about the alcohol breaking down the oils in the skin and removing them. So it needs to be quite high. You also have to account for evaporation when making it, so aim for around 80%.

 

[Saul Goodman]

With all this talk of Coronavirus, I got a sudden urge to drink some Corona, so I've just been into town to get some, and I had to go to 5 shops before I found any. I even went to Tesco, for shame, and they had no beer of any description... The world's gone mad!
But I did eventually find some Corona in a Dunne's store, and they were on special offer. Half price! They were some of the only beers left on the shelves. Maybe people thought they contained the virus? I dunno, but there were 4 crates left, so I bought two, and left the other two for anyone else who might be in my position.

 

[two sheds]

It needs to be between 60-95% you need it above 60. It's about the alcohol breaking down the oils in the skin and removing them. So it needs to be quite high. You also have to account for evaporation when making it, so aim for around 80%.

I've read 60-80% so I've aimed for 70%. I was going through mental gymnastics trying to work out how to calculate the amount of water I'd need for 250 ml alcohol and eventually decided on 100 ml water as in 250/350= 71%.

Only reference I can find at the moment on 90% + not being effective is: Is 70% or 90% isopropyl alcohol better for disinfecting? - Quora

 

[two sheds]

"A concentration of 70% ethanol is also recommended by the WHO for disinfecting small surfaces"

Persistence of coronaviruses on inanimate surfaces and their inactivation with biocidal agents

Currently, the emergence of a novel human coronavirus, SARS-CoV-2, has become a global health concern causing severe respiratory tract infections in h…

www.sciencedirect.com

 

[iona]

For the people talking about buying / not having a sourdough starter - you don't need one. Just need flour and water to make your own, that's it. Iirc wholewheat or rye flours are meant to be better to start with coz they have more yeast, but white flour should work too.

 

[circleline]

Surgical spirit is useful and a fiver a bottle in the chemist. Have eked out hand-sanitiser with it recently..

And I love the smell of surgical spirit in the morning..

 

[Tankus]

If they are short of staff and logistics to retail it

There is and will be no shortage of petrol. The opposite is true. The Saudis are involved in a complicated price war. This has driven production up and the price of petrol down.

Saudis shed light on oil production increase that rattled markets

Breakdown of talks with Russia prompted Saudi Arabia to turn on taps and push down price

www.theguardian.com

If only we could ask them to do the same with pasta.

*my place was 30% down .....and that was before the kids were sent home

 

[Badgers]

 

[Numbers]

Pretty much all, supermarkets and local, are already doing this from what I’ve seen.

 

[og ogilby]

Just been and filled up a couple of petrol cans so I can mow my mums lawn and cut her hedge over the summer.

 

[bimble]

Has anyone yet tried having a word with / shaming other people in the shops if you spot them with huge piles of duplicated products? I mean instead of waiting for police to be stationed in every tesco or the government to sort it out or supermarket staff to put themselves at risk. I don’t know might work if people felt ashamed and a bit scared of their fellow shoppers .

 

[gentlegreen]

Yes, I noticed! You have to add some water too, in order to keep it gel-looking. When I mixed it at first, it was green liquid with a floating white "chewing gum" inside, then added some water as I read the alcohol shouldn't be more than 60% and the rubbing one was 96%.

aloe vera gel IS mostly water already. the successful recipes are useing apres-soleil which is a synthetic gel with a token amount of aloe vera

 

[platinumsage]

aloe vera gel IS mostly water already. the successful recipes are useing apres-soleil which is a synthetic gel with a token amount of aloe vera

The consumer sanitiser sold in small bottles in shops (containing polyacrylic acid aka carbomer) is almost like hair gel and quite different to the commercial stuff used hospitals and automated dispensers etc, which is more runny (usually with glycerin). If you're starting with 70% IPA you don't really want to be diluting it too much further in an attempt to make it gel-like.

 

[gentlegreen]

Even when you start with 99 percent IPA, adding 1/3 pure aloe vera gel means you end up with 66 percent IPA and a bundle of cellulose
...

 

[platinumsage]

Has anyone yet tried having a word with / shaming other people in the shops if you spot them with huge piles of duplicated products? I mean instead of waiting for police to be stationed in every tesco or the government to sort it out or supermarket staff to put themselves at risk. I don’t know might work if people felt ashamed and a bit scared of their fellow shoppers .

They might actually be buying for vulnerable people, food banks or the many community initiatives that have sprung up. Probably best to start off by inquiring politely and hoping they put their multiple products to good use.

 

[Mrs Miggins]

They might actually be buying for vulnerable people, food banks or the many community initiatives that have sprung up. Probably best to start off by inquiring politely and hoping they put their multiple products to good use.

Then they could just say so.
I might start doing it. It will be quite hard to pluck up the courage to challenge people but probably worth giving it a try.

 

[Marty1]

All I want is some pasta. I don’t want loads, just a couple of packets would be plenty. There seems to be pasta nowhere in Brum. Driving me up the wall. I can’t understand why people are still stripping the shelves, they must surely have enough to last them several weeks now.

Lifehack: go to Ann Summers - they sell penis shaped pasta.

 

[bimble]

They might actually be buying for vulnerable people, food banks or the many community initiatives that have sprung up. Probably best to start off by inquiring politely and hoping they put their multiple products to good use.

Thats true. But still might be helpful if a little bit of this were done by everyone who feels able rather than waiting for non existent police or leaving it all to the already overworked staff.

 

[Mrs Miggins]

Just been to my local shop for some butter. Shopkeeper says it has calmed down a bit since Friday. He stopped a man buying 2 big bags of flour "one per customer". He was fine about it and everyone else in the shop was mumbling their approval.

 

[platinumsage]

Thats true. But still might be helpful if a little bit of this were done by everyone who feels able rather than waiting for non existent police or leaving it all to the already overworked staff.

I agree, I'm just saying don't start off by calling them a selfish cunt.

 

[og ogilby]

Even when you start with 99 percent IPA, adding 1/3 pure aloe vera gel means you end up with 66 percent IPA and a bundle of cellulose
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Surely the best way is 70% IPA and 30% water and then put hand cream on afterwards.

 

[UnderOpenSky]

Meat section in Morrisons was fully stocked. I'm still in some epic queues though for my small basket. Got hand sanatiser as someone had tried to panic buy and I got two bottles before it went back on the empty shelves. Most importantly I got beer.

 

[UnderOpenSky]

One guy started getting arsy with the staff and the crowds shouted at him. Real community spirit. Who would have thought?