OV9

WILL SOMEONE THINK OF THE TREES

McLaren have pulled out of the Aus GP. A crew member has tested positive for Covid-19.

We run a lot of events / workshops for our clients and this morning were told that we should turn these into digital events until the end of April at least. We were also told that everyone in the organisation (300+ people) are to work from home on Monday as a trial run.

NotoriousREV wrote: Thu Mar 12, 2020 11:20 am

duncs500 wrote: Thu Mar 12, 2020 11:17 am

NotoriousREV wrote: Thu Mar 12, 2020 10:46 am MrsREV is currently out shopping. There’s no bog roll or pasta on the shelves at all. Fucking madness. How much bog roll does the average family get through in 2 weeks anyway?!

I thought we were running low on bog roll, but thankfully found a 9 pack under the stairs so no need to scour the shops for a pack. It will be interesting to see how barren the shelves are when we go for our weekly shop at the weekend!

ASDA Runcorn an hour ago.

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Rev now wiping his arse with Kleenex Balsam. How decadent

NotoriousREV wrote: Thu Mar 12, 2020 11:20 am

duncs500 wrote: Thu Mar 12, 2020 11:17 am

NotoriousREV wrote: Thu Mar 12, 2020 10:46 am MrsREV is currently out shopping. There’s no bog roll or pasta on the shelves at all. Fucking madness. How much bog roll does the average family get through in 2 weeks anyway?!

I thought we were running low on bog roll, but thankfully found a 9 pack under the stairs so no need to scour the shops for a pack. It will be interesting to see how barren the shelves are when we go for our weekly shop at the weekend!

ASDA Runcorn an hour ago.

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Same round here none anywhere according to the MiL who needed some yesterday.

Just ordered these: edit - amazon link not working but suffice to say that amazon sellers have a lot in bulk buy at reasonable prices.

Don't need 60 of the things but they'll get used eventually and they're a good price so we can store them for a few weeks.

We are OK for a few days but shopping day was tomorrow (wife resisted last week and did a totally normal shop) and I doubt they'll be anything left.

We eat a lot of fresh stuff, which I'm assuming will be fine?

Ireland to shutdown now.

Mito Man wrote: Thu Mar 12, 2020 10:58 am I’m kinda skeptical if they’re doing it on purpose to add in to the panic and increase sales as I didn’t see a single member of staff restocking on both occasions whereas whenever you go shopping you do usually see a few people restocking

You can't make money without having stock, Mito.

This is pretty elementary economics.

Beany wrote: Thu Mar 12, 2020 12:11 pm

Mito Man wrote: Thu Mar 12, 2020 10:58 am I’m kinda skeptical if they’re doing it on purpose to add in to the panic and increase sales as I didn’t see a single member of staff restocking on both occasions whereas whenever you go shopping you do usually see a few people restocking

You can't make money without having stock, Mito.

This is pretty elementary economics.

Time to start selling futures!

Put my $500 on Pork Bellies and Orange Juice, Randolph!

It’s so they get the sheeple in to buy all the other crap they have. Even the Easter egg aisle was ravaged

Wife has just heard on the radio that our schools are to shut after tomorrow.

drcarlos wrote: Thu Mar 12, 2020 12:20 pm Wife has just heard on the radio that our schools are to shut after tomorrow.

Does that cover Sandhurst too ? Or are we different authorities ?

GG. wrote: Thu Mar 12, 2020 12:15 pm

Put my $500 on Pork Bellies and Orange Juice, Randolph!

Good reference!

Sundayjumper wrote: Thu Mar 12, 2020 12:29 pm

drcarlos wrote: Thu Mar 12, 2020 12:20 pm Wife has just heard on the radio that our schools are to shut after tomorrow.

Does that cover Sandhurst too ? Or are we different authorities ?

Well despite looking I cannot see anything to confirm it at all. She must have misheard, so stand that down for now.

tim wrote: Thu Mar 12, 2020 10:07 am I was on blood bike duty last night - I moved 2 sus Covid-19 samples and we moved 11 as a group across the county. Being turned out 3 times in a night is unheard of, but I suspect it will get busier yet.

Thank you, and all the volunteers like you.

GF works in a school in Oxfordshire and has been told, off the record, prepare for a shutdown.

But Boris has just announced schools will NOT be shutdown. So who the fuck knows..

I was just in tesco buying milk, completely out of bogroll and anything remotely hand-washy. Mental.

Looks like amazon is out of hand gel too ffs...

tim wrote: Thu Mar 12, 2020 2:03 pm Looks like amazon is out of hand gel too ffs...

now we really are fucked.

Tesco in Bicester earlier, no toilet roll, hand wash, pasta etc etc.

Just spoke to parents in North Notts, there’s plenty of all the above everywhere you go *shrug*

240PP wrote: Thu Mar 12, 2020 1:53 pm GF works in a school in Oxfordshire and has been told, off the record, prepare for a shutdown.

But Boris has just announced schools will NOT be shutdown. So who the fuck knows..

Odd isn’t it. Social distancing is the only solution we have that seems to reduce infection but are they going to wait till the hospitals get overwhelmed?

240PP wrote: Thu Mar 12, 2020 2:06 pm

tim wrote: Thu Mar 12, 2020 2:03 pm Looks like amazon is out of hand gel too ffs...

now we really are fucked.

It's been like that since last week!