Covid-19

[mmcv]

I'm hoping once all the panic buyers are done with buying their hordes of toilet roll, frozen pizza and dried pasta the shops will have a chance to restock and get levels back to normal. Then they'll all feel like numpties. Or maybe not as they'll just self justify their selfish behaviour.

In other news, looks like I just got promoted to Lieutenant Colonel. Drinks are on me lads.

[FierceKitty]

Mine's a large one.

(studio reaction)

[Techno]

Mine's a large one.
(studio reaction)

Ooer, Matron.

In other news, looks like I just got promoted to Lieutenant Colonel. Drinks are on me lads.

Many congrats, that man.

(I'll forgo the drinkypoo.....Can I have a large pack of ultra soft bog roll, instead. )......Gimme strength.

Cheers - Phil

[Lord Kermit of Birkenhead]

Pint of Creme'd'month please ! 

[flamingpig0]

I despair of the human race at times. Maybe Adams was right, and we are all the descendants of marketing executives & telephone sanitisers . . .

Perhaps the telephone sanitisers will once again be proven right

[Raider4]

Perhaps the telephone sanitisers will once again be proven right

Yes, the Golgafrinchians were wiped out by a virulent disease caught from an un-sanitized telephone IIRC?

Now everyone's got a mobile, and this disease is spreading everywhere.

Coincidence . . . ?

[Orcs]

I'm absolutely sure that that's the case, Paul.

Around here, there are a good number of farmers who are my age.....or a good bit older.

Practically, they wouldn't be able to self isolate....They have to keep checking their animals and collect feed and 'meds' for their animals from the local 'co-ops'......There wouldn't be enough 'young' farmers available to pick up the 'slack'.

But surely if its only them in a field or barn miles from anyone else they are still "self Isolated" .  I suppose the sheep might ask them to use hand sanitizer before touching them.

[Techno]

Mark.

Sheep are probably (genuinely) the most stupid (thick) animals on this Earth.

Though it's a close call between sheep and chickens......(Trust me... I know of what I speak.)

But from what I see of the 'so called' top tier of evolution.....Homo Sapiens ?

I despair, too.

Cheers - Phil.

[Ithoriel]

Homo Sapiens (vocat ipsum) Sapiens

As a retiree living alone I'm not sure there's much difference between "self isolation," "sociial distancing" and "life as normal"

Congrats mmcv! Mine's a pint of alcohol based hand sanitiser, barman!

[d_Guy]

Congrats, mmcv. I'll have a Corona with lime.

[flamingpig0]

Congrats, mmcv. I'll have a Corona with lime.

Sadly the beer doesn't appear to have been reduced in price

[barbarian]

Keep an eye on the numbers in Italy, watch the curve, and when your country is taking action. Then forge your own opinion.

+368 deaths in Italy today, 1809 total.

[paulr]

Congratulations mmcv

[Techno]

Oh, Yann.

I think (here) we all know it's going to get a good deal worse before we start winning.

All we can do is be as sensible as possible in cutting down the risks for ourselves and those around us.

We will 'win' in the end, my friend.....It's going to be a right load of 'merde', for a while yet, though.

You take care.

Cheers - Phil

[Steve J]

Daughters Uni in Edinburgh going to video lectures from Wednesday and already have plans for exams either online or in the post. Whether I can get her home is another matter entirely.