Sweet jibbers Crabsticks - Johnson & his merry band of eugenic incompetents are the gift that keeps giving :/

On the plus side, for Barbarian at least it's likely Italy (& South Korea) are actually doing better at managing the virus than e.g. here or the States...

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"and believes eating fruits and vegetables is useful than wearing a face mask" Yep.
See attached article which may be more useful than government policy.

Never forget the exponential function:
https://consciousnessofsheep.co.uk/2020/03/01/our-second-greatest-shortcoming/

Mark

All schools are closed indefinitely in France from Monday.

Quarantined Person in the house.

Dr Holmes came back from a medical conference in Barcelona and straight into 14 days isloation.
No symptoms yet, but if there are then the whole household become quarantined.

First casualty of the confinement has been my game of Rebels and Patriots with Westmarcher.
There will be no report in "Last set of rules" this weekend.
Postponed until a finer and better Saturday - if the lord spares us.

Quote from: steve_holmes_11 on 12 March 2020, 08:02:13 PM
Postponed until a finer and better Saturday - if the lord spares us.

Middle East WW1?     Stay safe!

Did some panic buying today ..... suddenly realised I had run out of beer for the weekend .... panic over, now   

p.s. As already stated, no worries, Steve. Can't be helped. The game can wait. Best wishes to all in the Holmes household

..... now where did I put that old army surplus Noddy suit ...?

Well, i got our house stocked for food for a week or 3, 4 if i need to stretch it. Wife is going to get some more essentials tomorrow after work before things get hectic.

Lots of events cancelled and retirement homes and hospitals are no longer open for visit here in Belgium. Any symptoms of cold or similar gets you an auto "7 days of work and not allowed to leave the house" note. Talking about shutting down schools and bars and rstaurants and the like.

Seems at least like we aren't waiting for it to get worse.

Stay safe Gents!

Paracetomal in short supply or non existant in the supermarkets here. Also a run on toilet rolls in Edinburgh as it took our daughter 5 days to be able to buy some! Did a small shop today in Lidl and all seemed fine. Will be interesting to see how ASDA compares tomorrow...

Was in Lidl this evening, they were well stocked in toilet roll (mountains of it!) yet still people were wandering around with armfuls of the stuff. Mad. Two days ago all was fine, yesterday the pasta and rice was starting to go, today it was packed all day long (I work opposite it) and the poor staff looked exhausted keeping up with the panic buying and shelf clearing. No bread or rice or pasta left. Frozen pizza and chips and the like all cleared out. It was worse than Christmas.

Of course the fruit and veg, you know the things that might actually help you fight off illness, were in good supply.

This Covid 19 panic buying is interrupting my Brexit stock piling.

Mark, getting your five a day is important

I ran out of beer some time ago due to being on "may need to drive to the Maternity ward at three mins notice" so I feel your pain Westmarcher

Loo roll not a problem here unless you insist on buying it in Tescos or Asda. Everywhere else has it. Along with tinned tomato's and pasta - the pasta aisle was bare in Tescos except some sad looking artisanal whole wheat gnocchi

Strangely the panic buying hasn't affected us much at all up here, aside from hand sanitiser, which is now as rare as rocking horse poop.

For a minute, I thought panic buying of little metal soldiers...

In light of recent of panic buying UK supermarkets have introduced purchase limits.

Asda: 2 hand sanitisers, 24 toilet rolls max.

Tesco: 1 Hand sanitiser, 18 toilet rolls & 2kg rice.

Co-op: 12 rolls toilet paper, 1Kg rice.

Aldi: 2 Trumpets, 1 diving suit & a MIG welder.

Tesco's in Cardigan were out of paracetomol and cleaning sprays, and the tinned veg section looked a bit sparse, yesterday.

The loo roll section was about half empty...and that was early.

A few of the other shelves, that are usually full to the brim, were a little bit light of stock.

There did seem to be a lot more cars than usual in the car-park for that time of the morning, though.

Cheers - Phil