To think that this place has gone completely nuts?

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I've had a break of a few weeks, and come back to many threads about prepping, stockpiling food and batterie so, and mass panic about the end of civilisation as we know it.

Dafuq!?

So a problem has been spotted, stockpiles are beginning to be formed of critical drugs, and although there might be some interruption to the actual transit timeeven with 'no deal' Brexit there would be no ban on trading in these drugs from either side? So the stockpile covers the time it takes for new supply chains to be established? For there is plenty of non-EU insulin manufacturing (I'm thinking of the US, whose drug standards do map to our current ones)

Given the rapidity with which the Government was able to buy Tamiflu (non EU manufacture), I do think that Fear is turning an anticipated and solveable logistics issue into a bigger deal than it needs to be. Though I do get the point that a bit of media attention will help make sure the DoH does not let this slip back from its proper place on the priority 'to do' list.

Of course a person can worry about meds, that's understandable. It's the rest of the nonsense... people saying they want to arm themselves because looters will be after my tinned tomatoes. And someone said that all supermarkets will be empty and closed.

Scaremongering pure and simple

"Didn't take long for this thread to get infected, did it?"

What in earth do you mean by 'infected'?

That people post in ways you disapprove of?

@KC225 the millennium bug comes up about every ten posts. Each poster thinks they're the very first person to mention it and is very pleased with themselves.

It did not take years to sort out the millennium bug. What a load of rubbish
Sainsbury's started a Y2K project in 1996. by 1997 they had identified over 24 million lines of code which need converting & 125 projects to convert systems were already up and running and by the end of it they spent £65 million.

I know because I was there. If they hadn't done anything, the stores would have been empty, the supply chain would have been fucked and staff wouldn't have been paid.

There's only one person on here spouting a load of rubbish.

Oh hang on what about y2k

I'm doing sweet fa to prepare for Brexit. What will be will be.

Didn't take long for this thread to get infected, did it?

Nope

Does anyone else remember the billboards for the millennium bug? With a big scary angry black insect leering down on everyone?? 😂😂

Oh yes and it magically fixed itself.
Oh and The War.

These ones.

Still makes no sense whatsoever to me.

As has been repeatedly said on here, that took YEARS of prep to avoid

I agree that lots of work was done to ensure nothing went wrong. The apocalyptic predictions would have come true if nothing had been done.

Brexit is a real issue. It will be dealt with. I'm not stockpiling anything.

(I am learning to windsurf this summer though, so if we do end up eating each other, I'll cross the channel on a windsurfer with a credit card tied round my neck, so that I can buy baked beans in France.)

There are a lot of complete idiots on this thread whose definition of keeping up to date with current affairs is watching the latest episode of Love Island.

www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2018/07/25/plans-stockpile-food-blood-medicine-case-no-deal-brexit-sensible/

We all need to pretend we're at way and have astiff upper lip.

So much more sensible than buying a few extra tins.

The millennium bug was slightly different - it wasn't a problem because every software company checked their code and made sure if was ok. I worked for a major technology company at the time and millennium testing was a massive thing. On the night only one thing failed.

The Millenium Bug was excellent for me - I got paid treble time for loads of work.

Access to medication after Brexit will be very bad for some people I know - potentially life-threatening.

I think some supplies food may be a problem, but we will just have what is available at hugely inflated prices. Economically shit, but we won’t starve.

I can’t get any answers from the NHS regarding medication supplies. That is a real worry.

No you're both wrong, it fixed itself while we all slept. No preparation needed.

I agree, there are a lot of idiots on this thread.

I'm not stockpiling anything.

Brexit is an infinitely easier issue to sort than the millenium bug. For one thing, we could apparently just change our minds about leaving.

I have always thought Preppers are some special kind of crazy. This will be tipping them over the edge to full blown batshit.

I agree. But if we don't? If we have no deal?

Ed most of them are saying get in xc few extra tins and make sure you have enough for a few days of disrupted supplies.
Hysteria indeed

Roussette Sun 29-Jul-18 11:52:04
I agree, there are a lot of idiots on this thread.

I'm not stockpiling anything.

I'm sure you will have such an ab fab time on Love Island, Roussette.

What I can't get my head around is how the country is coping with the current travel disruption caused by heat / thunderstorms / French strikes and yet will be unable to manage a bit of extra paperwork.

GO's Evening Standard ran an hysterical article yesterday suggesting we would all get super resistant gonorrhea in the event of no deal Brexit. One of the readers was relieved that they were at least acknowledging we would still be able to have sex.