Customers in supermarket queues buying 2 items

[justasking111]

After a week of emptying cupboards reluctantly went out this morning. Standing in Tesco queue, two over 70s ladies behind me. one had given the other a lift. What do you need the driver said, oh just some cheese and a newspaper. They were not switched on by social distancing either despite the clear marks on the pavement.

Now I do think if you are over 70 and determined to get out well on your head be it. But for two items, for christs sake.

AIBU I being unreasonable to think that if you go to a supermarket it is to seriously stock up not for 2 items?

@darrenlacey I don't see my question about age as "defensive"

Ageist posts are rife on these boards and I reserve my right to challenge ageism when I see it.

Lets not forget that 95% of people that get infected recover. Sadly 5% die.

That is total and UTTER scaremongering bollocks.

news.google.com/covid19/map?hl=en-GB&gl=GB&ceid=GB:en

Updated several times a day with figures from around the world. Take the deaths, divide by the total cases and multiply by 100 to get the percentage. Comes out at 0.7%.

And that's just REPORTED cases, doesn't take into account the people who have had it, and were never tested.

You clearly have no clue what you are talking about so stop pulling figures out of your arse in an attempt to scare people.

Well with the positive figures not falling around 6k every day, almost everyone following the lockdown rules, where the heck are we getting infected. The only place that we all go to are the supermarkets n`est ce pas?

Oh no Smile and my best pinny is in the wash 😲 (gotta look good at the stake for the crowds)

Lets not forget that 95% of people that get infected recover. Sadly 5% die.

In addition to the link @PineappleDanish provided, the statistics only count the confirmed cases. That's people who've been ill enough to be tested, quite a threshold in the UK. The people like my daughter and her partner, who had a few days feeling a bit rough and a week feeling washed-out and tired, don't even make it into the statistics.

When we have a good test for antibodies and use it on a representative large sample we'll have a better idea of the recovery rate, and even that will only count the people who are not using their T cell lymphocytes to fight it off and thus not creating antibodies.

The only place that we all go to are the supermarkets n`est ce pas?

Millions of people are still going to work.

Then how are supermarket staff not dropping like flies?

And the two biggest outbreaks of infection are care homes and hospitals.

What is with the weird mixing of French? I don't speak French.

“Then how are supermarket staff not dropping like flies?“

Are they doing any research into spread in different workplaces?

Pineapple danish - extraordinary

Oh for God's sake, leave them alone. Don't stand near them if you are worried. I'm such you have much more pressing things to worry about.

Are they doing any research into spread in different workplaces?

I think someone asked in one of the recent press conferences where most infections were taking place. They said it was hard to tell but hospitals and care homes seemed to be where the biggest outbreaks were.

I think someone asked in one of the recent press conferences where most infections were taking place. They said it was hard to tell but hospitals and care homes seemed to be where the biggest outbreaks were.

Which would make sense given that they contain particularly vulnerable people, but I wonder about outside of them?

If you excluded care home deaths from the % of fatalities then it would be even lower - it's well established that the older you are, and the more underlying medical issues, the higher your chance of it proving fatal.

5% is a number plucked out of someone's Dementor backside though.

We're all supposed to be going shopping ONCE a week and if they don't have what you want you go without.

It's not hard and it's not the end of the world (medical conditions not withstanding).

You don't go shopping once a week and then go to every other supermarket/shop because they don't have what you want?

Until you get your heads around this and pack it the eff in this will not go away.

A 6 week old baby has just DIED from Covid. Some of you need to give your bloody head a wobble.

No one said ‘once a week’. Ever. In fact Nicola Sturgeon actually said ‘no more than once a day’.

Nobody’s ever said once a week. More made up roolz.

My niece, who sadly has tested positive for coronavirus is a nurse in a huge care home in Edinburgh. 50 members of staff are also off work having tested positive and she isn’t sure how many residents and patients because they’re not being tested. The residents are not all elderly. A significant number are young disabled people who have suffered brain injury, motor neurone disease and muscular distrophy.

Given the constant bleating over many years about how the UK can’t afford the extortionate cost of social care, then I guess, reducing the numbers by allowing this virus to rampage through the care homes is really a gift from the Gods for the treasury bean counters. There are a lot of crocodile tears being shed by Ministers just now.

We're all supposed to be going shopping ONCE a week and if they don't have what you want you go without

That is complete bollocks.

We're all supposed to be going shopping ONCE a week and if they don't have what you want you go without

Screams into the void.

Please quote where in the guidelines or in LAW this made up rule is?

They said it was hard to tell but hospitals and care homes seemed to be where the biggest outbreaks were.

I wonder if there is an increased incidence in supermarket staff?

A 6 week old baby has just DIED from Covid. Some of you need to give your bloody head a wobble.

Oh, honestly. the poor baby didn't die because of people going shopping.