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Are you doing anything to prepare for a second wave?

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Emlou07 · 31/05/2020 02:16

Historically we are going to get one. Seeing pictures of places rammed is scary.

So if so, what are you doing to prepare? If only to make another potential lockdown a bit easier.

I've been picking up a couple of extra tins a week and some UHT milk. I've also put some bits aside for the kids to keep them entertained.

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Toomuchtrouble4me · 02/06/2020 02:13

we've never had so much food! We're shielding so online shopping only but with a minimum spend of £40 each time. Every time we run out of something its another £40! We'll be rolling out of isolation 2st heavier!

Legoandloldolls · 02/06/2020 02:26

I did prep for this pandemic from Jan. Tbh apart from the panic buying period I have had very little issues getting everything we needed from the supermarket inc kids shoes. No school = no need for Clark's. There is a local FB community clothing bank where people swop clothes.

Realistically we are sorted for clothes for the year now.

As so.eine who really has been to a beach, it's not rammed out everywhere either. I'm going to just live in the moment as long as we have the food in to cover two weeks of isolatio if we get symptoms

MdNdD · 02/06/2020 08:05

Get haircuts for my boys!

MachineBee · 02/06/2020 08:22

I’m prepping and have been since the referendum. I’m still continuing to keep my cupboards and freezer well stocked with at least a months’ supplies in case of:

  1. Needing to self isolate due to catching the virus or coming into contact with someone who has it
  2. Second wave and new lockdown
  3. Redundancy after the job retention scheme ends
  4. Supply shortages when we leave the EU in January 2021

I’m going to keep my milkman and local veg box deliveries going after all of this has passed and keep a good stock of fabric, thread and yarn to keep me occupied if necessary.

I’ll be getting my cat vaccinated, dental appointments sorted, chimney swept and sewing machine serviced while the relaxations allow. Not just because of a possible new lockdown, but because these businesses need the income to survive.

Helena39 · 02/06/2020 10:52

I spent £500 preparing for the first wave. Not doing it again. Still have plenty of toilet rolls and food supplies. And we were able to find in the shops almost everything we needed during the lockdown anyway. Although now I have a weekly subscription now for a box of fruit and vegetables.
For the second wave I am preparing by losing weight, doing plenty of exercise, strengthening my immune system.
We don’t need lots of tins of food and toilet rolls. All we need is a good immune system.

ITonyah · 02/06/2020 10:57

@Helena39

I spent £500 preparing for the first wave. Not doing it again. Still have plenty of toilet rolls and food supplies. And we were able to find in the shops almost everything we needed during the lockdown anyway. Although now I have a weekly subscription now for a box of fruit and vegetables. For the second wave I am preparing by losing weight, doing plenty of exercise, strengthening my immune system. We don’t need lots of tins of food and toilet rolls. All we need is a good immune system.
Yup.
YetAnotherSpartacus · 02/06/2020 10:58

I spent £500 preparing for the first wave

Go on, I'll bite. Did that include wine/gin/tipple of fancy?

Because that's a fuck of a lot of food if not!

I've just stocked up on tinned goods - tomatoes, puree, beans and suchlike. I'm also going to buy an extra bag of good basmati rice and some more flour - even if the good stuff I like has not hit the shelves yet. The annoying thing is that until last year I always used to have huge stocks of food, but a move to a house with a crappy kitchen and no storage meant that before this lockdown I didn't have many stocks. I do however have a cupboard built for toilet paper and tissues so I have plenty of those!

ITonyah · 02/06/2020 10:58

Because that's a fuck of a lot of food if not!

500 is 3 weeks food for me.

Helena39 · 02/06/2020 11:37

I do my shopping in Waitrose. £500 is not a lot when you shop there.

Gasp0deTheW0nderD0g · 02/06/2020 14:52

It can never do any harm to have a good immune system and to be a sensible weight and reasonably fit, but some of those who've died would have ticked all of those boxes. There are still lots of unknowns here.

ChilliCheese123 · 02/06/2020 16:35

Please tell me what you buy for £500 to feed yourself for 3 weeks

Unless you have 3+ teenage kids or buy multiple bottles of spirits and pricey wine every time, I don’t see how this is normal?!

canigooutyet · 02/06/2020 17:51

2 cats, 3 teens a toddler, the only adult has to get free from. £500 a month can easily mount up without booze.

That was really annoying. Influx of new customers for subscribe and save, fruit/veg boxes etc. Existing customers were completely forgotten as new sales were taken. But at least local independent stores thrived

PinkSparklyPussyCat · 02/06/2020 18:00

Please tell me what you buy for £500 to feed yourself for 3 weeks

There's only DH, me and the cat and we spend £400-£500 a month

Rosebel · 03/06/2020 08:22

Second wave may happen but lockdown won't. That's why you don't need to prepare. We all know the economy is screwed , that's why people are being told to go back to work. We can't afford another lockdown and no-one bothers to only the rules anyway. Deaths shot back up according to the news yesterday but no whisper of the plans changing. Basically the government are trying to get the economy moving but they've eased restrictions too quickly and the cost will be more lives.
The government are just like any other. Money over life every time.

Raaaa · 03/06/2020 09:35

But deaths are going to rise again when we start going back to some sort of normal surely as the virus is still around. There will be no good time to go back but we will have to at some point

MRSsqueak · 05/06/2020 21:37

i am not too worried about being prepared for a second peak. we just keep everything topped up now.... but thats pretty normal for locdown from what i hear talking to friends and family. there is no need to panic buy anything really. before lockdown i went and did my usual shop which probably looked like panic buying tbh as i do big shops. then we did top up shops... it worried me to see how much was going off sale and so i added some uht milk and bread flour to my shop but couldnt get yeast for a really long time. but as of lockdown we now do a weekly shop of just what we are running low on or if we can find it stuff for baking. being high risk if we forget things in our weekly shop we go without or my friends pick it up or add it to their online shops or i look on amazon. for some daft reason shampoo shower gel and kids shampoo and bodywash was forgotten along with toothpaste for the little one this time so we have just ordered them online. we are pretty chilled here tbh. we have brought a printer and laminator and laminator pockets a few stationary bits some card and printer paper etc during lockdown to help with homeschooling and i have made lots of games for our 5 year old related to reading and basic maths and we are well away oh and counting bears as he uses them at school so i brought some for home also had to buy some reading books for all of them. we have a LOT of books but didnt have first readers level 1 and 2 and we didnt have the books the older 2 are reading at school they didnt bring a copy home so i brought a copy for them. im lucky i feel the homeschooling is going really well. the 5 year old was way behind he was a late talker so he has been behind for a long time but he is reading and writing so well now having had the 1 to 1 with me after the older 2 are set up

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