Just witnessed the future in Asda car park!

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Just witnessed an elderly lady telling a man in a face mask that "he should be staying at home if he has it"

He then told her that he didn't have it and it was a precaution.

He sounded like he was Italian so she shouted "I bet you have been to Italy"

He then flew into a tirade shouting that she should be self isolating as she was over 70 - and to quote him "you're all going to F**ing die if you don't!

As I walked away they were still screaming at each other from their cars!

Is this the future! We will all be turning on each other!

Out Sainsbury’s had sold out of random stuff like peanut butter, who stock piles that sort of thing ?

I ordered a thermometer from Amazon for under a tenner

People are stock piling suppositories round here, FFS!

I do need them (don't ask) and was aghast that anyone would stockpile them. Apparently, people have been descending on pharmacies and grabbing all kinds of stuff. Mind blown.

I do wonder if some of the accounts on MN are Russian troll farms sowing panic and discourse through social media.

Businesses offering to help with deliveries for people self- isolating, local hotel offering to deliver free meals to elderly who can’t get out and about and Facebook postings from individuals offering assistance with shopping. Local co-ops setting up free delivery service to housebound. Our local stores have loo rolls, pasta and paracetamol. They have been imposing limits on certain items. I’m sure there are people who are behaving in an anti-social manner but have not witnessed anything yet. We live offshore so possibly that’s why as everybody knows everyone and people look out for each other. We’re not panic buying as we tend to keep a large store of stuff bought over many months so if family and friends run out I will share. Boys in my office are offering colleagues their daily mails in case of loo roll shortage 🤣🤣

@dozywozy 'shitloads' of loo roll. I love it. 😂

Crisis, uncertainty and stress bring out both the worst and the best in people.

It's quite amazing watching it play out around us - short fuses, kind gestures in equal measure, I think.

Dear god, I think this is the first time I’ve ever been glad I’m agoraphobic and get crippling social anxiety. I’m meant to br taking baby steps towards recovery but right now being isolated seems a good idea!!

IN this little town, someone started a local Isolation Support Group 2 days ago. I now has 1,200 members and membership is rising by the hour. Local people are offering to do shopping and dogwalking. Some, like me, are in high risk groups, so we're limted but have offered online chats and phone calls.

A sub-group has formed of knitters and crocheters who are going to spend time making squares to be sewn into blankets for our homeless support group when life gets close to normal again. We've even arranged to have watch parties of 'how to' videos of various crafts. We're all swapping ideas for how to support each other and stay sane if we have to be isolated.

Not everyone is a selfish cunt. There are similar groups all over the country, all normal people determined to make the upheaval as tolerable as possible for others.

There is hope for the human race.

I love this post scarbados
Good people doing good things xxx

Our asda delivery driver said customers are being awful to him when he isn't bringing what they've ordered. A local store has brought in private security and another closed because of the way people were behaving. It's scary

I work in a well known shop. I could hear a customer ranting, he then basically jumped the queue demanding 'where are the f.....g wipes'. Told him I was sorry they'd completely sold out, his response was 'you're f.....g useless'.

To be honest I didn't dare question the fact that he'd jumped the queue, luckily the chap I was about to serve was ok about it, but a couple of ladies commented they'd felt a bit unnerved by him.

My daughter works in a little cafe, yesterday one of the customers nicked the spare loo rolls from the toilet.

Not everyone is a selfish cunt. There are similar groups all over the country, all normal people determined to make the upheaval as tolerable as possible for others.

Exactly. Personally I’d rather big up and pay attention to positive and constructive acts.

If I saw anyone behaving badly I’d call them out and challenge them - but I wouldn’t post a thread about how this is the future. Because it isn’t. Because most of us are decent and the more we reward the decent and pay them attention, the more there will be.

The Amazon man has just brought the cat food. No dog food yet, but given the dog will eat anything, that’s not so critical.

I bought two small bags of Pasta, even though I am not a great fan of it because in my planning I have been thinking about meals that are very easy to prepare. I live alone and if I get ill it’s the sort of thing I need to think about. Pasta and a squirt of tomato purée and a few bits of frozen veg will make a reasonably healthy meal.

Its only a matter of time before people are pinching stuff from other peoples trolleys when their not looking.I was in our local small asda today and the woman on the checkout said it's been awful for the last two weeks and she doesnt enjoy coming to work anymore.

Busy at Sainsburys but everyone in a good mood. Chatting and happy in the queue. I haven't seen any nastiness yet ...

they're not their

Some of these stories are really horrifying. I'm in Italy, which is about 2 weeks ahead of the UK according to the statistics.

We're now in nationwide lockdown, and even before that, we were encouraged to go out as little as possible, no hugging or handshaking, and told to keep at least 1 metre away from other people.

All these overcrowded supermarkets are great places for the virus to be transmitted.

What needs to be done in the UK, as is being done here, is for the supermarkets only to let in a relatively small number of people at the time, with the rest queueing outside, at least 1 metre apart.

This is being done here, because the government now requires supermarkets to guarantee that shoppers inside the store will be at least one metre apart. If they don't, the store will be shut down.

Things have been pretty orderly here as a result, apart from some panic buying in the big cities right at the start.

And there's no shortage of toilet roll here...

Just to say it's not like that everywhere-

we have a local/road whats app group and people are sharing and helping each other.
very heartwarming to see.
there will always be good people...

Well, this the result of forty-odd years of Thatcherism.

Utter nonsense.

"at a time", not "at the time", sorry.

Is nobody seeing the good stuff that is undoubtedly going on?

Or is it more satisfying to pretend the world is full of shitty people?

Went in my local tesco it was nuts. No toilet paper at all. reluctantly went to the till and asked if they had any available and they said NO. Had to walk back to the toilet with my drawers round my ankles. Thats a walk I never want to have to do again

@reesewithoutaspoon that is a terrible joke, but you have the best username EVER