CFs literally panic buying freezers!

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Found this out today - refrigeration shops are out of freezers due to people buying them to stock up on extra frozen stuff!

This is bananas! Who is doing this crazy shit?!

It's also about understanding that our society is underpinned by various systems, and that if you change those systems, it makes a difference to our lives and to how people behave.

That would prevent people who have little money stockpiling all they have into food as they're worried when they'll next be able to do that

Have you read this or many other threads?! It’s not people with little money who are the problem! It’s the people with means, huge houses and space for second and third freezers!!!! (And aren’t the govt helping people financially anyway? They are providing money for self employed people and 80% of salaries to those who need it. Sounds good to me - not sure what else they can do. The economy is fucked and will be for years to come).

It’s very easy to just blame the government rather than accept people need to take responsibility for their actions (including you and I). And this isn’t me feeling morally superior - some of my behaviour hasn’t been great by any means! It’s just that this freezer buying really made me question wtf people are doing. It’s extreme.

No, they didn't from the start but they went to lockdown style procedures far quicker than us. None of this half arsed, will we won't we, stay in for 2 wks by don't shop for 2 wks airy fairy faff. So people know something is coming and are panicking and doing what they can, now.

What’s the point of the govt saying or doing things if people don’t listen anyway!

I don't own a freezer, haven't for a few years. My fridge is only about 90 litres too. I have 4 children. It's just the way I've always shopped. I now plan to buy a freezer in a couple of months and gradually stock it for another shortage, but doubtful is there will be anything left to put in it by the time I can afford one.

They are providing money for self employed people

They are providing very little money for self employed people. An employed person on PAYE will get up to just over £24,000 from government, someone on an equivalent self employed salary will get up to £4,800. As a self-employed person I'm hoping they're going to announce something more on Monday.

(Figures from memory so approximate, but about right I think).

Radio 4 was just this morning talking about how those on very low incomes will need to take more risks in terms of exposure to infection, to keep their families fed.

What about people in the black economy, also? Radio 4 interviewed a prostitute, for example. Prostitutes aren't going to be given support by the government. So what can they do but keep on working the streets, thus spreading infection?

The prostitute interviewed talked about how hard it was to say no to "pushy" men if you have no money to fall back on.

Just one example I hadn't thought of before hearing it.

The government has had months to plan for this but is very much giving the impressions of making their policy up on the fly. We've already had a major U-turn from their original policy of aiming for her immunity (thank fuck, that was basically genocide).

I don't own a freezer, haven't for a few years. My fridge is only about 90 litres too. I have 4 children. It's just the way I've always shopped. I now plan to buy a freezer in a couple of months and gradually stock it for another shortage, but doubtful is there will be anything left to put in it by the time I can afford one

Same here, my freezer is bust, so I want to buy one now. Suspect a lot of people in the same position.

It’s very easy to just blame the government rather than accept people need to take responsibility for their actions (including you and I)

I am taking responsibility for my actions by not going out of the house. Thank goodness I stockpiled enough over the last few weeks to see us through the initial 2 weeks self isolation - although we're running out of fresh stuff - we're on to the UHT milk today and the fruit looks set to run out so the kids will be having tinned fruit soon.

Ours broke this week and when we looked online, there wasn’t much choice at all! Luckily we managed to get one and it was delivered this morning. I’ve been on tenterhooks all week that we were going to get a lockdown to the extent that deliveries weren’t allowed, before it came.

I think it would be an interesting exercise if everyone went through their food stores and actually planned all the meals they could make from them. I bet for most average sized families they could make way more than 2 weeks worth of meals.

@waspnest

Absolutely!!!

Agreed waspnest. I do this sometimes to get rid of old stock. It makes for interesting dinners.

We simply need a proper lockdown like elsewhere. That would help to calm the situation. Work, essential shopping, that's it. Masks on to protect others, and their protecting you. And social distancing. Which isn't a group of 20 having bbq on a beach🤦
That's it. With strict regime the predictions are a month and half in some countries for the lockdown to start easing up. Another month to get back to normal. That's not going it to happen here if we don't lock down. People just don't take it seriously. It will take forever to get back to normal here. I read 2021 for uk to be back to "normal" if we go like this...

Government has said they are contacting everyone in most vulnerable group to tell them to self isolate and they will have help or guaranteed home delivery slots for food. That is me.

You really think they have a list?!

Dear lord

Maybe it would calm the hysteria like when one poster thought that DOA on a delivery note by the courier meant her family was found dead or smth. No one fully understood that thread I think...

I have a large chest freezer in the garage, the kitchen has a full height fridge/freezer but the freezer is only small.

My last fridge freezer (half and half) was self defrosting and it actually struggled to hold anything.

The chest freezer is full, lots of last year's ice creams, but then the rest is mainly things like 1 bag of chips, 1 bag of broccoli etc. It is not much fuller than it is usually. So people may not have a huge amount in there.

Tbh I am more concerned about milk, DS has autism and pretty much only eats cereal.

@LovePoppy yes, GPs will be told to do this. It is most vulnerable with riskiest conditions like cancer etc.

I think it would be an interesting exercise if everyone went through their food stores and actually planned all the meals they could make from them. I bet for most average sized families they could make way more than 2 weeks worth of meals.

This.

We did exactly that, had nearly 2 weeks worth of food at home already. Minor top ups, now a standard size freezer full of good, homemade meals ready for when we're unwell.

It CAN be done with a bit of thought.

You really think they have a list?!

Each GP surgery has a list (fairly similar to those eligible for free flu vaccination) those contacted will be compiled from that.

I have found myself wishing for a bigger freezer lately, but would worry about power cuts...

Don't wish for bigger freezer. It will become a black hole😂 mine isn't even massive and I found meat labeled 2017😂