If freight isn't allowed in from France

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What does this mean for our food chain?!

@Originalyellowbelly

rosie1959 fingers crossed, my DH wants to go to the shop and get veg, cat stuff etc just in case but I don't want to end up with too much and it gets wasted.

Hope you get what you need We live in the fens so veg is not a problem it comes from local suppliers and we collect from local market

Love the comments that the French restrictions are only for 48 hours. We don’t know how long the French will keep in place the ban.

Yes the poor lorry drivers!

@Parker231

Love the comments that the French restrictions are only for 48 hours. We don’t know how long the French will keep in place the ban.

How would that benefit the French their lorries may well be stuck over here

I imagine stranded lorry drivers is a minor concern compared with trying to halt the spread through France of the new strain of the virus.

@Parker231

Love the comments that the French restrictions are only for 48 hours. We don’t know how long the French will keep in place the ban.

A proactive Govt would have already put fast testing in place for lorry drivers crossing into france. An incompetent one would have another meeting about something totally predictable.

If you tell the world that if you are in a T4 area, assume you have the new virus, then its no surprise other countries will avoid.

Mansion Airport will be used as a marshalling area and to provide necessary facilities to lorry drivers.

With the new virulent strain first being detected in Kent and the Southeast, it wouldn’t surprise me if it came from France. I think it’s likely it’s already in many countries, just the British are reporting it.

Poor lorry drivers - what a nightmare!

If the new strain came to Kent from France, it's a devious bugger, as shown by the map MrsPernicious linked to yesterday on this thread:

nextstrain.org/groups/neherlab/ncov/S.N501?c=gt-S_501,69&label=mlabel:20B/C5388A&p=grid

rosie1959 ha ha, we must be neighbours!

Reading some of the comments on here I'm sure some people just love the drama of it all. All these threads do is scare people and make them panic buy.

Freight isn't the issue, it's the drivers! Big hauliers can possibly send the trailers over without drivers (a different front lorry bit picks up the other side which already happens a bit) alternatively containers can be sent

@Butterflyfluff

Sea freight is fine and that's operating (there's issues but different ones). Container ship crews don't go ashore either

@movingonup20

Freight isn't the issue, it's the drivers! Big hauliers can possibly send the trailers over without drivers (a different front lorry bit picks up the other side which already happens a bit) alternatively containers can be sent

Isn’t that common place on the Isle of Wight ferry’s?

If Covid has taught us anything it’s that you can’t keep it out. It’ll be all over Europe. So as soon as that’s evident the borders will reopen.

[quote movingonup20]@Butterflyfluff

Sea freight is fine and that's operating (there's issues but different ones). Container ship crews don't go ashore either[/quote]
You mean the container ports which are jammed up with too much shit and not enough people and haulers to get it off the docks. In part because all the drivers and lorries are stuck in traffic jams in Kent?

@tootyfruitypickle

If Covid has taught us anything it’s that you can’t keep it out. It’ll be all over Europe. So as soon as that’s evident the borders will reopen.

You're right but I sincerely hope the ports reopen before then. How long to establish that? A week, three weeks?

It's a pity that Boris won't do one of his famous u turns and forget about brexit completely. I want to stay.

Slovakia is planning on mass testing its entire population before Xmas with a 20 minute turnaround for results...

But Britain...

I did my shopping at 5 am because I am working till Christmas and haven't got much food in. Christmas can be busy at the best of times.

@Mamamia456

Reading some of the comments on here I'm sure some people just love the drama of it all. All these threads do is scare people and make them panic buy.

Johnson did that with his announcements on saturday, with zero thought as to what other countries would do.

But keep defending him, its quite funny.

Austria I read is planning mass testing too. Most countries in Europe put in place restrictions aka lockdown on on before December 16th and some never planned 'Christmas bubbles'. France has a nighttime curfew.