Prepping For Pandemic ..... 10

[ItsNotJustTheFuckingFlu]

Just quickly starting new thread as @wheresmymoji is busy. Special thanks to @ofwarren for the updates and special thanks from to everyone posting useful info and being supportive.

I had an ocado delivery today with the most substitutions ever - around 20% subbed or missing. No antibac spray, no dettol laundry stuff, no soap & very few tins. £170 order for 2 households & I only got £130.

Went to Tesco to get some tins - everything there bar soap (pun intended!) & antibac spray. Didn't look for hand gel as we have enough between 8 of us - 1 little bottle each plus 1 refill bottle of defendol. Should last a month or 2. Hopefully stocks will be reappearing by then.

@VivaLeBeaver I totally panicked at first now I'm trying to talk myself down. Ah well, nothing I can do about it. Hopefully they're ok. At least I can avoid the panic buying that will be going on now.

NEW: Los Angeles County reports 5 new cases of coronavirus, declares state of emergency t.co/eUoE2b20hL

The thing about bugging out to a remote location is that if you do need medical attention it will be harder to receive, moving people that are contagious is hard enough
Plus by Easter the highlands and islands are pretty busy with tourist and the vast majority of people who live there are retired.
Alongside the logistic of obtaining food, fewer choices and not so many delivery slots.

If you can bug out you can bug in.

The councillors response is patronising.

Information will get out. I wonder which twitter feeds are best..

@Elik Just wondering what general area you are in, as I think you’re also in Scotland...

Name changed and testing.

Think I've been too revealing lately.

I don't know what I'd do without this thread, it's great to be able to discuss all this without everyone thinking it's HYSTERICAL frenzy.

I hate that word, with all its misogynistic, mental health stigma historical connotations.

In fact this is historical, not hysterical.

According to Sky:

Two people from Carlisle who had both had recently returned from a trip to northern Italy. One is a member of healthcare staff at the Cumberland Infirmary

Two Scottish patients from the Grampian and Ayrshire areas. One had travelled to northern Italy and the other had had contact with a person who was known to have already tested positive for the disease

Two people in Northern Ireland including one who had travelled from northern Italy. The other had recent contact with a person in the UK who had tested positive for COVID-19

Two people in South Ribble, Lancashire who had recently travelled to Italy and were isolating themselves at home

A patient who was admitted to Wythenshawe Hospital in Manchester

A person in Oldham, Greater Manchester who was infected while in northern Italy

Three cases in Trafford, Greater Manchester who had all recently travelled to northern Italy

Does anyone know what the alcohol content of defendol hospital grade antibacterial handgel is?

I have spent too much time googling to no avail.

@FaisPasCiFaisPasCa yes I have name changed several times in light of lazy journalists screenshotting and publishing parts of this thread.

Just to remind everyone that @wheresmymojo predicted that cases would be up to 54 today. Sadly that has been far exceeded.

@Saffronesque the defendol doesn't say the alcohol content on the bottle.

Scratch my enquiry...phoned the company! It is minimum 60% alcohol; expected to be manufactured & ready to ship to retailers within the next week & no more than 20 can be bought at a time. 20! People are panicking, that's for sure.

There has been talk in the last few days of different sorts of virus on R4 programmes.

Italy reports 587 new cases of coronavirus and 28 new deaths, raising total to 3,089 cases and 107 dead t.co/eUoE2b20hL

On a separate note I'm amazed at how many people go to Northern Italy in Feb. Feels like a massive party I wasn't invited to. Is this the ski set? I don't ski...

@Sixp false alarm (I think) all the posts have been removed in our local Facebook group. Should have known. Think I'll stop looking at social media

Decided best to make change too for privacy.

Has anyone commentaries DC about what's happening? My DC knows something is up so we need to have a conversation soon. A gentle talk along the lines of there is a bad cold going around we need to be careful about hygiene.

Uh meant to say Has anyone had conversation with DC about what is happening?

www.yorkpress.co.uk/news/18281115.coronavirus-new-case-confirmed-york/

Case in York

Release of the new James Bond film 'No Time to Die' delayed until November due to coronavirus

#CoronavirusUpdate

⭕️ UK has 87 confirmed cases
⭕️ Two new cases confirmed in Northern Ireland
⭕️ Release date for @007 film #NoTimeToDie has been pushed back due to #COVID19

Latest developments 👉 t.co/NjNlCrnUfK

All you need to know on #coronavirus 👇

news.sky.com/story/coronavirus-symptoms-quarantine-and-how-it-spreads-11922562

There were earlier conflicting reports about this, but Italy's education minister has now confirmed that all schools and universities will be closed until March 15

@Saffronesque 60% only?! That's disappointing. I've got a big bottle of it but sounds like it's not really good enough. Might add some rubbing alcohol then.

Wish I'd got more mini bottles of Milton gel when I had the chance...

Both Sainsburys I went to today were out of toilet roll - I don't get it? Diarrhea isn't a symptom is it?!

tipsey

I must admit I felt fleeting Fomo 😁 with all the Italy action.