Corona Virus Treatment

@Sirius got me thinking and I suspect he has a good point however badly phrased.

I know many of us have said the same thing about how we have to isolate in all other circumstances, yet we have no option but to mingle with crowds and stand in queues to get our food. That's where we are infecting each other. Some of us are lucky enough to have organised supermarket home delivery's but there are limited slots.

Having followed a couple of Chinese diarists I have completed changed my mind about them. Earlier in this thread I said:

I was wrong about the Chinese, I now understand a little better. The reason they have controlled the virus is that they have respect for each other, have pride in their country and have faith in their leaders.

The main example that changed my mind is how they obeyed the lockdown messages. They immediately obeyed without mass panic, living on what little they had in their homes. About a week later their government had organised a system of home delivery's. Hence they avoided the crazy situation here in the UK where we all have to crowd together to buy food. The Chinese did this because they trusted their government to come to their rescue.

Our government needs to wake up and use whatever means they can to get food safely to everyone, the army, the councils, private contractors whatever must be mobilised. It sounds alarmist but it has worked for China.

 

Good morning as you know I have been self isolating for 2 weeks now but shopping is getting very low now,Tescos are open this morning from 9am to 10am for the over 70's can't see the point of this or do they want to lump all the oldies together so we can catch the virus of of each other,or have they got a trap door inside and then when we are all standing on it they can just pull the lever

 

In Denmark they have placed large red dots in queue lanes for people to stand on and stay apart. In Italy, outside the supermarkets they have done similar so the queue to get in looks more like a grid pattern... In the UK it's a free for all and up yours to anyone nearby [appreciate that is a massive generalisation].

 

My brother lives on the Norfolk coast and his little village is being swamped by the second homers and holiday renters, clearing out the village shop and not observing social distancing at fish and chip takeaways, crowding the beach etc. Locals are getting angry, they are putting up posters telling them to go home. It could turn nasty unless the govt turns the 'advice' into law and issuing big fines.

 

All the queues I have stood in, so far, John, have observed the recommended separation and I have had no problems whatsoever. The only people to get too close are Children who are getting
bored standing in the queues My problem with Supermarkets is that the World and his Mate have used the Shopping Trolley before me. I use a small sponge soaked in neat disinfectant to swab the handle of the Shopping Trolley before I use it.

 

Hello my son lives in Bournemouth and said that the beach was jam packed yesterday as he drove to work ,he and his wife are front line staff at Southampton hospital,they both work in intensive care units(I do worry about them)

 

Me too, around here folk are being good. I have not personally witnessed bad behaviour. My sister in Yorkshire reports differently, at the early morning OAP happy hour she had someone breathing down her neck at the checkout, she politely asked him to observe the rules but wouldn't as nobody else was. Grrrr