The Coronavirus thread.

[An Ankoù]

Here in sunny Morbihan, one of the 4 departments of Brittany. The Préfet has just declared that no alcoholic drinks other than beer, wine and cider can be sold to take away until May 11th. As there are no places where you can drink in situ we have effectively got prohibition. This is allegedly to prevent domestic violence which has risen by 30%.
Happy days.

 

[chuffer]

Here in sunny Morbihan, one of the 4 departments of Brittany. The Préfet has just declared that no alcoholic drinks other than beer, wine and cider can be sold to take away until May 11th. As there are no places where you can drink in situ we have effectively got prohibition. This is allegedly to prevent domestic violence which has risen by 30%.
Happy days.

Beer, cider, wine = fine, no?

 

[An Ankoù]

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Beer, cider, wine = fine, no?

Indeed. It's the thin end of the wedge, though.

 

[MyQul]

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Indeed. It's the thin end of the wedge, though.

Did he say cheese was banned too!

 

[kelper]

If you argue with your partner/spouse it is a valid reason to go and live with a mate until you cool down. Unless she is the cause of the argument, of course. Sadly family arguments are on the increase. Well need to be more forgiving.

 

[Richie_asg1]

Is something happening to the price of bread flour recently?

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Wessesx-...464587?hash=item46ac8a704b:g:heAAAOSwiI1eiOTH
1.5kg = £32 ?

That's more than petrol !

 

[MyQul]

Is something happening to the price of bread flour recently?

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Wessesx-...464587?hash=item46ac8a704b:g:heAAAOSwiI1eiOTH
1.5kg = £32 ?

That's more than petrol !

Did you not notice flour was one of the big things to be panic bought recently?

 

[MyQul]

How to make a mask - no sewing and sewn (plus info on why you should wear a mask)

https://masks4all.co/how-to-make-a-homemade-mask/

 

[MyQul]

Captain Tom is up to £21m now.

He says he's going to continue his laps until the donations stop. He's just being greedy now

 

[Chippy_Tea]

I wish he had said the money must be used to buy PPE for everyone needing it as I read yesterday the people who will decide where the money goes may not give the majority to where its needed most.

 

[foxy]

I wish he had said the money must be used to buy PPE for everyone needing it as I read yesterday the people who will decide where the money goes may not give the majority to where its needed most.

Just watched Sky UK news, the PPE supplies look like going pear shape, mostly come out of China and the demand world wide is beyond their capacity to supply.

 

[MyQul]

Just watched Sky UK news, the PPE supplies look like going pear shape, mostly come out of China and the demand world wide is beyond their capacity to supply.

There's a big hoohaa here at the moment about guidelines being changed on PPE allowing the NHS to use it more than once

 

[foxy]

There's a big hoohaa here at the moment about guidelines being changed on PPE allowing the NHS to use it more than once

That's the reason why in my post above.

 

[MyQul]

That's the reason why in my post above.

And that's why I mentioned it

 

[Cheshire Cat]

Morbihan went there on holiday in 1987 and 1990 both times camping on the gulf. Happy days.

 

[Northern_Brewer]

As lovely a gesture it is, I'm not liking the narrative that the NHS should be treated like a charity. Correctly funded, it wouldn't require kindly charitable gestures

Note that Captain Tom is raising money for NHS Charities Together, not "the NHS". They're intended for the "extras" rather than the core NHS mission. And to put it in context, the £21m he has raised would run the NHS for 76 minutes. It's a pimple on the budget.

Is something happening to the price of bread flour recently?
1.5kg = £32 ?

Just some chancer on Ebay - the flour supply chain is under similar stress as eg the beer supply chain, it was geared mostly to supplying in bulk to wholesale/commercial users, and is now seeing a huge demand for retail packs (courtesy of Jamie Oliver etc), they've struggled to make the switch. See Why is it so hard to buy flour at the moment?

More importantly, this is a good scoop on the story of the ventilator hackathon - not surprisingly government officials thought they knew better than the "experts" - "how hard can it be?" Quite hard actually.
(Google "Muddled thinking punctures plan for British ventilator" if you don't have access to the FT)
See also this Twitter thread :
"docs were prepared to have less-than Rolls-Royce features, they could live with a Ford, not a Ferrari. But this is a spec, basically, for a Trabant...Over the last week I've had SO many conversations with docs and experts that remind of the conversations I had with logisticians, port operators, customs clearers over #Brexit. Expert people TEARING their hair out at the willful numbskullery"

 

[Chippy_Tea]

There must be hundreds of clothing manufacturers not producing clothes now there is little demand why are they not producing PPE?

 

[MyQul]

There must be hundreds of clothing manufacturers not producing clothes now there is little demand why are they not producing PPE?

From what I've read in the papers. Many of them have approached the Gvment to offer their services but the Gvment have just ignored them

 

[An Ankoù]

As lovely a gesture it is, I'm not liking the narrative that the NHS should be treated like a charity. Correctly funded, it wouldn't require kindly charitable gestures.

How about we raise VAT by a few percent and ringfence the increase to provide proper funding for Health and Social Care.

Same goes for food banks. Absolutely horrendous that they have become the norm.

You're absolutely spot on there. For every pound raised and given by charity, a pound will be withheld from central funding. There's nothing more the present lot would like than for all of health care and feeding the poor to be funded by charities. My good lady "The Wise One" is spitting blood over this and she's right. My argument that such gestures pull people together and give the public a sense of purpose fall on deaf ears, and she's right. Let's raise money to buy all NHS staff a mighty piss-up and party when all this is over, but not to provide essential materials. We've already bought and paid for this stuff through our NI contributions. Where TF is it?

 

[Chippy_Tea]

From what I've read in the papers. Many of them have approached the Gvment to offer their services but the Gvment have just ignored them

Why would they do that.