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Washing or sanitising hands is good but ideally people need to avoid breathing air contaminated by coughs. It's a respiratory infection and reaches the lungs primarily by inhalation of airborne droplets. Avoiding that requires social distancing, which is what China is doing on a massive scale with great success.

Yes thank you for saying this. Since the appalling MSM media I have switched to alternative media. Favorites include OFF-Guardian where?s there?s been three insightful articles on this hysteria. Latest missive today:


https://off-guardian.org/2020/03/08/keep-it-simple-and-question-propaganda-technology-and-coronavirus/


This has become a country of sheeples.

I suspect that (other than simple panic) loo rolls may be being bought up because they are the cheapest source of disposable tissue - with calls for constant hand-washing; paper towels in wash rooms are in short supply, and cloth towels clearly not a good choice for drying.

Peckhamnearbe Wrote:

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> Yes thank you for saying this. Since the appalling

> MSM media I have switched to alternative media.

> Favorites include OFF-Guardian where?s there?s

> been three insightful articles on this hysteria.

> Latest missive today:

>

> https://off-guardian.org/2020/03/08/keep-it-simple

> -and-question-propaganda-technology-and-coronaviru

> s/

>

> This has become a country of sheeples.


er... that site is full-on tinfoil hat craziness. Avoid.

At least in the case of DKH, I suspect part of it is bulk buying, part of it due to their approach to stock management.


I was in there on Friday looking for a small packet of self-raising flour (as we'd run out). The flour aisle had been cleared out of bread flower and plain flour (bulk buying, I'm guessing) but there were still lots of the specialist flours left, sauce flour etc. However, going past a part empty shelf seemed to make people more likely to grab flour for themselves (just in case!) with the result that in the half an hour I was in there, it seemed to have been cleared entirely.


I asked a member of staff if they had flour out the back - "yes loads" was the reply - but he also said they wouldn't be stocking that aisle until much later in the evening, so it would have stayed empty all day. I did get the small pack of flour I was after and there was no issue with the stock according to Sainbo's but a picture of the shelves would have made it look like there was some massive flour crisis in ED.

Last Thursday, no pasta was available on the shelves of Asda and Tesco on the Old Kent Road and ditto Sainsbo DKH, so not just one store. Panic buying was clearly well under way, plus Asda had a special on large bags of pasta, so that may well have contributed.


Loo rolls had not been decimated as much at that time. Listening to LBC over the weekend, their was a repetitive recount by listeners that supermarkets were being cleared out of such items. One caller admitted to having bought 200 bottles of anti bacterial hand wash, total madness.


What does seem to be apparent is that shelves are replenished over night.


I was glad to read that both Tesco and Asda had put measures in place to regulate the amount of certain goods customers could buy. Perhaps Morrison's and Sainsbury's can also restrict purchases.

exdulwicher Wrote:

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> Last Thursday, no pasta was available on the

> shelves of Asda and Tesco on the Old Kent Road and

> ditto Sainsbo DKH, so not just one store.

>

> People are being urged not to panic buy pasta

> based on the actions of a fusilli individuals.

>

> ;-)



Penne for your thoughts!

Bony Fido Wrote:

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> This problem will sort itself out because there

> will most likely be food shortages soon, therefore

> the eat less/crap less relationship will equal

> reducing need for bog rolls...


The baked beans were almost gone at 4.30 this afternoon- hence the need for more loo rolls!

dbboy Wrote:

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> I was glad to read that both Tesco and Asda had

> put measures in place to regulate the amount of

> certain goods customers could buy.




Yes and it's really annoying.


I just did an online Tesco order, my first one since before Christmas.


They appear to have limited the maximum number of canned tomatoes you can buy to five. Same for passata. Same for bloody canned chickpeas.


I am not panic buying, I am trying to replenish my larder! I use this stuff all the time! FFS!

No pasta, rice or tinned tomatoes on Friday but then it's hard to know with DKH Sainsburys whether it's people panic buying or just their standard sporadic approach to stock management. At least us locals are used to visiting this store and seeing empty shelves!

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