state of emergency

[Gadget]

CF - try cannellini beans.   

I'll have a look tomorrow for butter beans and let you know.

PS - just checked Waitrose  - butter beans are available in 'your area'

[youngtug]

We can also chat on here. Dorrie

(will we get our loo paper delivered?  )

     https://youtu.be/qdgSwshtRi8

[jc26red]

No butter beans down south either, I looked last week... thought it was just a blip.

I went to see my dad (91) earlier and he has already put himself in lockdown. He was joking that he isn’t going to be recycling his newspapers for a while 

On a more serious note, my cousin’s daughter is a paramedic trainee and had her first CV call out this week. They go to the address and lock themselves in the cab. The patient gets in the back with a specialised medic in the hazard suit. After delivering the patient to the designated cv hospital the ambulance then has to be cleansed, which takes 8 hours! That’s 8 hours out of service for the crew too.  Silly girl then went round to see her nan, who is over 70 and poor immunity! Thankfully her nan stopped her coming straight in... put a dressing gown in the utility room and ordered her to put her uniform straight in the wash then shower before coming through to chat. 

[Caw1]

Oh dear - hubbys akready climbing the walls with no live sport to watch... decided to do some decorating... meaning I had to clear the room so don't think he'll have time to get bored!

I've got plenty of knitting to do.... just got new Hilary Mantel book (800+pages) so I'll be fine too.

At least we can get in the garden too so really no change.

Enough food to last us a couple of weeks except fresh veg and milk.

Going to miss my two Yogalates Classes if I don't go but could do it at home instead.

Can still talk to my children via FaceTime will just miss the grandsons.

Guess I'll see what grey hair looks like if I can't get to the hairdressers...😱😱 or try home roots treatment!

Trying not to listen/read all the doom and gloom of BBC and watch other channels news.

Look forward to chatting more on here to cheer ourselves up!

My Waitrose on Thursday had run out of all sorts goods.

Keep safe everyone

Caroline

[avm228]

According to Robert Peston on ITV, the quarantine of the over-70s could be in the order of four months

www.itv.com/news/2020-03-14/elderly-to-be-quarantined-for-four-months-in-wartime-style-mobilisation-to-combat-coronavirus/

Matt Hancock has an article in tomorrow’s Sunday Telegraph hinting at it, but doesn’t descend to detail.

[Viktoria]

I feel so sorry for people who can not for example afford to buy more than their usual weekly shop, no extras for the store cupboard for them.
Those who can not afford a taxi to bring extra shopping home anyway and can’t carry much.
I am annoyed, I had a freezer choc a bloc full of home made ready meals and fish, meat ,bread,veges etc, but it failed and defrosted so everything chucked out.
Not even a quarter full as yet,.
I am lucky my son can take me shopping ,but he has been unwell recently so I have kept the shopping trips as short as possible,thinking,I don’t need that straight away, that can wait,  etc.
I have been able to make a few trips unaccompanied ,and getting a taxi home, so not too bad.
Most worrying are the long waits at the crowded Eye Clinic, four and a half hours last time .
Back there on Thursday.
I think of the staff who are all lovely, so caring and patient and they stay so when things are running hours overdue.
I do wonder if this is going to be one if the greatest world changing things in our lifetime.Never mind climate change!
I am old, have had nearly 83 years, but children ,grand children and great grandson——-?
I hope everyone is safe and well.
Viktoria.

[groom]

According to Robert Peston on ITV, the quarantine of the over-70s could be in the order of four months

www.itv.com/news/2020-03-14/elderly-to-be-quarantined-for-four-months-in-wartime-style-mobilisation-to-combat-coronavirus/

Been discussing that with friends. As about 20% of the population is over 70, how could they enforce that? Vigilantes to make sure people didn't leave their homes?

Waitrose have no delivery slots for a fortnight, Tesco none for a week and apparently some sites are not accepting any new customers. So how would over 70s get food, especially if they didn't have a computer. 

[avm228]

I am hoping that the following means that I will still be allowed to visit my over-70 family members to deliver food & medicines and perhaps even provide some company, even if only by shouting from a few metres away in the garden?

The prime minister Boris Johnson and health secretary Matt Hancock are counting on neighbours and friends to rally round to make sure no one is neglected. "We are looking for a huge community effort," said a source.

Total isolation just isn’t doable, surely - it would kill as many as it would protect.

[groom]

They are living in a dream world. There are a lot of people, especially in large cities who don't know their neighbours. Many over 70s have friends of the same age, so that's not much good. Fine for those with families who live close, but what about the rest? Judging by the selfishness of people over panic shopping and bulk buying I can't see that happening. More deaths could be caused through starvation, loneliness and neglect than through the virus.