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Many of you mocked us

Those of us who stockpiled for Brexit shortages, you mocked us.

Hah! I say.  Hah!

I don’t need to leave the house for a good six months.  Mock that, oh bearers of plague!

I have so much loo roll I can build a little fort with it.

watching the news does remind me of the opening introductory scenes of an apocalyptic disaster movie.  In my mind they are being watched by an perfect middle class American family with a dog, one of whom is probably a doctor with connections to government.  The big dilemma early on the film is whether to take the dog when they flee the pestilence - in the end they do on the insistence of the daughter.

Well I have a secondary and better defended bolt hole.  I will take Jasper with me both for companionship and potential future food source if things get really bad.

the doctor suspects the government is holding a secret about the virus- he sends the rest of the family to the mountains with the dog, promising to find them later, while he returns to the top secret part of the facility he works at to discover more...

A hot lady scientist at the facility - his "office wife", has mysteriously disappeared, he receives a text from her that says no more than "the bastards are actually doing it. meet me at" the text finishes there - seems she was interrupted...

I'm looking forward to strolling round the empty supermarket once you've all stockpiled and isolated yourselves at home.  Visions of that Will Smith film where it's just him wandering round a deserted town.

given that covid is targetting the pensioners more, I think it was unleashed by the Libdems and the EU to balance out the brexit debate

Just letting that thing out...before we have riots against the EU for covid

I think we do need to stock up on bottled water, loo roll, tinned foods, UHT milk, wines, spirits, toiletries. The UK is more vulnerable  now that we have left the EU, and this virus will also have consequences. It'll be like  The Road, 28 Days Later and Lord of the Flies.

...Then there are the floods, but Clown Boris will say 'eff off' because we've got blue passports and points-based immigration.

  'Hooray!', cry the last handful of survivors of the white working classes of Essex, as they tuck into a hunk of Polish (human) meat as the water laps at their feet, and the smoke from the Great Fire of London hangs in the sky.

 

why the obsession with bottled water? Is it really likely that we lose clean water supply?

Much wiser to stock up on tinned and packet food, cleaning and sanitising gear, cold and flu meds and any prescriptions, I reckon. You’re never really going to have room to store enough water for long are you.

I completely fail to see why brexit has made us more vulnerable, sorry

for one thing, cross border flow of goods will be exactly the same for the rest of this year as it was before we left the EU

The long-term consequences of Brexit will be very serious. Business are closing UK ops or are not investing in the UK and major organisations are moving their main hubs to France and Germany. 

This virus could become a pandemic as most new cases are now outside China. One doubts that the summer and warmer weather will 'kill' it. There could be many thousands of dead by then, including scores in the UK. There is no vaccine, some people who have recovered from it have caught it again.

So I can't agree with you. Triple dystopia for the UK: Brexit (and isolation), Corona Virus 19 and floods.

Bottled water, because some people no longer have drinkable water due to the floods. Bottled water because we may need plenty of fluids if the virus spreads and we are quarantined in our towns or are instructed to self-isolate. Poor or less well-off people will be affected as they cannot afford to stock pile. Food banks will be closed as a precaution. I think we are going to have a very bad time.  

I don’t think they’ll close essential services like food banks they’ll just ration the number of people who can get in at any time, make people make appointments, ration what they can take. They didn’t even close supermarkets in Wuhan m88

why do you doubt the warmer weather will kill it? It usually does kill respiratory epidemics including those caused by other corona viruses.

nb 1: the fact that they have the disease in Iran which is warmer than here - though still not that warm - at this time of year does not contradict this. They have seasonal flu in Iran too and that doesn’t mean it doesn’t go away here in summer. SARS died off in the summer. 

nb2: MERS is not a counterexample of something that arose in a hot country (Saudi) and caused a respiratory epidemic. MERS did not really reach epidemic proportions.

there is no good evidence of reinfectiin with the disease. the likeliest explanation for people who have tested positive after being discharged is that they have a residue of the virus still in their body but inactive. Llatest scientific commentary have suggested these people are not infectious.

I hope you're right about the reinfections.

NVTL, the more information we have about this virus, the better. I still think things will worsen, especially as we are having a bad winter here.

I have also read in the French news that a dog in HK has been quarantined. It therefore remains to see if pets are carriers, and can be infected by humans, or vice versa. If so, that is very serious.

the HK press are all over the dog story

they don’t think the dog is infected they just think it has breathed in some virus which has been deposited in its throat 

Can you imagine if literally everybody over, say, 12 was killed, and a new juvenile society emerged in which the older kids had to work out how to run everything? That would be weird

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