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- Thu Mar 19, 2020 12:03 pm
- Forum: Food, Nutrition and Agriculture
- Topic: Will there be food shortages in the UK?
- Replies: 84
- Views: 16361
Re: Will there be food shortages in the UK?
At this point in time the issue is one ( or for 5 anyway) cannot do a whole weeks shopping for numerical restrictions, and unavailable items whether it's a shortage or a panic buying issue, What I will say is that blaming people as panic buying being the issue, where the truth is clearly the system ...
- Tue Mar 17, 2020 11:15 am
- Forum: Homes and Retreats
- Topic: corona virus and the safety of your home.
- Replies: 24
- Views: 9484
Re: corona virus and the safety of your home.
Once in our own place we have never left anything unlocked on purpose, house, car, if the kids can return home with a key and not be noticed there's no doubt bad people would try, in fact we have heard the door handle being tried quite often.
- Mon Mar 16, 2020 9:12 pm
- Forum: Homes and Retreats
- Topic: corona virus and the safety of your home.
- Replies: 24
- Views: 9484
Re: corona virus and the safety of your home.
This is Plymouth I lock the door between trips to unload the car, and the car of course, I couldn't do more without a family member guarding so to speakHomeHardener wrote: ↑Mon Mar 16, 2020 7:33 pm Have you taken extra measures at home? Are you Double locking your doors whilst in the house (if you didn’t already)
- Sun Mar 15, 2020 4:29 pm
- Forum: Food, Nutrition and Agriculture
- Topic: Will there be food shortages in the UK?
- Replies: 84
- Views: 16361
Re: Will there be food shortages in the UK?
I always think when I see things like this that, although well-intentioned, it's going to have the opposite effect to what the shops' hoped. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-51883440 Indeed a big red button with do not press written underneath, The press caused the very panic they are now critic...
- Sun Mar 15, 2020 3:58 pm
- Forum: Food, Nutrition and Agriculture
- Topic: Will there be food shortages in the UK?
- Replies: 84
- Views: 16361
Re: Will there be food shortages in the UK?
Indeed
Sorry I can never take shooting game birds seriously - I blame Monty Python's upper class twits, then there's the NOBS.. not helping my mental pictures at all
- Sun Mar 15, 2020 3:39 pm
- Forum: How are you preparing
- Topic: Lockdown?
- Replies: 149
- Views: 30237
Re: Lockdown?
Meanwhile the over 70s are being put under house arrest this week. Preppers, send me sweetie parcels. :twisted: I know we haven't decided if they serve any actual purpose but won't that take out a good proportion of the house of lords? How will we cope... Edit Joking aside but aren't there a lot of...
- Sun Mar 15, 2020 3:19 pm
- Forum: Food, Nutrition and Agriculture
- Topic: Will there be food shortages in the UK?
- Replies: 84
- Views: 16361
Re: Will there be food shortages in the UK?
For a moment there I thought cock pheasant was a code word for a certain politician, forgive the confusion I'm a city boy and only shoot paper...not toilet paper I hasten to add
- Sun Mar 15, 2020 9:58 am
- Forum: How are you preparing
- Topic: Lockdown?
- Replies: 149
- Views: 30237
Re: Lockdown?
I think your figures are out a little , china's population is more like 1.4 billion I stand corrected thanks I was going from memory and got confused remembering of what they said it will be it will be, should have googled first :oops: Otherwise the death toll accuracy is somewhat more reliable, al...
- Sun Mar 15, 2020 9:18 am
- Forum: How are you preparing
- Topic: Lockdown?
- Replies: 149
- Views: 30237
Re: Lockdown?
In the study published Feb. 18 in the China CDC Weekly, researchers found a death rate from COVID-19 to be around 2.3% in mainland China. That's my point 0.1% of what, total population? if we are talking total population and if China has 6 billion 2.3% would be almost 261 Million at the end of one ...
- Sun Mar 15, 2020 7:38 am
- Forum: How are you preparing
- Topic: Lockdown?
- Replies: 149
- Views: 30237
Re: Lockdown?
For my two penneth - the stats we are quoting here are by and large guesses, the experts do not know, the main figures from different countries we are hearing are confirmed cases, and deaths, no one knows how many cases altogether anywhere a doctor I know suggests the number who actually have it is ...