progaardvark wrote: Blacksword wrote: Our supermarket shelves are now empty. Most supermarkets have brought in new rules to allow the elderly and disabled priority to the stocks early in the day, which is a good move. They're also doing this in my neck of the woods in Pennsylvania. First hour goes to senior citizens, then the rest of us. Some sections of the supermarket are empty or mostly empty. They ran out of eggs yesterday, but new shipments came in today. Haven't seen toilet paper on the shelves since the end of last week. Fortunately my wife ordered an 18-roll pack from Target the week before this all started, so good for awhile (hopefully). No infections in my neck of the woods yet, but it's certainly knocking on our door. We've been treating this as if it's spreading (which it probably is from asymptomatic individuals). I hate going to the stores right now because there are a lot of people not getting the message of social distancing. Scary news of the day: CDC reported that of the 508 hospitalized in the U.S., 38% were in the age range of 20-54.  Good news of the day: China had no new infections in the last 24 hours.

I went to local supermarket at 8am today, out of curiosity, to see how much the stock had diminished in the first hour of opening. Stocks of fruit, veg, meat and forzen foods were quite good, but all the toilet paper and dry pasta had gone, as well as most of the bread and eggs. There had been an overnight delivery and all of the shelves fully stocked apparently, and the old's had cleared them out in one hour! There won;t be another delivery until after hours tonight.

npjnpj wrote: The UK is asking thousands of retired doctors and nurses to return to help tackle the emergency. Seeing that the virus is especially dangerous to the elderly, this seems a bit ... irresponsible? But then again I'm sure that especially nurses get enough money stuffed up the wazoo to happily get ill and die in service to the community.

In the States, the NJ governor has asked doctors with suspended licenses to help out . Not sure that will help.

Just heard from colleagues in India that all shops are shutting for the weekend. In Chennai it seems to be ALL shops, in Bangalore it appears smaller food shops are excluded. That's guaranteed to create a stampede today I would imagine.

chopper wrote: Just heard from colleagues in India that all shops are shutting for the weekend. In Chennai it seems to be ALL shops, in Bangalore it appears smaller food shops are excluded. That's guaranteed to create a stampede today I would imagine.

SteveG wrote: Trump to reporters in briefing: You're sitting too close Inside Politics During a White House press briefing with the coronavirus task force, President Donald Trump told reporters they were sitting too close and said the White House needed to cut down the number of journalists at the briefings. Source: CNN How about that.

SteveG wrote: Trump to reporters in briefing: You're sitting too close Inside Politics During a White House press briefing with the coronavirus task force, President Donald Trump told reporters they were sitting too close and said the White House needed to cut down the number of journalists at the briefings. Source: CNN How about that.

Last night the governor of Pennsylvania ordered all non-life-sustaining businesses to shut down. The university I work at has closed (as much as it can, somebody has to still feed the horses and cows) and I've completed a week of working at home. I actually think I'm getting more done at home than I do at work even though my laptop is slower than the PC at work. We now have two confirmed positive tests in the county. It's here now (and probably has been for a bit). No news yet of a possible "shelter in place" order like they have in California. 

Cosmiclawnmower wrote: My daughter and one of my grandsons are confirmed as having the virus and are in isolation in Bristol. More worryingly she is about 6 months pregnant. When it becomes personal, it really hits home.

Wish them a full recovery. A couple of hours ago, I read that a woman infected with COVID-19 gave birth to a fully healthy baby. Hope that will be the same for your daughter and her prospective birth. 

Cosmiclawnmower wrote: My daughter and one of my grandsons are confirmed as having the virus and are in isolation in Bristol. More worryingly she is about 6 months pregnant. When it becomes personal, it really hits home.

SteveG wrote: Catcher10 wrote: SteveG wrote: Trump to reporters in briefing: You're sitting too close Inside Politics During a White House press briefing with the coronavirus task force, President Donald Trump told reporters they were sitting too close and said the White House needed to cut down the number of journalists at the briefings. Source: CNN How about that. My position is still the same on testing... Yeah, we know.