Button
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Meanwhile, from the land down under:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-australia-51731422.
(And I bet they don't come from sustainable forests!)
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Brian Dixon
- Location: Dover
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Pablo- Registered: 21 Mar 2018
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You can also get a 5 litre container for £49.99, which works out at £2.50 a 250 ml bottle.
Button- Location: Dover
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Coronavirus: Don't use vodka to sanitise hands. Duh?!
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-51763775.
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Ross Miller
- Location: London Road, Dover
- Registered: 17 Sep 2008
- Posts: 3,705
FFS what is all this panic about
There are all of 163 confirmed cases in the UK out of a population of roughly 67m whilst that excludes people who might be infected and asymptomatic as well as those who might be infected but have mild symptoms and are self isolating - this is a current confirmed infection rate of 0.00024% that is a factor of 10,000 less than the flu. I appreciate until there is a proper antibody test we will not know the full infection rate but this does not merit the level of hysteria in the media etc that we are seeing.
Or perhaps this is a way to take our minds of other things that we really should be worried about...
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Jan Higgins
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I have almost given up watching the various news programmes with their continuous virus waffle, very little new information just a rehash of everything reported previously.
BTW I have an absolute stinker of a cold which has gone onto my chest as they always do, should I add to the panic and get tested.
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Button- Location: Dover
- Registered: 22 Jul 2016
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Certainly not! You should self-isolate with a bottle of vodka for company! (Or more than one, given the 2 weeks...) Try gargling with it!
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Weird Granny Slater
- Location: Dover
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Ross Miller wrote:...this does not merit the level of hysteria in the media etc that we are seeing.
Or perhaps this is a way to take our minds of other things that we really should be worried about...
Fact-checking and independent, critical thinking are fundamental to a responsible media. But as these attributes of good journalism are hard work, and bad for a career in the mainstream, they've largely disappeared from it. The vacuum's filled by hysteria, outrage, sensation and client journalism.
But there's WW3 brewing on the Turkish/Syrian border and that could vaccinate us all against COVID-19...
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Brian Dixon- Location: Dover
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wgs, if that's the case send the yanks in first.
Captain Haddock
- Location: Marlinspike Hall
- Registered: 8 Oct 2012
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FWIW I am continually to self isolate on my narrowboat on the Oxford Canal. Rumours of anti virus hand wash in Banbury. Onwards.
"We are living in very strange times, and they are likely to get a lot stranger before we bottom out"
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Weird Granny Slater- Location: Dover
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Brian Dixon wrote:wgs, if that's the case send the yanks in first.
They are here, there and everywhere already, BD, and that's the problem.
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Weird Granny Slater- Location: Dover
- Registered: 7 Jun 2017
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Since 5 March, and up to the time of posting, BBC online have originated a mere 167 items on 'coronavirus'. That's only 2.783 items an hour. They really need to get in some temps to increase those shoddy productivity levels. What do they do with our licence fee?
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Button- Location: Dover
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Captain Haddock wrote:FWIW I am continually to self isolate on my narrowboat on the Oxford Canal.
You could moor-up and trot off to bag a bargain at Bicester Village, which could probably do with your custom.
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Captain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
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If we all stop shaking hands how is local government going to know who to give contracts to?
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"We are living in very strange times, and they are likely to get a lot stranger before we bottom out"
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Weird Granny Slater- Location: Dover
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Beards have been identified as a major culprit in the spread of coronavirus. Emergency legislation will be introduced to make the wearing of a beard a criminal offence, and new measures will include internment and trial without jury. Police will carry shaving kits, and beard-sporters who fail to self-shave when asked to do so by a police officer will be publicly force-shaved on the spot, then locked up. Joke shops have reported a run on false beards, as the hirsute stock up on ersatz facial hair so as to maintain appearances while at at the same time allowing for an abrubt removal should they spot a plod. Neighbours will be rewarded with sweeties if they report irresponsible chin-coverers to the authorities.
The BBC tried to contact W.G. Grace, George Bernard Shaw and D.H Lawrence, but they were unavailable for comment
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Button- Location: Dover
- Registered: 22 Jul 2016
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Weird Granny Slater wrote:Since 5 March, and up to the time of posting, BBC online have originated a mere 167 items on 'coronavirus'.
One thing you can say for COVID19, it's cleared-up all that nasty flooding a treat!
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Karlos- Location: Dover
- Registered: 1 Oct 2012
- Posts: 2,529
Funnily enough the Dour at Buckland Bridge is very high.
Seen the 1st person in Dover wearing a mask this morning. Looked more like a fashion accessory though.
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"We are living in very strange times, and they are likely to get a lot stranger before we bottom out"
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