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Post by boskampsflaps on Mar 24, 2020 18:59:51 GMT
Whereabouts did you go? How busy was it? Aldi Trent Vale. Half empty with people and stock! Been trying for the last week and a half to get a delivery from every single supermarket that does them. Can't get a slot for love nor money. I'll be honest, it was horrible if necessary and not an experience I want a repeat of any time soon. Felt really sorry for the poor staff. Wait until the screens go up, it'll be bizare.
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Post by somersetstokie on Mar 24, 2020 19:07:52 GMT
Interesting comment just now on the radio. Woman phoned in to say her car was due for its MOT next week, but the Garage they use is closed. Where does she stand? Assume there is no local alternative. She works in an essential industry and needs the car to get to work, but MOT can't be done. This is a legal requirement. Police say they will treat any incidents or individual cases "with discretion".
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Post by spitthedog on Mar 24, 2020 19:11:37 GMT
Hancock's comments on Sadiq Khan and the running of the Tube Services is bang out of order and quite disgusting tbh How can you be saying Stay Home and then in the same breath there should be more tubes running for commuters!!! Especially when the reason why Tube Services have been cut is because so many drivers are self-isolating (which should be encouraged, not discouraged) He wants Tube Drivers to put themselves at greater risk? Sends out completely wrong message. Surely essential workers still need to use the tube, but cutting the number of trains because there are less people still means each train is rammed full. Keeping a lot of trains running with less people means less crowded trains, more distance between people having to use them, less chance of spreading the virus etc... Did you read the bit about the amount of Tube Drivers self isolating or off sick...which is surely not surprising and should not be discouraged! It also sends out the completely wrong message and adds to the general confusion. Do they want people to go out or stay in?......make up your mind!!! There are enough Tube Trains for essential workers, so we don't need more trains for non-essential workers!...unless you want to encourage non-essential workers to travel???
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Post by bigjohnritchie on Mar 24, 2020 19:13:55 GMT
Interesting comment just now on the radio. Woman phoned in to say her car was due for its MOT next week, but the Garage they use is closed. Where does she stand? Assume there is no local alternative. She works in an essential industry and needs the car to get to work, but MOT can't be done. This is a legal requirement. Police say they will treat any incidents or individual cases "with discretion". I'd posted earlier about a similar event....my son's car failed its MOT today. ,£753 with. Garage closes on Friday, they'll try to get it done....if they can get the parts( an excellent garage). As an ex policeman, I think that the Police actually would be very lenient, they actually are mainly practical and human....I think that it is insurance companies that the woman needs to be wary of...no MOT could invalidate her insurance and as private concerns they probably would try not to pay out.
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Post by dutchstokie on Mar 24, 2020 19:14:16 GMT
Interesting comment just now on the radio. Woman phoned in to say her car was due for its MOT next week, but the Garage they use is closed. Where does she stand? Assume there is no local alternative. She works in an essential industry and needs the car to get to work, but MOT can't be done. This is a legal requirement. Police say they will treat any incidents or individual cases "with discretion". Over here someone posed the same question.... what the insurance companies over here have done is team up with the RVM and you can download a form which gives you a waver until the crisis is over and this covers you. If the Police stop you you produce this document
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Post by Seymour Beaver on Mar 24, 2020 19:15:09 GMT
INDIA . ONE POINT THREE BILLION PEOPLE go into full lockdown. ! Meanwhile WM police break up a BBQ with twenty people enjoying the fine early spring weather this afternoon. ☠️ Are these people THICK. They are putting us all at risk. 🥶 And don't you just know who'd shout the loudest if they got sick and there was no ambulance or ITU available.
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Post by spitthedog on Mar 24, 2020 19:16:19 GMT
In Italy £2750 fine if you go out unless you are an essential worker
Apply that here and then see how many people go on the Tube trains in London?
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Post by felonious on Mar 24, 2020 19:21:14 GMT
Playing out just the way they want it? At every step they have had to clarify exactly what they mean and then almost immediately reluctantly go a step or two further than they announced. so hes guilty of thinking the british public had a few brain cells You don't think he was using the Oatcake as a barometer?
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Post by crapslinger on Mar 24, 2020 19:26:32 GMT
We should be allowed to smash said bottles over their stupid fucking skulls, God I hate what this World has become selfish thoughtless brain dead twats. 500 hours of Community Service.....working in a Covid 19 mortuary. With no PPE, how fcuking stupid can these brain dead morons get.
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Post by Seymour Beaver on Mar 24, 2020 19:28:22 GMT
Kind of reassuring that it wasn’t that busy and that they’ve started to implement measures to help reduce the spread of the virus. Wonder if other supermarkets have started to do the same? Haven't got a clue mate and to be honest, something I don't want to find out if I'm honest. I'm trying to shop local to where I live but trying to find time out of working from home in the day and trying to pick quieter times where you're less likely to encounter too many people is nigh on impossible, so it will be late night dashes to one of the bigger ones for me, to grab whatever I can for three sets of vulnerable people. Screens up at Morrisons. Wouldn't want their job for a wheelbarrow of cash. Similar problem to you. Can't even get a 'click and collect' anywhere within 20 miles radius for the bext three weeks. Also shop for a 'vulnerable' who unfortunately doesn't grasp what it's like. 'Well I'd like six slices of that nice Wiltshire bacon, some stewing steak, milk in 2pt containers, any bigger is too big for my fridge, oh and I like Roberts bread best etc etc". "Listen mate, you'll get a list of what basics I can find in the 15 minutes I'm willing to spend trying to shop 2 meters away from some bog roll hoarding idiot and you'll have to make the best of it. I won't let you starve but you just might have to let one of those Michelin stars go - OK??"
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Post by Paul Spencer on Mar 24, 2020 19:29:00 GMT
Surely essential workers still need to use the tube, but cutting the number of trains because there are less people still means each train is rammed full. Keeping a lot of trains running with less people means less crowded trains, more distance between people having to use them, less chance of spreading the virus etc... Did you read the bit about the amount of Tube Drivers self isolating or off sick...which is surely not surprising and should not be discouraged! It also sends out the completely wrong message and adds to the general confusion. Do they want people to go out or stay in?......make up your mind!!! There are enough Tube Trains for essential workers, so we don't need more trains for non-essential workers!...unless you want to encourage non-essential workers to travel??? Absolutely. That press conference was liking watching some dark satire. Hancock telling people to go to work as normal but to keep 2 metres apart on the tube ... just what the fuck? It's frightening. It's not fair to expect the essential workers to go to work on packed tube trains, they're probably going to get ill and they won't be around to help the people who fall ill because they went to work on the tube. Hancock should be telling everybody who isn't an essential worker to stay at home but he isn't, he's telling them to go to work. It's outrageous.
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Post by mtrstudent on Mar 24, 2020 19:29:10 GMT
Just to confirm I really don't know what calculations are being made here. The new cases are up to 5200 today, 300 increase on yesterday and critical went up 200... Misleading information I think... I think "mixed bag" is how I felt on reading the numbers. They're not rocketing up outside Lombardy yet, so that's still good. The number in intensive care is creeping up, but that could just be because they get more respirators online... were those being left to die outside the wards last week counted as intensive care or not? That could change the meaning. The number of dead hasn't blasted through the last record, but it's such a sorry state when I see over 700 dead and I'm almost breathing a sigh of relief. Stay safe everyone! EDIT: and the testing is way behind where it needs to be so that number is basically useless. It really is like "fog of war".
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Post by Deleted on Mar 24, 2020 19:32:20 GMT
Surely essential workers still need to use the tube, but cutting the number of trains because there are less people still means each train is rammed full. Keeping a lot of trains running with less people means less crowded trains, more distance between people having to use them, less chance of spreading the virus etc... Did you read the bit about the amount of Tube Drivers self isolating or off sick...which is surely not surprising and should not be discouraged! It also sends out the completely wrong message and adds to the general confusion. Do they want people to go out or stay in?......make up your mind!!! There are enough Tube Trains for essential workers, so we don't need more trains for non-essential workers!...unless you want to encourage non-essential workers to travel??? Less trains = greater crowding.
Simple really (if you think about it).
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Post by spitthedog on Mar 24, 2020 19:33:54 GMT
Did you read the bit about the amount of Tube Drivers self isolating or off sick...which is surely not surprising and should not be discouraged! It also sends out the completely wrong message and adds to the general confusion. Do they want people to go out or stay in?......make up your mind!!! There are enough Tube Trains for essential workers, so we don't need more trains for non-essential workers!...unless you want to encourage non-essential workers to travel??? Less trains = greater crowding. Simple really (if you think about it).
??? Who is going to drive these trains?? Are you willing to give it a go?
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Post by Paul Spencer on Mar 24, 2020 19:34:17 GMT
Did you read the bit about the amount of Tube Drivers self isolating or off sick...which is surely not surprising and should not be discouraged! It also sends out the completely wrong message and adds to the general confusion. Do they want people to go out or stay in?......make up your mind!!! There are enough Tube Trains for essential workers, so we don't need more trains for non-essential workers!...unless you want to encourage non-essential workers to travel??? Less trains = greater crowding.
Simple really (if you think about it).
Telling everybody who isn't an essential worker to stay at home = less crowding on trains. Simply really (if you think about it).
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Post by Deleted on Mar 24, 2020 19:35:48 GMT
Less trains = greater crowding. Simple really (if you think about it).
??? Who is going to drive these trains?? Are you willing to give it a go? Are you seriously asking a man if he wold like to drive a train? Naaaah of course not.
The driver doesn't actually stand in with the passengers. You did know that?
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Post by somersetstokie on Mar 24, 2020 19:37:30 GMT
Interesting comment just now on the radio. Woman phoned in to say her car was due for its MOT next week, but the Garage they use is closed. Where does she stand? Assume there is no local alternative. She works in an essential industry and needs the car to get to work, but MOT can't be done. This is a legal requirement. Police say they will treat any incidents or individual cases "with discretion". Over here someone posed the same question.... what the insurance companies over here have done is team up with the RVM and you can download a form which gives you a waver until the crisis is over and this covers you. If the Police stop you you produce this document Don't expect we're that well organized over here!
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Post by spitthedog on Mar 24, 2020 19:37:44 GMT
??? Who is going to drive these trains?? Are you willing to give it a go? Are you seriously asking a man if he wold like to drive a train? Naaaah of course not. The driver doesn't actually stand in with the passengers. You did know that?
For 800th time.....the reason Tube train services were reduced was because the amount of drivers self-isolating and off sick Are you saying people shouldn't self-isolate?? Is this what we should encourage? OK....Let's encourage people with the Virus to drive trains!!!......Great idea!
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Post by elystokie on Mar 24, 2020 19:41:36 GMT
Interesting comment just now on the radio. Woman phoned in to say her car was due for its MOT next week, but the Garage they use is closed. Where does she stand? Assume there is no local alternative. She works in an essential industry and needs the car to get to work, but MOT can't be done. This is a legal requirement. Police say they will treat any incidents or individual cases "with discretion". I'd posted earlier about a similar event....my son's car failed its MOT today. ,£753 with. Garage closes on Friday, they'll try to get it done....if they can get the parts( an excellent garage). As an ex policeman, I think that the Police actually would be very lenient, they actually are mainly practical and human....I think that it is insurance companies that the woman needs to be wary of...no MOT could invalidate her insurance and as private concerns they probably would try not to pay out. If I'm reading this right they've extended MOT's for 3 months www.gov.uk/guidance/coronavirus-covid-19-vehicle-approval-tests
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Post by sheikhmomo on Mar 24, 2020 19:41:54 GMT
Less trains = greater crowding. Simple really (if you think about it).
Telling everybody who isn't an essential worker to stay at home = less crowding on trains. Simply really (if you think about it). I think the Mayors office response exposes Hancock for the jumped up fool he is. This is simply not true. The mayor has told ministers countless times over recent days that TfL simply cannot safely run a full service because of the levels of staff sickness and self-isolation. Nearly a third of staff are already absent - there aren’t enough drivers and control staff to do it. The government must act urgently to get more people staying at home rather than going to work unnecessarily - that means taking the difficult decisions they are refusing to take to ban non-essential construction work and provide proper financial support to freelancers, the self employed and those on zero hours contracts to stay at home.
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Post by CalgaryPotter on Mar 24, 2020 19:42:08 GMT
Advice needed:
I have a 93 year old granddad and 89 year old nan both of which have not received a letter from government which I would have expected given their age, they both have type 2 diabetes and blood pressure issues.
I've told them to give me the shopping list that they would normally get from Aldi every week and will be ordering online to get it sent to their house.
1. Which is the best/most reliable and quickest online supermarket delivery service? 2. What are the delivery schedules looking like right now so I can order in time.
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Post by FullerMagic on Mar 24, 2020 19:44:08 GMT
Not much optimism here...
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Post by algor on Mar 24, 2020 19:44:42 GMT
Interesting comment just now on the radio. Woman phoned in to say her car was due for its MOT next week, but the Garage they use is closed. Where does she stand? Assume there is no local alternative. She works in an essential industry and needs the car to get to work, but MOT can't be done. This is a legal requirement. Police say they will treat any incidents or individual cases "with discretion". Over here someone posed the same question.... what the insurance companies over here have done is team up with the RVM and you can download a form which gives you a waver until the crisis is over and this covers you. If the Police stop you you produce this document I had a similar (ish) issue this week. My car insurance is invalid without a specific tracking device being active, I tried to renew the annual tracking device yesterday on the renewal date however, when I called yesterday I was told that the office were now all working from home which is understandable but only 2 members of staff had card readers and that a member of staff would call me back to take the payment. I asked for an email to confirm cover in the meantime which they did, god knows if it is valid and I am still waiting for the call back. The tracker is run by Vodaphone so it isn't a small company. I also had the car booked in for a service next week, the warranty isn't valid if it goes over the service interval which it now is. They emailed me this afternoon to say that it was cancelled and that they were closed until further notice. Police, insurance and warranty providers are going to have to operate a good faith policy in these times.
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Post by Laughing Gravy on Mar 24, 2020 19:48:14 GMT
Did you read the bit about the amount of Tube Drivers self isolating or off sick...which is surely not surprising and should not be discouraged! It also sends out the completely wrong message and adds to the general confusion. Do they want people to go out or stay in?......make up your mind!!! There are enough Tube Trains for essential workers, so we don't need more trains for non-essential workers!...unless you want to encourage non-essential workers to travel??? Less trains = greater crowding. Simple really (if you think about it).
Or No trains = no overcrowding.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 24, 2020 19:50:12 GMT
Does anyone know what the craic is with court appearances etc for things like driving offences? I guess the jury based system is limited but small offences are surely not seen as essential are they? Can't seem to find anything on line.
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Post by algor on Mar 24, 2020 19:51:17 GMT
Anyone else just got a UK GOV text?? EDIT seems I'm the last person to get one
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Post by stiggerstackle on Mar 24, 2020 19:54:34 GMT
Advice needed: I have a 93 year old granddad and 89 year old nan both of which have not received a letter from government which I would have expected given their age, they both have type 2 diabetes and blood pressure issues. I've told them to give me the shopping list that they would normally get from Aldi every week and will be ordering online to get it sent to their house. 1. Which is the best/most reliable and quickest online supermarket delivery service? 2. What are the delivery schedules looking like right now so I can order in time. Don't expect quick mate - in normal circumstances they're pretty much of a muchness. However my wife tried to book our normal slot last week, couldn't get it, had a 12-day wait as they were all fully booked, and I now believe (although I may well be wrong) that most of them have stopped deliveries for now as they either can't keep up with demand or they just don't have the stock.
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Post by Laughing Gravy on Mar 24, 2020 19:54:43 GMT
Advice needed: I have a 93 year old granddad and 89 year old nan both of which have not received a letter from government which I would have expected given their age, they both have type 2 diabetes and blood pressure issues. I've told them to give me the shopping list that they would normally get from Aldi every week and will be ordering online to get it sent to their house. 1. Which is the best/most reliable and quickest online supermarket delivery service? 2. What are the delivery schedules looking like right now so I can order in time. I don't know all the supermarkets but the ones I tried mate haven't got any slots available for a fortnight. Morrisons are doing a £35 food box with next day delivery for which you get a box of 'essential' items although you don't get any choice. I assumed this was aimed at 'older' people. Go on their website to try this and there is no availability for this either. It's bloody scandalous. Where are your grandparents mate? Get a neighbour or someone else to do it for them it'll be quicker. Fuck it if you're struggling I'll do it for you.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 24, 2020 19:55:25 GMT
Advice needed: I have a 93 year old granddad and 89 year old nan both of which have not received a letter from government which I would have expected given their age, they both have type 2 diabetes and blood pressure issues. I've told them to give me the shopping list that they would normally get from Aldi every week and will be ordering online to get it sent to their house. 1. Which is the best/most reliable and quickest online supermarket delivery service? 2. What are the delivery schedules looking like right now so I can order in time. Sainsburys are offering priority delivery slots for vulnerable people, but you have to create an online account and then ring a number to register that account as being vulnerable. Would be easy to do on their behalf I would have thought. 0800 328 1700 www.sainsburys.co.uk/shop/gb/groceries/working-to-feed-the-nation-/latest-information--
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Post by dirtygary69 on Mar 24, 2020 19:56:22 GMT
Not much optimism here... Certainly no sugar coating it. Very scary and you just have to hope he’s proved wrong.
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