Coronavirus discussion thread

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Little Miss Happy Jul 2021 1:54pm, 30 Jul 2021 4,788 posts	0 Little Miss Happy It's a good basic precaution against the spread of disease Ultracat. I'd like to know what all the people who rushed out and panic bought soap - leading to the shortages - were doing before CV19!
DeeGee Jul 2021 2:27pm, 30 Jul 2021 21,158 posts	0 DeeGee That's what surprised me. First things to disappear off the shelves at the start of the pandemic were soap and bogroll. I can only presume that there are a lot of particularly filthy people around. (Athough, to be fair, if I genuinely couldn't get hold of bogroll, I'd definitely stock up on soap.)
Little Miss Happy Jul 2021 2:38pm, 30 Jul 2021 4,790 posts	0 Little Miss Happy I can understand the loo roll as someone who doesn't have a newspaper delivered.
geordiegirl Jul 2021 2:53pm, 30 Jul 2021 15,276 posts	0 geordiegirl Not aimed at you LMH it’s a general comment as I hear so many people (not just Fetchies other social media & comments made by colleagues) apply their situation to others. I felt judged when I didn’t isolate following the ‘you’ve been to a venue’ ping even though there was no requirement to isolate.
Lip Gloss Jul 2021 3:04pm, 30 Jul 2021 53,493 posts	0 Lip Gloss UC, we were on a Royal Caribbean cruise liner in 2019 and hand sanitiser was everywhere and a really big thing going into the dining hall and any staircases..it was something you just got used to doing. Going into Asda and I see fewer and fewer people sanitising before they go in and leave - for me it’s just habit.
run free Jul 2021 3:20pm, 30 Jul 2021 4,816 posts	0 run free I have now seen people sneeze in their hand and then touch things in the supermarket. Freedom day!
geordiegirl Jul 2021 3:24pm, 30 Jul 2021 15,277 posts	0 geordiegirl And why I’ll sanitise even if it doesn’t help prevent as much as originally thought.
Bazoaxe Jul 2021 3:33pm, 30 Jul 2021 20,543 posts	0 Bazoaxe The problem with a sneeze is that often comes along without warning and there isnt time to do anything more than get your hand in the way :-(. I guess though if that happens you shoudl return to the sanitisation station I remember once when ciovid first started and I was waiting outside a shop for my wife as we couldnt go in together and I sneezed into my hand. Literally nothing I could do but I got lots of nasty looks and had to wait til I was back at the car, and my wife had the keys.
sallykate Jul 2021 3:34pm, 30 Jul 2021 8,141 posts	0 sallykate I've kept up the sneezing into the elbow thing if I can't get to a tissue in time.
forest plodder Jul 2021 3:48pm, 30 Jul 2021 765 posts	0 forest plodder Yes, I adopted the sneeze into the crook of the elbow after seeing a programme on how they reduced infections with other viruses in Nepal I think. Predates COVID.