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Snow Garden · 12-03-2020 05:39PM

It's like the few days before Christmas Day but without the cheer and goodwill...which has diminished in recent years too

Glebee · 12-03-2020 05:39PM

dzilla wrote: »

They are for his Pet Rabbit.

They will end up eating the rabbit when food runs out.

TuringBot47 · 12-03-2020 05:41PM

The One Doctor wrote: »

AVOID:

Sinn Fein supporters.

In fairness they usually wear black gloves.

_Brian · 12-03-2020 05:44PM

Ace2007 wrote: »

I suspect that 43 will balloon up in the latest figures posted tonight - but this shouldn't be a reason for people to get frighten, more than likely there are 50+ people walking round and don't know they have it.

Difference between China and Ireland is that - if Chinese lad is told to stay at home, or do xyz, he'll probably do it - In Ireland - how many people have zero respect for authority or the government? Imo that's going to be the main crux of the issue people care about themselves - no one else, media telling people not to panic buy - and what is happening - people are panic buying.

15000 Irish punters went to Cheltenham, two fingers upntonthenrest of Irish society, not giving a fcuk wht they bring back.
Selfish cnuts

Wibbs · 12-03-2020 05:46PM

whisky_galore wrote: »

A wordy way of saying they're fückin idiots.

:D:D

Ace2007 wrote: »

I suspect that 43 will balloon up in the latest figures posted tonight - but this shouldn't be a reason for people to get frighten, more than likely there are 50+ people walking round and don't know they have it.

I'd bet it's more like a couple of hundred. After the Cheltenham morons come back add a few more dozen no doubt.

Difference between China and Ireland is that - if Chinese lad is told to stay at home, or do xyz, he'll probably do it - In Ireland - how many people have zero respect for authority or the government? Imo that's going to be the main crux of the issue people care about themselves - no one else, media telling people not to panic buy - and what is happening - people are panic buying

There's much in that A.

Steve F · 12-03-2020 05:47PM

Dontfadeaway wrote: »

https://twitter.com/joanmckennatv/status/1238090596063084548?s=21

Mental

I saw Corona Beer in one Trolly :pac:

Glebee · 12-03-2020 05:54PM

Panic buyers with half full trollies.... The fools, at least fill the things up.

FanadMan · 12-03-2020 05:57PM

Saw much the same in Lidl Milford earlier. Some numpty with at least a dozen loaves of bread in his trolley and was throwing in whatever fruit and veg he could get his hands on. Spoke to the cashier and said that it hadn't been as busy since xmas. His reply was "dunno what they are panicking for - will be normal deliveries tomorrow again!"

AndyBoBandy · 12-03-2020 05:58PM

Glebee wrote: »

They will end up eating the rabbit when food runs out.

fattening him up with the carrot cake

Genius!!

Rufeo · 12-03-2020 05:58PM

Steve F wrote: »

I saw Corona Beer in one Trolly :pac:

I'm really craving it now. I'm going out to the off licence.

Rufeo · 12-03-2020 06:04PM

Yeah avoid sinn fein cos of coronavirus. Haha.

Earthhorse · 12-03-2020 06:09PM

Can people please stop advising people to go to the smaller shops to get stuff?

The panic buyers are going to descend on them like flies on sh*t.

GreeBo · 12-03-2020 06:10PM

Wibbs wrote: »

Here we go, one of those doommongers pullin the skeleton outa themselves with silly conjecture and half truths...

No, it is not. In Wuhan, Taiwan, Singapore and now in Italy with lockdowns and empty streets, the shops are still open and nobody is close to starving(though a few in this country would be well served with going on an enforced diet) and nobody is wiping their arse with nettles crying out for quilted bog roll. These are those crazy things called facts.

There are government vans driving around northern Italy telling people to stay in their homes, so no, the shops are not still open.

The thing about a pandemic is, the longer it goes on, the more likely you are to be in contact with someone who has it. Ergo, getting what you need earlier is arguably safer than waiting until you need it.

Wuhan is a very different state (in every sense of the word) than Ireland is right now.

Its also a self fulfilling prophesy, I know that there is no supply chain issue and that we wont have a shortage of items, however, if everyone else ignores this, I'll still be the sensible guy only this time I'll be the one without the supplies I want because everyone else took them all.

Also I dont see how you can say its not a certainty that cases will rise in Ireland. Cases have been rising since the first one, thats what infectious things do.
They will rise until they peak and then they decline. Unless you think Ireland is somehow different ot the rest of the world, why wouldnt our number of cases continue to increase?
there are probably hundreds of people already infected who have yet to present, who knows how many others they have infected. Only the next 2 weeks or so will give a better indication, not your indignation.

Antares35 · 12-03-2020 06:11PM

I hope their goods all perish and they all die surrounded by unused toilet roll.

Cabaal · 12-03-2020 06:12PM

Cuddlesworth wrote: »

Anything can be used for the purpose of wiping your arse. Tissues, newspaper, your hand etc..

But toilet paper is designed to break up in the septic system, the rest are not. So you shouldn't be flushing them down the toilet

You'd try to flush your hand down the toilet? :pac::pac::pac:

Dr Strange · 12-03-2020 06:14PM

I'm prepared. I watched this.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZTs37z_FYZw

bear1 · 12-03-2020 06:15PM

I can tell you from a Warsaw perspective that it's gone beyond ****ing madness.
Everyone panicking. People won't come near you, sneeze on them and they just run away.
Can't do anything.

EmmetSpiceland · 12-03-2020 06:16PM

Rufeo wrote: »

Yeah avoid sinn fein cos of coronavirus. Haha.

They are the mostly likely ones to “shuffle” up to A&E when the advice is to stay home and “self isolate”.

Ace2007 · 12-03-2020 06:17PM

_Brian wrote: »

15000 Irish punters went to Cheltenham, two fingers upntonthenrest of Irish society, not giving a fcuk wht they bring back.
Selfish cnuts

And that's the issue, some people blame the government for not acting quicker etc, but like it's common sense not to travel to Cheltenham or Italy for instance - there are lads who have tested positive for the virus (and others who haven't), who travelled when the advice was not to go - they didn't care about society and the impact.

Like just to think an elderly lady has died, because someone came back from Italy with the virus, and somehow she got infected.

Like it's all well and good saying close the airports - but it appears to be Irish people coming back into the country with the virus - not foreigners brining it into Ireland.

Even Trump with his ban still hasn't banned the flights or Americans' from flying back to US.

Sgt Hartman · 12-03-2020 06:17PM

Are there any panic buyers lurking on this thread? I'd like to see your side of the story!!

frag420 · 12-03-2020 06:18PM

Achoooo!!!

Class MayDresser · 12-03-2020 06:19PM

Do:

Pull the stomach off yourself relentlessly, keep the daily exercise up.

SEPT 23 1989 · 12-03-2020 06:19PM

Koreans have been spotted on the roof of the new Lidl in Fortunestown Tallaght

iamwhoiam · 12-03-2020 06:19PM

Sgt Hartman wrote: »

Are there any panic buyers lurking on this thread? I'd like to see your side of the story!!

We have stocked up over the last 10 days or so . People should have seen this coming in fairness . Not a chance I would risk todays chaos

bear1 · 12-03-2020 06:21PM

Sgt Hartman wrote: »

Are there any panic buyers lurking on this thread? I'd like to see your side of the story!!

Not sure if this counts but last night the girlfriend and I heard a rumour that the city (Warsaw) was being considered for lock down.
Now the rumour came from a reliable person so we checked the fridge and saw we didn't have much to last more than two days and the car was on empty.
So went to the local supermarket and filled up, pretty calm till we walked in.
Shelves empty, queues and queues of people with toilet paper... Wtf is is with this toilet paper ****e? Literally...
The only things left were a pack of croissants, water and some cheese.
Left

Dr Strange · 12-03-2020 06:24PM

Or just become the "market dweller" and move into your local supermarket.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TQm2FF9Cjjk

Ace2007 · 12-03-2020 06:27PM

bear1 wrote: »

Not sure if this counts but last night the girlfriend and I heard a rumour that the city (Warsaw) was being considered for lock down.
Now the rumour came from a reliable person so we checked the fridge and saw we didn't have much to last more than two days and the car was on empty.
So went to the local supermarket and filled up, pretty calm till we walked in.
Shelves empty, queues and queues of people with toilet paper... Wtf is is with this toilet paper ****e? Literally...
The only things left were a pack of croissants, water and some cheese.
Left

Toilet Paper is a bulky item and as such stores don't stock much as takes up storage space, so if they sell out they aren't re-stocked as quickly as other items - say baked beans etc, therefore people panic and think they need it because they think everyone else has it etc.

tritriagain · 12-03-2020 06:27PM

Sgt Hartman wrote: »

Are there any panic buyers lurking on this thread? I'd like to see your side of the story!!

I live in a very isolated area and had stock already but topped up today. I now should have enough for a month. Surely that's a good thing as I don't have to have contact with anyone for a month now. People saying shops will have plenty of stock are actually condoning multiple trips to shops when one could do. Two sides to every story.

bear1 · 12-03-2020 06:30PM

Ace2007 wrote: »

Toilet Paper is a bulky item and as such stores don't stock much as takes up storage space, so if they sell out they aren't re-stocked as quickly as other items - say baked beans etc, therefore people panic and think they need it because they think everyone else has it etc.

You could simply wash.

Ragnar Lothbrok · 12-03-2020 06:31PM

An entirely new thread on the corona virus with the sole aim of getting in a childish dig at Sinn Féin.

Bravo :rolleyes:

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