Preparedness for when

ivyleaf

Frugalsod wrote: »

Different things are more expensive, baked beans are very pricey as is alcohol, but crisp breads are cheap, and so much better than here. If you can adapt to the local diet it is a lot cheaper. Restaurants are cheaper during the day than at night. It is something that you need to look much more closely at. If you cannot drink and really do not like baked beans then it is much more affordable.

The real problem is that if you are abroad will your pension be upgraded? Many people have emigrated and are living on a pension that never gets larger, particularly Australia. Not sure what happens to pensions within the EU.

Yes, if you live in an EU country your UK state pension does get increased as if you were living in the UK.

This is also the case in some other countries, including the USA, but not Canada. There are regular complaints about the unfairness of this, but of course the govt just bleats that it's "unaffordable" to give everyone the annual increase.

lobbyludd

jk0 wrote: »

('Cause that would be racist, wouldn't it?)

Flaming government putting everyone's health at risk due to political correctness.

it's not my area - but it won't be this - it will be that health checks at air ports aren't effective.

Ebola takes 2-3 weeks from infection to symptoms, so MOST people carying it will be asymptomatic (plus transmission is by bodily fluids, not airborne) I don't think you can pick up the virus ina lab test until you are very very poorly and most people picked up by any sort of health check on symptoms will have a cold or a n other non-ebola thing, so you'd have to quarenteen them for weeks to make sure they weren't infected - where? by whom?. so you'd be quarenteening vast swathes of people at huge expense (lets not get into loss of liberty) whilst those with the disease actually swanned on past.

hand washing, good hygeine, no needle sharing, or snogging people just back from a trip to infected regions and condoms - you'll all be fine.

mardatha

NZ: Deadly influenza strain back with a vengeance
Flu is on the rise with the cooling weather, leaving hospitals struggling to cope with a surge in patients.

The influenza strain behind the 2009 "swine flu" pandemic that killed 19 people in New Zealand - A(H1N1) - appears to be back with a vengeance, accounting for most of the flu cases reported this year.

Dr Lance Jennings, of the National Influenza Specialist Group, said dozens of people had ended up in intensive care after contracting the H1N1 strain this year, including several in Wellington and Hawke's Bay.

One Canterbury patient had died. "It is really coming back to haunt us."

The strain was most likely to hit children, young adults and the healthy, he said.

The number of flu cases had risen strongly as winter set in, with 95 unconfirmed cases reported in the last week of June.

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http://www.stuff.co.nz/dominion-post/10241955/Deadly-influenza-strain-back-with-a-vengeance

pineapple

charlies-aunt wrote: »

Make some crème de cassis :T started now, it will be ready for Chr*stm*s :T

Sounds much more sensible than my pies!

pineapple

On the subject of health - after the boob biting incident they suggested renewing my tetanus. I was too concerned about the guilty hound tied up outside in the sun to argue the toss and received an all singing all dancing 3 in 1 - mumps, diptheria and tetanus and was then informed I might feel a bit poorly.. I'm not keen on these 'bung em all in together' jabs especially when you don't need all the components and wish I had held out for just tetanus. That's if you can still get it

pineapple

lobbyludd wrote: »

hand washing, good hygeine, no needle sharing, or snogging people just back from a trip to infected regions and condoms - you'll all be fine.

Does that mean I have to give up on the coalman (just back from his hols), the plumber, the postie..........

GreyQueen

pineapple wrote: »

Does that mean I have to give up on the coalman (just back from his hols), the plumber, the postie..........

S'OK, you only have to give up on them for Lent.

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Major rainfall (with thunder) round here, ATM.

Frugalsod

pineapple wrote: »

Does that mean I have to give up on the coalman (just back from his hols), the plumber, the postie..........

Only if you snog all those that visit you, and that they have been to a high risk region. If they have not returned from a high risk region then you should be fine, apart from the local gossip. :T

jk0

pineapple wrote: »

Does that mean I have to give up on the coalman (just back from his hols), the plumber, the postie..........

Reminds me of the old riddle about the three black men standing in a pub toilet, and one of them has a white willie.

Turns out they were miners, but one of them had been home for his dinner.