The Prepping Thread - A Newer Beginning ;)

DigForVictory

Hate to break it to you but yes, there is legislation (already) that includes a possible fine etc "Under the Health Protection (Coronavirus) Regulations 2020, which were passed last month, a person who is required to be kept in isolation can be taken there by a constable, with the use of ‘reasonable force, if necessary’. Failure to comply with restrictions, or absconding from isolation, is punishable with a fine of up to £1,000." (I'd do it as a proper quote but haven't figured that, yet.) 

 Meanwhile, I'm doing rounds with my conscience - I'm in a Manchester office & last week was training on new software. One lad has since reported developing "some flu like symptoms" & is self isolating. I found this out two hours ago & am wondering just how soon I should start working from home, (now, tonight) and whether I ought to go the full self isolation based on an email about a bloke who's normal lifestyle & habits I have no idea about. Do I dive into a hermitage as one lad's feeling ropey & quite fancies a week off (on the first sunny day we've had in Months - or am I being an utter shrew judging the poor lad), do I carry on but work from home - it's all a bit ticklish. Just shrugging it off is not an option. All the surviving grandparents have said flatly stay away (or left it for us to figure) so it's just me, husband & 2 lads but one's an apprentice & living away from home 4 nights a week & the other is on A level trajectory. So I feel fine but anxious & foresee that being the default for at least a week!

 Dog walkers will be allowed out, eh? Suddenly I feel the urge to buy a leash, so I can adopt a harried expression but keep walking...

calicocat

Who are all these 44,000 people who have been tested? Apart from the odd MP of course. Are they saying 44,000 people have been through the hospital system already and been tested there.

No-one I know is saying they are seeing people being tested. No nhs staff been tested with symptoms.

DianneB

Went to the vets to pick up a months supply of my dogs tablets, saw a litter of the most adorable 10 week old daschund (sp?) pups! Had to stop myself from begging if any were still available, one of those would help get me through 4 months isolation!!  

herlig

calicocat said:

Who are all these 44,000 people who have been tested? Apart from the odd MP of course. Are they saying 44,000 people have been through the hospital system already and been tested there.

No-one I know is saying they are seeing people being tested. No nhs staff been tested with symptoms.

That number includes people who were tested while we were in the contain phase. They were identifying people who had contracted the virus and then their contacts as well as those who had arrived from China, and then Italy, who were displaying symptoms.

thriftwizard

117pauline said:

I live in Spain so I am under "house arrest" as someone has put it.  I live by the coast one of the main reasons it spread here was because people in Madrid, where the outbreak was worst, decided to go to their summer homes. They treated it as an extra holiday and mingled with people as they would during a normal holiday.

Sorry to say, I was stuck in an hour-long traffic jam earlier on the main South Coast road. Both the car in front of me and one that kept coming up beside me on the other lane had kids in & were stuffed with luggage, sleeping  & camping equipment; I drive a van, I'm nice & high up & can't really avoid seeing into other vehicles. I can't help wondering whether the odd family are seeing this as a chance to escape city life for a bit & "bug out" to the wilds of Dorset for the duration. I may be quite wrong, though, but either way, having had many a happy camping trip with a car-load of kids, from mid-April through to late-November, I just hope they realise how cold it is at night at this time of year & are well-prepared... 

Thriftygifty

thriftwizard said:

117pauline said:

I live in Spain so I am under "house arrest" as someone has put it.  I live by the coast one of the main reasons it spread here was because people in Madrid, where the outbreak was worst, decided to go to their summer homes. They treated it as an extra holiday and mingled with people as they would during a normal holiday.

Sorry to say, I was stuck in an hour-long traffic jam earlier on the main South Coast road. Both the car in front of me and one that kept coming up beside me on the other lane had kids in & were stuffed with luggage, sleeping  & camping equipment; I drive a van, I'm nice & high up & can't really avoid seeing into other vehicles. I can't help wondering whether the odd family are seeing this as a chance to escape city life for a bit & "bug out" to the wilds of Dorset for the duration. I may be quite wrong, though, but either way, having had many a happy camping trip with a car-load of kids, from mid-April through to late-November, I just hope they realise how cold it is at night at this time of year & are well-prepared... 

This is exactly what my husband said a fews weeks ago, we are in the SW he said in a few weeks we will be inundated with holiday makers making the problem ten times worse, we do appreciate tourists down here but I really hope people are sensible and stay put.  We use to be season tent campers and were really hygienic but it's impossible with this virus I should think.

euronorris

We are in SW too thrifty. Also expecting lots of people to show up.

Following the latest guidance, we are now isolating for next 10 days as DD developed a cough Wednesday. I only made it into the office for one day, having only just started to feel better myself over the weekend. I will have to swing by the office briefly tomorrow to collect the spare laptop, but after that I will be working form home for a while.

Very glad to have plenty in stock

Si_Clist

Just went on the Tesco website to book a delivery a week Wednesday, and almost everything we wanted to order is not available.  So it's going to be Plan B then.  I wonder what that's going to be ...

MingVase

I cant get any online deliveries at all - either home delivery or click and collect. We're going to hang on a few weeks and live off the stash then go up to the shop at 6am.

It's complete garbage threatening us with the police for leaving the house etc. They haven't got enough police to deal with crime, nevermind stroppy old folk going out to buy a paper!

But thankfully up here things are far more civilised and polite, and also far clearer.

dandy-candy

I bought our first microwave! I hate them and dont trust them, the rest of the family think im a cave woman, but as i have had to build up my frozen food supplies I thought i had better have one to defrost stuff in case i forget to put it out the night before. Needless to say everyone is thrilled!