The Prepping Thread - A Newer Beginning ;)

jk0

MoneySeeker1 said:

jk0 said:

Leftie warning: Mail on Sunday link ahead.

For the open minded, this column is everything I have thought throughout this crisis. https://hitchensblog.mailonsunday.co.uk/2020/05/peter-hitchens-were-destroying-the-nations-wealth-and-the-health-of-millions.html

I've taken to reading his columns latterly and thoroughly agreed with his latest ones and subscribe to his Facebook site.

It's a very surreal experience for me to read what he says - because my father (died 2 weeks into Lockdown) was a great fan of his and often quoted him. Hence I tend to read his columns with attention - and it's just like hearing my father talk sometimes in the way he did before so much illness got the better of him and his mind. So it does help a lot to read an intelligent, thoughtful person saying these things - whilst I know that, at the moment, I'm in a minority of 9% of the UK population that thinks this way and it's frustrating knowing that a noticeable number of the 91% that don't are going to change their minds and agree with us at some point - but they don't just yet.

Can PM you some Facebook groups you might be interested in if you like??

That's kind of you, but I don't use Facebook.
I think my dad would have said the same.

gran3

If Mr Hitchens has not heard any anti government rhetoric from the BBC he is clearly listening/watching something completely different to me. He is a reporter, not a scientist, and while I respect his right to his view, its no more valid than anyone else's view. Getting paid to write does not make his opinions more worthy than the rest of us. We just don't have the same audience. He might do well to remember that 'Mr Bumble' ended up in intensive care. Everyone is doing their best, no one wants to see people dying or the economy crashing.  
I have no particular political leanings but we are where we are and need to try and stay safe.

-taff

I'd be quite happy if anyone who wanted to go out wherever and whenever they wanted. As long as they sign a little piece of paper that says no thank you NHS, I don't want treatment should I catch this disease I don't believe in.

r.a.i.n.b.o.w

Si_Clist said:

Would anyone who's actually been out into The Big Wide World today care to give us hermits a clue as to what percentage of the folk they saw were wearing any kind of face covering?

I'm catching up late again!! but I went out on Friday 15th to my Sainz Local, south London, about 5pm. Many people out there on the streets. Sainz packed. Only me and one other person wearing a face covering (and she was extra freaked out, telling everyone to "Get back! Stay Back! Move back!" and having deep breaths behind the perspex divider at her self-serve till).

So... rough percentage? Less than 1%

MingVase

I've never heard of Saintz. What do they sell? I've only ever been out once, to the bank in Peebles. Only saw about a dozen people in the town altogether and none had face masks on.

Suffolksue

sainsburys 

singlestep

I did a shop early yesterday and, again, half the customers were wearing face coverings.  I'm unsure as to weather this would have done much good, due to queueing outside in the rain.  Isn't it supposed to make the spread worse?
It's actually my usual time to go shopping and unlikely to be much quieter than it was.  It has been a much more irritating experience, not because of the new rules but because of the high number of people who don't seem very willing to follow the rules and who, in any case, seem most unused to finding their way around a supermarket. 

MingVase

Suffolksue said:

sainsburys 

LOL!  that's what happens when I post before coffee. I thought it was some exotic English shop I hadn't heard of!

Nargleblast

Otherwise known as Sainsbos or Sainsbugs.

jk0

-taff said:

I'd be quite happy if anyone who wanted to go out wherever and whenever they wanted. As long as they sign a little piece of paper that says no thank you NHS, I don't want treatment should I catch this disease I don't believe in.

Where do I sign?