The Prepping Thread - A Newer Beginning ;)

missychrissy

I was in Aldi on Tues in Selby and they only had Panadol - too expensive. I’ve got Ibuprofen but not advised to take that if suspect have Covid. My neighbour is gonna look out for me. Test results are taking about 48 hrs here but I had no bother getting in for a test. 

Karmacat

That's tough for you, missychrissy, I hope you test negative.

euronorris

Sorry to hear that missychrissy. Fingers crossed it's negative for you. Boots have any in stock? Could a friend drop some on the doorstep for you?

Separately, I thought they changed the advice on ibuprofen and said it was now OK to take?

daz378

Thanks for the messages....shoulder still hurts  especially  putting a clean t shirt on...managed to nip out this morning    for milk and bickies...and aspirin     slight risk  of clots after  an accident    ....a  gap in my prepps...will stay in next few days

thriftwizard

Oh dear, missychrissy, I hope you feel better soon!

Talk of another national lockdown seems to be ramping up; I'm off to check the stores & will fill in any gaps first thing tomorrow. I don't think there's much we actually need but better safe than sorry.  Apparently we're forecast to be one of the worst-hit areas very shortly, having had almost no cases at all up to now. Which I do find rather baffling; we're semi-rural, with plenty of outdoors to distance in & by & large fairly sensible inhabitants. I can see that 5 cases out of 1,000 inhabitants is a higher proportion than 50 cases in 100,000, but it's still a lower actual number, if that makes any difference?

Also off to get my pelargoniums undercover; it looks as if it may get suspiciously cold down here tonight, after a lovely clear bright day. I only bought them so that I hit the £30 threshold for getting some compost delivered for free back in spring when we were fully locked-down, but I'm determined to keep them going now by taking cuttings for next year; they did make a lovely splash of colour. I have finally finished putting my little greenhouse together, which took me the best part of a week as so many bits didn't "marry up", holes that should have been pre-drilled simply weren't, parts that should have had identifying stamps on, just didn't, etc. and now the company are closing down. However I'm delighted with it now it's actually done & the plants that will need to overwinter out there look very happy, so far.

Greenglockenspiel

Hope you get a negative test result and are feeling better soon, missychrissy!

ivyleaf

Good idea re aspirins, daz. Hope you feel better asap 
Well done for wrangling the greenhouse thriftwizard!
missychrissy As euronorris says, they now say ibuprofen is safe if you have Covid, after all, unless of course you can't take ibuprofen anyway. Hope your test is negative though, of course!

Floss

thriftwizard said:

.... I can see that 5 cases out of 1,000 inhabitants is a higher proportion than 50 cases in 100,000, but it's still a lower actual number, if that makes any difference?

5 case in 1,000 is 500 in 100,000 which is lower than where I live. The average for England is 74 cases.

thriftwizard

Precisely, Floss; our figure is currently 34, which is a lot higher than previously, so it is ramping up here but still way below the average, yet the local press are screaming that we're "forecast to be amongst the hardest-hit areas" by this time next week, which just doesn't make much sense to me!

GreyQueen

I am sorry to hear of your injury, Daz, and of your illness, Missychrissy. I hope you both soon feel better and manage to get the over-the-counter painkillers you need.

I'm watching the Covid statistics with fascination. My city's population is about 100,000 so it's easy to think of X amount of people being among a whole city. Rates are going up in the city. Except that's not quite true as rates are going up chiefly among the Uni students on their campus, not among the general population! Which is exactly what I and any number of the public, as well as professionals, expected would happen.

I perfectly well understand the principles of exponential growth, as opposed to linear growth, but the statistics are misleading. They get all over-excited and say the figures are twice as many as they were in the prevous week/ month, therefore we must do such-and-such. But it isn't a case that you get Covid and are forever one of the Infected and are also constantly capable of spreading contaigion to others. It is not, thank heavens, HIV. You get infected and you (almost certainly) fully recover, and are mostly uninfectious again in a fortnight. People are moving into and out of a state of Covid infection and it's not a given that any one infected person passes it to even one uninfectected person, which makes their personal 'R0' rate precisely zero.

Given the amount of people who have probably already had aysymptomatic Covid, or who have cross-immunity from common cold corona-viruses, I wonder how many of us are fretting ourselves into distress and having our livihoods ruined to no purpose? The World Health Association's latest is don't do lockdowns, apparently, as a primary way of controlling this disease, only as a time-buying exercise to get healthcare etc organised.