The Prepping Thread - A Newer Beginning ;)

RAS

euronorris said:

Well, I'm livid with the PM. Closing the schools is absolutely the right thing to do, but once again he's been a last minute nelly. So, we had to send our daughter in yesterday for one poxy day, mingling unnecessarily when he could have just made this announcement at the weekend. Instead, he went on live TV on Saturday and said "send your children to school", and then did a u turn less than 48 hours later. And again, he's given teachers and parents virtually no notice!! Arghhh Even if he had made this announcement on Sunday afternoon, it would have been better. And there is no way that the data changed so materially in 24 hours.

I suspect that what changed was that Nicola locked down Scotland. There seems to be a bit of a pattern developing where he resists action, she get's on with it and the response is OK, so he makes a late move. Instead of leading, he's always behind.

euronorris

RAS said:

euronorris said:

Well, I'm livid with the PM. Closing the schools is absolutely the right thing to do, but once again he's been a last minute nelly. So, we had to send our daughter in yesterday for one poxy day, mingling unnecessarily when he could have just made this announcement at the weekend. Instead, he went on live TV on Saturday and said "send your children to school", and then did a u turn less than 48 hours later. And again, he's given teachers and parents virtually no notice!! Arghhh Even if he had made this announcement on Sunday afternoon, it would have been better. And there is no way that the data changed so materially in 24 hours.

I suspect that what changed was that Nicola locked down Scotland. There seems to be a bit of a pattern developing where he resists action, she get's on with it and the response is OK, so he makes a late move. Instead of leading, he's always behind.

Yes, I think you are right. He is not a leader, but a follower.

Thriftygifty

Two words - Dominic Cummings 

euronorris

Thriftygifty said:

Two words - Dominic Cummings 

Oh don't enrage me further!

baggins11

Boris has been behind the curve all the way and sadly it has cost us dearly. I think he wants to win the popularity contest and not make tough decisions. 

Was anyone else shocked by the 1 in 50 statistic? I had been following the statistics but the last time I saw a 1 in xx figure it was around 1 in 250 or something.  I hadn't realised how bad things were. It is 1 in 30 in London.

The way I see it now is that when you go shopping to a supermarket statistically at least 1 person in the shop will have covid. So I am going to try and go during quieter times of the day and reduce the frequency of visits even more than before.

On prepping I stocked up a bit more the afternoon before the Boris announcement. I could see lockdown coming and was due a big shop so bought a few extras.

My mum was rushed to hospital over Xmas (non covid) and we are trying to get her a nursing home place. It feels like out of the frying pan into the fire!!

Floss

3secondmemory said:

I specifically asked him what was happening with children with COVID-19 and he said that, as yet, there aren’t any. I hope some people find that encouraging and, now the schools are closed in the main until mid-Feb, we can really get a grip and stop the spread. 

I guess your son works in an acute hospital, rather than a specific children's hospital. We currently have 2. However, both have underlying health conditions.

Floss

euronorris said:

Thriftygifty said:

Two words - Dominic Cummings 

Oh don't enrage me further!

To be honest, I think last night was more professional than previous, mainly down to the appointment of the new Head of Comms at No. 10 just before Christmas. One hell of a first day in the new job though,  but at least Boris tipped upon time. For once.

Suffolksue

Delurking to ask in a non confrontational way .Do you think Comrade Corbyn would have done any better?

MingVase

I think if we go there we risk getting the thread pulled..

Suffolksue

Sorry! It was something I was thinking about earlier today