Coronavirus: Stay or go
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Do we take it the OP title now applies to beards?
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Not sure what relevance this has to the likes of us retired folk. I do not expect to see a face mask, unless they are handed out by supermarkets before they allow you to enter, as they do in some places in abroad. There aren't even enough to go round for front line personnel. However, most versions aren't a complete seal in any event and are likely to work as well with a beard as without.
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PD - the RAF has changed it's policy just last year, with approval, allowing a full beard. Moustaches were always allowed of course. A hair-raising move.
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If you're not a regular Waitrose user sign up for their "mywaitrose" card. Send Waitrose customer services an email Peedee, I had to contact them earlier and had a good response, give them your "mywaitrose" card number. I don't use their credit card this is just a loyalty card. Hope you can sort something out. I'm wondering if the lists have been slow to go out due to volume, there must be a few million involved?
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I read THIS the other day as I'm waiting for a large bag of bread flour from a Cotswold mill and orders for bread flour from the supermarket have been cancelled at the last minute. SR flour is ok though.
I see they are in 24 hour production. We had to do 24 hour production in our engineering company on occasions and it's quite a step up from the usual shift patterns. In the case of NHS face masks, ventilator units etc a lot of manpower and expertise is involved but I'm glad to see companies taking up the challenge for gearing up.
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Our Tesco Express is very close to our hospital, which has a large ethnic Doctor population living around it, and I noticed they had bags of Gram Flour in, so think I will give flatbreads a go for a bit of a change. Makes nice onion bhajis as well.
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I think thread drift might be acceptable as 'Stay or Go' has no relevance now
My beards post was meant to be lighthearted (forgot the smilies) but did steer it away from politics, and that would have closed it.
We have and use our breadmaker, bring on some recipes👍🏻
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Thanks brue I've emailed waitrose.
Rayjsj our local places are delivering but mainly with set boxes and things we don't use 😥. I try to buy and use local always but being confined to barracks makes it much harder. When folks offer to get you bits you accept gratefully from whatever source and try not to ask for too many items at once. I really admire how the local firms are diversifying but theres lots to sort for them and lots of us to satisfy! It is a VERY STEEP learning curve for us all.
One of our local ethical cafes is supplying hot nourishing meals, soups and snacks for the staff at our hospital which is supported by other caterers, foc I believe, which I think is brilliant. Such things will be remembered by many of us if we come out the other side.
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Rajsi- I cant think of any drawback living in rural areas.You just accept dearer fuel,no supermarkets, but outdone by superb neighbours, landscape and freedom. We buy locally. Traditional butcher and corner shops. well worth the extra cost and you dont have problems with slots whatever they are.
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I've come to the conclusion that this supermarket delivery option is a waste of time. Although I'm not 70 for a couple of months, Ros is - and has a compromised immune system due to two incidences of breast cancer. We're registered with all the major supermarkets as being vulnerable but other than one lucky delivery, last week, there aren't any slots available for weeks - with any of them. Indeed, with Waitrose, I gave up looking this morning when I had got past the end of June!
We're tending to use small local shops and I've even taken to driving 5 miles (is that allowed) to a fuel station with a mini supermarket - which is well-stocked and always seems empty when I go. Certainly giving our local Tescos a wide berth and one consequence may be that we will have learned to do without Tescos when all of this is over.
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On the beard front, I think that you'll find in the forces that when respirators are called for, all beards are shaved off.
The reason this wasn't required previously was due to the size of the bugs/chemicals etc. Now everything has been engineered to be smaller so respirators have to be an absolute perfect fit, beards don't help and put the user at risk. (although I am growing one now!)
So went for another walk this morning, this time to the Heights were there is a 72 hr parking area (no barriers)which MH are welcome (when this is all over). But 3 MH's and a traveller van parked/camped up in one parking area, what the heck! these people need there heads banging together.
As for bread making recipes would be most welcome. :-)
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I don't know what to aim for first; a supermarket delivery slot, or my place in the queue for a ventilator ... Both are looking pretty long odds at present.
Steve
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I have been trying for quite some time now without success. Neither my 87 yo MiL or myself with underlying conditions that would qualify as vulnerable have actually had letters from the Welsh Govt so supermarkets like Sainsburys refuse us slots as they are concentrating on the lists provided by the Govt and GPs. Trying to get one with Tescos is impossible. We could starve to death before we even get a slot never mind food.
Looks like Mrs WN will still be "exposing herself". Excuse the phraseology.
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I think originally the supermarkets were going to take their priority needs from the Government's vulnerable people list. However it seems that the Government has tightened quite severely the medical conditions that fit into serious category. As Brue has mentioned Waitrose have been taking information from their My Waitrose Card customers and possibly the Partnership Card CC to establish those of their customers that fit into the vulnerable category by age, they then send you an email with a special link to use, you can't go in via the normal website. I can't remember the percentage of slots being reserved for vulnerable customers. It's still quite difficult to get a slot as it depends how busy the particular branch is. We have a delivery coming on Monday and another coming on 14th April but when we have looked there have been very few slots available. Its worth checking the Click and Collect option as I have seen a few more slots there. The only issue with that is you still have to enter the shop to collect. If we can't get a delivery slot we may well opt for a Click and Collect as one of our sons lives near the MK branch.One other thing I would say is that most supermarkets are limiting available to a three week period whereas in the past you could book slots over a much longer period.
David
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No Waitrose email for me David, I was looking for a delivery and a note appeared above the slots about priority deliveries. Since then I can see deliveries being released most days. I don't have a special link either. I'm going to try and cancel a forward order for click and collect and take a new home delivery slot.
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No, not sack her. She is, as the First Minister ['FM']says, offering valuable technical advice which is aimed at saving lives, and that must have priority.
Dr Calderwood will have been on the receiving end of a dressing down from the FM [who was 'christened' the 'Pocket Battle Nip' by a local comedian some years ago] and has been moved to back office duties.
Scotland is beginning to see the infection rates and death figures climb, so to sack a key technical person for being stupid [and perhaps arrogant], is just capitulating to the baying for blood. Not helpful for those of us who live in Scotland.
Your English CMO did not obey the Social Distancing Rules at Press Briefings [nor did the PM , nor did the Health Secretary] and all 3 developed coronavirus symptoms. The Health Secretary returned to work earlier than advised by WHO [technically it was still Day 6 ...], and, at the photocall for the Excel Hospital opening was pictured coughing in projectile range of a nurse ...
'People who live in glass houses shouldn't ...]
Steve
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