The off topic thread 4.0

[Donnie Darko]

A lot of staff are receiving a lot of abuse atm for stopping people buying more than the rationed amount. Morrisons still dont have restrictions. Some chick spent £700 last Thursday morning. Was first in the door and just loaded up on all the toilet rolls, sanitizer, baby wipes and frozen food. Selfish campaigner.

I went in Morrisons last monday and the woman at the counter said I could only have 2 packs of moist tissues ,when I had like 3 in the basket..
Only certain staff enforce it. Others dont seem to want to confront people.

I have never considered hoarding anything. Especially when you see pictures like this >>



The greed of some people is shocking..
dont give a fcvk about anyone else .



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If people want booze so badly , you might have go online to sites like Beer hawk..
now the pubs are closing ,things might get bad.

 

[chef]

Sadly limiting is the only answer.

 

[RPCB]

I went in Morrisons last monday and the woman at the counter said I could only have 2 packs of moist tissues ,when I had like 3 in the basket..
Only certain staff enforce it. Others dont seem to want to confront people.

I have never considered hoarding anything. Especially when you see pictures like this >>



The greed of some people is shocking..
dont give a fcvk about anyone else .



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If people want booze so badly , you might have go online to sites like Beer hawk..
now the pubs are closing ,things might get bad.

Yep.

 

[chef]

This is worth a listen.

I am trying to mentally prepare for work to shut down completely. I know it's for the greater good so it's a sacrifice we in my industry will need to make.

 

[Kompany]

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2...ripping-australias-regional-supermarkets-bare

Facebook feeds are full of stories about someone’s sister who saw a minibus pull up outside a grocer in Deniliquin, or Kyneton, or Gulgong, but no one has a photo to prove it.

In the age of camera phones, we couldn’t find any credible photographs of this reported phenomenon anywhere.

Guardian Australia found one supermarket where a security guard had been employed to check shoppers were not from out of town, but no evidence of buses.

Some of the posts say the buses are full of “Asian” or “Chinese” passengers.

“Every report I’ve seen said those on the buses were Chinese,” said one commenter. “Highly organised with different buses hitting different towns at the same time.”

The Daily Mail called it “tourist panic-shopping” and quoted “angry residents” on Facebook: “People from Sydney [are] packing cars to the brims. Our supermarkets don’t get enough supplies, only enough for our population let alone hoarders. It’s really sad and I think it needs to be policed from now.”

On Tuesday the claims were given credibility by a story in the Age headlined “Busloads of city dwellers stripping regional shelves bare”, although there was no racial element in the report.

“Regional towns are being swamped by busloads of panicked ‘Coles tourists’ who are driving from the city to strip supermarket shelves of basic supplies,” the report said.

“The Age has heard reports of city-dwellers rushing supermarkets in Gisborne, Kyneton, Romsey, Seymour, Woodend, Daylesford and even in towns as far away as Kerang and Deniliquin.”

While the paper said they’d “heard reports” there was little in the way of evidence to back it up and no photographic proof.

Guardian Australia contacted two of the supermarkets mentioned in the Age – the Romsey IGA and the Woodend Coles – and both stores denied busloads of people from other areas were shopping.

On Thursday an appearance by home affairs minister Peter Dutton on the Ray Hadley mornings show on 2GB gave the story a boost – and fuelled its racial overtones.

Hadley claimed he was “sceptical at first” but now he had “photographic evidence” that hoarding and panic buying had morphed into busloads of Asian shoppers descending on small towns.

“It’s a busload of Asian Australians, I presume with a trailer on the back, just going to these shopping centres and shops … Aldi, Coles and Woolies and clearing the joint out,” Hadley said.

Dutton agreed and said there was an investigation under way into what he believed was a criminal enterprise.

“We do have some people I think that are profiteering, Dutton said.

“They’re hoarding, not for their own consumption, I think they’re either sending some of the products overseas or they’re selling it in a black markarrangement in Australia.

“I’m gonna come after those people … It won’t be a pretty experience when we deal with them.”

Clearly hoarding is a complex problem that probably involves a lot of normal people who are understandably worried (probably most just reacting to other people hoarding), but as always it's just easier to simplify things and blame groups of people.

 

[ADL9798]

Yes it very much is. Very selfish, very wrong. We need to bring in rationing ASAP like they have in Chile

Interesting point someone made the other day.

I’d always viewed strict wartime rationing as a response to resource scarcity, but now I realise it’s also about equity.

Every man, woman and child gets access to the same amount of bread, milk, butter etc - the basics - each week, no matter who they are.

 

[Loonerty]

Interesting point someone made the other day.

I’d always viewed strict wartime rationing as a response to resource scarcity, but now I realise it’s also about equity.

Every man, woman and child gets access to the same amount of bread, milk, butter etc - the basics - each week, no matter who they are.

Sounds too lefty to me

 

[chef]

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2...ripping-australias-regional-supermarkets-bare



Clearly hoarding is a complex problem that probably involves a lot of normal people who are understandably worried (probably most just reacting to other people hoarding), but as always it's just easier to simplify things and blame groups of people.

It's not just people coming from the City, you've got country people driving 30-60 minutes to smaller towns and stripping them too. We don't have that problem where I am but my brother has to show his licence to buy stuff in Riddells Creek.

A place like Tongala with a population of 1000, has one supermarket which only has enough shelf and storage space to service those 1000 residents. People are driving 30 minutes from Shepparton(60k) and Echuca(30k) and taking what ever they can get leaving the residents ****ed.

But its a snowball effect, a few people start doing it and everyone panics.

 

[ADL9798]

Really good lay person explanation of pandemic growth patterns, and how/why things seem to change so quickly:

 

[ADL9798]

The US are walking into a train wreck. Inadequate testing coverage and delayed implementation of public health measures. Current reports of # of cases should be considered a significant underestimate of the true incidence of COVID over there.



Other countries around the world are seeing a large number of cases reporting travel to the US during their exposure period, a canary in the mine for a US epidemic that is likely out of control.

Keep an eye on reports from clinicians working in their hospitals over the next few weeks.

 

[Loonerty]

The US are walking into a train wreck. Inadequate testing coverage and delayed implementation of public health measures. Current reports of # of cases should be considered a significant underestimate of the true incidence of COVID over there.



Other countries around the world are seeing a large number of cases reporting travel to the US during their exposure period, a canary in the mine for a US epidemic that is likely out of control.

Keep an eye on reports from doctors and nurses working in their hospitals over the next few weeks.

They're boned.

 

[SM]

The US are walking into a train wreck. Inadequate testing coverage and delayed implementation of public health measures. Current reports of # of cases should be considered a significant underestimate of the true incidence of COVID over there.



Other countries around the world are seeing a large number of cases reporting travel to the US during their exposure period, a canary in the mine for a US epidemic that is likely out of control.

Keep an eye on reports from clinicians working in their hospitals over the next few weeks.

Yeah been saying for about a week that the US is going to end up being the most severely impacted, even moreso than Italy.

 

[Ahsog]

There are a shit load of freezer trucks on standby in Victoria as they may need to use them as temporary morgues.

 

[chef]

 

[Art Vandelay_]

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On cue as a result.

 

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So, are China going to apologise for this? Or....

 

[TubbsFarquhar]

So, are China going to apologise for this? Or....

Of course not, they've already deflected and blamed the Yanks after they swept it under the carpet and silenced any whistle-blowers. The doctor who died from the virus? I don't doubt he contracted it but I doubt it's what killed him.

 

[Cruyff14]

What a bizarre post

Independent IGA
Independent Independent Grocery Alliance

 

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Man, I'm going to get so much reading done over the next few months.

 

[Cruyff14]

It's not just people coming from the City, you've got country people driving 30-60 minutes to smaller towns and stripping them too. We don't have that problem where I am but my brother has to show his licence to buy stuff in Riddells Creek.

A place like Tongala with a population of 1000, has one supermarket which only has enough shelf and storage space to service those 1000 residents. People are driving 30 minutes from Shepparton(60k) and Echuca(30k) and taking what ever they can get leaving the residents f’ed.

But its a snowball effect, a few people start doing it and everyone panics.

Mrs Cruyff's family lives in Seymour, the MIL said today someone drove from Ringwood for stuff, JFC.

 

[Bojan KantKick]

Man, I'm going to get so much reading done over the next few months.

Great opportunity to be productive. I have books to read, gardening to do, a driveway to do and a nursery to paint haha.

Should keep myself busy for a couple of months

 

[SM]

Great opportunity to be productive. I have books to read, gardening to do, a driveway to do and a nursery to paint haha.

Should keep myself busy for a couple of months

Yeah already speaking to the missus about putting aside time each day to do something creative - I want to get back into writing, she wants to do some painting - also a good excuse to smash through some of my reading list, picked up some great books recently in Melbourne.

Also going to make a dent in our back log of TV shows, she's finally relented to watching West Wing with me so will be good to smash through that.

 

[moomba]

I can understand the hoarding a bit, we all want to make sure the family has enough if there is a lockdown or you need to self isolate.

I'm also really uncomfortable in shops at the moment. I want to shop as little as possible, so a big shop with a bit extra is better for me than going in for what I need every few days.

Obviously people taking it too far, but it's just a bit of fear and desire to look after your own family.

It's a vicious circle too. The fact that it's really difficult to get basics like milk, bread etc makes you think "if I find some I'll load up".

 

[Fwoy]

I can understand the hoarding a bit, we all want to make sure the family has enough if there is a lockdown or you need to self isolate.

I'm also really uncomfortable in shops at the moment. I want to shop as little as possible, so a big shop with a bit extra is better for me than going in for what I need every few days.

Obviously people taking it too far, but it's just a bit of fear and desire to look after your own family.

It's a vicious circle too. The fact that it's really difficult to get basics like milk, bread etc makes you think "if I find some I'll load up".

I haven’t had issue with bread or milk....just meat, tp and pasta mainly...washing powder et...

 

[chef]

Im guessing tomorrows going to be my last day for a while, luckily my wife works for an essential industry i guess.