General Discussion/Q&A on Coronavirus (COVID-19)

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This poor old airport can't catch a trick!

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[Denali]

So how do members here feel about having a friend over to your house for lunch or dinner at the moment, assuming you are otherwise well and healthy with no symptoms?

Genuinely curious about how people are treating the danger (or lack thereof, depending on your opinion).

Had a friend come over on Friday for toilet paper, she stayed on front step/we didn't open the door.

Excellent point re: the elderly, and good on you. My partner wants to visit her grandparents. Not my business to tell her what to do, but as we don't live together I've decided I don't want to be complicit in any cross-infections so will keep my distance. How to tell her that might be the bigger problem!

But these are all relatively small fry issues. I pinched this from Facebook a moment ago, from today's weekend West Australian...

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You just reminded me that we bought 10,000 masks for a now cancelled expo. I just posted on our social media page that we should donate to a hospital.

 

[teammongo]

suggestion box…. nitric oxide anyone ??
The FDA on Friday granted Bellerophon an emergency expanded access for its proprietary inhaled nitric oxide, INOpulse, to treat COVID-19 patients. The company's shares were trading sharply up Friday morning before the markets opened

Inhaled Nitric Oxide (iNO) has been around for many years. They have a portable system (not the only one). Access to iNO is always limited by the machines to deliver it - just like like the story of oxygen and ventilators. There would be several orders fewer iNO systems compared to ventilators in Australia.

 

[dxwell]

Super quiet at Woolies at 7:30 pm on Saturday night. Refillers busy with toot paper restocking

 

[MEL_Traveller]

So how do members here feel about having a friend over to your house for lunch or dinner at the moment, assuming you are otherwise well and healthy with no symptoms?

Genuinely curious about how people are treating the danger (or lack thereof, depending on your opinion).

Is is really a meal to die for?

Lack of symptoms might not mean much these days - folk released from cruise ships given the all clear but testing positive a few days later.

 

[MEL_Traveller]

So this morning Woollies has imposed a two can limit *total*. Not just by product. So if you have a can of tomatoes and baked beans, you can't also get a can of fruit. Crazy! Coles allowing 2 cans per product type.

 

[lovetravellingoz]

You just reminded me that we bought 10,000 masks for a now cancelled expo. I just posted on our social media page that we should donate to a hospital.

Most definitely.

 

[Must...Fly!]

Is is really a meal to die for?

Lack of symptoms might not mean much these days - folk released from cruise ships given the all clear but testing positive a few days later.

I completely agree, but much easier to deal with when your family or partner are cohabiting, for example.

 

[nickykim]

Moved my response to Woollies restrictions to the appropriate thread.

 

[MEL_Traveller]

Just had a look at the Woollies website and the wording hasn’t changed - 2 cans per category....maybe some stores don’t understand what that means.

https://www.woolworths.com.au/shop/discover/community/stock-level-update

Unfortunately not Apparently 'Woolworths Sydney' imposed the limits overnight. The registers - self checkout or with staff - cannot process any more than two cans, with a 'error - number of cans exceeded' when you go to your third can.

 

[nickykim]

Unfortunately not Apparently 'Woolworths Sydney' imposed the limits overnight. The registers - self checkout or with staff - cannot process any more than two cans, with a 'error - number of cans exceeded' when you go to your third can.

Don’t know how a normal size family is going to cope with that - I am guessing an overzealous amendment to the register programming.

Rationing would be a more sensible solution....

 

[MEL_Traveller]

Don’t know how a normal size family is going to cope with that - I am guessing an overzealous amendment to the register programming.

Rationing would be a more sensible solution....

Yeah. My thoughts too. For some customers (there was a pensioner by herself) the checkout were putting through two transactions for a total of four cans. Coles had some stocks of toilet paper behind the service desk for pensioners.

 

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I saw a pallet of kidney beans the other day, just on the floor rather than being packed on the shelves. Didn't realise kidney beans were in such high demand!

 

[blackcat20]

So this morning Woollies has imposed a two can limit *total*. Not just by product. So if you have a can of tomatoes and baked beans, you can't also get a can of fruit. Crazy! Coles allowing 2 cans per product type.

The checkout assistant put my third can through as a separate transaction.

 

[amaroo]

I saw a pallet of kidney beans the other day, just on the floor rather than being packed on the shelves. Didn't realise kidney beans were in such high demand!

Good mix for the 10,000's kgs of mince that's been hoovered .... watch for the run on tacos and burritos.

 

[nickykim]

Also if the idea is to limit the amount of time people are spending in more crowded environments - a two can total limit means multiple trips into the supermarket and is consequent a perverse outcome.

 

[Denali]

Good mix for the 10,000's kgs of mince that's been hovered .... watch for the run on tacos and burritos.

We have tacos about once a month and when I went to Coles the other day, picked up a burrito pack because it was the absolute last one on the shelf so word is already out

 

[Flashback]

Also if the idea is to limit the amount of time people are spending in more crowded environments - a two can total limit means multiple trips into the supermarket and is consequent a perverse outcome.

The problem is though, without it, people struggle to get enough. Damned if you do, damned if you don't.

 

[oz_mark]

Also if the idea is to limit the amount of time people are spending in more crowded environments - a two can total limit means multiple trips into the supermarket and is consequent a perverse outcome.

We're in a situation now where there are no right answers to anything. There's just wrong answers, and the trick is to find the least wrong one.

 

[Denali]

We have cameras around our house (hubbys latest toy obsession) and it's interesting seeing the postie, courier, meter person ect side eye the front door while they do their task.

The guy that goes throughs everyone's bin on Thursday night for cans and bottles has upped his PPE to inc safety glasses.