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Politics => Local Issues and Matters => Topic started by: Lucy Lass-Tick on March 18, 2020, 09: PM

Title: Coronavirus
Post by: Lucy Lass-Tick on March 18, 2020, 09: PM
'There is 1 known case of coronavirus in Hartlepool out of a local population of 93,242. That is a rate of 11 cases per million - the 127th highest rate in England.' - from a national news source.
Title: Re: Coronavirus
Post by: akarjl2 on March 18, 2020, 10: PM
Obviously will go up especially if morons at domes continue their actions.
Title: Mayfair giving advice re C19......
Post by: akarjl2 on March 19, 2020, 11: AM
Seen recently on Mayfair Website....= ignore government advice and fund my business.....

Now taken down

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Title: Re: Mayfair giving advice re C19......
Post by: Lucy Lass-Tick on March 19, 2020, 12: PM
Quote from: akarjl2 on March 19, 2020, 11: AM
Seen recently on Mayfair Website....= ignore government advice and fund my business.....

Now taken down

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Most public spirited. Not. We now have one confirmed case in Hartlepool - there's now 6 in Stockton - doubled since yesterday. Scary stuff. I do wonder if people realise just what a difference this is going to make to everyday life - and I don't just mean short term.
Title: Re: Coronavirus
Post by: Inspector Knacker on March 19, 2020, 07: PM
Sick of hearing people dismissing it as a cold virus +, it ain't.
Also appalled by the supermarket locusts with their stockpiling.
Why toilet paper? It's not a dysentery outbreak
Title: Re: Coronavirus
Post by: akarjl2 on March 19, 2020, 08: PM
Quote from: Inspector Knacker on March 19, 2020, 07: PM
Sick of hearing people dismissing it as a cold virus +, it ain't.
Also appalled by the supermarket locusts with their stockpiling.
Why toilet paper? It's not a dysentery outbreak

maybe because those responsible for stockpiling are full of s**t?
Title: Re: Coronavirus
Post by: Lucy Lass-Tick on March 19, 2020, 09: PM
Quote from: akarjl2 on March 19, 2020, 08: PM
Quote from: Inspector Knacker on March 19, 2020, 07: PM
Sick of hearing people dismissing it as a cold virus +, it ain't.
Also appalled by the supermarket locusts with their stockpiling.
Why toilet paper? It's not a dysentery outbreak

maybe because those responsible for stockpiling are full of s**t?

Absolutely.
Title: Re: Coronavirus
Post by: kevplumb on March 21, 2020, 01: PM
https://www.hartlepoolmail.co.uk/health/coronavirus/coronavirus-two-confirmed-covid-19-cases-hartlepool-third-death-north-east-announced-2498491
Title: Re: Coronavirus
Post by: kevplumb on March 21, 2020, 01: PM
this is apparently where it started
don't watch if your squeamish or easily shocked
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X0Y4SFz_A-c    :'( :'(
Title: People not getting it
Post by: akarjl2 on March 21, 2020, 05: PM
Walked along Seaton front today and there were crowds of people stood close to each other queuing for fish and chips and ice creams.

Leads to the conclusion that a large percentage of people in the region are either

1. Stupid
2. Suicidal

I'm not sure which one is the reason but people need to f*c* off from seaton and stop putting people at risk .
Title: Re: Coronavirus
Post by: akarjl2 on March 22, 2020, 04: PM
And the madness continues.....crowds down at Seaton

Close the fish shops and take aways
Close the ice cream parlours
Close the tea shops
Close the amusement arcades

The government is bending over to support small businesses so no excuse not to...

Which is more than they are doing for the self employed.....people like myself facing no income at all for months.
Title: Re: Coronavirus
Post by: kevplumb on March 23, 2020, 06: PM
https://www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/news/18326338.coronavirus-latest-covid-19-north-east-north-yorkshire/?ref=eb   :( :(
Title: Re: Coronavirus
Post by: Lucy Lass-Tick on March 23, 2020, 10: PM
Getting distinctly scary - and I don't do drama. We've all got to be sensible, practical (& follow tonight's edicts).
Title: Re: Coronavirus
Post by: kevplumb on March 24, 2020, 06: PM
so the country is in lockdown::) because the government is as much use as the council all this could have been stopped a while back  :'( :'( :'(
Title: Re: Coronavirus
Post by: kevplumb on March 25, 2020, 01: PM
Which is more than they are doing for the self employed.....people like myself facing no income at all for months.

sign on like the rest of us plebs have to when the job finishes ::)
Title: Re: Coronavirus
Post by: akarjl2 on March 25, 2020, 06: PM
same
Title: Re: Coronavirus
Post by: Johnny Bongo on March 25, 2020, 07: PM
 I'd really like to know why the supermarkets are still letting the public in....Asda carpark at 6.15 tonight was choccabloc.  This amount of people will certainly NOT stop the spread of the virus. My answer to this would be to let people buy 10 items, hand the shopping list in to Asda, etc. with an e mail or phone no. included.  Asda then contacts you with a specific time to collect your items.  Minimum contact with others.  Plenty of staff in the supermarkets to whizz round with a trolley.  Boris is welcome to use my idea! 
Title: Re: Coronavirus
Post by: Grumblstiltskin on March 25, 2020, 08: PM
Asda do a click and collect but there's not a big enough area turned over to traffic, even if there was it would be swamped I would imagine
Title: Re: Coronavirus
Post by: akarjl2 on March 25, 2020, 09: PM
It is impossible to get a delivery spot at any of the main shops. Controlling access in other parts of country seems to be working 1 in one out.....once they have shelf stakers and deliveries 24/7 opening would help- I would bet most of the retarts panic buying wouldn't get up in the middle of the night- it would also give emergency workers a chance?

Just some thoughts / ideas.
Title: Re: Coronavirus
Post by: Lucy Lass-Tick on March 26, 2020, 08: AM
Just looked - Asda do have deliveries available on 8th April (for now, anyway).
Title: Re: Coronavirus
Post by: Inspector Knacker on March 31, 2020, 11: AM
I'm getting annoyed with 'tourists' stranded abroad. We had one group in India who flew out on 12th March....really? Did their grandparents book two weeks in Dunkirk in May 1940..... travel there and complain about their plight?
Anyone who never saw this coming and going on holiday should be sectioned.
Title: Re: Coronavirus
Post by: Inspector Knacker on March 31, 2020, 11: AM
Just a daft thought, but if the supermarkets had chained up all the trolleys and made the locusts use baskets, the weight of actually carrying two baskets would have soon curtailed their elbow shoving scavenging.
Title: Re: Coronavirus
Post by: seaton on March 31, 2020, 06: PM
Quote from: Inspector Knacker on March 31, 2020, 11: AM
Just a daft thought, but if the supermarkets had chained up all the trolleys and made the locusts use baskets, the weight of actually carrying two baskets would have soon curtailed their elbow shoving scavenging.

The best suggestion I have read about but some shoppers still walking out with trolley loads of goods which a lot end up in the garbage.
Title: Re: Coronavirus
Post by: Inspector Knacker on April 01, 2020, 06: AM
As far as I'm concerned, the biggest cause of the scavenging was the media showing empty shelves and causing a panic in the first place and the inevitable result is a green light to the retail locusts to set off on a repeated and senseless pillaging rampage and don't give a toss for anything but their own greed.
Now the media pick away like demented woodpeckers at every aspect of the handling of the situation. The political opportunists can't be far behind straining on the leash.
Title: Re: Coronavirus
Post by: akarjl2 on April 01, 2020, 07: AM
Agreed- it is becoming difficult to find a website that actually has real news as opposed to the comic mentality of the like of the mail, snail and even the Beeb. I don't "do" Facebook but rely increasingly on twitter as a a news aggregator.
Title: Re: Coronavirus
Post by: Inspector Knacker on April 01, 2020, 10: AM
I've stopped watching the news on any side. Trouble is these 24 hour news channels churning out repetitive drama. Always emphasising the disaster of Italy and Spain and Sky tastelessly showing rooms full of coffins. Yes you morons we know what happens to people when they die, morbid scenes like this must be needlessly distressing to those living alone especially.
Might be a good idea to shut them down and leave the news to the usual times instead of the constant barrage we get now. We end up with celebs giving us their opinion about what the they think should be done.....you really do have to wonder when the opinions of people who'd have trouble co-ordinating walking and chewing a toffee at the same time are actually given air time.
Title: Re: Coronavirus
Post by: admin on April 01, 2020, 11: AM
The Post's Facebook page has put out a warning that anyone trying to politicise this will be in the dog house. There was, however one 'string puller' who had to be shot down in flames ....  ::)
Title: Re: Coronavirus
Post by: akarjl2 on April 01, 2020, 11: AM
Never done Farce book since trying it when it first came out......does post have a twitter feed that would be more helpful and instant....just a thought.
Title: Re: Coronavirus
Post by: diSme on April 01, 2020, 01: PM
Quote from: akarjl2 on April 01, 2020, 11: AM
Never done Farce book since trying it when it first came out......does post have a twitter feed that would be more helpful and instant....just a thought.

Good idea that...
Title: Re: Coronavirus
Post by: admin on April 01, 2020, 04: PM
Quote from: diSme on April 01, 2020, 01: PM
Quote from: akarjl2 on April 01, 2020, 11: AM
Never done Farce book since trying it when it first came out......does post have a twitter feed that would be more helpful and instant....just a thought.

Good idea that...

The late SteveL created a Twitter feed but it had to be removed from the chap who was handling it as he was a bit of a loose cannon. None of the rest of us are Twitter users, so think it probably faded when we lost him. The Facebook group is actually pretty civilised, even though there's over three thousand members. The admins. keep a pretty tight hold on discipline on there - essential as its a pretty volatile medium. A very different tone to the forum, but people seem to like it, by and large. There's a link to it on our front page should anyone care to take a look.
Title: Re: Coronavirus
Post by: akarjl2 on April 01, 2020, 05: PM
Fair enough....I'll give farce book a miss.
Title: Re: Coronavirus
Post by: Hartlepudlion on April 01, 2020, 08: PM
You don't have to be a Facebook member to read the Post's Fb page. If you want to contribute then, yes, you need to be a member.
I am not a member but I do read it on a regular basis - enough for me to seriously considering registering .🤔
Title: Re: Coronavirus
Post by: akarjl2 on April 02, 2020, 07: AM
ahh ok thanks didn't realise that I will bookmark it.
Title: Re: Coronavirus
Post by: diSme on April 02, 2020, 08: AM
Quote from: Hartlepudlion on April 01, 2020, 08: PM
You don't have to be a Facebook member to read the Post's Fb page. If you want to contribute then, yes, you need to be a member.
I am not a member but I do read it on a regular basis - enough for me to seriously considering registering .🤔

You can see the main posts, but none of the discussion/comments.

You couldn't pay me to have a facetube account!
Title: Re: Coronavirus
Post by: Inspector Knacker on April 04, 2020, 04: PM
Quote from: kevplumb on March 24, 2020, 06: PM
so the country is in lockdown::) because the government is as much use as the council all this could have been stopped a while back  :'( :'( :'(
To be fair Kev, the government, any government is guided by the scientists and medical advisors, to ignore their advice would be suicide. Whereas our previous council appear to have been advised by the Marx Brothers, of the Groucho/ Harpo tendency.