Corona Virus Rants!! 🦎 (991 views, 73 replies)

Feel FREE to discuss shortages and experiences and rant ya head OFF!

UK, London.. I was at ground zero in Peckham, that's a poor area in London. I was there because the Forest Hill Sainsbury's closed down, water main burst and it was a river there. waiting extra long times for a bus.. to get there and back, the bus was full at 10am...everybody was going to that Sainsbury. I was there because my Sainsbury's home delivery last Friday, booked a week in advance, consisted of one bottle of lemon juice/65p. The rest of my £50 of groceries was out of stock.
Online grocery shopping... there are no guarantees.Iceland is a little shop in Peckham that specialises in cheap frozen food. With a few bits.. they don't have coffee filters. And it was crazy.. across the street was a pound shop that had closed the doors.. too much rioting outside. You couldn't turn around in the store without bumping into people, everyone on top of each other. 4 check out lines all the way to the back. But it's a small store so I felt better about being there instead of the larger Morrisons. I just hate the outlay of that store.
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It was very loud and packed, you couldn't turn around the store without bumping into someone. They had everything I wanted. Fruit, veg, milk, bread, eggs. The canned food aisle was almost empty. No tuna.. but I got Spam. I love fried spam sandwiches. there were signs everywhere about no more than 2x an item. Nobody in Peckham reads English. One security guard. People yelling at cashiers removing the stuff from checkout. The woman in line in front of me.. just realised next her turn that she was gonna have stuff taken had the nerve to ask me if I would buy it for her. She had 4 dozen cartons of eggs. I had one for myself. Chickens haven't stopped laying eggs. I told her no, I'll get in trouble.. she kept saying please as if. I really wanted to tell her where to go. It makes people crazy. they took her eggs and her cabbages and other stuff. It was like a last day before Christmas shopping. Or stupid Black Friday.

Day out shopping wasn't over. I had to go to the pharmacy to pick up my prescription. No scene here except they didn't have it. Just like last week when they didn't have it and I had gone to my doctors office nearby to tell them.
I was told last week the reason they didn't fulfil my request was because I had not finished ...but for me I request in advance so I can pick it up at my convenience before..... I run out!! I was told I would be able to get in a day. So.. a f**king week later, I'm out and at the pharmacy.
BTW, I've just started taking high blood pressure medication.
No script I walk down the street to my doctors and the door is locked and there is a letter on the front telling people like me to go away! But I can see the receptionist inside and I push open the letter box and shout through it.. I need to talk to somebody.. now!
A woman who works at the doctors office comes up behind me, she must have just popped out for lunch maybe, and says.. Wait here! Still outside I wait.
She comes back outside and I'm like my blood pressure medicine, i can't get the script and I've called in then came here last week ......
Wait again!
She's got paper and pen now, name.. DOB. 2 mins later I've got my script. What is so odd. The doctors office is closed. there are no patients. How is this working? 🦎
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I'm SO BORED with this virus.
And stupid people panicking.

Sex'n'drugs'n'rock'n'roll is the answer!

Trade love notes and bad jokes on the toilet paper roll hanging in the bathtoom. That's the most valuable crap in your house right now besides frozen chicken - and you still won't have to actually speak to your spouse or kids.

No toilet paper anywhere in middle TN! I went to the grocery store yesterday and it was so empty... Every shelf! I told my husband we should dress up and paint our faces like zombies and start show walking all over town!
Teeny 💋

This isn't a small grocery store it's a Kroger's
Teeny💋

you can go to frisches big boy for groceries by me if you got frishes by you might want to check it out.

$1.99 Toilet Paper, 2 Rolls

$3.99 2 Liters of Soda

*Coca-Cola products

$2.99 20 oz. Bottles of Soda

*Coca-Cola products

$2.99 8 Hoagie buns

$2.99 Loaf of bread (white, wheat, or rye)

$3.49 Loaf of 12 grain bread

$1.19 Cereal, single-serve

$2.99 12 Burger buns

$2.99 12 Soft Shell Tortillas

$2.99 1/2 Gallon 2% white milk

$3.19 1/2 Gallon whole chocolate milk

$1.99 12 Dinner rolls

$3.79 24 Dinner rolls

$18.99 Frisch’s 4 lb. Tuna Salad

$2.49 French’s Mustard

$2.99 Frisch’s Ketchup

$2.99 Celery stalk

$2.99 1 lb Broccoli

$1.09 1 lb. Red onions

$1.49 1 lb. Tomatoes

$0.99 One tomato

Look on the Bright Side of Life ...

Some friends of mine ended up with a snake when his owner moved out leaving the serpent behind.

Not really knowing what to do, and not wanting to let the snake starve, they got some live mice and tossed them in.
The snake ate all of them except one.

So they left him in there figuring the snake would eventually get hungry.

A couple of months later, the mouse was still doing fine, and now would sleep on the snakes head.
So they got some more mice and put them in the snake tank.
Sure enough, the snake must have been hungry as he ate all of those mice.
He still wouldn't eat that one, who still slept on the snakes head.

At this point they realised there wasn't anything rational about this situation, the snake was not going to eat that one particular mouse.

They named him lucky and upgraded his status from Leftovers to Snake Pet.
I'm not even sure if the snake had a name.

The good news here is... the price of lobsters has crashed!
Forget the toilet paper, lets stay home and eat like rich people.

The news called it panic buying instead of preparing, which caused people to both prepare and not prepare at the same time. I loaded up on groceries around the end of January, back when people thought it was going to be a joke. I packed everything carefully and stuffed it inside my big freezer. Got canned foods. I haven't had to go back to the grocery store since. Just checked my supplies, I'm good. I have heard that the stores in my area are empty, but I haven't been to them because I PREPARED, not panic bought. My toilet paper is not going to expire but at the same time, I didn't buy hoards of it. I got a bulk pack. The only thing I regret is not getting the supplies to jar my own stuff because I like to watch survivalist youtubers. Being able to pickle stuff would come in handy right now. I haven't gotten cabin fever yet because I'll leave the house around 3am when no one is around, or 7am now that nobody is going to school. I only see a few cars sometimes when I'm out. I've been binge watching disaster movies from several countries because I've seen most of the top American ones. I'm having a super time to be honest. I feel bad for people who are at risk though, it made me think, I would probably be super scared if my dad and mom and all the grandparents were still here. The rest of my family is also dodging the cough cooties well, for now. Hopefully we stay that way.
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PS: As a joke, I bought a few cans of peaches to trade in case it really popped off, just in case. But I ate one already, it was tasty.
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It will be interesting to see what happens.. later, next month.

I definately did not PLAN and stock up PROPERLY.
I don't have enough Doritos. This is gonna be harsh...
Neighbors are out of Doritos too.
Thank goodness I have e'nuff toilet paper.
'Cuz, I just shyt myself crying... with narry a Doritos in sight!

great news guy the surgon general called on killie jenner to urge people to take social distancing seriously...

It's not all doom and gloom. Sainsbury's has daffodils and alcohol. ❤❤❤

dosmovies.com/watch_movie/The_Flu_That_K....

A good documentary about the last pandemic in 1918.
We know more about virus now, but will the result be the same?

(also see the reviews)

For anyone that is living under a rock & has yet to realize the US Prez Pl-UMP is an idiot I give you an article written by Nancy Cook & Matthew Choi published on 28 February 2020. The earlier stages of the virus crossing the globe & people becoming worried.

Charleston South Carolina: President Donald Trump on Friday night tried to cast the global outbreak of the coronavirus as a liberal conspiracy intended to undermine his first term, lumping it alongside impeachment and the Mueller investigation.
He blamed the press for acting hysterically about the virus, which has now spread to China, Japan, South Korea, Iran, Italy and the U.S, and he downplayed its dangers, saying against expert opinion it was on par with the flu.
“The Democrats are politicizing the coronavirus. They're politicizing it! They don't have any clue. They can't even count their votes in Iowa. No, they can't. They can't count their votes. One of my people came up to me and said, ‘Mr. President, they tried to beat you on Russia, Russia, Russia.’ That did not work out too well. They could not do it. They tried the impeachment hoax.”
... Then Trump called the coronavirus “their new hoax.”
Trump’s comments came as the White House has struggled to adequately respond to and contain the coronavirus’s increasingly sweeping path. By undermining the news reporting on the virus and by trying to hold liberals responsible for a potential public health crisis that has little to do with politics, Trump did what he often does best: He sought to deflect blame at a time when many Americans sought leadership and scientific facts.
After Trump had downplayed the risks of coronavirus, he reassured supporters that the White House was “magnificently organized” in fighting it.
Earlier in the week, the Trump administration tried to allay Americans’ concerns about the virus by downplaying the coronavirus’s seriousness. Trump also congratulated himself for shutting down flights between the U.S. and China.
But by the end of the week, White House officials including the president had shifted to pushing back against anyone who expressed too much concern about the virus or its effect on the economy, repeatedly blaming the Democrats and the media for the growing concerns and the steep drop in the stock market amid the uncertainty.
“It’s the unknown, you know, they look at it, and they say how long will this last. I think they’re not very happy with the Democrat candidates when they see them, and I think that has an impact,” Trump said at the White House on Friday afternoon before traveling to the campaign rally.
Acting chief of staff Mick Mulvaney talked about the ongoing coverage of the coronavirus as an attempt by the media to politically damage the president during an election year.
Health officials, meanwhile, spent the last two days trying to determine how a California resident became infected with coronavirus and who else the patient may have exposed to it. This was the first potential case of coronavirus in the U.S. that had not been contracted from traveling abroad and potential sign it could spread throughout the U.S.
That wasn’t the message on Air Force One on the flight down to South Carolina, with the televisions turned to Fox News. In the bubble the president travels in, the TV headlines told the world the president had a “firm grasp” on the coronavirus and that Democrats tried to score “political points” on it.
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"The Chinese virus is a hoax."
How can anyone argue with that?

WELL HELLS BELLS the world is just being OVERLY SILLY sure GOT IT.
Lawdhavemercy help those who can barely whatever... in these dire times: yep and amen!

Trumpisms;
JAN 22
'We have it totally under control. It's one person coming in from China, and we have it under control'

FEB 27
'It's going to disappear. One day, it's like a miracle, it will disappear'

MAR 9
'Nothing is shut down, life & the economy go on. At this moment there are 546 confirmed cases of coronavirus, with 22 deaths. Think about that!'

MAR 16
When asked how he rated his response: 'I'd rate it a 10. I think we've done a great job'

So today in London, all the banks are observing a 10am to 2pm hours. Rymans the office supply, like a Kinko's in the US, and business services are closed indefinitely.

So did anyone get paid in the US? No one I know did, even out of work hospice care.

I do have a second cousin, that would be my cousins daughter, on a breathing apparatus in Georgia.

My sister is married to a fundamentalist preacher and they hold services every Sunday. She is coughing like a banshee. She says pollen and you can't tell her different. She will not stop working 40+ hours a week (AutoZone is still an essential company that has to say open.. people have to drive and need car parts.) They have free masks there but she never ever wears a face mask.

Walking round in London is so different. If you have to go out.

What is happening right around you? 🦎

Nothing happening here, the government cleared out the hospitals ready for the rush, but we have 12 people in hospital, 1 death, and thousands of empty beds.
The isolation stopped the virus and we are all looking forward to getting back to normal.

Now we’re all supposed to wear masks, but nobody can find one.

wanna borrow my mask?

Anyone can tell that Trump has Americas interest (100%) at heart, but to my
surprise people or still more interested in attacking/blaming/finding fault with
Trump then the Chinese " Government " that has caused this world wide misery!

They is a rumor going round on the net that Lefty's want Boris to die (how many people
have been saying this i don't know, it could just be one or two people wishing he dies).

And one last thing, the shop near me had no 4 packs of toilet roll in, only the 18,s
and 9 packs (loads of them), which meant i had to pay for another carrier bag for the 9 pack i got.

Send FEMA...