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Originally Posted by hazel
Doesn't surprise me!
Are your grocery stores returning to near normal supply?
A local Trader Joes has restricted the store to 10 customers at a time, has social distancing tape on the floor near registers, requires you to pack your bags if reusing them, wipes down the payment terminal after each customer and was fully stocked on all supplies! First time in three weeks. And the first 1.5 hours each day is reserved for 60+. I would not mind some of these "practices" remaining after the virus leaves and becoming a store policy/shopping etiquette.
Yes, it's much better now. I went into Lidl around 10.00 AM and found it all very civilised. Shelves are well stocked (they even have loo roll!) and no one is allowed to take more than 2 of anything. There are multiple spaced tape lines on the floor for people queuing. A guard at the door checks that there are not too many people inside before he lets you in. At his discretion, the rules can switch to one in/one out.
I've started paying by card when I shop. I don't like using plastic but the supermarket staff don't like handling money. Apparently it can carry the infection. So as they are working flat out to feed us, I think I owe them that much consideration.
The study is not yet peer-reviewed, but it did reproduce a pattern that researchers have been observing since early in the outbreak: Children don't seem to get sick with COVID-19, the disease caused by the virus, at the same rate adults do. This is likely because children have healthier lungs than adults do (they don't smoke and have fewer years of exposure to pollution) and because adults are more likely to have dangerous immune responses to respiratory diseases, experts told Live Science last month.
Adults are also more susceptible to a detrimental immune response that causes a condition called acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS), said Dr. James Cherry, a professor of pediatrics and infectious diseases at UCLA's Geffen School of Medicine. A complicated imbalance of immune cell activity sends inflammation in the lungs into overdrive, ultimately causing fluid to fill the alveoli, or air sacs, according to research published in the journal Annals of Translational Medicine. The red blood cells flow into these alveoli to pick up new oxygen. When they sacs flood, they stop working. The person can no longer breathe. Studies suggest that about 40% of people with ARDS die.
ARDS "was frequently fatal in adults with the SARS coronavirus," Cherry told Live Science. "Whereas even though children [with SARS] had pneumonia, they didn't get the immunologic complications that adults have."
If true, and not political jockeying, then I am sure an investigation will be launched and charges will follow. This would be an exception not the norm.
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I'm very late to this thread, having been less active due to not being at work because of exhibiting symptoms which could be coronavirus.
I went home sick one day, called in still sick another couple then was told that because my symptoms were in line with the virus I had to be at home for at least 2 weeks. Then the office was closed. So, yeah, weird.
The toilet paper thing I find intriguing because I'm one of those people who'll buy a year's supply of TP, shower gel, deodorant and the like as a matter of course. Why would you not have enough TP to be able to wipe in case, for example, your bank cards were stolen?
As for the current policy of "social distancing", it keeps reminding me of this: https://youtu.be/22mt0cVyW5c?t=1
Not exactly the same scenario, but the essence is the same.
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I would not mind some of these "practices" remaining after the virus leaves and becoming a store policy/shopping etiquette.
