Do you honestly think that i need a govt to tell me to avoid contact with my mother-in-law bud!!!!

Seriously though, since the old man passed away 3yrs ago we've taken control of everything. We paid the mortgage off, deal with all her finances (direct debits/bills/any admin etc etc) feed her, clothe her, look after the home and take her to the doctors/hospital or anywhere else that she wants/needs to go.
She has (mild but increasing) alhzeimer's and the hardest thing tbh has been telling her to stay indoors for the past few weeks as her daily routine involves popping down to her local Tesco, buying a few bits (that she doesn't need! bless her) and having a natter with a few friends she has there.
Sunday is the day that we give her her tablets for the week along with her £70 'pocket money' in cash, cash because she lost the ability to use her debit card a couple of years ago and the grief involved with re-setting passwords etc with the bank was no longer worth it. It was '3 strikes and out' regarding her card.........although she still denies ever having a problem and will happily sit there reciting her password to prove the point. It's just a shame that the password she takes pleasure in reciting happens to be her phone number. Bless her.
Anyway, since the Covid thing and stopping her cash on a Sunday, all we get now is ''You're taking my money away, you're robbing me, i'm a prisoner'' etc etc but if we give her the cash she absolutely will go out. Tough love i guess.

Oh well, roll on 2pm

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Chartered Accountancy isn’t what I meant when I was referring to a functioning business in real life and the real world and I am introducing the practicalities of the situation rather than just your student textbook theory.

The only thing I agree on is the government messaging is bad. But that isn’t going to solve the issue. There appears to be a problem in inner cities and people who can’t behave. Hmmm.

Saying the supply to the shelves, which I actually heard people on the news review say themselves late last night again displays your naively of real life and a real business. The business is in the store. The demand is in the store. You can create as many supply (in the supply chain) and demand line graphs I’ve seen a thousand times over. They don’t change a thing. It’s the supply and demand in the store that is the focus.

And on the demand. Firstly I’d use the back rooms for rationing but to hold food back for the old customers they often know because that’s what happens in real life (although they have a window unless they couldn’t make that week’s) and for emergency services workers in uniform. Most other people can make it to get their food because, let’s face it, we’re on holiday. The one big issue though is over 70’s all going shopping (although all isolators in the store at the same time) A lot of supermarket have calmed down later in the day so if you did put food out it wouldn’t be like you say.

It isn’t the shop floor workers who would be rationing. It would be till staff and in some stores they do. The tills reject surplus purchases in the same transaction. They inform the supervisor. The self service tills reject surplus amounts as well, and so do the self shop handguns. (I scanned a one kilo bag of brown rice for my sister’s family and then found a one kilo bag of white rice but had to cancel one of them)

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That's something that I don't think the stores have thought through as surely all of the at risk people shopping at the same time is a recipe for disaster

Wouldn’t it be better because they’re all self isolating so should be not picking up and bringing anything to their age group from younger age groups? I’d say it’s better than having a 70 year old in a packed store of all age groups I’ve been seeing.

The only solution I can see would be make two whole mornings a week the oldies shopping time to spread it out.

I think our way of life and shopping is a perfect spreading venue for the virus but unless they have soldiers counting one in and out I can’t see a solution to that. Out in the sticks you’re safer. Glad I live in Caterham that was laughed at for being dull. Well everyone is being pretty civilised around me.

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I don’t think Portugal is any more infected than Britain.

It’s richer places with more world travellers and people who socialise a lot. I did hear of a couple that went to northern Italy and then came and self isolated. Why the fvck they went there knowing the issue was escalating I’ll never know. Liberal freedoms more important than survival for however many weeks.

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The morons in the parks yesterday stopping for close chats. Dear me.

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