Keep safe fellow Clarets and fellow UTC readers

[ecc]

Please take this message purely for the reason I'm posting it. Please let's put to one side all the differing opinions about Coronavirus.

Right now governments across Europe, across the world are taking measures to stop it spreading.

Let's not panic but follow these measures.

Let's think about the people potentially most at risk i.e. elderly folk. They need the rest of society more than ever. We need to protect them. Make sure they are okay, make sure they have food and drink and reassurance. They need our support.

We need solidarity. We need to think of health. Our own and everybody else's.

We all love football and will miss it but it is but a game, a source of entertainment.

Today, more than usual, health is the bottom line.

Stay safe my fellow Clarets and non-Clarets who read this forum.

Together we can beat it!

[Claret-On-A-T-Rex]

Seconded, stay safe all.

[Bordeauxclaret]

Absolutely. It’s difficult to think that just a few weeks ago these situations would be pure fiction.

Let’s hope and pray that the people who are making the decisions are correct. I genuinely feel for them as well as there seems to be so much conflicting information.

Good luck to everyone.

[Wile E Coyote]

there seems to be a lot of community spirit out there, well intentioned unselfish people , willing to help the vulnerable and needy. it clearly is a crisis, but sadly the flip side is the sour faced bastards, stockpiling everything, mindless, pathetic slobs, without a second thought for anyone but themselves. pity the virus can't be aimed. the NHS unfortunately has to deal with these fatuous pricks too. I hate their greedy faces with a passion.

[cricketfieldclarets]

there seems to be a lot of community spirit out there, well intentioned unselfish people , willing to help the vulnerable and needy. it clearly is a crisis, but sadly the flip side is the sour faced bastards, stockpiling everything, mindless, pathetic slobs, without a second thought for anyone but themselves. pity the virus can't be aimed. the NHS unfortunately has to deal with these fatuous pricks too. I hate their greedy faces with a passion.

Absolutely. My cousins husband now works in retail. After spending more than two decades serving the country.

He is doing so despite suffering COPD himself and obviously therefore putting himself at risk.

He and some of his colleagues have been abused at work today presumably because there is surplus of things that people want to stockpile.

On the contrary I asked my mrs to pick up some extra baby milk. Just in case. (Not stockpile but enough for the next couple of weeks / we usually have extra anyway because I invariably spill it when making any bottles during the night). She said no. We have enough. And there will be enough. Other people might not have any now!

Proud of both for different reasons.

I do understand the panic. Particularly with all the confusion. And the inevitability that at some point we will be locked down.

It’s strange times for sure.

[paulatky]

The community spirit is not portrayed by the panic buying.


Last months. #be-kind has been replaced by. #fcuk everyone else

[MACCA]

The community spirit is not portrayed by the panic buying.


Last months. #be-kind has been replaced by. #fcuk everyone else

I agree, I went to do a standard weekly shop and couldnt even do that, never mind bulk buy.

There's a lot of selfish people out there.
You usually start to see peoples true colours in tough times.

Most people generally have enough food and provisions in for a couple of weeks after a normal weekly shop.
Why anyone needs 30 tins of something when they go through 4 a week I'll never know.

I'll try one last time later to get the things I need and use on a regular basis, but I'm not holding much hope.

[jdrobbo]

Health comes first, all the time. Stay safe everyone and please treat this seriously.

[Bertiebeehead]

there seems to be a lot of community spirit out there, well intentioned unselfish people , willing to help the vulnerable and needy. it clearly is a crisis, but sadly the flip side is the sour faced bastards, stockpiling everything, mindless, pathetic slobs, without a second thought for anyone but themselves. pity the virus can't be aimed. the NHS unfortunately has to deal with these fatuous pricks too. I hate their greedy faces with a passion.

Don’t look at the ‘markets’ thread, gold gold gold!