Are you worried yet.

[Phil H]

Thank you, guys. She's what you might call resilient when it comes to confrontation. She got the things she needed, but it really scared her, and she phoned us with a mix of anger and tears.

The supermarkets are happy to trumpet these initiatives for key and vulnerable folk yet that's all it appears to be. It's not rocket science for them to put controls and security in place, then if needs be request uniformed support. In this case, though, ladies had been taken off shop duties and put on door control!

I do think it's time for State intervention and note that local police stations around here, hitherto almost defunct, now have increasing numbers of police cars outside.

PH

 

[highlander]

My first thing to do would be to introduce a wealth tax to all the super rich and a compulsory across the board tax on all rich businesses and give it to NHS staff. The likes of Branson have shown their true colours and are borderline criminals in my eyes at the moment.

If I did not know better, I'd be suspecting you are Jeremy Corbyn in disguise rockits my old friend lol

 

[rockits]

If I did not know better, I'd be suspecting you are Jeremy Corbyn in disguise rockits my old friend lol

LOL.....I am far from JC or a supporter

Very much the opposite.

I'm very entrepreneurial happy to support free markets and enterprise but there is a limit. Especially in the current climate.

All this fluff that Tesco's and the like are saying they are doing is not being done. Do it and do it properly. It really isn't difficult.

 

[MarkMas]

the government needs to bring in marshall law now before things really escalate to major rioting

The problem with bringing in marshal law would be finding enough qualified marshals. Maybe martial law would be better as the army is quite well organised.

 

[Silvercat]

I said it weeks ago the army should go in. It’s disgraceful. These self obsessed c* will be the first to demand their family are prioritised with treatment at the expense of others. I see it every day. Sorry for the rant.

I would round them all up stick em in conference centre and infect the lot of them...then let's see how tough they are then!

 

[lifes2short]

The problem with brining in marshal law would be finding enough qualified marshals. Maybe martial law would be better as the army is quite well organised.

, ee hah that was just for all the cowboy fans, funny how even with one finger typing I still mis type things

 

[Silvercat]

I would round them all up stick em in conference centre and infect the lot of them...then let's see how tough they are then!

Only joking..honest!

 

[MarkMas]

Disgusting

Tesco shoppers 'fight' as hundreds queue for coronavirus supplies at NHS hour

Tesco shoppers were "fighting" and NHS staff feared for their health and left without being able to buy supplies as hundreds ignored social distancing guidelines at the store in Dudley, West Midlands, on Mother's Day

www.mirror.co.uk

It is not good if people behave in a greedy or selfish way, and if people on the front line get pushed aside. Improved arrangements and better behavior would definitely be a good thing.

BUT, the headline reports 'fighting' but the news story can't actually bring itself to claim actual fighting (it's always a give-away when even the subs can't bring themselves to lie without putting it in quotation marks). And the photos and eye-witness accounts seem to be of slightly disorganised queuing, not of some sort of riot.

What is 'disgusting' is the news media trying to spin up a bit of confusion at a busy store combined with some orderly queues of anxious shoppers into some sort or riot. What is 'concerning' is when the populace, seeing these reports, simultaneously declares that the government are muppets who don't know what they are doing, AND calls for that same government to put troops on the streets to enforce order. That is the route to anarchy, vigilatism or fascism, which, let's try to remember are all BAD ideas.

This is serious. But let's not allow our outrage at over-reported difficulties to get us carried away.

 

[FIFTY]

To add to the global economic debate I found this interesting article

Does Covid-19 mean the social contract is broken?

www.thestar.com.my

 

[Oneball]

My sister and her husband are both NHS (although he’s started wearing things with leather elbow patches so may be moonlighting with his hand up a cow). They went to Tesco this morning in the NHS hour and didn’t even get out the car as it was packed.

I went to Sainsbury’s at 1130 and it was empty, one person in front of me at the till. My sister asked me to get her some essentials so she now has 3 bottles of red two bottles of white and a selection from Mr Kipling along with some less critical goods.

 

[MarkMas]

, ee hah that was just for all the cowboy fans, funny how even with one finger typing I still mis type things

Oh, now I think of it, having Tommy Lee Jones or Rooster Cogburn running things might work. Probably not Eminem, though.

 

[Silvercat]

A member of my family is Asthmatic, and is just recovering from Bronchitis. Although she is a key NHS staff member she had been told to stay home pending further risk assessment by the management team, but she has just been recalled for work.

This morning, with ID in hand, she went to shop at a local supermarket during the much-publicised ‘NHS slot’, but the door staff were overrun by people who had no NHS ID and no intention of doing anything other than helping themselves to groceries as fast as they could and söd anyone else. As she was putting her shopping in her car, she was harangued by a driver who told her to hurry up as he wanted her parking slot.

The supermarket has long since dispensed with dedicated security staff, and oh how I wish I’d been with her……

PH

The behaviour of these scum rats is despicable!!. I gladly see the lot of them get the virus and then get sidelined when it came to treatment.

 

[iainw]

I would round them all up stick em in conference centre and infect the lot of them...then let's see how tough they are then!

Bang on

 

[lifes2short]

But let's not allow our outrage at over-reported difficulties to get us carried away.

"over reported" surely you're not serious

 

[Zep]

My sister and her husband are both NHS (although he’s started wearing things with leather elbow patches so may be moonlighting with his hand up a cow). They went to Tesco this morning in the NHS hour and didn’t even get out the car as it was packed.

I went to Sainsbury’s at 1130 and it was empty, one person in front of me at the till. My sister asked me to get her some essentials so she now has 3 bottles of red two bottles of white and a selection from Mr Kipling along with some less critical goods.

I assume she was pleased with her copy of Dec ‘87 Razzle?!

 

[iainw]

It is not good if people behave in a greedy or selfish way, and if people on the front line get pushed aside. Improved arrangements and better behavior would definitely be a good thing.

BUT, the headline reports 'fighting' but the news story can't actually bring itself to claim actual fighting (it's always a give-away when even the subs can't bring themselves to lie without putting it in quotation marks). And the photos and eye-witness accounts seem to be of slightly disorganised queuing, not of some sort of riot.

What is 'disgusting' is the news media trying to spin up a bit of confusion at a busy store combined with some orderly queues of anxious shoppers into some sort or riot. What is 'concerning' is when the populace, seeing these reports, simultaneously declares that the government are muppets who don't know what they are doing, AND calls for that same government to put troops on the streets to enforce order. That is the route to anarchy, vigilatism or fascism, which, let's try to remember are all BAD ideas.

This is serious. But let's not allow our outrage at over-reported difficulties to get us carried away.

I comment on what I see and experience - I don’t need stories. They are not reporting a lot of worse things. I completely disgree with you - not for the first time- the more the media report bad behaviour the better. It will get more people thinking how they behave. As long as the media has some degree of balance and accuracy. From what I saw - the scenes were unnaceptable.

 

[philw696]

If I did not know better, I'd be suspecting you are Jeremy Corbyn in disguise rockits my old friend lol

Well fair play Jeremy and Boris on the Forum.
Jeremy with an Aston Martin, Jaguar, Land Rover and a Maserati.
Come on Boris what have you got in the Garage ?

 

[lifes2short]

Come on Boris what have you got in the Garage ?

probably a load of bog rolls for when the sh1t really hits that fan

 

[MarkMas]

"over reported" surely you're not serious

Well, when I say 'over-reported' I mean a wildly inflamatory story where the headline is "Tesco shoppers 'fight'" and the eye-witness report is, "Very poor organisation of the NHS hour at Dudley, nice queue formed, single door opened, queue fell apart."

 

[Oneball]

I assume she was pleased with her copy of Dec ‘87 Razzle?!

The first house they bought together was this little black and white in a small village. About a week after they’d move in a brown envelope came through the door. In it was a copy of Mayfair from the late 1970s. The centre page was ‘the colonel’s daughter” lounging across a chaise longe in their living room. Apparently it was quite the village scandal as she was the owner of the house at the time.