Thread: Corona Virus

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Originally Posted by trout1105

The"Black Dog" has knocked on my door couple of times (2x divorces) But I have never let him in the door But I do worry about others that have opened the doors to that Mongrel..
With the way things are going at the moment that door will be opened at an alarming rate and it isn't a joking matter.

I know only too well. One of the reasons I've been trying to convince members to try to keep it positive, well, as much as they can. I know it can be difficult, but people should think of more than themselves, in times like this.

Originally Posted by Eevo

walk in, have to use their trolley wipes to "clean" your hands
have to stand at the end of the conveyor belt
self packing
but still using cash and still close approach to use eftpos machine.

their methods are ineffective and annoying.

walk in, have to use their trolley wipes to "clean" your hands

The idea of Trolley Wipes is to ensure that the handles are wiped down from some filthy previous bastard's crappy & sticky bacteria laden hands & not to freshen your hands, hence the name Trolley Wipes. The clue is in the name.

IMHO they never knowingly seem to pong of any disinfectant so how much good they are I don't know. Coles are the same except I have seen in one particular Store where their dispensers have been without wipes for a couple of weeks at a time, (maybe not these recent days) despite me bringing that to the attention of staff. You never know whether it ever gets passed on down/up the chain to the relevant persons but they are certainly damp.

Originally Posted by 4bee

The idea of Trolley Wipes is to ensure that the handles are wiped down from some filthy previous bastard's crappy & sticky bacteria laden hands & not to freshen your hands, hence the name Trolley Wipes. The clue is in the name.

IMHO they never knowingly seem to pong of any disinfectant so how much good they are I don't know. Coles are the same except I have seen in one particular Store where their dispensers have been without wipes for a couple of weeks at a time, (maybe not these recent days) despite me bringing that to the attention of staff. You never know whether it ever gets passed on down/up the chain to the relevant persons but they are certainly damp.

I watched a worker at Bunnings preparing " trolley wipes'. One of the ingredients used was isopropyl alcohol [ think that's it] plus some detergent, water & perhaps something else. The alcohol would do the job. There was sanitiser provided for your hands.

Originally Posted by ozscott

This is good

Coronavirus live updates: FDA gives anti-malaria drugs emergency approval to treat COVID-19 - ABC News

Cheers

We talked about this with microbiology guys in the hospital interesting as thinking is it could perhaps work on the virus but to have any real theoritical chance you need to know you are positive and you can be asymptomatic for 5 yo 7 days while the virus is rapidly multiplying.....you need a fully comprehensive resting regme to in theory catch it with a short time of being infected which might happen in a full comprehesive testing enviroment such as say South Korea or Taiwan..not like the situation in ozzie or new zealand at present..
Very hard to setup any type of trial under these conditions until things ease off.the academicscwill be watching with interest.

Yet another reason for us to go out there and LOOK for ourselves....

Did your Doctor or any of the Government Advice Agencies tell you this ? - that one blood group is more susceptible to infection ?
- Scroll through this link, some other useful information there for the taking.!

Combating COVID-19 with Zinc and Quercetin – Nutritional Pharmacology

Edit:- By the way, the 'experts' over here in the Western side have already decided on this (the safer one?) medication, 'Plaquenil'... Took me Three HOURS to find a chemist that hadn't run out of it... and I got the last bottle in the shop when successful.

But guess who was bulk-buying? - DOCTORS, and Nurses. (for self and family) and one Pharmacist who was preserving a few for her regular RA and lupus clients, "evicted" a surgeon who got stroppy when denied. - 6 months supply.

Well looks like people are slowly getting their common sense back. Most items in the supermarket in good supply and plenty of loo paper as well, which has been on the shelves all day according to my Son who works at Woolies - he has also noted the constant abuse from customers is slowing down too. This has bought out a truly ugly side of society that lurks just below the surface.

Originally Posted by Homestar

Well looks like people are slowly getting their common sense back. Most items in the supermarket in good supply and plenty of loo paper as well, which has been on the shelves all day according to my Son who works at Woolies - he has also noted the constant abuse from customers is slowing down too. This has bought out a truly ugly side of society that lurks just below the surface.

Mate I couldn't agree more. Its an ugly side that would be horrendous if we had a much worse crisis and even worse if we were, as society, armed.

Cheers