Coronavirus update

[davidc4430]

Coronavirus update: Formula One Grand Prix called off, Trump announces travel ban, Tom Hanks tests positive

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-03-12/coronavirus-live-updates-mclaren-lewis-hamilton-travel-ban/12...

[brerrabbit585]

So I get a card from Woolies, from Aldi, from Coles, from IGA, Foodworks and whoever else. How do any of these places know which of the others I've been to?

The cost of this would be phenomenal and it's not the fault of the supermarkets that people are being so greedy and irrational, so why should they have to take responsibility for it?

Those people who have to travel to shop can't do it every day so a limit of 2 cartons of milk is punishing them for everyone else's greed at the moment. Hopefully people will soon have so much food stockpiled that they'll stop buying and others will be able to get what they need.

[brerrabbit585]

How do the supermarkets know how many family members a person is shopping for? They can put limits in place but the single person who only shops for themself would end up far better off than the person who shops for a family of five or six. Only the govt has access to data on how many people there are in a family so they're the only ones who can fairly determine how much everyone is entitled to.

[domino-710]

It was simply food for thought.

Another one running for politics ??

[brerrabbit585]

Simply food for thought? You specifically said it wouldn't be hard. All I did was explain that it wouldn't be at all fair.

[domino-710]

LOL - what's ' fair ' about the current situation for some.

[joz*garage]

If supermarkets place limits on one item per person, it's been known some buyers go through checkout, load their shopping in the car and come back for another load for those restricted products, lol

can't win

[go-tazz]

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@brerrabbit585 wrote:

Those people who have to travel to shop can't do it every day so a limit of 2 cartons of milk is punishing them for everyone else's greed at the moment. Hopefully people will soon have so much food stockpiled that they'll stop buying and others will be able to get what they need.

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Greed and stupidity for others as they are buying way over the supplies they may need in case they get

quarantined and they simply can't think of what that's doing to other people who need those items to survive.

They keep buying meat but what if there are power outages due to lack of employees at power stations or

something similar and it all spoils?

If their stove is electric they can't cook or microwave either so are barbeque's,gas stoves,etc the next thing for

the panic buyers to grab?

Then they have nothing left to "survive" on and might need to eat the toilet paper as sustenance.

Going out and camping in the bush seems like a logical solution if they've been panic buying and having all 

the supplies but then most wouldn't have the sense or know how to survive out there.

[brerrabbit585]

If they die they won't need any of that food or toilet paper.

Funny (strange) thing is that if they're stockpiling because they're worried about being quarantined, why are they spending so much time in the supermarket where they may be subjecting themselves to germs?

@ joz, that's why I said if it continues, the only way to stop it would be govt rationing, which means each person is issued coupons for X number of each type of item. The only way you can buy more is to get coupons from someone else, but it means that person would either go without or wouldn't be wanting those particular goods anyway.

[lionrose.7]

Puts me off Bats for ever

https://www.nbcnews.com/now/video/how-the-coronavirus-spread-from-animals-to-humans-80729157891

[domino-710]