02-03-2020, 17:29
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Re: Coronavirus
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Originally Posted by denphone
We were in Sainsbury's earlier today and a lot of the hand sanitiser and gels were sold out even though its only the alcohol ones that will kill the virus.
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Soap and water is better anyway.
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The best option is soap and water. According to a 2019 study by the American Society for Microbiology, using running water and soap to wash your hands is more effective than a dab of gel that you have not quite rubbed in.
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https://www.theguardian.com/world/20...virus-covid-19
Washing hands will be a novelty for a lot of people...
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02-03-2020, 17:30
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Re: Coronavirus
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Originally Posted by joglynne
By some weird coincidence several people bought me bottles of Gin for Christmas. As my tipple of choice is coffee I have considered putting some of the gin into a small atomiser and creating a hand sanitiser which will double up as a throat spay.
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02-03-2020, 17:38
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Re: Coronavirus
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Originally Posted by Mr K
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We wash our hands all the time as it takes 30 seconds to a minute at the most.
By the way l would say not a lot of people don't wash their hands as thats rather generalising yet again old chap as we all do it in our family for starters.
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02-03-2020, 17:53
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Re: Coronavirus
The thing about this hand washing is when and where it has to be done. Just doing it at home seems pointless. The idea is to prevent spreading once you've "picked up" the virus when outside. Even by the time you get home might be too late. You will have made contact with something and transferred it to yourself and/or others long before then.
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02-03-2020, 18:19
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Re: Coronavirus
Just think of the vast number of people who eat in fast food joints, baker's cafe's etc who eat with their hands without washing them first.
Unless such places make hand cleaning products readily available the consequences will be dire.
Fortunately we don't eat that sort of crap.
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02-03-2020, 20:00
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Re: Coronavirus
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Originally Posted by heero_yuy
Just think of the vast number of people who eat in fast food joints, baker's cafe's etc who eat with their hands without washing them first.
Unless such places make hand cleaning products readily available the consequences will be dire.
Fortunately we don't eat that sort of crap.
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Frozen pizza is the way forward.
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03-03-2020, 16:04
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Re: Coronavirus
Good news, the owners of Corona Beer have lost £132million in sales, so there might be some deals going down at the supermarket
https://metro.co.uk/2020/02/27/maker...irus-12312964/
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03-03-2020, 16:37
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Re: Coronavirus
It’s lost profit, not lost sales, and it’s over their entire range, not just Corona beer. Though I’m certain the hack who wrote that report was desperately hoping to dig up a story of such gross public stupidity as thinking they could catch a disease from a product that just happened to have the same name ...
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03-03-2020, 17:00
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Re: Coronavirus
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It’s lost profit, not lost sales, and it’s over their entire range, not just Corona beer. Though I’m certain the hack who wrote that report was desperately hoping to dig up a story of such gross public stupidity as thinking they could catch a disease from a product that just happened to have the same name ...
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I don't know Chris, in China yes but in the US?
"Another case in point: 38% of American beer drinkers surveyed this week said they wouldn't buy Corona "under any circumstances" at the moment. It's worth noting that, among regular Corona drinkers, only 4% said they would now refrain — that raises questions about whether the virus is, in fact, affecting consumer attitudes toward the brand."
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03-03-2020, 17:07
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Re: Coronavirus
Hmmm ... gross public stupidity ... USA ...
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03-03-2020, 17:35
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Re: Coronavirus
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I don't know Chris, in China yes but in the US?
"Another case in point: 38% of American beer drinkers surveyed this week said they wouldn't buy Corona "under any circumstances" at the moment. It's worth noting that, among regular Corona drinkers, only 4% said they would now refrain — that raises questions about whether the virus is, in fact, affecting consumer attitudes toward the brand."
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https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/co...r-coronavirus/
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There are any number of ways a careful market researcher might attempt to tease out how, if at all, coronavirus has affected perceptions of the beer. This isn’t one of them. Instead, these questions manage to fail simultaneously in two different directions. On one hand, some of the phrasing (“In light of the coronavirus …”) implies a queasy connection between the virus and the beer that people might not have considered until they were polled.
On the other hand, the final three questions ― including the one responsible for that startling 38% statistic ― don’t explicitly mention coronavirus as a motivation at all. In other words, drinkers who said they wouldn’t buy Corona might simply have meant that they prefer to order a different brand of beer.
The much less eye-catching but entirely more plausible statistic is that, even “in light of the coronavirus,” just 4% of Americans who “usually drink Corona” say they “plan to stop” drinking it. Even here, the framing of the question is sloppy: If respondents “plan to stop,” doesn’t that imply they haven’t given it up yet?
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The real question is why this obscure poll would, even if it had been true, be able to capture the imagination of so many people. And the answer is as obvious as it is saddening: Clearly, a lot of Americans already think that their fellow citizens are stupid. The real reason a fake finding could have spread so far so quickly is that it confirmed prejudices about the world that many have held all along.
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03-03-2020, 17:57
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Re: Coronavirus
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In the U.S., interest in "corona beer virus," "beer virus" and "beer coronavirus" surged the most in Nevada, Arizona and Connecticut. Worldwide, people in Portugal, Poland and Cambodia searched the three terms more than anywhere else, according to Google.
Searches for Corona beer also started spiking on January 20, when reports of the coronavirus first started circulating.
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03-03-2020, 18:21
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Re: Coronavirus
I’m in agreement with you...
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03-03-2020, 19:24
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Re: Coronavirus
Whatever happened to Corona lemonade, a brand I recall from childhood, which dates me.
I remember it had a polar bear in sunglasses whose catchphrase was “it’s frothy baby”. Or similar.
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03-03-2020, 19:28
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Re: Coronavirus
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Whatever happened to Corona lemonade, a brand I recall from childhood, which dates me.
I remember it had a polar bear in sunglasses whose catchphrase was “it’s frothy baby”. Or similar.
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Was there not a penny given back if the bottle was taken back to the shop.
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Corona was a brand of carbonated soft drink produced by Thomas & Evans Ltd in South Wales, and distributed across the United Kingdom. ... Corona was sold to The Beecham Group in 1958 and subsequently to Britvic Soft Drinks, but stopped trading as a brand in the late 1990s.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corona_(soft_drink)
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