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@Virgil said in Coronavirus - Overall:
Woken up to first morning of the lockdown, happy to report there’s no sign of roaming gangs outside or scenes that generally resemble Mad Max..
My son says no booze on sale in NZ (we live UK). That can't be?
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@pakman said in Coronavirus - Overall:
@Virgil said in Coronavirus - Overall:
Woken up to first morning of the lockdown, happy to report there’s no sign of roaming gangs outside or scenes that generally resemble Mad Max..
My son says no booze on sale in NZ (we live UK). That can't be?
Only certain stores are allowed to sell it now
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@pakman said in Coronavirus - Overall:
@Virgil said in Coronavirus - Overall:
Woken up to first morning of the lockdown, happy to report there’s no sign of roaming gangs outside or scenes that generally resemble Mad Max..
My son says no booze on sale in NZ (we live UK). That can't be?
Supermarkets can sell beer and wine and only licensing trusts outside of supermarkets. (In Invercargill for example, you can't buy beer and wine at supermarkets as they have licensing trusts
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@Virgil said in Coronavirus - Overall:
Only certain stores are allowed to sell it now
Off licences (bottle stores) have been specifically add to the list of essential shops allowed to open in the UK.
And to think some people thought that BoJo bloke was a plonker.
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@Victor-Meldrew given your supermarkets sell all booze too, unlike ours that only sell beer and wine....
I think I might just have enough whisky and bourbon to get me through.
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The Barossa Shiraz '02 is getting low at Meldrew Towers.
If the local wine shippers have run out, I might have to stock up on Lagavulin.
Or Listerine if I just want the taste.
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@taniwharugby I think it is a timing thing US nearly 10,000 cases and over 100 fatalities whereas we are at 0 - time zones and different times of announcing stats makes any snapshot wildly inaccurate
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Interesting update 63% of those hospitalised in ICU in UK are overweight (pretty much the national profile?)
Italy trending down for three days. US taking off like a rocket and a very dramatic graph out of Sydney projecting the results of lockdown/ social distancing with varying degrees of compliance. Basically need a minimum of 80% for it to have any effect - which ties in with herd immunity stats too.
https://pandemic.internationalsos.com/2019-ncov/executive-summary
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@dogmeat said in Coronavirus - Overall:
Interesting update 63% of those hospitalised in ICU in UK are overweight (pretty much the national profile?)
Makes you want to ask how many Italian/Spanish deaths are due to smoking?
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@Victor-Meldrew said in Coronavirus - Overall:
The Barossa Shiraz '02 is getting low at Meldrew Towers.
If the local wine shippers have run out, I might have to stock up on Lagavulin.
Or Listerine if I just want the taste.
I used to really like the
ListerineLagavulin but now something a little less astringent appeals more. I have acquired a taste for Aberlour - have you tried that? Not as soft as some, but nowhere near as antiseptic as an Islay malt. -
@dogmeat @taniwharugby Absolute figures I think area t the present time, less revealing than trends. However accuracy of data there is the thing.
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@Catogrande said in Coronavirus - Overall:
@Victor-Meldrew said in Coronavirus - Overall:
The Barossa Shiraz '02 is getting low at Meldrew Towers.
If the local wine shippers have run out, I might have to stock up on Lagavulin.
Or Listerine if I just want the taste.
I used to really like the
ListerineLagavulin but now something a little less astringent appeals more. I have acquired a taste for Aberlour - have you tried that? Not as soft as some, but nowhere near as antiseptic as an Islay malt.Yep. Nice and light but full. Drink about 2 bottles of whisky a year. something like Aberlour during the year and something a bit different/exotic at Christmas.
Last Christmas was Auchentoshan Three Wood Single Malt. 1/3 of bottle left.
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@Victor-Meldrew said in Coronavirus - Overall:
@dogmeat said in Coronavirus - Overall:
Interesting update 63% of those hospitalised in ICU in UK are overweight (pretty much the national profile?)
Makes you want to ask how many Italian/Spanish deaths are due to smoking?
In one of the posts above there was a link to some stats and the smoking ones for the deaths in China were telling. The difference between male and female deaths was pretty closely correlated to the smoking stats between the sexes.
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@Victor-Meldrew I have a similar scotch consumption to you. I'd like to try the Auchentoshan sometime but I already have about two years of Scottish wine to get through. Mind you this lockdown might accelerate things.
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@Catogrande said in Coronavirus - Overall:
Mind you this lockdown might accelerate things.
I'm not sacrificing my early 2000's Bordeaux. Fuck that
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The sort of timescales we keep hearing about are doing my head in
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@Victor-Meldrew shows the tech, smarts and willingness is there - they say from scratch but surely they'll have access to plans - even if it's the stuff others have shared online already which was pissing off those medical companies! Even though stuff like this is awesome I can't help but get a bit cynical about the self promotion bit.
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