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Self Isolation Supplies

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NotWorriedAtAll said:
I don't understand how we are supposed to hold these two ideas in our heads at the same time and also manage to act to agree with both of them.

1. Stocking up on necessities is selfish and we shouldn't do it.
2. We are supposed to stay away from other people because by going out we risk catching and/or spreading the virus.

Surely if we are high risk and need to stay isolated then we need to have supplies to cover this? And I'm not talking about staying indoors for a quarantine type period I'm talking about staying isolated for a long time until this situation is all over with. If people run out of things they need and that causes them to be ill or have a medical emergency they will be putting pressure on services that are already hard pressed and we are being told we need to avoid doing that.
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1. It's all the ridiculous panic buying and hoarding which is causing the shortages! If people just shopped as normal then there would be no empty shelves in the supermarkets. Think of people e.g.pensioners who only get their money once a week and can't afford to stock up, how are they supposed to cope at the moment?
2. Could you not get friends or family who don’t have to isolate themselves to get supplies for you?
 
Yes, it’s funny how people have whipped up pasta, except spaghetti apparently. Lol. When I went around the freezers, to get my usual salmon fillets, I noticed that frozen chips were nearly all gone. The baked bean section was empty too; I have a single tin left from last year, prior to my diagnosis in December. Maybe people are buying ibuprofen, not because they’ll take it if they get Coronavirus, but because they are fearful it will run out irrespective, so they grab a packet or three, just because it’s there!?
 
I 'State pension' retired in 2010 and it is paid direct into my bank account - I don't think anyone has to collect any state benefit over the counter at a Post Office these days, though you can opt to have it paid fortnightly not 4 weekly.
 
Sally71 said:
1. It's all the ridiculous panic buying and hoarding which is causing the shortages! If people just shopped as normal then there would be no empty shelves in the supermarkets. Think of people e.g.pensioners who only get their money once a week and can't afford to stock up, how are they supposed to cope at the moment?
2. Could you not get friends or family who don’t have to isolate themselves to get supplies for you?
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Myself and my husband are the ones who get supplies for my nearly ninety year old mother and all our relatives are a similar age. We don't do 'friends' - we have moved a lot over the years and all our friends live hundreds of miles away and are scattered around the country.
The people we do know locally are disabled and in a worse position than we are. We are the ones people usually turn to when they need help. We don't get helped by other people. People rely on us - that is why we need to look after ourselves because if we go under there are other people who will be stuck without us.

It is the old ' put your own oxygen mask on before helping others' situation.
 
Kaylz said:
We use Nicky toilet roll that you get in Savers and Farmfoods as it's really good quality and cheap too which is a plus you know with living off £70 a week which £5 odd bus fares come out of straight away to be able to be entitled to the money in the first place, couldnt get that yesterday and only thing available other places was the far more expensice Andrex at over £5 a pack! But needed it so will have to scrimp even more this week all because other people have been selfish :(
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So sorry to here this. Got to be extremely hard living off £70 a week at the moment, The selves are just about bare in the shops, and the choice to budget must be worryingly hard.
 
megga said:
So sorry to here this. Got to be extremely hard living off £70 a week at the moment, The selves are just about bare in the shops, and the choice to budget must be worryingly hard.
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it's extremely hard living off £70 at anytime with suffering from an eating disorder but really starting to worry the things I do eat aren't available as it will get to the point where I just don't eat xx
 
My local only had wholewheat pasta left (i bought 1 packet as i cant eat more than 30g of it in 1 sitting, will last me 6 months!) tinned fish : only ones left were tuna in spring water (I love that, so it suited me fine)....Biscuits gone - no worries i make my own sugar free ones now. Flour and sugar tea gone (again, fine with that, im on ground almond and coconut flour and drink mostly coffee)...so all in all i havent been bothered that much as everyone seems to be going for items i dont have any more! But was wondering where have all the eggs gone? Chickens on strike or something?

But now my son tells me today he cant find ANY nappies - so now me and hubby have to go around looking for nappy pants! Imagine that, grey haired couple picking up those things - i bet we get a few weird looks LOL 😱
 
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Tee G said:
My local only had wholewheat pasta left (i bought 1 packet as i cant eat more than 30g of it in 1 sitting, will last me 6 months!) tinned fish : only ones left were tuna in spring water (I love that, so it suited me fine)....Biscuits gone - no worries i make my own sugar free ones now. Flour and sugar tea gone (again, fine with that, im on ground almond and coconut flour and drink mostly coffee)...so all in all i havent been bothered that much as everyone seems to be going for items i dont have any more! But was wondering where have all the eggs gone? Chickens on strike or something?

But now my son tells me today he cant find ANY nappies - so now me and hubby have to go around looking for nappy pants! Imagine that, grey haired couple picking up those things - i bet we get a few weird looks LOL 😱
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I think that maybe quite a few parents will be thinking about going back to cloth nappies and sterilising solution before long.
 
Better for the environment anyway! I had no problem using Terry Nappies (couldnt afford the Pampers - only kept a small pack for when we were out visiting people) - those were the days!
 
Napisan, Baby Burco boiler, and the massive luxury when we eventually got a spin dryer that rinsed, and didn't need to do the whole lot in the sink!
 
Went to shop yesterday and a friend wanted some custard powder but the shelf was bare .Who wants to stock up on custard powder ?
Carol
 
chaoticcar said:
Went to shop yesterday and a friend wanted some custard powder but the shelf was bare .Who wants to stock up on custard powder ?
Carol
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Actually if we'd still had our dog white rice and custard powder would've been at the top of the list of things to make sure we had plenty of as that's what we had to give her during her sickness bouts xx
 
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