Friday, September 25, 2020

Is Panic Buying About To Return To The U.K. As Covid-19 Coronavirus Cases Explode And Cities Lockdown?


Business Insider: UK supermarkets Tesco and Morrisons are rationing toilet paper and hand sanitizer as fears of panic buying return. One worker said their store was 'worse than a bad Christmas.'

* British supermarket chains Morrisons and Tesco have reintroduced product limits of three per person on staple goods such as long-life food and hygiene products.
* Shoppers appear to have been stocking up amid fears of a second lockdown, after Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced stricter coronavirus restrictions on Tuesday.
* “Our stock levels of these products are good but we want to ensure that they are available for everyone,” a spokesperson for Morrisons told Business Insider.
* One Morrisons worker said their store was "worse than a bad Christmas."

British grocery chains Tesco and Morrisons have started rationing essential items over fears that stricter lockdown measures will send shoppers into a panic.

Supermarkets limited sales of certain goods earlier in the pandemic, and Morrisons became the first major grocer to reintroduce these measures when it said on Thursday that customers could only buy three of certain products. These included pasta, soup, hand wash, and hand sanitizer, as well as multipacks of toilet paper and kitchen roll.

One checkout worker at Morrisons who wished to remain anonymous said customers had been stocking up on canned food and toilet roll. They described their store was "worse than a bad Christmas, it was horrible."

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WNU Editor: If these numbe4rs continue to grow there will be a lock-down .... 'Stark warning to us all': UK reports record daily number of Covid-19 cases (The Guardian). More here .... U.K. reports record number of new COVID-19 cases as cities lock down (CBS/AP).
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3 comments:

  1. AnonymousSeptember 25, 2020 at 4:26 PM

    The bureaucrats and politicians should be up on charges for murder. All those people becoming more susceptible to diseases by becoming flabby and pasty due to the lockdown. Lockdown might slow the progress of the disease, but it is not going to lower the total death toll enough to compensate for the other deaths the loockdown is causing.

    There are always opportunity coasts with any decision. They made their decision based on their own power.

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  2. B.PosterSeptember 25, 2020 at 4:51 PM

    Anon (4:26)

    Nailed it!! In the mid sized county where I live in the US (pop approx 610K) as of mid March the models predicted 100K infections by the end of of May and this was the best case scenario. I think it reasonable to assume that other state and local governments were getting similar dire reports as were the Feds. By the end of May it should've become apparent we were dealing with flawed models and course corrections were needed.

    While China can perhaps be blamed for sloppily handling a virus and allowing it to be released from a lab, the lockdowns were unnecessary and counterproductive. These are entirely self inflicted wounds.

    I must admit it this seems a bit ironic. Not so long ago haughty Europeans were raking us and POTUS over the proverbial coals regarding our response to this virus. Now here we are achieving enough progress that we are slowly reopening because it's becoming harder in the face of the evidence to justify the continuing lockdowns while the haughty Brits and other Europeans are going backwards.

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  3. UnknownSeptember 26, 2020 at 5:37 AM

    I remember watching Sky news earlier this year when the anchor lady stated that a supermarket in the south of England had been cleaned out of toilet roll. Que panic buying, stuff flying off shelves. These panics are orchestrated by the news media. A few carefully chosen words & the race to an Idiocracy starts. I wonder what the end game is that the establishment has for the rest of us? Stay safe n keep ducking. 🙉💥

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