My sister just rang she is so go smacked as am I.
A neighbour of hers had 3 new freezers delivered on Monday she also had one in her kitchen. For a family of 4 . She is out all day shopping going to as many stores as she can. Stupid women all this contact with so many people means she’s more likely to get c19 . I’m speechless 😶
Maybe one is to be used for toilet roll storage.🤨
She maybe has shopping addiction!!
How fortunate that she has so much money to spend! Not that I'd want to but some of us couldn't afford to stock pile like that. Hiw big is her house for goodness sake???
Nice house 4 bedrooms single garage
You sure she's not storing bodies in them?? 🤣
I think it’s anew supermarket chain 😂
lol x
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Raid her garage-full of freezers some dark night... 😃
And put up a sign saying food hoard here!
Well she’s wasting money on food she won’t eat, and will have to pay electricity for running the freezers so more fool her. And if the world really got to a place where you needed 4 freezers worth of food then probably no electricity either. Selfish, and stupid.
Blimey if I were your sister I would put a sign up pointing this woman is MAD! and why of course!
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Maybe she's making up boxes for elderly neighbours!!
Lol who knows what she is piling up in there 😂😂
As always, there's nowt as queer as folk! Next thing you know she'll be getting out her shotgun to protect them. Just has a lovely laugh, listening to Trump using, rapid, quick and fast in the same sentence to describe one thing. Such eloquence is a wondrous thing to behold. Perhaps avaricious, greedy and rapacious could be used for this woman!
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My old boss used to say "there's nowt as queer as folk". Brought back memories, he was a good boss.
No words! 🙉
And not leave anything for TEAM NHS to buy when they finally clock off work and just want to buy some food!!! Infuriates me!
Yes me too
This epidemic really brings out the selfishness in some people xxx
Outrageous and inexplicably stupid!
It's still a free country, for a few more days at least.
The real culprit is the government advice: isolate for 2 weeks if you have any symptom.So arewhat are people expected to eat? They go out in a panic and buy. Yet the advice is don't stock pile.
Restaurants, cafes, work places, schools to close, so all alternative supply chains halted. Which creates huge surge in demand for supermarkets, adults and kids at home, needing 3 meals a day.
So instead of spreading out demand over many supply chains, its now all on the Supermarkets.
It's fostering a very British reaction of curtain twitchers, aghast in disbelief at the facts in front of them. Driven in no small part by, jealousy.
I don't care how many freezers someone buys, or if someone doesn't believe it. But a government encouraging, this very British trait, at a time of crisis, is to give them reason to erode civil liberties. They can falsely blame the hoarders. Posts such as this help that end.
I don’t think it’s a very British trait, most people are helpful and generally kind. However there are always some who only think of themselves. What will she do if society breaks down? Throw frozen peas at the looters?
(My advice would be to buy tins, last longer and hurt more).
😁I’ve no doubt she has a shed full of tins even things they don’t like such is the mentality
I care if nurses, doctors, hospital cleaners porters, radiographers etc can't buy food and eat at a time if intense pressure. Two nights ago a friend who is an A&E nurse was on the phone in tears . She's done 5 13 hr shifts this week and she's exhausted. Just wants to sleep on her day off but went to the shops and the shelves were bare, as are her cupboards. Disgraceful.
There should be a register of these workers and free food delivered by supermarkets. Let’s be honest there profits can stand this . The profits have gone through the roof
Isolating for two weeks does not require 4 freezers full of food unless you have a family of 25. It is selfish. Most people who are self isolating have friends or family who will provide support - our daughter is delivering food every couple of days to a friend with the virus (laving it outside the door) so no need for him to stockpile. Other people are still able to leave their homes to shop sensibly.
And why in heaven’s name do you think the dislike of this behaviour is driven by jealousy of all things? Bizarre. There are some of course who couldn’t possibly stockpile because they can’t afford to who are likely to feel miffed by shops being empty, but that's not jealousy.
So when your daughter is shopping for you, herself and her friend. Blinkered people will accuse her of selfishness, because it may 'look' like she's stockpiling.
To avoid such judgement, she could do lots of little shops, that way if she's a carrier of the virus, she can spread it to anything she touches or meets.
Nothing bizarre about curtain twitcher jealousy. Used to be a pass time.
I am self isolating, I do not have anyone to shop for me. Instead I have to support elderly parents. I have a very small f/f. However, due to my condition I've always had to be sure to have a back up of some things. As I do not know how i will be on any given day. Mostly I buy very very little. Yesterday I bought a loaf of bread for my parents, who incidentally phone me in a panic that they've run out. Today I bought two broccoli's. Last week I bought 2 packets of pasta, the only one's left were wholemeal. Which I buy anyway, so I felt very lucky.
For the sake of those few items, I've had to touch more things and been closer to more people than I'd like. I have a compromised immune system. But people don't respect the distance rule. I look ok so...
No daughter doesn’t buy for us, just shopping for two adults and a child. She doesn’t have the money to buy lots anyway, especially as her business (bicycle shop) is suffering badly.
Yesterday I asked (politely) a young man to move a little further away. He was perfectly fine to do so and apologised for forgetting.
Look, the Goverments across the UK have to sort this supermarket chaos! Regardless whether you are buying for yourself or for the elderly neighbours, there has to be fairness.
There seems to be a war on food therefore the army should dutifully do their job!
That's exactly the solution they want. A population pleading for sanity, glad for a police state.
The parallel supply chain is closing down, restaurants etc. stopping orders.
Supermarkets, who are not geared for such demand, bearing the brunt.
Now the horse has bolted, BOJO, should keep everything open, and continue his herd immunity trajectory.
In a few days tempers will flare, people will start fighting for goods, and levelling accusations. The public suffer for the poor choices of government.
Sense differs from area to area. People were perfectly sensible in some but constantly jostling against me in another. I notice its cultural.
Plenty of people were warning two weeks ago to get ready. To have two weeks of food on hand...maybe a month. LOTS of people here were making light and saying "I got swine flu, I'll get this too and it'll all just fine". And NOT preparing.
Now people are realising that the early 'doomsayers' were right. This lady is trying to catch up and she has the resources. I'd like to think that she would share with her neighbors if if came to it, but I still have far more faith in human nature than I should.
I bought a little extra for the last six weeks. I advised others to do same. I had some people tell me I was fear mongering. Hmmmm.
I despise the people who are hoarding, because we're all in this together. But this lady is doing the best she can. And she clearly has the resources that most of us dont. Her actions now are no worse than those of the people a week ago who were still making light and ridiculing people who were advising self isolation.
Lets hope she decides to share her resources with the front-line staff. I know it seems unlikely, but maybe that's exactly her plan. Lets just hope. The stories of the staff coming home to no food and empty shelves in grocery stores is unbearable.
Fear brings out the worst. A lot of people didn't listen to early advice to prepare.
And then a whole lot of other people, who are able bodied, emptied the shelves with NO regard to those of us who are disabled or aged frail. All we can do is help get the message out there as much as we can...please be kind. Please remember there are disabled and frail people who need these supplies more than you. Please share.
I bet there are many, many people sitting on closets FULL of toilet paper and feeling pretty darn selfish, wishing they could give it back. Lets give them the opportunity to GIVE it back, with no penalty. Start a movement...if you have spare, care. SHARE! share with someone who needs it, without anyone telling you you were a selfish git to take it in the first place.
I don't know how to make this happen, but lets direct our energies that way.
Best,
Lily
People didn’t take it seriously because the government was giving out conflicting advice. Boris was still shaking hands to make a point.schools still open .young are not effected. In Ireland 30% of cases are 15-35 years old. Toilet roll panic buying started this there has been plenty of time to formulate a plan of rationing.
We're all at fault in some way. I just feel judging others doesn't help anyone. The evidence was readily available two weeks ago, people chose to believe politicians instead of experts. That's understandable, but it was a mistake. throwing shade at others won't change that. throwing shade at those who were preparing wasn't nice.
Again, unity, compassion, sharing. not judgement. I don't have the resources to buy four freezers. IF I had the resources, I'd pack my car with my two weeks of supplies and I'd rent a remote house for three months and ride it out with my kids. I don't have those resources. But good for the people who do. I wish I'd bought four weeks worth. Can't change that now, too late.
But try looking at it this way - everyone (like this lady) who has the resources to care for themselves is taking pressure off the services to take care of those who can't. Those of us who will need support. Two sides to every story. There is always an upside, a silver lining, a good spin. Resources are stretched. She is taking care of herself, and someone else will benefit from that. Don't breed fear and judgement and hate, breed Community, support, compassion, understanding.
Ridiculous and utterly selfish too.
She might be spreading the virus too, since we are symptomless at first for four to 14 days.
I had heard that some were doing this though.. nothing left for those buying only what we need!
It is not nice to jump to conclusions but hard to understand what is going on. I think its fear buying more than panic. Fear generates all sorts of illogical actions and in a way the evening news generates it. Its what came first the buying in 'panic" or the" panic" in buying. I don't know I feel sorry for anyone so frightened they think they will be able to buy enough to fill that amount of freezers. Unless all the restaurants locally without customers are going to sell stuff cheap and she'll make a killing. My husbands golf club catering manager is selling their stocks of eggs, bacon etc as the club won't be open for a while and they want it to go to members just covering buying costs.
Personally I think won't be long before looters strike unless the government puts troops out to help the police. Desperate people do desperate things. Sad really but I sort of think that people hear what they want to hear, so sadly she might think the Black Death is coming whilst in reality its a very nasty illness but in good health most people recover. I'm now not going to watch the news every night anymore for a while as whilst grounded I can't get it and it reminds me of the fact that the holiday is cancelled, I can't babysit and have to b____y cook overnight.Gonna be so fed up with that as we ate out at least 2/3 times a week. I'm wondering is she looking to feed the homeless as some kind people around here are doing a scheme to cook for the homeless at this time. I organise a Food Bank collection locally and its going to be really hard for us at home in the warm watching tv and reading. but the homeless are in a much worse situation.
Even if we go into full lockdown, much like other countries who went into lockdown, we will still have access to supermarkets. People are getting very panicked.
Its people like her who are stockpiling that makes it hard for the medics who are having to look after the likes of her when she gets ill after spreading it round for everybody to catch. Words fail me to what I could call her.xxx
Maybe she has a mental health condition?
She is one of many then. Delivery driver commented on our local app he’s lost count of how many fridge freezers he’s delivered the past 2 weeks
... it's not just food and toilet rolls that people are greedily stockpiling. My son is in the building trade and is likely to be laid off, without pay, for 2 months at least because some builders are stockpiling building materials! Moral compass.....?
Maybe she's expecting Boris to visit and wants to ensure he has a safe place to hide. Either that or she's a complete arsehole!
I’ll go with your second choice
Ocd at its best
People sheds and garage will be getting burgled before we know it
Sitting standing can’t win ☹️
I can't believe it...
I don't believe it.
Can’t walk properly on ankle..flare 
