Wuhan Killer Sneeze (thanks Tea)

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How the pieces would fit together is not clear though. also the American response seems somewhat out of whack with the rest of the world. I'll give it some thought and I'll see what the paranoids have been picking up on their headsets
 
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IdleRich said:
So they're saying a youth's inconvenience is equivalent to an old person's death... interesting.
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No. That old person was going to die anyway. Their death in no way belongs on the scales of equivalency. Stop being so mawkish.

I know Luka doesn't do logic and stuff, but surely there comes a point when you realise your flippant argumentation merely demonstrates an inability to meet the argument head on. Slippery slope tropes like 'Fouth Reich here we come!' are similarly thought terminating.
 
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luka said:
Unless you want to posit a conspiracy theory. I'm up for that. Supermarkets colluding with government to make it appear there are shortages.
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Apparently people are only buying about 10% more food than they usually do and the empty shelves are a symptom of the just-in-time nature of food supply chains.

Also it's not all due to people stockpiling. Bear in mind that people who aren't going to work, school, college or uni have still got to eat lunch, so they're just eating at home instead of in a canteen or fast food place.
 
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Mr. Tea said:
Apparently people are only buying about 10% more food than they usually do and the empty shelves are a symptom of the just-in-time nature of food supply chains.
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Ah yeah, I remember those from Brexit conversations. Whenever I think about Brexit I feel that bit more panicked. Maniacal at any ordinary time, but now...
 
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Mr. Tea said:
Apparently people are only buying about 10% more food than they usually do and the empty shelves are a symptom of the just-in-time nature of food supply chains.

Also it's not all due to people stockpiling. Bear in mind that people who aren't going to work, school, college or uni have still got to eat lunch, so they're just eating at home instead of in a canteen or fast food place.
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Yes, there was a twitter thread on this last night. Seems a bit optimistic to me.

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">I strongly suspect there isn't actually much panic buying or hoarding in the way we imagine. Supermarkets in the UK took £193.4bn in revenue in 2019, which is £3.7bn/week. £1bn extra has been added over 3 weeks: approx 10% rise per week for 3 weeks. That's small, give that...</p>— Greg Callus (@Greg_Callus) <a href="">March 21, 2020</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
 
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Shopping patterns will have changed though, spending will have focused on particular areas - most notably toilet paper. Bulky things that need to go in the fridge and can't be frozen won't be selling well. People with small freezers or only ice boxes won't be buying ice-cream etc.
 
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