Daryll wrote:
.. and did anyone else pick up on the fact that a few kilometers away from the Wuhan fishmarket, there is a Virology lab that was investigating into engineering viruses..?? I wonder if its "Umbrella Corp"... :-)
Along the lines of Porton Down, Salisbury and "Novichok".
I'm genuinely surprised that MSM coronavirus reporting hasn't gone down "the Russians did it" route.....yet!.
"The only real power comes out of a long rifle." - Joseph Stalin
Give a man a gun and he can rob a bank.....give a man a bank and he can rob the world!.
Saw a couple of crazies in Sainsbury's this morning................trolleys filled up to their chins.
Baked beans, UHT milk, and pasta.........what a way to go.
Pete
"Tantum religio potuit suadere malorum" Lucretius
You're offended? Please explain why your inability to control your emotions translates into me having to censor my opinions....
Was shopping in Tescos yesterday - no stockpiling, just a normal shop, and as far as I could see the shelves were as stocked as they ever are, except they'd been cleaned out of bread flour. No shortage whatsoever of t.rolls/k.rolls/tissues, or pasta or baked beans.
But they were rationing bottled water, as if people fear the taps running dry.
Unless people stockpile perishable goods, or things they wouldn't ever eat by choice (hello tinned potatoes) the supermarkets are going to have a lean time when this all blows over.
I must be a tad thick but why is toilet paper the go to preppers' currency now?
If you have to self quarantine for 14 days you don't want to run out of bog roll......
Plus TEOTWAWKI crowd are probably getting a boner over all this so they'll grab what they can........then wonder why they spent so much when it all blows over.
"The only real power comes out of a long rifle." - Joseph Stalin
Give a man a gun and he can rob a bank.....give a man a bank and he can rob the world!.