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As far as I know, all normal hand soap works. It’s something to do with soap breaking down the lipid layer (I think)? But you don’t need antibacterial soap. I think anything that becomes soap-y and foamy in your hands; like washing up liquid, hand soap; bar soap etc. (With bar soap though it’s...

This situation is so desperately sad - the chronic neglect of the social care system, underfunding of the NHS, and the dithering of the UK govt when we had months to prepare combined with making decisions like following herd immunity and no testing and stopping contact tracing, and asking Dyson...

Oh my god.

Are you being serious (about the key workers - your second paragraph)? If so, no I didn’t hear about it - when did they say that? I heard that it’s decided on how “frail” you are (under that system I think I worked out many of those with severe ME like me may well not score well enough to get...

TW: death of loved ones, elderly My god. I don’t have words for this.

TW: death of loved ones, elderly This is extremely sad and horrifying. I don’t understand how this can be happening. They’re not even given a chance or a choice to be saved.

Reading about the antibody testing in the Guardian article, and the fact the govt may be relying on these as the way out of lockdown.. “However, some critics fear that this could lead to resentment in the population who have not had the virus, and that people might even deliberately try to get...

I think this is the antibody article Jonathan Edwards is referring to: https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2020/apr/02/no-10-seeks-to-end-covid-19-lockdown-with-immunity-passports No 10 seeks to end coronavirus lockdown with ' immunity passports' Fresh criticism over testing plan as Matt...

On the ECMO topic, someone has tried to start a UK petition here: Urgently puchase more ECMO machines to treat critical coronavirus patients The UK only has 15 beds available for adult extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) treatment at five centres across England. How can the government...

I also heard about ECMO - from what I remember, China ordered thousands of them to be made from Germany, to help with the outbreak. It also looks like (from a quick google search) the WHO has recommended them to be used also in some cases of coronavirus - perhaps severe cases. However here in...

@Mithriel that is a good point. We do a very thorough decontamination of all groceries when they come in.. dettol wipe then alcohol wipe of all outside packaging, so there shouldn’t be contamination of the outside. It’s only the inside I’m worried about as I wasn’t sure how it’s made. But...

Yes @JemPD I saw it on this link NBC: https://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/can-coronavirus-survive-in-your-refrigerator/2265870/ Apparently fridges are a place where coronavirus “thrives”. I got alarmed too. In the end I didn’t eat the yogurt, dairylea triangles or the Dairylea lunchables. :(...

@Jonathan Edwards that’s interesting what you say. But I wonder if we really don’t have resources to do the testing and tracing? Jeremy Hunt said in a video which I posted a while ago, in parliament, that he thinks we would have had capacity to do it - if for example all the civil servants...

Now I’m also confused about yoghurt. Is that safe? The problem is a large part of my diet consists of, (low fat) yoghurt and Dairylea triangles..

I’ve just opened a dairylea lunchables for lunch. But I don’t know whether to eat it or not. How safe it is because its packaged food that’s been in the fridge and then comes straight out to eat? It’s not heated up. I read coronavirus can live for 28 days in the fridge. But in the all the...

Oh this is a really good idea! I’ve had one or two soul food pots before (not straight from their website but from supermarkets) and they’re really quite tasty! It’s good they’re delivering straight from their website in bulk. On that link I also see pasta evangelists mentioned. Oh the...

@Wonko not sure where you wrote it but I saw you said you couldn’t get cleaning supplies. Just got this in an email https://store.laundryheap.com/?utm_source=Email&utm_medium=CarePack

We’re not even in proper lockdown yet but some are wanting to get out of it ASAP. The options for the UK’s exit strategy are Whitty and Valance’s biggest concerns at the moment. “There are high-level concerns that devastating economic consequences will be seen sooner than previously thought...

Matt Hancock and Boris Johnson coming out of self-isolation after 7 days, to hold meetings and press conferences etc, even though WHO says at least 14 days. Coronavirus: Boris Johnson risks infecting others by failing to isolate for long enough, Labour doctor warns...