Zombie Squad

A very quick update while I'm cooking dinnner:

UK:
5683 confirmed cases (+665)
281 deaths (+48)

At face value that's a slowing of the rate of increase from yesterday, but I really wouldn't hang any hopes on that. We've had outliers in the past and I suspect this is another.

I've got at least ten years to go before I'm going to start spending my retirement funds. I'm sticking with it. The cash value of the fund is down about 15% (it's not all stock market) so this month's contribution will buy a larger number of units than last month's did.. I'm hoping that by 2030 we'l...

Here in the UK it's been a slow Sunday. It's Mother's Day, which would usually involve a walk in the countryside and lunch out somewhere. The weather's great so the walk happened but lunch was off. I'll be cooking at home for dinner instead. Mrs Sheddi and I spoke with both our mothers; they're in g...

Hampshire has 138 confirmed (which effectively means hospitalised) cases, that's roughly 10 cases per 100k poulation. For comparison, central London has closer to 50 cases per 100k population. Tomorrow morning I'm hoping to venture out to Lidl. Went to Lidl, arrived before 9am. Plenty of produce on ...

The UK as a whole has 3983 cases, a daily increase of 714 ( source, live site, will change daily ). We have 177 deaths and 79 recovered. Interestingly, London has ~10% of the UK population but ~40% of cases (1588). It seems the pandemic is more advanced in London than the rest of the UK. One London ...

Not sure if this counts as a second wind for prepping, but here in the UK it's noticeable just how many times individuals, organisations and even our government have said that the preps they made for Brexit-related supply chain disruption are proving invaluable for COVID-19. That turned out to be a...

The situation around me hasn't changed much since yesterday (although I've not really gone very far to investigate). My children have now finished school, most probably until the new school year starts in September. My eldest's exams have been cancelled and he will be assigned grades based on his sc...

I don't know about you, but my Brexit planning is coming in very useful right now. I've heard (well, read) the same from others.

Not sure if it's a bug-in tip or not, but I've got a little (1/2 oz, or so) pocket-sized spray bottle of alcohol-based hand sanitizer. Or I did, until it ran out today. So I've refilled it with the denatured alcohol I use in my Traangia alcohol stove. It doesnt't smell of lime much anymore, and I m...

Some great replies in this thread.

My family (wife and two teenagers) watch the news and keep up to date with developments but thay have never asked "do we have enough food?"

My wife did ask if I have any extra TP stashed anywhere (that's in addition to the stuff she knows about) ...

Having finally caught up with the last 12 pages of this thread, my takehome is ... Whelp my 90 day prediction didn't work out. I'm going to go ahead and make another one. World Economy is over and done with. We will all be eating out of dumpsters by the end of say... March. Remember you heard it her...

Not sure if it's a bug-in tip or not, but I've got a little (1/2 oz, or so) pocket-sized spray bottle of alcohol-based hand sanitizer. Or I did, until it ran out today. So I've refilled it with the denatured alcohol I use in my Traangia alcohol stove. It doesnt't smell of lime much anymore, and I ma...

77 cases in Hampshire now but no eaasy way to identify how many deaths. The slightly worrying numbers from the gov.uk website here is that we're 103 deaths but only 65 recovered; I guess it's because death taakes less time to confirm! Further to Wee Drop's latest updates, English schools close on Fr...

In news of "really, monstrously, horrifically bad ideas"...... https://www.foxnews.com/world/iran-inmates-coronvirus-release As coronavirus runs rampant through Iran’s overstuffed and dilapidated prisons, the embattled regime this week announced that it had freed some 85,000 inmates in a desperate ...

Today the UK Government finally got their act together and gave a proper press briefing rather than leaking snippets to their favoured journalists. Highlights (if that's the right word, there are longer versions on YouTube if you are interested): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=REEjXMeW7c4 - Individu...

Hampshire, central Southern England. (If you look at a map of the UK, in the middle of the south coast there's a large island [the Isle of Wight]. Hampshire is immediately inland of it, but excludes the two large port cities Southampton and Portsmouth.) Per this link Hampshire has 55 of the UK's 154...

Not sure if this counts as a second wind for prepping, but here in the UK it's noticeable just how many times individuals, organisations and even our government have said that the preps they made for Brexit-related supply chain disruption are proving invaluable for COVID-19. It seems if you can give...

The latest infographic from Italy is here: https://www.epicentro.iss.it/coronavirus/bollettino/Infografica_15marzo%20ENG.pdf It's not pleasant reading. 22512 confirmed cases 2026 of those are healthcare workers 1625 fatalities (an overall CFR-to-date of 7.2%) CFRs are up slightly on those from Frida...

A bit like Ever, I'm not a newbie but have been mostly away from ZS for most of three years (due to politics, both domestic & foreign).

But I'm back now

Hi folk, Sheddi here from the UK. I've been mostly away from ZS for, er, three years :? but thought I'd come back and see what's going on here with Covid-19. It's great to see so many of the old gang still here! It's even lured Vicarious Lee back out of retirement, much like me :D So, Ive skimmed th...

Ms Elgarf has got one of the larger UK newspapers to pick up her story: https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/jan/14/i-dont-trust-the-government-to-look-after-me-or-my-dog-meet-the-brexit-stockpilers Elgarf is also clear about why she is talking to me. “So come April and there’s no Epilim in the...

My first post in more than a year and yes, I ain't dead yet :-) We might even get a few more members if this sort of story continues in the national press: https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/jan/14/i-dont-trust-the-government-to-look-after-me-or-my-dog-meet-the-brexit-stockpilers Apologies fo...

zombiepreparation wrote:How did it go?

Well, I'm not dead yet!

Sorry, cpmpletely forgot that I'd promised to give this thread an update. They baked OK and tasted as good as they always do

Your storms are making the news here in the UK, which makes a change from the politics

It's being reported that they have hit southern California hardest. That's the bit that was still in drought, IIRC, so hopefully once the immediate effects have passed it will help a bit with that?