Corona Virus Disease (COVID-19) Updates

[laughingcat]

MyPillow\" post_id=\"1962625\" time=\"1581134255\" user_id=\"70594:

I usually buy weekly for some grocery / food
I am abit upset with such self centered behaviors of People
If everyone just buy normal weekly food is enuff .

ME TOO!!!! My weekly purchase is being affected.

I am SUPER UPSET. Upset because the online delivery is now halted and hence I need to lug back the items on my own and worse if the items I want is not available on the shelf. AND I HATE queues. When there is queues, means prolong contact. :mad: :faint:

[Estéema]

I was about to say. Hey, ppl so focus to stock up food but nvr think long queues means long exposure & higher chances to catch the virus, esp when there is poor circulation with crowd.

[laughingcat]

Seriously I really don't understand these folks?


I was shocked at DS's remarks. The CoV virus has affected their brain to stupidity to stock up instant noodles and toilet rolls. I hope he did not read about the condoms also being wipe out. :rotflmao: otherwise I am going to be shock to hear another of his ridiculous remarks. :rotflmao:

[MrsKiasu]

I was joking with my dh the other day there is possibility of more babies in 9/10mths time after lock down ..that is a good thing wor..and why our side need take precaution leh

[sharonkhoo]

laughingcat\" post_id=\"1962626\" time=\"1581134562\" user_id=\"3309:

MyPillow\" post_id=\"1962625\" time=\"1581134255\" user_id=\"70594:

I usually buy weekly for some grocery / food
I am abit upset with such self centered behaviors of People
If everyone just buy normal weekly food is enuff .

ME TOO!!!! My weekly purchase is being affected.

I am SUPER UPSET. Upset because the online delivery is now halted and hence I need to lug back the items on my own and worse if the items I want is not available on the shelf. AND I HATE queues. When there is queues, means prolong contact. :mad: :faint:

Is this Fairprice? Their website is down because of too many visitors! Hopefully things will get back to normal once everyone calms down a bit.

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lee_yl\" post_id=\"1962581\" time=\"1581091964\" user_id=\"17023:

lee_yl\" post_id=\"1961530\" time=\"1580543856\" user_id=\"17023:

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Guess PRCs bought a lot of masks (by cartons!) and sent back to China? I can understand cos they are more in need than us. I can only say that on my part, maybe I should have been more kiasu a bit. Shouldn’t wait until masks, hand sanitizers, etc. already out of stock, then go queue for these items.

DH said we did not even wear masks during SARS! Why should I panic now?

I wonder if panic buying this time round has something to do with the earlier “traumatic experience” when the surgical masks were out of stock at Guardian and Watson’s. Run up and down, everywhere cannot find (today Guardian/Watson’s still no stock right?) 有阴影了.

When we want masks, there are plenty, when we want hand sanitizer, there are plenty, will we still go queue up for groceries?

Hubby still thinks it’s just a FLU bug, no need to panic, else the “cure will be worse than the disease”

This is more contagious than SARS , though less deadly at the moment.

But with the high infection rate, will the number of deaths (not %) exceeds SARS ? A case in point is China.

Better to be safe than sorry.

[.010675zeit]

These could be the reasons for the panic-buy:


1. Monkey see HK snatch, monkey copy snatch.

We saw what HK pp snatched 2 days ago, being of the same kiasu/kiasi species, we must follow their shopping list too!

Gullible HK pp were misled by a fake news suggesting food supplies from mainland were gonna be cut off after Carrie Lam closed 10 out of 13 checkpoints (pressured by medical workers strike). But they didn't pay attention to her that freight & logistics won't be affected, and cross-border truck drivers driving the essential supplies from mainland are exempted from the LOA requirements! They also didn't read that Vinda (a major HK toilet ppr mfgr) and totally forgot that pulp/sanitary mfgrs were on their annual 14 day CNY leave and production was shut down. Assembly lines will restart after Yuan Xiao. Neither do they remember that HK's airport cargo is not shut down, so airflown imports like rice from main source countries--Vietnam and Thailand won't be cut off! :slapshead:

2. Some older Singaporeans might have equated DORSCON Orange alert with the old 2003 SARS period Orange alert (not equivalent to DORSCON which was created after SARS) when schools were closed for 10 days. Maybe they thought their kids will soon need to spend 10 days at home to eat and poopee.

3. Some thought DORSCON ORANGE is = DEFCON 3.

4. It's not so much due to the leakage of MOH press release that's sparked off the panic-buy. In fact, go ask your husbands, those working had already been alerted on 5-7 Feb or earlier by their employers (who were in turn alerted by their governing bodies or MOM) to put up a BCP- telecommuting, alternate day roster, split team arrangement, etc. So that means you have to take turns to work from home and thus need an extra ricebowl and more toilet paper, rice, etc. He who used to poopee in office now has to poopee at home.

5. They heard from MOH that 2 patients have been transferred to ICU (meaning it could be lethal as there's no vaccine right now) and that there are 4 new cases with no direct connection to the earlier clusters nor travel history to China, so pp start to worry about community spread. Therefore, they want to minimise risks and get all their vulnerable family members to stay home and dine as much as possible. This means they need to stock up on milk powder, adult diapers, baby diapers, rice, toilet paper, low GI-rice for the diabetic elderly, etc.

6. Some of the panic-buyers forgot our borders are not shut, and we have a national stockpile. I'm surprised the husbands who had served NS before didn't tell their wives don't panic-buy. Singapore is ultra well-prepared and well-stocked with essentials.

7. Some 30k PRC WP workers are heading back these few days in batches and will be placed on LOA, so their PRC friends, colleagues and employers here are helping them to stock up.

8. They believe it's better to stock up in case they themselves are put on LOA out of the blue, after unfortunately coming into contact with a confirmed case in the coming weeks.

9. For those who still cannot get enough masks and hand sanitizers, so they reckon they might as well stay at home to cook, rather than dine out to lower their risks.

10. They worry our imports will be cut off when we eventually become a breeding hotbed for this virus. Don't think that will happen because WHO will step in when there's discrimination and stigma. Our food security strategy is a multi-prong one that includes import diversification, self-production, national stockpiles, overseas farming, local farming and G2G agreements, ASEAN Econ Community (AEC) food security agreements, etc.

[Jadedfox]

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More at https://www.prolificskins.com/forum/current-affairs/dorscon-orange-singaporeans-seen-panic-buying-at-ntuc-outlets

[doodbug]

I am so buried in the mountain of additional operational work that has occurred with having to operationalize the additional measures - no time to go supermarket to shop! Food eateries seem to have a lot of food - wonder why the panic for household/supermarket food supplies…


I think it may partially stem from all the videos we are being inundated with coming from China, and the major sacrifices each household is going through now in many parts of China, restricting movements out of the house and even trips to the supermarket. People feel safest at home, and least expose, and want some assurance they can survive on supplies at home? No idea what the psychology is.

That said, I can completely understand the anxiety and rush over masks…there is a real shortage.

[phtthp]

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lee_yl\" post_id=\"1962581\" time=\"1581091964\" user_id=\"17023:

[quote=lee_yl post_id=1961530 time=1580543856 user_id=17023]...
Guess PRCs bought a lot of masks (by cartons!) and sent back to China? I can understand cos they are more in need than us. I can only say that on my part, maybe I should have been more kiasu a bit. Shouldn’t wait until masks, hand sanitizers, etc. already out of stock, then go queue for these items.

DH said we did not even wear masks during SARS! Why should I panic now?

I wonder if panic buying this time round has something to do with the earlier “traumatic experience” when the surgical masks were out of stock at Guardian and Watson’s. Run up and down, everywhere cannot find (today Guardian/Watson’s still no stock right?) 有阴影了.

When we want masks, there are plenty, when we want hand sanitizer, there are plenty, will we still go queue up for groceries?

Hubby still thinks it’s just a FLU bug, no need to panic, else the “cure will be worse than the disease”

This is more contagious than SARS , though less deadly at the moment.

But with the high infection rate, will the number of deaths (not %) exceeds SARS ? A case in point is China.

Better to be safe than sorry.[/quote]Yes, correct

SARS was better contained because


for SARS occured last time, if one is sick, obvious. If got fever, SARS

Wuhan virus, even when one not sick, also can be a carrier

hence, people get paranoid, stock up grocery


As long as no vaccine solution out yet, more and more infected cases reported, is a matter of time, entering Red zone