CoronaVirus ==> Empty Shelves

[Tccp123]

Yesterday my wife received the attached email. This is a restaurant we may go to say once a month. I’ve been to better but it’s in a nice setting, prices are reasonable and the staff friendly. So we decided to go there for lunch today.

I'm pleased to say it was almost standing room only ��. People turned up in droves to support them. Channel 7 even had a camera there to record the event. It was really encouraging to see people put a little risk above seeing someone go down the gurgler.

I counted seven staff, there may have been more in the kitchen. The owner told me they had six tables for the whole of last week and not a single person on the weekend.

Social distancing? I estimated our table was five metres away from the nearest table.

The restaurant is in Samford if anyone in Brisbane is interested in giving them some support.

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[Greg Ward]

America may deserve criticism but also our ongoing thanks for their use of power across the globe in the past and current centuries.
We sit here in relative comfort and can rail against whoever and whatever we like not because we are have a few submarines and lot of coal and iron ore.
Best if this thread stays on its focus of empty shelves not empty rhetoric.

[BobL]

Read that as well but we had the State Health Minister in the TV an hour ago, due to the new cruise ship problem, and he said make sure you keep a distance if 1.5m between yourself and others. So, 1.5 to the left and 1.5 to the right and same front and back equates to 9 square metres? Wish they would consult with each other.

Hmmmmmm . . . . . . 1.5m to the left etc means that there is 0.75m halfway between you and the next person in 4 directions so that means eac person occupies 1.5m x 1.5m^2 or 2.25 m^2 per person.

So which is it 2.25 or 4 m^2?

It depends how we arrange ourselves if we work on circles, with a 1m or 0.75m radius, then its 3.14 m^2 or 1.76 m^2 then we have decide on the packing factor.

[FenceFurniture]

New social distancing rule is "4m^2" per person.

Urinal?

Takes all the fun away dunnit?

[AlexS]

Whether we like the current US administration or not, we have to care what happens there, because for good or (so far) bad, it will affect us.

[FenceFurniture]

So, 1.5 to the left and 1.5 to the right and same front and back equates to 9 square metres?

Well, technically it should be a circle of radius 1.5m which brings it down to 7m², but I assume if you are against the wall it could just be a semicircle of 3.5m².

[BobL]

Well, technically it should be a circle of radius 1.5m which brings it down to 7m², but I assume if you are against the wall it could just be a semicircle of 3.5m².

Err . . . .Nope. . . . . . its 1.5 m BETWEEN people so the radius for one person is 0.75m.

[FenceFurniture]

If you can get your back to the wall the area could be reduced, but that did not work out well at The Alamo.

[FenceFurniture]

Err . . . .Nope. . . . . . its 1.5 m BETWEEN people so the radius for one person is 0.75m.

I'm at the centre of the circle...with a ring of idiots around me, watching me eat.

(but yeah, you're right)

[BobL]

I'm at the centre of the circle...with a ring of idiots around me, watching me eat.

Technically its possible to fit a ring of 6 people around you that are 1.5m from you and all are 1.5m apart - its called a "Hexagonal close packed arrangement" and maximises the packing.

Somehow at least in terms of disease transmission that doesn't seem right, or enough . . . . . . . . .

This early morning when I took the dogs for a walk a couple and small fluffy whit thing appeared about 100m away and carefully skirted around them but of course my Border Collies tried to round the fluffy white thing up and then hung around accepting pats and cuddles from said white fluffy thing's owners.

The on the way home Dr Norman Swan is on the ABC saying that COVID19 could transfer on dog hair!!! Haven't touched the dogs since.

[Lappa]

Tccp123,
Yep, small businesses like them must be hurting. The wife and I went down to the shops to buy our usual Thursday night out take away and the shopper numbers were real low. The restaurants we passed were almost empty. Many of the other shops were closing and the time was about 7pm. The only business doing a roaring trade was Coles with long lines at the the Check Outs - unusual for a Thursday night.
I have a favourite eatery but tables are on top of each other so I won’t be visiting unless they spread the tables or it’s almost empty

[FenceFurniture]

its called a "Hexagonal close packed arrangement" and maximises the packing.

Yes, I've heard that the NRL are thinking of changing the scrummaging formation to this, but I'm not quite sure how how they are going to get the two sides to engage. The ARU faces a different dilemma with their 8 person scrums. Perhaps the two Breakaways might have to become Free Radicals.

[Lappa]

Maybe the Govt. will mandate that we all wear hoops of a prescribed radius when going outside.

[FenceFurniture]

I have re-attached the PDF that Bob put up before, to save digging back through the posts for it - instructions on page 3. The WHO Brew recipe is for 10 litres, and calls for 3% Hydrogen Peroxide, which is almost the same price as 6% (and all you get is extra distilled water). So, buy 6% if you can. I've been using it as a mouthwash for 30 years in a 1.5% solution (so 3 parts water and 1 part 6% H₂O₂) swilled aggressively in the mouth to release the O₂ - quite fun to feel your cheeks swell up with pressure.

So, the recipe for 1 litre of sanitiser:

	To make 1 litre
833	mls Ethanol 96%
20	mls H2O2 6%
15	mls Glycerol 98%
132	mls Cold boiled water
1000	TOTAL

[Chief Tiff]

Thanks for posting the recipe Brett,

Please excuse my ignorance but where can one actually buy the ingredients from? Are they something that you can pick up from Chemist Warehouse or similar?