This Online Toilet Paper Calculator Will Tell You Just How Long Your Supply Will Last
CNN (Mar 21, 2020) - As households continue to stock up on toilet paper - emptying shelves across the country - a new website is attempting to answer the question: How much TP do we really need?
Howmuchtoiletpaper.com is a website created by student software developer Ben Sassoon and artist Sam Harris, both based in London, in response to the coronavirus pandemic. The tool calculates just how long your stash of TP will last you during a quarantine. The idea came to them naturally, while talking about how much toilet paper they used, and how that would change during the pandemic. Thus, the website was born. The layout is simple. Users enter how many rolls of toilet paper they have and how many times they visit the loo.
We all need to take a pragmatic and balanced approach. Follow the guidelines, keep the economy going and apply the social distancing recommendations.
Society will change because of this but how much or how significant is up for debate. But if that change is driven by fear, rather than reality and pragmatism I would then become terrified.
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With all this doom and gloom we're experiencing, I thought now's the time to provide two pieces of positive news for all you lovely folks.
Disney+ has launched its streaming service in the United Kingdom today. There's a 7-day free trial to whet your self-isolated appetites. https://www.disneyplus.com/en-gb
And secondly, I'm almost finished completing my 1000-piece jigsaw puzzle.
I deliver on an island where people don't lock doors and hence have no letterboxes, so all the mail is left inside the front door accessed via the handle. This leaves me very worried I may be passing it on between each delivery. I have an underlying health condition, but the thought of contributing to making someone seriously ill absolutely terrifies me
Following a heart attack 10 years ago at a young age it has left me with damage to the heart resulting in a poor heart function. People with heart conditions are not on the list of people getting the infamous letter.
Just follow WHO guidelines and government restrictions, just skim the news headlines and don't read them as they will scare the crap out of you with their over the top coverage. I mean do we really need to see how many people are infected, recovered died with updates every minute? Try your best to get on with life as normal as possible, though it is hard when the government are asking you treat everyone as an infected person who could give you the virus. Most humans are not built psychologically to handle isolation, we are a social species and it does stress you especially if you live alone and don't have much family. But you have to get on with it, what else can you do?
I'm not concerned or worried in the slightest about this man made virus. I'd be terrified if I was living in the East End of London during the blitz or sat in a Trench during WW1 waiting for the call to inevitable death.
nickbsmooth wrote:I'm not concerned or worried in the slightest about this man made virus.
Umm, what?
On 11 and 12 January 2020, WHO received further detailed information from the National Health Commission China that the outbreak is associated with exposures in one seafood market in Wuhan City. https://www.who.int/docs/default-source ... 20a99c10_4
Since the SARS outbreak 18 years ago, a large number of severe acute 24 respiratory syndrome related coronaviruses (SARSr-CoV) have been discovered in their natural reservoir host, bats. Previous studies indicated that some of those bat SARSr-CoVs have the potential to infect humans.https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101 ... 1.full.pdf
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Jeez.........obviously we are all well aware how serious this virus is but people really need to calm down. Terrified, frightened to death , sleepless nights are some of the things I’ve heard over the last couple of days. One post even claims 80% of us are gonna snuff it. On what basis do you come to that assumption. Get yer head together and think rationally!! You’re scaring the s**t out of yourselves and other people. Take care all and look after your mental health, we’re all going to need to be strong over the coming months.
Jeez.........obviously we are all well aware how serious this virus is but people really need to calm down. Terrified, frightened to death , sleepless nights are some of the things I’ve heard over the last couple of days. One post even claims 80% of us are gonna snuff it. On what basis do you come to that assumption. Get yer head together and think rationally!! You’re scaring the s**t out of yourselves and other people. Take care all and look after your mental health, we’re all going to need to be strong over the coming months.
GRS wrote:Jeez.........obviously we are all well aware how serious this virus is but people really need to calm down. Terrified, frightened to death , sleepless nights are some of the things I’ve heard over the last couple of days. One post even claims 80% of us are gonna snuff it. On what basis do you come to that assumption. Get yer head together and think rationally!! You’re scaring the s**t out of yourselves and other people. Take care all and look after your mental health, we’re all going to need to be strong over the coming months.
Around 60-80 % of the population will get it. Of those 10% ish will end up in hospital. 1-3% ish will die.
So in a largish office of around 120 people, about 80 or 90 will get it, 9 or 10 will end up in hospital, and 1-3 posties will die.
GRS wrote:Jeez.........obviously we are all well aware how serious this virus is but people really need to calm down. Terrified, frightened to death , sleepless nights are some of the things I’ve heard over the last couple of days. One post even claims 80% of us are gonna snuff it. On what basis do you come to that assumption. Get yer head together and think rationally!! You’re scaring the s**t out of yourselves and other people. Take care all and look after your mental health, we’re all going to need to be strong over the coming months.
Around 60-80 % of the population will get it. Of those 10% ish will end up in hospital. 1-3% ish will die.
So in a largish office of around 120 people, about 80 or 90 will get it, 9 or 10 will end up in hospital, and 1-3 posties will die.
Fancy those odds?
Tried to mention the rates this morning in the "meeting"
Management have no plan to deal with anything..
As long as the lapsing gets done they literally don't give a toss about the well being of the staff.
Read my post - I said that someone in their post is claiming that 80% of us are going to die. All I’ve asked is where they get that from!!! It’s the first I’ve heard of the figure being that high. Either they’ve heard something no-one else has or they scaring themselves and others.
GRS wrote:Jeez.........obviously we are all well aware how serious this virus is but people really need to calm down. Terrified, frightened to death , sleepless nights are some of the things I’ve heard over the last couple of days. One post even claims 80% of us are gonna snuff it. On what basis do you come to that assumption. Get yer head together and think rationally!! You’re scaring the s**t out of yourselves and other people. Take care all and look after your mental health, we’re all going to need to be strong over the coming months.
Around 60-80 % of the population will get it. Of those 10% ish will end up in hospital. 1-3% ish will die.
So in a largish office of around 120 people, about 80 or 90 will get it, 9 or 10 will end up in hospital, and 1-3 posties will die.
Fancy those odds?
Nonsense
Loads more people will have it or have had it that havent been tested so the % hospitalised is skewed
If you tolerate this, then your paid break will be next
