[Cherie]

Originally Posted by Toy Soldier

Again this is based on the really bizarre idea that everyone who is going to get ill is going to get ill at the same time. I keep reading in the papers this figure that 80% could get it" and then the reporting carrying on like that means 80% of the country would be ill all at once. It means that 80% of people are likely to get it over a span of months or even years.

Only semi-valid concern is travel restrictions slowing international supply chains but the concern there is "maybe not being able to get everything you usually get"... not "there is literally no food".

Like okay, I bought a few extra teabags and long life milk its not the end of the world as we know it, you only have to look at how people react at Christmas and in the snow to know it can get very messy very quickly