Back at the shops today. No mince ,no eggs,no bacon , no loo paper. Meats are a big problem to get
Generally speaking if there is any meat left it's the very expensive cuts .
I did get potatos though.
Blind Freddie can see where this is going food cost is sky rocketing.
No chance of getting fat!

Pete

It's spotty Pete.

Yesterday, Coles at Forestville were out of a lot of things but Aldi at Forest Way were well stocked. No-one seems to have flour around here!

Hi Ian ,
Difficult here. Tomorrow I will head out to other towns try my luck there.
People panic and strip the shops still.

Just saw that the middle eastern lamb market has collapsed. So wonder if that will appear in our supermarkets.

Oh can hardly wait!
At this stage I'm still trying to avoid getting sick

Pete

I thought most of it came from here anyway... The middle east is a big live export customer.

I've been to the East and Goat is very popular in some places.The problem they have is refrigerators and hygiene and the lack of both. They don't have the facilities we have in the west so they have to make do.
Pete

This was meat flown out as air cargo.

I don't believe the figures that came out of china regarding the death numbers of the virus
If we look at Iran , Italy, Spain and now the USA has had more cases and deaths than china?
China has down played it by miles.
Also young people are dying with it in large numbers In Europe .
I believe if the Chinese were up front about the true figures the rest of the world would of been more prepared.
I bet when this is all over the truth will come out about china and the death figure.

Pete
I see Boris has it now ! What a year he had , gosh

It would appear that the Vaccine for Malaria has an effect on it. Now the worry is going to be our bureaucracy. Albeit that it is approved for Malaria they are likely going to want to stuff around & want it re-approved for this virus & I have seen 18 months bandied around for that process to happen.

Worse than that is the other danger from our virtually moribund bureaucracy, who seem to have an obsession with only introducing things that don't work: So if it works it's likely doomed.

It's interesting that with Nature, when there is an overpopulation and we have it, something turns up to thin it out.

It would appear that the Vaccine for Malaria has an effect on it.

Yes, and one consequence was this ...

QUOTE: Five days after Donald Trump touted chloroquine as a possible “game changer” in the search for a novel coronavirus cure, a man in Arizona has died from drinking fish-tank cleaner containing the chemical.

On March 20, during a live White House briefing, Trump championed two malaria drugs, chloroquine and hydroxychloroquine, in the fight against the coronavirus pandemic. While there is anecdotal evidence that the drugs may be effective, neither has been tested in a clinical trial yet (the World Health Organization just announced that chloroquine and hydroxychloroquine would be among the drugs tested in a new mega-trial called “SOLIDARITY”).

Nevertheless, Trump said that chloroquine has shown “very, very encouraging early results,” and that the FDA had “gone through the approval process; it’s been approved … So we’re going to be able to make that drug available by prescription or states.” (The FDA quickly released a statement that it had not in fact been approved.) He later went on Twitter to say, unfoundedly, that chloroquine taken in combination with the antibiotic azithromycin could be “one of the biggest game changers in the history of medicine.”

Trump likely heard about chloroquine after it was amplified by right-wing media. The night before his briefing, on Fox News, which he watches religiously, Tucker Carlson had hosted Gregory Rigano, a man who has self-published a Google Docs paper also praising chloroquine. Though Rigano was billed on the show as a “Stanford University School of Medicine adviser,” he is not a doctor, and Stanford has denied any association with him. But that didn’t stop Carlson and Glenn Beck from hosting Rigano on their respective shows, or Elon Musk from tweeting out the “paper” to his 32 million followers. It was also written up in places like Breitbart and the Daily Wire. After Trump’s briefing, Fox News ran a story online with the headline “Drug cleared by Trump, FDA for coronavirus testing also found in fish tanks.”

The wife of the man who died in Arizona told NBC News that she and her husband ingested chloroquine after realising that a product used to clean the couple’s fish tank by killing aquatic parasites contained the substance. “I saw it sitting on the back shelf and thought, ‘Hey, isn’t that the stuff they’re talking about on TV?’” she said.

Their intent, she said was to protect themselves from the virus. “Trump kept saying it was basically pretty much a cure,” she explained. She and her husband drank the chemical on March 23, after pouring it into soda, and immediately starting experiencing dizziness and vomiting. He died, and she is in critical condition.

The Walter and Eliza Hall Institute (Nobel Prize winners from here) in Melbourne is working on this, and could be trialling on health workers in about four weeks.

https://www.wehi.edu.au/research-diseases/immune-health-and-infection/coronavirus

See the heading

"Proposed clinical trial of lupus drug, hydroxychloroquine, to prevent COVID-19 in high risk health care workers"

Well it's started.
Broccoli is 12 bucks kg, or you can buy a lettuce at Coles or Woolies for 9 bucks .
Meats have also gone up and up.
I have a veggie garden,but it will be s long time before it's ready for eating.
It's interesting to see what items are sky rocketing.


Pete

The Good News is eBay is taking action on people selling toilet paper, hand sanitiser, baby wipes and other such things at exorbitant prices. They now have a price gouging policy which takes effect from 1st of April ( no joke ).
They will take your listings down and will ban you if you attempt to relist .

They simply shouldn't permit the sale of the items at all. There's no reason for anyone to offer such things on Ebay aside from scalping them so the ban should be a blanket one.