Good Deeds & News (Corona)

[davieG]

Coronavirus: Morrisons delivery demand 'to create 3,500 new jobs'
17 March 2020

Morrisons says it also has measures "to protect and help colleagues"
Supermarket chain Morrisons has announced it is to create 3,500 new jobs to expand its home delivery service amid the coronavirus pandemic.

The retailer said it would be recruiting about 2,500 pickers and drivers, plus 1,000 staff in its distribution centres.

It will make more slots available and also set up a call centre for those without access to online shopping.

Morrisons said the move would help "at a time of national need".

Other measures it is planning includes a "colleague hardship fund" to help staff, in addition to pledging sick pay to all employees and redeploying colleagues who are vulnerable to the crisis.

The supermarket said it was also launching a new range of simple-to-order food parcels from 23 March.

The retailer said it was expanding home delivery "to many more households at a time of national need"
David Potts, chief executive of Morrisons, said: "We expect the days, weeks and months ahead to be very testing and we are determined to do our bit.

"These measures will support our very hard-working colleagues, enable us to provide more food to more people in their homes and create opportunities for people whose jobs are affected by the coronavirus."

Morrisons also said it would look to protect employees where possible by asking customers to pay by card or smartphone to reduce cash handling, issuing hand sanitiser at checkouts and ramping up cleaning.

Last week the chain vowed to pay small suppliers immediately to help support cash flow.

[davieG]

Sainsbury's 

 

I wrote to you last week to tell you about some of the steps we are taking to support increased demand for food and other essential items.

After I wrote to you last week, many of you replied. You wrote to share your concerns about our elderly and vulnerable customers and to ask if we can do more to restrict the number of items each person can buy. I have listened to feedback from you and from Sainsbury's colleagues across the country and wanted to share some of the extra steps we are taking to make sure everyone has access to the items that they need:

A number of you suggested that we reserve an hour in stores for elderly and vulnerable customers. In response to this request, we will set aside the first hour in every supermarket this Thursday 19th March, for elderly and vulnerable customers. I hope that you can respect this decision and will work with us as we try our best to help those that need it the most. If you or an elderly family member, friend or neighbour would like to shop during this hour, please check online for your local supermarket opening hours.

We will also help elderly and vulnerable customers access food online. From Monday 23rd March, our online customers who are over 70 years of age or have a disability will have priority access to online delivery slots. We will contact these customers in the coming days with more details.

For any online customer who can travel to our stores, from Monday 23rd March, we will operate an expanded 'click and collect' service. We are significantly increasing the number of collection sites across the country over the coming days in preparation for this. Customers can place their order online as usual and pick it up from a collection point in the store car park. We believe this will also work for people who are self-isolating.

As we work to feed the nation, we are also focusing all of our efforts on getting as much food and other essential items from our suppliers, into our warehouses and onto shelves as we possibly can. We still have enough food for everyone - if we all just buy what we need for us and our families.

To help us get more essential items onto the shelves, from this Thursday 19th March, we will be closing our cafes and our meat, fish and pizza counters in supermarkets. This means we can free up warehouse and lorry capacity for products that customers really need. It will also free up time for our store colleagues to focus on keeping the shelves as well stocked as possible.

I mentioned last week that we had put limits on a very small number of products. Following feedback from our customers and from our store colleagues, we have decided to put restrictions on a larger number of products. From tomorrow, Wednesday 18th March, customers will be able to buy a maximum of three of any grocery product and a maximum of two on the most popular products including toilet paper, soap and UHT milk. We have enough food coming into the system, but are limiting sales so that it stays on shelves for longer and can be bought by a larger numbers of customers.

Finally, I wanted to end by saying a huge thank you to Sainsbury's colleagues across the business. Everyone is working flat out in difficult circumstances to do their best to serve our customers. If you're able to say thank you to them when you see them, I know they would hugely appreciate it.

Best wishes

Mike

Registered address: Sainsbury's Supermarkets Ltd, 33 Holborn, London EC1N 2HT.

[davieG]

Ryan Powley

Hi All,

Due to the corona virus we have work cancelled and would like to make good use of our time and offer a FREE shopping service for essentials for the elderly that are unable to use smartphones,laptops etc or simply are too worried to leave there home.

Please call us on 0116 2106421

Unfortunately we can’t cover every location but if you live in a 5 mile radius of le4 we are happy to help😊

Unfortunately there are some selfish wan**rs
Out there buying everything for themselves You should be ashamed of yourselves🤬 a lot of our elderly went through world war 2 so we could live the life we do!

Please share so we reach as many elderly that are struggling.thankyou

[davieG]

The bread box

15 March at 14:49 · 

If any of our elderly or vulnerable customers need us to deliver anything from our shop or even from Narborough coop please get in touch and we will try our best to help 01162841648 , even if it’s just from the coop we’ll try to get it for you. Please share this or pass it on as a lot of elderly people won’t be on Facebook

[Milo]

Nice thread 👍

[davieG]

Not sure on the authenticity 

 

 

Let’s talk some GOOD NEWS, shall we?

💥 China has closed down its last coronavirus hospital. Not enough new cases to support them.

💥 Doctors in India have been successful in treating Coronavirus. Combination of drugs used: Lopinavir, Retonovir, Oseltamivir along with Chlorphenamine. They are going to suggest same medicine, globally.

💥 Researchers of the Erasmus Medical Center claim to have found an antibody against coronavirus.

💥 A 103-year-old Chinese grandmother has made a full recovery from COVID-19 after being treated for 6 days in Wuhan, China.

💥 Apple reopens all 42 china stores,

💥 Cleveland Clinic developed a COVID-19 test that gives results in hours, not days.

💥 Good news from South Korea, where the number of new cases is declining.

💥 Italy is hit hard, experts say, only because they have the oldest population in Europe.

💥 Scientists in Israel likely to announce the development of a coronavirus vaccine.

💥 3 Maryland coronavirus patients fully recovered; able to return to everyday life.

💥 A network of Canadian scientists are making excellent progress in Covid-19 research.

💥 A San Diego biotech company is developing a Covid-19 vaccine in collaboration with Duke University and National University of Singapore.

💥 Tulsa County's first positive COVID-19 case has recovered. This individual has had two negative tests, which is the indicator of recovery.

💥 All 7 patients who were getting treated for at Safdarjung hospital in New Delhi have recovered.

💥 Plasma from newly recovered patients from Covid -19 can treat others infected by Covid-19.

So it's not ALL bad news. Let's care for each other and stay focused on safety of those most vulnerable.

Let stay positive people!!

[davieG]

6 minutes ago, Milo said:

Nice thread 👍

I just felt that the media, as important as it is to keep people up to date are over doing it as they tend to do.

 

People are stuck at home and also want entertaining, mood lightening, distracting not wall to wall often repeated doomsday scenarios.

 

I don't think they should be cancelling programmes just to repeat themselves and have so called experts disagreeing with each other.

 

Others may think differently but as someone stuck at home I'm finding it unhelpful and depressing so thought I'd invite people to give me some good news.

 

[Innovindil]

Vaccine ready by autumn?

A German pharmaceutical company working on a vaccine has suggested it might have a product ready by autumn. The company, Curevac, had been at the centre of a row over the weekend when media reports suggested Washington had tried to offer money in exchange for a vaccine exclusive for the US.

The company though dismissed suggestions they'd received a concrete offer from Washington.

One of the owners of the firm told German paper FAZ that, if things go well, a vaccine might be developed by early summer and could then be approved and ready for rollout by autumn.

[Innovindil]

Probably includes a NSFW pic by this places standards so be warned. 

 

https://www.wweek.com/bars/2020/03/17/a-portland-strip-club-has-started-a-meal-delivery-service-where-dancers-bring-food-directly-to-your-door-to-your-home/

 

 

Amazing the way the human race adapts. 

[StanSP]

Several restaurants/pubs have shut near me but have willingly offered a delivery service which they wouldn't usually do (within a certain radius). 

 

Think its good they still try to reach out to customers whilst also trying to keep money coming in. 

[davieG]

24 minutes ago, StanSP said:

 

 

Copied from the main Corona thread.

[davieG]

 

[davieG]

👍👍👍. Fantastic news Pam and Meg 😘😘

 

The Railway Inn Ratby

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As of tomorrow we are offering home delivery on hot or cold foods for those who are not able to/not wanting to come out. Most things on the menu will be available for home delivery so please message us OR call the pub on 01162395808 to order anything or just enquire. To speak to us directly or for any questions, call Pam on 07890730721 or Meg on 07583046536. FREE HOME DELIVERY for Ratby,Kirby, Groby. Please share. We will get through this together💗

[StanSP]

 

 

[davieG]

A distillery has switched production from gin to hand sanitiser after an appeal from local care groups in the wake of coronavirus.

Verdant Spirits, based in Dundee's west end, hopes to produce 400 litres of the gel, starting this week.

The company, and two other distilleries in Aberdeenshire and the Highlands, were approached by care partnerships.

Owner Andrew Mackenzie tracked down the ingredients listed on the World Health Organisation's website

[Dahnsouff]

21 minutes ago, davieG said:

A distillery has switched production from gin to hand sanitiser after an appeal from local care groups in the wake of coronavirus.

Verdant Spirits, based in Dundee's west end, hopes to produce 400 litres of the gel, starting this week.

The company, and two other distilleries in Aberdeenshire and the Highlands, were approached by care partnerships.

Owner Andrew Mackenzie tracked down the ingredients listed on the World Health Organisation's website

 

 

[Dahnsouff]

My elderly parents, back in Leicester have just been reduced to tears by the number of neighbours who have come around/posted notes through the door, asking if they need anything, or need shopping.

Sometimes, more times than the media would portray, people are pretty fewkin wonderful 

[TheUltimateWinner]

 

[Innovindil]

12 minutes ago, Dahnsouff said:

My elderly parents, back in Leicester have just been reduced to tears by the number of neighbours who have come around/posted notes through the door, asking if they need anything, or need shopping.

Sometimes, more times than the media would portray, people are pretty fewkin wonderful 

Edit:

 

Good news thread. I'll behave. 

Edited 18 March 2020 by Innovindil

[davieG]

10 minutes ago, TheUltimateWinner said:

 

I guess some would regard that as good news. But people still need to been entertained and kept occupied so a shame really but understandable.

 

Along the same lines - The BBC has suspended filming on dramas including EastEnders, Casualty, Doctors and Holby City "until further notice" amid the coronavirus outbreak.

So more repeats on the tele.

[StanSP]

 

 

[StanSP]

 

[davieG]

49 minutes ago, StanSP said:

 

 

As good as it is shouldn't these people be self isolating? 

[The boy Linacre]

9 hours ago, davieG said:

Not sure on the authenticity 

 

 

Let’s talk some GOOD NEWS, shall we?

💥 China has closed down its last coronavirus hospital. Not enough new cases to support them.

💥 Doctors in India have been successful in treating Coronavirus. Combination of drugs used: Lopinavir, Retonovir, Oseltamivir along with Chlorphenamine. They are going to suggest same medicine, globally.

💥 Researchers of the Erasmus Medical Center claim to have found an antibody against coronavirus.

💥 A 103-year-old Chinese grandmother has made a full recovery from COVID-19 after being treated for 6 days in Wuhan, China.

💥 Apple reopens all 42 china stores,

💥 Cleveland Clinic developed a COVID-19 test that gives results in hours, not days.

💥 Good news from South Korea, where the number of new cases is declining.

💥 Italy is hit hard, experts say, only because they have the oldest population in Europe.

💥 Scientists in Israel likely to announce the development of a coronavirus vaccine.

💥 3 Maryland coronavirus patients fully recovered; able to return to everyday life.

💥 A network of Canadian scientists are making excellent progress in Covid-19 research.

💥 A San Diego biotech company is developing a Covid-19 vaccine in collaboration with Duke University and National University of Singapore.

💥 Tulsa County's first positive COVID-19 case has recovered. This individual has had two negative tests, which is the indicator of recovery.

💥 All 7 patients who were getting treated for at Safdarjung hospital in New Delhi have recovered.

💥 Plasma from newly recovered patients from Covid -19 can treat others infected by Covid-19.

So it's not ALL bad news. Let's care for each other and stay focused on safety of those most vulnerable.

Let stay positive people!!

Good Lad, Many messages I have seen on FT say this is a sea-change and might just stop us all to think for a moment, and lets do 1 supportive thing for 1 person more than we do now each day going forward and then reflect the difference we made and how much better we and our fellow City fans and friends, family and acquaintances and those in need are for it.

[davieG]

Coronavirus: Venice canals clearer after lockdown

Residents of Venice are noticing a vast improvement in the quality of the famous canals that run through the city, which are running clear for the first time in years, and fish can even be seen in the usually murky waters.

The coronavirus lockdown has left Venice streets empty, and a drastic drop in water traffic means sediment in the canals has been able to settle.

 

It looks like the environment will get a break through this.