Corona #5, Life Twists

Humans are an adaptable species but you wouldn't know it. You would think that someone had ripped up the rule book, with the way people are acting. Item restrictions are now in place on every product line, to stop individual lunatics emptying the shelves on their own. Today's "comment of the day" was a woman who moaned that she has a family of five so what's she supposed to do if she can't buy five items all the same to give everyone the same dinner? The best reply was basically, shut it love, we're in a global crisis right now. I mean, this is where we are at, a parent seriously thinks that it's more important that she buys five matching instant meals than to bloody well explain to her kids that the supermarket has a limit and that one of them might need to eat instant lasagne instead of instant spag bol.

Hotel job has switched to cleaning everything with bleach. I spend most of my time trying not to get it all over myself and not breathe it in. Amazingly, people are still holidaying. I don't know whether to be glad or horrified.

Pubs, clubs and restaurants have now been ordered to close, and not before time. The number of businesses (and patrons) who insisted on partying on as normal was just disgusting. I get that venues have bills to pay but apparently that matters more than the escalating deaths. And the patrons have no excuse, Auntie Jo will survive without her birthday meal for 20 people which you tried to rebook during the week after your original restaurant closed. And you'll just have to cope without going dancing every Friday night or buying your weekend latte. Get a takeaway or better yet just stay the hell home.

It's getting real, hospitals are now turning Coronavirus sufferers away, and still there are people who are refusing to get the memo. Maybe they'll take it seriously when they see the army deployed to control the supermarket queues (watch this space). Or maybe once people they know have lost a loved one.

I bought more staples today because son has struggled to buy any decent food and is sick of meal deals and tins with rice. I ended up buying more tins and rice... and hated myself for it. But at least we did share a "proper" cooked meal of mince on a nuked spud with an expired taco spice sachet plus cheese and sour cream. Also chocolate eclairs. And also a can of that weird soda water that was free.

Also I bought two lots of pasta sauce that worked out as 5p each after cashback, so that's something.

Mood: too much food in my house now.