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well, if you are worried Rollo .............. buy some sanitizer wipes and wipe your phone down before and after every time you use it.

If you want to scare yourself about epidemics and pandemics ............. read the books by Daniel Kalla. I think there are currently about 9, with the first one published in 2005

Hilary, perhaps the hospital pharmacy will be able to help?

Brother wants to keep it in car when he has been shopping untill he gets home.

We use the wipes for keyboards, phones, remote controls and the like and have done for years at home and work before we retired. While door handles can be washed, electronic items can't.

Thorough washing with soap and hot water is much better than sanitizing wipes or sprays .......

........ the sanitizers should only be used when you cannot get near soap and water, eg while shopping.

All our information from our Medical Officers of Health is that sanitizing wipes and solutions are NOT efficient and will not give much protection from viruses.

No have'nt tried anywhere online, I managed to get some Dettol wipes for him this morning, taking him to chemo next Monday, he is going to try & get some himself as well. People who are panic buying all the sanitizer don't think of people like him & others, about time shops should ration it.

Well he was lucky to get the wipes they had sold out here. Have you tried on Amazon to see if they have had more in. They do say though that soap and water is as good if you are near water etc i.e. not out in the shops.

Some stores have begun to ration certain food items even. :-0

can't get hand sanitizers where I live, been on lookout for my brother who is undergoing chemo at moment so his immune system is low. He can't get it either, told him to get some dettol surface wipes as he wants something in his car for after shopping etc. He is also 72yrs old so in the at risk group. Dettol wipes (shush, should'nt say this as will start panic buying) but it says it kills corona virus on the back, better for him to wipe his hands on them than to have nothing, will keep trying to get him some sanitizer as well..

O dear Maggie, it is a worry isn't it? Is that the local college? We have cancelled our trip to Hampshire at the end of March and also a meeting due to be held in our house next week, best to take sensible precaustions when we can. Even if it is inevitable that we get it, no need to encourage it I feel.

No. They're keeping it open!
The student is self-isolating at home.
We had 2 cases last week, in a primary school the opposite end of town - they're looking to see if any of the 'victims' are related.
It may be useful if their parents and siblings self-isolated, too!

Maggie, oh dear .... college closed?

The college my grand daughter attends has had a student diagnosed positively for coronavirus :-(

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I've never grown out of it Joy ;-) :-D :-D :-D :-D :-D

The problem seems to be, as my daughter said, that if you see other people clearing the shelves of hand sanitisers and such like when some appear on the shelves you take one for immediate use and one as a spare in case there are none left when you need another.

I always have a pack of sanitising wipes in the cars but I thought I'd get a couple of spares this week. Only M and S had any left and they were limited to two per customer.

Youngsters don't seem to care. My younger grandson went skiing for a week with school. His Mum packed his carefully pressed clothes, shampoo, conditioner and hand sanitiser. He came back with half of his clothes still unused and bundled up with his dirty items, a full bottle of shampoo and conditioner and a full hand sanitiser. I can imagine, at that age, lads dashing quickly through showers and simply splashing water all over (splash it all over Henry, as some will recall).

He'd had a great time, unspoiled by the cares and worries of we oldies!

I think I may revert to childhood! :-D

Crazy!!!!!

I saw a reference to that online last night, Allan.

but it isn't confined to Australia!

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https://tinyurl.com/swqayl8

I agree, Caroline.

They are not the protection that the companies would have you believe!

so it would be better if people stopped stealing them doctors' offices, hospitals, etc


At my doctor's office, there is a hand dispenser near the Receptionist's Desk, and I notice quite a few people using it ........ but there are also washrooms just across the hall with hot water and soap.

Each examination room has a sink with soap dispenser and a sanitizer dispenser.

For the last several years, each doctor that I've seen has used hot water and soap before and after conducting any kind of bodily examination ...... even it only taking my blood pressure with me fully clothed!

Hand sanitizers should only be used when soap and water aren't available.