PREVIEW

Wear a mask

A guide to careful shopping

By Steve Homer

There is a lot of knowledge uot there but it is easy to forget important, boring messages. To help we have created a How-To-Shop-In-A-Crisis.
This title and article link to shopping.keepcalmandcoronaon.com. A useful check list for when you go outside or inside.

Corona basics
Stuck in-house, have to go out - why you need to use a homemade face mask

By Steve Homer

Wearing a face mask is important - especially if you are self-isolating. "Let us not forget the mask in our attempts to stall the spread of COVID-19": International Journal of Tuberculosis and Lung Disease.

It is easy to make a mask that can help stop you spreading Covid-19 to your kids, your friends, your loved ones. cont ...    

England (and Sct., Wls. and NI too) expects you to do - f*** all!
Humor

A wonderful little p*ss take of our current situation. 1 min 41 secs well spent!
Community
Help build an interactive directory of helper sites all over the world. If you know of a group then add them here
NHS Volunteering now open closed for business

By Steve Homer

The UK Government has launched a volunteering scheme looking for 250,000 volunteers. Within the first 12 hours over 100,000 people had volunteered. Well over 750,000 volunteers signed up so they have called a halt for now.

This makes the directory of help sites all the more important. If you know of any please list them!

International
Have we forgotten the Syrians, the Kurds, the South Sudanese? In freezing temperatures with little to eat how will Covid-19 treat them?

Please support Oxfam, etc. The Disasters Emergency Committee has some info on this (here). We will be returning to this topic.
Maybe they do have a heart after all
Guchi, Louis Vuitton, Gap etc all rolling out masks made in their mostly empty factories.

8:30 PM | April 1

Opinion
Clubs - yes! Pubs - yes! But should cinemas be closed? Don't we need a little harmless fun?55

7:00 AM | April 14