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Post by SILENCED on Jul 27, 2021 13:44:53 GMT
The reason why parents choose the junk food over the fruit & vegetables comes down to time & in some cases money. Working class and even some middle class families do not have time to actually prepare food due to work life hence why they buy junk food and hence why the delivery sector is booming. Poor diet can be down to a number of factors: - lack of nutritional awareness/knowledge - lack of ability to prepare healthy, balance meals - lack of access to healthier ingredients - lack of money to buy healthier ingredients All of these need interventions at many different levels if we are to improve the nutritional health of people in the UK, which is amongst the worst in the developed world. Rather than beating people with sticks about their diets, we need to offer them carrots (in both senses of the word). You can add - lack of interest of the parent to that list as well, who would without a doubt show little interest in gaining the first two, and without a doubt the easiest to overcome. It is not as though there are a lack of people/publications out there telling you what makes up a well balanced diet.
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Post by vjaska on Jul 27, 2021 14:41:18 GMT
Can I go a little off-line here and ask is it always the same line of stock that has delivery issues, or does it rotate? The long term issue will mostly affect store cupboard goods like pasta, tinned vegetables etc. Basically it boils down to a lack of available shipping containers. Normally what would happen is containers would go into a country like Italy or the USA and be used internally to transport canned foods or household goods to other areas within the North America or Europe but at the moment empty containers are mostly going back to China empty and what is available has a huge freight costs attached to it citing high utilisation and lack of spare capacity. This problem hasn’t affected fresh goods as refrigerated containers are always in huge demand but it is starting to affect slowly affect canned foods and has majorly affected household items like televisions, laptops etc. It’s why the PS5 has had such low stock since launch. You should also get used to it though because as an industry we don’t expect it to improve until the middle of next year. The PS5's low stock is down to a worldwide chip shortage rather than shortage of containers which is also affecting Xbox's, Switch's, the newly unveiled Steam Deck as well as any graphics card for a PC released in the last 6 months (not sure if new phones have been affected but the chips they use may be made using more readily available parts). The parts used to build the actual chips found in these products are in an extremely short supply and as you say won't ease until the middle of next year.
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Post by wirewiper on Jul 27, 2021 14:43:56 GMT
Poor diet can be down to a number of factors: - lack of nutritional awareness/knowledge - lack of ability to prepare healthy, balance meals - lack of access to healthier ingredients - lack of money to buy healthier ingredients All of these need interventions at many different levels if we are to improve the nutritional health of people in the UK, which is amongst the worst in the developed world. Rather than beating people with sticks about their diets, we need to offer them carrots (in both senses of the word). You can add - lack of interest of the parent to that list as well, who would without a doubt show little interest in gaining the first two, and without a doubt the easiest to overcome. It is not as though there are a lack of people/publications out there telling you what makes up a well balanced diet. Lack of interest of the parent can be a cause of poor nutrition - but that does not preclude direct interventions aimed at the children. Education in school and our-of-school clubs including practical cooking and shopping skills, and a well-funded school meals service so all school-age children get a free, healthy and nutritionally-balanced lunch in school, prepared on the premises.
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Post by galwhv69 on Jul 27, 2021 19:09:16 GMT
The long term issue will mostly affect store cupboard goods like pasta, tinned vegetables etc. Basically it boils down to a lack of available shipping containers. Normally what would happen is containers would go into a country like Italy or the USA and be used internally to transport canned foods or household goods to other areas within the North America or Europe but at the moment empty containers are mostly going back to China empty and what is available has a huge freight costs attached to it citing high utilisation and lack of spare capacity. This problem hasn’t affected fresh goods as refrigerated containers are always in huge demand but it is starting to affect slowly affect canned foods and has majorly affected household items like televisions, laptops etc. It’s why the PS5 has had such low stock since launch. You should also get used to it though because as an industry we don’t expect it to improve until the middle of next year. The PS5's low stock is down to a worldwide chip shortage rather than shortage of containers which is also affecting Xbox's, Switch's, the newly unveiled Steam Deck as well as any graphics card for a PC released in the last 6 months (not sure if new phones have been affected but the chips they use may be made using more readily available parts). The parts used to build the actual chips found in these products are in an extremely short supply and as you say won't ease until the middle of next year. Are they by any chance the same chips that are currently preventing new lorries being produced? (Scania & Volvo have completely shut their order books due to this)
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Post by vjaska on Jul 27, 2021 21:14:02 GMT
The PS5's low stock is down to a worldwide chip shortage rather than shortage of containers which is also affecting Xbox's, Switch's, the newly unveiled Steam Deck as well as any graphics card for a PC released in the last 6 months (not sure if new phones have been affected but the chips they use may be made using more readily available parts). The parts used to build the actual chips found in these products are in an extremely short supply and as you say won't ease until the middle of next year. Are they by any chance the same chips that are currently preventing new lorries being produced? (Scania & Volvo have completely shut their order books due to this) Not sure TBH and interesting to hear about that, wasn't aware at all. I decided to look up what you said and it seems that Volvo have halted production due to a worldwide shortage of semi conductors among other components. Only thing I could find on Scania was they shutdown in March due to Covid
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Post by capitalomnibus on Jul 27, 2021 23:57:06 GMT
You are assuming everyone in the third world as you put it are starving. A total BS stereotype created by the media. Fair point about the media, the point I was making is how many kids are genuinely starving in this country? Over eating seems to be the problem. But you also mentioned childhood obesity crisis in the UK which also exists in third world countries. A lot of it is down to processed foods and lifestyle.
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Post by capitalomnibus on Jul 28, 2021 0:00:48 GMT
Definitely calling for a bank holiday is unnecessary. I think the term 'pingdemic' also came from the media, and they are exaggerating how bad the situation is. Yes there have been lots of key workers self isolating but the shelves in the shops I have been to have never been anywhere near empty, and the only reason why they would is because people panic buy, and other people see them panic buy so they do the same. We know the media like to exaggerate but it’s actually true when it comes to shelves being empty and it’s actually not mostly panic buying this time. There is currently a shortage of delivery drivers across the supermarket industry due to many isolating but also due to many returning home as a result of the visa situation - my supermarket especially has been hit particularly hard where we’ve had low levels of deliveries for a month and a bit now and I was even told last week Thursday not to come in because there was literally no work. I’ve seen the images elsewhere and they’re backed up by accounts I’ve been told from people working in other supermarkets like Tesco. There’s also a shortage of shop floor staff as well stretching the work flow of some supermarkets - we’ve been hit by this a few times over the past month, so I accept it’s very easy to say something is exaggerated given the media’s record but in this case, it’s not really I went into Tesco on Sunday and did not see the exaggerated newspaper of clickbate when you swipe left on your phone. Their was a few items missing, but I would say 95% of the supermarket goods was there. It was things like this that caused idiots to buy out toilet paper last year when the pandemic started.
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Post by vjaska on Jul 28, 2021 1:01:39 GMT
We know the media like to exaggerate but it’s actually true when it comes to shelves being empty and it’s actually not mostly panic buying this time. There is currently a shortage of delivery drivers across the supermarket industry due to many isolating but also due to many returning home as a result of the visa situation - my supermarket especially has been hit particularly hard where we’ve had low levels of deliveries for a month and a bit now and I was even told last week Thursday not to come in because there was literally no work. I’ve seen the images elsewhere and they’re backed up by accounts I’ve been told from people working in other supermarkets like Tesco. There’s also a shortage of shop floor staff as well stretching the work flow of some supermarkets - we’ve been hit by this a few times over the past month, so I accept it’s very easy to say something is exaggerated given the media’s record but in this case, it’s not really I went into Tesco on Sunday and did not see the exaggerated newspaper of clickbate when you swipe left on your phone. Their was a few items missing, but I would say 95% of the supermarket goods was there. It was things like this that caused idiots to buy out toilet paper last year when the pandemic started. Just because the Tesco you went in had stuff, doesn't mean it's the same elsewhere - I and other members of my family actually work in supermarkets so this isn't from reading a bit of old rag.
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Post by capitalomnibus on Jul 28, 2021 10:41:21 GMT
I went into Tesco on Sunday and did not see the exaggerated newspaper of clickbate when you swipe left on your phone. Their was a few items missing, but I would say 95% of the supermarket goods was there. It was things like this that caused idiots to buy out toilet paper last year when the pandemic started. Just because the Tesco you went in had stuff, doesn't mean it's the same elsewhere - I and other members of my family actually work in supermarkets so this isn't from reading a bit of old rag. I have been in a few over the past week from East London, North London and Essex and did not find anything anywhere near the panic buying I saw last year when the pandemic took off. There may be a shortage of drivers and warehouse workers, but the media are going to make the situation 10 times worst and are inciting people to panic buy with various headlines and clickbate articles.
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Post by capitalomnibus on Jul 28, 2021 10:53:50 GMT
My local V300 and V325 appear lightly used. The 325 is usually displaying white bandit displays even when running to Prince Regent. This bandit issue on the 325 doesn't seem to be isolated just to the V325 either. Something really needs to be done about the running with white blank as the buses on the normal service are fully blinded now. Well you need to email TfL about this then when you see this happening.
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Post by vjaska on Jul 28, 2021 11:36:13 GMT
Just because the Tesco you went in had stuff, doesn't mean it's the same elsewhere - I and other members of my family actually work in supermarkets so this isn't from reading a bit of old rag. I have been in a few over the past week from East London, North London and Essex and did not find anything anywhere near the panic buying I saw last year when the pandemic took off. There may be a shortage of drivers and warehouse workers, but the media are going to make the situation 10 times worst and are inciting people to panic buy with various headlines and clickbate articles. It’s not from panic buying - as I previously said, the shops with little stock or empty shelves is down to the shortage of delivery drivers & warehouse workers. Panic buying has been few & far between. And I also like I said, just because the supermarkets you’ve been in are ok doesn’t mean others are
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Post by dashing0ne on Aug 1, 2021 9:46:21 GMT
Surprised that you saw two elderly people not wearing masks, though as you say one wore an exemption lanyard. I'd have thought the elderly would be the ones wearing masks the most since they're the most vulnerable. In and around Ruislip I've even seen elderly in the open air wearing masks. When I went on the H13 and almost no one was wearing masks it was Friday evening and mostly the youth travelling on the bus, so maybe the time of day/week makes a slight difference as to what types of people are travelling on the buses. Fridays and Saturdays probably more people travel to parties, restaurants etc (particularly in the evenings) whereas probably not as much on Monday Glad it's not just me seeing this passengers not wearing masks. I think east London is particularly bad even on trains especially TfL Rail from Stratford towards Romford. East Londoners tend to wear masks them much less than in other parts of London, statistically speaking. Everybody wears masks in my borough, Kingston.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 1, 2021 10:17:43 GMT
Glad it's not just me seeing this passengers not wearing masks. I think east London is particularly bad even on trains especially TfL Rail from Stratford towards Romford. East Londoners tend to wear masks them much less than in other parts of London, statistically speaking. Everybody wears masks in my borough, Kingston. Probably because Kingston is generally a more well off area than East London. Mask wearing in Hillingdon and Harrow tends to be quite low, whilst most places I go to by bus like Pinner, Hatch End and to a certain degree Harrow are generally decent areas, I find South Harrow in particular to be one of the most deprived areas in NW London, therefore it's no surprise that when I go there, mask compliance isn't that high. I've also noticed that in Aldi and Sainsbury's, mask wearing is a personal choice as opposed to mandatory. It's good to see the gradual removal of masks, as we edge closer to normality. I'm not confident that the pandemic will be mostly over by October as Neil Ferguson suggests. I'd say 2022 at the earliest when this would happen.
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Post by Eastlondoner62 on Aug 1, 2021 12:01:29 GMT
Glad it's not just me seeing this passengers not wearing masks. I think east London is particularly bad even on trains especially TfL Rail from Stratford towards Romford. East Londoners tend to wear masks them much less than in other parts of London, statistically speaking. Everybody wears masks in my borough, Kingston. Is there a link to these stats?
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Post by vjaska on Aug 1, 2021 12:37:59 GMT
Glad it's not just me seeing this passengers not wearing masks. I think east London is particularly bad even on trains especially TfL Rail from Stratford towards Romford. East Londoners tend to wear masks them much less than in other parts of London, statistically speaking. Everybody wears masks in my borough, Kingston. I don’t live there but have rode on buses and used the train service between there & Wimbledon to ride some RATP stuff over the last month or so and whilst mask wearing was good, it wasn’t 100% as you were claiming but maybe I went on a bad day(s)
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