Bleachy water anyone?

Rosies How about we get a knowledgeable government to ensure we do not get blackouts? Now there's a thought!

Allira

Astitchintime

Safe if the quantities are followed to the letter no doubt but as so many don’t know pounds from kilograms, think a litre is little more than a cup full, and cannot determine the difference between a teaspoon and a tablespoon………it does give cause for concern

I am sure most younger people work in metric.

Perhaps they do but it won’t be just the younger people treating rain water will it????

love0c

Rosies How about we get a knowledgeable government to ensure we do not get blackouts? Now there's a thought!

Oh I’m sure we can count on Keir to be out there preventing the power cuts caused by blizzards, floods or gales - doing his best to- not unlike King Canute stopping the waves.

Astitchintime

Allira

Astitchintime

Safe if the quantities are followed to the letter no doubt but as so many don’t know pounds from kilograms, think a litre is little more than a cup full, and cannot determine the difference between a teaspoon and a tablespoon………it does give cause for concern

I am sure most younger people work in metric.

Perhaps they do but it won’t be just the younger people treating rain water will it????

By “younger people” I would mean those aged 50 ish or under who were educated to use metric over imperial from primary school up.

“Bleach is a powerhouse cleaner, but its shelf life is shorter than you might expect. Unopened bleach typically lasts 12 to 18 months. Once opened, it begins to degrade and loses effectiveness within 6 months. If your bleach smells weak or doesn't clean as well as before, it may be time to replace it”.
Something I only realised recently.

Bukkie

I presume using the word lovely and Chris Witty in the same sentence is a joke? He is a complete idiot who terrified previously sane people during 2020 with his inflated figures keeping us in lockdown far longer than was necessary. If you were run over by a bus it still went on your death certificate you died of Covid.

If you were run over by a bus it still went on your death certificate you died of Covid.

This has been stated as a fact so many times, more so just after the epidemic.

How do you know this is true? For it to be a fact, those who've lost family and friends during the epidemic would have had to collaborate with each other and share the death certificates to compare notes...

Or is it one of those matters where there might be a grain of truth - in that someone - or maybe a small number of people - died of an unrelated illness which was confounded by Covid, and the certificate indicated Covid as the cause...

Death certificates can contain more than one cause of death - sometimes one condition impacts/exacerbates on the other.

I doubt any doctor certifying a road death would indicate the cause as Covid ...

My friend's neighbour tragically died of a brain tumour but his death certificate said he died of Covid. His family had to seek legal advice to have it changed to the correct cause of death, an unnecessary and upsetting issue they did not need.

Chrus Whitty gives sound scientific advice. Is he supposed not to give accurate advice in case someone mis interprets it.m

Sad, but irrelevant Bukkie - haven’t we read/written/ heard enough on the subject of Covid?

Bukkie

My friend's neighbour tragically died of a brain tumour but his death certificate said he died of Covid. His family had to seek legal advice to have it changed to the correct cause of death, an unnecessary and upsetting issue they did not need.

Anecdotal.

Have you heard of the WHO, Bukkie?
It wasn't just Professor Witty making it up as he went along. The advice was universal.

Bukkie

My friend's neighbour tragically died of a brain tumour but his death certificate said he died of Covid. His family had to seek legal advice to have it changed to the correct cause of death, an unnecessary and upsetting issue they did not need.

Your friend's neighbour, purely anecdotal... and all the others?

Because you are saying basically there was an 'epidemic' of doctors certifying Covid when it wasn't the cause of death.

It wasn't anecdotal, I could take you to the people's house now who lost their loved one from a brain tumour. I never said Chris Twitty was the only idiot during Covid times but he is the one mentioned in this conversation.

Yes, you could but it would still be anecdotal.

Your posts could be libellous, perhaps you should ask for them to be deleted?

As an epidemiologist who has worked in Africa and Asia, and a practising Consultant Physician for Infectious Diseases, I would hardly class Professor Whitty as a complete idiot. Two of my friends who were suffering from the last stages of an incurable cancer died at the beginning of the pandemic, and it was definitely Covid that killed them. The idiots were politicians who couldn't understand the science they were being shown.

When my daughter was a baby I used to rinse her bottles with boiled water after soaking them in Milton because the solution gave me eczema on my hands and I thought it was horrible putting something in her mouth that did that to my skin.

MayBee70

When my daughter was a baby I used to rinse her bottles with boiled water after soaking them in Milton because the solution gave me eczema on my hands and I thought it was horrible putting something in her mouth that did that to my skin.

I used to do the same, Maybee. She had to be bottle-fed.

I actually broke our glass front door one night. My husband was out ( as usual ) and my hand hurt so much after putting it in the bottle steriliser that I threw the bottle down the hall. It hit the glass door and cracked it! At least we then replaced the glass with shatterproof glass because of it.

It’s not as crazy as it sounds. Chlorine is a powerful bactericide, so 1 tsp per 10 litres of unclean water should definitely sterilise unsafe water.
When the weather is dry and the water levels low, one can definitely smell chlorine when boiling a kettle. The authorities do add it for safety reasons.

grandMattie

It’s not as crazy as it sounds. Chlorine is a powerful bactericide, so 1 tsp per 10 litres of unclean water should definitely sterilise unsafe water.
When the weather is dry and the water levels low, one can definitely smell chlorine when boiling a kettle. The authorities do add it for safety reasons.

It’s not even 1 tsp @ grandMattie, but 1/4 tsp per 10 l.

When we are at our beach house we buy bottled water to drink because the water tastes of chlorine. You can smell it, not pleasant. They fluoridate our water but I don’t mind that so much because we all have reasonably good teeth because of it.

If and when the time comes it may be safer to stick to gin.

Witty's advice is perfectly reasonable. If people don't know what a litre is they should find out,

I don’t he’s a lunatic.

He’s a very bright, well educated, scientist and I’d rather listen to him than most of any govt., it’s interesting though how many people, including some ministers, are talking about “emergency supplies”, do they know something we don’t?

Cossy

I don’t he’s a lunatic.

He’s a very bright, well educated, scientist and I’d rather listen to him than most of any govt., it’s interesting though how many people, including some ministers, are talking about “emergency supplies”, do they know something we don’t?

He qualified in medicine, epidemiology, medical law, medical science and is highly experienced.

But, of course, he knows nothing according to some!! 🤔

Cossy

I don’t he’s a lunatic.

He’s a very bright, well educated, scientist and I’d rather listen to him than most of any govt., it’s interesting though how many people, including some ministers, are talking about “emergency supplies”, do they know something we don’t?

The threats to UK are no secret; the govt and media have publicised it; people just don't listen. (As some posters to this thread have already illustrated)

www.gov.uk/government/news/uk-unveils-new-undersea-warfare-technology-to-counter-threat-from-russia

"People should be in no doubt of the new threats facing the UK and our allies under the sea, where adversaries are targeting infrastructure that is so critical to our way of life."

The Ministry of Defence, which is unveiling elements of Atlantic Bastion on Monday, said in a statement that the programme was "in direct response to the resurgence in Russian submarine and underwater activity".

The government says there has been a 30% increase in the number of Russian vessels threatening UK waters in the last two years. Russia says its the UK government that's being provocative.

In September, the parliamentary National Security Strategy Committee said it was "not confident" the UK was equipped to protect its undersea cables, warning that an attack could cause "catastrophic disruption" to vital financial and communications systems.

Last month, the Yantar, a Russian oceanic research vessel suspected of mapping British undersea cables and pipelines, shone lasers at RAF pilots tracking its progress near UK waters.

Defence Secretary John Healey called the action "deeply dangerous", saying the Yantar had repeatedly crossed in and out of the UK's exclusive economic zone."

Our undersea infrastructure carries power, gas, oil pipelines, and communications.

Every public service, water, gas, electricity, banking, commerce and foodistribution, is totally dependent on those types of infrastructure functioning nationwide.

brusselssignal.eu/2025/10/europe-is-preparing-for-war-are-you/