Then don't go indoors and gather again. Criticising the government for allowing shops to open, in the current circumstances, is deranged.
Then don't go indoors and gather again. Criticising the government for allowing shops to open, in the current circumstances, is deranged.
My point, is that the BBC seem to deliberately seek these people out, when they are a pathetic, drippy, minority. I don't care that they exist, I would just quite like for them not to be held up as the norm by the state broadcaster.Originally Posted by Reg
I also can't see how being scared to try a t-shirt on is any less ridiculous than wearing a mask on a bike.
Lots of things can make you ill. Is he avoiding the Avocado Sandaes from his local Vegan pop-up for fear of e.coli? I doubt it. Covid just isn't dangerous to someone in their 20's and worrying about it at this point is drippy as fuck. He's taking a bigger risk every time he rides his PennyFarthing through Peckham, the cunt.
Yeah, well fair enough, that’s what that person was saying, wasn’t it?
No. She said opening shops was silly.
Yeah fair enough.
Your t-shirt point - I think the risk would come way more from being indoors with potential spreaders than it would from the surface transmission from clothes.
Can't believe people still think like that.
Wearing a mask on a bike is 4d chess as it stops all the flying bastards going in your mouth if you ever mistakenly open it whilst riding.
But the article that sparked all of this signs off with this 'analysis'.
I've bolded the most lol bits, are we really in a world where people need to be told their within their rights not to buy something and lots of us are scared by changing rooms? Really?When non-essential retail reopens this week, you will be totally within your rights in a store or a restaurant to put down a product and leave if you feel uncomfortable. If you're worried about lack of ventilation, long queues, or other shoppers getting too close, then don't feel that you have to stay. Just leave.
Be careful around touchpoints. Many shops will provide hand sanitiser, but it's always useful to bring your own for any time you push a door handle, pick up a trolley, or rake through a clothes rack.
Hang on to your receipts. For lots of us, changing rooms might still feel a little too uncomfortable, so if you're buying without trying, then keep the receipt and check with the store. Most will offer you a refund, exchange or credit note if you return it within 28 days.
Better not touch that tshirt in case the novid monster is on it lol.
It's been a weird and scary time that the vast majority of people alive haven't experienced anything like, I don't think it's that mad that some people will be a bit cautious and anxious about returning somewhat to normality.
Don't take validation from that Reg, Boyd was scared of London.
Scared of London?
I'm not the one who pisses my pants in airports.
It's entirely because of shit like this "article" that people are feeling like this though. It's fear mongering at a time when they should be doing the opposite. They should be pointing at the data and saying "lads, the cases are still plummeting. The deaths are too. The vaccine is mustard and we're safe to get back out there. Just wash your hands and wear your mask for a little while longer, but don't stress".
Yep. The scaremongering that the BBC and other outlets have been indulging in is nothing short of a disgrace. It's sort of understandable when you're trying to get people to follow rules that stop spread when that was needed, but not when the rules and game have changed.
Putting up an article that suggests clothing racks are infested and changing rooms are plague pits, without any context of how likely one is to catch it via those means is pathetic.
Absolutely not.
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Last week for Easter we invited a cousin along with his family, they were originally going to just stand outside the window (Sister has a ground floor flat) and we'd put drinks/food on the windowsill but as it was a little cold just decided they might as well come in.
Today we invited an Auntie and her family as it's my Sister's birthday and another Auntie ended up coming over uninvited.
Was pretty fun.
#OpenTheClubs.
Absolutely embarrassing thread that.
It's a simple question. Why does it need Prefer not to Say and Don't Know?
I prefer not to say.
You might as well count Prefer Not To Say as ‘liked’.
The only time lockdown was good was when it first started. Just that odd sense of adventure that came with the fact none of us had ever had to lockdown. Now I just want it other with.
I keep vacillating between OPEN THEN THE CLUBS FUCK IT and realising I'm aligning myself with the anti mask loons and the nutjobs on the right of the Tory party and thinking maybe we should continue to take it easy.
I think my main stance is that, whilst it has been shit, doing all the stuff we had to do for a year or so is one thing, but if they genuinely do continue to massively limit what we can do for a for ages after the vaccines, like rationing for years after WWII finished, I will probably end up getting arrested at some shit rave with Taz.
I do agree with those who say the SCIENTISTS saying woah lads we'll still have to be careful after the vaccine are mostly saying it so divs don't go nuts too soon, but I'm not sure how much that really makes sense.
Why is that view linked with a political stance? Just bizarre.
Yeah, I'm in no way anti-mask, anti-vaxx or far-right, but I probably agree with them when it comes to "enough is enough, end the lock down". You don't have to agree or disagree with EVERYTHING someone says. Unless we're ready to throw Boydy to the Wolves for sharing Hitlers views on not eat animals.
Hey listen man i don't feel like all my stances have to correctly align with, er, dunno, owen jones or some shit. i just think if you have an opinion which you find is massively agreed with by people you think are insane, it's at least worth giving it a second thought.
Never doing anything again to own the cons.
I largely do agree with the first bolded bit, but i'm also a passionate supporter of the second bolded bit. My worst fear - I'm becoming a centrist.
I was actually wrong on the second point, you're right. The man is a monster.
I should have used Baz's similarities with Jimmy Savile.
We did it for Christmas and it worked surprisingly well.
Shame about the frosty parsnips, mind.
It was on Boxing Day and food was mainly just chocolates for the kids.
Sadly we didn't serve them a full Christmas Day feast.
He hid her jumper.
You highlighted too many words for the second bit.
Did you play fetch with them, too?
Not when there's only two choices...
You're not even agreeing with them though. They were saying this whilst 1000+ people were dying every day.
7 deaths were recorded yesterday.
At some point their position (release the lockdown) has to become correct. I think that time is now.
To be fair, society's largely up and running today. All that's left to open are the clubs, saunas and tourism. In five weeks time, all that'll be left is social distancing.
Largely up and running? If I want to go out for breakfast this morning, I have to eat it in the snow.
If you can't function without someone making breakfast for you ...
In Shinners world nothing has changed.
Yeah, it's not like I've lost relatives or have to move out because the landlords died of Covid or anything. And it's not like I'm working from home or anything. Yeah, completely unchanged.
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The point is society's not largely up and running and we've at least another month before that's true, by which time I'm confident we'll have days with zero deaths recorded.
The unwinding has been too slow, maybe only by a matter of weeks, but given we've now had over a year of this on and off, those weeks feel like some kind of sick experiment.
At this point we should be able to drink in(side) a pub and eat in a restaurant - there's nothing in the science that suggests that would be anything like enough of a risk to stop it happening, but bizarrely it's the SCIENCE (in conjunction with a bed wetting leader) keeping us from doing so.
The economy is more up and running. Society remains closed. I can't have anyone round to my flat.
For starters, if you're going to make this the last lockdown, you make damn sure it works. Combine it with the vaccine rollout and you're attacking a problem at both ends. And it is an experiment. No two countries are approaching Covid in the same way.
Your cricket tales are a quite brilliant example of that.
I don't know what this argument means, essentially:
1. We want to be out of lockdown and make sure we're not in another one.
2. Keep us in lockdown
3. ????
4. Pro(fit)blem solved
Or this one, as nor should they be. The response should be dependent on where numerous factors currently sit for each, which is why it's so disingenuous for our SCIENCE crew to be citing France or Chile.
I didn't realise those were the numbers already. How many of those 7 are in the age group of people now fully vaccinated? I would guess all??
Surely with this doing absolute no harm to anyone under 30, the key numbers now are deaths, rather than cases.
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