maomao
普費斯
Daily Mail comments are slightly more representative of 'public mood' than Urban but not much.
Coronavirus in the UK - news, lockdown and discussion
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crossthebreeze
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bimble
floofy
yeah, i shouldn't look but i do. I think of it as an arsehole barometer.
Some of it is just short attention spans, they were all scared enough on there last year.
Cat Fan
Cats and stats
Tesco and John Lewis will ask customers and staff to wear face masks
Retailers set out their policies for shops in England in run-up to end of restrictions on 19 July
Raheem
Well-Known Member
Ha! They're going to have to boycott eating.Freedom day indeed.Tesco and John Lewis will ask customers and staff to wear face masks
Retailers set out their policies for shops in England in run-up to end of restrictions on 19 Julywww.theguardian.com
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
my employer is not only dropping most of restrictions but also mandatory track and trace. it’s madness
Doctor Carrot
Marxist Henchman
As someone who works in a similar role I share your concern. I know lots of people around me will be maskless and I know there will be little I can do about them.
So, for the sake of my teetering mental health, I'm taking a belt and braces approach. I've ordered proper FFP2 masks as they actually protect the wearer from infection. I feel a lot better about things now. I'm also reducing my hours because I'm lucky enough to be able to do so. I'm currently signed off too because when I heard what was happening on the 19th I got into a bit of a tizz.
If you can do any of those things do it. Just being off for two weeks has helped me a lot.
Life is too short to put up with the shit us in retail have had over the past 18 months. I know health workers have been on the front line but I feel like we've been in the reserve trenches taking shrapnel.
Doctor Carrot
Marxist Henchman
FFS this is insane. I'm not in greater Manchester but for some reason I got an ad related to that area on the radio just now. It sounded ominous as fuck:
'This is a message from the government. There is a variant of concern spreading across Greater Manchester. Please continue to keep 2 metres apart, minimise non essential travel etc etc'
A variant of concern spreading across Greater Manchester? Presumably they mean a variant that isn't Delta? So lifting of restrictions from Monday but a new variant of concern spreading in Manchester. More infection, more potential variants that escape vaccine. Beyond insanity.
'This is a message from the government. There is a variant of concern spreading across Greater Manchester. Please continue to keep 2 metres apart, minimise non essential travel etc etc'
A variant of concern spreading across Greater Manchester? Presumably they mean a variant that isn't Delta? So lifting of restrictions from Monday but a new variant of concern spreading in Manchester. More infection, more potential variants that escape vaccine. Beyond insanity.
cupid_stunt
Chief seagull hater & farmerbarleymow's nemesis.
It was probably a networking cock-up, someone putting the wrong ad into the playout system for the wrong local opt out, I've heard covid ads on behalf of the London mayor, on Greatest Hits Radio Sussex.
Wilf
Slouching towards Billingham
The flaw with that for me is that vaccines don't actually stop people getting Covid. You get ballpark figures of around 70% protection after 2 jabs for the AZ, though off hand I don't remember how long after vaccinaton that is. Certainly they provide a fair amount of protection and then if you do get it, less severe symptoms. All that adds up to a highly effective vaccine, but it's not the basis for a 'no masks, no social distancing, get back into work, go clubbing' policy.
Wilf
Slouching towards Billingham
That's my local hospital.
'The five areas with the biggest week-on-week rises are:
- Middlesbrough (up from 454.0 to 961.8)
- Redcar & Cleveland (468.1 to 923.8)
- South Tyneside (937.9 to 1,375.7)
- Allerdale (171.8 to 596.4)
- Hartlepool (566.9 to 990.8)'
Covid hospitalisations on rise as infections soar - list of cases in your area
Latest Public Health England data reveals that 288 of the country's 315 local authority areas have seen a week-on-week rise in cases, after Prof Chris Whitty sounded the alarm over hospitalisations
www.mirror.co.uk
elbows
Well-Known Member
The best time to speak out if seeking to minimise infections and change policy was before step 3 was implemented.Now he speaks out, somewhat bloody late.
Chris Whitty warns UK could be plunged back into restrictions in just 5 weeks
Speaking ahead of "Freedom Day", the Chief Medical Officer said a spike in hospitalisations could leave the NHS in "trouble again, surprisingly fast"www.mirror.co.uk
At the moment I think he is just saying these things now because there is an attempt to moderate peoples behaviour via this shift in mood music that we have seen in the last 10 days or so.
SpookyFrank
A cheap source of teeth for aquarium gravel
Contact your union.
elbows
Well-Known Member
Meanwhile a lot of the newspaper front pages are full of deadly moaning about the app having pinged half a million people in a week.
As I've said before, this is one of the few brakes that have been left in place to cope with this wave, for now anyway, but the reporting etc will erode this a bit.
As I've said before, this is one of the few brakes that have been left in place to cope with this wave, for now anyway, but the reporting etc will erode this a bit.
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
they’ve gone along with it
purenarcotic
Conveniently Pocket Sized
That’s insane. We got an email yesterday saying absolutely nothing is changing and we’ve now made it a requirement that women coming into refuge must agree to perform LFT twice a week, even in the refuges we have where the flats are completely self-contained and nothing is shared.
Wilf
Slouching towards Billingham
I'm half way through watching that. The considered view from scientists around the world is 'are you fucking bonkers!'
SpookyFrank
A cheap source of teeth for aquarium gravel
Freedom day indeed.Tesco and John Lewis will ask customers and staff to wear face masks
Retailers set out their policies for shops in England in run-up to end of restrictions on 19 July
More like a day when staff get to choose between having endless arguments with selfish, ignorant arseholes and just giving up and accepting the needless risk to their own health and that of the general public.
elbows
Well-Known Member
I'm not watching it at the moment but I imagine its very similar to the start of the pandemic where experts in some countries thought the UKs original plan was satire.
SpookyFrank
A cheap source of teeth for aquarium gravel
I wish I could say I'm surprised but my union also folded on this ages back.
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
we’ve been told that we need to fully open again to get people visiting so our service doesn’t get taken away cos no one uses it. which is basically a threat
teqniq
DisMembered
International pariah, here we come:
www.independent.co.uk
Boris Johnson’s Covid policy poses ‘danger to the world’, international scientists warn
International experts convene emergency summit ahead of England’s unlocking
www.independent.co.uk
elbows
Well-Known Member
I've already commented on the mask bit of this survey on another thread, but heres the bit about how worried people are by the easing of restrictions:
Two-thirds of adults still plan to wear masks in shops and on public transport - Office for National Statistics
Limits on social contact and many other coronavirus (COVID-19) restrictions will be eased in England and Scotland from 19 July 2021 and in Wales from 7 August. What are people looking forward to, and which coronavirus restrictions will they continue to follow?
www.ons.gov.uk
Yeah. I don't really bother with these things normally. But...
I paraphrase.
Taking away the umbrella when it's raining hard and many people still don't have rain coats.
Wilf
Slouching towards Billingham
There's genuine bemusement amongst the science bods about the UK/England's plan. They are currently making it clear that Whitty's claim about a scientific consensus was equally crazy.
SpookyFrank
A cheap source of teeth for aquarium gravel
I have to try not to think about the fact that with the knowledge we have about this virus and the vaccines we have available we could now be at a point where we were removing restrictions without this demented mass sacrifice of health and lives. We could be at a point where we genuinely had this fucking thing on the ropes and could really start to think about normality and not just the latest act of an everlasting shitshow.
The one upside I can think of is that Javid and pals are on record stating that they know the cost, they know the risks, and they're doing it anyway. That'll be important somewhere down the line I reckon.
The one upside I can think of is that Javid and pals are on record stating that they know the cost, they know the risks, and they're doing it anyway. That'll be important somewhere down the line I reckon.
Wilf
Slouching towards Billingham
You still have to pull yourself up short, to get your head round what they are planning (in fact what is already happening): the deliberate infection of a population, to maximise the spread of an disease that hospitalises, kills and has long term health impacts. That's what our government is deliberately doing.
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