I can't bring myself to watch any clips of it, but the press conference does seem from this that it was all about pub changes -- is that correct?
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I can't bring myself to watch any clips of it, but the press conference does seem from this that it was all about pub changes -- is that correct?
Calamity1971
If Mr Peanut says It's okay, then it is.
I paused an rewound it for double hilarity.
Someone posted it later on in the Boris thread.
two sheds
Least noticed poster 2007
Ta - I watched it again too. Even better second time round.
How long before starmer at PMQ asks, forensically, "how much cocaine have you been taking?"
Cognitive issues with coronavirus? I think I may be having some effects and I wouldn’t be surprised if Boris is.
two sheds
Least noticed poster 2007
It would be even more difficult for the two people to chat if they were both dead.I don't wear a mask, i don't really see the point. If I had a cough I wouldn't be going to the shops anyway.
I met my neighbour the other day in the street and she was wearing a mask. I couldn't understand a word she was saying, it was all muffled. Imagine two folk in masks trying to have a conversation
More on cognitive effects.
www.bbc.com
How Covid-19 can damage the brain
Some scientists suspect that Covid-19 causes respiratory failure and death not through damage to the lungs, but the brain – and other symptoms include headaches, strokes and seizures.
www.bbc.com
Sunray
Its sunny somewhere.
More on cognitive effects.
How Covid-19 can damage the brain
Some scientists suspect that Covid-19 causes respiratory failure and death not through damage to the lungs, but the brain – and other symptoms include headaches, strokes and seizures.
I listened to an ENT consultant on the Guardian talk about how the loss of smell was the virus invading the brain.So its not a surprise it could cause neurological issues.
I can confirm the loss of smell is broken with c-19. I've lost it due to a cold in the past but this time it wasn't total in that you couldn't taste things, I could deal with no taste, it was worse, it was broken. Everything tasted hideous.
Covid-19: why are some people losing their taste and smell? – podcast
Ian Sample talks to Carl Philpott about Covid-19 causing a loss of taste and smell
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Dogsauce
I’ve got Skol but I’m not a Scholar
This is like when Trump mangles his words, so everyone ignores the content, goes on about his diction not his dickishness.
Louis MacNeice
Autumn Journalist
I don't wear a mask, i don't really see the point. If I had a cough I wouldn't be going to the shops anyway.
I met my neighbour the other day in the street and she was wearing a mask. I couldn't understand a word she was saying, it was all muffled. Imagine two folk in masks trying to have a conversation
You do know that you don't have to cough to spread the virus? Given that why wouldn't you do it? Speaking up with a mask on might keep someone else from being ventilated or worse; why wouldn't you do it?
Cheers - Louis MacNeice
If you don’t mind me asking, how long did it take for you to get the sense of smell and taste back?
Sunray
Its sunny somewhere.
Recovery was very swift. Had been sick for 7 days, it was a Friday and I felt worse was started to worry. Saturday I felt way better, Sunday I was fine. Lungs were a bit damaged, but felt ok. Smell got back to relatives normal on Monday. very glad, never forget that taste. Eurgh.
Lost my sense of taste after a common cold once and that took 6 months to come back. Was resigned to losing it for good.
Lost my sense of taste after a common cold once and that took 6 months to come back. Was resigned to losing it for good.
Doctor Carrot
Marxist Henchman
Yes I expect you're right about shop workers having to wear one too. I wouldn't actually mind that either because it would then make my boss take the whole thing a bit more seriously. Not that he's bad or anything just that old school blokey 'is what it is' type bollocks that seems to have infested society more prolifically than Covid-19 has.
You don't and I've since relaxed my view on these sorts of things. Those previous posts were made largely out of fear. Working amongst it and how busy it was genuinely terrified me. I'm a lot better these days to the extent I myself have become complacent. I used to wear a face shield but I don't anymore but I keep a close eye on infection rates and R rates in my area and that has been low all throughout, it continues to be so. As soon as that increases that shield is going back on, probably accompanied by a mask too.
I wear my mask in supermarkets sometimes and for the reasons you mention. If it can't be mandated I want it at least to be normalised but I agree, when the second wave comes I think it will be mandated.
On a separate note I now know why second waves are deadlier. This is just my speculation of course but I think it's because people become complacent. Everything's alright now we're over the worst, fears relax, masks slip and then bam! Second wave, catches people on the hop, more people get infected and more deaths as a result.
SpookyFrank
A cheap source of teeth for aquarium gravel
He won't. Tories being coke-addled psychopaths is entirely well and good according to the likes of him. His only problem with the tories is the finer points of exactly how they execute their camapaign of coke-addled psychopathy.
krtek a houby
Kick me again Jesus
Any particular reason why?
Because it's not mandatory
existentialist
Tired and unemotional
To be fair, that's not the whole truth. I think you're discounting the twat factor, too...
FridgeMagnet
Administrator
In the co-op this afternoon there were three or four people wearing masks, which is quite high, but probably just co-incidence, and still maybe 20% of the people there tops.
That hasn't changed, but what was unusual was that while I was waiting at the door for someone to come out - they do a one-in-one-out - two people just barged in in front of me. The woman behind me (also in a mask) said "do they not have anyone on guard?" "No," I said, "but normally people are good about it." I've not seen that before at all, except for some chancing Deliveroo drivers who at least come up with some lie about how they're picking up medicine for a sick baby, then wander out with a bottle of gin and twenty bensons.
that's at best half an answer.
I expect you do chose to do a lot of things which aren't mandatory every day.
I've stuck to all the other rules. Ive not seen my gran for over 3 months. Most people i know ive not seen in person for months. Ive not been in another house or had anybody in my house. I wash my hands frequently. I keep my distance from people on the odd occasion I am out. I got furloughed but got another job and I work from home. I run on the road to avoid people. Ive not driven out of Glasgow. I don't wear a mask because I've not been told to.
weepiper
I fix the machines that fight climate change
You have been told to. Scottish Government advice has been to wear a face covering in shops for weeks and weeks. They just haven't made it mandatory until now.
Advice, come on...the government advises us to eat five fecking bits of fruit and veg a day, do we all do that, no! Me personally, i need clear cut instructions. But that is happening soon, it's becoming mandatory.
Im a bit confused today though looking at all the people in the pubs....don't think I seen any masks. That doesn't make sense to me. If it's (going to be) mandatory here to wear masks in shops for presumably good reason, why are they not mandatory in pubs.
Im a bit confused today though looking at all the people in the pubs....don't think I seen any masks. That doesn't make sense to me. If it's (going to be) mandatory here to wear masks in shops for presumably good reason, why are they not mandatory in pubs.
Wilf
Slouching towards Billingham
Okay. Fuck off.
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