Bahnhof Strasse
Met up with Hannah Courtoy a week next Tuesday
AFAIK the Covid marshals will be unpaid volunteers, in the spirit of Hodges from Dad's Army.
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AFAIK the Covid marshals will be unpaid volunteers, in the spirit of Hodges from Dad's Army.
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
Unpaid busybodies must be lovely people
Doodler
You're quite nice when you smile
It would be more entertaining if packs of vigilantes confronted non-mask wearers, demanding explanations for their behaviour and videoing the encounters at the same time. Surprised Channel 5 havent done something along those lines already.
bimble
floofy
Absolutely this. That flight i was on on Sunday night which was full of people with their masks slung low under their chins like stupid little blue neckbeards, looking at the cabin crew's (properly masked) faces it was obvious they'd had enough of trying to enforce mask wearing only to be met with a load of utter shite about The Truth from people who've spent a lot of time on youtube. Or worse. In any case they'd given up, none of those passengers was just forgetting to mask up they're entirely convinced that they are right for whatever reason not to. Enforcement of anything at this point in the breakdown of trust is going to be a nightmare.
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Wilf
Slouching towards Billingham
In the case of this shopping centre (and others) and some larger shops there are security guards. At the little Sainsbury's I use it'd give him something to do! Tbh I think that shops also ought to give their staff more backing than they evidently do in refusing to serve people who won't mask up, although that's not realistic for small places. Tbh it doesn't need to be rigidly enforced everywhere, but enforcing it more firmly in more places would help to get the message across.
Finally - although it's not enforcement per se - plenty of places have nice, polite signs requesting that people wear masks. If these were more prominent and more firmly worded, as they are on some shops, that might make some difference.
That is true, which is why it ought to be mandatory for all shops above a certain size. Clearly that would leave a problem with smaller shops, but it would be unfair to expect lone shopkeepers to try and deal with potentally aggressive covidiots.
miss direct
misfungled
Most shop staff don't even wear masks themselves, which is ridiculous.
cupid_stunt
Chief seagull hater & farmerbarleymow's nemesis.
Like Indonesia?
Indonesia has come up with a unique punishment for people refusing to wear masks, make the buggers dig graves for covid victims.
Face mask refuseniks in Indonesia forced to dig graves of coronavirus victims
Country is turning to shock tactics in a bid to stem the rising tide of infectionswww.telegraph.co.uk
quimcunx
imprimeo, lamino, distribuo
It's a bit difficult to enforce if, like in the shops near me, half the staff arent wearing them.
That's fair enough, though, isn't it. Masks are uncomfortable to wear for a full shift, can cause skin problems, and so on. But that makes it more important for customers to wear masks to protect them.
That said, quite a few of the staff in shops around here wear visors, which aren't as good but better than nothing.
cupid_stunt
Chief seagull hater & farmerbarleymow's nemesis.
For some reason, staff are not required to wear them, customers are.
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
I don't work in a shop, but I do work in a reasonably busy library and community hub and we have a no mask no entry policy (exemptions aside) which works reasonably well. We are also introducing mandatory track and trace so you can't access services unless you supply contact details first.
LDC
On est tous des pangolins
I went past some crystal hippie shop in town today and a bit predictably it had one of the 'Free Britain' posters in the window going on about 'muzzles' etc. The hippie buy-in to this right wing stuff is really significant. And one bus had about 50% mask wearing in a near full bus. Other one was OK, a few young people not wearing them and a bloke in his 30s looking like he'd kick off given half an excuse.
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
is that the one opposite the corn exchange?
Absolutely - my sample is small, but all the hippies I know who're vocally anti-mask / covid deniers regularly share material from far-right sources. They share material from other sources too, but there doesn't seem to be any quality control at all, or any recognition from them when it's raised that it's a problem.
LDC
On est tous des pangolins
The one in the alley opposite the City Varieties theatre place. There's a cafe above it.
prunus
Tick tock.
Harding saying number of people trying to get tests “three to four times” the number of tests they’re able to give. Assuming we’re about about 3500 test-confirmed cases/day at the moment, and the people who get tests are a random sample of those trying to, that should mean we would get 10,500 to 14,000 test-confirmed cases/day if we could test everyone who wants a test. Taking the midpoint and assuming 65% asymptomatic and non-standard symptomatic cases (ie not trying to get tested) gets us to 38,000 cases/day.
(Yes I’m aware there are implicit assumptions in there, just a back of envelope calculation to see how plausible or otherwise a scenario one has to posit to get to the 38,000 figure from earlier today).
(Yes I’m aware there are implicit assumptions in there, just a back of envelope calculation to see how plausible or otherwise a scenario one has to posit to get to the 38,000 figure from earlier today).
MickiQ
In My Defence I was left Unsupervised
I visited the Intu in Derby on Monday the shopping centre had big signs on the doors saying "You Must Wear a Mask" but there were a significant percentage not wearing (much worse than when I went to Meadowhall a couple of weeks ago)
There were a few older folks not wearing them but the most common offenders were young (more males than females). One entrance had a security guard chivvying folks entering the centre but the rest especially the one from the car park didn't
We're hoping it's paid positions. The fella works in care and it's the most soul-destroying powerless shitty fucking sector to ever exist. So he's hoping that marshall jobs exist and are paid, cos he'll apply for it. If it's just advising folk whilst being calm, he's your man.
Yup same here. Boils my piss that they're all hippy-dippy crystal fucking shit, and then sharing right wing bollocks. Point it out to them, and they flat out deny it.
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