Coronavirus meme/panic/fear mongering general thread

[Puddy_Tat]

 

[8ball]

I don’t understand this one.

 

[Yossarian]

I don’t understand this one.

She's apparently an anti-faxxer.

 

[Puddy_Tat]

I don’t understand this one.

She's apparently an anti-faxxer.

yes, that.

i was assuming that nobody round here would be too young to know what a fax machine is...

 

[DaveCinzano]

yes, that.

i was assuming that nobody round here would be too young to know what a fax machine is...

 

[8ball]

yes, that.

i was assuming that nobody round here would be too young to know what a fax machine is...

I’m certainly not that young. I was just not being terribly bright.

 

[Puddy_Tat]

I’m certainly not that young. I was just not being terribly bright.

that's all right then.

i think i had to explain the concept of fax machines to a young colleague a few years back. and the function of carbon paper when we found a stash of it...

 

[two sheds]

sure that wasn't typewriters?

 

[8ball]

that's all right then.

i think i had to explain the concept of fax machines to a young colleague a few years back. and the function of carbon paper when we found a stash of it...

I’m old enough to still find fax machines quite magical.

 

[Mation]

yes, that.

i was assuming that nobody round here would be too young to know what a fax machine is...

Tsk, silly. That's definitely why I didn't get it.

 

[petee]

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I'm not too young to remember when he had hair.

 

[quiet guy]

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Did you not get the Zoom link?

 

[quiet guy]

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When will they bring out the third marked booster shot?

 

[two sheds]

Paid propaganda by the government in the Independent

The simple measures you can take to keep safe from Covid this winter

The crisp, colder days and longer nights signal the onset of winter, and with it the desire to stay cosy indoors.

www.independent.co.uk

See how simple it is to avoid getting coronavirus? Anyone who gets it this winter is obviously being stupid or careless. All you have to do is avoid bus, train and tube (none of them are mentioned) and don't go to work (not mentioned either) in unsafe unventilated conditions.

But despite the positive steps that have been taken to save lives and protect vulnerable people from the virus, it is vital that we all stick to the simple measures that protect ourselves and those around us.

 

[spring-peeper]

Paid propaganda by the government in the Independent

The simple measures you can take to keep safe from Covid this winter

The crisp, colder days and longer nights signal the onset of winter, and with it the desire to stay cosy indoors.

www.independent.co.uk

See how simple it is to avoid getting coronavirus? Anyone who gets it this winter is obviously being stupid or careless. All you have to do is avoid bus, train and tube (none of them are mentioned) and don't go to work (not mentioned either) in unsafe unventilated conditions.

Good advice is always welcome, and I was hoping to learn something.

Open the windows and doors for ten minutes may make sense for someone in a warmer climate, not so much for a country like Canada.

I'll rely on our heating systems to circulate the air.

 

[two sheds]

Yes and opening windows in midwinter might be worthwhile when you've got lots of people round but not sure how much it will help a family of four say who are on top of each other the whole time.

 

[nogojones]

COVID timeline through the medium of context-free Jimmy Corkhill:

Wow. I never knew Brookside was still running. I presumed it stopped somewhere in the 90's

 

[DaveCinzano]

 

[mx wcfc]

Yes and opening windows in midwinter might be worthwhile when you've got lots of people round but not sure how much it will help a family of four say who are on top of each other the whole time.

Most modern offices have no opening windows anyway. It's to stop office workers throwing themselves off the 20th floor, but it makes a joke of those ministerial pronouncements.

 

[Elpenor]

Most modern offices have no opening windows anyway. It's to stop office workers throwing themselves off the 20th floor, but it makes a joke of those ministerial pronouncements.

The last 3 offices I’ve worked in have had openable windows, but to be fair I’ve been working only on the ground or first floor and these were all buildings dating from the 80s.

 

[two sheds]

employers ignoring the risk of workers throwing themselves out of ground floor windows

 

[Elpenor]

I’d be throwing myself onto a grassy knoll which is the same height as the window

 

[two sheds]

a grassy knoll

 

[kabbes]

Modern offices don’t have openable windows because people opening windows fucks up the air conditioning system. I’ve not worked in a building with openable windows since 2004 (now in my fifth office since then), and that building was a 1970s construction.

 

[Epona]

Modern offices don’t have openable windows because people opening windows fucks up the air conditioning system. I’ve not worked in a building with openable windows since 2004 (now in my fifth office since then), and that building was a 1970s construction.

In government buildings there is also a bomb protocol where in older windows the glass is coated to prevent it breaking into shards in the event of a bomb going off, and there are also other measures eg. bomb blast curtains where a heavy curtain is anchored at top and bottom in a pelmet type arrangement to catch the glass in case of a bomb - you can't always get to the windows, let alone open them.

(This particular snippet is brought to you from my time working in facilities management in a govt building in Whitehall).

 

[Yossarian]

 

[Badgers]

Lewes bonfire

 

[Yossarian]

 

[Puddy_Tat]

 

[glitch hiker]

Lewes bonfire

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Isn't that the Scarecrow level from the Batman Arkham Asylum game?