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Starry Wisdom
not surprised i haven't seen them, they look like a device for holding the head in place
Discussion: UK anti-vaxx 'freedom' morons, protests and QAnon idiots
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tony.c
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Other clear masks are available.
Coronavirus: Call for clear face masks to be 'the norm'
Transparent masks allow deaf people to communicate - but supplies are short where they are most needed.
www.bbc.co.uk
Pickman's model
Starry Wisdom
i hope they eliminate the difficulties. but these masks ^ make the wearer look like the joker.Other clear masks are available.
Coronavirus: Call for clear face masks to be 'the norm'
Transparent masks allow deaf people to communicate - but supplies are short where they are most needed.www.bbc.co.uk
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platinumsage
HaveMyPassword123
I find it hard to believe that people here consider you a pedant. They only aspect of annoying pedanting that you seem to excel at is never admitting that you were wrong.
Pickman's model
Starry Wisdom
that's not pedantry, pedantry is excessive attention to detail.
platinumsage
HaveMyPassword123
But it is “annoying pedanting” which is what I actually said.
Pickman's model
Starry Wisdom
no, it isn't. it is perhaps annoying. but it is not 'pedanting'.
klang
klang
belboid
Exasperated, not angry.
Pedantry, there’s no such word as pedanting.
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ddraig
kicking against the pricks...
Saw security in sainsbury's wearing one of these
FridgeMagnet
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It's pretty driven by the mainstream imo, which they'd obviously deny but seems clear. So for instance both the US and AU have had a lot of anti-China rhetoric in the media and from politicians, but we haven't really had so much here - but there's been a lot of anti-Muslim stuff here around the virus, "muslims are spreading it and the police don't do anything", because that is a mainstream prejudice here.
elbows
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Visors are mostly supposed to be for eye protection, they do not replace masks.
A friend of a friend of my mothers apparently got asked to leave ASDA recently as a result of thinking a visor would be acceptable instead of a mask.
souljacker
innit
That's odd. Quite a few of the workers at my local supermarket wear visors. I know they don't give full protection but I'm surprised they would ask someone to leave.
SheilaNaGig
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If someone at the shop tells me they're hard of hearing, we go outside and take our masks off.
Obviously this doesn't work in
As elbows says, visors are no good. The aerosols easily migrate out of the sides and the bottom of the shield. They’re pretty good at protecting the wearer though.
Like the masks with a valve : pretty good for the person wearing it, worse than useless for those on the outside because the vent directs a single concentrated plume of air. I always step away from the valve side and tell them why.
Obviously this doesn't work in
As elbows says, visors are no good. The aerosols easily migrate out of the sides and the bottom of the shield. They’re pretty good at protecting the wearer though.
Like the masks with a valve : pretty good for the person wearing it, worse than useless for those on the outside because the vent directs a single concentrated plume of air. I always step away from the valve side and tell them why.
SheilaNaGig
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There’s a lot of misunderstanding around all this stuff. Like the masks with valve thing.
There’s needs to be far more and much better information dissemination about these details, including how to facilitate communication for those who need help (English as a second language can make talking with a mask really tricky too), how to be more expressive with hands, eyebrows etc. Even just how to I wear the mask properly
SheilaNaGig
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Scroll down til you pass the photo to find some pertinent information:
www.bbc.com
How diseases spread when we talk and sing
Tiny droplets of liquid – aerosols – are emitted from our mouths when we talk, shout and sing, carrying viruses and bacteria with them.
www.bbc.com
Steel Icarus
we move
This is my favourite post of the year so far on urban, especially as it's not entirely right
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
PTSD
retribution
Jack of Dubs
Argh I thought I would attempt to correct an...acquaintance on Facebook who has been dragged into some sort of "socialists against lockdown" standpoint. He's one of the "the first peak happened before lockdown began/deaths from other diseases are up" brigade. Urbs: help me educate our comrade: good sources to demonstrate that lockdown saved lives? I can't believe i'm having to ask for that 
don't waste your time is my suggestion. might as well shout at the sea.Argh I thought I would attempt to correct an...acquaintance on Facebook who has been dragged into some sort of "socialists against lockdown" standpoint. He's one of the "the first peak happened before lockdown began/deaths from other diseases are up" brigade. Urbs: help me educate our comrade: good sources to demonstrate that lockdown saved lives? I can't believe i'm having to ask for that
Pickman's model
Starry Wisdom
nothing is real any more
souljacker
innit
It's very funny, that's for sure.
wemakeyousoundb
hopefully not gimboid
FridgeMagnet
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In Germany, this one, but a security guard apparently quits when a speaker at a covid-denier rally compares herself to Sophie Scholl. The guy is escorted off and the speaker then throws her stuff on the floor and runs off the stage upset, which I'm not convinced that Sophie Scholl would have done.
editor
hiraethified
This is a great read:
www.scientificamerican.com
The Denialist Playbook
On vaccines, evolution, and more, rejection of science has followed a familiar pattern
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