Agreed, and that reflects a complete failure on the part of the British government to put out accurate information about how the virus is actually transmitted.
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Agreed, and that reflects a complete failure on the part of the British government to put out accurate information about how the virus is actually transmitted.
existentialist
Tired and unemotional
And the trouble with psychological protection, in the absence of real protection, is that people then think they don't need to do any more about it, and a kind of complacency sets in: "I'm wearing gloves, nothing can touch me now", completely forgetting that the primary purpose of washing and PPE is to protect others from us, not the other way around...and that gloves and masks aren't some kind of magical amulet of protection.
And - again - I think some really clear messages from Government would have helped massively. Fuck it, they've got a whole "nudge unit" whose entire, and slightly sinister, purpose was to get public messaging out there and effective.
Pickman's model
Starry Wisdom
It's more of a nudge nudge unit under abdpj
Ha ha ha ha ha
existentialist
Tired and unemotional
I'm an idealist, get over it!
Pickman's model
Starry Wisdom
as opposed to the nudge unit which should have an idea listI'm an idealist, get over it!
maomao
普費斯
I was using gloves for shopping at the height of it all in April/May. Disposables. Clean pair for each shop and put in a bin and resanitise hands when I came out. It stopped me using my phone while I was in the shop and along with the mask made me more conscious about what my hands were touching. Also meant my hands were effectively completely cleaned between two shops, more reliably than that hand sanitiser stuff.
We were very paranoid/thorough though. My wife made me leave my clothes by the back door and get straight in the shower after every trip.
ATOMIC SUPLEX
Member Since: 1985 Post Count: 3
Pretty much nobody other than me is wearing a mask in shops around here. I did a count up on my last Lidl run and bike about town. Approximately one in fifty to sixty people wearing a mask. . . .but then, staggeringly, fifty percent of mask wearers were wearing them on the chin or around the neck.
Mrs Miggins
It’s all happening tomorrow
The gloves thing is annoying because it tends to make people think they can just touch anything and everything. They don't let you in the hospital wearing them. They make people take them off and sanitise their hands. I think washing your hands and being aware of what you are touching is a far better approach than gloves.
And I'm still highly amused (dismayed?) at the young lad serving at my local pharmacy counter who was wearing gloves but had one of the fingers cut out. Presumably so he could use his phone
Did she have another motive?
Bahnhof Strasse
Met up with Hannah Courtoy a week next Tuesday
I had heard a rumour
but was hoping for a happier tale.
maomao
普費斯
My wife actually objects to the smell of deodorant so I've spent four months not wearing any (helps with social distancing in shops too). Very paranoid about being smelly now as have a job interview this week.
Bahnhof Strasse
Met up with Hannah Courtoy a week next Tuesday
maomao
普費斯
Thanks but I don't actually want the job.
(good interview practise though)
quimcunx
imprimeo, lamino, distribuo
I saw someone use a paperclip to join the loops at the back.
Doodler
You're quite nice when you smile
Back to working in the Big Shed next week (part time), admittedly doing the cash office so not much contact with customers but relieved about the masks in shops rule. It is several weeks overdue imo but better late than never.
I see old men wandering inside shops without masks, them of all people. If you had a cartoon Covid virus with a speech bubble over its head, it'd be thinking "Right you old git, I'm having you." Half a dozen senior musketeers were all bunched up the other day in a Halfords queue - not something you see often - the queue wallah had to ask them all to space themselves out. Big chains ought to dish out free masks one per customer, they can afford to do so, but maybe an idea also to hand out cards with 'Fun Facts about ICU Delirium' just to ram the point home.
I see old men wandering inside shops without masks, them of all people. If you had a cartoon Covid virus with a speech bubble over its head, it'd be thinking "Right you old git, I'm having you." Half a dozen senior musketeers were all bunched up the other day in a Halfords queue - not something you see often - the queue wallah had to ask them all to space themselves out. Big chains ought to dish out free masks one per customer, they can afford to do so, but maybe an idea also to hand out cards with 'Fun Facts about ICU Delirium' just to ram the point home.
xsunnysuex
Life is a horizontal fall.
cupid_stunt
Chief seagull hater & farmerbarleymow's nemesis.
I hadn't been, as very few people do around, and even fewer staff, partly because we are a low risk area, but mainly because people have been excellent in maintaining social distancing and sticking to the one way systems.
However, that has started to change, people have just started to get slack in the last week, and I see Tesco has stopped their queuing & one way systems, and removed all the social distancing markings from the floor.
So, just yesterday I had decided I would start wearing one, just before the news today that they will be compulsory from next Friday anyway.
www.kentlive.news
However, that has started to change, people have just started to get slack in the last week, and I see Tesco has stopped their queuing & one way systems, and removed all the social distancing markings from the floor.
So, just yesterday I had decided I would start wearing one, just before the news today that they will be compulsory from next Friday anyway.
Tesco shoppers fuming after huge changes made in store
The supermarket has removed its one way system as lockdown continues to ease
dessiato
🇪🇸 my spirit is crying for leaving
Under recent changes gloves are no longer obligatory in shops. However, you are obliged to sanitize your hands at the entrance.
Previously as you entered you were expected to sanitize then put on gloves which were provided FOC at the shop door.
LDC
On est tous des pangolins
Yeah totally, but to be honest also a lack of common sense or inability of people to understand basic hygiene and infection stuff. Similar reasons to why some people wear the mask not covering their nose I expect.
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That too, but surely that makes it even more important for the government to provide accurate and timely public information!
RubyToogood
RubyTwobikes
Thanks for the heads up. I made a reverse nose fold mask yesterday and I haven't worn it out yet but early indications are good. I made it with quilting cotton of which I have tons, and lined it with muslin for breathability, so it is quite light. I'm wondering if the muslin is really sufficient. I was toying with using some lightweight interfacing as a filter, but not sure about breathing in particles of that, specially the iron-on type.
LDC
On est tous des pangolins
Indeed, but short of beaming it directly into people's heads there's always going to be some randomers out there!
ATOMIC SUPLEX
Member Since: 1985 Post Count: 3
I hadn't been, as very few people do around, and even fewer staff, partly because we are a low risk area, but mainly because people have been excellent in maintaining social distancing and sticking to the one way systems.
However, that has started to change, people have just started to get slack in the last week, and I see Tesco has stopped their queuing & one way systems, and removed all the social distancing markings from the floor.
So, just yesterday I had decided I would start wearing one, just before the news today that they will be compulsory from next Friday anyway.
Tesco shoppers fuming after huge changes made in store
The supermarket has removed its one way system as lockdown continues to ease
Yeah, my small local Tesco mini is now just letting in as many people as it can, and no one way system.
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
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Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
I wear them cos they make me feel safer but also less likely to touch my face and bite my nails
Numbers
an ting!
editor
hiraethified
Go Team That Must Not Be Mentioned!
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Popped into shop, this will be about the 5th time since lockdown. Sanitised hands outside shop then put my mask on. I was the only one wearing a mask except one of the workers.
I felt so anxious and am convinced that people were giving me odd looks. Aaah still feel anxious. In a way I found it easier back March/April/May/June when I just left the house for a short walk. I feel like I need to practice navigating the outdoors
I felt so anxious and am convinced that people were giving me odd looks. Aaah still feel anxious. In a way I found it easier back March/April/May/June when I just left the house for a short walk. I feel like I need to practice navigating the outdoors
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