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Septimus Rufiji said:
the chemist down the road from me has people wait outside and then they come out in ppe and sort out their prescriptions, no-one allowed in the shop at all. Very strange when I'm coming home from mixing with 80 people at work.

I think it's (work) making me less sensitive to other peoples worries and concerns.
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I suspect this is a fairly widespread factor: some who are forced by circumstances to be in closer proximity to others are going to be a bit more blasé about the risk : I’ve not caught it yet, so either I’m immune, or the risk isn’t that great. Or fatalistic: it’s inevitable I’m going to get it and there’s fuck all I can do about that so whatevs.
 
Urgent appeal we are in desperate need of thermometers at Herries Lodge care home ours have broken and everywhere is sold out we can send a taxi to collect or you can drop off at our front door please help us if you can many thanks our phone number is 0114 2318861
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for those in sheff, pls circulate
 
scifisam said:
Person on my local group asks if the post office has special times for elderly/at risk people. I look it up, and they do, though it varies by branch. It's a fair question to ask, given that supermarkets have times for such people too, so it's not like this group of people doesn't exist. And for a post office it might well be something you need to do in person.
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My high street struggles to support a post office so it's now in a cramped vape / booze convenience store - I regretted not wearing a mask in there the other day queuing to collect a package - the bloke in front of me coughed into his hand.
 
gentlegreen said:
My high street struggles to support a post office so it's now in a cramped vape / booze convenience store - I regretted not wearing a mask in there the other day queuing to collect a package - the bloke in front of me coughed into his hand.
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They can do one-in-one-out though with spacing in the queue.
 
scifisam said:
They can do one-in-one-out though with spacing in the queue.
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They can if they’ve got someone to stand on the door. If there’s no-one there to police it some will happily comply, many won’t, for any number of spurious or legitimate reasons.


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Having said that, my local POs is inside a Nisa store and whenever I’ve had to queue for the PO I’ve policed my own space ahead and behind. It’s resulted in most people apologetically correcting themselves and a few pissed off huffers and puffers who seemed to think they were being force down to indulge my whacky neurotic personal demands. I can see that some people would find it pretty easy to ask others to stay back while some people just can’t bring themselves to do it.
 
farmerbarleymow said:
You're not wrong. I live in a city centre and it's so quiet I could be in the middle of the countryside. It's weird, but makes a lovely change from the normal background noise. It'll be sad when things inevitably return to the normal background din.
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It will and when it does we'll all sigh in relief that things are "better." Including me.
 
SheilaNaGig said:
They can if they’ve got someone to stand on the door. If there’s no-one there to police it some will happily comply, many won’t, for any number of spurious or legitimate reasons.


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Having said that, my local POs is inside a Nisa store and whenever I’ve had to queue for the PO I’ve policed my own space ahead and behind. It’s resulted in most people apologetically correcting themselves and a few pissed off huffers and puffers who seemed to think they were being force down to indulge my whacky neurotic personal demands. I can see that some people would find it pretty easy to ask others to stay back while some people just can’t bring themselves to do it.
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I think they will be policing it whatever store it's in. Mine was last week (didn't go in, but saw the queue to go in) and it's in a newsagent's. The mini Sainsbury's was too.
 
scifisam said:
I think they will be policing it whatever store it's in. Mine was last week (didn't go in, but saw the queue to go in) and it's in a newsagent's. The mini Sainsbury's was too.
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Yeah, but my point is that not everywhere will be able to pay for someone to stand on the door.
 
SheilaNaGig said:
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Having said that, my local POs is inside a Nisa store and whenever I’ve had to queue for the PO I’ve policed my own space ahead and behind. It’s resulted in most people apologetically correcting themselves and a few pissed off huffers and puffers who seemed to think they were being force down to indulge my whacky neurotic personal demands. I can see that some people would find it pretty easy to ask others to stay back while some people just can’t bring themselves to do it.
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It amused me today walking through town that people were weaving along the street - clearly mentally calculating the two metre distance between each other. Must have looked weird if it was filmed from above.
 
Highlights of my day so far:

Washing the van and gf’s car.

Sitting in the sun in back garden.

Reading existentialist jumping through hoops.

Highlights to come:

Got an Indian takeaway on order, will have a pint with it.
 
phillm said:
Killer question at the briefing just now, how come, Boris, is well enough to still be running the country whilst being sick enough to occupy a hospital bed. No answer forthcoming just waffle.
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This was spot on tbf. Unsurprisingly it wasn't answered. :mad:
 
the people not keeping their distance thing is really annoying but i think it’s down to some very deep-rooted and probably subconscious ideas people have about the way they carry themselves in public - at one extreme you have people not far off richard ashcroft in that verve video and at the other furtive types that might ordinarily cross the road to avoid passing someone else and all shades in between

some people towards the former end of the spectrum just can’t or won’t change
 
farmerbarleymow said:
The poor things are probably wondering wtf is going on with humans at the moment. :(
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One came and sat on my widow ledge today and peered in at me, the cheeky git. I wasn't even eating chips. :D
I've lived by the seaside for a very long time and no seagull has ever landed on my window ledge before and peered in at me.
Mind you, that said, I would usually be at work in the day, so who knows? Maybe they do peer in windows.
 
Espresso said:
One came and sat on my widow ledge today and peered in at me, the cheeky git. I wasn't even eating chips. :D
I've lived by the seaside for a very long time and no seagull has ever landed on my window ledge before and peered in at me.
Mind you, that said, I would usually be at work in the day, so who knows? Maybe they do peer in windows.
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They do now and they know where you hide from them!
 
I am so fucking angry right now.

Found out this morning our niece who lives with my wife’s Mum and her own Mum has been moving every day or 2 between where she lives and her boyfriends house, using public transport.

My MiL is 80 this year and has pulmonary edema.

FFS I Love my niece but what a dickhead. She’s getting calmly dragged across the coals today when we can get hold of her.
 
I don't want to sound callous but I'm finding it really puzzling as to how the same virus can affect people in such different ways. At the start of all this it was all about 'underlying medical conditions' but that seems to be relied on. Why do some people get no or virtually no symptoms yet for others its terrible.

Whilst its clear baseline health is a factor there has to be something else at play here. Do genetics play a factor? It certainly seems to affect men worse. Also there is this whole concept of viral load and if you're exposed to a lot of the virus as just opposed to a small amount.

I am hopeful that in the future a lot will be learnt from this and hopefully we'll be in a much better position to fight the next pandemic when it comes along , as it positively will. Obviously this is not much use to those in the middle of the whirlwind right now.
 
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