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krtek a houby said:
Most likely, it'll be fine. As you say, you've got your masks/visor etc. Can you walk to the GP or do you have to use public transport?
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I drove.
It was ok. Patients stayed outside at social distance and nobody was allowed in unless they had a mask. Dr and receptionist had visors and aprons and gloves.
I was in and out in 6 mins.
Came home and straight into the shower. Put all my clothes in the wash.
😯
 
Sugar Kane said:
I drove.
It was ok. Patients stayed outside at social distance and nobody was allowed in unless they had a mask. Dr and receptionist had visors and aprons and gloves.
I was in and out in 6 mins.
Came home and straight into the shower. Put all my clothes in the wash.
😯
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Good to hear!

Been putting off a trip to the hospital myself, so I can empathize with your worries.
 
chainsawjob said:
Wasn't sure where to ask this... we've been contacted to say an electrical safety check needs to be carried out on our home (private rented), and are implying it's to comply with mandatory legislation. They said they'll have to go into every room, presumably to PAT test electrical sockets? And will be wearing PPE.

I can't find anything that says this check is mandatory. It is for gas checks, but not electrical. Legislation is being brought in in July to make them the same I think.

Should I refuse? What would anyone else do? I'm not keen on this, we can keep out of the way, but they'll be touching things in every room in the house, including kids' bedrooms. And presumably any furniture they have to move out the way. 2 people are coming. I feel almost sure this is something they're doing that benefits them (estate agent can charge the L/L?) and me not so much rn (well, except safety checks are obv important, but right now I'm more concerned about virus transmission).

Edit: is there anywhere better I could ask this on here? Could check with Shelter I guess.
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I had one turn up at my house too, and I refused to let them in. Probably easier for me since I'm on the shielding list. The electricity check isn't mandatory and you're not going to be at risk if you delay it for a few weeks, but having strangers come into your home is a risk.

The thing is, you can't realistically be out of the room while a stranger walks around and checks things - for the electricians themselves they risk being accused of theft as well as catching covid. It's not right for your landlord and their employer to ask them to do it.
 
Thanks scifisam, I agree, I decided I wasn't happy for them to do it. No one has been in our home since lockdown except us, why let in two strangers, and let them touch things in every room? The letting agent was really unpleasant about it, I rang them today to tell them. She tried to strong arm me into it saying landlords need these safety certificates in time for July when the new legislation comes in, implying my tenancy might be at risk if I refuse, as landlords can't legally let the property without one. Well maybe, but tbh, you'd hope they'd put this requirement on hold due to Covid but knowing our government...
 
Thanks campanula, sorry, I missed your post. I hope you can continue to put them off, it's totally unreasonable of them to insist given your partner's vulnerability and being in the shielded group.
 
What's happening with supermarket/food shopping elsewhere? It's generally been very civil in Edinburgh so far with people generally resigned to queuing, social distancing etc. Today I detected a shift in people's patience for it, with several people essentially trying to queue jump and having to be managed by store staff. Nothing too obnoxious but it makes me wonder how it will go when more people are back at work and don't have the time to spend half an hour to an hour longer than 'normal' to do their food shopping. I also noticed much more face mask use than I've seen before - I've often felt a bit of a prat covering my face when most other people aren't but I'd say 60-70% of the people in the shop were wearing a mask of some sort.
 
My favorite Chinese takeout just closed their doors. I hope they're closing up for the duration, but it didn't look like it. All of the fixtures had been removed. Where will I get my mapo tofu now? :(

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Still feeling very lucky to still have a job and a roof over my head, however long as that lasts.
 
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weepiper said:
What's happening with supermarket/food shopping elsewhere? It's generally been very civil in Edinburgh so far with people generally resigned to queuing, social distancing etc. Today I detected a shift in people's patience for it, with several people essentially trying to queue jump and having to be managed by store staff. Nothing too obnoxious but it makes me wonder how it will go when more people are back at work and don't have the time to spend half an hour to an hour longer than 'normal' to do their food shopping. I also noticed much more face mask use than I've seen before - I've often felt a bit of a prat covering my face when most other people aren't but I'd say 60-70% of the people in the shop were wearing a mask of some sort.
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With the face mask thing the UK government did sort of apologetically mumble something that people should probably wear face masks in crowded place like supermarkets, weirdly though the guidance was half-hearted at best. Still, I expect to see a lot more of them now.
 
weepiper said:
What's happening with supermarket/food shopping elsewhere? It's generally been very civil in Edinburgh so far with people generally resigned to queuing, social distancing etc. Today I detected a shift in people's patience for it, with several people essentially trying to queue jump and having to be managed by store staff. Nothing too obnoxious but it makes me wonder how it will go when more people are back at work and don't have the time to spend half an hour to an hour longer than 'normal' to do their food shopping. I also noticed much more face mask use than I've seen before - I've often felt a bit of a prat covering my face when most other people aren't but I'd say 60-70% of the people in the shop were wearing a mask of some sort.
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More facemask wearing where I live in the East of England too. The local Asda seems better organised than the Tesco with its one-way system and sanitiser sprays. Some people manage to ignore the arrow signs and frequent tannoy announcements because they're [add your favoured insult]. There was a queue argument that turned into a scuffle outside a small Co-op. This got into the local paper because not much happens here. Mrs Doodler thinks the Lidl is worst for slow-moving shoppers and aisle-blockers and won't go in there now.
 
weepiper said:
What's happening with supermarket/food shopping elsewhere?
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I'd say people have been getting restive about the social distancing rules here for at least a couple of weeks now, I'd say about a third of the people in my Asda on my weekly shop aren't bothering at all now, charging around and being inconsiderate, and aggressive if you challenge them. The floor signs aren't very obvious/easy to follow, so people have always just ignored or not noticed them. Yeah I expect it's going to get worse with people having less time. I've always been in the minority wearing a mask, it's been around 10 % only. Rural/small town area though, not a city, where the Asda is. It will be interesting to see if more people wear them now, and whether people can get hold of them. I last shopped on Wednesday, in Tesco briefly for things I hadn't got in Asda, and their floor signs and aisle spacing was better (bigger store), but I reckon it's largely down to individual store managers how vigilant/organised they are, and how well supported/protected the staff are. I was glad to see more of them wearing full face plastic visors in Asda this week. A supervisor told me they stopped telling people to follow the floor arrows because they were being subjected to so much abuse :(
 
Badgers said:
I do feel sorry for the staff but the supermarkets have done VERY well financially and should be getting security in to protect staff and customers from said cunts.
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Yeah, and paying their staff a decent wage/giving them decent contracts (unlike Asda's recent pisstake when they forced everyone to sign new less favourable contracts requiring staff to be more flexible on hours). They do have extra security, on the door, but I've not seen them have to deal with any aggro in store. The woman who's usually there could be someone I've seen working the gates at Boomtown, I might ask her if she does :)
 
chainsawjob said:
I'd say people have been getting restive about the social distancing rules here for at least a couple of weeks now, I'd say about a third of the people in my Asda on my weekly shop aren't bothering at all now, charging around and being inconsiderate, and aggressive if you challenge them. The floor signs aren't very obvious/easy to follow, so people have always just ignored or not noticed them. Yeah I expect it's going to get worse with people having less time. I've always been in the minority wearing a mask, it's been around 10 % only. Rural/small town area though, not a city, where the Asda is. It will be interesting to see if more people wear them now, and whether people can get hold of them. I last shopped on Wednesday, in Tesco briefly for things I hadn't got in Asda, and their floor signs and aisle spacing was better (bigger store), but I reckon it's largely down to individual store managers how vigilant/organised they are, and how well supported/protected the staff are. I was glad to see more of them wearing full face plastic visors in Asda this week. A supervisor told me they stopped telling people to follow the floor arrows because they were being subjected to so much abuse :(
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Yeah, I went to the supermarket for the first time in ten days or so yesterday, social distancing had definitely noticeably lessened, ime more by people that were wearing masks who seemed to think it gave some some power to ignore all the rules.
 
chainsawjob said:
Yeah, and paying their staff a decent wage/giving them decent contracts (unlike Asda's recent pisstake when they forced everyone to sign new less favourable contracts requiring staff to be more flexible on hours). They do have extra security, on the door, but I've not seen them have to deal with any aggro in store. The woman who's usually there could be someone I've seen working the gates at Boomtown, I might ask her if she does :)
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All of those things of course.

The (fairly big) Lidl near me had one security guard policing the queue 'into' the store but nothing inside.

Asda, M&S are the only other two I have been in and they put staff on the door.
 
weepiper said:
What's happening with supermarket/food shopping elsewhere? It's generally been very civil in Edinburgh so far with people generally resigned to queuing, social distancing etc.
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I'm still finding this by and large, here in Swansea.
Sainsbury's is nearby to us and I most often use that, and I've seen very few problems :)
Even Lidls (also not far off) isn't all that bad for behaviour IME.
It's much shorter-staffed and worse for queues, and also somewhat more prone to aisle-dawdling and slow-moving people, as mentioned above. But not terrible really .... it might be down partly to me choosing quieter times to go there.
 
spoooky said:
thanks William I'll be careful next time. :)
I think the WHO is an entirely trustworthy organisation along with its main donor Bill Gates who can only have a good intentions. :D
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Fuck billionaires and WHO are a bit suss in some ways but they are verge of sorting out Malaria once and for all when no one else has given a shit since forever because it was just poor people it mostly killed.
 
Has anyone found a mask on Amazon or ebay that isn't a totally useless ripoff? And how do I ACTUALLY sort by customer review because Amazon's sort by review doesn't seem to do anything.
 
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