Went down the shop for rolls. No masks apart from me. Staff and customers.
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Do we need a coronavirus thread?
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You’re a week early...
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Oh, we have a week of liberty? Good to know.
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“This attack on our liberty, our magnificent liberty, must be stopped, and it will be stopped very quickly.”
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Masks are just a smokescreen to get the shops open. Because we have to consume, consume, consume, until there’s nothing left...
In the same way that bicycle helmets are a smokescreen to allow drivers to take less care around cyclists.
You mark my words. We’ll look back on this with incredulity, saying, “I can’t believe we were hoodwinked & forced into wearing PPE”
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I'm not sure the comparison to helmets is helpful. Helmets only protect the wearer; masks are for the protection of those sharing space with the wearer, as much as for the protection of the wearer themselves.
Seatbelts or hand washing seem to me to be better analogies.
(I'm not disagreeing with your first paragraph!)
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@steveo: I saw this useful infographic from mountain rescue
It's from Mountaineering Scotland. It even says that on the Scottish Mountain Rescue web site that links to it.
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I think of my shopping mask as Impersonal Protective Equipment. It's an airborne virus, I might have it without knowing, the mask makes others safer than they would otherwise be so I find it not unreasonable to wear it.
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So Mountainerring Scotland isn't the Mountain Rescue?
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@IWRATS nae masks but, more importantly, were there any rolls?
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@jdanielp
Oddly, no. I got crescents instead.
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It's from Mountaineering Scotland. It even says that on the Scottish Mountain Rescue web site that links to it.
Okay I got it from the mountain rescue peoples Facebook.
Tomato, tomato?
Which still begs the question why is camping so inherently more dangerous than walking?
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@steveo
most envious of your casual contemporary appropriation of begs the question
if i tried that round my way, the prescriptivist grammarian polizei would rain hellfire and damnation down upon my very soul
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Did not see this plot twist.
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hellfire and damnation
I see myself as a modern free flowing language type, language evolves man, like, I could care less about historical usages and whether its there, their or thur.
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WASHINGTON — After several months of mixed messages on the coronavirus pandemic, the White House is settling on a new one: Learn to live with it.
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@iwrats "I think of my shopping mask as Impersonal Protective Equipment. It's an airborne virus, I might have it without knowing,"
Appreciate that there is a range of views here.
I wear a mask at LB whenever anyone comes to shop. Bicycle Works wear masks all day in shop. No-one is allowed in without. Cycle Service just re-opened mon to wed last week. Hannah was behind screen at till no mask. Customers allowed in one at a time.
CV-19 precautions looks like it's breaking down into tribes today a bit.
- Four nation, one kingdom approach now having to be adjusted as too many deaths still in neighbouring administration.
- Airport lobby keen to vilify cautious approach from ScotGov.
- People wanting sun may head for English airport to fly to a country not available from here. That means they are already entering a higher risk country before flying to the next. They maybe are believers of BJ and not fans of NS?
- So we may end up having an HK style of life with a one country, two systems based on your political viewpoint.
- Mask wearing and the easing of lockdown. I look at wearing mine as a non verbal reminder to others that life is not normal and CV-19 will work away trying to find the next gap to infect. It might be futile but
whatever we have done here has had some effect. Poorer than it would have been if we had acted earlier at start.
Can at least now identify clusters such as the Cumbria, D&G in the news.Posted 3 years ago # -
People wanting sun may head for English airport to fly to a country not available from here.
One of my neighbours doesn't believe in wearing masks, or face coverings, nor the science of mask efficacy, nor even asymptomatic carriers, and is off on holiday soon to somewhere that I'm not even sure is in Europe. They are also hoping a 14-day quarantine isn't in place when they come back.
Travellers gonna travel.
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“They are also hoping a 14-day quarantine isn't in place when they come back.”
But if it is??
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Meanwhile in a neighbouring administration.
If that doesn't get the R number up nothing will.
Picture of a packed Soho.
- Why would these people in Soho think they can flout the rules in this way? Who do they think they are - my Father or my Senior Advisor?
#COVIDIOTS #SecondWave https://t.co/uoVxzSZ7jvhttps://twitter.com/BorisJohnson_MP/status/1279671769092284416?s=19
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30% of mask-wearers in the supermarket queue this week.
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@IWRATS, yeah about the same proportion, 25-30% of shoppers in local supermarché wearing masks yesterday...
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Widespread availability and consumption of cocaine would explain a lot of the driving recently.
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@Iwrats, fraid so and maybe also its distribution
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I'd be driving Miss Daisy if I had a boot full of nose powder.
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@ Iwrats, yes you could be a criminal master mind
Problem is their boots are full of the Colombian marching powder and their noses are full of Charlie too.
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