Anyone wondering why shop workers aren’t wearing masks should simply try wearing one for 9 hours continuously.
Extremely uncomfortable, especially if the wearer also has to wear glasses which then constantly steam up.
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Do we need a coronavirus thread?
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realistically, the establishment have made their play
wear masks on public transport and just get on with it
but it is over .. capitalist realism really is finito !!
if only mark fisher was still around to see it ..
hold firm in unity because this has only just begun
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If there is a south Edinburgh outbreak of covid, it will probably be at The Canny Man's. The place was absolutely hoachin' this afternoon when I was riding home. The patio-ish bit by the front door was wall-to-wall people.
I was further than five miles from home, but don't tell anyone.
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I wasn't aware that pubs were allowed to open yet. Or was there another reason for the crowd being there?
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The Torphin was selling takeaway cocktails from a hatch at the front. I saw on Twitter pictures of a crowd outside, then the police arriving....
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Crowds of youtz smoking sweet leaves on Craigmillar Hill. Watcha gonna do?
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Start singing "I love you, Sweet Leaf". They'd soon disperse if I did, anyway.
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Senior figures from across the NHS have issued an urgent plea for a comprehensive plan to tackle a second wave of coronavirus infections, as Boris Johnson continues to lose public confidence in his handling of the pandemic.
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In an eviscerating essay, LIZ GERARD says the UK is being misgoverned, misled and manipulated, with doublespeak and double standards.“
https://www.theneweuropean.co.uk/top-stories/uk-population-being-fooled-by-government-1-6684939
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Blue-sky thinking: how cities can keep air clean after coronavirus Many urban dwellers have gazed in awe at their newly clean cities over the last few months.
But three – Copenhagen, Oakland and Mexico City – are leading the way in making such transformations permanent. How?
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Grassroots activism, pragmatic government and high taxes have been the drivers for change. Old photographs prove the city had as much of a car culture as any European city in the 1970s, when more than 100,000 citizens demonstrated in Rådhuspladsen (City Hall Square) to demand their streets back. Since then, town planners have steadily reduced parking spaces and widened areas for pedestrians and bicycles.
Jeppe Juul, of the Danish Eco Council, says it is a question of priorities. “It feels good to walk around Copenhagen,” he says. “Pedestrians have more space than bikes, and bikes have more space than cars.” The city now vies with Amsterdam for being the most bicycle-friendly city in the world. This means traffic lights with resting bars that riders can hang on to without touching the ground, take-away coffee containers designed for bikes, and groups that organise parent’s shifts for schools runs on “minibus-like” bicycles that can take up to six children at a time.
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I know there's a few kickstarter fans on here, and a few gamers...so here you go: Lockdown the game
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/jamesveitch/lockdown-the-game?ref=thanks-copy
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Scotland to move to phase 2 next Thurs?...
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Golfers hid in back of van to get smuggled on the MIllport ferrry
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Saw that gembo. Same report also had some people caught attempting to smuggle themselves OFF Arran to visit folk on mainland. Guess that's the other side of severing transport links
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The former government chief scientific adviser Sir David King, who now leads the Independent Sage group, is calling for a new approach, warning that the measures in place in England will not be enough to pick up 80% of the contacts of people with the virus, which they say is needed to prevent the infection rate rising.
“The government has placed huge emphasis on their test, track and trace system in recent weeks, even labelling it ‘world-beating’. It is clear from our research that this simply isn’t the case – indeed, the system as it stands is not fit for purpose,” King said.
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Sneezed into my facemask in Sainsburys for the first time.
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SCOTS are continuing to ignore Government pleas to curb their driving as the coronavirus lockdown is eased, with car use elevated up for a second week.
The latest figures from Transport Scotland said car journeys were up 35 per cent between June 1 and 7 compared to the last full week before the lockdown eased, May 18 to 24.
Ferry journeys were up 25%, air journeys 20%, rail journeys 15%, concessionary bus trips 15%, cycling 30% and walking 20%.
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Tourism, in a month...
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Anything on hairdressers? (All hairdressers are in the employment of the government)
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"All hairdressers are in the employment of the government"
Only those with sufficient experience in their current employment state.
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@acsimpson
Was watching Withnail and Us a documentary about Withnail and I
Paul McGann saying he was walking in a Canadian town and he heard a disembodied voice saying Have you gone on holiday by mistake
richard E grant said Oh I was in holiday in a small village in the south of France a few years ago and a car drove by and they shouted SCRUBBERS
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Oops, I should be paying more attention. Then I wouldn't have missed the obvious Withnail reference.
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In one of life’s ironies Danny, roller of the camberwell carrot and believer in hairs being our aerials Which pick up messages from other planets, is now chauf comme un oeuf.
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