Coronavirus

…but it's very dangerous to put on risk to the rest of people because all that shit could bring the virus back and start another worse lockdown
 
To what extent are people actually up in arms about lockdown, though? I see populist press leaping on every opportunity to show that the masses want restrictions lifted ASAP. And yet people blew the whistle en masse via social media when someone decided to ignore social distancing and hold a street party in this town yesterday. From what I've seen, it's a minority who are ignoring guidance, and an even smaller minority who are dead against lockdown. Some people may do it grudgingly, but they accept it.

Like I said earlier, there are people letting their kids play out with other kids, but if the postman walked along the street they'd freak and run out to drag their kids in.
 
Brigantium said:
Like I said earlier, there are people letting their kids play out with other kids, but if the postman walked along the street they'd freak and run out to drag their kids in.
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It's always easier to point the finger at somebody else.
 
Brigantium said:
To what extent are people actually up in arms about lockdown, though? I see populist press leaping on every opportunity to show that the masses want restrictions lifted ASAP. And yet people blew the whistle en masse via social media when someone decided to ignore social distancing and hold a street party in this town yesterday. From what I've seen, it's a minority who are ignoring guidance, and an even smaller minority who are dead against lockdown. Some people may do it grudgingly, but they accept it.

Like I said earlier, there are people letting their kids play out with other kids, but if the postman walked along the street they'd freak and run out to drag their kids in.
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In the UK we have been pretty good at following the lockdown guidelines. That being said, I fear the toll we would have to have pay - here and elsewhere - in terms of the mental and other health problems associated to the current situation is going to be significant.
 
Which is really why we need to observe lockdown as strictly as possible now, rather than stretching things out or bringing a second lockdown later because infection and death rates stay high or increase. The mental health timebomb has already hit, especially for those who had poor mental health anyway, and now can't access the few things that supported them.
 
Imposing a stricter second lockdown would probably lead to riots as people would be fighting for food at the dustbins by then. If you are struggling to make ends meet, you’d probably be willing to catch the virus and hope for the best as the mortality rate is not that high.
 
So Boris' updated guidance is about as clear as mud. He's suggested anyone unable to work from home should go back to work (didn't clarify where these leaves people with risk but not extreme risk health conditions), and especially in construction or manufacture, and new workplace legislation is expected for social distancing measures....but otherwise it's passing the buck to employers and hoping that they actually provide conditions where staff can be socially distanced. That's currently imposible at my workplace, and not likely to be possible even with a reorganisation of furniture.

He also suggests people could walk or cycle to work - not very practical for a heck of a lot of the population, especially in and around London, so I can see packed public transport again very shortly.
 
Brigantium said:
So Boris' updated guidance is about as clear as mud. He's suggested anyone unable to work from home should go back to work (didn't clarify where these leaves people with risk but not extreme risk health conditions), and especially in construction or manufacture, and new workplace legislation is expected for social distancing measures....but otherwise it's passing the buck to employers and hoping that they actually provide conditions where staff can be socially distanced. That's currently imposible at my workplace, and not likely to be possible even with a reorganisation of furniture.

He also suggests people could walk or cycle to work - not very practical for a heck of a lot of the population, especially in and around London, so I can see packed public transport again very shortly.
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Did you expect any better? We are being led by donkeys.

I am glad I went out for a walk with the family in the blustery weather rather than listen to that incompetent clown addressing the nation.
 
I didn't watch it, I read the transcript instead. Seriously, will they stop making preventable loss of life seem inevitable. Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland don't seem to be onboard with this business as usual approach, regardless of how many deaths this results in.
 
And the worrying thing is, some people are seeing it that way. Oh well, you can't make people do stuff, think of the economy, lockdown can't go on much longer, it's a tragedy but it's going to keep running anyway. This is a wealthy country, there are less wealthy countries which are managing it better. The only difference is, Britain's economy has more to lose.
 
I was chattin to a mate from Belfast who has been back to work on a building site in London for the last 2 weeks, he says buses are busy anyway even before this announcement. He said hes seen packed buses and lots of people in parks. He says that it is nowhere near possible to maintain distancing on the building site he works on. He says there are measures in place but they are not workable and everybody ignores them anyway.
Boris' announcement will see this replicated all over England, I'm sure. The only way there will not be a massive spike in cases of covid is if it has all been a lie to cover up 5G mind control from the outset.
 
Travis The Dragon said:
Here at places like Walmart, we see a mom and her 3 kids and no one has a mask on.
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Yeah, it’s a really mixed bag in the Twin Cities. Sometimes you see almost half the people with masks in stores, trying to maintain their distance; and other times you’ll see almost no one in masks, and they’re coughing and walking right next to you as if nothing has changed.

The people who think they have a god shield are the most frustrating — I heard a woman arguing with a nurse at the entrance to a clinic where she was insisting that she didn’t need a mask because her fate was “in the lord’s hands”. The nurse tried asking her about the potential effects on other people from her not wearing a mask, and she just laughed it off like it was irrelevant. I’m sorry, but first amendment protections end where a person’s actions start causing demonstrable risk of physical harm to others.
 
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