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Re: Covid-19 the unlockdown

Post by discovolante » Fri Aug 14, 2020 8:34 am

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Fri Aug 14, 2020 8:32 am
Oh,

https://www.derbytelegraph.co.uk/news/l ... ls-4418755

Who would have thought that the "Keep Britain Free" astroturfed movement would hinder the response to a new outbreak?
JFC. I've got to the 'why do I have to keep sharing a planet with these people?' stage.
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Re: Covid-19 the unlockdown

Post by lpm » Fri Aug 14, 2020 8:42 am

I'm enjoying how people are racing to return from France today, to avoid the completely unenforced quarantine that starts tomorrow.

It's clever how the strand of RNA only activates itself after 4 a.m. tomorrow upon detecting the crossing of the channel.
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Re: Covid-19 the unlockdown

Post by jimbob » Fri Aug 14, 2020 8:46 am

discovolante wrote:
Fri Aug 14, 2020 8:34 am
jimbob wrote:
Fri Aug 14, 2020 8:32 am
Oh,

https://www.derbytelegraph.co.uk/news/l ... ls-4418755

Who would have thought that the "Keep Britain Free" astroturfed movement would hinder the response to a new outbreak?
JFC. I've got to the 'why do I have to keep sharing a planet with these people?' stage.
They genuinely seem aggrieved at any mitigation measure.

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I ignored the rules throughout. Have never worn a masked or socially distanced. Hugged all my family and friends, had them stay over, been down the pub countless times, provided fake details. It was heavenly
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Re: Covid-19 the unlockdown

Post by shpalman » Fri Aug 14, 2020 6:45 pm

Noted person who plays other people's records epidemiologist Bob Sinclar says fuckit everybody on the dance floor YOLO!
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Re: Covid-19 the unlockdown

Post by nekomatic » Sat Aug 15, 2020 12:34 pm

lpm wrote:
Fri Aug 14, 2020 8:42 am
I'm enjoying how people are racing to return from France today, to avoid the completely unenforced quarantine that starts tomorrow.
It’s enforced by social disapproval, assuming you were foolish enough to have let anyone know where you were going.

Unfortunately as has been observed everyone knows that all teachers have been in France, so there’s no chance of them bluffing it out.
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Post by shpalman » Sat Aug 15, 2020 12:39 pm

Well who cares about children's education as long as the tourism industry scrapes by for another summer.
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Re: Covid-19 the unlockdown

Post by shpalman » Sun Aug 16, 2020 6:15 pm

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Noted person who plays other people's records epidemiologist Bob Sinclar says fuckit everybody on the dance floor YOLO!
So now the government has closed all the discos and dance halls until at least the 7th of September with no regional exceptions.
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Re: Covid-19 the unlockdown

Post by shpalman » Mon Aug 17, 2020 6:29 pm

shpalman wrote:
Sun Aug 16, 2020 6:15 pm
shpalman wrote:
Fri Aug 14, 2020 6:45 pm
Noted person who plays other people's records epidemiologist Bob Sinclar says fuckit everybody on the dance floor YOLO!
So now the government has closed all the discos and dance halls until at least the 7th of September with no regional exceptions.
This rule also includes that masks must be worn, even outside, between 6pm and 6am. You'll understand why if you've seen photos from town movida areas, full of young people young peopling all night, but of course there's the predictable OH so CoviD ISn'T CoNtAgiOuS DURIng the dAY ThEn response.
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Post by JQH » Tue Aug 18, 2020 11:16 am

According to some posters on the technicians FaceBook page, some schools are banning the wearing of masks.
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Re: Covid-19 the unlockdown

Post by jimbob » Tue Aug 18, 2020 11:35 am

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According to some posters on the technicians FaceBook page, some schools are banning the wearing of masks.
In the UK? I'd love to see the risk assessment for that.
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Post by JQH » Tue Aug 18, 2020 11:40 am

jimbob wrote:
Tue Aug 18, 2020 11:35 am
JQH wrote:
Tue Aug 18, 2020 11:16 am
According to some posters on the technicians FaceBook page, some schools are banning the wearing of masks.
In the UK? I'd love to see the risk assessment for that.
The techs are indeed asking for the RAs. I hope they're also contacting their unions but a depressing number (particularly in private schools) aren't members.
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Re: Covid-19 the unlockdown

Post by shpalman » Wed Aug 19, 2020 12:37 pm

shpalman wrote:
Sun Aug 16, 2020 6:15 pm
shpalman wrote:
Fri Aug 14, 2020 6:45 pm
Noted person who plays other people's records epidemiologist Bob Sinclar says fuckit everybody on the dance floor YOLO!
So now the government has closed all the discos and dance halls until at least the 7th of September with no regional exceptions.
And of course it's a lot of people out of work in a sector worth €4 billion* to which well we did try to let you open but it didn't work did it? and also wait a minute don't you only usually declare about €16 million per year?

So either they run on very tight margins or they are not entirely honest about their earnings.

It's been noticed in Milan that pubs and bars somehow earn about twice as much money on evenings when the Guarda di Finanza is in the area doing checks.

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Re: Covid-19 the unlockdown

Post by sTeamTraen » Wed Aug 19, 2020 1:36 pm

You know how people who are opposed to masks tend to be right-wing? And how they cite Sweden as the land of COVID-19 freedom, where people don't have to wear "muzzles"?

It turns out that there is just one Swedish political party that advocates the wearing of masks. Step forward, the anti-EU, anti-Muslim, generally nasty right-wing c.nts known as the Sweden Democrats!
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Re: Covid-19 the unlockdown

Post by Martin Y » Thu Aug 20, 2020 10:51 am

The fact that mask wearing got politicised guarantees a level of non-compliance. For some, wearing a mask makes you look like you support the other lot. It's like demanding Rangers fans wear a Celtic shirt.

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Post by bjn » Sun Aug 23, 2020 5:55 pm

In North Wales for a week of holidays, we went into the supermarket today for supplies and over 60% were maskless and seemed totally unconcerned. Eek.

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Post by jdc » Sun Aug 23, 2020 6:53 pm

bjn wrote:
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In North Wales for a week of holidays, we went into the supermarket today for supplies and over 60% were maskless and seemed totally unconcerned. Eek.
Sounds like Shipley.

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Re: Covid-19 the unlockdown

Post by AMS » Sun Aug 23, 2020 7:19 pm

bjn wrote:
Sun Aug 23, 2020 5:55 pm
In North Wales for a week of holidays, we went into the supermarket today for supplies and over 60% were maskless and seemed totally unconcerned. Eek.
Eek indeed. At the other end of the scale, we went into central Cambridge yesterday for the first time since February. I reckon people were ~95% masked up inside the main shopping arcade.

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Re: Covid-19 the unlockdown

Post by bjn » Sun Aug 23, 2020 8:20 pm

AMS wrote:
Sun Aug 23, 2020 7:19 pm
bjn wrote:
Sun Aug 23, 2020 5:55 pm
In North Wales for a week of holidays, we went into the supermarket today for supplies and over 60% were maskless and seemed totally unconcerned. Eek.
Eek indeed. At the other end of the scale, we went into central Cambridge yesterday for the first time since February. I reckon people were ~95% masked up inside the main shopping arcade.
We live in West London, high mask usage in all the shops there.

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Re: Covid-19 the unlockdown

Post by Martin Y » Sun Aug 23, 2020 8:37 pm

West London isn't homogeneous then. Asda in Park Royal got maybe 50% with masks. (That's "with" rather than 50% wearing one properly.)

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Post by headshot » Sun Aug 23, 2020 9:10 pm

In my part of the Black Country it’s pretty good. >90%

I went to Telford last weekend (for work, not by choice) and in the main shopping centre there it was maybe 60% compliance. Most of the non-compliant people were under 30.

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Re: Covid-19 the unlockdown

Post by bjn » Mon Aug 24, 2020 1:23 pm

Martin Y wrote:
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West London isn't homogeneous then. Asda in Park Royal got maybe 50% with masks. (That's "with" rather than 50% wearing one properly.)
I’m in a very very middle class but if Chiswick. Is there a breakdown anywhere on the demographics of compliance?

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Post by shpalman » Mon Aug 24, 2020 2:14 pm

In Lincoln it seems like everyone is wearing masks in the supermarkets. I haven't been in the town centre.
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Re: Covid-19 the unlockdown

Post by mediocrity511 » Mon Aug 24, 2020 7:22 pm

Nottingham it's sporadic. There's definitely a peer pressure thing going on with the tram though, people look at how many people on the tram are wearing a mask before deciding whether to bother with theirs. Seen too many people stuffing masks in their pocket as they board!

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Re: Covid-19 the unlockdown

Post by jimbob » Mon Aug 24, 2020 10:13 pm

shpalman wrote:
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In Lincoln it seems like everyone is wearing masks in the supermarkets. I haven't been in the town centre.
Likewise in my part of Derbyshire.

There were several ( maybe 5%) I saw with their noses out though in the supermarket
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Post by shpalman » Tue Aug 25, 2020 11:11 am

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