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Post by Jambowayoh on Sept 2, 2021 22:09:33 GMT
We've obviously gotta get restrictions in early so that they can allow us to have Christmas. I really would like to come back for Christmas but I'm definitely preparing for the idea of that not being possible. |
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Post by Deleted on Sept 2, 2021 22:10:37 GMT
Gonna call it, restrictions back in some form within 2 months, if not in the next month. I hope you’re wrong. |
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Post by Aunt Alison on Sept 2, 2021 22:11:19 GMT
Wait, did you come over here stealing our PS5s? What the fuck Jambo
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Post by Jambowayoh on Sept 2, 2021 22:24:51 GMT
Wait, did you come over here stealing our PS5s? What the fuck Jambo Damn right I did. And I'd do it again by waking up early to be in an online queue so I can give a business some money. |
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Post by TheSaint on Sept 2, 2021 23:05:11 GMT
I think we are probably done with lockdown unless a new vaccine resistant variant pops up. At most masks might come back but the plan now seems for us all to catch it ASAP.
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Post by technoish on Sept 2, 2021 23:25:35 GMT
My brother-in-law works in adult social care - they've been told to stock up on enough PPE to last until next summer, and to prep for a new lockdown by November.
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Post by knighty on Sept 3, 2021 3:58:03 GMT
Can’t imagine there will be another lockdown….and even if there was, there’s no way they’d be planning for it now, because this government never plans this far in advance for anything.
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Post by Dougs on Sept 3, 2021 5:22:26 GMT
I think we are probably done with lockdown unless a new vaccine resistant variant pops up. At most masks might come back but the plan now seems for us all to catch it ASAP. That's my guess too, but there has to be a threshold for deaths which becomes unacceptable. 5/600 deaths a day? Fuck knows. |
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Post by Dave_McCoy on Sept 3, 2021 6:11:58 GMT
Pretty sure the government are on the 'Fuck It' phase of their Covid plan, so no more restrictions on the horizon.
Although, now I think about it...I think it's always been that way until they start getting critised. To be fair, the Tories and their mates will get the best care if they get ill so forget the proles. They don't want a silly pandemic getting in the way of their day to day life. Heaven forbid!
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Post by Deleted on Sept 3, 2021 6:35:29 GMT
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Post by Dougs on Sept 3, 2021 6:41:46 GMT
Thanks for that. I now feel a little sick.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 3, 2021 6:43:52 GMT
Not nice reading but very compelling. These people are genuine heroes, imagine having to do that every day? I get pissed off at work but that really puts things into context.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 3, 2021 6:44:11 GMT
Imagine the feeling of regret while you're going through that knowing that an injection could have stopped it. Bit you didn't because of something you watched on youtube. Fucking idiots.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 3, 2021 6:47:08 GMT
Apparently that regret is very common, even the grandstanding, anti-vax idiots on social media end up crying and admitting they should have had the jab.
Monumental stupidity. Hard to understate.
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Post by Tuffty on Sept 3, 2021 7:04:02 GMT
And no matter how many instances of it come out and circulate on social media, people would rather eat apple flavoured horse de wormer and risk shitting out their stomach lining then get the jab.
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Post by mcmonkeyplc on Sept 3, 2021 8:28:42 GMT
I think we are probably done with lockdown unless a new vaccine resistant variant pops up. At most masks might come back but the plan now seems for us all to catch it ASAP. That's my guess too, but there has to be a threshold for deaths which becomes unacceptable. 5/600 deaths a day? Fuck knows. Yeah how Covid affects us has changed due to the vaccine and that makes it much harder to justify a full lockdown. www.economist.com/leaders/how-the-pandemic-became-stagflationary/21804167That said a new variant or deaths going unacceptably high might push us to it. We really need to re-mandate mask wearing though, it's actually been proved to slow the spread. |
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Post by mcmonkeyplc on Sept 3, 2021 8:35:46 GMT
Thanks, very compelling and I could feel myself feeling sicker after reading each stage. 🤮 |
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Post by Dougs on Sept 3, 2021 8:36:26 GMT
I'd like to see some comparisons of growth rate between Scotland (where masks are still mandatory) and England, once the back to school impact has been factored in. It might even exist....
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Post by Jambowayoh on Sept 3, 2021 8:52:18 GMT
That's my guess too, but there has to be a threshold for deaths which becomes unacceptable. 5/600 deaths a day? Fuck knows. Yeah how Covid affects us has changed due to the vaccine and that makes it much harder to justify a full lockdown. www.economist.com/leaders/how-the-pandemic-became-stagflationary/21804167That said a new variant or deaths going unacceptably high might push us to it. We really need to re-mandate mask wearing though, it's actually been proved to slow the spread. I don't know how you'd do that here. Just from my own anecdotal observations, people seem to think it's all over. |
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Post by Dougs on Sept 3, 2021 8:56:40 GMT
I guess we'd need clearer and stronger messaging that masks do actually work. Logically I think they must work, but I haven't seen (not that I look often though) that clearly says the consensus is that they work, and by X% or whatever.
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Post by TheSaint on Sept 3, 2021 9:14:22 GMT
I read an article the other day on a big study in Bangladesh but I'm having trouble finding it now. It looked at infection rates with no mask, cloth mask and blue surgical masks. The blue ones were by far the best, cloth masks helped but much less and as you would expect no mask was by far the worst.
Masks have become more about class and political ideology here though so I'm not sure they could get people back to using them even if they tried.
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Post by Jambowayoh on Sept 3, 2021 9:17:23 GMT
I can't remember where I saw it but there was a medical picture that showed it considerably reduced viral load, which is a thing that people gloss over. You may still get Covid while wearing a mask but the viral load you receive will be significantly less which would reduce the severity of your symptoms. Obviously you have stupid people who see masks as a way of trapping CO2 as well as those who use bad faith arguments that masks aren't 100% effective so why wear one.
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Post by Tuffty on Sept 3, 2021 9:37:14 GMT
A work colleague was telling me how his uncle went blind after taking the vaccine. And then the next day he said that his neighbour died 6 days after taking it.
I dont get anti vax vibes from him, but when I told him I was already double jabbed he looked almost disappointed.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 3, 2021 9:41:57 GMT
I had a contractor come to fix our boiler recently. He said that he wasn't jabbed, and I questioned why. Started coming out with loads of absolute tosh, like they invented it, and they'll just invent another one. You don't know what's in the vaccines, all that shit.
He said his wife and father died a few years ago, I think he's lashing out at the medical establishment as a facet of that grief. I can understand it, but he's still a fucking idiot.
Was minded to report him to his company, but didn't want to get him fired or anything. He could be going round houses spreading it merrily. Don't like to grass but he shouldn't really be allowed to do that kind of job if he's not willing to consider the risk he is posing to other people.
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Post by Jambowayoh on Sept 3, 2021 9:44:22 GMT
A work colleague was telling me how his uncle went blind after taking the vaccine. And then the next day he said that his neighbour died 6 days after taking it. I dont get anti vax vibes from him, but when I told him I was already double jabbed he looked almost disappointed. His Uncle went blind? I mean, what? |
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Post by Danno on Sept 3, 2021 9:46:28 GMT
A work colleague was telling me how his uncle went blind after taking the vaccine. And then the next day he said that his neighbour died 6 days after taking it. I dont get anti vax vibes from him, but when I told him I was already double jabbed he looked almost disappointed. His Uncle went blind? I mean, what? Uncontrollable wanking is a common side effect |
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Post by mcmonkeyplc on Sept 3, 2021 9:47:03 GMT
We had our regular plumber come over around early June to fit some TRV's on our upstairs radiators and I was surprised he wasn't wearing a mask. I asked him to wear one as we had a newborn in the house and again was gobsmacked that he said "Sure, if you have one I'll wear one".
I suppose it's good that he actually wore it but I shouldn't need to ask and I definitely shouldn't need to provide one!
We won't be using him again anytime soon.
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Post by Jambowayoh on Sept 3, 2021 9:55:28 GMT
If users THFourteen and David Richardson were here they would all let us know how judgemental we are.
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Post by Tuffty on Sept 3, 2021 10:00:42 GMT
A work colleague was telling me how his uncle went blind after taking the vaccine. And then the next day he said that his neighbour died 6 days after taking it. I dont get anti vax vibes from him, but when I told him I was already double jabbed he looked almost disappointed. His Uncle went blind? I mean, what? Apparently the vaccine just messed up with the nerves behind his eyes to the point where he's now permanently blind. I didn't call it out at the time because I didn't want to get wrapped up in an argument, especially during lunch. But if he tries it again, with anyone else, I'm tempted to just question further and see how far it can go. |
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Post by suicida on Sept 3, 2021 10:03:46 GMT
It's totally acceptible to me to judge the fuck out of someone for not wearing a mask. If someone isn't prepared to do the absolute bare minimum to protect their fellow citizens from a deadly virus during a pandemic, at little inconvenience to themselves, I'm perfectly within my rights to judge them a selfish asshole.
Lots of people are advertising exactly who they are at this time
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