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  2. Hurt/Heal 2021 - Ultimate Headliners Edition!

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    2 minutes ago, Ted Dansons Wig said:

    Bless you sweetie

    I think it's natural isn't it? I'm sure you have some art/music/culture you really love, and you'd love others to be able to experience it the same way you do. If that makes sense.

    (I genuinely wasn't meaning to come across patronising, by the way!)

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  4. When will this shit end?

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    1 minute ago, zahidf said:

     

    When the Brexit vote was to Leave, a number of people in/involved with the EU asked what they would miss the most about the UK's involvement in the EU.

    The MHRA was a very common answer - I didn't really think much of it at the time. I can completely see why now.

  8. Hurt/Heal 2021 - Ultimate Headliners Edition!

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    7 hours ago, Ted Dansons Wig said:

    The Cure - 170

    Radiohead - 145   (-10)

    The Rolling Stones - 125 

    Stevie Wonder - 215

    Blur - 160 

    R.E.M. - 155 

    David Bowie - 269 

     

    Radiohead more important than the Rolling Stones? Lawdy. Get.a.grip. Most important band since the Beatles? They’d struggle to make the Top 10.

    I feel sad for you that you don’t/can’t enjoy them, genuinely. 

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  12. When will this shit end?

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    2 minutes ago, JoeyT said:

    ONS Survey

    12% of people now meeting someone outside of their household or support bubble indoors...

    image.png.4e89f67193c5f264e5aad7141f7d4063.png

    Correction - 12% of people willing to admit meeting someone outside of their household or support bubble.

  19. When will this shit end?

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    Just now, DeanoL said:

    I think the residual social distancing thing is important. I don't think it's as scary as it sounds. Social distancing includes a lot of different things, and some just won't be residual: people will go meet their friends and family and be in close proximity to them.

    Where we will see residual impacts, that will be beneficial, is with interactions with strangers. It will maybe stop being the norm to shake the hand of every single person you meet in a business context. Or at least it'll no longer be seen a bit rude to say "ah, I won't, I have a sniffle".

    When you're in a supermarket, and someone else is at the shelf you want, looking at it, maybe you'll wait until they're done rather than leaning in front of them to get your milk.

    If you're in town and want to get past someone but can't without brushing against them, maybe you'll just wait instead. 

    None of this will make your life loads worse, but this, plus people being more aware of what surfaces they're touching, and washing their hands, will add up to a decent impact on all infectious disease.

    If there are any social distancing guidelines still in place by September I would imagine them to be:

    • Wear a mask on public transport if you're ill or have a cough
    • Don't touch strangers

    I'd argue these are things we should have already been doing out of politeness anyway. And if this pandemic makes these two things the norm then at least it will have done something good. Most of my female friends are perfectly happy to never get back to the "normal" of being touched by men they don't know in pubs and bars.

    The potential issue with the first few paragraphs of your post is everyone's behaviour is different - some will be more polite and respectful as you say, but many won't - so this will continue to cause all sorts of social anxiety/divisiveness. 

    I do however totally agree on your last couple of points.

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    1 minute ago, squirrelarmy said:

    Mask usage this winter has contributed to one of the smallest flu seasons in recent years. Same with catching a cold. Because people are being more self conscious about mask wearing and using hand sanitiser a lot of the common viruses aren’t being spread as normal. 

    But the point they've been making is that all it has potentially done is delay a shitload of flu deaths - those people who didn't die of flu this year will be one year older, with a weaker immune system. Each year we continue to mask up and distance, we're just building and delaying that issue, kicking the can down the road.

    So either we mask and distance for the rest of our lives, or we accept that in coming next couple of winters we're going to have a shit ton of flu deaths. Those are our two options. I think Whitty's comment re: 30,000 more deaths this coming winter is just preparing us for this happening.

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    Just now, zahidf said:

     

    Probably the smallest? Intriguing.

    I wonder if he's answering that in purely an epidemiological way, rather than socially, as I think many are absolutely seeing the end of social distancing as by far the biggest step.

  25. When will this shit end?

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    I still can’t get over how childish a concept Fake SAGE is.

    Imagine a Fake FA who had pretend meetings about what should pretend happen if they pretended to be in a parallel universe where they had any sort of relevance.

    Their existence is genuinely embarrassing. 

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