When will this shit end?

[steviewevie]

Vive La France

 

Edited March 27, 2021 by steviewevie

[Guest]

8 minutes ago, steviewevie said:

Vive La France

 

That’s great to see, a really slow start but they are getting on it now. 

[steviewevie]

[steviewevie]

5 minutes ago, Ozanne said:

That’s great to see, a really slow start but they are getting on it now. 

yeah...but ends on this....

 

[efcfanwirral]

2 hours ago, JoeyT said:

 

ICU overloading problem should be pretty much gone within 6 weeks or so 

[eFestivals]

25 minutes ago, steviewevie said:

Vive La France

 

World beating British variant.

[MEGABOWL]

13 hours ago, zahidf said:

Cool. They can be empty longer.

[MEGABOWL]

1 hour ago, zahidf said:

Yup

 

It’s a great point about the ‘precautionary principle.’ That simply isn’t how we live. There’s also a scary shift in how people view the relationship between Government and the people. Too many getting used to the idea that their rights and freedoms are the Governments to dole out as the Government sees fit, when it should be about the Government proving why they need restrictions. Unfortunately too many on the left, or actual Liberals, are sleeping on this.

[shoptildrop]

13 hours ago, westholtschic said:

Is that in Torquay?

No I've bought tickets for Manchester date 🙂

[steviewevie]

 

[efcfanwirral]

9 minutes ago, MEGABOWL said:

It’s a great point about the ‘precautionary principle.’ That simply isn’t how we live. There’s also a scary shift in how people view the relationship between Government and the people. Too many getting used to the idea that their rights and freedoms are the Governments to dole out as the Government sees fit, when it should be about the Government proving why they need restrictions. Unfortunately too many on the left, or actual Liberals, are sleeping on this.

Well it's signed into law til September that this is exactly the case (and clearly to be extended to next March because they'll need those powers over winter, when I'm sure some variants of concern will be put to the media around vote time to extend it further). They may lift parts of lockdown but they will never give back the emergency powers 

People's fear will keep going long beyond the vaccination program

Edited March 27, 2021 by efcfanwirral

[efcfanwirral]

I noticed something yesterday - now that cases are down so much I'm not as stringent about sanitising every few minutes in the supermarket and the masks have become 100% about following the rules, not about making myself feel better/protected 

If I'm feeling this complacent, and I've been very good throughout this, I can imagine its very widespread

[steviewevie]

11 minutes ago, MEGABOWL said:

It’s a great point about the ‘precautionary principle.’ That simply isn’t how we live. There’s also a scary shift in how people view the relationship between Government and the people. Too many getting used to the idea that their rights and freedoms are the Governments to dole out as the Government sees fit, when it should be about the Government proving why they need restrictions. Unfortunately too many on the left, or actual Liberals, are sleeping on this.

isn't that article/tweet complaining about vaccine passports for pubs etc?

I can't see the point myself. Everyone will be vaccinated by the summer anyway...well, maybe not everyone but certainly enough. If individual pubs want to do it, fair enough...but don't have to make it a national requirement everywhere imo. 

[incident]

55 minutes ago, steviewevie said:

The USA figure there is definitely wrong.

Unless by "Domestic", they mean "USA, Canada, Mexico, and quite a few smaller North American countries".

[zahidf]

 

[Crazyfool01]

My workplace was like a scrum for the last hour .... next week is a disaster waiting to happen ...everyone now out and about with the jabs protecting them ... including all the shielders from mon ... oh fuck we can’t go shopping anywhere else let’s all pile to supermarket ... probably going to be safer to open non essential retail now than have everyone crammed together in supermarkets 

[steviewevie]

13 minutes ago, incident said:

The USA figure there is definitely wrong.

Unless by "Domestic", they mean "USA, Canada, Mexico, and quite a few smaller North American countries".

have they yet? I know they have planned to...not sure actually happened...

[jannybruck]

16 minutes ago, crazyfool1 said:

My workplace was like a scrum for the last hour .... next week is a disaster waiting to happen ...everyone now out and about with the jabs protecting them ... including all the shielders from mon ... oh fuck we can’t go shopping anywhere else let’s all pile to supermarket ... probably going to be safer to open non essential retail now than have everyone crammed together in supermarkets 

Yes, we're at the point now here in London where there's clear 'pressure points' because people want to be out and about but we've not quite reached the official date yet. Outdoor markets are packed, parks rammed, supermarkets too.

These places function at normal capacity when society is spread out with thousands of different things to do and options to spend your time, but totally bottleneck when only a few are available.

[Crazyfool01]

1 minute ago, jannybruck said:

Yes, we're at the point now here in London where there's clear 'pressure points' because people want to be out and about but we've not quite reached the official date yet. Outdoor markets are packed, parks rammed, supermarkets too.

These places function at normal capacity when society is spread out with thousands of different things to do and options to spend your time, but totally bottleneck when only a few are available.

This upcoming week is going to be challenging ... Easter Thursday is the busiest single day for supermarkets ... we have started to see a slight drop in online orders now ... when normally they would be increasing ... those orders that have dropped off will be mean increased footfall ... and I don’t think many are doing the queuing thing now ... 

[zahidf]

 

 

[incident]

2 minutes ago, crazyfool1 said:

Easter Thursday is the busiest single day for supermarkets

Noted. Avoid at all costs.

[steviewevie]

3 minutes ago, zahidf said:

 

 

he needs more union jacks there...

[eFestivals]

47 minutes ago, efcfanwirral said:

I noticed something yesterday - now that cases are down so much I'm not as stringent about sanitising every few minutes in the supermarket and the masks have become 100% about following the rules, not about making myself feel better/protected 

If I'm feeling this complacent, and I've been very good throughout this, I can imagine its very widespread

i yhink hospital ae getting a bit complacent

[steviewevie]

 

[eFestivals]

1 minute ago, steviewevie said:

 

my 85 year old mum has decided not to have it shes also signed a dnr. I THINK THE TWO THINGS COME FROM THE SAME PLACE