Coronavirus
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I feel like I'm relatively alone here in the UK in my relief that we're finally getting to a proper lockdown. It's overdue and seeing my friends working in the NHS, frustratingly trying to fight back the tide is heartbreaking. All these tiers that no one understands have just been a chance for many to do as they please and flout any existing rules, others have merely been confused by it all.
Our scientists have highlighted the need for a true lockdown for weeks as the cases/hospitalisations/deaths skyrocket. These calls have been thoroughly ignored by the government.
Now all I hear is complaints about the hardships of another lockdown. If people had been doing the right things already, then a lockdown is really a very minimal change in existing cautious behaviours. After 9 months, people should be used to the change in their everyday lives. What happened to the 'new normal'?
Yes the UK government sucks, but I also feel people are absolving themselves of any responsibility. The virus only spreads if people do the wrong thing. The numbers are going up because people are spreading it, wittingly or unwittingly.
Is it so hard to suck it up for a couple of months and act responsibly, forgo some middle class luxuries and ride it out?
Punches for:
– People who went to pubs/restaurants when they were open
– Travelled around the UK for leisure
– Travelled abroad for a holiday
– Spread antivaxx bullshit/don't want to be vaccinated
– Parents who want teachers to provide daycare while exposing themselves and the students they teach to the virus./rant
- World beating Track and Trace.... surely was all we needed. erm...shapesalad
- To be fair, going on Holiday was safer than going to Morrisons Supermarket. Airport quiet, few people, cleaner, more hand gel, everyone masked up.shapesalad
- Every time I go in my local Tesco Metro... I feel like I'm playing Russian Roulette. Tiny thin aisles, staff wearing masks badly, no 2m distancing. no hand gelshapesalad
- no cleaning of baskets or self-service touch screens. Queue outside just = people stand 1m next to you and fiddle with their masks.shapesalad
- Once the 1st lockdown began the govmnt stopped the key massaging about physical distancing and, crucially, isolating properly.Fax_Benson
- Why can't the Gov figure out the top areas for people spreading the virus, and just close them. Queuing 2m apart for a take-away coffee from a cafe door - doesshapesalad
- that provide a location for a super hot spot of covid infection, or is that down the bottom of the list?shapesalad
- Lockdown is just enforced social distancing.Fax_Benson
- No idea, but it's now closed off. News recently said hospitals were the hot spots for new infections! so it's all a fucking mess.shapesalad
- ... and it didn't have to be this way. follow Taiwans lead and rule book, jobs a good'un.shapesalad
- Still waiting for the Gov to tell everyone to take Vitamin D supplements....shapesalad
- I agree. But why risk the guesswork? Should distancing be 1m or 2m apart? Why not say 3m or 4m to be sure? An excess of caution can't hurtBaskerviIle
- The best advice is still the simplest. Behave like you have the virus. Assume you could always be transmitting it. Assume you could always receive it.BaskerviIle
- It should be obvious that getting on a plane to another country is counter productive. This whole thing is about keeping transmission down and containmentBaskerviIle
- In the spirit of exercising excess caution I've been taking Vit D since March, wear a mask anytime I leave my house etc. It's literally no effort on my partBaskerviIle
- Behave like you have the virus is indeed great advice. However, I now act like I don't have the virus, and everyone in Tesco's does - and do my shop in 1min.shapesalad
- and then get the f out of there. Alos I cross the road to the quieter side of the street if someone is coming towards me.shapesalad
- Hold my breath if someone passes close to me. Try to breath in fresh air with my face pointing away from where they've been.shapesalad
- Anyway.. love the fact Corybn's brother is at the anti-covid protests. So fucked up.shapesalad
- Haha, I do all of the above too. I've started doing one big weekly shop and getting to the supermarket when it opens to ensure it's very quiet.BaskerviIle
- Mr & Mrs Corbyn have a lot to answer forBaskerviIle
- Since April, not been to a supermarket after 9am... best time is between 7am - 8am.shapesalad
- LOCK IT ALL DOWNnecromation
- BURN EVERYTHING DOWNhans_glib