Topic: Corona Virus Panic/Discussion Thread

@Octane Three councils here have gone into local lockdown - Glasgow, West Dunbartonshire and East Renfrewshire. I’m East Dunbartonshire so very much a close escape. It’s not even a proper lockdown, you can’t visit other households but the pubs, schools and shops are fine. It’s baffling.

@nessisonett Yeah, that's kinda comparable to over here. You can still visit other households, but it's recommended you don't invite more than six people in total (including yourself). They actually suggested going to the pub for birthday parties and whatnot. It sounds counter-intuitive, but it's easier to track if an outbreak does happen, because you have to leave your contact info when you go to the pub. Since it's in a semi-public place, they can make sure social distancing is maintained. At least, I'm sure it's better regulated than at home.

Can say with certainty we are hurtling towards a second wave with kids in school. Watching my daughter going in today was awesome, all smiles and laughter.

Little trolls gonna be passing corona on like pass the parcel. 4 year olds social distancing rofl.

My local council is going back into lockdown tomorrow. It’s my birthday tomorrow. I think the world has it in for me, now I can’t see my grandparents, sister or brother.

@Arugula Ditto. I’m not sure I’m going to know how to deal with large social gatherings ever again. I was piss-poor at them before, and now I’ve had 6 months of respite from people and whatever semblance of social decorum I once had is now dead.

@Arugula Cheers, it just feels very much like I’m the unluckiest person in the world 😅

@RogerRoger Somewhat hilariously, you can still go to the pub with other households, you just can’t go to each other’s houses. It’s... a complete mess.

@nessisonett That sucks. Do they have computers? Maybe y'all can do a video call together until restrictions lift.

@nessisonett Happy Biffday Nes.

@Th3solution when this is all over we will meet up in ibiza. Just a small joint, maybe Privilege in Ibiza and throw off these social restraints.

OK so now we know opening schools was a bit silly, got more cases than a Mexican drug smuggling operation. No hope of holding out for a vaccine with drip fed occasional cases as wave 2s incoming!

I like how I then went onto an article about the Mario 3D collection being delayed since about March on NLife and the comments are filled with anti-maskers going on about how the virus was invented to control the populace. The public never fail to disappoint 😂😂

@themcnoisy Cheers 🍻. Not sure where Ibiza is but it sounds grand!

@nessisonett I understand we should all wear masks to protect more vulnerable members of the population, however wearing masks is a fudge. Being a minimum of 2 metres away, isolating often with less social contact is more effective.

Bob. Has 2 kids in school, uses public transport, works in a meat processing plant, visits the pub twice a week and lives in Bolton.

Doesn't matter if Bob triples down on masks, he's getting Covid 19.

As for the plandemic - like all Conspiracy theories - if it involves thousands of people in a complex scheme then it's not true. Aspects of the Conspiracy theory are true though, the ridiculous costs involved in medicine - governments giving contracts to friends - the poor being seen off. But that's reactive capatilism rather than a proactive virus scam to control people.

@themcnoisy Ridiculous medical costs and contracts being given to the PM’s friends could be applied to literally any scenario conceivable. It was happening before this, it’ll happen after this. It’s the nutters out protesting that are causing the rest of us to have to go back into isolation.

@themcnoisy The thing with all this bits is that wearing a mask is just one weapon in the arsenal. If you have it and are out and about you limit transmission a bit. If you then social distance and wear a mask, drops more... and so on.

The problem where I am is the younguns just not social distancing, meeting multiple households and acting like normal (then wearing a mask).

I feel sorry for Bob though.

@Rudy_Manchego Yeah, good points. People expect one thing to be the end all solution. Whereas they have to understand that it only decreases the chance of contraction and spreading. The more measures to apply (mask, social distancing, no clubbing, hand washing, etc), the lower the spread of the virus will be.

@Rudy_Manchego @Octane I agree that masks as part of a combined mitigation strategy is sound.

However the reality is it gives folk a false sense of security. So where as 2 months ago when masking up wasn't such a hot potato - we had good social distancing measures with practical solutions. Now it's back to 2019 with added masks. And let's be honest the same masks are used again and again and again.

In my job I come in contact with the public. Most people without masks keep their distance. The ones wearing masks get in your face.

I know it isn't much (especially with you in lockdown again) but I do hope you have yourself a good birthday today @nessisonett!

... Can't really say much for the actual topic beyond teaching in 2020 now is exhausting to say the least 😂

@themcnoisy Maybe - and obviously we live in different places. I think a lot of people wear masks because they are told to now not because they understand their point. I was in a large motorway services at the weekend, arrows on the floor, sanitizer everywhere, clear signage. Everyone masks, half the people just ignoring distancing etc.

I think if people are going to ignore distancing they will do it with or without a mask.

So it sounds like the ‘conspiracy theory’ crowd and ‘don’t tread on my civil liberties’ crowd are even present in the UK. There is a faction of people here in the US that say that COVID will disappear after the Nov elections because the pandemic has been entirely fabricated for political means.