Corona Virus

[The Guvnor]

Just returned from shopping and seen the daily deaths, once again absolutely heart breaking, but am I surprised, no.  People ambling round shops without masks or gloves, almost impossible to maintain the required Social distancing due to numbers. I saw one bloke touch every fcuking grapefruit before he made his choice. 

I am astonished that so many people are prepared to enter shops without any PPE especially the elderly it really is akin to Russian roulette.

Public transport aside, shops are surely the petri dish for this dreadful virus and with so many dumb fcuks around it aint going anytime soon.

[Jimothy]

1 minute ago, The Guvnor said:

Just returned from shopping and seen the daily deaths, once again absolutely heart breaking, but am I surprised, no.  People ambling round shops without masks or gloves, almost impossible to maintain the required Social distancing due to numbers. I saw one bloke touch every fcuking grapefruit before he made his choice. 

I am astonished that so many people are prepared to enter shops without any PPE especially the elderly it really is akin to Russian roulette.

Public transport aside, shops are surely the petri dish for this dreadful virus and with so many dumb fcuks around it aint going anytime soon.

Everything else you've said fine but on the gloves, this sums it up

 

[Bellend Sebastian]

I forgot it's the Freedom UK events today, isn't it? Does anyone know if they've gone ahead and if anybody actually turned up? Nothing being reported on the Mercury website

[RowlattsFox]

Went for a walk along the beach at St Annes earlier, busy but not 'normal' busy. Plenty of people about but in most cases abiding social distancing pretty well. Apart from pubs and some businesses closed you wouldn't know there was anything to different to normal.

 

Not going to lie, enjoyed it getting out with my lad. Even had some chips and an ice cream 

[urban.spaceman]

[The Guvnor]

7 minutes ago, Facecloth said:

Everything else you've said fine but on the gloves, this sums it up

 

Unfortunately I take your point. I can just imagine some fcuking idiots having the same gloves for everything. Would be interesting to see how many people use hand sanitizer correctly whilst food shopping, not many my guess.

Ideally trolley handles should be sanitized correctly and everyone should be made to use hand sanitizer before entering the shop or turned away if they refuse, and face coverings made compulsory. 

Until this is implimented, and it won't be, shopping will continue to be a major avenue for transmission.

 

[oxford blue]

20 minutes ago, The Guvnor said:

I am astonished that so many people are prepared to enter shops without any PPE

 

This from WHO shows they are not as effective as you imply:

 

https://www.who.int/emergencies/diseases/novel-Coronavirus-2019/advice-for-public/when-and-how-to-use-masks?gclid=EAIaIQobChMInum3ydW46QIVg7TtCh3PcQglEAAYASAAEgIHoPD_BwE

 

 

[Jimothy]

2 minutes ago, The Guvnor said:

Unfortunately I take your point. I can just imagine some fcuking idiots having the same gloves for everything. Would be interesting to see how many people use hand sanitizer correctly whilst food shopping, not many my guess.

Ideally trolley handles should be sanitized correctly and everyone should be made to use hand sanitizer before entering the shop or turned away if they refuse, and face coverings made compulsory. 

Until this is implimented, and it won't be, shopping will continue to be a major avenue for transmission.

 

Well the shops should offer you gloves as you enter. And there should be someone at the exit insisting you throw them away. Every supermarket I've been in has sanitized the trolley and given it to you before entering.

[fox_up_north]

It seems my neighbour has taken to selling stuff right outside the front of my house. He's got three young lads clumped next to their car on double yellows and he's trying to flog them a phone. "I'm not an arsehole" being the key quote. Quite why you need to say that when saying something probably suggests you are. 

[WigstonWanderer]

36 minutes ago, Facecloth said:

Well the shops should offer you gloves as you enter. And there should be someone at the exit insisting you throw them away. Every supermarket I've been in has sanitized the trolley and given it to you before entering.

Not really sure what gloves are for. I think it’s generally accepted that the virus cannot penetrate the skin of your hand, and I’m not even sure it can get in through a cut as it only (?) binds to certain types of cell in the nose and lungs.

 

If you were wearing gloves and touched something containing virus, presumably it would transfer to the gloves, just as it would to your hands without gloves. If you then touch your mouth, nose or eyes, that’s when the virus infects, whether wearing gloves or not.

 

Best to just wash hands or sanitise regularly.

[Brizzle Fox]

1 hour ago, Bellend Sebastian said:

I forgot it's the Freedom UK events today, isn't it? Does anyone know if they've gone ahead and if anybody actually turned up? Nothing being reported on the Mercury website

Well there was a grand total of 12 who turned up for the 2 'events' in Bristol...I imagine will be similar elsewhere.

 

Quite reassuring that there are so few Britain First and anti vaxxer nut jobs around. 

[martyn]

Anyone trust anything Jennie Harries says? 

[st albans fox]

1 hour ago, Facecloth said:

Everything else you've said fine but on the gloves, this sums it up

 

Sense !

 

clean your hands or keep changing your gloves !

 

i just wore a mask in the supermarket- vast majority weren’t ....... got a fair few ‘do you need to wear that’ looks ?

 

any other european country has everyone wearing them but we just have to be different ???

[st albans fox]

1 hour ago, urban.spaceman said:

One day his kid may not thank him ........

[Carl the Llama]

1 hour ago, urban.spaceman said:

I tell you what, the shadow government haven't half dropped the ball on this one. Imagine engineering a false virus so you can lock your citizens in their homes and force toxic vaccines on them before you even have the vaccines worked out and ready to go. That's poor planning.

[whoareyaaa]

1 minute ago, Carl the Llama said:

I tell you what, the shadow government haven't half dropped the ball on this one. Imagine engineering a false virus so you can lock your citizens in their homes and force toxic vaccines on them before you even have the vaccines worked out and ready to go. That's poor planning.

That would be too obvious vaccines usually take 10 years yet we have one almost ready to go within a year.

[ithuriel]

47 minutes ago, st albans fox said:

Sense !

 

clean your hands or keep changing your gloves !

 

i just wore a mask in the supermarket- vast majority weren’t ....... got a fair few ‘do you need to wear that’ looks ?

 

any other european country has everyone wearing them but we just have to be different ???

To be fair, the masks are not  going to be medical grade, (since they are in short supply and cost a bit plus would need constant changing,) and for normal breathing will not do much, they are more to inhibit a person who has the virus through catching the droplets released  by coughing, though if you are coughing that much you should not be in a supermarket anyway.

The real problem is the two meter gap which is hard to keep since peeps shop at different speeds and an aisle can bunch up pretty fast, myself I try to get in and out fast as I can with as little interaction as possible and if I have to pass close to others I move fast and keep my mouth shut, normally sucking on a lozenge when I go into any store which helps me

[Pliskin]

These people make me embarrassed to be human. I don’t think there’s a sentence impactful enough to describe how shit they really are, half of them probably haven’t had a wash since the 80’s. Perhaps they should step into a Covid-19 ward and have a look at their conspiracy... ****ing looneys. 

[stix]

2 hours ago, Facecloth said:

Well the shops should offer you gloves as you enter. And there should be someone at the exit insisting you throw them away. Every supermarket I've been in has sanitized the trolley and given it to you before entering.

That’s only happened once for me when I’ve been in. It was the Aldi in Wigston. 
 

[ithuriel]

1 minute ago, stix said:

That’s only happened once for me when I’ve been in. It was the Aldi in Wigston. 
 

Big Tesco store my side of town does this but every other store I've been in does not bother either.

[Jimothy]

3 minutes ago, stix said:

That’s only happened once for me when I’ve been in. It was the Aldi in Wigston. 
 

Tesco Rushes in Loughborough do every time you go in, same with baskets. The Tesco at Park Road, because the have trolley bays in the car park, offer to sanitize the trolley when you approach the door and give you hand sanitizer. The baskets stay inside there so they are cleaned before being put back in the pile by the door.

[Dahnsouff]

Same at M&S near me, every trolley/basket, every time, but it’s a fair distance away mind.....

[st albans fox]

34 minutes ago, ithuriel said:

To be fair, the masks are not  going to be medical grade, (since they are in short supply and cost a bit plus would need constant changing,) and for normal breathing will not do much, they are more to inhibit a person who has the virus through catching the droplets released  by coughing, though if you are coughing that much you should not be in a supermarket anyway.

The real problem is the two meter gap which is hard to keep since peeps shop at different speeds and an aisle can bunch up pretty fast, myself I try to get in and out fast as I can with as little interaction as possible and if I have to pass close to others I move fast and keep my mouth shut, normally sucking on a lozenge when I go into any store which helps me

It can help people’s confidence being out if those around them have masks on.  I won’t bore you with how effective masks are but I have had to become a bit of a mask nerd  past month or so ........it’s tough to tell the difference between a medical grade surgical and a non medical grade one. 
 

wide aisle shops are ok but many supermarkets have narrow aisles and social distancing is impossible - but people interact only briefly 

[urban.spaceman]

 

 

[bovril]

Didn't realise Nick Griffin was still a thing.