Commando AD awareness for donut bum dogs

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Phew!

oranges another excellent article from Sharelle - she just needs to start mentioning death is a risk of life and she’ll have the concept licked.

@InsaneInTheViralMembrane Thank you for including donut bum dog in the title. It cheered me right up

Checking in.

Hi all signing up for the mask awareness course.

Sign me up.

Really struggling today. I know i should be happy as my holiday is approaching but the sheer volume of work I have right now is staggering, and it just doesn't seem to be abating at all. Its relentless. I've already done 44 and a half hours this week (and its hard, emotive work) and its only bloody Thursday.

For the first time in years I feel properly burnt out, but I cant not do it as its ultimately it'll be vulnerable young people that suffer if "half a job" is done

And trying to keep good humoured and keep everyone and everything afloat is exhausting and I just can't see an end to any of it.

Sorry to moan here but this feels like one of my only safe places right now.

A conspiracy theorist declared that she’ll never wear a face mask or underwear despite a new rule in her home county because ‘things gotta breathe.’ The unidentified woman made the vulgar assertion at a meeting of the Palm Beach County Commissioners workshop in Florida Wednesday after the county ordered people to wear face masks at all times while in public.

metro.co.uk/2020/06/25/conspiracy-theorist-blames-5g-satan-hillary-clinton-bill-gates-pedophiles-covid-19-12902578/#metro-comments-container

Hi all.
Just sent MN an email about the vile, shaming comments that are popping up everywhere and being left to stand.
It’s no longer a site to support people, it’s a site to shame people.

Christ, someone has left the gate open at the cunt farm and they've flooded a thread in AIBU

USA the gift that keeps giving

@LivinLaVidaLoki hang on in there until your holiday. And you're allowed to moan it's properly hard out there particularly supporting young vulnerable people.

And in Colorado the governor says

That meme makes no sense. If I run around commando, I'd just ruin my good running trainers. It wouldn'taffect anyone else, althougha few miles later, the pissy smell would keep everyone a good 2m at bay

I might be going against the grain here but I understand with a rising infection rate encouraging mask wearing as part of a package of measures makes sense. In the USA at least it seems like numbers are starting to spiral. I would have been more supportive of mask wearing if that was the case here but at the moment it seems a pointless bit of performance safety. Like a childs security blanket which does nothing useful.

They certainly see things differently in the USA. The president of Brazil is very gung ho too.

Love this one.

Thanks for the new thread insane - just got back from picking up my John Lewis parcel from Waitrose and mask wearers were definitely in the minority. I somehow suspect that this won’t prove to be the shot in the arm the high street needs....

In non virus news, I’ve had a very stressful day - dealing with a colicky horse and we finally managed to get a home visit from ds2’s mental health team only to be told that because he’s over 18 with an ASD diagnosis the only service which can offer him anything has a 2 year waiting list - with a year long wait for a funding decision before he even gets onto the actual waiting list.

Frankly, normal life is shitty enough without having to deal with all this mask bollocks ...

That meme makes no sense.

^ it’s completely phallocentric (as I’ve come to expect from the terminally woke misogynists) ... as if a woman could piss on someone like that even if they tried.

Amusing half-acknowledgement from the graun that despite their dearest wishes we’re not the plague carriers of the world. Sad day for them, I’m sure they will come up with something worse to pin on the English (obv. covid doesn’t affect the rest of the UK).

Checking in (I'm that fucked off with the world I'm organising all year's uni notes)

Yeah, 70% of ppl apparently support making them compulsory yet only a minority actually wear them. Weird. I guess the hoards must have been waiting for the gov to make it mandatory before they venture outside & rush off to save the high street. Don’t worry retail guys the good times will start tomorrow! Mask roolz were all they needed to start flashing the ££££!

The more I think about it, the way that masks have been introduced - long lead time allowing for lots of debate, sudden last-minute clarification of rules leading to a lot more debate and confusion - is a classic dead cat strategy, designed to take our attention away from something else. The problem with this government, is there are so many things that could be. It could be failure of track & trace (which would be a lot more use than compulsory face coverings at this stage of the game). It could be that they're heading towards a no-deal Brexit. It could be the steps taken towards the sell-off of the NHS. Or maybe I'm just getting paranoid??

Checking in. Went shopping today to stock up before the mask legislation comes in. After this it's online for me apart from our lovely local butcher, who I want to support even if I have to wear a mask.

@BakewellTarts

I might be going against the grain here but I understand with a rising infection rate encouraging mask wearing as part of a package of measures makes sense. In the USA at least it seems like numbers are starting to spiral. I would have been more supportive of mask wearing if that was the case here but at the moment it seems a pointless bit of performance safety. Like a childs security blanket which does nothing useful.

@BakewellTarts I agree with you that US has a demonstrable need for regular mask wearing. Not on beaches and in national parks, but certainly in shops and other indoor places. They don't have many restrictions on activities and movements, and masks for all those who can seems like a sensible strategy FOR THEM.

It would have made sense here in April, or if the lockdown had been for no longer than 4ish weeks with a full return to normal. As it stands currently, with how few people have it in the community, it is nothing short of performative saviour complex

I think to some extent mask wearing is health theatre - in the same way that a lot of airport security is security theatre. It may not make you safer, but it makes you feel safer. Because we all like to think that Something Is Being Done.

Checking in. Love the thread title.

I thought I’d done my shopping but I need to take something back to primary. Wish they would sort their sizing out - I range from an XXS to a 16 in their clothing.

I'm not actually particularly anti-mask in crowded enclosed spaces (although I find them annoying to wear). Its just the weird obsession with masks as The Thing Which Will Solve Everything and the treatment of dissenters. Its very American influenced I think. I used to follow a lot of American left/ liberal public figures on Twitter and they latched onto masks in that way several months ago and now they all have profile pics of themselves wearing masks blah blah. And America being America nothing can ever have any moderation & nuance, so they're wearing them outdoors (why???) and sticking them on young children (also why???...& possibly unsafe). Its become almost religious??? I'm worried too about mask-creep, the gradual expansion of compulsory mask wearing to situations where it is utterly pointless (outdoors again). Also I wonder how much all the masks-in-profile-pics people practise unglamorous non-virtue signal things like washing their fucking hands.

Sorry...that was a rant 😂