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[InsaneInTheViralMembrane]

Phew!

We've already said to church that we'll see them again when normal family services can resume. Mind you DS1 finds singing quite triggering for meltdowns so that bit's not so bad for him!

I Buffed my face for 10 seconds to pay at the chippie and collect my chips. At least that could be done on one breath and back out into fresh air. At leasta Buff around the neck looks better than a chin hammock.

@wanderings
I’m entirely in your camp
I don’t want to spend Money on a holiday In Scotland or Glastonbury unless it’s the Scotland I remember two years ago and the Glastonbury I remember last August

I’m exactly like you.
I feel if I accept these half measures I’ve rolled over and given in and ‘they’ can do what they like to me.

No, I’m not cutting off my nose to spite my face, living half a life is no life at all..so why should I give them my money As well.

Looks like holidays will be spent in our caravan for the foreseeable

Re: millenium bug, half the village were in bed with flu I dragged myself out of bed to see the fireworks at midnight watching to see if the street lights across the bay of Llandudno went out. They did not. Interestingly enough on googling the excess death rates for that winter were horrendous around 50,000. Similar in 2015, I did not know that till just now.

BBC report from 2015 www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-34919149

I was 15 on millennium eve, drank so much of my friend’s mum’s sherry that I passed out just after midnight .

@everyone

Can we start calling it the new abnormal
Because this is not normal and will never be in my book

justasking111 i figured its my only ‘fight back’. Maybe the more people get deleted, the more they’ll release they’re being absolute dicks.

I was in the millennium dome watching tony Blair doing auld Lang syne with the queen

@wanderings I'm with you too. I'm not forking out for shitter versions of things. Voting with my feet is one of the only things that makes me feel I have any control at the moment - so pretty crucial for my MH.

Yayyy here you all are !!!!

Just been told I should have my kids taken off me by social services. (by a random on Twitter) the reason? Cos I don't like masks. Note: I didn't say I wouldn't wear one. Not that that would be a reason for social to remove kids either

@ILoveTotoro

Yayyy here you all are !!!!

Just been told I should have my kids taken off me by social services. (by a random on Twitter) the reason? Cos I don't like masks. Note: I didn't say I wouldn't wear one. Not that that would be a reason for social to remove kids either

Fruitloop tweeter there no surprise, toxic site

On the keep Britain free fb page, there’s 477 comments related to not wearing masks ant this photo

And in more news despite being told not to wear gloves blah blah for the last four months, this comes out today.

Health minister hints hands may need to be covered in public spaces
A Tory peer today revealed the Government is examining whether gloves may need to be worn in public spaces.

Speaking in the House of Lords, Conservative Baroness McIntosh of Pickering asked: 'Has the Government formed a view on the use of gloves?

'Obviously we're all following the guidance of washing our hands but surely the correct use of gloves outdoors and indoors could prevent the passing on of the virus?'

Health minister Lord Bethell, concluding a debate on coronavirus regulations, replied: 'To date, gloves are not in the guidance but they remain an area that we're looking at.'

The exchanges came on the day people in England were required to start wearing face coverings in shops, shopping centres, banks, takeaways, post offices, sandwich shops and supermarkets or risk a £100 fine

I was gloriously pissed on Millenium Eve at a house party.
I'd earned tripple pay in the shop for working the additional bankholiday and bought some cheap shiny jewellery with my staff discount.

Much better than the previous New Year when 6th form hit the town and everyone except me and my fellow babyfaced mates weedled their way into bars by actually being 18, looking 18 or having decent fake ID. By 22:30 my friend and I were on the train of shame back home because we couldn't blag our way in
I had my gin confiscated in the supermarket a couple of years ago because I had no ID on me... I was 2 weeks short of my 37th birthday

I don't know, Wanderings. I get where you're coming from and feel conflicted, & angry about being backed into situations whether it's covid related or another aspect of my life.

I feel very uncomfortable about things like track & trace. I'm avoiding going to places already because I don't want to be surrounded by masks, or to navigate complex incomprehensible rules.

There are also things I said I wouldn't do but have had to do out of necessity, like use public transport, & I wore a mask because I can't think of a reason to not wear one that wouldn't lead to abuse. I'm not brave enough to deal with that.

I think I'm going to end up doing things I'm not entirely happy with, but I'm so fed up with all of this, I can't not do everything I used to do because I am close to the edge of depression and I'm not going there again.

Don't know what the answer is.

Gloves would be a terrible idea, all the fiddling on and off with them and people not washing hands.

They need to look at the consequences of some of this stuff. Not just the supposed 'benefit' but how it works in practice.

Gloves???
Places are doing alright at having plenty of sanitiser (more actual sinks wouldn't go amiss though)

Other than adding to plastic waste, what on earth would gloves achieve ???

And yes, I hate gloves too...especially after piercing my own gloved hand to my customer,'s new ear piercing...

I feel the same wanderings, going to avoid most of it, but possibly keep the swimming despite it being dementory because of my cheap membership, and that I worry it is council run and might not survive. But avoid most of the rest

Maybe get takeaway food, or e.g. outside table, to avoid track and trace, (?) and online shopping to avoid masks. But make an exception for a really special restaurant or something (not that we ever do that) or hotel trip away.

Oh FFS! Not gloves now as well.

I have a confession to make about gloves. My family have laughed at me for years. Every winter when shopping I wear gloves because I just feel yucky touching trolley handles where people have used them after blowing noses etc. I have half a dozen pairs they come off and go straight in the wash when I get home. But now I can spray baskets, use hand sanitiser in the shops it feels better. But I reckon I will still dig out my winter gloves.

Seriously though when I saw this little piece in the middle of an article I thought nudge theory, like the masks it is a drip, drip of forthcoming actions we are going to be expected to take. So guys you have been warned!!!

ffs sake - not manky gloves.

It takes nearly a minute to put gloves on properly - 20 seconds to wash hands

@justasking111

I have a confession to make about gloves. My family have laughed at me for years. Every winter when shopping I wear gloves because I just feel yucky touching trolley handles where people have used them after blowing noses etc. I have half a dozen pairs they come off and go straight in the wash when I get home. But now I can spray baskets, use hand sanitiser in the shops it feels better. But I reckon I will still dig out my winter gloves.

Seriously though when I saw this little piece in the middle of an article I thought nudge theory, like the masks it is a drip, drip of forthcoming actions we are going to be expected to take. So guys you have been warned!!!

Ordinary washable gloves are better in many ways.

No pathetic 'it's for you' - you wear and wash them, you reduce your own exposure.

And that's exposure to flu, cold, noro at least as much as 'The Bug'

Thank you for all your supporting replies, I'm glad I'm not alone in my thinking. It's scary that there is almost no concern about the blatant and massive loss of our liberties: as far as I am concerned, we should have been rioting in the street about this level of state intrusion, a la poll tax. I want to support the businesses that are reopening in some way in all this, but I really do not want to support the new abnormal. I am contacting some businesses and telling them why I'm not spending money with them, emphasising that the restrictions are not their fault, but I simply will not support the new abnormal. I can only hope that if enough people do this, these businesses will start complaining to the government that their customers are deserting them.

It reminds me of a time I retaliated against my parents as a teenager, when I felt I had been unjustly punished. When they restored something they had confiscated, I made a point of smugly not using it for several days; they were practically pleading with me to use it.

And if the gloves thing is true: NO NO NO NO NO NO!!!! In a way, the wretched masks have a grain of purpose in that the virus supposedly comes out of an infected person's nose and mouth, but what good will gloves do? The gloves can be contaminated like your skin, but you don't take the virus in through your hands. Hands can be washed quickly, gloves less easily. Many people would just wear the same pair, day in day out: much more dirty than your hands.

Those plastic gloves make my hands sweat within a couple of minutes, whereas fabric gloves do not. I never pay much for them. Last year found three pairs in Peacocks for less than £10.

My advice is when you see them buy some cheapies. That may be another reason they are deferring you cannot easily buy them at this time of year and wouldn`t wear them in these temps.

@IAintentDead

And that's exposure to flu, cold, noro at least as much as 'The Bug'

Those are why I wear them in the winter. That noro bug is the pits. Touch wood I seem immune even cleaning up after children I have managed to avoid it. Avoided flu for over 40 years, touch wood. But not colds thanks to grandchildren with snotty noses sigh...