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[InsaneInTheViralMembrane]

Phew!

@Pleasedontdothat I think our town has had 5 cases in two weeks. What i would love to know when they publish these is where are these cases?
Are they in care homes, hospitals or in the community?

orange god alone knows what Scottish gyms will look like when they open, but I’m not sure it’ll work for me. I usually do my work out then go for a swim... so there would be showering involved. It’s expensive because there IS a pool - but I don’t want my choice to be work out OR swim. Then this bobbins about needing to wear a mask to travel between the machines... um what? Gyms are filthy anyway and I try and avoid touching anywhere near the nozzle of my water bottle - so where am I supposed to store my mask for this “travel” of 6’? I’m not going to put it On a machine or floor so I’m guessing I’ll just be jamming it down my bra when it’s not being worn. 😂

If you look at the guidance for Holland

www.government.nl/topics/coronavirus-covid-19/tackling-new-coronavirus-in-the-netherlands/basic-rules-for-everyone

It just seems a bit more sensible and easy to follow? And general health tips and being careful around the vulnerable (and them too)

Keeping strong etc, looking after yourself. Not this odd weight loss thing we have, today saying exercise is not the answer apparently (of course it will help with immune system and our health). But no, all about weight loss now.

I'm not sure most gyms are like it Insane, I have seen clips of private ones and looked a bit less mad.

You don't have to wear masks at the gym. At least. Maybe why so many other dementory rules.

I lived in the Netherlands over a decade - they’re very fat phobic and it was always very noticeable to me just how fat the Brits were in comparison. BUT I suspect it’s less about weight and more about insulin intolerance and our carb-heavy diets leaving so many in a pre-diabetic state.

I’m with Bannatyne and he’s been spouting off on twitter about roolz...

Those Dutch roolz seem to be more in line with what we had in March... we appear to be regressing - and with glee for some factions. 🤔

Morning all. Totally agree re leisure shopping and voting with my feet. Don't think it will be long before retailers are making their feelings known. I would love to know what happened to footfall numbers in Scotland as a predictor for us.

My little town is actually very lovely at the moment, we're mostly independents so I've tried clothes and shoes on. Some say they quarantine afterwards (they don't but it makes people feel better!) or steam clean, foot socks for shoes etc They've all found a way because their livelihood depends on it. I've spent a fortune with them! The chains much more rule driven as it's head office and no independent local thinking. They've had none of my money.

Same with restaurants and bars, if they've put their staff in masks I don't go in. Interestingly one bar that had staff masked up opening weekend doesn't now. Progress. Our anniversary yesterday, we went out for dinner and drinks and had a lovely evening. Restaurants were all busy, it was lovely to see. Nobody asked for my track and trace details anywhere. Again, we don't have any chains and I just think independents are paying lip service to the roolz and then quietly getting on with making a living.

The Dutch seem to have quite a frank manner and robust attitude to health (have relatives there) also it is very much up to the individual...they have a different attitude to choice in end of life care which is more openly discussed.

Good to hear Ibake

[quote justasking111]@IAintentDead no it isn`t myxi. I only looked it up because we saw a dead rabbit with it out walking yesterday, the farmers say it is rampant this summer. Myxi looks quite different I have seen those rabbits as well.[/quote]
I had a rabbit when I was about 8 or 9 and within 6 months she'd caught myxomatosis it was absolutely horrific poor thing. We had to have her put down so she didn't suffer. I vowed to never have another pet rabbit after that.

Again, we don't have any chains and I just think independents are paying lip service to the roolz and then quietly getting on with making a living.
Same here - I don't often go to the pub but have been five times in two weeks catching up with friends haven't seen for a while to a lovely local place -no masks, staff lovely, paying lip service only to the roolz.
So lovely to see smiley staff /they are certainly getting bigger tips from me now. And I actually prefer not having to go to the bar to get drinks.

Well I might have crushed my reddit karma a bit. I bought a go fest ticket for myself and there are people dementoring about wearing a mask if you so much as go outside. According to someone in France, not wearing a mask outside is how you get the virus. I pointed out that basic biology dictates that you need to be in close contact with someone who has the virus to get the virus and I live in a quiet suburb with quiet leafy spaces and am hardly likely to be assailed by fomites as soon as I open my front door. I also pointed out, for the down voting dementor, that I do follow the guidelines for my own country.

Thankfully, I did see people kicking back at dementoring, too.

I just likened a dementor to a cult member. How long until I get banned.

Has anyone seen hot Fuzz?

When ever I see "the greater good" I just immediately think yep you're a brainwashed cult member who genuinely believes theyre doing the "right thing" when actually those of us outside the cult can see that actually you're just being coerced into being a fucking lunatic.

Thought you might like this from the Times today on the face masks

"One upside of face coverings on trains is that on a late-night commute home this week there was nobody eating a smelly pasty. The PM could go further and insist on masks being worn by everyone everywhere at all times. We would all soon lose weight if we couldn’t eat or drink. It’s hard enough to suck a McDonald’s milkshake through their Gove-compliant paper straws without also having to pass it through a three-ply surgical mask."

There is a good one on the chains and independents as well, I agree about hopefully the smaller places will do better out of this than the chains

www.thetimes.co.uk/edition/comment/charmless-food-chains-cant-expect-loyalty-qvhdzgtm3

@TrustTheGeneGenie

I just likened a dementor to a cult member. How long until I get banned.

Has anyone seen hot Fuzz?

When ever I see "the greater good" I just immediately think yep you're a brainwashed cult member who genuinely believes theyre doing the "right thing" when actually those of us outside the cult can see that actually you're just being coerced into being a fucking lunatic.

TheGreaterGood... We watched it right at the start of lockdown so it was in my head a lot early on.

Given that DS1 is the kind of child who tells you about gun specifications from watching the Smithsonian Channel, I thought that despite the 15 rating he'd be fine with it as the violence is quite slapstick and swearing nothing worse than he hears in the car when I'm at a certain badly designed junction... He loved it... apart from one scene that had him in distressed sobbing because PC Nick Angel had smashed his beloved peace lily against the trolley boy's head, "but he loved that lily" he howled. I reassured him that Nick would be able to safely repot the lily and all would be fine with no lasting damage

That was filmed In Wells I think.

Just seen a new twist on "I know a nurse in the NHS"

"Incidentally I know a policy writer for this Tory government and can tell you they don't care about you"

@Orangeblossom78

I wonder if some of it increases risk of spreading bugs. For example swimming pool has put crosses on most toilets so everyone has to use just one or two

Meaning everyone using less toilets... seems to be some madness about having a space in between loos (in case it floats underneath?)

Same with showers. In communal areas, crosses on all but two...meaning people will have queue and gather in cossies in the area to wait for said showers...

Because we are not allowed to go out through the (large, no-contact) sliding doors, and instead go along many corridors and doors on the way out through a fire exit...this means customers have to wander around the whole centre spreading their germs...

It is a bit like blind rule following with little common sense. I mean what is the risk in passing someone coming in a wide door anyway, which is open to the outside, and you don't need to touch?

If you have a class booked after a swim, or the other way round, you need to leave the mins between and lurk outside before you reappear to go in the other door. Because that will free you of bugs I assume. Great in the rain.

Fortunately my supermarkets didn't do one way systems, but forcing people round the whole place, up and down aisles that they have no intention of being in, past the laborious browsers seemed completely counter intutitive.

McDonalds had one toilet open and one taped off. A sign saying one person at a time. I ignored the sign to take the DCs in as we're one household so that makes zero difference. Besides, at 9, DS1 has already made a failed attempt at washing lunch off his face in the gents and needed summoning to the ladies for a proper clean
(Being quite baby faced and small with a nice shoulder length bob, he's sufficiently innocuous not to give more sensitive MNers palpitations about his presence in the ladies. He'd be eliģable for disabled, but there's a whole other minefield... )

Surely half am inch of 8 foot partition is a reasonable defence against contact. Beyond that the virus is airborne and it makes no difference which cubicals you use anyway.

Public toilets still shut. Sigh.

Whenever anyone says "the greater good", dh and I always repeat it in monotone and then go "crusty jugglers". I can't take the phrase seriously

@Littlebelina

Whenever anyone says "the greater good", dh and I always repeat it in monotone and then go "crusty jugglers". I can't take the phrase seriously

Ha!! No me neither I can't take it seriously at all 😂

Next thread title to maybe include

Crusty Jugglers

Can anyone enlighten me as to where the Zoe app gets their figures from? Our very rural area has suddenly shot up from around 500 cases per 100k to 1637 ( scary Very Dark Red on the map). Yet I have seen no evidence elsewhere of an increase except for a smallish number in our local seaside town. Is there a link to the Times article mentioned above?

Just been to buy 3 new chickens. Rhapsody, Harmony and Melody have joined Bhoona and Bertha in my little flock. Guess which 1 was named by DS2.