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Welcome into another thread covering the whole range of life and death, novelty vegetables, DIY, any other randomness and musings about a certain pandemic.

If I had a garden, I’d totally plan a mask bonfire.

I can't wait to get rid of the bloody masks!!

Me too Acorn. The government should really set up mask burning facilities for those of us who live in flats. I accidentally washed mine the other day but only because it was stuffed in my jeans pocket.

I'm glad about the exams news. Will help DS, he has been so stressed. Going swimming today. Have to post a parcel too. The city is looking nice with the lights up and trees etc. Bit wet out though. Hope all having an OK day

YY to the stress and tension. I am hoping the exercise helps a bit. And to waking up, in a panic. I think hormones add to that too, menopause and this is not a good combination...

I haven't got any masks to burn!
My rubbish attempts were with a single layer of buff, and I like my buffs for keeping my neck or ears warm.

I don't think the fumes from burning a visor would be condusive to celebrating

@Iheartmysmart

Me too Acorn. The government should really set up mask burning facilities for those of us who live in flats. I accidentally washed mine the other day but only because it was stuffed in my jeans pocket.

That's the only time DH's get washed. They tend to reside in his coat though.

There could be a ressurgence of those Bunny Incinerators for personal hygiene products

The school measures actually sound reasonably sensible and practical

I don’t want the government spending more

Just give us permission to burn them in a designated spot with a fire extinguisher!

Hopefully someone with a garden will invite me to theirs!

The truth about ‘COVID safe’ is that, if a person really believes that their germs will potentially kill another person, they should wear masks and other PPE at all times. After all, there are plenty of pathogens out there that most of us spread unknowingly, such as MRSA, rhinovirus and other coronavirus s that are not COVID 19.

Of course the vast majority of people are only wearing masks because they have to, most of us know they are pretty ineffective and I hope to see some really big bonfires when this is all over.

But those who are wearing them to virtue signal should be forced to wear them in perpetuity 😎

@Worldgonecrazy I’ve mentioned that a few times before but apparently Covid is far, far more contagious than anything else has ever been and things like colds, coughs and norovirus are just hazards of everyday living.

I'm not convinced that a reduction in colds is entirely due to masks as people are suggesting. More that most people are spending little time in indoor spaces to catch anything.
In the past 10 days I've been to the supermarket (late, quiet) the pharmacy and The Range.
I've not been eating out (other than drive through in the car), helping in school, Brownies, Beavers, hanging around sports venues, in houses, Christmas socials, Christmas fayre like I would by this time last year. I think that is more influential than perspex screens, visors and masks of varying quality and methods of wear.

Yes, I agree. Not mixing with other people.

I think for me the reduction in colds is because where I work anyone with cold symptoms is sent home at the moment and those that are able to work from home while sick do that (I can’t work from home in my job).

No winter cold has been one of the few good things about the pandemic for me. I have cough variant asthma so invariably end up with a shocking cough for weeks every time I get a cold. I still can’t wait for restrictions and social distancing to end.

Even now I rarely use hand sanitiser (hate the stuff) but have been washing my hands with soap and water more often.

I might be strange in that I might keep my mask, probably tucked in the back of my sock drawer to occasionally find when I do a deep clean and to remind me not to take the returned old normal for granted and to travel more. Sort of like how I keep DSs momentos NICU to remind me how strong I was to get through that time and how lucky I am to have him. Not a reminder of a good time but one that makes me glad of a better future.

OK so Christmas has jumped the shark

(It's a Christmas tree bauble, if anyone's staring at it in horror through their fingers and wondering)

It won't be going on my tree

We could definitely have mass mask burning, like mask bonfire night. The weather is awful today. Off shopping.

@TrustTheGeneGenie

i didn't - i just mentioned a certain other poster who clearly lives in mns pocket.

@trustthegenegenie I did notice the thread you mentioned opened with a massively defensive post and some of the stuff there made me wander if they'd been here....

@NastyBlouse

(It's a Christmas tree bauble, if anyone's staring at it in horror through their fingers and wondering)

It might identify as a Christmas bauble. What it is is an abomination.

Is quiet. Nowhere busy. Went indoor market, might have gone the wrong way in my defence I can’t see when my glasses steam up. Looks like Esquire coffee shop not reopened yet. Hope hasn’t closed down. Yorkshire trading looked busy

Posted that on wrong thread.
Definitely doesn’t feel like Christmas shopping, feels very flat.
I don’t even want to put my Christmas tree up. Bah humbug

@Blobby10 Pfizer had already made millions of doses of the vaccine in the hope it would be approved, so it was all ready to go.

I know where I normally used to get my colds - visiting my mother in her care home. When I am finally allowed back in I will be ultra careful (although if they want me to wear a mask that will be tricky as I'm exempt). Dementia care homes are rife with coughs and colds because residents don't distance, and no open windows because residents are always cold despite it being as hot as Hades. Pre care home, I rarely got colds because I don't use public transport, don't go to work (I'm retired) and don't like crowded places.

Why do they always go after the primark shoppers? (Obviously rhetorical its clearly a class thing) This paper has reported on this three times today and shared it on social media to whip up plenty of outrage.

Wonder what the queue was like at Selfridges.....

Also what on earth did they think would happen if they close shops for a month in the run up to Christmas???

www.google.com/amp/s/www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/midlands-news/massive-late-night-primark-queue-19390653.amp

I went to primark Tuesday - quietest I've ever seen it even pre covid and first time for a long time there was no queue to get in though city center itself was sort of busy and there were queues outside banks but not really anywhere else- but I'm in Wales.