Is this not the most stupid covid rule?!

[CovidStoleTheRainbow]

I understand why you can't try clothes on.
I understand all the rules they all make sense generally.
But I just took DS to Asda to try on plimsoles and we were asked not to by a staff member. It's the rules.

So we can pick up shoes, look at them closely, put them back and pick up more but the second your foot enters them all of a sudden it's a coronavirus risk?!

Totally stoopid rule. I nearly laughed at the sales assistant when she told me this if it wasn't for the fact she was clearly flustered by her job. High street is in decline. The last reason to use real shops is to try the stuff on. If they can't provide this, then everything will go online. The idiots that are enforcing this nonsense are signing their own P45.

Sadly I also have the same opinion on charity shops that won't let people browse. I luffs a good charity shop trawl and support a great many locally. And the independent book shop too. Makes me sad to write it but these too are going to fail long term if they don't reverse on these things.

Most Covid rules are utter made up on the spot bollocks.

You have to wear a face mask to buy a takeaway coffee but if you sit down in the same shop then you don’t? Okaaaayyyy

Not in the UK but where I am we have what I think is the most ridiculous rule of veichles can only carry 50% capacity. For public transport I can understand it but it applies to private vehicles also including families travelling together so if you have a normal 4/5 seater car and family of 3 or 4 must travel in 2 cars. Despite leaving one house and going to the same destination. Absolutely barmy. Oh you also have to wear a mask in cars even if you are travelling alone, just incase you infect the spare tyre or something I guess

Can we add "Covid Secure" to the loooong list of utterly pointless and meaningless phrases?

@IfIHadAHeart
I believe the 'trolley rule' is that it is a fairly easy way of controlling numbers in the store. For example, if you put out 60 trolleys and everybody has to have one you know you won't exceed 60 people in the store.
So as long as those 'student-types' don't pinch a trolley for a lark, you don't have to count people in and out if the store.

you also have to wear a mask in cars even if you are travelling alone,

That wins for the most bonkers rule. Which country?

Different rules in branches of Sainsburys - in my town they still have the separators on the conveyor belt, in the next town along I mentioned that there were not there and was told very firmly that they had been removed, because people were touching them. When I mentioned that my hands had been sanitised on entry, her reply was that people touch the items on the shelves and virus can be carried to the separators - no shit Sherlock. They should bloody make up their minds up about rules in all their branches - which one is it.

I went to Asda on Saturday for school shoes. It’s a half an hour drive away.

It says no trying shoes on, but we had to anyway. I don’t have the time and money to buy several pairs and then go all the way back. I’m glad I did.

Dd was a size 12 in school shoes, but 10 in plimsolls and trainers.

@CatBatCat

We do. Returns just go into boxes. Put in the stockroom at the end of the day. Then the next morning the boxes from 72 hours earlier get brought out, stock hung and put out, empty boxes filled with current days returns. Go to stockroom at the end of the day. Rinse and repeat

I quickly tried shoes in Sainsbury’s when no one was looking. If I didn’t try them and took them home to try them on and they didn’t fit, then I’d have to go all the way back. I would come in contact with more people unnecessarily.

DD2 tried on trainers in Tesco last week. No signs or anyone to ask so we found a discreet seat and went for it.
No one came rushing up with carbolic so assume that it's ok in there.

We stopped off at a shopping centre in Elgin for a browse.
Big mistake.
One way from car park to centre. Masks and sanitiser, fair enough.
Never mind floor arrows, this was metal barriers all round making a track. Security guards staring at you, most shops closed down, no toilets or refreshment places.
There were probably about 10 other shoppers in the place.
We did one circuit of the exercise yard and headed out of there.
It was the most depressing place ever.

@Foresttheout

Not in the UK but where I am we have what I think is the most ridiculous rule of veichles can only carry 50% capacity. For public transport I can understand it but it applies to private vehicles also including families travelling together so if you have a normal 4/5 seater car and family of 3 or 4 must travel in 2 cars. Despite leaving one house and going to the same destination. Absolutely barmy. Oh you also have to wear a mask in cars even if you are travelling alone, just incase you infect the spare tyre or something I guess

Now that is the most stupid rule ever

We are a family of 5 with 1 car. So that means I guess that some people can’t go out.

Stupid rule.

I had a delivery yesterday from Argos. A large item so it needed 2 people to deliver.

They didn't wear masks, came into my house, removed the old item, put the new one in place, but refused to take it out the packaging 'cos of covid'.
In normal times part of the service is to unpack, install and remove all packaging. I didn't get a discount, but had to unpack and install by myself. ( luckily it was easy)
I really couldn't see how not removing the packaging made it safer for them.

Most if not all the ‘rules’ are pointless and make no difference whatsoever. People just want to see ‘ something’ in place.

Rubbish! Without rules, many more of us would be ill or dead. Just because they might inconvenience you, doesn't mean they are pointless.

I agree that many of the rules seem strange, but they are generic rules that rely on us using our common sense. Would you prefer a million rules that apply to every different situation? Thought not. Just go with the flow and remember this isn't forever.

It might be this way forever. Covid isn't going away. In the event of a vaccine, there will likely be multiple strains, so vaccine each year.

Some rules are bollocks but others do make sense, even if not at first glance. So with newbie's coffee shop example, if people getting takeaway wear masks, it protects those eating in who have to take their masks off. If 50% of business is take away, then that's quite a difference in the aerosol in the shop.

@Foresttheout

Not in the UK but where I am we have what I think is the most ridiculous rule of veichles can only carry 50% capacity. For public transport I can understand it but it applies to private vehicles also including families travelling together so if you have a normal 4/5 seater car and family of 3 or 4 must travel in 2 cars. Despite leaving one house and going to the same destination. Absolutely barmy. Oh you also have to wear a mask in cars even if you are travelling alone, just incase you infect the spare tyre or something I guess

Ok, you win!

@AllWashedOut

It might be this way forever. Covid isn't going away. In the event of a vaccine, there will likely be multiple strains, so vaccine each year.

I really hope not.

It wont be like this forever at all. Either we'll all get it and so have varying degrees of immunity or there'll be a vaccine that large numbers of people will have, again giving varying degrees of immunity. Upshot will be that there'll still be coronavirus out there but far fewer potential hosts so the odds of coming into contact with it will be much lower. It will become "just another virus" at that point.

@CovidStoleTheRainbow

I understand why you can't try clothes on. I understand all the rules they all make sense generally. But I just took DS to Asda to try on plimsoles and we were asked not to by a staff member. It's the rules.

So we can pick up shoes, look at them closely, put them back and pick up more but the second your foot enters them all of a sudden it's a coronavirus risk?!

This is exactly what I was thinking when I gave our local shops a try. I hate the whole business of wearing a mask and checking how many people are allowed in each shop (all different for roughly the same sized shops) but ploughed on in the interests of actually buying something.

Out of 3 charity shops 2 had the rule to not try on shoes. These 2 were the ones with the highest profiled and manned hygiene stations at the door. The one with a perfunctory bottle of hand sanitiser on a table near the door was fine with trying shoes on.

What saddened me was that on a saturday afternoon our usually bustling local shopping parade was almost empty. The banks have closed and although lots of shops are open there just isnt the traffic any more. No queues outside the shops either.Once I would have had to park in a side street unless I got there really early as the plentiful parking would be all taken by 10am and remain so for the rest of the day .At 1pm I had my choice of parked right outside the main food shops. It actually gave me the shivers and I wonder where it will all end.

@Porcupineinwaiting You could be right or you could be wrong. Look at the flu, it is widely spread, we have some immunity, yet it mutates meaning yearly vaccines. At this moment, more people are dying of flu than corona. Yet we are wearing masks, doing all this hygiene. When will it change? I just can't see a reason for a change, unless in the unlikely scenario we are dealing with a disease like measles where a single vaccine is effective for a lifetime.

Our Tesco one-way system was wonderfully stupid - odd number of aisles so the up one and down the next thing left a bunch of lost souls stranded at the end of the beer aisle wondering if they dared defy the arrows.

Dd works in a big chain shop and basically spends most of her shift walking round asking people not to try on shoes. The abuse she gets is unreal and when she started to argue back after a particularly nasty customer got a telling off by her manager!

My local Waitrose has blocked the exit door and divided the entrance so we are all coralled towards the same doorway for both. That seems like lunacy to me.

@AllWashedOut but that's exactly it. We dont do any of that for flu and we wont do any of it for cv, just as soon as it wont sweep through the entire population causing chaos. And annual vaccines, so what? I have one for flu each year, as do other vulnerable people, I'd happily have one for cv too exactly so I dont need to worry about it so much. And those who aren't vulnerable can either vaccinate or take their chances with it, just as with flu.