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People are becoming far too relaxed.

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PecorinoPear · 28/05/2020 12:40

I have been going to the supermarket once a week for food and petrol since this began.

I have noticed that people are becoming too relaxed. Whole families shopping together, no social distancing because they are incorrectly wearing a mask. Children wearing masks, if parents are so worried why don't they leave them at home?

Morrisons aren't bothering with a queue anymore, so there is no limit to how many people are in the store.

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JesusInTheCabbageVan · 29/05/2020 20:16

FEAR is the virus

THAT is meaningless.

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jasjas1973 · 29/05/2020 20:30

Does it really matter what age, occupation or underlying health conditions someone had?

They died before they should have and according to David King, a former chief scientific officer, 40k of these 54k excess deaths are down to poor decision making, as he said tonight on Ch4, zero reason why we should not be returning to relative normality like Greece is but we didn't take CV seriously.

TBH i don't think the govt is even now.

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Alex50 · 29/05/2020 20:39

It does matter if you are trying to access your risk when returning to work and your children returning to school.

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Alex50 · 29/05/2020 20:43

Assess your risk I mean

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Derbygerbil · 29/05/2020 20:46

@unchienandalusia

It’s those who dismiss Covid as trivial that will ensure it isn’t trivial for longer, possibly a lot longer - the irony. It’s the countries that did treat it seriously and early that are getting back to normal.

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Mrskeats · 30/05/2020 12:14

Exactly derby
How can it possibly be trivial?

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AuntieStella · 30/05/2020 12:58

I think this article is worth reading:

www.theguardian.com/books/2020/may/30/this-man-knows-hes-dying-as-surely-as-i-do-a-doctors-dispatches-from-intensive-care

Two short excerpts from it:

"The moment we rank life according to who most “deserves” it, we have crossed into a realm I don’t want to be a part of – and I struggle to believe many other Britons do either. The way out of this pandemic cannot, surely, entail the sacrifice of those deemed less worth saving?"

"Our society may be endemically unequal, but noone in Britain is expendable"

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EarlGreywithLemon · 30/05/2020 14:18

@AuntieStella

I think this article is worth reading:

www.theguardian.com/books/2020/may/30/this-man-knows-hes-dying-as-surely-as-i-do-a-doctors-dispatches-from-intensive-care

Two short excerpts from it:

"The moment we rank life according to who most “deserves” it, we have crossed into a realm I don’t want to be a part of – and I struggle to believe many other Britons do either. The way out of this pandemic cannot, surely, entail the sacrifice of those deemed less worth saving?"

"Our society may be endemically unequal, but noone in Britain is expendable"

Absolutely agree. Great article.
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