Guilt Free Railing 18

[WouldBeGood]

Will it ever end?

I thought buses wee only if ESSENTIAL, @Lockdownbear? 😃

Were, not wee! Don’t wee on the bus 😳

The whole thing made no sense, logically you'd be encouraging people to get the bus, not set their own timetable - which really means take the car!
As if women have nothing better to do than to have a disposable coffee cup very environmentally friendly and walk the dog.
Serious mix message, and not thought though at all.

I would dearly love to see an attempt at a cost / benefit analysis of mask usage, in a population like Scotland (i.e. highly vaccinated / high levels of historical infection therefore strong hybrid immunity).

I think masks likely have some impact, particularly proper masks, particularly in some settings.

But in terms of how we've used them (mostly cloth / light surgical), at this stage in the pandemic (nearly universal serious disease protection via vaccine or prior infection), I cannot for the life of me understand the cost / benefit at this stage.

Even if you think masks are costless (they aren't), how many lives / hospitalisations are they possibly saving at this point? And given we're heading into endemicity anyone NOT catching covid now, is catching it later anyway - the best masks do is spread cases through time! And our health services are coping, with much of the high demand being CAUSED by lockdowns / self-imposed disrupted service patterns.

I don't get it. At all.

Masks to go in class at the end of the month 🥳 it's a start!

Where's that info from?

@IsurviveonCoffeeandWinein2021

Masks to go in class at the end of the month 🥳 it's a start!

Just announced at Toytown FMQs Yes 🙌🏻 it’s a start. (Someone was very much under pressure to drop that). Great for the children, that’s the main thing.

It's a start, but why another two weeks and why still in communal areas.

Prince Charles has covid again.

@Lockdownbear

It's a start, but why another two weeks and why still in communal areas.

Prince Charles has covid again.

Yes, you have to laugh at the ‘for another two weeks’ element, especially given many schools are off next week. Hopefully most sensible schools will just allow it immediately.

Yes, I saw thrice-jabbed Prince Charles has it again. Also, Scottish leader of Lib Dems. I do find it odd that we need to have a real time update on folks health status. I saw Phillip Schofield sharing each daily test on social media until he got a negative and could return to work. I just don’t get it. What next? Posting when you’ve had a loose stool or vomit?

Oh and you can add Drakeford to the list of us ‘needing to know/in the public interest to know for some reason’ that he’s tested positive. Quite the day.

It's obviously "Celebrities Get Covid" day of the pandemic today

I was just coming to say that masks are going from schools from the 28th - but see you're all there first! (1 week after our lot get back, but hey) At last they have recognised how disproportionate they are, given the rest of society. I'm not sure where she is getting the info that cases are falling in teenagers? Last I saw, they, and the 20-25s, were the only groups that had rising cases - though even those seemed to be flattening off, which is all good. But I'm not going to look a gift horse in the mouth and all that.

I wonder if her advisers are pointing out that we need some good news here? England is bringing forward the date for dropping the Covid Act provisions - we are extending them for another 6 months..and so on and so on...

And at the bus adverts lockdown! Being a frequent user of public transport, setting my own timetable is DEFINITELY not one of the benefits...that's kind of the point. They set the timetable - you turn up for it - they fail to arrive - you get wet and cold and late. It's how it has always worked. If they now provide free coffee and a sofa and a handy dog, I may be up for that... (though having indeed seen men having a wee on the bus, using a coffee cup - I'm not sure I'd even trust that coffee, frankly).

Oh, thank fuck they’re dropping masks in schools! I do agree that that’s due to public pressure and needing some good news.

They were out in force slagging Boris for lifting restrictions yesterday but I don’t think they got the the desired response.

@ResilienceWanker 🤢 bus wees- no coffee for me!

Also, if you don’t need to wear them in schools, what possible justification is there for requiring them in shops, or anywhere else?

Hurrah for the end of masks in classrooms. Will they still be supposed to be worn in communal areas of schools though?

Are schools currently having assemblies, concerts etc?

I had a couple of days in London this week. Most people there are still wearing masks on public transport and in quite a lot of indoor areas.

Oh my goodness what a contrast with our transport system though. DS moved slightly further from the centre but it's still so quick, easy and cheap to go all over the place. I love the swipe your credit card and go thing.

Frankly I don't believe NS's comment " on average rail travel in Scotland is 20% cheaper than in England".

The stations here are another hotbed of unpleasant sounding SG hectoring. Masks, covid, nae drink, blah blah

I see an epidemiologist is saying what someone on here said yesterday, that it’s important now to stop trying to slow infections or it will make things worse.

Dropping from classrooms so they can take them off when sat at desks, not corridors though.

Bringing schools into line with offices. But it's a start I really feel for kids, what's the point in making them wait another two weeks.

Numbers wearing masks in shops has really dropped here recently, to the point that I'm beginning to feel uncomfortable when I wear one. I feel like I'm a sheep by not ditching them too.

Where about are you?
I've not notice any difference in Lanarkshire

@Justmuddlingalong

Numbers wearing masks in shops has really dropped here recently, to the point that I'm beginning to feel uncomfortable when I wear one. I feel like I'm a sheep by not ditching them too.

Like anything it's what your comfortable with. Many family and friends in England still chose to wear them places I don't think anyone is a sheep it's what they are comfortable with. My main objection to them is being enforced in law, not trusting people to make the decision they chose to and language from govt around their usage which has meant some in society have felt justification in response or horrible behaviour to those not.

It definitely hasn't dropped in my area but I live semi rurally with even people in the city seen as being riddled with covid according to some 🙄

Pleased to hear about masks in classrooms, it's a start at least. I go into my office one day a week, no-one wears masks. We're all going back more from the end of this month, no-one will be wearing masks then either.

I don't mind wearing one. I just felt a bit out of place today when I was at the supermarket, I'm in Fife.

Excellent news masks going in schools when seated in classroom.
It's just bringing it into line with offices, restaurants, coffee shops etc.
Still high mask compliance in shops near me in West Lothian

People in our office wear masks to move about because it’s in our guidelines but they come off at desks and in meetings because generally people hate them. At this point we’re all heavily vaccinated and a significant proportion of us have either had COVID or live with someone who has, so have first hand experience. There’s no real fear of it any more, and todays there’s also much jubilation because people believe that all restrictions will be gone in a couple of months. Fingers crossed!

I'm glad to see masks in schools going for lessons it's well beyond time not quite enough but God it must have hurt them to do it!

Also glad that SG is not wasting the money given and using the same method for £150 for energy bills and not trying to do something different just because which ends up being an expensive disaster!

I'm quite surprised actually is there a manifesto due out or something????