Current Affairs Coronavirus Thread - Serious stuff !!!

[Haydn]

Nuff said.

 

[Prevenger17]

Nuff said.
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Well that can't be, covid was a big thing he got right

 

[Bilko]

Anyone read the start of this thread recently, timeline of history.
Some picked up on the crisis very quickly, others didn't.
Amazing really, my boss in work was paranoid from February and we all thought he'd lost the plot. Isolation rooms, walked around with a measure marked out 2m all around our building and warehouse, took chairs out of canteen. Threw cups etc cutlery away, Only one allowed in toilets at a time.
All kinds of restrictions, you couldn't share stationary, one person allowed on fork lifts per day, then a total wipedown,but we operated every day , never shut. He might have been crazy,but he got us through it ,so far anyway.

 

[tsubaki]

Well that can't be, covid was a big thing he got right

Fastest vaccine rollout in history, especially for the elderly Antipodean media tycoon community.

 

[JoeLovell]

For the first 7 weeks of lockdown, I was very nervous, I think most people were, but then once Cummings was allowed to get away with breaking the rules, it became clear straight away that it was going to be a case of one rule for us and one rule for them for the duration of the restrictions. From that moment on, the community spirit of all of us being in it together was broken. For me personally, after a few months of experiencing the restrictions, I started to feel like a cross between a 6 year old child at school, waiting for for the teacher to tell me what I was allowed to do next and a zombie, walking round unable to think for myself and waiting for the Government to give me my next instruction. Being from Wales, I also had to endure the extra rules that Mark Drakeford imposed, a lot of which were only imposed for political reasons just to be seen to be different to Westminster, such as having to be escorted by a member of staff around my local Tesco to buy some new pairs of underpants, just to make sure that I wasn’t trying to sneak into one of the taped off aisles that sold items that were deemed non essential. I don’t think anyone who has lived through these last 2 years will ever forget the experience of living under such overbearing restrictions on our daily lives and it seems now that the whole time, the very same Government who imposed them on us, didn’t believe in any of it themselves. As I said, the Cummings incident set the precedent for what was to come. I’m glad that Boris Johnson has finally been forced to step down, but I’m still angry that he wasn’t removed when he revived a fine for party gate. To impose restrictions of such magnitude on people’s lives for 2 years, including even imposing restrictions on people on their death beds, by not allowing them their most basic right of a final goodbye to their loved ones before they passed away, all whilst breaking the same rules that he spent the last 2 years coercing the nation to follow and using the threat of legal action to back him up, is simply unforgivable.

 

[efcfanwirral]

To impose restrictions of such magnitude on people’s lives for 2 years, including even imposing restrictions on people on their death beds, by not allowing them their most basic right of a final goodbye to their loved ones before they passed away, all whilst breaking the same rules that he spent the last 2 years coercing the nation to follow and using the threat of legal action to back him up, is simply unforgivable.

The legacy of that part will continue I think, every winter now

 

[efcfanwirral]

Anyone read the start of this thread recently, timeline of history.
Some picked up on the crisis very quickly, others didn't.
Amazing really, my boss in work was paranoid from February and we all thought he'd lost the plot. Isolation rooms, walked around with a measure marked out 2m all around our building and warehouse, took chairs out of canteen. Threw cups etc cutlery away, Only one allowed in toilets at a time.
All kinds of restrictions, you couldn't share stationary, one person allowed on fork lifts per day, then a total wipedown,but we operated every day , never shut. He might have been crazy,but he got us through it ,so far anyway.

Wiping down our groceries was a weird one - I sometimes forget how much of an emphasis there was on that sort of thing as the main way of transmission, when it was clearly so illogical for an obviously respiratory illness that we were meant to believe SO MANY people had touched something and not sanitised quickly enough within a few weeks of each other.

Honestly its like we entered a parallel universe for a while, especially at the start.

 

[COYBL25]

The legacy of that part will continue I think, every winter now

No chance, people aren`t having it anymore.

 

[JimmyJeffers]

For the first 7 weeks of lockdown, I was very nervous, I think most people were, but then once Cummings was allowed to get away with breaking the rules, it became clear straight away that it was going to be a case of one rule for us and one rule for them for the duration of the restrictions. From that moment on, the community spirit of all of us being in it together was broken. For me personally, after a few months of experiencing the restrictions, I started to feel like a cross between a 6 year old child at school, waiting for for the teacher to tell me what I was allowed to do next and a zombie, walking round unable to think for myself and waiting for the Government to give me my next instruction. Being from Wales, I also had to endure the extra rules that Mark Drakeford imposed, a lot of which were only imposed for political reasons just to be seen to be different to Westminster, such as having to be escorted by a member of staff around my local Tesco to buy some new pairs of underpants, just to make sure that I wasn’t trying to sneak into one of the taped off aisles that sold items that were deemed non essential. I don’t think anyone who has lived through these last 2 years will ever forget the experience of living under such overbearing restrictions on our daily lives and it seems now that the whole time, the very same Government who imposed them on us, didn’t believe in any of it themselves. As I said, the Cummings incident set the precedent for what was to come. I’m glad that Boris Johnson has finally been forced to step down, but I’m still angry that he wasn’t removed when he revived a fine for party gate. To impose restrictions of such magnitude on people’s lives for 2 years, including even imposing restrictions on people on their death beds, by not allowing them their most basic right of a final goodbye to their loved ones before they passed away, all whilst breaking the same rules that he spent the last 2 years coercing the nation to follow and using the threat of legal action to back him up, is simply unforgivable.

Each to their own but thoroughly enjoyed those first few weeks of lockdown. Living out in the sticks with a nice garden. No commuting. Was the best of times for me.

 

[COYBL25]

Each to their own but thoroughly enjoyed those first few weeks of lockdown. Living out in the sticks with a nice garden. No commuting. Was the best of times for me.

If you lived in a town, you wouldn`t have enjoyed it so much.

You had people grassing on their neighbours, because a relative had gone round to see a family member or because a kids running club, was still taking training sessions on a massive field. The you had loons like @davek riding around on his bike, covered head to tow in homemade PPE, looking for rule breakers lol

A minority of people enjoyed the feeling of superiority it gave them, as they gleefully became the " good citizens " and the feeling of imaginary power it gave them.

I had so many arguments with idiots, telling me I was breaking the rules, when I was running ALONE.

In the end, I came to enjoy giving them a mouthful, as they marched towards me, with a scarf wrapped around their face, full of self righteous indignation.

It was quite scary, to see how some people truly embraced it all.

 

[roydo]

Each to their own but thoroughly enjoyed those first few weeks of lockdown. Living out in the sticks with a nice garden. No commuting. Was the best of times for me.

Ours was fine, but our circumstances meant we started our own lockdown 2 weeks before everyone else joined in. But more than a few times, my mind drifted to a young family, in a flat with 2 young kids, parents either furloughed or on UC, and that must have been dreadful.

 

[COYBL25]

For the first 7 weeks of lockdown, I was very nervous, I think most people were, but then once Cummings was allowed to get away with breaking the rules, it became clear straight away that it was going to be a case of one rule for us and one rule for them for the duration of the restrictions. From that moment on, the community spirit of all of us being in it together was broken. For me personally, after a few months of experiencing the restrictions, I started to feel like a cross between a 6 year old child at school, waiting for for the teacher to tell me what I was allowed to do next and a zombie, walking round unable to think for myself and waiting for the Government to give me my next instruction. Being from Wales, I also had to endure the extra rules that Mark Drakeford imposed, a lot of which were only imposed for political reasons just to be seen to be different to Westminster, such as having to be escorted by a member of staff around my local Tesco to buy some new pairs of underpants, just to make sure that I wasn’t trying to sneak into one of the taped off aisles that sold items that were deemed non essential. I don’t think anyone who has lived through these last 2 years will ever forget the experience of living under such overbearing restrictions on our daily lives and it seems now that the whole time, the very same Government who imposed them on us, didn’t believe in any of it themselves. As I said, the Cummings incident set the precedent for what was to come. I’m glad that Boris Johnson has finally been forced to step down, but I’m still angry that he wasn’t removed when he revived a fine for party gate. To impose restrictions of such magnitude on people’s lives for 2 years, including even imposing restrictions on people on their death beds, by not allowing them their most basic right of a final goodbye to their loved ones before they passed away, all whilst breaking the same rules that he spent the last 2 years coercing the nation to follow and using the threat of legal action to back him up, is simply unforgivable.

I was in rural N Wales in May, running in a hill race and I got talking to the licensee of the pub that I was staying in ( she was local Welsh lady )

She said that a lot of the local people still hadn`t returned to the pub, due to Drakeford and his heath minster, continuing to spread their doom and gloom and that it had created a real divide in the local community - those who were still living under self imposed restrictions ( the good citizens ) v those who were now getting on with their lives ( the bad citizens )

She wasn`t taking sides, just commenting on the damage that Drakeford and his mob had done to her part of N Wales.

 

[JimmyJeffers]

Ours was fine, but our circumstances meant we started our own lockdown 2 weeks before everyone else joined in. But more than a few times, my mind drifted to a young family, in a flat with 2 young kids, parents either furloughed or on UC, and that must have been dreadful.

Agreed For sure.
For a couple of mates who work in service sector, generally doing 60-70 hour weeks, gave them the chance to spend some proper time with their family mind you. Think they were sick by the end though lol

 

[JimmyJeffers]

If you lived in a town, you wouldn`t have enjoyed it so much.

You had people grassing on their neighbours, because a relative had gone round to see a family member or because a kids running club, was still taking training sessions on a massive field. The you had loons like @davek riding around on his bike, covered head to tow in homemade PPE, looking for rule breakers lol

A minority of people enjoyed the feeling of superiority it gave them, as they gleefully became the " good citizens " and the feeling of imaginary power it gave them.

I had so many arguments with idiots, telling me I was breaking the rules, when I was running ALONE.

In the end, I came to enjoy giving them a mouthful, as they marched towards me, with a scarf wrapped around their face, full of self righteous indignation.

It was quite scary, to see how some people truly embraced it all.

I lived in a village full of tories who thought the whole thing was a big hoax anyways. No one gave a fat one.
Up the tories!

 

[roydo]

I was in rural N Wales in May, running in a hill race and I got talking to the licensee of the pub that I was staying in ( she was local Welsh lady )

She said that a lot of the local people still hadn`t returned to the pub, due to Drakeford and his heath minster, continuing to spread their doom and gloom and that it had created a real divide in the local community - those who were still living under self imposed restrictions ( the good citizens ) v those who were now getting on with their lives ( the bad citizens )

She wasn`t taking sides, just commenting on the damage that Drakeford and his mob had done to her part of N Wales.

May last year there were still restrictions wernt there? Not lockdown, but SD etc etc.