[COVID-19] General Discussion

[Bada-Bing!]

Question is haircut or no haircut as I haven't had one in 9 months.

Ask for a set of wireless clippers for Xmas?

I Bought a wahl one 3-4 years ago and it pays for itself.

 

[Bada-Bing!]

Millions of Americans to travel and gather for Thanksgiving despite expert warnings

Recent surveys show a meaningful minority of Americans intend to go ahead with travel and gatherings

www.theguardian.com

Double whammy coming for Americans what with Xmas also coming up.

 

[LeinsterMan (NotTigsMan)]

**** me reading daily wail comments just to **** with my brain.

One of the top comments
"they are blatantly violating your human rights and will to live, even a fool can see it. Covid has little to do with it."
Someone ask what rights
" The right of free movement,"

From a daily mail reader.........

 

[Which Tyler]

To be fair - you've only got yourself to blame.
Next time just remember the golden rule of internet usage "don't read the comments section!"

 

[Reiser99]

To be fair - you've only got yourself to blame.
Next time just remember the golden rule of internet usage "don't read the comments section!"

How about just, "don't read the daily mail"

 

[Which Tyler]

How about just, "don't read the daily mail"

Also good advice, though sometimes good to see what opposing viewpoints are being fed by their media bubble.

 

[Ragey Erasmus]

**** me reading daily wail comments just to **** with my brain.

One of the top comments
"they are blatantly violating your human rights and will to live, even a fool can see it. Covid has little to do with it."
Someone ask what rights
" The right of free movement,"

From a daily mail reader.........

I'd say you're being generous calling them a "reader".

 

[Gavin]

I find it really shocking how social media is pushing people to share false narratives.

Take this for example, a guy I went to school with. Seemed relatively ok but since March has started to post stuff relating to anti-vaccines, microchips, the great reset, democrats being the front of a child sex trafficking ring were they drink their blood.

I see the posts and have now started to ignore how wrong the information is, even though I love a good conspiracy.

Today he posts a video which claims to show a teenager in Melbourne being choked and knocked unconscious because he was not wearing a mask, yet just spending a few minutes searching for the original news article records that he was removed for being antisocial and climbing over the fence to get back in.

Security guard's 'disgusting' eviction of unconscious Melbourne teen caught on camera

Video shows the security guard throwing the young man around like a rag doll while he's knocked out cold.

7news.com.au

Is anyone else finding that people they know are sharing false information and falling into a big hole of conspiracies?

 

[ncurd]

Nobody I know that I trust is, I have a few Corbynites that have completely lost the plot on my timeline. But to be fair I gave up on them a long time ago.

I did a cull a few years back thanks to Britain First where I stated anyone who shared their ******** would be defriended. (this was about my third time pointing out very publically they were a far right facist organist). So it meant a lot of the anti vaxer went away.

Plus the fact a lot of the bulk of my friends know my infection control specialist friend and another friend who specialises in the transportation medical goods to remote locations. Being a public anti vaxer does promote a bit of a pile on in my circles.

 

[TRF_Olyy]

We've gone from tier 1 prelockdown to tier 3 post, so obviously a rip-roaring success there

 

[LeinsterMan (NotTigsMan)]

How the **** is london tier 2.
How can you expect the tier 3 places to take it seriously when london which is rising in cases is tier 2

 

[Ragey Erasmus]

 

[Reiser99]

So according to the governments own data Tier 1 did very little to stop the rate of infections increasing. Tier 2 slowed it down a bit. Tier 3 stopped it increasing and in some cases decreased the rate of infection. Lockdown has slowed the rate of infection and there are some areas where the rate has started to decrease.

Anyone else feel that we're going to see an insane spike over christmas as levels clearly aren't dropping fast enough?

 

[RedruthRFC]

Anyone else feel that we're going to see an insane spike over christmas as levels clearly aren't dropping fast enough?

Given the inherent time lag, I would expect the rate to be steadily rising over the Christmas, with an insane spike in early/mid January.

 

[LeinsterMan (NotTigsMan)]

IDK I'm hopeful that Christmas might be a bit more contained.

My worry is New Years the week after.

 

[McTallshort]

So I was in tier 1 before lockdown now I'm in tier 3 leaving lockdown.

Lockdown was pointless then

 

[ncurd]

More tier 1 was a waste of time our entire response prior to lockdown 2.0 was basically asking for ****.

Reality is this is the first thing we've done lockdown 1 that actually makes sense. If lockdown is Tier 4 it makes sense most places would be in tier 3.

 

[McTallshort]

More tier 1 was a waste of time our entire response prior to lockdown 2.0 was basically asking for ****.

Reality is this is the first thing we've done lockdown 1 that actually makes sense. If lockdown is Tier 4 it makes sense most places would be in tier 3.

I know, was just looking forward to a pint next weekend

 

[Bada-Bing!]

To be fair - you've only got yourself to blame.
Next time just remember the golden rule of internet usage "don't read the comments section!"

Sometimes the comments sections can be funnier than the article itself. Just need to take certain comments with a pinch of salt.

 

[Bada-Bing!]

Hospitals in England told to prepare for Covid vaccine rollout in 10 days' time

Exclusive: NHS could receive first deliveries of Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine as soon as 7 December

www.theguardian.com