Chat about Novel Coronavirus - 2019-nCoV - COVID-19

Can't see me changing my own mask behaviour any time soon. I'll still wear one on public transport, in shops/supermarkets or going to the bar in a pub.

I guess we'll see just how well the NHS can cope with a third wave of (mostly) non-fatal Covid cases.

I'll still wear one on public transport, in shops/supermarkets or going to the bar in a pub.

I'm going to continue to avoid doing those things.

Nice integrated jetpack, as well.

I'm going to continue to avoid doing those things.

The first two aren't really optional for many people.

(I'll admit that I'm in a lucky position that they're all optional for me.)

It's going to be a bit of a shitshow, isn't it?

(i say this as a person with 20 18year olds having a 'not prom' in my garden currently)

If you wanted to create a vaccine-resistant variant, would there be a better approach?

In a totally irrelevant post: This pisses me off.

Why bother with a mask as the selfish cunts that can't be arsed wearing masks now and even when wearing a mask can't be arsed to wear it properly are going to infect you. Why save them?

I have the urge to wear a mask as a hat so often, and have to fight the urge to ask people to wear a mask properly but I do ask for 2m distance but that is like asking to shit in someone bag.

I can avoid public transport and went to one pub, a 'spoon for a botomless italian coffee from a Franke coffee machine.

But can't avoid shopping.

Indeed.

I'm exaggerating slightly as I can't avoid all public transport for example but I'm a long way from behaving normally.

(Had to take my eldest into town this afternoon for an orthodontist appointment. If we had been on bikes rather than train we could have bagged the current BTOB tag as we walked past the thing. So frustrating!)

Why bother with a mask as the selfish cunts that can't be arsed wearing masks now and even when wearing a mask can't be arsed to wear it properly are going to infect you. Why save them?

I'm not doing it to save those particular people.

Primarily I'm doing it to protect myself and my family/friends. Despite being double jabbed I don't want to pick up anything that I could then pass on to other people or become sick with myself.

I also don't want to pass anything on to people who aren't able to wear a mask.

Primarily I'm doing it to protect myself and my family/friends. Despite being double jabbed I don't want to pick up anything that I could then pass on to other people or become sick with myself.

You are right, the selfishness of others gets to me.

Self dutch oven?

Primarily I'm doing it to protect myself

I thought mask wearing in general life was hard to do effectively enough to stop yourself getting infected? Eg you need to dispose of it when you take it off, immediately wash hands, use a FFP3 rather than a bit of cloth etc?

I also don't want to pass anything on to people who aren't able to wear a mask.

That's my motivation. It's like washing my hands before cooking dinner.

I thought mask wearing in general life was hard to do effectively enough to stop yourself getting infected?

At least the masks helped keep people’s emissions mostly to themselves. Serious PPE is difficult for even trained virologists to use, hence the handful of outbreaks at labs and the whole conspiracy thing behind covid, but doing away with social distancing is going to make things messy.

How reliable is this source? I’ve has a headache since I got second jab a week ago and have been sneezing a lot and had runny nose today. Guess if it’s not fine by morning I need a test…

Extremely, it's conducted by Kings College, I have been logging daily with them for over a year along with several million others

I've already got this kit. Dragging the compressor around is going to be a right PITA though, and I'll need a much longer extension cable.

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Self dutch oven?

If people are brutally honest with themselves, everybody likes the smell of their own farts.

Isn't it just fucking infuriating that the government won't update their guidance on when to get a Covid test to the symptoms caused by the latest variants? It's almost like they don't want us to test...

Bad hayfever for me for weeks now so I've had Delta variant symptoms for ages.

Seems like just as we get to Freedom Day™ we're going to be enjoying the spread of the Lambda variant which seems to be the next one 'of interest'.

It's fucking bullshit terms like Freedom Day (not saying you are proactively promoting its use) that will make the increase in cases much more likely. Like people have been imprisoned or something. People are going to go to 100 immediately and start licking handrails and shit, instead of cautiously stepping back into things.

It’s like the government are on a mission to create a vaccine resistant variant, it’s fucking insane.

I mean, is the impact to the economy of people being required to wear masks and socially distance really that high? I can't see how it is.

This clearly isn't an economic decision but a herd immunity one. There are still a lot of vulnerable people out there. They are being thrown under the bus. Not to mention any potential long term covid health effects or the fact that fully letting our guard down is basically destined to lead to new variants.

There are no easy decisions to make in a pandemic. No perfect solutions. Much as we would like to live in a society where safety comes ahead of the economy, the reality is that we do not. However, this just seems reckless and short sighted.

Our current stage of lockdown is basically that people can do whatever they want, as long as they wear masks in indoors public places....why change that now?

Although its also interesting to note that Germany have opened the doors to UK tourist travel. We're clearly not the only country prioritising getting back to "normal" despite Delta and rising cases.