[davidjay]

I'd also throw in 'lockdown'.

[Tubby Isaacs]

Le Tiss can beat that.

[Tubby Isaacs]

Hospitalizations are going up again. Nasty amount of deaths in the pipeline, methinks. Had about half the population not thought Johnson was a reckless idiot and carried on as before, then it could have been much worse.

[Dalem Lake]

I noticed when out and about in my town over the weekend that a good chunk of shoppers have now ditched their masks, possibly 30-40%, in contrast to just a month ago when it was roughly only a handful of people. A lot are the elderly, but also quite a few I'd class in the 30-40 age bracket.

[Tubby Isaacs]

The same here in Herefordshire/Worcestershire borders.

[Boiler]

Increasing around here too. I'm no longer shopping in M&S as none of the staff seem to wear them - perhaps that's why there's been a 66% increase in cases around that area.

[mattomac]

Le Tiss can beat that.

He would know that we’ve had several cases like this well before the vaccine, so yes there is actually nothing to see there.

[davidjay]

Has anyone else spent the last couple of weeks sniffling and snuffling as mask-wearing is diminishing?

[Malcolm Armsteen]

Yes, both of us.
Also lots of joint pain, insomnia and awful fatigue. And a 'productive' cough...

[Arrowhead]

Wasn't aware what a moron Matt Le Tissier was until now.

Moron is putting it kindly. Perhaps we should bring back the Covid Fucknuggets thread?

Whilst we're on the subject of dimwitted ex-sportsmen, it really grinds my gears seeing Michael Vaughan spouting his forced "banter" whenever the cricket is on, bearing in mind a year ago - when we were still months away from the first vaccines - he was posting pictures of spitfires on his Instagram along with some insincere nonsense along the lines of "Remember when this country still had some bollocks?". This was at the point where we had already lost tens of thousands of people to the virus.

[Tubby Isaacs]

R rate 0.8-1. I think those are a little behind, aren't they?

Case numbers and hospitalizations are up a bit above last week. Not yet the disastrous upsurge that even the Health Secretary seemed to expect, but that could certainly happen if we're not careful.

[Boiler]

I called in to Waitrose tonight to get something for my tea as it's on the way home. Quite a high percentage of people mask-less - I think I'll be returning to delivery/collection now, too risky. Good time to check the dates on the tins and packets in the cupboard too.

[Bones McCoy]

Asda today - cos they do some posh cheeses that can't be got at Aldi.

It's in a shopping centre which is still working mandatory masks.
So most people were masked.

However plenty of other things I hate are back.
* Shopping in extended family groups.
* Conversationalists blocking the aisles (bloody hell, they've got 18 months of gossip to exchange).
* Aimless browsers (Gone are the days when an extra hour in the shop could spell a death sentence).

The whole place was far busier than I've seen in ages.
And fuck me, there were still only two tills open.

[Boiler]

The "extended family" shopping always pissed me off - even during lockdown my local butcher had to go "two bubbles" rather than "two customers" because some people just have to bring someone else with them, be it partner, parent or child.

Football starts tomorrow. This is where it gets interesting (FSVO).

[mattomac]

Asda today - cos they do some posh cheeses that can't be got at Aldi.

It's in a shopping centre which is still working mandatory masks.
So most people were masked.

However plenty of other things I hate are back.
* Shopping in extended family groups.
* Conversationalists blocking the aisles (bloody hell, they've got 18 months of gossip to exchange).
* Aimless browsers (Gone are the days when an extra hour in the shop could spell a death sentence).

The whole place was far busier than I've seen in ages.
And fuck me, there were still only two tills open.

Yeah I noticed the Nero in the shopping centre is far more prefable to the one on the streets due to the mask constraints, still plenty not wearing and walking into people has returned.

[Cyclist]

The Stupids have always been with us...

The members of this league have some ‘talents for mischief,’ not from the facts which they adduce, which are too insignificant to be noticed, nor from the arguments which they employ, which, if they were only addressed to reasoning minds, would be recognised as puerile and contemptible; but these gentlemen wield more powerful weapons than facts or arguments in support of the cause which they advocate. Those are the hackneyed appeals to the ‘liberty of the subject;’ the resistance to tyrannous enactment; and the publication of‘striking’ and dreadful cases of disease, and even death, as the results of vaccination. It is not possible that the league can have any influence upon the passage of the bill now before parliament. It would lamentable, indeed, if it had. But it will probably succeed to some small extent defeating the working of the bill .when it shall have become an Act of Parliament. We all know upon what a shallow foundation a popular cry may rest; but all equally know that the consequences may be mischievous. There too much common sense amongst the great body of Englishmen to warrant the anticipation that the league will have more than a very limited effect. It may do some harm, but it cannot long delay that universal system of vaccination which the public interest and the public health alike most earnestly demand.

Piers Corby and his anti-vax chums? Actually, it's from an article on the Compulsory Vaccination Bill published in "The Lancet" in May 1866.

[RedSparrows]

The Stupids have always been with us...

The members of this league have some ‘talents for mischief,’ not from the facts which they adduce, which are too insignificant to be noticed, nor from the arguments which they employ, which, if they were only addressed to reasoning minds, would be recognised as puerile and contemptible; but these gentlemen wield more powerful weapons than facts or arguments in support of the cause which they advocate. Those are the hackneyed appeals to the ‘liberty of the subject;’ the resistance to tyrannous enactment; and the publication of‘striking’ and dreadful cases of disease, and even death, as the results of vaccination. It is not possible that the league can have any influence upon the passage of the bill now before parliament. It would lamentable, indeed, if it had. But it will probably succeed to some small extent defeating the working of the bill .when it shall have become an Act of Parliament. We all know upon what a shallow foundation a popular cry may rest; but all equally know that the consequences may be mischievous. There too much common sense amongst the great body of Englishmen to warrant the anticipation that the league will have more than a very limited effect. It may do some harm, but it cannot long delay that universal system of vaccination which the public interest and the public health alike most earnestly demand.

Piers Corby and his anti-vax chums? Actually, it's from an article on the Compulsory Vaccination Bill published in "The Lancet" in May 1866.

Funny how the 'good old days, telling it like it is crowd' never refer to the attitude displayed here: forthright and clear condemnation, even if implicit at points, of ignorance and idiocy lurking under the cloak of virtue.

Political correctness: not being able to call a spade (an ignorant fuckwit) a spade (...).

[Cyclist]

This is how grown-ups do it:

New Zealand has announced a snap lockdown after a man tested positive for Covid, the first case in six months.

The case was detected in Auckland, which will be in lockdown for a week, while the rest of the country will be in lockdown for three days.

Authorities say they are working on the assumption that the new case was the Delta variant.

Just around 20% of its population has been fully vaccinated.

Coromandel, a coastal town where the infected person had visited, will be in lockdown for seven days too.

Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said the toughest "level 4" rules were required - closing schools, offices and all businesses with only essential services remaining operational.

"I want to assure New Zealand that we have planned for this eventuality. Going hard and early has worked for us before," she said...

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-58241619

We'll never be able to convince our current government that people before profits is actually a thing among responsible adults.

[Bones McCoy]

This is how grown-ups do it:

New Zealand has announced a snap lockdown after a man tested positive for Covid, the first case in six months.

The case was detected in Auckland, which will be in lockdown for a week, while the rest of the country will be in lockdown for three days.

Authorities say they are working on the assumption that the new case was the Delta variant.

Just around 20% of its population has been fully vaccinated.

Coromandel, a coastal town where the infected person had visited, will be in lockdown for seven days too.

Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said the toughest "level 4" rules were required - closing schools, offices and all businesses with only essential services remaining operational.

"I want to assure New Zealand that we have planned for this eventuality. Going hard and early has worked for us before," she said...

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-58241619

We'll never be able to convince our current government that people before profits is actually a thing among responsible adults.

And if you do it like New Zealand, business mostly continues and you keep the profits.

Unless your profits are form crony contracts, so terribly English.

[Spoonman]

Something's gone seriously Pete Tong in the west of NI at the moment. Fermanagh & Omagh and Derry City & Strabane are presently the two highest local authority areas across the UK in terms of infection over a 7 day period. F&O is presently standing at 917.4 with DC&S at 714.6. Neighbouring Mid-Ulster and Belfast City aren't too far behind either.

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