Chit Chat
Does this mean you can go into the bank looking like a member of the Hole In The Wall Gang
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But the Gubbermint said masks were useless?
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Utter Shambolic Logic
No science has changed and now transmission is lower in community. |
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I don't mind wearing one but WTF are these guys on.
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water off a duck's back
business as usual here |
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the right measures at the right time
 just like getting testing sorted out AFTER the peak. |
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Exactly, wondersobright.
Just look on with amused detachment (which is precisely what was happening to half the facemasks I saw being worn in the supermarket last time I was there). |
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I just grabbed the news bullet point I thought they had been made compulsory.
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mrs m has made me 2.
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 "I'm Gotham's reckoning, here to end the borrowed time you've all been living on. Stay safe." |
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We can only wear sh itty ones he said there.
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you gotta follow the science
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no thanks
go back to the science pre-rockerfella then you have a legit argument |
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On the Last Leg they showed a clip of a woman who cut the mouth out of her face mask because it helped her breathe more easily.
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Us cool kids have been wearing a mask for several weeks...all those foreign gadgies can't be wrong.
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https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/us-news/woman-cuts-hole-coronavirus-face-21973262
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Shambolic indeed but wearing a mask will save lives going forward
Maybe not every mask will save lives but the effect adds up. If you can then please wear one |
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care home staff last year were not wearing face masks so can someone work out how many old folk caught various infections and died because of this
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https://m.facebook.com/UnitedforBernieII/posts/2724735720969564
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Other countries were handing free masks out for people going into train/tube stations,it makes a mockery of the now changed "advice" to wear a mask. If the goverment were serious they would have made wearing one compulsory,why not?
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Because 'compulsory' is not how we do things in this country.
If you want 'compulsory', there are plenty of other countries in the world happy to accommodate you.You can recognize them by the walls and minefields around them. |
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It seems to be "compulsory" not to sunbathe in a park though?
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I think it's ok to sunbathe in the park/on the beach as long as social distancing is observed. Erm, well I think so...
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Well the science says it is now but it was not last week.
We must follow the science! |
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Seems to be very compulsory on planes now as well.
A very gentle u turn,slapping on the "mandatory" label now is at odds with the "advice" given months ago, is that how you do things in this country? needless deaths imo. |
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It's largely up to each individual what they do. They can now look at the circumstances and decide for themselves.
That's how we do things in this country. |
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Ok, but weren't they told that masks were next to useless and that was the official advice?
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Yes. Official advice turns out to be confused, changing from week to week and barely worth heeding.
That's why it's important to keep it just as advice rather than anything compulsory. |
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Well, you can be compulsory arrested and fined if you don't follow the "advice". That doesn't suggest to me that you have much choice in the matter.
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Wear a mask, don't wear a mask. Is it Wednesday yet?
Of course it might help if the government had got masks into the shops. Given the public needs only basic face covering, why didn't Boris get one or more of our textile firms to knock up a few million, to be sold via supermarkets? This would leave medical grade masks for the professionals. As it is we are headed for another toilet roll situation. |
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Not for facemasks, which is what I thought we were talking about.
Other things did end up with the police getting involved. Thankfully we've now gone from Stay Home to Stay Alert, so that's become less of an issue. Anyone unhappy or confused about that can always simply move to the Nationalist Republic north of the border of course, where they can carry on feeling safe under the threat of arrest. |
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(to politicspunter)
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why didn't Boris get one or more of our textile firms to knock up a few million,
Or just leave it to those textile firms to make them anyway if there's really a demand for them. Why do you need Boris to make every decision for you? |
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or in Wales. or in Northern Ireland.
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@screaming from beneaththewaves -- the government is creating or increasing demand by requiring them to be worn. That is why it should have established a proper supply beforehand. It would not have been ruinously expensive and it is not as if the government has not had time to think about it.
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