Coronavirus (2021) thread

[Gaylord du Bois]

You know the answer then....

When you know, you know.

 

[twosips]

Lockdown... I got off the bus after work today and needed to pick up some bin liners and walked down the high street home.

Well, Costa was open (for takeaways) with a queue out the door, there were three women stood right next to each other in the street with no masks on, Holland & Barrett was eye-wideningly busy, a pitta butty shop was open for takeaways, the e-cig store was too, and there were people and cars everywhere.

What’s going on? This isn’t anything like the last lockdown. In the lockdown last year, nobody was knocking about at all. It was like a ghost town. This is not sinking in!

1,000+ deaths and 30,000+ in hospital. What’s it going to take to get people to STAY AT HOME?

No one cares anymore. Trust eroded, people tired of it all, no real repercussions if they don't stay at home either. I don't agree with their stance but it's so blatantly obvious what's happened and why people are acting like they are. Our government are simply not capable of getting people's attention anymore.

 

[Deleted member 77198]

No one cares anymore. Trust eroded, people tired of it all, no real repercussions if they don't stay at home either. I don't agree with their stance but it's so blatantly obvious what's happened and why people are acting like they are. Our government are simply not capable of getting people's attention anymore.

Thankfully there haven’t been any mass gatherings of people yet though... that we know of

 

[blue b4 the moon]

She had to accompany him as he suffers from dementia, and just thought nothing ventured and all that so just asked in theory to save time as she would be in the next set of people anyway. Would have been easy for the people to be jobsworths and refuse but good to see common sense prevail.

Great for her but I'm surprised they don't have to account for every dose, there's technically nothing stopping them bringing in their own family or arranging 'payments' from outsiders, that'd be a concern.

 

[hampshireblue]

would it be possible that when somone presents for a test, they are given the vaccine? They are in a secure environment.

 

[domalino]

No one cares anymore. Trust eroded, people tired of it all, no real repercussions if they don't stay at home either. I don't agree with their stance but it's so blatantly obvious what's happened and why people are acting like they are. Our government are simply not capable of getting people's attention anymore.

Thankfully there haven’t been any mass gatherings of people yet though... that we know of

The death toll will start scaring people again and they'll take it seriously again.

IMO Right now there's a lot of "this isn't as bad as March, and I was fine then".

When it eclipses the first wave and we are setting records every day then people will be scared into being sensible.

 

[Rammy Blue]

Great for her but I'm surprised they don't have to account for every dose, there's technically nothing stopping them bringing in their own family or arranging 'payments' from outsiders, that'd be a concern.

I assume they will have still filled in all the necessary paperwork, I’m no doubt oversimplifying it but the nett result was still the same.

 

[Rammy Blue]

Thankfully there haven’t been any mass gatherings of people yet though... that we know of

I’m off to an all night rave later.

 

[twosips]

The death toll will start scaring people again and they'll take it seriously again.

IMO Right now there's a lot of "this isn't as bad as March, and I was fine then".

When it eclipses the first wave and we are setting records every day then people will be scared into being sensible.

I hope so, but I'm not convinced most are even paying attention anymore to the press conferences etc tbh. They're just cracking on and ignoring it all. Maybe you'll be right, and I hope you are. I think we could do with lots of these pointless open shops closing. We don't need McDonalds open. We don't need people queueing outside for Starbucks etc. It needs to feel like a ghost town for people to take it seriously I think unfortunately

 

[Summerbuzz]

No one cares anymore. Trust eroded, people tired of it all, no real repercussions if they don't stay at home either. I don't agree with their stance but it's so blatantly obvious what's happened and why people are acting like they are. Our government are simply not capable of getting people's attention anymore.

They undermined the message by putting the vaccine target out there for the sakes of short time popularity.

Simple: Their political position is worth more than a number of lives, because no one could accurately say how many lives they might have saved by being straight with people.