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No more restrictions before New Years on 17:30 - Dec 27 by TractorWood
People need to get vaccinated, get boosted, wear a mask in busy places and live their lives.
And use a little common sense regarding distancing and personal hygiene.
There seems to be two schools of thought when it comes to 'living with it' which appears to be a big part of the problem. There's your version there, which seems to be the most appropriate grown-up approach, as in living with it doesn't mean we have to be tw@ts about it and should still take distinct but perfectly doable steps.
And then there's the other.
I have to say, as a sort of aside, I was dismayed to use the toilet's in Tesco last week to see two blokes walk out without so much as washing their hands.
One had used the urinal, the other a cubicle. Filthy pigs.
That toilet has no touch hand washers too, everything from soap to drying is touch free. Not hard is it.
Ideally there will not be any further restrictions ever. No one wants restrictions. Some people (not you OP) are acting like this is getting one over the more cautious people. If hospitalisations and death remain low then great.
Let's hope this is the final leg of this nightmare.
No more restrictions before New Years on 17:54 - Dec 27 by jeera
And use a little common sense regarding distancing and personal hygiene.
There seems to be two schools of thought when it comes to 'living with it' which appears to be a big part of the problem. There's your version there, which seems to be the most appropriate grown-up approach, as in living with it doesn't mean we have to be tw@ts about it and should still take distinct but perfectly doable steps.
And then there's the other.
I have to say, as a sort of aside, I was dismayed to use the toilet's in Tesco last week to see two blokes walk out without so much as washing their hands.
One had used the urinal, the other a cubicle. Filthy pigs.
That toilet has no touch hand washers too, everything from soap to drying is touch free. Not hard is it.
Agreed. For some, living with it and no restrictions seems to mean carrying on as if nothing has happened and is if Covid never existed. That will only make further restrictions more likely. If people behave sensibly and take precautions themselves, test regularly and behave as though the virus is still a risk to them and those they love, then perhaps more draconian measures can be swerved. Sadly the evidence to date is that too many fall into the former category and that means those in the latter category have to suffer for it.
No more restrictions before New Years on 18:07 - Dec 27 by J2BLUE
Ideally there will not be any further restrictions ever. No one wants restrictions. Some people (not you OP) are acting like this is getting one over the more cautious people. If hospitalisations and death remain low then great.
Let's hope this is the final leg of this nightmare.
Do you think you can detect these nuances from the medium of text?
"They break our legs and tell us to be grateful when they offer us crutches."
Separately, a government science adviser has suggested that panic around the oncoming Omicron wave is unjustified. Speaking in a personal capacity, Prof Robert Dingwall, a government Covid adviser from Nottingham Trent University, told the Daily Telegraph: “The Omicron situation seems to be increasingly absurd. There is obviously a lot of snobbery about South African science and medicine but their top people are as good as any you would find in a more universally developed country. They clearly don’t feel that the elite panic over here is justified, even allowing for the demographic differences in vulnerability — which are probably more than cancelled by the higher vaccination rate.
“My gut feeling is that Omicron is very much like the sort of flu pandemic we planned for — a lot of sickness absence from work in a short period, which will create difficulties for public services and economic activity, but not of such a severity as to be a big problem for the NHS and the funeral business.”
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"They break our legs and tell us to be grateful when they offer us crutches."
No more restrictions before New Years on 17:54 - Dec 27 by jeera
And use a little common sense regarding distancing and personal hygiene.
There seems to be two schools of thought when it comes to 'living with it' which appears to be a big part of the problem. There's your version there, which seems to be the most appropriate grown-up approach, as in living with it doesn't mean we have to be tw@ts about it and should still take distinct but perfectly doable steps.
And then there's the other.
I have to say, as a sort of aside, I was dismayed to use the toilet's in Tesco last week to see two blokes walk out without so much as washing their hands.
One had used the urinal, the other a cubicle. Filthy pigs.
That toilet has no touch hand washers too, everything from soap to drying is touch free. Not hard is it.
Apologies, that was me and my sous-chef. We were very understaffed in the 'restaurant' that day, and had to rush back as we had left the sushi preparation until the very last minute.
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