Coronavirus.

SketchyMagpie

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Withnail

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The virus originated in a Government laboratory in China

No question
Yes question.

I have taken a step back from this platform exactly because i'm not in a position to say what you have just said.

No question? Are you so without doubt? I await your overwhelming evidence.

@cj1 's 'smoking gun' is also just one dusty corridor away

Or is this somehow being subjugated, and the evidence we need is being hid behind the newly demolished Laurels?
 

staffordjas

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Interestingly , the rate where I am at the moment did do a scary massive jump a few months ago but now is showing 100.4/100,000 when the rate for Weeping Cross is 734.5 .
Have most people around here got immunity as they have all been exposed to it when they had that massive jump ? So now it's sort of going away now most have had it ?
A comment overheard (in the only covid safe pub we've found around here that is still sanitising everything, doing only table service, and insisting on masks ) last night "She reckons she hasn't had covid yet, I can't believe that. Everyone we know has had it"

If that's the case, hopefully Stafford will soon follow suit and our rates will soon do a big drop .... (wishful thinking)


Suprisingly though , I'm being looked at as though I'm a leper when putting my mask on to enter shops and getting my sanitiser out of my bag to do my hands as none available at shop entrances. Only a handful of people (mostly older tourists) wearing masks and trying to social distance.
 

Lucy

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Mask wearing seems to have gone out of the window massively over the last month or so. Interested to see if the latest bump is due to uni's going back. We should know in a week or so.
 

Cirrus

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Has Covid gone? Only me and one other customer wearing masks earlier in Asda. Feel sorry for the staff, who all seemed to have one
 

littleme

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I no longer wear a mask at work (due to still having breathing difficulties if wearing one for a long time) as they are now personal choice where I work, but I still wear one when visiting other businesses....


What makes me laugh & annoys me most is my place if work has ONE perticular elderly customer who has worn a mask through the whole thing.... But on his chin..... No matter how many times we reminded him it belongs over his mouth and nose, it would suddenly appear back in his CHIN, I've never been so frustrated by someone & to make it worse he visits daily...

Now that he doesnt have to wear a mask... Guess what..... THE BLOODY THING IS STILL ON HIS CHIN!
 

Gramaisc

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I no longer wear a mask at work (due to still having breathing difficulties if wearing one for a long time) as they are now personal choice where I work, but I still wear one when visiting other businesses....


What makes me laugh & annoys me most is my place if work has ONE perticular elderly customer who has worn a mask through the whole thing.... But on his chin..... No matter how many times we reminded him it belongs over his mouth and nose, it would suddenly appear back in his CHIN, I've never been so frustrated by someone & to make it worse he visits daily...

Now that he doesnt have to wear a mask... Guess what..... THE BLOODY THING IS STILL ON HIS CHIN!
I'll lend you a stapler.
 

Gramaisc

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I must be lucky with my trips to Sainsburys, no matter what time I go in the masked are always the majority.
Timing may well be a factor - I went earlier than my usual time tonight - more people, plus a higher percentage masked - possibly about the same risk as fewer people and a lower mask-rate later on - who knows?
 

staffordjas

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Pub tonight down here in Poole..... family of 4 wearing masks but one with it around her the chin the whole time , even when eating, (and she was the one who looked ill....)
Quite a few real oldies wearing them when walking to the loo etc (also made sure I wore mine when going to the loo , or stroking one of the many dogs)
Bus to Bournemouth was 50/50 , lots of oldies and youngsters not bothering despite announcements saying not obligatory , but prefered.

Sainsburys there were only about 5 customers apart from us wearing them.

Still getting looks as if to say what are you wearing a mask for, you must be infected to be wearing one...

Costs nothing to wear my mask (although made me look like a senile idiot trying on a chain in the jewellers getting all hot and bothered with it on, but at least the staff were also masked up) so will keep wearing it to try to keep me and others who are bothered safer.
 

Glam

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Pub tonight down here in Poole..... family of 4 wearing masks but one with it around her the chin the whole time , even when eating, (and she was the one who looked ill....)
Quite a few real oldies wearing them when walking to the loo etc (also made sure I wore mine when going to the loo , or stroking one of the many dogs)
Bus to Bournemouth was 50/50 , lots of oldies and youngsters not bothering despite announcements saying not obligatory , but prefered.

Sainsburys there were only about 5 customers apart from us wearing them.

Still getting looks as if to say what are you wearing a mask for, you must be infected to be wearing one...

Costs nothing to wear my mask (although made me look like a senile idiot trying on a chain in the jewellers getting all hot and bothered with it on, but at least the staff were also masked up) so will keep wearing it to try to keep me and others who are bothered safer.
I still wear mine, it isn't only me I have to protect, I have the youngest here too. Had a bit of a scare other week, he'd been on a works day out to Alton Towers on the Thursday, by weekend he was fully bunged up, coughing all over the shop. Naturally I followed suit and came down with quite a nasty cough n cold.
He did a lateral flow test and then did a pcr, both negative. He seems ok now, but I can't shake off this cough. Like the parting of the Red Sea when I start coughing me guts up. Everyone moves away.
 

rudie111

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It feels like its tipping over to the majority not wearing them now. It was bound to happen at some point. We visited John Lewis last weekend, definitely felt like we were in the minority wearing a mask
 

Bob

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After spending the past 18 months living like a hermits we’re now just more infection statistics.

The 12 year old brought it home from school the day her school realised they needed to act on the problem (too little too late) it doesn’t look like she passed it to anyone out of the household but it’s looking like our 8 year old was the first confirmed positive at her school a couple of days later which has resulted in shut ting down two year groups.

We seem to be over the worst of it but it’s been far from a pleasant week and we’ve all been ‘rough’ on a varying scale. God knows what it would have been like if we were unvaccinated.

There’s no pinpointing exactly where it came from in youngest daughters school but it can’t help feel a degree of responsibility, we were all testing daily with lateral flow tests that were continuing to come back negative even after pcr tests had returned positive results. My biggest piece of advice is don’t rely on the false reassurance that the LFT tests give.
 

SketchyMagpie

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Timing may well be a factor - I went earlier than my usual time tonight - more people, plus a higher percentage masked - possibly about the same risk as fewer people and a lower mask-rate later on - who knows?

I thought that was the case as I usually go for 9am but I've nipped in in the afternoon a few times recently when I expect there to be far less and it's been about the same.

Probably the time I saw the least masks was actually when I went in a little earlier than 9 a few weeks back and there were more young people in there before going to school/college.
 

Mudgie

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I no longer wear a mask at work (due to still having breathing difficulties if wearing one for a long time) as they are now personal choice where I work, but I still wear one when visiting other businesses....


What makes me laugh & annoys me most is my place if work has ONE perticular elderly customer who has worn a mask through the whole thing.... But on his chin..... No matter how many times we reminded him it belongs over his mouth and nose, it would suddenly appear back in his CHIN, I've never been so frustrated by someone & to make it worse he visits daily...

Now that he doesnt have to wear a mask... Guess what..... THE BLOODY THING IS STILL ON HIS CHIN!
Just think of it as a false beard.
 
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