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Old 27-11-2021, 12:00   #8356
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Re: Coronavirus
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Originally Posted by Hugh View Post
The variant is omicron, the virus is COVID-19.
Thank you for correcting me, o wise one.

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Originally Posted by 1andrew1 View Post
What jfman is saying is that we as a country don't give into intimidation, so why should we break that rule and give into the possibility of riots from anti-lockdown protestors?
I think it is appropriate to read the mood of the people. They are not, in the main, prepared to tolerate another lockdown, and now with the vaccination programme having been completely rolled out for elderly and vulnerable people, there is no need for it.

This is the very reason the scientists were advising the government not to put a lockdown in place too early when the virus first came to this country. People get fed up with restrictions on their freedoms and there is a limit beyond which people will not go.

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Originally Posted by ianch99 View Post
Doesn't it comes down, at the end of the day, to personal attitudes to risk, awareness and responsibility? Other countries seem to have a greater percentage of their population that care about the health & wellbeing of others and we have less. Not as less as some, but we're not great.

You have people who say that they have thrown away their masks so what would they so if they were in a room with potentially vulnerable people? A Doctor's waiting room for example. I do not understand how people demand not to wear a mask when, wearing one, can literally save someone life. It is such a pathetically easy thing to do to put one on when you enter a closed space.

How can you get so angry about the possibility of not killing someone?
I think it comes down to whether you believe the hype, and there’s plenty of that about.

I welcome the new freedom not to wear a mask in shops. I am certainly fed up with my spectacles steaming up with the mask on and I dislike the reduction in the air flow that results from mask wearing as well.

I only wear a mask these days if required to do so (in chemists, doctor surgeries and hospitals) and where requested to do so with all the staff wearing masks as well.

As for social distancing, I think that is of limited value as well. You must have seen the diagram on TV showing how someone with the virus who coughs or sneezes spreading the virus way beyond existing guidelines for social distancing and across the aisles in a supermarket.
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