Topic: Corona Virus Panic/Discussion Thread

@zupertramp They put a curfew of 10PM on pubs. Everyone then left the pub at 10PM in a large group drunk and congregating outside. It was rather silly.

@nessisonett the vast majority of people don't gather in large groups. It's an airborne highly contagious virus. Blaming young people who want (need) to socialise and are the least at risk is playing into the Tory narrative.

Once we opened up schools, holidays, gyms and pubs this was going to happen. When they talk about tightening restrictions it's all for nothing now. Managing a virus like this in your own territory needs a full lockdown to eradicate it or you go for herd immunity and shield the vulnerable. Mitigation has a limited effect due to the nature of an airborne virus.

And with that I think it's time to close this thread and move on

Happy Thursday, everyone!

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@kyleforrester87 Witness the firepower of this fully armed and operational thread lock breaking ability that I have.

BOOM.

P.S Wear a mask.

@kyleforrester87 Aha! I always knew you worked for the Chinese government.

@themcnoisy I’m not blaming young people. I live across the road from a pub and there are 50 year old men congregating outside 24/7. No masks, no social distancing.

@nessisonett they should be indoors playing video games!

@kyleforrester87 Wise words. That could have prevented covid altogether.

@kyleforrester87 Yeah, I’d say that’s why I haven’t had Covid, I’ve been too busy playing games to go outside. Plus I can’t even go in that pub, it’s a Rangers pub. They’d sniff me out.

@nessisonett Ah you're gunna get it mate.

No one socializes anymore anyway. I don't know why these young folks are crying as they know darn well they just get together and stare at their phones.

Also they all have phones. Video calling, texting, voice... whatever you want, it's there. Can you imagine this hitting back in the seventies or eighties when you only had the one rotary phone and the internet didn't even exist? Now that's isolation.

@zupertramp Yeah, they probably would have sent everyone with COVID to a sanatorium like they did with TB back in the day.

@nessisonett sorry mate. I thought you were, drink and Corona is a bad mix for sure.

Getting a bit beyond a joke now, giving up weeks of our lives for the lockdown all feels like a waste of time now. I'm in the eye of the storm on Merseyside and if everywhere else starts falling down like it has round here we will have the most ridiculous mass unemployment ever seen. As mentioned months ago my job is relatively safe and we have done amazing since our return from lockdown but it's all fallen like a house of cards. Appointments can't visit as they are isolating, diagnosed or worse. Sales can't complete for the same reasons and I'm watching businesses on the literal cliff edge being forced to close. It's an absolute nightmare.

This tiered system won't work, the folk around here are petrified for their jobs and livelihoods. What a disaster.

The government has learnt nothing and that nice stretch since June may as well be a lifetime away. Back into it we goooooo!

@themcnoisy all you can do is carry on as best you can, things should pick up in the Spring. It’s been a nightmare year for me, just damage control and putting out fires really and I haven’t stopped and it is going to get worse again as we go through the winter. I’ve a week off (planned) in November which will be the only break I have this year. BUT I will optimistically say, it has been an interesting one.

(Oh I also have 19th November booked off to try and intercept my PS5 which is being delivered to the wrong address 😂)

Mmmmmm alcohol/gear, the cure for Covid blues. Who needs to leave their house, I’m getting the student experience in my room with a jumbo pack of Monster Munch, a crate of Tennant’s and supplies from my neighbour who inexplicably has teenage boys on bikes chapping their door and then cycling away with a filled backpack. At least the delivery boys are wearing masks.

Honestly, cycling has kept me going this year. I’d be much worse off without it. I’m not drinking anymore than usual fortunately.

(And one or two Valium, naturally 😂)

@kyleforrester87 That may as well be 10 years away. Honestly mate it's an absolute mess. We have no support. It's bad round here like pre lockdown was in London but we have no financial support. Awful mate, left to fend for ourselves when a pandemic is raging outside. How can we sell cars in this environment?

It's massively under reported how bad it's getting. Schools are closing left and right, I'm hearing about peoples parents being carted away a street away. Ambulances flying everywhere. It's going to get to a stage when this tiered garbage fails to work that there will be Hurst's lined up at the hospital. No lessons have been learned. Eat out to help out is the sickest joke I've ever heard.

The fact politicians are even debating NOT having a supported lockdown, even a 2 week one is a disgrace. They work. The vaccine is due within 6 months we need financial support now and for the vulnerable to be give a fighting chance or we will have 30-40pct unemployment in Merseyside with every sick or vulnerable person dead. It's getting this bad.

@themcnoisy they had to run furlough tbh. But more importantly everyone should have been back to work at some point this summer, if it's valid you would have been doing it.

But I'm really not buying into the can't afford it rubbish. Watching what's happening in Liverpool is death to business by a thousand cuts.

Looks like a whole bunch of football fans will be travelling down south from round here to somewhere the pubs are open because it’s the Old Firm tomorrow. Absolutely barmy.