Your beliefs and values are your own, Iâd be very annoyed at the shop staffer who wouldnât let you stand at the till with your wife because I think thatâs a stupid rule that nobody cares about it, but the other situation is quite different, that guys main job is probably to enforce the mask wearing policy which like it or not is probably the only reason why many people go into the shop at all, some people are afraid of people without masks, now you can argue the rights and wrongs of that but itâs a fact.
There was no need to belittle that fella by laughing at his request, itâs a shitty enough job
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I agree on the masks I wear it on the basis you have above. To ring a well rung bell its a cod but its not worth the wasted energy declaring that when getting a pint of milk.
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Sure the mask rules go hand in hand with destroying businesses. If I wanted to increase transmission Iâd tell everyone to head to the same few multinational shops and restrict the hours they have to go to them.
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Iâve read that thrice and it still makes no sense.
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Nuke em all!
During Apocalypse Now , Kurtz is heard to say on an intercepted radio broadcast: âWe must kill them all, cow after cow, pig after pig, village after villageâŚ,â and, as in Heart of Darkness , he leaves a final testament to this effect. Glimpsed briefly in the film, it has scrawled across its pages the words, âNuke them all.â
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Take all the people who want to buy clothes, shrubs, microwaves, mobile phones, duvets, saucepans. Rather than have them going to 6 different shops make them all head to tesco, rub shoulders, share pin machines, breathe the same air as the 1000s that passed through that dayâŚand restrict the hours to increase contact, just in case.
But sure that happened long before Covid, driven by the market feeding peoples laziness and willingness to accept cheap shite. Most people want convenience and donât want to spend their time trudging around to different shops. I agree though itâs a risk with or without masks, I try and avoid shops as much as possible.
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The supermarkets are packed, theyâve increased their profitsâŚthe high street shops are closed. Presumably buying a phone in Tesco is safer than in the o2 shop.
You canât buy alcohol here after 8âŚdo you think that increases or decreases human contact?
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Paul Murphy said last year we should nationalise the airlines and turn them into high speed rail companies as travel ground to a halt. âWhat about the workers?â, Pat Kenny asked. âThe workers should run the thingâ, Pail said, âthe workers know how to run an airlineâ. The workers know how to run a high speed rail company as well, apparently.
That is the level of debate from some sections of the left. They will not take any responsibility for this. The Labour Party were already abdicating responsibly for it during the week. The Government have been absolutely pathetic mind, but the opposition have also dealt in short term populism that has encouraged the above to happen.
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No I agree, no shops or businesses should have been closed. Give them guidelines on best safety practices, like distancing and wearing masks, and let the public decide for themselves.
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Well Iâve good news for you. Masks are here to stay; once you accept the logic behind wearing them, blind yourself to the real reasons for imposing them and ignore counter arguments and established principles then thereâs really no argument for ever not wearing themâŚindoors at least.
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I think youâre wrong on masks. People were wearing masks long before they were mandated, and even when the âexpertsâ were saying not to wear them. I think itâs 90% of people in the developed world that were wearing masks by June of 2020, there werenât many mandates at that point. I donât think mandates have made much difference, either imposing them or lifting them. I also think they will slowly go out of use as the year goes on and most people have immunity (until the next pandemic).
Youâll think people will just stop wearing them regardless of what theyâre told?
But you see my pointâŚif they make sense now then theyâll always make sense. Why would anyone in their right mind risk death/spreading a fatal virus ever again?
But they started wearing them before they were told, in many cases when they were told not to wear them. They made sense because thereâs a highly infectious disease out there and people want to avoid it if they can and avoid spreading it to people for whom it is fairly deadly⌠but I do see your point.
Have they captured the Crown Plaza escapees yet?
What a fucking cod that is, especially 12 months into this thing,
Absolutely ridiclious to do that to people coming into the country and embarassing after 48 hours thay they canât account for people who were supposed to have agreed to it,
A disgusting attempt at appeasing the zero covid zealots.
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No one can recognise themâŚapparently theyâre wearing masks
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Sure look at the amount of children that go missing in state care, this century let alone the historical abuse by the Church and state
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But someone with a cloth mask below their nose getting a few messages in a shop is the problem.
You couldnt make it up mate.
I do t think the two things are in any way related.
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