Covid restrictions - are you adhering or not?

[Supermofo]

Bugger.

Mrs went to Spain for her Nephews 2nd birthday having missed his 1st due to lock down on travel. Only went Fri evening to Sunday afternoon. On the phone to me Sat she says she's getting lots of Britain is shit by all the ex-pats and how bad we all are for not wearing masks etc. All whilst sitting in a bar maskless and mingling Anyway this morning BIL tested positive for covid and Mrs and daughter were staying in their house. Magic.

So far both Mrs and daughter have tested negative so fingers crossed.

Mrs is now positive on LFT and waiting PCR result. Me and kids still negative currently.

Mrs feels like she has a little bit of a cold but has gone to bed in case

[DefTrap]

I'm not really suggesting that, but the threat of it may concentrate some minds.

You would have thought - but there are plenty, certainly enough, anti-vaxxed for no better reason than "I'm allowed my point of view" or "I shan't comply with <insert government plot of choice> you sheeple!" and refuse to listen to scientists with literally no negative agenda.

I keep saying this but my own S-I-L was firmly in that camp and it took her to the point of being hospitalised and on oxygen before she grudgingly admitted she'd rather listen for a bit and swallow her pride about "being wrong" and therefore would go and get vaccinated. However you can't go straight from Covids +ve to vaccd, you have to wait, so I strongly believe when the time comes she'll have convinced herself that she's beaten it and some old guff about the bodies natural ability to resist infection, conveniently forgetting that ambulances and hospitals intervened.

[Le_Fromage_Grande]

Restrict their access to priority healthcare until they comply?

I'm not really suggesting that, but the threat of it may concentrate some minds.

Why not put people who don't agree in camps where you can concentrate them all together?

[Count Steer]

Restrict their access to priority healthcare until they comply?

I'm not really suggesting that, but the threat of it may concentrate some minds.

Lack of access to priority healthcare is certainly concentrating the minds of a lot of (non-Covid) patients that can't get access to it at the moment.

[wheelnut]

Why not put people who don't agree in camps where you can concentrate them all together?

That's why I said I'm not really suggesting it. It would be fitting for them, if they do fall ill with Covid, to perhaps consult their fellow antivaxxers on youtube though seeing as they have rejected medical science. But the reality is that they will be the first screaming to be treated.

[irie]

Restrict their access to priority healthcare until they comply?

I'm not really suggesting that, but the threat of it may concentrate some minds.

It might concentrate a few minds, but almost certainly few enough to make no discernible difference.

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[gremlin]

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[Taipan]

I'm not really suggesting that, but the threat of it may concentrate some minds.

You would have thought - but there are plenty, certainly enough, anti-vaxxed for no better reason than "I'm allowed my point of view" or "I shan't comply with <insert government plot of choice> you sheeple!" and refuse to listen to scientists with literally no negative agenda.

I keep saying this but my own S-I-L was firmly in that camp and it took her to the point of being hospitalised and on oxygen before she grudgingly admitted she'd rather listen for a bit and swallow her pride about "being wrong" and therefore would go and get vaccinated. However you can't go straight from Covids +ve to vaccd, you have to wait, so I strongly believe when the time comes she'll have convinced herself that she's beaten it and some old guff about the bodies natural ability to resist infection, conveniently forgetting that ambulances and hospitals intervened.

Thats my sister and her boyfriend to a t. Both anti-vaxxers and we're all brainwashed etc. Her boyfriend has amyloids on his lungs and has weak voice and is limited inhow far he walks etc. They got covid and despite being seriously ill, they weren't hospitalised and now completely mock us for taking the vaccine and how they, especially him, are living proof that you don't need a vaccine to survive it! over 5 million dead, long term disabilities, WHO advice, all completely dismissed.

[weeksy]

Whatever, I won't be seen sweating in the mosh pit at any gigs for a while.

were you going to be before the new strain became apparent ?

I swerved the mosh pit at the Brixton Academy the other week. Not because of covid, you understand, but because I'm 52 and would have looked a right prick.



Some Tory MP did make a valid point the other day, that you need to put a mask on for 2 minutes when you buy a bottle of wine from the offy, but then go to somebody's house for a party with a hundred people there, cheek by jowl. Seems a little like pissing on a bonfire, but then what's the alternative? Full lockdown every time a new variant crops up? We've been there and seen the carnage that leaves. Seems the only option is to vaccinate, vaccinate and then vaccinate some more.

Well the other alternative is not to fucking go to parties with 100 other stupid fuckers ?

[Yorick]

We don't let anybody in our house who isn't double jabbed. And all the folk we socialise with are also double jabbed.

[Mr. Dazzle]

Well the other alternative is not to fucking go to parties with other stupid fuckers ?

If I didn't do that i'd have even fewer friends

[MrLongbeard]

We don't let anybody in our house who isn't double jabbed. And all the folk we socialise with are also double jabbed.

Peasants, you ain't not nothing if'n you ain't trip jabbed

[gremlin]

Well the other alternative is not to fucking go to parties with 100 other stupid fuckers ?

It is an alternative, and one which you would clearly go for. I, on the other hand, like to go to parties, gigs, restaurants and I don't consider myself a stupid fucker, rather somebody who likes to socialise and have a good time with many friends. I may get sick, but then life is limited by default.

But we've been here before and will clearly never agree on this. I suspect that what will happen is that the UK will divide into two camps: those who want to take the cautious way and, by and large, stay covid free and those who choose to risk covid for the sake of a good time. If nothing else, this may serve to heal the divide Brexit made in society, if only by creating a greater divide.

As for checking people vaccination status when they come into your house....seriously?

[Supermofo]

We don't let anybody in our house who isn't double jabbed. And all the folk we socialise with are also double jabbed.

Problem with that is it looks like my BIL double jabbed has passed it on to my wife who is also double jabbed and I'm sure I'll be next very shortly (triple jabbed).

I personally know 7 people now all double jabbed who've got it or had it in the last month or so. Luckily so far not bad, but got it all the same.

[DefTrap]

Is it interesting that the double-jabbed (I include myself) are strutting about with their cloak of immunity, whilst drifting off the end of the 6 month efficacy window. My 2nd jab was in May, so I'm already there - can't get my booster until after Christmas ....

[weeksy]

Well the other alternative is not to fucking go to parties with 100 other stupid fuckers ?

Are they stupid if it's entirely within the government rules?

The government are not asking people to make up their own sensible rules, they asking them to follow theirs.

Of course they're stupid. Just because it's within the rules doesn't make it sensible. Being close to 100 people in an enclosed space is damn stupid, whether anyone tells me yes, no or otherwise, it's simple common sense within a virus rich environment.

Sure i go out sometimes... but i do to quiet places that i hope i can trust a bit... i certainly don't go to bloody house parties.

[MrLongbeard]

The government are not asking people to make up their own sensible rules, they asking them to follow theirs.

58% disagree

[gremlin]

Sure i go out sometimes... but i do to quiet places that i hope i can trust a bit... i certainly don't go to bloody house parties.

I'll not bother sending that invitation then.

Anybody wanna party bag and a slice of cake?

[weeksy]

Sure i go out sometimes... but i do to quiet places that i hope i can trust a bit... i certainly don't go to bloody house parties.

I'll not bother sending that invitation then.

LOL i'm pretty sure i wasn't on your invite list