Coronavirus - how is it/has it affected you?
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larmen
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Can you reinfect with the same variant? Or does it have to differ, eg alpha then delta, …
AmandaJR
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Mask wearing pretty low in Lidl today - why not just keep wearing one for now...how difficult is it really?!
Italian outcast
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Had another booster today (in France; where for various reasons I started and so continue, all for free) 
Thats 1x Johnson & Johnson - last summer - followd by 2 x Pfizer (November 2021 and now Feb 2022)
Le monde est mon huître
Thats 1x Johnson & Johnson - last summer - followd by 2 x Pfizer (November 2021 and now Feb 2022)
Le monde est mon huître
SatchFan
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I am more than happy to - a) wear a mask and, b) avoid people. In fact, b) I'd happily make a permanent arrangement.
AmandaJR
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drdel
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With you 100%. Social Distancing is something I did way before the pandemic
Agreeď. Knowing the virus is a respiratory issue and highly transmissible I simply do not understand the resistance to doing a few simple things and something that seems just good sense
chellie
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I'm seriously considering getter better masks to wear. Bloke gobbed outside Aldi doorway then came in so I gave him a wide berth then outside going to another shop there was an unmasked man (who looked like he definitely should have been wearing one) coughing and spluttering everywhere. Gave him an even wider berth.
outside Aldi doorway then came in so I gave him a wide berth then outside going to another shop there was an unmasked man (who looked like he definitely should have been wearing one) coughing and spluttering everywhere. Gave him an even wider berth.
Ethan
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OK, apologies, I stand corrected. Someone from this place did.
Swinglowandslow
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It isn't. Could say it's being Bolshie , or ill informed? But....
Nah....can't think it's anything but being selfish.
PNWokingham
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But perfectly within the law, increasingly normal ete etc. Wear a mask if you want but try not to guilt trip others
Swinglowandslow
Well-known member
Why not? It costs nothing to wear one, but not wearing may spread infection. The rates are still high enough to justify such a viewpoint.
Why don't byou spell out why it is good to not wear one instead of merely demanding your " right" to not to do so ?
SwingsitlikeHogan
Major Champion
I'm afraid one obvious possible answer is linked to the Big P - just look at the front and backbenches one side of the HoC. If I am looking for something to justify me not wearing a mask then there I have one - I don't need to look further. That said - in the stores where I live mask wearing remains at pretty high levels.
If that's too P then my post can be deleted. But the question is asked and it's an answer that will apply for some. Cost and (in)convenience being irrelevant when individual choice is driven by self.
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AmandaJR
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I don't need to look at what anyone else is doing to judge and know what it is right for me to do. I'm not buying the "they don't, so I won't" argument or "I haven't been told I have to so I don't have to". I take full responsibility for my decisions and actions and I choose mask, having considered how easy it is to do. Whether or not it has a huge benefit I don't know for sure but even the teensy weensy positive impact then why wouldn't I choose to take that option...
So on that basis I'll give the hardest stare I can behind my mask to those not bothering and also loudly say the word "selfish" as I pass them by.
So on that basis I'll give the hardest stare I can behind my mask to those not bothering and also loudly say the word "selfish" as I pass them by.
HomerJSimpson
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Why do you even need to bring politics into it at any level. Plenty of examples at a local level. I'm with Amanda and in places like supermarkets it has dropped off significantly even with some still saying they'd "prefer" customers to wear one. Levels on trains, certainly on the one I use is also down, significantly in the 12-25 year olds. The older passengers still using them
Leftitshort
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I think we should all wear masks for the foreseeable future. I don’t know about the science, but it affords me a real sense of moral superiority. I’m pleased the guidelines have officially been changed. Now it’s really easy to spot the truly virtuous from the uncaring sociopaths.
drdel
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Good grief do you even need to hint at politics. Surely you can behave socially responsibly without needing a law or guidance.
SocketRocket
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Why keep posting this type of misinformation. Covid isn't Flu and Flu hasn't suddenly gone away. It's probably the way we have protected ourselves from Covid that has kept Flu at lower levels, remove them and we will have to deal with higher flu levels as well as Covid.
Would you follow lemmings over a cliff? Of course you wouldn’t and you know it.
Foxholer
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It rather more significantly down, so virtually HAS gone away! I agree with the thought that it's Covid protection that has meant the massive reduction in Flu cases in the last 2 years. Which also challenges the assertions that protection such as masks etc make very little difference.