#257

So many of these every time Ive been shopping. Always men of a certain age.

#258

Reckon now might be the time to introduce some sort of licencing to use supermarkets. Folk have to demonstrate that they can use a supermarket in an efficient and timely manner before they are allowed to use them.

#259

hope they don’t use an antibody test as a means to justify equivalent death tolls in a second wave. like, ‘this proportion of the population are already infected, the same number of deaths would be fine to reach ‘herd immunity’, and the public will swallow the shit’

#260

They won’t be able to do that until there is proof that prior infection = immunity

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#261

true. i’m just worried about how the subsequent waves will be handled.

#262

From what I’ve seen the UK are at least now being pretty cautious and I think are probably inclined to watch the results of other countries reopening before making any big moves themselves.

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#263

Yeah for me it’s one of those things that feels bad. Less about the NHS funding thing though, more the kind of media and emotional ecology that supports stuff like this. Good on the guy and he seems like he’s having a laugh but the rest of the chain (media run with it and give people some feels) rings hollow to me

#264

My impression is that the guy has a new type of communications style that works with a big (enough) chunk of the US electorate and part of it is that it doesn’t matter if what he’s saying is accurate or not. I don’t think anyone really cares. It’s working on a different level and the old standards (that is to say the standards that people expected from about 1980 to 2016 or whatever, ie a blip in the grand scheme of things) don’t apply.

#265

My back garden in NYC - NYC! - is full of birds and squirrels.

The rats are also more visible and cockroach season has just started.

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#266

Finding it dead interesting the amount of aggro that’s online and out and about, where people are complaining about other people walking wrongly, cycling wrongly, going to the supermarket wrongly. Saw a few different low key conflicts like this in Brooklyn on Saturday and yesterday there was an altercation about masks on my street which included the line ‘this is America…land of the free…GO HOME’.

Don’t have much to say about it except that the distancing thing is really getting into people’s heads to a pretty heavy degree.

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#267

Yeah. Praying that all this stuff about street openings and reclaiming the space from cars really takes off. I’m not anti car but it would be so much better for everyone

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#268

Feeling pretty low about the number of people who think the media is being too harsh on the government and think they deserve a big pat on the back for trying :frowning:

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#269

I’ve got a couple of mates who are quite ‘government is doing a great job’ which is winding me up a bit - I don’t really want to be getting into political scraps with my pals at the moment when everyone is finding it difficult, but It’s a big of a pain. I can’t understand their threshold for what doing a good job is really.

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#270

A lot of pharma bros on my LinkedIn are like this and they should know better

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#271

A friend on Facebook posted a whole ‘hindsight is a wonderful thing let’s let the government get on with things and worry about the rest later’. Was frustrating to see quite a few of his friends replying with ‘here here, well said’ and finally someone stepped in with some common sense. The post disappeared so I know know if more people stepped in and put him straight.

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#272

Assume you’re referring to this?

WTAF

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#273

Wow, those Apprentice programmes really are a magnet for the criminally thick aren’t they?

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#274

But really, how could a wealthy, racist “Lord” possibly benefit from an unscrutinised tory governme… WAIT A MINUTE

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#275

Yep… normal and fine responses here…
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#276

WE’VE MADE FUNERALS BETTER is a really, really odd take.