Coronavirus

[chickenstrip]

[Ste]

[UncleFester]

[Kawasaki Jimbo]

[grr666]

Pulled a stool up to the bar in my favourite watering hole at exactly 00.01 and threw my (really rather pointless)
mask straight into the bin. Then enjoyed a couple of superb Moscow Mules, which were the only medicine I needed
and a nice reward for my awesome immune system which has faultlessly done the job evolution created it for.
Looking forward to going back when the my buddy Alex the DJ is in and the dancefloor is open. Off to the Co-op to grab
some groceries for the first time in ages without looking like I'm trying to rob the place. I'm certain many will want to
continue wearing theirs, this whole thing has cost me a few friends who I thought were sane and rational people. A
shame yes, but also a necessity as I grew quite tired of being hectored by people who felt it was their place to tell
me what I should and shouldn't do. I expect they're still hiding behind a sofa somewhere. My complete boycott and
cessation of funding the shameless BBC will most certainly be continuing though. They should be entirely
ashamed of their two year (and no doubt ongoing) campaign of fearmongering. It has consistently surprised me
just how many people believe every single word to come out of the idiot box from the headless chickens that are
allegedly running the country (into the ground). A "news" free life is a much happier one. I got 99 problems but a virus ain't one.
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[Islander]

[chickenstrip]

And yet as the vaccine, which we are told reduces transmission, is taken up by more people, cases continue to rise. Something not quite right with this picture.
Not that it matters, since the vaccine does seem to have massively reduced the number of deaths and hospitalisations, which is the main thing. No point in being concerned about a bug that isn't going to do you any harm. I think now is a very good time to let it have its way, assuming no particularly nasty mutations appear that the vaccines don't protect against.

Flu lockdown in 3...2...1...
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THERE'S MILLIONS OF CHICKENSTRIPS OUT THERE!

[UncleFester]

FFS

Vaccine does not prevent. It lessens the effect, for 'most' ( insert % of choice here) people.

It does not stop you getting it and it does not stop you carrying / transmitting it.

In theory it should cut down hospitalised patients but case numbers are going to go through the roof.

And then you have the isolation nightmare where X % of the country is sat on their arse at home again.
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[chickenstrip]

Islander told me the vaccine reduces transmission, and he has a telescope.

[Easy-X]

I think I need to clear up what I mean by masks...

"You may choose to wear a mask" and "it's up to individual companies to decide whether customers need masks" comes with no qualification and so punter will be let in wearing pretty much anything that looks like a mask We might therefore assume such a mask will only cut down on large droplets from coughs where someone is infected and symptomatic but otherwise ornamental.

Something like an N95 medical mask if fitted correctly and regularly changed might be a great help protecting everyone around you from your asymptomatic infection but won't protect the user as the eyes are still exposed.

Protection for the user would need this sort of thing:

https://www.dhresource.com/albu_502930752_00/1.0x0.jpg

tl;dr "From Monday ornamental masks are no longer required..."
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[chickenstrip]

[UncleFester]

[Islander]

[Islander]

[chickenstrip]

[Islander]

[Islander]

[chickenstrip]

[chickenstrip]

[UncleFester]

Quite bored of the whole thing to be honest.

Masks might filter some stuff out / Not wearing a mask will not.
Vaccination cuts down the risk of infection / not being vaccinated will not.
Good hygiene might cut down the risk of infection / bad hygiene will not.

Seriousness of infection seems to be down to length and strength of exposure. You can moderate this by choice of environment amongst other things - including vaccination, mask wearing and good hygiene whilst in said environment.

I'm fine with what I'm prepared to do and where and in what circumstances. It doesn't matter to me what holes you think you can magic into my opinion - your approach does not and will not work for me and mine will not work for you.

People need to spend a little more time thinking about this instead of bleating on about their lack of freedom or mask wearing / anti vaxxing.

What are YOU prepared to do to cut down the risk of infection whilst going about whatever YOUR daily business is.

If that's clean hands and a buff then great and if you manage to avoid infection and it never touches you in any degree you ever notice then even better. Perhaps you hope that by the time you do get exposed, you'll have had enough minor exposure to build up some natural immunity - i know not enough about Biology to know whether that is possible or not.

When i start a new job in a few weeks time back in an Office (been working from home since last March) I'll be applying common sense to what I do there too. And if after all of that I get it in spite of being careful then I'll be happy knowing I did whatever I could to lessen whatever the effect is.

I think as a nation we'll be a lot happier when most of us have had it, shaken it off and not turned it into long Covid. We are nowhere near that conclusion yet. Until we reach that point my opinion on what I need to do will not change.
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[chickenstrip]

That's a big post for someone who's bored with the whole thing!

This forum is a distraction for me, as I have far worse problems than some silly little bug to deal with and don't want to be thinking about them all the time - something that will probably confuse you, as you will no doubt consider death to be the worst thing that can happen to anyone.

But I highly recommend considering your own mortality in some depth. It is very good for your perspective. This doesn't mean you have to be nihilistic, but it helps you to maintain some kind of equilibrium. I have been forced to consider it on more than one occasion, and now do purely from a philosophical point of view quite a bit. It's actually quite a fascinating topic when you get into all the aspects of it.
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THERE'S MILLIONS OF CHICKENSTRIPS OUT THERE!

[Islander]

[Islander]

[UncleFester]

T1 Diabetic for 30+ years. Very much aware of and comfortable with my mortality.

@Islander maybe worth bringing Vaccine escape into the mix but i think that might hurt folks heads.
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[chickenstrip]

Islander, you moved to a remote location because you couldn't stand to be surrounded by people. You say people are numpties, UBF calls everyone cnuts, and then you both expect people to pay you any serious attention? Who's the numpty?

I'll bet you're still wondering how Brexit happened; so much for an "elite"
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THERE'S MILLIONS OF CHICKENSTRIPS OUT THERE!