Masks....

[rusticgal]

I have been on my usual shopping expedition today and pretty much everybody has been wearing their masks. In this heat it would have been so easy to have left them off now we are permitted to...but its so good to see people just being sensible and cautious.

[Niamh.]

It's so hot with them on in this weather, we still have to wear ours here in shops etc

[user104658]

QAlf will have a fit.

[Cherie]

And everyone that I saw who was wearing one had it on properly, no chin straps

[user104658]

And everyone that I saw who was wearing one had it on properly, no chin straps

Chin diapers!

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"I'm not wearing a chin diaper over my mouth - that's disgusting!" is one of my favourite South Park quotes for years

[thesheriff443]

Still wearing mine
I take my dad to hospital for dialysis and we bother wear one
He got a call on Wednesday to say he needed to self isolate because he has come into contact with someone who has tested positive for covid but he can’t stop his treatment

With the virus mutations we could be all be back in real danger

[Crimson Dynamo]

https://media.nature.com/lw800/magazine-assets/d41586-020-02801-8/d41586-020-02801-8_18451104.jpg
US baseball players wore masks while playing during the 1918 influenza epidemic.

[rusticgal]

Still wearing mine
I take my dad to hospital for dialysis and we bother wear one
He got a call on Wednesday to say he needed to self isolate because he has come into contact with someone who has tested positive for covid but he can’t stop his treatment

With the virus mutations we could be all be back in real danger


I think you still have to in Hospitals...but shops and indoor spaces you no longer have to and no one can make you. Its just nice to see common sense prevail in the knowledge that cases are rising again...

[Crimson Dynamo]

Neil Oliver says when it comes to Masks compassion is a 2-way street. He also says there is a new divisive religion - the Church of the NHS..

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[michael21]

I have stay in my big house so don't know what going on outside :bawling::bawling::bawling:

[Zizu]

https://media.nature.com/lw800/magazine-assets/d41586-020-02801-8/d41586-020-02801-8_18451104.jpg
US baseball players wore masks while playing during the 1918 influenza epidemic.


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[Strictly Jake]

There's a lot of people still wearing them. A lot more than I thought would

[Crimson Dynamo]

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One of my fave Neem and Cherie pics that one :love:

[AnnieK]

I'm still wearing mine, can't see me not doing for a long time.

Perfect when you don't want to be bothered chatting too :laugh:

[Beso]

I took mine off to go into the co op earlier, it felt so liberating, I might make a habit of it.

[AnnieK]

I think its harder for people who have had to wear a mask every day for long periods. I've been lucky that I only have to wear one for shopping etc so its not a hardship for me to pop it on when I go in somewhere.

[ThomasC]

I went to TKMAX, I didn't.

People staring at me, but **** them.

I'm not wearing a mask in this heat in a quiet shop

[Cherie]

One of my fave Neem and Cherie pics that one :love:

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[Crimson Dynamo]

I went to TKMAX, I didn't.

People staring at me, but **** them.

I'm not wearing a mask in this heat in a quiet shop

no, you exercised common sense

[Vanessa]

I always wear them inside any shop, restaurant or pub.

[Marsh.]

Neil Oliver says when it comes to Masks compassion is a 2-way street. He also says there is a new divisive religion - the Church of the NHS..

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We've been out of lockdown for about 4 months now and this moron is bleating about how bad his life is? :facepalm:

[Crimson Dynamo]

We've been out of lockdown for about 4 months now and this moron is bleating about how bad his life is? :facepalm:

Yes how dare he talk about his mental health and family he should just suck it up

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[Marsh.]

Yes how dare he talk about his mental health and family he should just suck it up

:facepalm:

I don't believe a piece of cloth over his gob whilst in tesco has had any effect on his mental health.

And your false sympathy doesn't wash either.

[Crimson Dynamo]

I don't believe a piece of cloth over his gob whilst in tesco has had any effect on his mental health.

And your false sympathy doesn't wash either.

I see in order to get out of trashing his mental health you think he is lying and i have false sympathy?

how very convenient

jesus

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[Marsh.]

I see in order to get out of trashing his mental health you think he is lying and i have false sympathy?

how very convenient

jesus

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Meanwhile, there's people with real problems. :pat:

[Crimson Dynamo]

Meanwhile, there's people with real problems. :pat:

I think saying that Mental Health is not a real problem is actually despicable

[Marsh.]

I think saying that Mental Health is not a real problem is actually despicable

Sure.

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[Zizu]

It's good to see most customers keeping their masks on. I will be keeping mine on while travelling on public transports and going into shops and such.

I just hope people don't abandon it after a few days. Someone at work's caught Covid after having both their jabs, so now isn't the time to throw caution to the wind.


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[bots]

when 80% of the adult population is double vaccinated, then the majority that end up in hospital will now be double vaccinated. The vaccines provide 90+% protection against hospitalisation, which means that a proprtion of vaccinated people will end up in hospital, but look at the graphs between now and january, look at the numbers. They are just not in the same league

[Ramsay]

This isn’t the dream I signed up for ..




Look up Base Rate Fallacy in regards to vaccines

[rusticgal]

People get the flu jab…and some still get flu. I can only imagine that once you are vaccinated your body will fight it off more efficiently..:shrug:

[GoldHeart]

I guess all we can do is take breaks with the mask off when nobody is around :shrug:,stay hydrated.

I actually got myself comfortable masks,but I know in the heat it will feel stuffy. But just have to find ways to deal with it.

[Livia]

I went shopping yesterday and everyone I encountered was either behind a screen or wearing a mask. I think most people are quite sensible.

[user104658]

Look up Base Rate Fallacy in regards to vaccines


Yes. Although, also, no.

Yes there are huge mathematical misunderstandings at play here and this is the risk of presenting a population with a bunch of raw data when the majority of that population has no real understanding (or often any understanding) of stats.

But also no they shouldn’t look up base rate fallacy, because looking up stats concepts, if they have no basic understanding of stats, is frankly just going to confuse them even more.

[ThomasC]

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Oh FFS.

Another load of ****e.

Cause they will be as most are now vacinnated.

What about underlying health conditions though? Or those who are in for something completely different but have caught it?

[ThomasC]

Yes. Although, also, no.

Yes there are huge mathematical misunderstandings at play here and this is the risk of presenting a population with a bunch of raw data when the majority of that population has no real understanding (or often any understanding) of stats.

But also no they shouldn’t look up base rate fallacy, because looking up stats concepts, if they have no basic understanding of stats, is frankly just going to confuse them even more.

I don't think people need to know the ins and outs of stats to understand they are just that, stats..... Stats which are wildly misconstrued. I'd just say it's common sense.

Ohhh, more people have tested positive for COVID,,,, yes but more people are using and having to use the app....

More people are dying from COVID,,,,what the ones who died of something completely different?

Double vaxed makes up 80%...well, yeah, shock horror considering that's probably the % of people already vacinnated.

It's scaremongering to the extreme whilst children die of starvation, die of flu, die of poverty, heart attacks, cancer.

Whilst stats have a place, of course they do, they are just that.

What's more damaging is the media who don't portray the full picture and paint the picture to fit their own narrative.

[Vanessa]

I went shopping yesterday and everyone I encountered was either behind a screen or wearing a mask. I think most people are quite sensible.

Yes. Most people still wearing masks in shops and public transport.

[Ashley.]

It's lovely to see people still being courteous even in places where mask-wearing is optional. And it does not cause harm to anyone. Two for one.

[user104658]

I don't think people need to know the ins and outs of stats to understand they are just that, stats...

You'd think, but as Ramsay pointed out Base Rate Fallacy is causing huge misunderstandings with current Covid cases.

Half of the world's sociological problems also come down to an extremely common "many = most" non-sequitur as well; that is to say, people see "a lot of people" holding a belief (hundreds of thousands, even millions) and because of poor abilities to comprehend scale, they believe that "a lot of people" holding a belief means that "most people" must hold that same belief. MASSIVELY at play in Trump conspiracies. "How do you explain that Trump has hundreds of thousands of people coming to rallies but didn't win?" etc. Plays a huge part in confirmation bias for beliefs already held, too - people hear thousands of people agreeing with them and will happily say, "See? Look at all of these people. Most people must agree with me.

Plays slightly into the "can't be wrong" fallacy too... the idea that "[X number of people] can't all be wrong!" ... when yes, of course, they can, and [X+1 number of people] might actually disagree.

[AnnieK]

I've just been to a funeral.....most people still wore a mask inside during the service, but not all.

[Zizu]

Neil Oliver says when it comes to Masks compassion is a 2-way street. He also says there is a new divisive religion - the Church of the NHS..

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.... says the guy who always wears a scarf around his neck .. in the studio ..

What’s that all about ?


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