Face coverings

[Johnsond]

3 hours ago, breffni said:

Working in England today. Stopped for diesel. Put mask on. Went into shop. Paid. Left shop and removed mask. What's the big issue? 

Well done ? 

[Haironyourchest]

Stopped at the shop for butter this evening. As I approached the door, I notice a local lady get out of her car and out a mask on. Mental eye-roll. I look in the door to see the current attitude, guy standing chatting at the counter, no masks in evidence, so I go in, mask-less, and head for the dairy fridge. Bump into the local lady, and....she's not wearing her mask anymore. She smiles, laughs and says something to the effect of "Oh, you're not wearing one either!"

Our behavior influences others.

Obedience to government diktats pressures others to obey the diktats also. Nobody wants to, but nobody wants to be the dirty stop-out. That's how you get totalitarianism. Real fast.

Conversely, bucking the system gives others permission to buck the system. Courage encourages courage in others.

[eggsarascal]

6 hours ago, Johnsond said:

Did you feel the need to wear a mask ?? 

Not at all, there was no great shakes there tonight but it is Tuesday. He did 17 covers and he's got three of the 4 letting rooms taken. People seem to be getting on, getting on.

Edited July 29, 2020 by eggsarascal

[Billhook]

On 27/07/2020 at 23:09, Paul Cleaver said:

im on monitor mode - I dont like phrases like " the new norm" and the fact that cash is not in favour at the mo because of the circumstances.  Lets be careful that these things dont become the norm. A cashless society is a supressed society. I think our country is slowly becoming a communist society - very controlling. Cameras everywhere, tracking you from mobile phones, speed limits with cameras in areas where its ridiculous.

1984 is here about forty years late.  New Norm = Newspeak, cameras= Big Brother watches you everywhere,  thought crime = gender, trans issues, people encouraged to rat on their neighbours,  widespread turning a blind eye to drugs, especially in prisons ( Soma in Brave New World) and Winston Smith's job of tearing up past history ,  cancelling people and removing all traces of them from literature

[Billhook]

Forgot the most important line in the book

 “Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.”

[Mesterh]

I was thinking today, I wonder if grandad stuck his bottom lip out at wearing a face covering during the war, apparently not, and great grandad didn't either during the Spanish flu and that was well before 1984.

Wearing a face mask is not new - but the backlash against them is, say historians 

WWW.GOOGLE.COM

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Attempts to invoke the Blitz spirit may not be wide of the mark as research shows...

 

Bloody snowflake generation.

 

[Haironyourchest]

My great great grandfather took a lung full of phosgene gas in the Great War and lived to 97. And he smoked as well.

[Mark Bolam]

No big issues down here in rural Kent wearing masks.

People seem happy to put them on in local shops and supermarkets.

 

The big thing is the majority are keeping the distance thing going as well.

After all, who wants to get near a freak wearing a mask?

 

The government control issue is such a crock of shit.

If masks improve things by 1%, then that’s 1% more than the ‘it’s the government trying to control us’ brigade can come up with.

 

Unless you’ve got any better ideas?

 

Not arguments.

Not bullshit.

Not anti-Boris.

Not negative crap.

 

Just positive anti-mask arguments, please.

 

Replies preferable from those who actually work in the tree game please.

 

[eggsarascal]

4 minutes ago, Mark Bolam said:

 

 

Unless you’ve got any better ideas?

 

Not arguments.

Not bullshit.

Not anti-Boris.

Not negative crap.

 

 

 

Replies preferable from those who actually work in the tree game please.

 

 I'd never guess who the last bit was aimed at, from you, Bolam?

[Mark Bolam]

It’s not you mate, you’re part of the furniture.

And I’ve seen you climb.