Coronavirus (Covid-19) Discussion
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Public Health England produced data to identify where in England people were most likely and least likely to comply with voluntary self isolation guidance live. Suffice to say they did not make this public. No one wants to know that they are the thick idiots that couldn't be trusted to act responsibly. Well now we've all been told.
The list of high Street shops that are exempt from closure has been published. There are those that you'd expect such as food stores and pharmacies. Others include health food stores, bicycle stores, and home/hardware stores.
Apparently mainstream stores are focusing on general needs and can't meet the needs of specialist diets (coeliac etc, not veggie), and health stores can help meet that demand.
The armed forces are currently being mobilised to help with delivering food parcels and provisions to cat 1 at risk self isolators. So please, if you live in the UK and see military vehicles in your streets where you wouldn't usually, please don't panic, they are just helping out.
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I think timing is key. Most countries have waited too long with functional measures, whether they were controlling movement, testing, social distancing, whatever. Lockdowns have become increasingly necessary because of this.
i take some of what i said back. singapore has started to see a second wave of new cases partly due to the returning citizens from other countries. now they've moved to ban short term vistors and close entertainment establishments and the likes, where there's a higher chance of transmission. it'll be interesting to see if this works for them.
on the other hand, australia claims that 90% of cases are imported and closed their borders but continue to allow cruise ships to dock and with little checks in place, which doesn't make sense to me.
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It's happening in Hong Kong already.
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UK app aims to help researchers track spread of coronavirus….
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Link wouldnt work for me.
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The title is misleading as the only forces that can be used (AFAIK) for such use in the US is the nat'l guard. As I understand it, the Fed is very limited in what it can do (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posse_Comitatus_Act).
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Should not even be a point of discussion. Take the licence away, no exceptions….
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I went to a food bank today to pick up supplies for a vulnerable adult I support in my job. It was based in a church in an affluent part of the Borough I work in. The vicar told me that a neighbour in an adjacent house had called the police to ask that they 'dispurse the crowds'… 'crowds' that were being quiet, observing social distancing, and in many cases were facing the prospect of using a food bank for the first time in their lives, and having to take their small children with them. The police arrived and advised the vicar that the food bank would have to close if people didn't practice social distancing.
We cannot let this crisis create even more of a them and us mindset than brexit already has. For fucks sake people, have some humanity (a general observation not aimed at people here).
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I went to a food bank today to pick up supplies for a vulnerable adult I support in my job. It was based in a church in an affluent part of the Borough I work in. The vicar told me that a neighbour in an adjacent house had called the police to ask that they 'dispurse the crowds'… 'crowds' that were being quiet, observing social distancing, and in many cases were facing the prospect of using a food bank for the first time in their lives, and having to take their small children with them. The police arrived and advised the vicar that the food bank would have to close if people didn't practice social distancing.
We cannot let this crisis create even more of a them and us mindset than brexit already has. For fucks sake people, have some humanity (a general observation not aimed at people here).
Grocery stores here have started implementing a social distancing policy by placing colored tape, 6 ft apart, on the floor to the checkout lanes. When I was in checkout some a-hole behind me decided to ignore this and was within 2 ft of me. I really wanted to lay into the guy for being a dick but I’m usually the non-confrontational type. Really chaps my ass when people have zero disregard for personal space, especially during this pandemic
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Social distancing wasn't the issue here. People were very observant of it, not least because most were mums with young kids. It was more a frustration that someone contacted the police, most likely because there was a food bank where usually is not one.
I went to my local pharmacy that also has a post office. They are operating a one in one out policy that was working really well until one dickhead literally pushed past me at the door. The pharmacist asked to leave. He looked at me with daggers. I had my work ID on, else I would have said something stronger.
The staff at both places were awesome and we're running such efficient systems. They were being the best of what a crisis can bring out of people. While NHS staff are doing a sterling job, there are thousands of other front line staff just getting on with incredibly important jobs that don't get a second look. People working to support the homeless (some of the most vulnerable at this time) are doing incredible stuff, and really placing themselves at risk as most don't have PPE
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Social distancing wasn't the issue here. People were very observant of it, not least because most were mums with young kids. It was more a frustration that someone contacted the police, most likely because there was a food bank where usually is not one.
Oh for sure, I was just speaking to your point about people being selfish a-holes
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Very well made video that ratcheted my anxiety up considering we’ve been half-assing most of these measures, and I haven’t yet been successful in putting my foot down on insisting on doing the grocery shopping for my parents.
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