We are now a red zone down here in Haute-Garonne, as you say @Busy-Lizzie I think the French don't want to know. Our village is holding it's annual Fete tomorrow albeit a very scaled back version. I'm glad I'm not going as they have moved the meal indoors, and I know there won't be much social distancing once the wine starts flowing.
Good morning. @floralies@Busy-Lizzie We are in the red down this area too, what with the goings on at Cap d'Agde everyone is getting their dose. (And that's not just with Covid either!!) So the tourists have gone and we are left to clean up. The Journée des Associations in various areas is going ahead, despite - as are other festivities that invite "clusters". School back on Tuesday. Strange way to handle it - yet we must wear masks. Hmmm.
I have just been reading about the Unite for Freedom gathering in Trafalgar Square and their inspirational speaker David Icke.
What marvellous people. Aware that COVID-19 vaccinations when they become available might be in short supply they are saying ‘don’t give them to us’. Isn’t that selfless of them? As we are then protected they are happy to infect one another but they’re not worried because this whole pandemic has been blown out of proportion by the evil mass media.
That was yesterdays rally, they had worse in Germany, not a mention on the news, I wonder why, should thin a few out, Piers Corbin arrested, and as for idiot Icke who claimed he was the son of God and that the world would end in 1997, you wouldn’t think so many people could even listen to him. Conspiracy theories are easier to believe it seems!
Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor.
One would think there is only so much room down the Conspiracy Theorist rabbit hole, but it appears they keep extending the warren. The Psychology involved is identical to that of Trump supporters as far as I can see, in that they grasp strongly onto any particular so-called fact which fits their existing world view and then find it impossible to let go, even when that 'fact' is completely disproven by scientific method or simple logic, because doing so would mean their personal world view is also fundamentally wrong and that is simply something their ego will not accept.
This is pure and simple tribalism and infests almost every human interaction.
What is more worrying is that these groups believe the 'state' has always had a plan to take complete control over their lives and that the covid pandemic is an illusion invented purely as a means to accomplish that. Unfortunately, by taking the actions that they are (and just like in all good dystopian fiction) those very actions may actually force the state into doing just that.
A trowel in the hand is worth a thousand lost under a bush.
Loads of stuff all over t’internet extolling the benefits of Silver nano/ colloidal silver face masks implying (but carefully not saying) that the antibacterial properties of colloidal silver will protect against Covid 19 (which of course is a virus not a bacteria).
Talk about disingenuous sales spin!!!
Follow the trail and it all looks very suspect to me ... including the promotional feature in the Daily Fail made to look like a scientific study but it’s really just an advert with live links.
As if anyone would believe a word they say anyway 😡
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
You've got a flu. You're feeling awful. Unless you are Cummings, are you going to travel 200 miles to get a test? I'm not that big a hero. I'm not even sure I'd want to travel 5 miles.
I haven't yet had to explore this, but I wonder whether you have to state whether you have a car before they offer the nearest appointment. If you don't, then quite apart from whether you feel well enough to travel, surely if you're experiencing covid symptoms you're not supposed to be using public transport to travel to get a test?
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What marvellous people. Aware that COVID-19 vaccinations when they become available might be in short supply they are saying ‘don’t give them to us’. Isn’t that selfless of them? As we are then protected they are happy to infect one another but they’re not worried because this whole pandemic has been blown out of proportion by the evil mass media.
Darwinism at its finest.
Conspiracy theories are easier to believe it seems!
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Unless you are Cummings, are you going to travel 200 miles to get a test?
I'm not that big a hero.
I'm not even sure I'd want to travel 5 miles.