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  • Just horrible...
    To Plant a Garden is to Believe in Tomorrow
  • AuntyRachAuntyRach Posts: 5,291
    B3 said:


    Nobody but me was using the sanitisers in Sainsbury's the other day. I think most people were wearing masks but I was in the zombie shopping zone so I can't be sure.
    Our local Sains has the most horrible hand sanitiser I have ever used (and I have used loads). The pungent ‘aroma’ was so bad I had to use my pocket one to try to cover the smell 🤢
    My garden and I live in South Wales. 
  • PerkiPerki Posts: 2,527
    Its inevitable everyone is going to have to live with the virus its not going away anytime soon . Frankly I am sick to death of restriction to normal life especially after extending past the pervious date , but I am a bit surprised masks for public transport isn't mandatory but it doesn't stop you wearing one yourself .
  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190
    @BenCotto  👍 I don’t think I’ve ever used ‘achy’ as a word
    either 🤔 

    @lyn … it’s the Duchess of Cambridge who’s isolating. 

    Cant imagine Fergie taking well to isolation 🤔 

    I know, slip of the fingers  dozy  old bat 😀😀
    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

  • steveTusteveTu Posts: 3,219
    edited July 2021
    The gov has a difficult job with Covid - every gov, no matter what it's colour, has a problem.
    What I found frustrating last night with Boris was the shift. For months he's been Mr '...we'll be led by the science/data...' and then last night the somehow morphed to '....if not now, then when?...' - to which the obvious answer is what he'd been saying for months - ie be led by the science to decide when. I follow as well that 'scientifically', now may be a better time than two months hence, but without knowing the scientific advice (and Whitty implied last night this was a political decision) I really can't believe that 'now' is right, given the current surge in numbers. That decision seems to be based not on science but on his own reply to his own question - which is then tainted by his own views/preferences - or maybe he did a brain dump like I did yesterday and had a completely blank page (apart from the green line that looped every 2 seconds and the purple line that had 20 hue variants and all went nowhere).
    UK - South Coast Retirement Campus (East)
  • raisingirlraisingirl Posts: 7,093
    Professor Ferguson on R4 this morning seemed to go along with the 'if not now then when?' hypothesis
    Gardening on the edge of Exmoor, in Devon

    “It's still magic even if you know how it's done.” 
  • ButtercupdaysButtercupdays Posts: 4,546
    And Whitty in the Graun said it was probably better to do it now than in the autumn with the flu season approaching. He also said he would be continuing to wear his mask!
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    I shall do what Prof. Whitty does ... in Covid related matters at least.  

    I s'pose that to a large extent the most important statistic is the number of hospital admissions due to Covid ... 🤔

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • I just hope that mask wearing doesn't become a remain versus leave argument again..weve lived thru brexit now are we going to live thru something similar? I shall do what Chris whitty says he will do over mask wearing
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    The problem is that the point of wearing a mask is supposed to be to protect others ... so when folk don't wear one the perception can be that they don't give a stuff about other people, they're going to do just what they want ... I'm not saying that's the actuality, but the perception can give rise to ill-feeling and then .... argy bargy etc ... 

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





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