now raging out of control in Oz..worse than ever, hospitals full but everyone walking around like it's over.

Except all Asians..still wearing masks (and me)

hedda wrote:
now raging out of control in Oz..worse than ever, hospitals full but everyone walking around like it's over.

Except all Asians..still wearing masks (and me)

Yes but it used to just be called the winter cold season...

Wyot wrote:
hedda wrote:
now raging out of control in Oz..worse than ever, hospitals full but everyone walking around like it's over.

Except all Asians..still wearing masks (and me)

Yes but it used to just be called the winter cold season...

there is a particularly nasty version of the Flu raging as well.

Grow up Hedda.

I am not wearing a mask for no fucker, I didn't even bother when they were in place.

I got Covid and got over it withing a few weeks. Like most people did.

There's nothing stopping you Hedda have your OWN lockdown.

hedda wrote:
[quote]Wyot wrote:
[quote]hedda wrote:


there is a particularly nasty version of the Flu raging as well.

Yes there is and it will come to us in time, of course:

www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2022/...disaster-experts-say

The article mentions the problems we have stored up by locking down for so long and the effects on immunity. We mess with nature at our peril.

I know we disagree on this one Hedda, but I can't help thinking that if the world had given lockdowns a little more thought/not responded primarily politically - we may have been less reckless...

Lockdowns did nothing but cause misery.

Hedda are you a globalist ?

conservativehome.com/2022/05/12/christop...eave-victims-behind/

If there was a lockdown who would pay attention after Boris and Keir broke their own fucking rules. Who was wearing masks at the recent WEF meeting and we now have the Sun Valley Conference.

www.transcend.org/tms/2021/07/what-happe...billionaire-kings/#:~:text=The%20Sun%20Valley%20conference%20is%20primarily%20known%20as,Mark%20Zuckerberg%20in%20the%20season%E2%80%99s%20latest%20fleece%20vest.

meaww.com/sun-valley-lodge-conference-fu...lionaire-summer-camp

It is easy to be dismissive of other people's worries and precautions when you are happily vaccinated and not in a risk group.

Honey wrote:
It is easy to be dismissive of other people's worries and precautions when you are happily vaccinated and not in a risk group.

Death can't be avoided.

I wish Chris Whitty was grilled like this.

One sad thing is that, after all that we have gone through since the pandemic started, you'd at least expect us to have picked up some better habits - and yet most of us haven't. Shops have slipped back into the same old sloppy hygiene standards as before. Loads of people still cough and sneeze into the open air as if tissues were some rare commodity not to be wasted on mere snot. Public transport is just as insalubrious an experience as it was three years ago. I don't care if someone thinks they're invulnerable; I do care when they assume everyone else is.

In fact, the degree of basic, prosaic, moronic behaviour is higher than ever. Yesterday evening, the rain was pouring down, and hardly anyone I saw was using an umbrella. That always mystifies me. Maybe I'm quaint, but I don't get why anyone would fancy arriving somewhere on a Friday night already soaked to the skin. Do they feel it's some weird quasi-asian loss of face to be forced by the elements to put up an umbrella? I don't get it. And all next week they'll be back in the office, moaning that they have a cold, as they cough repeatedly a few inches from your face. Thanks, morons.

Rick wrote:
One sad thing is that, after all that we have gone through since the pandemic started, you'd at least expect us to have picked up some better habits - and yet most of us haven't. Shops have slipped back into the same old sloppy hygiene standards as before. Loads of people still cough and sneeze into the open air as if tissues were some rare commodity not to be wasted on mere snot. Public transport is just as insalubrious an experience as it was three years ago. I don't care if someone thinks they're invulnerable; I do care when they assume everyone else is.

In fact, the degree of basic, prosaic, moronic behaviour is higher than ever. Yesterday evening, the rain was pouring down, and hardly anyone I saw was using an umbrella. That always mystifies me. Maybe I'm quaint, but I don't get why anyone would fancy arriving somewhere on a Friday night already soaked to the skin. Do they feel it's some weird quasi-asian loss of face to be forced by the elements to put up an umbrella? I don't get it. And all next week they'll be back in the office, moaning that they have a cold, as they cough repeatedly a few inches from your face. Thanks, morons.

Umbrellas are pointless they break or snap in the wind, awkward to hold when you have shopping to carry. Buses and a lot of shops still have the Perspex screens up. I still see old surgical masks on the ground or in hedges. I have always carried sanitiser gel even before the plan-demic. I don't get why people don't carry handkerchiefs they are cheaper in the long run than tissues.

I agree. I cant understand why a society that tip toes around desperately trying not to offend people by using "inappropriate" ( ) words or heaven forbid, not include them,( ) thinks it is perfectly ok to gob their potentially fatal germs all over someone.

The reason I hardly ever use an umbrella is because I enjoy all weather and I don't mind getting wet in the slightest.

Green Man wrote:
Rick wrote:
One sad thing is that, after all that we have gone through since the pandemic started, you'd at least expect us to have picked up some better habits - and yet most of us haven't. Shops have slipped back into the same old sloppy hygiene standards as before. Loads of people still cough and sneeze into the open air as if tissues were some rare commodity not to be wasted on mere snot. Public transport is just as insalubrious an experience as it was three years ago. I don't care if someone thinks they're invulnerable; I do care when they assume everyone else is.

In fact, the degree of basic, prosaic, moronic behaviour is higher than ever. Yesterday evening, the rain was pouring down, and hardly anyone I saw was using an umbrella. That always mystifies me. Maybe I'm quaint, but I don't get why anyone would fancy arriving somewhere on a Friday night already soaked to the skin. Do they feel it's some weird quasi-asian loss of face to be forced by the elements to put up an umbrella? I don't get it. And all next week they'll be back in the office, moaning that they have a cold, as they cough repeatedly a few inches from your face. Thanks, morons.

Umbrellas are pointless they break or snap in the wind, awkward to hold when you have shopping to carry.

You really are quite the blinkered boor.

Rick wrote:
Green Man wrote:
Rick wrote:
One sad thing is that, after all that we have gone through since the pandemic started, you'd at least expect us to have picked up some better habits - and yet most of us haven't. Shops have slipped back into the same old sloppy hygiene standards as before. Loads of people still cough and sneeze into the open air as if tissues were some rare commodity not to be wasted on mere snot. Public transport is just as insalubrious an experience as it was three years ago. I don't care if someone thinks they're invulnerable; I do care when they assume everyone else is.

In fact, the degree of basic, prosaic, moronic behaviour is higher than ever. Yesterday evening, the rain was pouring down, and hardly anyone I saw was using an umbrella. That always mystifies me. Maybe I'm quaint, but I don't get why anyone would fancy arriving somewhere on a Friday night already soaked to the skin. Do they feel it's some weird quasi-asian loss of face to be forced by the elements to put up an umbrella? I don't get it. And all next week they'll be back in the office, moaning that they have a cold, as they cough repeatedly a few inches from your face. Thanks, morons.

Umbrellas are pointless they break or snap in the wind, awkward to hold when you have shopping to carry.

You really are quite the blinkered boor.

Meow, to you duckie.