mask wearing

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[transam]

Blimey come to think of it

if you were black and lived in the states would you take the chance of wearing a mask and walking into a shop or bank ?

blimey you would be asking to get shot

 

[Munroast]

may be he was simply asking the idiot not in the shot (pun intended) to correctly social distance!

 

[SirGalahad]

Look at this lot - bloody mask wearers.

I wonder what they have to hide?

 

[mattylad]

Is there a new law that has been passed about mask wearing?
Because the previous mask wearing law 2020 has been revoked/expired.

 

[ajohn]

They have said that we must wear masks is certain places - shops and public buildings. Must means must.

 

[mattylad]

NVM I found the law on it:
https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2021/1340/contents/made

However I do note that this expires on Dec 20th 2021, so not long to go.

 

[Notch7]

NVM I found the law on it:
https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2021/1340/contents/made

However I do note that this expires on Dec 20th 2021, so not long to go.

I’m sure it will be extended.

 

[mattylad]

probably, but giving it about a months life is a bit short sighted.
typical for this government though

 

[ajohn]

probably, but giving it about a months life is a bit short sighted.
typical for this government though

Depends if they think that the economy would suffer too much if wearing is to continue. I'd suspect it will continue but....................................... they may wish everybody a maskless Omicron Merry Xmas. Or Delta as lots still about. It takes many weeks for new ones to spread country wide if it can just as it took a long time for the initial bug to spread country wide in significant numbers. London currently is doing pretty well with both. On the other hand some areas such as a large part of Devon and the more common previous hot spots aren't.

One worry they will have is death counts escalating to a point where people really notice. Some are unavoidable. Currently say ~1000/ week from say circa 6k in hospital all of the time. The 6k is sort of manageable. The 1000 a week will stack up for how long - nobody really knows.

I suspect initial thoughts concerning herd immunity balanced against the effects on the economy are over as it didn't work out. Not enough caught it and too many died. Some % of deaths being down to the NHS struggling to cope.

 

[Justin Passing]

I suspect one thing "people will notice" strongly, backed as usual by media alarm, would be a rise in cases amongst the kids. SA numbers are hinting that's possible even though the severity in that age group is low.
Filling up of hospitals, with concomitant impact on normal treatments, is a more powerful influencer than deaths among the old, I think.

 

[ajohn]

rise in cases amongst the kids

We already have that in the UK which is why they are reducing vaccination ages. Covid has always spread up from various lower age ranges and senioir school age is showing heavy infection levels. Curiously at the moment 30 odd year olds have relatively lower infection levels. Rather unusual,
[https://assets.publishing.service.g...037940/Weekly_Flu_and_COVID-19_report_w48.pdf

 

[SirGalahad]