Corona Virus: How Are We Doing?

[Mugshot]

Saturday morning, wake up, get showered, dressed, breakfast, brush teeth, get to shopping centre, do all your shopping and be away and on the way home by 10.30? And that be your only opportunity in the whole week?

As I said before, it's bullshit lip service. Dim the lights and switch the music off in that first hour of Saturday morning when no bastard wants to do their shopping anyway and you can claim that you're all autism friendly by making seriously minimal farking effort to change anything about your shop that might make it less of an overwhelming and hyperstimulating experience for the other 53 1/2 shopping hours in the week.

But... do you even get an hour? According to the website, this shopping centre doesn't even open til 10.
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So you want a load of confused and potentially very anxious autistics standing around from 9.30 on a Saturday morning who are then expected to do all their shopping and be out of there and on the way home within half an hour? You're forcing an autistic person to make a choice about what clothes to buy in a state of anxiety and under considerable time pressure? They will more than likely leave with nothing, or the wrong thing, and hate the entire experience.

Just make the shops less farking awful in the first place.

The Social Model of Disability.

 

[Bhitucyclist]

Love the poll idea !

 

[Bhitucyclist]

How to create this voting button ... i want to do the same

 

[winjim]

How to create this voting button ... i want to do the same

Post new thread 》scroll down》post a poll.

 

[Bhitucyclist]

Post new thread 》scroll down》post a poll.

Thanks ... i managed to do it ! 😊 great feature

 

[winjim]

The Social Model of Disability.

To be fair, the shopping centre in question does have the most accessible bathroom I've ever been in. Two toilets and a changing station means the whole family can go for a poo all together.

 

[Pale Rider]

I was thinking that. I wonder if Morrison's still do their Autism hour, I don't think I could get up that early though!

Nope, it wasn't very popular because they kept on changing it.

 

[Slioch]

I think I posted earlier on this thread (hard to keep track - there's so many of them) that a friend has a wedding and evening "do" tomorrow (Friday), to which we've been invited.

We've received confirmation that the "do" is still going ahead, and do you know what, we're going.

Had a bit of a discussion tonight about it with Mrs S, and our main reasons for going are a) to support our friend for whom it is the happiest day in their life etc, and b) because we're both in our 50's and in good health, so we're not in the high risk group.

Irresponsible? Maybe.

Will we live to regret it? Maybe.

Do we feel we're doing the right thing? Yes.

It's a tough call.

 

[GM]

Nope, it wasn't very popular because they kept on changing it.

That's a shame, it does mean I can still have a lie in though!

 

[Pale Rider]

That's a shame, it does mean I can still have a lie in though!

Sorry, it was an attempt at humour, so if you need to find out best to check with Morrison's directly.

I expect it might be one with local discretion.

If you speak to a manager who happens to be helpful they might come up with an alternative solution.

 

[PK99]

Have been trying to work out when/where MrsPK picked up the bug.

She says it could have been anywhere, but I beg to differ!

Last Friday evening she went to a WI meeting and as treasurer took cash from all there, brought it home counted and bagged it on Saturday.

Tuesday evening/ weds morning she went down with Covid-19 symptoms.

ALL behaviours involving person to person direct or indirect contact MUST change.

 

[Accy cyclist]

and only one eye.

I didn't know that Postie. Probably because you haven't mentioned it before on CC,but you know what i mean. Can i ask,have you had the eye removed or is the eye still there but it's 'blind'?

 

[PK99]

It's meaningless. The supermarkets have thought about what the absolute minimum is that they can do, and done just slightly less than that. It's bullshit lip service.

Reminds me of the autism hour...

I disagree, it was a good idea relying for its effectiveness on the goodwill, honest, integrity, public spirt and simple good will of the Great British Public.

Well, collectively we have failed that test with flying colours.

But given some of the posts on here about ignoring Virus advice, I can't say I am surprised.

 

[PK99]

I blew my top at the supermarket on Monday. 9am car park already rammed.

Smallish supermarket, smallish car park. As I was driving slowly round, the car in front of me pulled onto the green tarmac walkway area and parked blocking pedestrian access to steps up to road level and making it difficult for pedestrians and drivers to access the far end of the car park.

I managed to manoeuvre around him and parked. As I walked past, I saw in his windscreen a notice "DELIVERING URGENT MEDICAL SUPPLIES. BACK IN 5 MINUTES"

I saw the guy walking to the shop from his car, once in the shop he bought a lottery ticket and started shopping.

I informed him in no uncertain terms that his behaviour was not acceptable, told him to return to, and move, his car. A member of staff observed the altercation and, when i explained, escorted the twunk to his car to move it.

Rant over.

 

[Accy cyclist]

Being a bit 'OCD' about germs and bacteria long before all this C19 stuff,my 'OCD' has surprisingly calmed down,not got worse, now that everybody else is wiping this and that down with anti-bac stuff. I've been thinking that maybe the body taking in more germs will help you avoid C19. I read this online......

'Hope this isn’t too convoluted.

Your cells have receptor/s that a virus binds to, provided that the virus has a complementary receptor. Think of a jigsaw puzzle, if you have the complementary receptor, the virus will bind to the cell. The virus uses the cell to reproduce. If two different viruses try to replicate in the same cell at the same time, replication is slowed down'.

Maybe we should be eating our meals off bog seats and licking lamp posts that dogs have pissed on to avoid catching C19?