Coronavirus outbreak

[oldwheels]

What bugs me is we have Sturgeon "strongly advising" people wear masks in shops but the supermarkets I've seen don't have staff wearing them. I would have thought H&S would be all over that.

Not all the customers are wearing them either. This why I am forbidden by my family from going into any large mainland supermarket. Mind you I am not allowed anyway as I am shielding for another week. Our local coop which is a mini supermarket has one staff member wearing a mask tho' the door guard has one hung round his neck. Leaving things to common sense does not really work and time to introduce compulsion which raises further arguments about the effectiveness or otherwise of masks. I do not presume to be an expert so will wear one anyway where appropriate.

 

[Joey Shabadoo]

My feelings about masks are - what harm do they do? There’s lots of evidence that says they help to some degree but nothing credible saying people get sick because of them.

it’s a pandemic.

Over 40,000 dead.

Wear a farking mask.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

The harm is that people think masks protect them and ignore social distancing and / or do not minimise time spent in close contact with each other.

 

[midlife]

It seems to be all kicking off in London., tens of thousands packed together and now a riot......

 

[LCpl Boiled Egg]

It seems to be all kicking off in London., tens of thousands packed together and now a riot......

Riot? Do you have a link for that please?

 

[Joey Shabadoo]

View: https://twitter.com/PMBreakingNews/status/1269318298489049089

 

[Joey Shabadoo]

View: https://twitter.com/Urban_Pictures/status/1268227663765942272

 

[Joey Shabadoo]

The harm is that people think masks protect them and ignore social distancing and / or do not minimise time spent in close contact with each other.

You can't reason with stupid

 

[Ming the Merciless]

You can't reason with stupid

Unintended consequences making things worse when you think they make things better

 

[Joey Shabadoo]

Unintended consequences making things worse when you think they make things better

I would say, on balance, the benefits outweigh the consequences of stupid people being stupid. As we've seen already, the stupid have been ignoring guidelines vrtually from day one anyway.

 

[roubaixtuesday]

You can't reason with stupid

It's not stupid. It's risk compensation, a well known phenomenon. Of course, how significant it is in this context is unknown.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Risk_compensation

 

[Slick]

View: https://twitter.com/Urban_Pictures/status/1268227663765942272

I feel very sorry for the police. Not only have they got to deal with that crowd not knowing who is infected and who isn't, there is one guy there who looks like he's taking a bit of a pasting but frightened to retaliate.

 

[RoadRider400]

The county where I currently reside has gone back over 1 on the R. Talking about reintroducing lockdown.

Some people, not all, have taken the relaxing of the rules as a green light to go back to normal, I don't know what goes through their minds.

Not a lot usually.

 

[Handlebar Moustache]

The county where I currently reside has gone back over 1 on the R. Talking about reintroducing lockdown.

Some people, not all, have taken the relaxing of the rules as a green light to go back to normal, I don't know what goes through their minds.

Already living through different lockdown strategies to England here in Scotland. No schools open as yet, less social interaction, etc. Will be interesting to see if rates diverge. Though it seems at least initially that R is not rising hugely in England despite the easing?

 

[mjr]

Already living through different lockdown strategies to England here in Scotland. No schools open as yet, less social interaction, etc. Will be interesting to see if rates diverge. Though it seems at least initially that R is not rising hugely in England despite the easing?

Depends what you mean by hugely. R is now approximately 1, according to Friday's update on https://www.mrc-bsu.cam.ac.uk/now-casting/

This may be another reason for increased mask promotion and compulsion, else next week's reopenings will start wave 2