Wuhan Coronavirus: Lockdowns, Quarantines, Cancellations

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Prime Minister Boris Johnson is set to announce a second national lockdown for England as the UK passed one million Covid-19 cases.

Non-essential shops and hospitality will have to close for a month, sources told the BBC.

But unlike the restriction in the spring, schools and colleges are to be allowed to stay open.

It comes as documents suggested the UK was on course for a much higher death toll than during the first wave.

The lockdown is also expected to include restrictions on travel and is due to come into force on Thursday, lasting until 2 December, BBC political correspondent Nick Eardley said.
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He promised he'd never do it, so of course he's done it.

I still can't believe that Sweden, of all places, took the most rational approach to this.
 
Over here in my neck of the woods, I see people going into the grocery store I work at without masks. Despite the fact they aren't supposed to be doing that, we've been told just to leave them alone.

Kinda makes me hopeful somewhat. More and more people are realizing how bullshit this all is.
 
Overcast said:
Over here in my neck of the woods, I see people going into the grocery store I work at without masks. Despite the fact they aren't supposed to be doing that, we've been told just to leave them alone.

Kinda makes me hopeful somewhat. More and more people are realizing how bullshit this all is.
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The craziest thing here is till staff never wear them, the justification being they have a flat sheet of perspex in front of them, with massive holes either side so they can pass the goods through and another one for the card reader.
 
Fuck my faggot country with this new lockdown bs. I get the great honour of being a "key worker" so I get to either be at work or at home with the wife and kid.

Still, I'd rather have this I suppose than having a house wife and kid but maybe not a job in a couple of months.

No joke seeing more dead young men lately, because of that situation. A real shame that the virus wouldn't have killed them as they were young and healthy, but the measures made to protect people more than twice their age did.
 
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It is so fucking creepy how there are people who have become freaked out by the idea of being around other people on a psychological level. Like not even during "the pandemic", just crowds/large gatherings being instinctively terrifying to them now. Fucking how does that happen? Pictures/videos of maskless crowds look just as ordinary and mundane to me as they did in 2019; it's what I expect to see, not spaced-apart people all wearing masks.
 
FuckedUp said:
One day from the moment of truth, the day we can determine how many people are truly buying into this or not.
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My neighborhood is doing a "drive by" trick or treat but I am happy to report (as I'm "on the ground" right now) that a large number of people are continuing to walk outside of cars and without masks.

Some people have made "hay rides" and are carrying kids around as a group on trailers, but that's always been done in this area.

One kid is a solid black plague doctor. I have him extra Reeses.

ETA: I saw 3 plague doctor kids and a cute little girl dressed as Harley Quinn.
 
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Heard this on the news "...finding a saftey net for those small businesses amongst growing numbers..."
Yeah, like not locking the business down?
It burns my blood to hear the soulless hosts of these programs saying how happy they are that things are locking back down.
 
Overcast said:
Over here in my neck of the woods, I see people going into the grocery store I work at without masks. Despite the fact they aren't supposed to be doing that, we've been told just to leave them alone.

Kinda makes me hopeful somewhat. More and more people are realizing how bullshit this all is.
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Some of the bodegas around here don't care even though they have signs up. I really wish everyone would just say "fuck it" en masse.

The only good thing about all this is social distancing on busses and trains keeps weirdos and pervs from sitting next to you. And no one's got a full fast food spread out either. There's almost no garbage in the cars now.
 
Clockwork_PurBle said:
My neighborhood is doing a "drive by" trick or treat but I am happy to report (as I'm "on the ground" right now) that a large number of people are continuing to walk outside of cars and without masks.

Some people have made "hay rides" and are carrying kids around as a group on trailers, but that's always been done in this area.

One kid is a solid black plague doctor. I have him extra Reeses.
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My parents set up a couple tables outside with the candy spaced apart as "per guidelines" (basically just the "take 1-2 pieces until a group of older kids or teens dump the rest into their bags" thing), but I printed out a piece of paper with a big bold "RING THE DOORBELL" on it, got the candy bowl from the basement, and am just waiting for them to leave the house.
 
FuckedUp said:
It is so fucking creepy how there are people who have become freaked out by the idea of being around other people on a psychological level. Like not even during "the pandemic", just crowds/large gatherings being instinctively terrifying to them now. Fucking how does that happen? Pictures/videos of maskless crowds look just as ordinary and mundane to me as they did in 2019; it's what I expect to see, not spaced-apart people all wearing masks.
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I agree it's very creepy, and what's just as bizarre is the major cognitive dissonance of it all. All around these hyper-paranoid people, even in Democrat-led states with harsher restrictions, people ARE going to the gym, movies, and to parties. They're having weddings. Birthday celebrations. All kinds of events. Heck even Florida is fully re-opened. Business and life goes on as usual. I can tell you even in places with stricter lockdown measures, there are covert operations that have been going on all year, generally speakeasy in nature, be they gyms, nightclubs, etc.

And yet...millions aren't dropping dead like flies. Hospitals aren't overcrowded. The infection rate fluctuates, as it will with any new virus, but it has largely remained low for months on end.

Even with a "spike" in case numbers in Florida since the state's re-opening, deaths are STILL quite low. People are by and large just fine.

And yet.

The paranoia only continues, building, snowballing along with the moral panic and outrage. People are angry lately. Furious. They almost seem to loathe each other for daring to go out and live their lives. I've even seen some wish death on others or "hope they die of COVID" because they're "so selfish and evil."

Which, to me, seems a rather evil mindset, ironically, but everything is opposite day with the paranoid.
 
What reality are we living in? Song is Eternal Flame by the Bangles, if you're curious.

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FuckedUp said:
It is so fucking creepy how there are people who have become freaked out by the idea of being around other people on a psychological level. Like not even during "the pandemic", just crowds/large gatherings being instinctively terrifying to them now. Fucking how does that happen? Pictures/videos of maskless crowds look just as ordinary and mundane to me as they did in 2019; it's what I expect to see, not spaced-apart people all wearing masks.
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It's like the evil mutant cousin of the AIDS panic. And all this happened in such a short time too. (:_(
 
Just wandering said:
I wasn't born yet during the aids pandemic it was really that bad!?
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I was a baby during Y2K, but I heard they made everyone live in an underground bunker for the first two months of 2000 "just in case".
 
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