Two of my colleagues are off with symptoms rn, and it's getting really hard to bite my tongue when I just keep seeing pure idiocy day in day out. People still doing ANYTHING to pay with cash even though they have a card they can pay with, people just waltzing in risking people because they fancy a Wispa and a Sun... Like do the rules just not apply to you hun? It's really not that difficult, stay at home and just get some bits once or twice a week to keep you going. You see the same faces every day, just buying a bit of chocolate or a drink, and I just don't know how much longer I can bite my tongue! My colleagues went to work, came home, didn't go anywhere, so them getting symptoms is because of idiots swanning in like that and it's just so selfish! I can't fathom that mentality at all.

 

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I feel more needs to be done to prevent some shops persisting with this needless minimum payment to use card. Was out a couple of days ago just bought a few bits and the guy insisted on £3 minimum payment. So switched to cash, again not what should be being encouraged at the moment but why do people keep putting up such barriers.

I feel more needs to be done to prevent some shops persisting with this needless minimum payment to use card. Was out a couple of days ago just bought a few bits and the guy insisted on £3 minimum payment. So switched to cash, again not what should be being encouraged at the moment but why do people keep putting up such barriers.

Definitely, we don't have a minimum payment and like if someone goes "oh it's only £1 i'l use cash" I just say no it's fine we prefer card unless it's not possible and they just pay on card! Like it's quicker anyway you just tap your card and go you don't have to faff about finding change or waiting to be given change and it minimises risk at this time which is the most important.

Some positive news before someone posts the more concerning news. It is estimated that one positive person will infect 0.62 people instead of 2.6 which has a MASSIVE impact in reducing the cases!

 

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I feel more needs to be done to prevent some shops persisting with this needless minimum payment to use card. Was out a couple of days ago just bought a few bits and the guy insisted on £3 minimum payment. So switched to cash, again not what should be being encouraged at the moment but why do people keep putting up such barriers.

 

Is it not because it costs the business a set amount of money every time the card machine is used for a transaction, which is why companies originally used to charge for you to use it. But when that was banned they starting putting minimum spends in to make sure that they aren’t paying over the top for needless <£1 purchases?

re" mice in the house, I spent the night in a bedroom 2 weeks ago with the little sods keeping me awake all night scampering round the room and nibbling plastic bags. They are like lightning, shooting for cover, then creeping out and chomping away again minutes later. After you've driven several hundred miles and have to drive another few hundred miles on no sleep one's capacity to have sympathy for the ever-breeding ever-increasing infestation (there were at least 6) drops quite considerably. I'm an animal-loving vegetarian, but they have to go. Humanely-released miles away when possible, but if they don't take the bait in the traps no sleep will drive you to distraction....

Some positive news before someone posts the more concerning news. It is estimated that one positive person will infect 0.62 people instead of 2.6 which has a MASSIVE impact in reducing the cases!

 

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If that figure is accurate, it is indeed very good news. The figures will continue to get a lot worse until well into next week at the very least before the rate of increase starts to slow down, but that gives real hope that the number of new infections might start to go down some time next month.

Two of my colleagues are off with symptoms rn, and it's getting really hard to bite my tongue when I just keep seeing pure idiocy day in day out. People still doing ANYTHING to pay with cash even though they have a card they can pay with, people just waltzing in risking people because they fancy a Wispa and a Sun... Like do the rules just not apply to you hun? It's really not that difficult, stay at home and just get some bits once or twice a week to keep you going. You see the same faces every day, just buying a bit of chocolate or a drink, and I just don't know how much longer I can bite my tongue! My colleagues went to work, came home, didn't go anywhere, so them getting symptoms is because of idiots swanning in like that and it's just so selfish! I can't fathom that mentality at all.

We have implemented marks and signs to keep people away from each other in queues and stuff but some idiots still cut the line because they think the person standing 1.5m away is JUST THERE CHILLING. I mean what kind of stupidity?! Even outside of this situation people in Russia like to breathe down everyone's necks, LITERALLY, when standing in queues as if it would go faster like this.

 

I just did my weekly shopping going outside for the first time since Friday and there was not a lot of people in the store but it's still pretty concerning for a 2pm. LOTS and I mean LOOOOTS of elderly too EVERYWHERE (not that I've been anywhere but the supermarket and pharmacy but on my way there and back, yes). Including the woman who was in front of me who took AGES to pay and get tf out. But it was fine as 1 extra minute of waiting is nothing and I don't want to risk anyone's life. Plus it would be rude if I even said something and I'm not that kinda girl. I'm only rude if someone's rude first and even then I keep SOME level of respect. I was already preparing myself to be a bitch towards people behind me in the line but the woman who was there seems to have read instructions and didn't invade my extended personal space which was nice to see.

 

Also I find it so funny how people run around looking for a cashier who has less people. There was a group of people who kept going from one end to another (close to me as well mind you!) and after the 3rd lap they finally succumbed and decided where they want to go. YES it might save you 24.6 seconds if you stand in this line Brenda! :lol:

We have implemented marks and signs to keep people away from each other in queues and stuff but some idiots still cut the line because they think the person standing 1.5m away is JUST THERE CHILLING. I mean what kind of stupidity?! Even outside of this situation people in Russia like to breathe down everyone's necks, LITERALLY, when standing in queues as if it would go faster like this.

We have that too, there's little boxes on the floor to show you where yo stand away from the till but also from the other people in the queue but people ignore those and are like "it wasn't clear" well hun do you think everything on the floor is there for fun.....

I just did my first village shopping trip since lockdown because I needed milk and there was a very irritating man in there who spent ages choosing some red bull. I had to wait for him to move so I could get to the milk which is fine, but when he did move he walked straight towards me! How are people not getting this?

are they limiting how many people go into your store Liam?

I just did my first village shopping trip since lockdown because I needed milk and there was a very irritating man in there who spent ages choosing some red bull. I had to wait for him to move so I could get to the milk which is fine, but when he did move he walked straight towards me! How are people not getting this?

It's extraordinary to see the number of people who somehow think they can maintain social distancing by looking anywhere but where they are going.

 

Going back to the figure quoted by Klaus and to put it in context. I mentioned earlier that, based on a transmission rate of three people per person with the virus, by the tenth iteration it would be passed on to 59,000 people. If the figure is actually 2.6 people, that still means over 14,000 on the tenth iteration. If it comes down to 0,62 people, it means that at the tenth iteration it is passed on to just one person.

 

Just to clarify using the figure of three people. At the first iteration, that means three new people get the virus. If each of those three pass it on to another three people, that means nine people at the second iteration. Each of those nine passing it on to three more people means 27 on the third iteration and so it goes on.

are they limiting how many people go into your store Liam?

It's 10 (and no more than 2 together ofc) but nobody has had to queue outside to wait since like last Thursday

It's extraordinary to see the number of people who somehow think they can maintain social distancing by looking anywhere but where they are going.

 

Going back to the figure quoted by Klaus and to put it in context. I mentioned earlier that, based on a transmission rate of three people per person with the virus, by the tenth iteration it would be passed on to 59,000 people. If the figure is actually 2.6 people, that still means over 14,000 on the tenth iteration. If it comes down to 0,62 people, it means that at the tenth iteration it is passed on to just one person.

 

Just to clarify using the figure of three people. At the first iteration, that means three new people get the virus. If each of those three pass it on to another three people, that means nine people at the second iteration. Each of those nine passing it on to three more people means 27 on the third iteration and so it goes on.

If we assume the numbers are correct then 900,000 currently infected people (let's just take some guesstimate about undiagnosed cases and stuff) will turn into less than one person at the 29th iteration if I counted them right~

 

But as we see hardly everyone is doing social distancing plus we actually have to get the tests (for both antibodies and the virus) available everywhere it will be a tad longer than that oops

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I'm sorry, first the whole bog roll saga and now this. Your wife is a barbarian.

 

I know. I make myself scarce very quickly when she has any implements in her hand. :o

 

 

 

THE UK coronavirus death rate has shot up by another 50 per cent today - after 563 people died in a single day.

 

Just been announced that Wimbledon 2020 is CANCELLED. Won't be played later in the year. First time since the war.

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Two of my colleagues are off with symptoms rn, and it's getting really hard to bite my tongue when I just keep seeing pure idiocy day in day out. People still doing ANYTHING to pay with cash even though they have a card they can pay with, people just waltzing in risking people because they fancy a Wispa and a Sun... Like do the rules just not apply to you hun? It's really not that difficult, stay at home and just get some bits once or twice a week to keep you going. You see the same faces every day, just buying a bit of chocolate or a drink, and I just don't know how much longer I can bite my tongue! My colleagues went to work, came home, didn't go anywhere, so them getting symptoms is because of idiots swanning in like that and it's just so selfish! I can't fathom that mentality at all.

 

 

There's a long thread on Digital Spy, well several in fact, about the lockdown and 8 days in people are going crazy with boredom. Can you wonder that they want to pop out even for 10 minutes to the shop? Also one on Mumsnet with a mum saying her usually docile husband is shouting and screaming at the kids for the least little thing. I fear for the mental health of a lot of kids in this. We need to lift this lockdown as soon as we possibly can or everyone will go stark staring mad. Am not bothered really as only used to go shopping and walking the dog anyway and can still do that. I know it'll be extended another 3 weeks but after that they should relax the family and friends part or people will just break it anyway. Saturday will be a nice sunny day apparently, upto 21c here in the South. Can imagine a few people breaking the lockdown then and cops going to break up a few gatherings. I know people, wife's friends, who are visiting each other. She won't join them though which is sensible.

 

Have even heard of someone wanting to get a dog just to be able to go out during this. :rolleyes: It was pointed out that you can't take them out of the door until they've had all their jabs anyway. They can walk mine if they like!

 

Mods. Sorry for the second post in a row. Forgot and wanted to answer Liam. Won't do it again.

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Everyone is going to suffer, but if they can't cope with a bit of boredom for the sake of helping people live then there really is no hope. Why should we have fewer restrictions in place or for a lesser time when Italy and China have had longer and stricter restrictions??

Everyone is going to suffer, but if they can't cope with a bit of boredom for the sake of helping people live then there really is no hope. Why should we have fewer restrictions in place or for a lesser time when Italy and China have had longer and stricter restrictions??

 

People eventually, after a few weeks, just won't stand for it. They'll take it out on those they live with, drink more and wlll break it anyway. According to a lot it's their basic human right to see family and friends which in a way you can't argue with. Partners aren't going to go months without meeting either. Bet loads are doing it quietly now. Cop hotlines are apparently inundated with callers trying to dob people in.

Might just be my introverted self talking but people are so weak. The quarantine is literally getting longer the more times they go visit their friends or to a public place. I always thought of extraverted people as more resilient but shit's turning completely upside down in this situation, it's crazy!

Everyone is going to suffer, but if they can't cope with a bit of boredom for the sake of helping people live then there really is no hope. Why should we have fewer restrictions in place or for a lesser time when Italy and China have had longer and stricter restrictions??

I agree people should be abiding by the rules but I don't think it's fair to dismiss people's troubles as just a bit of boredom. It's much more as that.