11-28-2021, 10:01 AM
(11-28-2021, 09:49 AM)baggy1 Wrote:(11-28-2021, 09:12 AM)Protheroe Wrote:(11-27-2021, 11:12 PM)baggiebuckster Wrote: Likewise if you think that introducing masks in shops and on public transport is going to have a significant impact then fair enough. It smacks of being seen to do something no matter how pointless it is. Boris banging on about testing for incoming passengers on the day we announce the variant is already in the country says it all.
Telling people to get boosters whilst scaremongering that the new variant can escape the vaccines. The whole press conference was a booster sales pitch. Boris couldn't even answer the question about masks but stated that 'Saj' will advise further. Utterly clueless.
It's all about the optics. It's all about being seen to be doing "something".
I'm double vaxxed awaiting a booster. I've also had Covid. I'm a living breathing antibody machine.
Yet apparently it's safe for me to sit at the Albion with thousands of others in the Brummie, but not safe to travel on the train there. It's as ludicrous as the earlier rule that if you're standing up in a pub you need a marsk, but sitting down you don't. Let's not even consider that the highest rates of infection in the UK are in marsked Wales, and infections across marsked Europe are increasing exponentially.
Vaccinations are the exit from Covid. Not marsks.
Vaccinations, masks, working from home, washing hands, testing and isolating when you have symptoms are the best way forward without shutting businesses and locking down. It really is incredible that we can get to this point in the pandemic and some still don’t understand it is pooling everything at our disposal to fight this and implementing them.
It’s a weird ideological problem the right wingnuts have with masks. Take a look at SM and see who are moaning about them.