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Post by GrizzlyShrew on May 21, 2022 12:28:12 GMT 1
"Time for doctors surgeries and dentists (amongst others) to get back into the real world." i agree ; i have a NHS dentists and they are still working on there backlog and there is a considrable delay for routine appointments and my GP is still not offering face to face appointments without going through a triage system then a phone consultation and if deemed worthy you get a face to face. I agree except…. I’ve been called for a routine check up at my NHS dentist (off butcher row corner of Pride Hill) and when needed walked to my GP arranged a phone consultation which happened before I left the surgery and saw the doctor same day. Not ideal I agree but people say they can’t get through to their GP (as I couldn’t) so just turn up and go through the process if you need a GP you’ll get one 👍 Love it. Your dentist is off Butcher Row 😂 Think it best to leave your mask on at all times with him. |
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Post by davycrockett on May 21, 2022 18:06:49 GMT 1
I agree except…. I’ve been called for a routine check up at my NHS dentist (off butcher row corner of Pride Hill) and when needed walked to my GP arranged a phone consultation which happened before I left the surgery and saw the doctor same day. Not ideal I agree but people say they can’t get through to their GP (as I couldn’t) so just turn up and go through the process if you need a GP you’ll get one 👍 Love it. Your dentist is off Butcher Row 😂 Think it best to leave your mask on at all times with him. For those old enough to remember it’s above The Golden Egg…. |
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Post by Pilch on May 21, 2022 18:13:58 GMT 1
Love it. Your dentist is off Butcher Row 😂 Think it best to leave your mask on at all times with him. For those old enough to remember it’s above The Golden Egg…. for those even older butcher row used to be known as the shambles, in the early 1800s there was apparently 15 butchers there and probably slaughtering the animals on site , must have been an horrendous site, rather like modern day china I guess  |
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Post by staffordshrew on May 22, 2022 17:48:15 GMT 1
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Post by GrizzlyShrew on May 22, 2022 18:45:20 GMT 1
'Nasal spray to boost your chances of fighting virus's off'?
Bloody great new idea. The British Olympic squad have used Vics First Defence for many years. What's the point in training for years to be at your peak for competitions then go down with a virus off a plane.
I've used it for 6 or 8 years myself, and rarely in that time has first symptoms ever developed onto a full blown cold.
Sure doing the same against Covid wohldnt be any different.
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Post by Pilch on May 23, 2022 15:46:17 GMT 1
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Post by kenwood on May 23, 2022 18:05:05 GMT 1
Pitch, just for your information I’ve grown tired of beating the drum for mask wearing and have changed tack.
Trying to get Grizzly to take precautionary measures is a waste of time.
So, I have decided to take another approach and tackle him about Monkey Pox.
That should sort him out , before long he’ll be wearing every piece of PPE that he can get his hands on.
No need to thank me., after all it’s for his own good.😉👍
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Post by Pilch on May 23, 2022 18:31:13 GMT 1
Pitch, just for your information I’ve grown tired of beating the drum for mask wearing and have changed tack. Trying to get Grizzly to take precautionary measures is a waste of time. So, I have decided to take another approach and tackle him about Monkey Pox. That should sort him out , before long he’ll be wearing every piece of PPE that he can get his hands on. No need to thank me., after all it’s for his own good.😉👍 I see the monkeys are doing their bit, wearing masks whilst maintaining 2 tyres diameter apart |
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Post by GrizzlyShrew on May 23, 2022 23:42:04 GMT 1
Spend the flight carefully putting a drink to your mouth whenever any air stewardess is anywhere near and it wont be an issue (just pretend to take a drink). Leave an open packet of crisps on the tray that you fiddle with. It really is a practice art. I'm sure are only doing what they told to do, they wouldnt bother in the slightest if they actually had a choice in the matter. It really is a practice art Thanks for the tips The inconsistency and theatre of it all is flabbergasting. Flown with Jet2 months ago and not need a mask, RyanAir some middling mess and sounds like EasyJet are stuck in 2020. Quick update - not sure where you are going but reporting from Majorca Spain here, doubt most other tourist places are much different now though. Been on airport resort bus transfers, despite it being 'a requirement to wear a mask' in principle only the driver has worn one, the passengers have totally ignored it and no one has even mentioned it. On a tourist train through the mountains today, same 'restrictions', all totally ignored even though the driver and ticker collector have had one on. Public service busses do have some compulsion, though a mask at half mast as a chin warmer is pretty acceptable. I'm guessing same on public trains. Basically, carry a mask just in case but the requirement to actually use it is reducing by the day. Supermarkets and shops, well gone now. Enjoy wherever you are going, its much better than last August when we first went abroad. |
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Post by davycrockett on May 24, 2022 8:54:44 GMT 1
Thanks for the tips The inconsistency and theatre of it all is flabbergasting. Flown with Jet2 months ago and not need a mask, RyanAir some middling mess and sounds like EasyJet are stuck in 2020. Quick update - not sure where you are going but reporting from Majorca Spain here, doubt most other tourist places are much different now though. Been on airport resort bus transfers, despite it being 'a requirement to wear a mask' in principle only the driver has worn one, the passengers have totally ignored it and no one has even mentioned it. On a tourist train through the mountains today, same 'restrictions', all totally ignored even though the driver and ticker collector have had one on. Public service busses do have some compulsion, though a mask at half mast as a chin warmer is pretty acceptable. I'm guessing same on public trains. Basically, carry a mask just in case but the requirement to actually use it is reducing by the day. Supermarkets and shops, well gone now. Enjoy wherever you are going, its much better than last August when we first went abroad. What about Monkey Pox, any health updates on that? |
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Post by GrizzlyShrew on May 24, 2022 16:40:58 GMT 1
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Post by Pilch on May 24, 2022 18:09:54 GMT 1
hi, im speaking from England today, just an update, wore a mask today at dentist, hospital, 100% mask wearing in those locations, had an appointment at supersavers where they asked if I was ok putting a mask on, even offered me one, not a problem I said even though someone in the shop wasn't wearing one and wow only 4100 deaths from covid in January , crack the Bolly open |
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Post by Valerioch on May 24, 2022 19:35:44 GMT 1
Thanks for the tips The inconsistency and theatre of it all is flabbergasting. Flown with Jet2 months ago and not need a mask, RyanAir some middling mess and sounds like EasyJet are stuck in 2020. Quick update - not sure where you are going but reporting from Majorca Spain here, doubt most other tourist places are much different now though. Been on airport resort bus transfers, despite it being 'a requirement to wear a mask' in principle only the driver has worn one, the passengers have totally ignored it and no one has even mentioned it. On a tourist train through the mountains today, same 'restrictions', all totally ignored even though the driver and ticker collector have had one on. Public service busses do have some compulsion, though a mask at half mast as a chin warmer is pretty acceptable. I'm guessing same on public trains. Basically, carry a mask just in case but the requirement to actually use it is reducing by the day. Supermarkets and shops, well gone now. Enjoy wherever you are going, its much better than last August when we first went abroad. Update sounds very promising. Its actually the Netherlands in a few weeks so it’ll be very interesting to see where they are at and how it compares to both here and Spain. Having done Spain in March and May, the difference in attitude and adherence in only 6 weeks was vast. We are almost there, almost back to normal |
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Post by Matron on May 24, 2022 19:38:36 GMT 1
Isn’t the obsession with being back to normal a little bit abnormal?
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Post by GrizzlyShrew on May 24, 2022 19:39:18 GMT 1
Quick update - not sure where you are going but reporting from Majorca Spain here, doubt most other tourist places are much different now though. Been on airport resort bus transfers, despite it being 'a requirement to wear a mask' in principle only the driver has worn one, the passengers have totally ignored it and no one has even mentioned it. On a tourist train through the mountains today, same 'restrictions', all totally ignored even though the driver and ticker collector have had one on. Public service busses do have some compulsion, though a mask at half mast as a chin warmer is pretty acceptable. I'm guessing same on public trains. Basically, carry a mask just in case but the requirement to actually use it is reducing by the day. Supermarkets and shops, well gone now. Enjoy wherever you are going, its much better than last August when we first went abroad. Update sounds very promising. Its actually the Netherlands in a few weeks so it’ll be very interesting to see where they are at and how it compares to both here and Spain. Having done Spain in March and May, the difference in attitude and adherence in only 6 weeks was vast. We are almost there, almost back to normal Almost everyone is back to normal now, just a few still living in 2020. 🙄 |
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Post by Valerioch on May 24, 2022 19:40:50 GMT 1
Isn’t the obsession with being back to normal a little bit abnormal? Who knows? Normality was never stolen from us before based on dodgy modelling and liars, who evidently knew Covid posed little danger for the vast majority, given they ignored the rules they set! |
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Post by GrizzlyShrew on May 24, 2022 19:41:41 GMT 1
Isn’t the obsession with being back to normal a little bit abnormal? Maybe a question for the few abnormal ones who arent back to normal 😇 sorry couldnt resist that one. |
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Post by Matron on May 24, 2022 21:12:38 GMT 1
Isn’t the obsession with being back to normal a little bit abnormal? Maybe a question for the few abnormal ones who arent back to normal 😇 sorry couldnt resist that one. Well I’m not back to normal yet cos I still have to wear a mask eight hours a day and work in an environment more akin to an abattoir with all the clear plastic curtains and stuff, but otherwise I’m pretty much there. I just find it a bit odd (no offence intended) that the three of you seem obsessed with what others are doing rather than you and your own behaviours and liberties👍 |
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Post by GrizzlyShrew on May 24, 2022 22:37:13 GMT 1
Maybe a question for the few abnormal ones who arent back to normal 😇 sorry couldnt resist that one. Well I’m not back to normal yet cos I still have to wear a mask eight hours a day and work in an environment more akin to an abattoir with all the clear plastic curtains and stuff, but otherwise I’m pretty much there. I just find it a bit odd (no offence intended) that the three of you seem obsessed with what others are doing rather than you and your own behaviours and liberties👍 So, ok you have to wear a mask and still do all the other PPE stuff at work, I would question personally just how much longer they are going to insist on that but that's a slightly different matter. But what about in your out of work times what do you do? Do you wear a mask all the time or are you much like the rest of the folk who havnt worn one in ages now (thankfully). Just curious, as you've probably got more chance of catching it / passing it onto others from your out of work actions. |
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Post by Pilch on May 24, 2022 22:41:01 GMT 1
Maybe a question for the few abnormal ones who arent back to normal 😇 sorry couldnt resist that one. Well I’m not back to normal yet cos I still have to wear a mask eight hours a day and work in an environment more akin to an abattoir with all the clear plastic curtains and stuff, but otherwise I’m pretty much there. I just find it a bit odd (no offence intended) that the three of you seem obsessed with what others are doing rather than you and your own behaviours and liberties👍 you're so 2020, man up and take your mask off, and then tell us about it every day  |
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Post by zenfootball2 on May 25, 2022 13:25:27 GMT 1
Maybe a question for the few abnormal ones who arent back to normal 😇 sorry couldnt resist that one. Well I’m not back to normal yet cos I still have to wear a mask eight hours a day and work in an environment more akin to an abattoir with all the clear plastic curtains and stuff, but otherwise I’m pretty much there. I just find it a bit odd (no offence intended) that the three of you seem obsessed with what others are doing rather than you and your own behaviours and liberties👍 my daughter is a paramedic so i know from her how tiering it is to wear all the equipment you have to wear plus the full face masks that look like a hood. it must also be very hard to keep up the moral of front line staff after the shropshire baby death report. |
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Post by Pilch on May 25, 2022 13:46:41 GMT 1
Isn’t the obsession with being back to normal a little bit abnormal? Who knows? Normality was never stolen from us before based on dodgy modelling and liars, who evidently knew Covid posed little danger for the vast majority, given they ignored the rules they set! so much so it almost cost him his life |
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Post by Matron on May 25, 2022 19:36:50 GMT 1
Who knows? Normality was never stolen from us before based on dodgy modelling and liars, who evidently knew Covid posed little danger for the vast majority, given they ignored the rules they set! so much so it almost cost him his life Yeh I don’t believe that line either. |
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Post by South Stand Salopian on May 27, 2022 13:49:55 GMT 1
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Post by GrizzlyShrew on May 27, 2022 14:40:52 GMT 1
Not really newsworthy any more
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Post by Pilch on May 27, 2022 15:34:21 GMT 1
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Post by GrizzlyShrew on May 31, 2022 22:34:08 GMT 1
Right with Covid not quite over with but seemingly most of us accepting it's very much on it's way thought I might share todays interesting experience at Palma airport with you.
Through check in and waiting in my queue for security, there is about 30/40 folk in each queue and about 10 lanes of queues so about 400 folk nose to tail in the building plus all the security staff, virtually none of them with a mask on. Of course as is still the case at most places the social distance floor marking are still on the floor, and being totally ignored by everyone as they have been for months now things are getting back to normal.
After queing for about 10 long mins the well dressed elderly guy directly in front of me decides to put some distance between himself and the rest in front of him. Not long after he looks round at me and points with his walking stick to the markings on the floor and asks a bit vaguely "could you tell me what that says?". "Yes, it says about keeping distance in 3 different languages" I say. " do you think you could give me some space then".
It was said so innocently that I couldnt help but smile broadly especially when I looked around me and everyone else in earshot was trying to contain themselves from laughing uncontrollably at the way it came out from him. And the rest of the building was still rammed nose to tail.
He didnt seem to have any other issues with being worried about Covid. No face mask, and accepted help by the security helper being close to remove his jacket to go through the scanner or by the security guard who held his hand through the scanner as his walking stick had to go through the scanner too. I guess they are more trustworthy than to pass it onto him he might think.
I do hope he managed to find plenty of social distancing on his journey through passport control, queing to board, on the bus to the plane (ours was rammed), and that he has booked a full row of seats to stop people sitting too close for 2/3 hours depending on where he was heading to. We didnt at any of those points over the next 3-4 hours.
Most people around me were clearly gobsmacked that he was in a busy airport and still thinking in such a way. Even my wife (still much more Covid aware than I ever was) couldnt beleive him.
Probably I shouldn't share this, but it was so amusing that its kept me smiling on and off all day, it's been quite a significant day on the subject in recent weeks. I'm sure I will get a few comments but as genuine articles are getting harder to find maybe we need to find other stories to keep this thread going a bit longer.
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Post by South Stand Salopian on Jun 1, 2022 10:02:07 GMT 1
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Post by Valerioch on Jun 1, 2022 10:34:18 GMT 1
Right with Covid not quite over with but seemingly most of us accepting it's very much on it's way thought I might share todays interesting experience at Palma airport with you. Through check in and waiting in my queue for security, there is about 30/40 folk in each queue and about 10 lanes of queues so about 400 folk nose to tail in the building plus all the security staff, virtually none of them with a mask on. Of course as is still the case at most places the social distance floor marking are still on the floor, and being totally ignored by everyone as they have been for months now things are getting back to normal. After queing for about 10 long mins the well dressed elderly guy directly in front of me decides to put some distance between himself and the rest in front of him. Not long after he looks round at me and points with his walking stick to the markings on the floor and asks a bit vaguely "could you tell me what that says?". "Yes, it says about keeping distance in 3 different languages" I say. " do you think you could give me some space then". It was said so innocently that I couldnt help but smile broadly especially when I looked around me and everyone else in earshot was trying to contain themselves from laughing uncontrollably at the way it came out from him. And the rest of the building was still rammed nose to tail. He didnt seem to have any other issues with being worried about Covid. No face mask, and accepted help by the security helper being close to remove his jacket to go through the scanner or by the security guard who held his hand through the scanner as his walking stick had to go through the scanner too. I guess they are more trustworthy than to pass it onto him he might think. I do hope he managed to find plenty of social distancing on his journey through passport control, queing to board, on the bus to the plane (ours was rammed), and that he has booked a full row of seats to stop people sitting too close for 2/3 hours depending on where he was heading to. We didnt at any of those points over the next 3-4 hours. Most people around me were clearly gobsmacked that he was in a busy airport and still thinking in such a way. Even my wife (still much more Covid aware than I ever was) couldnt beleive him. Probably I shouldn't share this, but it was so amusing that its kept me smiling on and off all day, it's been quite a significant day on the subject in recent weeks. I'm sure I will get a few comments but as genuine articles are getting harder to find maybe we need to find other stories to keep this thread going a bit longer. |
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