If anyone is trying to tell you the Panda-demic is being handled much better on this side of the Pond, send them these links.
The growing frustration with the arbitrary rules being dreamed up and enforced by the control freaks in various levels of government here in the UK is coming out in various, sometimes amusing, ways. Although infections have gone up way beyond the levels of April/March the deaths are nothing like what they were, and people simply don’t see the need to micro-manage our lives.
The Panda-demic has shown up the power-hungry nature of the creatures at the head of the devolved pseudo-governments in Wales and Scotland. This piece has plenty of content; but do scroll down to the video of the exchange between Sky News’s Kay Burley and Welsh Health Minister Vaughn Gething. Priceless.
Here is a wonderful woman, Maureen from Barnsley in Yorkshire, an 83-year-old who gave the BBC more than they bargained for when they did a vox-pop piece. Her 30 second contribution to the national debate has gone viral and she’s become a folk hero.
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Now now, the pandas have enough problems without trying to blame for this… they were in China before those bipedal interlopers showed up and they were fine for quite a few years. 😀
There was an Irish newspaper article linked on Insta the other day that was also asking about masks and whether they were working at all. Across Ireland and the EU (I think) people had been wearing masks and yet the numbers were not any better.
And they’re not even proper bloody masks. In the UK we have to wear “face coverings” by law when on public transport, in shops, malls, etc etc,, you can take it off in a pub or restaurant once seated, but coming and going it has to go on again. Outdoors is ok for the most part.
I wouldn’t mind quite so much if the law stipulated serious masks of a certain type that might actually have an effect, but it is literally just a face covering, doesn’t matter what. Moslem woman who’s wearing a niqab or burqa? You’re fine. Bandana over your face like a bandit? Fine. Pull the neck of your t-shirt up over your mouth and nose? Fine (and I have seen that done on busses here.).
Last week I was in the lovely Yorkshire seaside town of Whitby. I could go to pubs and cafes, but it was all so stilted and awkward that I stopped bothering after a couple of days and retreated to the place I had rented. Not being able to see a person’s expression, not being able to hear them clearly, it all destroys the joy of being out and about chatting with folk. The only concrete outcomes from all this are to engender a culture of compliance and to erode social interaction and cohesion. The face coverings being used, and the slack way they are being used, are certainly not having any effect on transmission.
Here endeth the rant.
I guess I need to check in more often if I let a comment go 3 days.
The “face coverings” vs “masks” I can understand, if the idea is catching water droplets exiting and not the virus incoming. I’m in a cold enough area I see my breath all winter (or mostly) so that picture at least works for me. Since it does qualify, I am one of those bandana banditos though, as much to not cause problems for the shops I patronize than the governor that is decreeing their use.
Don’t get me started on poxy pandas…*growls and mumbles* useless, lazy, undersexed, fat, goth fluffy toys. Licksptile poster boys of the ChiCom menace…
About Wales: Well, it’s Wales, innit? 😉
As Dylan Thomas wrote…”Land of My Fathers? My fathers can keep it…”