| zxmpi | 4 o'clock on a sunday. the long dark tea time of the soul... | 15:38 |
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| daftykins | time to break out an emergency treat to survive it? :) | 15:38 |
| zxmpi | and i'm all out of terrys chocolate oranges... | 15:39 |
| zxmpi | not even an emergency backup bag of generic chocolate peanuts | 15:39 |
| daftykins | *gasp* to use one of your lines from the past, "why'd you let things get so bad?!" | 15:39 |
| zxmpi | you of course what this means... it's time to go... <_< ... >_> ... shopping... | 15:40 |
| daftykins | say it ain't so! D: | 15:40 |
| zxmpi | and my favourite cattle prod barely holds half a charge | 15:40 |
| zxmpi | i've made a list, i've checked it twice, i'm going to aldi, i won't be nice. zxmpi is going to town! :-) | 15:42 |
| daftykins | are the infected cases and public wanderings of the anti-vaxxer crowd still an issue over there? | 15:44 |
| zxmpi | at 183.8 on 7 day per 100k uk mainland is at 341.5 | 15:46 |
| zxmpi | https://oscovida.github.io/countries-incidence-rate.html | 15:46 |
| zxmpi | has been slowly falling for a few weeks but we've also been opening up at same time so we're kinda treading water | 15:47 |
| zxmpi | anti vaxxers are on back foot since they 'rescued' someone from been intubated and brought him home. from where he got worse and went back to hospital and died | 15:54 |
| daftykins | :O | 15:55 |
| m0nkey_ | dont get me started on the anti-vaxxers.. | 16:00 |
| m0nkey_ | they've implemented vaccine passports here, along with banning protests in front of hospitals, vaccine centers and schools.. because the anti-vaxxers feel the need to intimidate the sick, elderly and children. | 16:04 |
| zxmpi | they. are. everywhere. | 16:04 |
| m0nkey_ | i dont get it | 16:05 |
| zxmpi | stupid people who think they are smart | 16:05 |
| m0nkey_ | they claim "but it's my freedom" .. sure, you can have your freedom, just get the damn shot. | 16:05 |
| zxmpi | smart people in one area of speciality who thinks that makes them smart at everything | 16:06 |
| zxmpi | and a constant feedback loop of social media which tells them they are freedom warriors not plonkers | 16:06 |
| m0nkey_ | our numbers here in quebec how that you are 34.9 times more likely to end up in hospital if you're unvaccinated and get infected. | 16:08 |
| m0nkey_ | even with one dose, you're down to 4.6 times | 16:08 |
| zxmpi | 90+% of our cases are unvaccinated who now make up <25% of population | 16:09 |
| zxmpi | we're now looking at rolling out to over 5 year olds next | 16:09 |
| m0nkey_ | same here.. majority of our cases are amongst them | 16:10 |
| m0nkey_ | again, same .. they're looking to give it to 5-11yr olds, which is great.. i want my kids to be able to have it. | 16:10 |
| m0nkey_ | for my eldest, i have said to her that i won't force her to do it, but i would encourage her to get it. | 16:10 |
| * zxmpi remembers vaccine day when i started school. i was 4-5 when we were all lined up for polio and measles vaccines | 16:12 | |
| m0nkey_ | yeah, i remember lining up for them too | 16:12 |
| zxmpi | i think florida has said it's gonna look at making those not mandatory for schools too 0o | 16:13 |
| m0nkey_ | are they introducing vaccine mandates there yet? .. a lot of businesses and government are starting to here.. get the vaccination or get fired basically. | 16:13 |
| zxmpi | from tomorrow if a school kid gets nits or scarlet fever a teacher will have to tell the rest of the parents but say nothing if one of them has covid 0o | 16:15 |
| zxmpi | they have been telling rest of parents till now | 16:15 |
| zxmpi | last monday was back to office day. and there was no rejoicing | 16:16 |
| zxmpi | there are vaccine passes but no one checks them properly | 16:16 |
| m0nkey_ | wait. what? | 16:16 |
| zxmpi | exactly | 16:16 |
| m0nkey_ | you got any source on that, like a news article? | 16:17 |
| zxmpi | the teachers thing? gimme a sec | 16:17 |
| zxmpi | https://www.irishexaminer.com/news/arid-40706801.html | 16:22 |
| zxmpi | a lot of teachers with or caring for family with health conditions feel abandoned from intervies i've heard on radio | 16:23 |
| daftykins | that's maddening D: | 16:24 |
| zxmpi | yeah, this is the same government that opened everything up for christmas last year and made is #1 on worlds covid list in january. now we have decent vaccine rates they're trying again | 16:25 |
| zxmpi | also winding down pandemic payments in next few weeks to get everyone back to work | 16:27 |
| penguin42 | very difficult to know which way it's going in the UK; it had been going down nicely, for no apparent reason, blipped up a bit | 16:32 |
| zxmpi | still high on the 7 day incident rate. but fewer deaths from vaccines. still burning out medical staff rates | 16:32 |
| zxmpi | and it's not like you can import a tonne more from eu anymore | 16:33 |
| penguin42 | people in hospital going down at the moment | 16:33 |
| m0nkey_ | i just think governments and business should be taking away antivaxxer rights, because f**k 'em. they're doing it here and it's funny to watch. bitching about a two-tier system, well buddy, you can join the other tier by getting the shot. | 16:46 |
| zxmpi | nah, a small fine for forwarding misinformation online. 50shekels a pop. soon curb the lies online when people stop forwarding them | 16:48 |
| daftykins | Steve Coogan to play Jimmy Savile D: | 16:49 |
| zxmpi | the online version of littering fines | 16:49 |
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