I don't see how any indoor retail is safe, supermarkets are open because they are an essential service.
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I don't see how any indoor retail is safe, supermarkets are open because they are an essential service.
You can imagine the fake passes most likely to happen.
yeah but you have to get your tattoo from the Canberra Mint,
and bikies upstairs in industrial zones
could never get the eyes to move.
Agree PT.
I once thought that the internet would solve the world problem of disinformation. "Information wants to be free" was the old hacker credo. Surely everything would be more open- free education, harder to hide lies and conspiracies, global communication would bring understanding and peace. Well I'm exaggerating but I was optimistic!
What we have now is competing disinformation, russian bot factories, bile and BS on Twitter and wherever. And yeah, I get sucked in as well...
Yeah. Maybe you have to prove you can change channels on a tv monitor by wiggling your ears. You change the channel and some security person says “Go on in.”5G Simples.
I can't see how it works. I'd rather go Darwin Theory than try to police that. We've seen that certain people will always do the wrong thing or find a way to.
It's going to lead to large scale protests, social disruption & chaos.
Biggest concern right now is the exposure young people are about to face to the virus. Still no vax & little research data of long term side effects from long term covid etc.
Isn't there a limit of people allowed in? Most wearing masks. Social distancing. This was my argument against what Dan does. Shops to purchase clothes, shoes etc....OK as you can buy online, but services like hairdressing staying closed is stupid.
Let’s go easy on her. After all, she’s been so brave since her separation from what’s his name. Single mum and all. So brave. She’s the first woman in history to go through a breakup. I know it’s been a few years but she was probably being consoled by her closest friends. At least, thats what I think the mags will spin it
Will play the mental health card. Will be considered even more brave now and acquire even more sponsors as a result.
So have supermarkets been transmission sites? Either public or staff transmission?
Isn't that the important question? Being essential means nothing from a transmission point of view.
Supermarkets have never closed, and been packed. They are a great case study for retail transmission. If there is little risk of transmission in this environment what can we learn from it? What can other retailers learn? How can these learnings be used to set guidelines?
Some of what you touch on is what motivated me to go phoneless much of the time. Takes me back to simpler times. I begrudgingly have a mobile phone, but often just leave it in a basket on the kitchen bench and don't carry it. Particularly on weekends. I shouldn't need to be instantly contactable at all times (every generation of people prior to the latest tiny spec in human history got by just fine) and I certainly don't need all of that social media temptation at the tip of my fingers all of the time. Like you say, we all get temped by that rabbit hole and it does us no good. Can honestly say, I very rarely come away happier. I was already thinking along these lines and the documentary, "The Social Dilemma" confirmed and gave clarity to my thinking.
Makes things difficult in the current situation of QR codes and checking in. But depends on how one turns that situation around in their head. The benefit is, that given I have to physically check in with pen and paper, it becomes all too hard and a bit of a nuisance to go into establishments, unless I feel compelled that I REALLY need to. Means I'm saving heaps of money that I may have spent at shops on items or takeaways I don't really need. But am I really missing out on anything that matters much? Probably not.
Must say, it drives my wife nuts though. And her expectation of me being instantly contactable shows just how rapidly (in the space of probably just over a decade) such an idea has gone from novel to inherently expected, or even a societal addiction.
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So having a hair dresser breathing over your neck in the middle of a pandemic with an airborne virus is a good idea? I'm sure your hair will be fine.
The closer we get to these vaccination targets the sooner things like this will become a reality but it was never appropriate while we didn't have the benefits of vaccines.
They have to wear masks while cutting.
If my hair was OK, I'd let it grow to a Jesus level, but it isn't. Terrible noggin I have.
If masks were 100% safe then you'd have a point, but based on the number of people I see either without them, or not wearing them properly (including my own local barber) I don't your approach would have worked.
Been to him in the last 18 months when opened and no problems happened. As long as everyone abides the rules, there shouldn't be a problem.
We don’t know. They come up as exposure sites in their spades but you never get info on the transmission levels of them - or any other listed exposure site either.
