CoVid-19 Part IX - 785 cases ROI (3 deaths) 108 in NI (1 death) (20 March) *Read OP*

is_that_so wrote: »

Later.

lucalux wrote: »

Big fan of speaking up, and asking people to respect social distancing guidelines, but just two anecdotes from yesterday to share.

(Sorry it's really long, but I wanted to be clear on context!)

Went to Lidl where they had security guard at tills, marks on floor 2m apart. Had to politely ask a guy (late 30's/early 40's, builder by the looks of it, work gear on) to move back as he was about 10inches behind me.

Just said y'know, social distancing, 2m, pointed to marks on the floor, yadayadayada.

He took a half step back, i repeated what i said and he exaggeratedly moved way back. Happy days, but he was also sneering at me, and laughing with other guys beside him in the aisle, so I just felt like he was not bothered at all.

Fair enough, what more can you do?

In Aldi, no marks, no security, no sign of social distancing measures at tills etc.

Woman (late 30's, Irish, just come from the gym I'd guess) basically asked me did I want to fight when I politely asked her would she mind staying back, after she kept moving up behind me in the queue!

I was loading my shopping on the belt, she was max 2ft away, most of the times, she came up 1ft/30cm behind me, each time I moved forward.

Dog's abuse. I got sneered at, called a lunatic, was told I was rude (!) and got told to 'trot the fúck on', and asked "who do you even think you are?!"

I said I'm just trying to maintain the rules of social distancing, I've been polite to you. It's not much to ask.

She then asked me "Do you really want to get into a fight here?"

Right I said to myself, ignore her I can't say more to this one, or I'll end up sharing some home truths with her, rudely (what can I say, I'm stressed and worried!)

I'm high risk. I had asked her politely, explained why, and I deliberately said it quietly, so as not to embarrass her, in case she just had a lapse in attention, as can happen.

What bothered me was of the 30-40 people at tills, who watched this unfold, loudly, not one person said anything. I wouldn't expect it usually, but she launched at me, and I was trying so hard to be kind and reasonable, y'know?! Just one person to say 'hey stay back, we're all in the same boat' kind of thing?

Till guy was sound, seemed to be extra nice to me after it, but I was SHAKING with anger, and tears that I managed to hold in thank feck, so glad when I got out of the shop.

So basically, late 30's 'gym bunnies' (she did seem a bit like an insta-hun) and youngish men, not teenagers, are to be included in my opinion, in the groups of people not taking this shít seriously. There's a cohort of people in the middle of the two extremes mentioned on here most often, that need to cop on I think.

So…

TL:DR maybe, if people see stuff like this happening when people ask for 2m space, more people might back up the ones getting stick for asking?!

Would be glad to see it, but I won't, cos that's the last shop I'm doing for the foreseeable, I'll hang on till April 3rd when I can next get a Tesco delivery

[Deleted User] wrote: »

How many Chinese people do you think eat bats?

Cork Boy 53 wrote: »

Not any more unfortunately.

Humberto Salazar wrote: »

Flights have decreased a bit apparently over the past week but the skies are still full of planes going everywhere. Just log into Flightradar. I mean repatriation and cargo flights don't seem to cover it, what's going on? Thought skies would be largely clear by now?

Blaze420 wrote: »

Yes I’m serious and I’m not posting a link to it - dogs in cages awaiting death and the next stall has them lined up on a grill with ****ers blowtorching them. Disgusting country

klose wrote: »

Sound quality was really poor so turned it off

Blaze420 wrote: »

And said countries wouldn’t even be forced to deal with this now without that filthy country of 1.4 billion eating ****ing bats - what’s your point exactly?

Blaze420 wrote: »

I don’t care in the slightest, if they didn’t we might not have a ****ing pandemic worldwide now

igCorcaigh wrote: »

I saw that too, terrifying.
Some young people do get very sick.