JDD wrote: » I probably will carry around more (ethanol free) sanitiser. Whether I remember to use it or not will be another story.
Irish Stones wrote: » You mean methanol free?
El Sueño wrote: » Do you have any examples of this? I'm not sure this is the case
stephenjmcd wrote: » Of course he doesn't.
Strumms wrote: » I don’t think so at all... “Yeah I can’t wait until I can spend hours trawling through packed and sweaty shops for hours at a time” is NOT something you are going to hear. Shopping will be done in the main early as in from around now and online. Older people without the ability or access to go online will avail of help as in younger family, neighbors... I’ll be doing all my parents Xmas shopping online. They aren’t a fan as they are old school and like to ‘see what they are buying’ but it’s for one year and the alternative is grim.The business community will no doubt kick off but we’ve seen what a bunch of selfish and disingenuous fûckers many of them are... couldn’t care less about covid stats, only spreadsheet stats. Fûck em.[/QUOTE] Yeah, fu9k 'em. And fu9k all the jobs they provide and all the money they pay in taxes. Fu9k 'em all.
Irish Stones wrote: » Why are you so sure to say this?
stephenjmcd wrote: » Do you actually believe any of the nonsense you've just typed. No normal? Ok so let me put it to you like this, there won't be large sporting events, festivals, travel etc no ? You honestly think none of that is coming back, people not being social with other people? People meeting others and settling down to build a family?
Irish Stones wrote: » New hygien rules after every pandemic, for example. I had read that until the most recent cholera pandemic a few years back, it wasn't customary to wash hands as soon as arrived home from outodoors, or wash hands before eating. This current pandemic will have us not hand shaking, carrying hand sanitizers or wearing masks more often than before, just like most Japanese do as a regular habit. BTW, this is the first time in my life that I could walk into a bank or a post office with a mask on my face while the staff is happy to see me. I am quite sure that even when everything is fine again (one year, five years from now, who knows) nobody will object if one walks into a bank with a mask. Who will have the courage to ask you to remove it?
stephenjmcd wrote: » Please give an example of how a pandemic changed the social fabric of society then please seeing as you've said there's no return to normal in a previous post which I addressed.
polesheep wrote: » It still isn't.
Irish Stones wrote: » There's something in the middle between no sports events and no travel at all and all back to what it was. There might be new rules to attend events, there might be new way to travel, i.e. not packing trains and airplanes with people. It's not white or black. Other pandemics have changed some things that were for granted before them, and you, too, can read up something about this.
Irish Stones wrote: » New hygien rules after every pandemic, for example. I had read that until the most recent cholera pandemic a few years back, it wasn't customary to wash hands as soon as arrived home from outodoors, or wash hands before eating.This current pandemic will have us not hand shaking, carrying hand sanitizers or wearing masks more often than before, just like most Japanese do as a regular habit. BTW, this is the first time in my life that I could walk into a bank or a post office with a mask on my face while the staff is happy to see me. I am quite sure that even when everything is fine again (one year, five years from now, who knows) nobody will object if one walks into a bank with a mask. Who will have the courage to ask you to remove it?
stephenjmcd wrote: » Great so you admit then things get back to normal. If your going to say some things changed then please reference what has changed. Anyway this thread is vaccine related so we're derailing it here
Irish Stones wrote: » This current pandemic will have us not hand shaking, carrying hand sanitizers or wearing masks more often than before, just like most Japanese do as a regular habit.
VG31 wrote: » Asian people wear masks mostly because of the air pollution, not because of viruses.
JimmyVik wrote: » This thread has gone from one of the most informative threads on boards to sh1t I apologize for my part in dragging it off topic.
Irish Stones wrote: » There will be no normal again, there will be a new normal and we will adapt to it. Those who are very young kids now will grow up in this new norm and they won't care. For those who are older (or much older) it might be harder to adjust to a different life style. All pandemics have led to a new normal. Most of us aren't old enough to remember what life was before the last pandemics. Most of us know this "normal", which is different to what was the "normal" before that.
Micky 32 wrote: » I just nominated this post forward to BS of the year post.
ACitizenErased wrote: » https://twitter.com/afp/status/1319725599385149440?s=21
Sconsey wrote: » The AZ news is not surprising, I think they had been hinting at it. But the J&J one is really good news, they had been very quiet about details on their pause. Looks like someone in the trials had a stroke.
