I don’t know if it was just the town I was in or time of day or what ever but I got the sense that everyone has almost forgot about what’s going on and just milling about their day to day life’s as per the norm.
There was no queue to get into the supermarket, there was toilet paper ha going off the shelves, no masks. Everyone walking around like there was nothing going on. I actually heard a guy have to be told by a member of staff that he had to stand at the 2meter marker as he had just jumped in behind a lady at the till. And he seemed to be annoyed by this??
A bit of sun and the impending doom that was lingering only 3 weeks ago has vanished. In fact the next thing to be cleared of the shelves will be the bbqs with bbq party’s plenty
Noticed the roads getting busier last week at peak work times, no i don’t mean 8.30 when the pen pushers attend now and again between sickies, i mean the 6am shift starters and the lads in ■■■■■■ vans going to contract jobs.
Generally busier out and about too, the msm blanket scare coverage might have finally reached overegged stage, people want to get back to their lives and back to rescue what is salvageable of their jobs and businesses.
Juddian:
Noticed the roads getting busier last week at peak work times, no i don’t mean 8.30 when the pen pushers attend now and again between sickies, i mean the 6am shift starters and the lads in ■■■■■■ vans going to contract jobs.
Generally busier out and about too, the msm blanket scare coverage might have finally reached overegged stage, people want to get back to their lives and back to rescue what is salvageable of their jobs and businesses.
I thought the roads looked busier today. Started on the M1, down Milton Keynes, and back via Swindon to Taunton, a lot more cars on the road.
Yes the muppets are getting back out taking no notice of the rules. They don’t have the ability to understand they are putting peoples lives at risk and also killing others.
They should be the ones who are refused treatment when they do catch the virus.
Looks like the second wave may come sooner than expected.
It is like a ghost town in my immediate neighborhood (next to an NHS hospital) but once off the estate, the traffic is kinda like Sunday Mornings.
There are far more joggers and Cyclicsts about than usual, and the “night life” is like any average social trip around Northern Europe areas, where people all seem to shut up shop, and get tucked into bed by 8pm for their early dawn starts the next morning, presumably…
Supermarkets are closing early every day now, but if you miss them - corner shops are all shut-up as well, no more 24 hour opening, or even “open late”.
Some eateries are going, and those that do - are doing brisk business, albeit you place your order, then wait outside 6ft apart for completion, which was my experience at the chippy the other night.
If things get back to normal by the end of this 3-week extension, then I reckon the entire country will be ready to end the lockdown at that point, whereas ending it now would be half-cocked at best.
If things get back to normal by the end of this 3-week extension, then I reckon the entire country will be ready to end the lockdown at that point, whereas ending it now would be half-cocked at best.
No way anything is going to be back to normal after this extension. It’s going to be a long slow process and even longer when we have people ignoring the rules.
if everyone just does what they think is ok for them,then thatl work just as well as there will be plenty of dudly doogoods isloating themselves silly to reduce the numbers out and about anyway.
if your a coffin dodger then isolate,if not,just crack on using your own initiative regarding sanitising and interaction with joe public.
any pic you see of those nhs heroes then most of them are shoulder to shoulder with no masks.
sofar for myself its just normal days with a bit of inconvenience regarding watching my misses standing in various queues for the messages with the proviso im saving a fortune as she cant impulse buy masses of crap in shops and online… crack on drive.
With the May delivery contract for Crude Oil just settling at 3 cents per barrel - I reckon it might be worth seeking employment at an Oil Refinery near you…
There’s an enourmous glut of unrefined crude out there now, and anyone who can turn that into £1 per litre fuel at the forecourts - is gonna make as absolute mint the moment things get back to normal….
Winseer:
With the May delivery contract for Crude Oil just settling at 3 cents per barrel - I reckon it might be worth seeking employment at an Oil Refinery near you…
There’s an enourmous glut of unrefined crude out there now, and anyone who can turn that into £1 per litre fuel at the forecourts - is gonna make as absolute mint the moment things get back to normal….
Nothing has really changed. I like being anti social, me and the missus normally have conversations from different rooms and shouting upstairs for the kids is normal, the only thing now is if you offer them money they will go to the shops without moaning and get bread and sweets
Winseer:
With the May delivery contract for Crude Oil just settling at 3 cents per barrel - I reckon it might be worth seeking employment at an Oil Refinery near you…
There’s an enourmous glut of unrefined crude out there now, and anyone who can turn that into £1 per litre fuel at the forecourts - is gonna make as absolute mint the moment things get back to normal….
A quid a litre? That’s about 70pence too much.
The wholesale price in USD is around 70c per US gallon for RBOB Gasoline, Unleaded Petroleum Spirit as us limeys would call it.
UK forecourt prices are unlikely to drop much below their current levels, as there will be continuing demand for retail fuels, just little demand for the dwindling numbers of world Oil Refinery capacity to turn now worse-than-worthless (TOXIC!) crude Oil into those distillates by a long and fairly expensive fractional distillation process.
Here’s tonights closing prices of the entire energy complex, which includes front months for Crude, RBOB Petrol, ULSDiesel, Brent Crude, and Natural Gas - which actually spiked higher today.
After a few weeks apparently its very common for people to adapt to their situation, hence why you see people going about their business in war torn cities.
As a species can’t live in constant fear, that’s just for an instant fight or flight response, (Hence the panic buying at the start) once that moment is over the human gets back to the daily grind of survival. This is why a long term lockdown won’t be sustainable, unless you are living under some totalitarian regime, (which hopefully we’re not,) the lockdown only works in a reasonably free country, with the compliance of the majority of the people, if people start believing that either its not working or its worked then the seeds are set for large scale public descent over continued restrictions and if handled badly by the authorities then civil disorder.
