They did, plenty of coffee shops that haven't been brainwashed.I hope they kept walking!
They did, plenty of coffee shops that haven't been brainwashed.I hope they kept walking!
Oh I've got a completely ridiculous one courtesy of Manchester Arndale
To comply with social distancing they have closed 30% of female bathrooms and 60% of male bathrooms.
What we need is laws against such stupidity. Are the jobsworths coming up with this rubbish on a different planet??Absolute nonsense.
I would have thought that in order to promote social distancing, they should keep as many facilities as possible open.
And why the difference in the percentage of male and female bathrooms closed?
They did, plenty of coffee shops that haven't been brainwashed.
Yes the petty rule makers have to realise that as well as them having the power to introduce silly rules, we also have the power not to use their establishments and take our custom elsewhere.
To be fair until mid day yesterday the Government hadnt actually told anybody what the rules from today really were or who they applied to (and may well change them again if Dominic tells them to anyway).This is how we fight back. Friend of a friend walked out of a coffee shop this morning after being told they had to wear a mask, but mysteriously the staff member ran out after them having decided that they no longer needed a mask.
What - do different sexes for some reason need different amounts of bathroom provision?To comply with social distancing they have closed 30% of female bathrooms and 60% of male bathrooms.
What - do different sexes for some reason need different amounts of bathroom provision?
I didn't say it was was an inconvenience.I don't know...
All these precautions can seem irritating but honestly how much inconvenience is a quick temp check (presumably with one of those IR forehead thermometers) and giving a name+number? Probably adds at most 2 minutes to the time it takes you to get in. And it's reasurring to see that they're at least trying to do something about it.
I've never used a bath in a shopping centre!Absolute nonsense.
I would have thought that in order to promote social distancing, they should keep as many facilities as possible open.
And why the difference in the percentage of male and female bathrooms closed?
THAT is absolutely ridiculous. Notwithstanding if that happened in the UK it could prevent patients travelling to hospital by rail for standard treatment becasue they have a bit of a fever which could be totally unrelated to Covid. It also forces you to have an unnecessary test which another person could be using. Think there would be an outcry greater than the Cumming's affair if that happened here!The last time I looked, the rule on VIA Rail in Canada was that if they decided your temperature was too high you were banned from their entire network (such as it is) for 2 weeks unless you could come back with a negative Covid test.
THAT is absolutely ridiculous. Notwithstanding if that happened in the UK it could prevent patients travelling to hospital by rail for standard treatment becasue they have a bit of a fever which could be totally unrelated to Covid. It also forces you to have an unnecessary test which another person could be using. Think there would be an outcry greater than the Cumming's affair if that happened here!
But you'd expect that they would provide for that when building the shopping centre.Yes they do!
The last time I looked, the rule on VIA Rail in Canada was that if they decided your temperature was too high you were banned from their entire network (such as it is) for 2 weeks unless you could come back with a negative Covid test.
Ha! So trains staff are now fully-trained medics who can make a diagnosis on someone's health just by looking at them!! Why didn't the NHS think of that!!To be fair, they no longer seem to be saying that.
Instead their employees are supposed to make a medical diagnosis on each passenger before permitted them to board...
But it is currently the case in the UK that you should not be leaving the house if you have a fever unless you've had a negative test - whether you have a medical appointment or not.
But you'd expect that they would provide for that when building the shopping centre.
Therefore, they should not be closing a greater proportion of toilets for one sex than for another.
Ha! So trains staff are now fully-trained medics who can make a diagnosis on someone's health just by looking at them!! Why didn't the NHS think of that!!
No-one expects the Canadian Inquisition.You would indeed. But looking the relative lengths of queues that build up, I really don't think that they do.
No...they don't just look at passengers - each one has to be questioned before being allowed to board....
THAT is absolutely ridiculous. Notwithstanding if that happened in the UK it could prevent patients travelling to hospital by rail for standard treatment becasue they have a bit of a fever which could be totally unrelated to Covid. It also forces you to have an unnecessary test which another person could be using. Think there would be an outcry greater than the Cumming's affair if that happened here!
I've seen lots of over the top restrictions such as temperature checks to enter a restaurant and food served only in take away containers.
My most hated has to be the amount of signage at stansted airport which has all been printed on a template with "for your safety" written on it. Theres one in every toilet cubicle saying to keep the seat down when flushing the toilet to stop the spread of covid-19. In addition to them dotted all around the terminal advising to wear a mask, not to sit on certain seats, to keep your distance etc (all for my safety).
What ott restrictions have you seen ?
To be fair VIA Rail's system is more like an airline than a railway - it's pretty much exclusively very-long-distance stuff. Most local services are operated by other organisations.
My work's company policies are also odd:
- We are not allowed to give colleagues lifts in our cars
leaving toilet seats up whilst flushing contaminates the immediate area and room with faecal bacteria and other glorious nasty microorganisms
And why the difference in the percentage of male and female bathrooms closed?
That's not odd from a business continuity point of view. If one of you gets snared by the contact tracing it's bad enough, but if you're all sharing cars then it gets a whole lot worse as you'll all get snared by it!
On the bus, of course, you won't.
Depends what you mean by very-long-distance.
The vast majority of their services are not overnight trains, but the (relatively) frequent 'corridor' services on the routes between Quebec City and Windsor.
I've had far more issues with front crawlers who can't swim in a straight line. Sometimes they drift across to the other side of a double width lane, colliding with those going the opposite way.Does anybody actually do the butterfly outside of elite swimming?!
Fair point, but at about 150km that's still not a local train service to the local hospital, it's a long distance operation.
There are three sets of bathrooms, so with closing one gender of each, they have chosen to do two female, one male.Absolute nonsense.
I would have thought that in order to promote social distancing, they should keep as many facilities as possible open.
And why the difference in the percentage of male and female bathrooms closed?
So we have to pander to the needs of the stupid? If someone can't work out the relative effectiveness of bullet proof glass vs flimsy plastic, they're beyond help. It's the proliferation of pointless gestures that leads to more pointless gestures.
Bluewater shopping centre have a pointless one way system - allegedly to enforce physical distancing. But they've added narrow "crossing" points at which it's impossible to distance. But if you dare attempt to cross anywhere other than at the narrow crossing point, the hi-viz power-trip Gestapo shout at you. However, when you point out the flaw in their wonderful scheme, they just look at you blankly. One wonders if one of the after-effects of coronavirus is a total loss of common sense.
I'd be very tempted to avoid places operating temperature checks, as they're not hugely accurate, and how can someone with no medical training be expected to sensibly make decisions on who goes in or not? Completely OTT. If I thought there was even the slightest possibility I was ill, I'd be at home, not attempting to spread my germs in a pub.
But if you have a temperature, you're not asymptomatic.Obviously the word "asymptomatic" has passed you by.