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[martinuzz]

Meanwhile in India, the government in Delhi started the mass vaccination campaing, while meanwhile in India, the Kumbh Mela festival, the largest festival in the world, also has begun. Well over a million of people came together in the Himalayan holy city of Haridwar, to bathe in the Ganges river and cleanse themselves, not repelled by fear of covid.  Most do not wear face mask and keeping distance is impossible.  Millions more pilgrims are expected the coming weeks.

[martinuzz]

An anti-corona measures protest that had been forbidden to go to the Museumplein in Amsterdam did so anyways.
They were allowed to protest with max 500 man in the Westerpark, but instead thousands of people occupied the Museumplein.

They have been dispersed with water cannons backed by mounted police and K9 units.
Those silly enough to fight the police met the hard end of police batons. Several arrests were made.

Most protestors have been dispersed by now, but now a new group arrives, Ajax (Amsterdam's football team) football hooligans, their club is playing a match without audience against nemesis Feyenoord today.

[Starver]

Over here, we have people driving 100 miles for a McDonalds (allegedly - doesn't help their cause that the town they went to didn't have a McDonalds, which is a feat in itself) against all the spirit of lockdown

The other day, a car was stopped for speeding on the motorway (again, very unlucky, that seems to be very rare), having travelled practically across half the country and one of the highest main roads (M62, over the Pennines) in heavy snow conditions 'for a takeaway' (I get the impression they'd got it, and were hurrying back home). The car turned out to contain members of three different households who probably shouldn't have been mixing, so not just the driver was ticketed/etc.


Haven't seen anything about protests, here, in the last week, though, just regular covidiocity. Water-cannon would havevbeen interesting during the cold-snap (but I think they're not actually allowed outside Norn Irnd, even if Boris apparently bought some for London when he was still Mayor).

[LordBaal]

In contrast, we are kinda like that home where the parent's did not pay much attention to their kids despite yelling them out loud, and thus those kids were envied by every other kids because they were so "free" to do whatever they want as long it did not bothered their parents directly... but among the other parents things were crystal clear those kids hardly had any good future.

Here in theory we have a week of strict confinement and a week of stricter confinement. People don't protest because every one is so busy not fucking starving that there is not much time or energy left for it. Occasional protests for the usual (domestic gas, gasoline, electricity, and medicine shortages) still erupt here and there but that is just SNAFU.

As long business have someone at the door with a alcohol spray and some of those rugs submerged on alcohol and more or less try to respect the assigned maximum number or patrons no one pays attention.

On the stricter week no one is supposed to get out but people still do, and non medical and food business operate with their doors closed. Everyone knows, nobody cares.

Since our migration have already taken away a rather large chunk of young doctors looking for greener pastures our medical pool consists mostly of a ever diminishing group of third age doctors that are specially vulnerable to covid and are dying like flies at alarming rates... I tell you guys is some movie worth stuff how most of them keep working. A few days ago a doctor in my city died, his last procedure was to deliver his own grandson.

[MonkeyHead]

I live near Snowdon (one of the highest peaks in the UK, and a tourist trap). Daily people are arrested and fined for travelling from hundreds of miles away in order to climb it. They always plead ignorance with regards lockdown rules.

[Caz]

"What's a lockdown? I thought I was in England"

[Starver]

/waits until they start to reinstate Offa's Dyke, as well as Hadrian's Wall.

Hwyl fawr, Saeson!

[MonkeyHead]

"What's a lockdown? I thought I was in England"

People have claimed not to know English laws didn't apply in Wales. Seriously.

[Caz]

but Whales is an English colony innit?

[hector13]

It’s always been Englandandwales to me.

[TD1]

Why are you all misspelling Engwelsh

[LordBaal]

Why are you talking about the mythical land of Wales? Is but the feverish imatinantion of early roman that went along with Caesar to England. Dont you see? Whales and Wales? The guys were sailing, saw some of the oceanic creatures and came up with the place... the joke simply got too long.

[Starver]

Cofiwch Dryweryn!

...but, in actual UK Covid news, apparently there's a repeat of the 1857 Indian Rebellion situaton. Some people have apparently been spreading lies that the vaccine contains beef and/or pork product, causing a higher than expected number of refusals to partake amongst the related ethnic groups.

[bloop_bleep]

Wales did use to be considered part of England, I think.

but Whales is an English colony innit?

Not really a "colony." Britain is a union of England, Wales, Scotland, and Northern Ireland.

[Rolan7]

Cofiwch Dryweryn!

...but, in actual UK Covid news, apparently there's a repeat of the 1857 Indian Rebellion situaton. Some people have apparently been spreading lies that the vaccine contains beef and/or pork product, causing a higher than expected number of refusals to partake amongst the related ethnic groups.

Fuuuuck, that sounds like some racists being creatively hateful.  I hate this.  It's kinda ironic because most of our (USA) loonies seem to actually believe the vaccine is bad (or the virus is fake).  This seems like people who believe in the vaccine, and want... want certain people to die from the virus.  Disgusting.