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Not sure if this should have gone in the other thread (the most over the top restrictions introduced), but it might be good to list places where the application of common sense and a return to some normality has occurred. Brighton station this morning is free of one-way systems! You can...

Last week, two out of five adjoining basins in the gents’ washroom where I work have been taped ‘out of use, to assist in social distancing’. Two drivers were discussing this development, one remarking on how it had ‘only taken seven months to put signs up’. Are people really incapable of...

I think the high levels of compliance with many of the restrictions and ineffectual rituals, grudgingly followed, are testimony to people’s wish to be seen to be doing ‘the right thing’. They don’t necessarily agree with the measures, but are afraid of looking bad in front of others. My friend’s...

This ^^

Like the police gaining access to test information ? Although it is covid-related, it sets a precedent that private companies can be compelled to hand over private information (Serco run the test-and-trace operation, not the NHS)...

No, I’m not being stubborn, I’m exercising my choice of where I want to shop. Nowhere in the government guidelines does it state that customers must use hand sanitiser https://www.gov.uk/guidance/working-safely-during-coronavirus-covid-19/shops-and-branches

I hope they are not making it a condition of entry to the store? If you’ve just been shopping in a shop across the road, and sanitised on the way out, it’s a bit OTT to have to do it again. If they did insist, I’d politely but firmly tell them there are many other and cheaper places to shop...

In a small B&B, where table space is extremely limited, I could understand the desirability of breakfast ‘slots’, so that the dining room does not get overcrowded. This made sense even before Covid. In a chain hotel with a much larger dining area, this should not be necessary. Some people fail...

Not if the sign on the inside of the premises states ‘Keep Right’- and I have actually seen that!

They cannot be proven to have made a difference, yet the government are, in effect, implying that the virus spreads more readily in places where the very measure designed to slow the spread (wearing face-coverings) is actually being adhered to !!! We need a ‘Sparticus’ movement, where people...

Biden should take a look at this, from the Centers for Disease Control, published in September in the US https://thefederalist.com/2020/10/12/cdc-study-finds-overwhelming-majority-of-people-getting-coronavirus-wore-masks/

This story highlights just how ridiculous this has all become https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-nottinghamshire-54545077 One lady comments that she will not see her granddaughter, even though they live on opposite sides of the same street, their homes are in different Tiers. There’s no...

In large supermarkets, where aisles are wide, I completely ignore one-way systems. Coming into close contact with others for well under 60 seconds is not dangerous and some people have completely lost all rational thought. In Morrisons, I’ve seen people wearing masks who, when...

Not sure if this belongs in this thread, but the Evening Standard are reporting that some people breaching lockdown rules are now not being dealt with in an open court, but under the Single Justice Procedure, sometimes using the wrong laws and breaching a promise to protect open justice...

It could also be argued that people who meander around supermarkets with no cohesive plan on how to pick their items in the most efficient manner, stopping to chat with old friends and blocking the aisles unnecessarily are also forcing people outside to queue for longer than necessary. These...

Or introduce a Central Heating Replacement Service, by force-feeding the kids Ready Brek at regular intervals? Seriously, those in charge of this school need some errr... education

Reports circulating that London faces promotion to the Championship level of restrictions. Sadiq Khan has ambitions to reach Premiership level... https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-54551596

Ha! Reminds me of some Geordie builders staying at a B&B I was in, years ago. At breakfast, one of the staff asked if they’d like to pre-order their evening meals, and one chap, after finding steak was available, said he’d like that. ‘Do you want a salad with it?’ the lady asked ‘Aww aye, nae...

People are debating whether to hunt for a face covering before exiting a burning building... while the Grenfell Tower fire enquiry is ongoing... It should be more obvious than ever. No delay. No equivocation. Exit. The footage of the fire at Bradford was used in a hard-hitting fire procedures...