True. Grocery shopping at midnight seems unlikely to attract crowds. Personally, I would not go out at that time. It also takes some staff. Not sure if grocery stores are having trouble finding workers. And the Sunday shutdown for the next three weeks is explicitly intended to give staff a rest.
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BetteTheRed
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Doesn't seem so in my location (although the usual fairly high turnover - high school students). As minimum wage jobs go, it's one of the more pleasant. It would be even better if we could sit while working as English grocery store clerks do.
Mrs.Anteater
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Germany has prohibited the sale of fireworks for New Years eve. Usually, Germans spend millions on privately held fireworks. Together with alcohol, this results in full emergency rooms. This is meant to prevent the extra patients, but it seems people now were getting illegally made fireworks or get them in Poland, which are a lot less safe. They did the same last year, and I guess it was helpful in reducing emergencies.
ChemGal
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Calgary and Edmonton both cancelled their fireworks because of Covid. I think it's one of the safer activities but with the cold it makes sense. Lake had them prior to Christmas, missed due to the fire next door. I was actually getting ready to head out when the doorbell rang.
ChemGal
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Kids will be getting surgical masks for schools but some are saying they need respirators. I feel like that's not really a solution to a school day. Keeping them well fitted for hours isn't pleasant and for kids who have respiratory issues that could be a problem. Also what's the point when they are crammed just as densely for lunch?
BetteTheRed
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I was amused yesterday at work about the cognitive dissonance between freedom and speed of service. Two customers approached the cash, separately, 1/2 hr apart or so. It wasn't really busy, but all tills were serving customers. There were 6 open, but 3 of us refusing to serve unmasked customers. Both customers fairly quickly decided to request a free mask, which we provide, in order to get out of the store faster.
Ah the freedom of using some consideration for the other's desires ... very rational, or able to respond?
Thus responsibility in the order of word as applied onus ...
BetteTheRed
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I do not suppose that they also considered the cognitive dissonance of agreeing to protect employees from infection, but not agreeing to protect their fellow customers, whom they have been breathing all over throughout the store.
ChemGal
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Students to return to school on Jan. 10 as Alberta adds highest one-day COVID-19 caseload
The Alberta government announced students will return to the classroom as it reported a new daily record for COVID-19 cases.
edmonton.ctvnews.ca
I see we are just còntinuing on like the start of the 4th wave. SMH
jimkenney12
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I do not remember seeing anybody without a mask in in a store in Deep River or in Hawkesbury. I wonder if some smaller communities succeed at creating a sense of we are all in this together and for each other.
Isn't cognitive dissonance a kind of reverse psychology gone wrong for a large part of civilization that wishes to be tyrannically on top of the heap of crap we're in? Is there a sense of sinking or thinking inward? Odd stuff immaterial psyches designed by theosophy ... a blivit gone the other way for an err in spell hear as hex ... if you look in their eyes ... there is this fog ... like a wisp over ... what! Yep they eventually go down ... passions are like that ... frequently hostile ... the strange Wahl of the mine field closing in!
Maybe an older wiser settlement ... where the best sinks in? Good for the digs in a myth ... some say like a cabin in the isolate moonlight ... thus the brighter powers without twins can't see'M! Doppelganger theory ... a mire thing ... once myrrh-th raising ... a resin?
ChemGal
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Sunwing trip could have been aborted mid-flight, experts say
Experts say a now-notorious Sunwing party flight from Montreal to Mexico might have been halted mid-trip had certain aviation protocols been strictly followed. Videos of the Dec. 30 charter voyage shared on social media show unmasked passengers in close proximity singing and dancing in the aisle...
montreal.ctvnews.ca
This was my thought when I first heard about it. Why didn't they just land early? Seems like planes do this all the time for less, with passengers arrested. Most of those flights though aren't booked specifically for a large party I guess. 2 tiered system
BetteTheRed
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Not that I'm advocating this, but it seems to me that breaking of rules goes more easily if you don't advertise it...
ChemGal
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I feel like all of these people need the military quarantine treatment. Some were allegedly using vaseline to try to get negative covid tests.
Invoking the Shadow-side as a cover up? This fabrication has been in use for some time for diabolical means ... some good, some bad, some ugly and some beauty ... like the beautiful mind ... buried somewhere! Thus minor expeditions ... leads to light metaphors of fiction and fantasy ... not for the absolute side ... they take off with little response to what's necessary ... networking rationally?
Like a spider on the Wahl mon ...