The BAFTAs were a super spreader event

[just444]

Covid apparently cut a swath through the BAFTAs and a lot of the nominated directors and actors aren’t here at the PGAs tonight because of it https://t.co/HXcPyTdr4O
- Kyle Buchanan (@kylebuchanan) March 20, 2022

source 2A bunch of people who were at the baftas last weekend were not at last nights Producers Guild Awards bc they got covid

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[angriest_girl]

Britain’s been acting like the pandemic is over for months, even while they still have nearly 100k cases a day and over 100 deaths daily.

Australia’s starting to go the same way. You see pics of music festivals and parties and events and no one is social distancing or wearing masks. It’s fucked. I wish I could never leave my house again.

[dropthecrates]

me too, people are so fucking stupid here. literally two years of people being like 'lol look at all the fuckery overseas' and then the moment the borders opened they're living in each other's taints again and looking at me in my mask like i'm crazy. last week there were two cases in my friend's office and she still took her dumbass to the casino yesterday i hate everything

[gloeden2]

Britain has turned into a plague island both physically and philosophically.

[lovelylaura23]

Always has been

🌍👨‍🚀🔫👨‍🚀

[frankthesheep]

I was the only person wearing a mask on the overground carriage earlier today. I was so confused, just because it is not mandatory doesn't mean you should stop doing it.

[angriest_girl]

Our city is likely to drop mask mandates within the next few weeks and I am dreading it. People are already half arsing it and not bothering a lot of the time and I think retail and hospo staff have given up trying to enforce it (which, honestly, I don’t blame them for - it must be exhausting having to tell grown people to do a simple thing over and over again).

[naturesluzzer]

Masks certainly help but tbh cases have continually gone up and down all throughout Europe regardless of the policies in place. Even in Britain while Scotland and Wales still had mask mandates, it didn't make much of a difference in cases. There's a decently high vaccination/booster rate though which is good.

This is a useful thread which explains what's happening:

What’s behind the rise?

Some blame governments dropping restrictions, but the answer is the same as always: it’s the virus. Specifically the BA.2 Omicron strain.

Here are UK hospitalisations, split by variant. That mystery resurgence? Not so mysterious with this context added. pic.twitter.com/iaVGh8yv66
- John Burn-Murdoch (@jburnmurdoch) March 17, 2022

And when the virus changes the narrative, it doesn’t just change it in one country, it changes it everywhere.

Here’s same chart, but for Europe & US.

It’s the same story. What looked like mystery double-peaks are now clearly a BA.1 peak followed by BA.2. pic.twitter.com/fMxCECRVGQ
- John Burn-Murdoch (@jburnmurdoch) March 17