Coronavirus outbreak

[KnittyNorah]

Where do you meet these idiots?
I've not encountered any...except one idiot driving an Uber, luckily it was only a 10 minute journey. He didn't get a tip but did get a crap star rating

I think most of these idiots would only attempt to interact directly one on one with those they perceive as unlikely to kick back, such as parents with kids.

Imagine the reaction if they were out more widely and openly purveying their vile stupidity and a couple of big blokes who'd lost their nans and/or granddads last year to C-19 had had a few bevvies and were reminiscing about them ...

ETA when I was in Southport a couple of weeks ago, there were lots of small flyers pasted up on lamposts and in bus shelters - mostly scraped/peeled off or sharpie'd over - but there was enough visible on some of them to see what they were ... 'end the lockdown, the underground lizard men have taken control' or some such nonsense.

 

[Rusty Nails]

Where do you meet these idiots?
I've not encountered any...except one idiot driving an Uber, luckily it was only a 10 minute journey. He didn't get a tip but did get a crap star rating

Wetherspoons.

 

[vickster]

Wetherspoons.

With a 7 year old?

But it does explain why I don’t

 

[Johnno260]

Where do you meet these idiots?
I've not encountered any...except one idiot driving an Uber, luckily it was only a 10 minute journey. He didn't get a tip but did get a crap star rating

Well ignoring the one that is a relative, this one was accosting people on their way from the supermarket to their car.

It's a running joke with my job and family that I'm a magnet for random stuff like this.

Edit: 2 that are relatives.

 

[lane]

We had people handing out anti vax flyers the other day, they tried to hand me one but I walked around and said no thanks, the guy followed me and started banging on about the great reset and depopulation, he was saying about the depop stuff in front on my kids and that the government was looking to kill us.

I got my kids into the car and let rip at this guy, I said what with the depop stuff? It’s to do with climate change? His reply was no it’s for money and resource hoarding, I said you know how stupid that is? Your dumb flyer is claiming they will leave ½ million people alive globally, what good is money in a world with no people? No industry, no consumers, no large scale food production, no need for money.

What good is resource hoarding in a world with massively reduced resource consumption? There is no need.

I did lose my temper a little and told him to never approach someone with kids again, he walked off saying typical sheep the world won’t miss me in 6 months.

I then had to spend time telling an upset 7yr old that Boris isn’t trying to kill her.

He sounds like a bloody good prospect for depopulation with a bit of luck. My uncle had a similar minded friend in the US and he has now died of Covid.

 

[Johnno260]

He sounds like a bloody good prospect for depopulation with a bit of luck. My uncle had a similar minded friend in the US and he has now died of Covid.

That's the sad thing, people are getting hurt from miss-informed beliefs.

Now it's obvious there have been some reactions to the vaccines but again the number of issues against people vaccinated the % will be fine, and any medicine has the potential to have a reaction, even paracetamol can, it's weighted with pro vs con.

Chemo is another example it’s horrible stuff, but it’s horrible for a reason and it has the potential to make a difference.

My uncle is one of these people and I have told people some of the utterly toxic behavior he has displayed, I just don't get some people these days.

Also if I was without my kids I bet this guy wouldn't of approached me, it was probably a play on my emotions.

 

[KnittyNorah]

Now it's obvious there have been some reactions to the vaccines but again the number of issues against people vaccinated the % will be fine, and any medicine has the potential to have a reaction, even paracetamol can, it's weighted with pro vs con.

Yes indeed, and can you imagine what the situation would be like if there had been the same ridiculous reaction to smallpox, polio, diphtheria, rabies, tetanus etc etc vaccines? In the 1970s, while working in the Middle East, I met several people who had had smallpox when they were young children in the 1950s. The outward disfigurement, the inward damage and the psychological trauma were profound, there was absolutely no doubt about that.

Also if I was without my kids I bet this guy wouldn't of approached me, it was probably a play on my emotions.

I would think it was more that he reckoned you wouldn't give him the response he so richly deserved because you wouldn't've behaved like that in front of your kids. So he was an out and out coward in only approaching people when he's confident they won't retaliate. I await being approached with some glee. I look like an archetypal little old lady but I can - and will! - use language straight from the sewer if I so choose, to such as these.

 

[Beebo]

We had people handing out anti vax flyers the other day, they tried to hand me one but I walked around and said no thanks, the guy followed me and started banging on about the great reset and depopulation, he was saying about the depop stuff in front on my kids and that the government was looking to kill us.

I got my kids into the car and let rip at this guy, I said what with the depop stuff? It’s to do with climate change? His reply was no it’s for money and resource hoarding, I said you know how stupid that is? Your dumb flyer is claiming they will leave ½ million people alive globally, what good is money in a world with no people? No industry, no consumers, no large scale food production, no need for money.

What good is resource hoarding in a world with massively reduced resource consumption? There is no need.

I did lose my temper a little and told him to never approach someone with kids again, he walked off saying typical sheep the world won’t miss me in 6 months.

I then had to spend time telling an upset 7yr old that Boris isn’t trying to kill her.

A population of 500,000 across the entire world? How would that work?
That would be back to subsistence farming for the unlucky few who remained.

 

[Johnno260]

A population of 500,000 across the entire world? How would that work?
That would be back to subsistence farming for the unlucky few who remained.

I'm not sure how it works, on any level, but it's what this guy is proclaiming.

I have seen my uncle use the same amount of people as well, I mean it literally wouldn't work on any level, all the industry across the world etc not closed down correctly nuclear plants the environmental damage from things not being maintained it would be a monumental cluster.

 

[vickster]

I am going to take a wild crazy guess that these loons haven't really thought any of this crap through with any sort of common sense ... let alone scientific rigour

 

[Johnno260]

I am going to take a wild crazy guess that these loons haven't really thought any of this crap through with any sort of common sense ... let alone scientific rigour

That's what I find frustrating it's not a hard thing to disprove, and the family member who is on board with these kind of issues has reduced my tolerance to zero.

Like you said utterly no thought has been put into how the wider world would be affected.

 

[Rusty Nails]

I am going to take a wild crazy guess that these loons haven't really thought any of this crap through with any sort of common sense ... let alone scientific rigour

FTFY

 

[lazybloke]

Where do you meet these idiots?
I've not encountered any...except one idiot driving an Uber, luckily it was only a 10 minute journey. He didn't get a tip but did get a crap star rating

Did you wonder if he was an infection risk?
Think I'd have adjusted my mask, wound down at least one window, and tried not to breathe deeply.

Jumping from a moving Uber might have been an over-reaction, unless he started coughing.

 

[vickster]

Not especially no

 

[lane]

We had some nutters here a while ago abusing people who went into the co-op with a mask on.