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kingrollo
Guru
Mask wearing & protection isn't protecting you personally it protects others. So logically
Why you should protect everyone else if no one is protecting me ?
Much more in line with the Tory heartbeat of me, me, me, though !
roubaixtuesday
self serving virtue signaller
Govt "plan" published.
Short version: fark it, we just can't be arsed with this palavar any more.
https://www.gov.uk/government/publi...er-2021-roadmap/covid-19-response-summer-2021
(Though, laughably, they are keeping border controls, while we have one of the highest infection rates in the world!)
Short version: fark it, we just can't be arsed with this palavar any more.
https://www.gov.uk/government/publi...er-2021-roadmap/covid-19-response-summer-2021
(Though, laughably, they are keeping border controls, while we have one of the highest infection rates in the world!)
mjr
Comfy armchair to one person & a plank to the next
- Location
- mostly Norfolk, sometimes Somerset
I think their scientists may have answered "we don't know" instead of "later".
lane
Veteran
No such thing as society only individuals comes to mind
“I think we've been through a period where too many people have been given to understand that if they have a problem, it's the government's job to cope with it. 'I have a problem, I'll get a grant.' 'I'm homeless, the government must house me.' They're casting their problem on society. And, you know, there is no such thing as society. There are individual men and women, and there are families. And no government can do anything except through people, and people must look to themselves first. It's our duty to look after ourselves and then, also to look after our neighbour. People have got the entitlements too much in mind, without the obligations. There's no such thing as entitlement, unless someone has first met an obligation." – Women’s Own, 31 October 1987.
KnittyNorah
Über Member
- Location
- The Frozen North (of England)
I t's not going to go away, however much we might want it to, and the entire world will have to learn to live with it - however reluctant and fearful we may be to do so. We will all - eventually - deal with it in our own ways, which will be different everywhere and for everyone. Masking, regular testing, avoidance of crowds of strangers and keeping away from children will be in my plans for the foreseeable future.
Perhaps, in time, it may mutate itself into a much less damaging form and I hope, long before that happens, some form of effective, affordable. preventative treatment will be developed to 'stop it in its tracks' if administered promptly.
The ads on spotify I've been getting, I think from NHS Scotland, "restrictions are changing..." ending with "...we've come this far, we're not giving in" have aged like milk. Giving in is exactly what we're doing.
Without wanting to go full conspiracy theory, I find it curious how the footage of the health secretary canoodling was leaked to the press just a couple of weeks before another incredibly stupid, arbitrary, unscientific deadline for easing restrictions, despite at the time of writing, the new daily infections being more than 10 times they were 6 weeks ago?
We've been told to use personal responsibility when what is required is collective responsibility, and it's clear that many people are profoundly selfish and deeply untrustworthy. I for one cannot honestly envisage a scenario in which I will ever go into an enclosed public place ever again.
Without wanting to go full conspiracy theory, I find it curious how the footage of the health secretary canoodling was leaked to the press just a couple of weeks before another incredibly stupid, arbitrary, unscientific deadline for easing restrictions, despite at the time of writing, the new daily infections being more than 10 times they were 6 weeks ago?
We've been told to use personal responsibility when what is required is collective responsibility, and it's clear that many people are profoundly selfish and deeply untrustworthy. I for one cannot honestly envisage a scenario in which I will ever go into an enclosed public place ever again.
Flick of the Elbow
less than
- Location
- Pentlands Water of Leith
Boris throwing caution to the wind. Horrific 😥
Deleted User
Guest
- Location
- Wolverhampton
Seriously?
I take it you haven't been working or going to the pub or shopping at all during all this?
kingrollo
Guru
We need government to organise the workers to work while the 'entitled' live of the fat of the land.
Exploitation of man by man if you like
- Location
- Somewhere wet & hilly in NW England.
This seems to be a sensible summation of where we are heading and one that I am comfortable with re underlying rationale:
BBC News - Why it's time to think differently about Covid
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-57678942
BBC News - Why it's time to think differently about Covid
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-57678942
