No argument there, but my point still stands - social responsibility will save lives.This Government would be loathed to put the country in lockdown before Christmas. It would be suicide, politically speaking, and I’m unconvinced it would now make a blind bit of difference. They’re only prolonging not preventing anything at this point, so we’ll see more window dressing to give the impression that we’re in control, but the reality is that nature has the upper hand over all of us.
My 81 year old mum has just told her grandchildren she doesn't want to see them (and her new great granddaughter) this Christmas due to Covid. Nothing I or my GP cousin can say changes her mind. She's hardly left the house since last March.We’ve told 5 year olds that they were likely to ‘kill their grannies’ and now we tell them that they’re ‘superspreaders’. Never in history have we sacrificed the children to ‘save’ the elderly. I say save but the sheer numbers we allowed to die lonely and confused deaths last year, not allowing them to hold hands or even see their loved ones, is a scandal we should never forget.
Did anyone see dispatches? Apparently Pfizer costs 80p per dose to make and we’re currently paying them £22 per dose. That’s the highest reported price paid by any government in the world. £2.6 billion that is. No wonder they’re talking about a 4th dose!
Of course, we binned off AZ who were selling to us at cost price…
some shit in the express that omricon can bind with rats and may cause a super plauge,fuck me talk about fear mongering
No argument there, but my point still stands - social responsibility will save lives.
The government have made it all about Christmas for months, which is dumb to put two days of eating and drinking over people’s lives, but nothing they do surprises me anymore.
I don’t disagree that social distancing and mask wearing can have mitigating effects, but we all need to appreciate that what might have worked against Delta may prove almost wholly ineffective against Omicron: it’s so bloody good at what it does. We can ask people to ‘rein it in’, but that means different things to different people, and at this time of the year many people are so drunk they don’t even know they’re on a horse!No argument there, but my point still stands - social responsibility will save lives.
The government have made it all about Christmas for months, which is dumb to put two days of eating and drinking over people’s lives, but nothing they do surprises me anymore.
Yeah i get that. But economically i cant see many positives coming about from any further lock downs etc
some shit in the express that omricon can bind with rats and may cause a super plauge,fuck me talk about fear mongering
The Princess Diana Variant is due too.It’s the Express. They are in full ‘double decker bus found on the moon’ territory.
Now now. It’s a veritable God send for those of us interested in Kate, Meghan, and all things Royal. Sussexes getting divorced in 2022 to maximize their brand, don’t you know…It’s the Express. They are in full ‘double decker bus found on the moon’ territory.
some shit in the express that omricon can bind with rats and may cause a super plauge,fuck me talk about fear mongering
some shit in the express that omricon can bind with rats and may cause a super plauge,fuck me talk about fear mongering
I fuckin hope its the latter mateNo, there aren’t, but I was thinking more long term, ie in how we live with Covid and how we and society change to coexist with Covid. Mask wearing becoming more common place. How we dine out - less covers/higher prices. Table service at pubs etc.
Alternatively Covid may burn itself out with this variant and we can be done with this shit :)
The main thing with covid is that there is a number of cases, and I don't know what that number is but it exists, where it collapses the health care. We are all lucky enough to have lived in an era where we don't know what that looks like, but it's mass graves, ambulances not turning up to crashes on the motorway, people dying of heart attacks on the kitchen floors and having to be covered for days until the undertakers have capacity to do something. It doesn't matter if you believe in covid or not, there is a number that exists where that happens, and we have been closer to that number than some of us would like to admit. At that point it really doesn't matter about ideology or talking tough or prioritising the economy: that is a number we want to avoid. If there are restrictions, it will be to avoid those scenarios.
The main thing with covid is that there is a number of cases, and I don't know what that number is but it exists, where it collapses the health care. We are all lucky enough to have lived in an era where we don't know what that looks like, but it's mass graves, ambulances not turning up to crashes on the motorway, people dying of heart attacks on the kitchen floors and having to be covered for days until the undertakers have capacity to do something. It doesn't matter if you believe in covid or not, there is a number that exists where that happens, and we have been closer to that number than some of us would like to admit. At that point it really doesn't matter about ideology or talking tough or prioritising the economy: that is a number we want to avoid. If there are restrictions, it will be to avoid those scenarios.