Magicpole
Well-Known Member
I will have a go at responding with what I think about your points and why. I too am not trying to convince either, rather to look at what backs up, if anything why I think the way I do.
2m distance. This hasnt been arrived at from the back of a fag packet, although, with some of the responses to the effect of the pandemic and how best to deal with it, i can accede to it can appear that way. The reason for the 2m rule, as I understand it, was arrived at through experimenting with the volume of water exhaled from the lungs that can and do allow the virus to be contagious. It was shown that at that distance the threat is reduced, not removed, and that keeping this distance could helo to reduce infection rates. It also took into consideration we have as people to be able to interact as close as this need dictates and still reduce the possibility of infecting others. It was never claimed to be a panacea to the situation, just part of a range of measures that could help. This has now moved to include wearing a mask in certain situations. It just seems probable to me that distancing yourself from a potential source of infection is a good option to take. If this virus was say Ebola and you knew your insides were going to turn to mush before it killed you, I dont think anyone would think keeping a distance was a waste of time. The fact that most people wont die of covid removes that feeling of absolute self preservation and things like 2m can seem arbitrary and pointless. I dont think it is and the science backs up that keeping apart helps, so I try to do it, even though it be be difficult when other people don't comply. I think we can all agree that the recent spikes all over the world started to appear when people started to congregate and a slackening of the rules happened. We up here in Scotland are facing the returning to measures that we had and that worked in reducing the R number for this very reason. So that why I think it helps and therefore why I will try and continue to observe it.
Masks are primarily for you not to infect others and I dont think it has ever been stated they dont help you, but, any barrier is better than none and the better the barrier the more effective it is, in this regard. The problems arise when we dont take the mask off properly, or, clean our hands and the touch our face and mouth..its difficult to do, and I would be lying through my teeth if I said I did this properly every time. I dont. But, I should.
The world economy going tits up is not beyond the realms. It could happen, but, my view is that it would need to be absolutely catastrophic circumstances, a loss of the technology that it depends upon. And even then money in coins and paper may be used. Those who run the world economy, and not the fuck8ng illuminati or the Rothschilds will find a way to keep it going, and for good reasons. None more so than they do very well out of it and why kill the golden goose. A meteor strike might lead us back to the Stoneage but until then, I wouldn't worry too much about that.
