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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-56604632

As the UK seem to be motoring towards a day without paper masks and 2 meter distancing, the spectre of fear seems to have clouded these isles again. Sturgeon shit her self ASAP and is retaining Scotland level 2 for some reason and now the Tories are feeling the heat to do likewise. We have a new variant that is 75% of cases and a few days of high cases along with a few extra people entering hospital than we are used to but no biggy.

Now to be honest, delaying the lockdown for a couple of weeks doesn't really bother me given I have come accustomed to wearing a mask when entering a shop and quite like not hugging people. But my worry is when will we stop the fearporn given this began with saving lives and deaths are today ZERO? It has also been common knowledge that this virus isn't going anywhere and we will have to live with it in any caae. And come the winter we can expect to see cases far exceed 3000 a day given vaccination immunity may not even be permanent along with new variants evolving. Are we going to continue to lockdown everytime we see cases rise? Or are we going to move on? We have now vaccinated most over 30s, so please can we have some common sense and stop the fearporn at least given we are not going to see another wave during the height of Summer. Either get a backbone or lockdown the whole country till there is zero cases and stop planes from landing.
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It's beginning to get really silly now. Cases are currently running lower than SAGE's best case scenario following the relaxation of restrictions, the vaccination program is going very smoothly, and people are still advocating another lockdown?

I'm beginning to suspect people actually like the "new normal", because they can compete to be the best at anally following the rules and scolding those who don't. :lol:
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Heisenberg wrote:It's beginning to get really silly now. Cases are currently running lower than SAGE's best case scenario following the relaxation of restrictions, the vaccination program is going very smoothly, and people are still advocating another lockdown?

I'm beginning to suspect people actually like the "new normal", because they can compete to be the best at anally following the rules and scolding those who don't. :lol:

Plus environmentalists really love lockdowns, for example, they must be having multiple orgasms anytime they can see some wildlife wandering in ghost-towns.

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It makes sense to delay postponing the removal of all restrictions for a few weeks while the impact of the new variant is assessed. Better safe than sorry. People are stupid. Look what happened after the eat out to help out fiasco and the Christmas moritarium.
Not enough people are vaccinated yet awhile
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snapdragon wrote:People are stupid. Look what happened after the eat out to help out fiasco and the Christmas moritarium.

It's more accurate to say people are fed up, and will take the opportunity to resume normal human behaviour if it is offered. For the most part, people have followed the restrictions of the past year about as well as could have been hoped for - but it still hasn't stopped the lockdown scolds. :lol:

As for the Christmas "moratorium": if you tell people on Thursday "from Saturday, there is a lockdown and you cannot leave your home", you don't get to be surprised when people flood to the railway stations to get out before lockdown starts. It's entirely predictable (and rational) behaviour.

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