Fasces wrote:The problem isn't lockdowns, its folks like Rich.
What a stupid ignorant arsehole thing to say. Sadly I'm no longer young, but in all my years I've never had flu once. The best way to avoid spreading decease is to be healthy and not to get it in the first place. I don't go to pubs, I don't go to clubs. I don't drink alcohol. I don't take drugs. I'm not obese.
The one death that I've been close to was a friend of mines's sister committed suicide, the lockdown was not the only reason for her suicide, but she was in a lot pain with dental problems. It wasn't me that closed the dental practices. Luckily as I indicated I'm not on medication or receiving treatment, but I'm not the one that pretty much closed down the hospitals and the health care system. I'm also not responsible for discharging the old people into care homes, or ordering them not to be resuscitated. Where I live has a very low rate. Its most certainly not people like me that drove up the death rate in New York, London and Brussels, because people like me have no desire to live in the middle of big cities.
I've actually been finding the lack of social distancing on the high street quite challenging recently, because although I don't support the lock down, masks or compulsory social distancing, I try strenuously hard to respect the wishes of those that do, I always apply caution until I know that someone is happy not to social distance. I had two hugs on the way th to the supermarket the other day, but that was initiated by them not because I imposed my views, my preferences on others.
I knew at the start of this that I was capable of sustaining a discipline for a long period of time and I also knew at the start of this that a lot of people wouldn't be able to sustain a discipline. At times now the high street is totally rammed, only a tiny proportion are wearing mask and all pretence of social distancing has been abandoned. As I said I find it a challenge not being able to respect peoples right to socially distance. Until recently I would step out in the road, but motorists no longer tolerate that any more.
The whole thing has become a farce, at least where I live, with the imposition of arbitrary rules that are in no way part of a rational plan of suppression. But you carry on with your pathetic little fantasies that the lockdowns would have worker marvellously if hadn't been for the tiny minority like me that opposed the lock down from the start. I haven't been to Japan, but I have been to Germany, When the man is Red , the pedestrians don't cross. Britain's just not like, Christ in Britain even the politicians and so called experts who are laying down the rules don't keep to them.