Effective Covid Measures Implemented

[JamesWales]

Re: Effective Covid Measures Implemented

Why has applauding NHS workers for five minutes for a few weeks when people were losing relatives and friends to a Pandemic the like of which they’d not seen before in their lifetime become something to be sneered at?

Exactly. It was the early days of it all but it was one of the more heartwarming things that we did, when people were genuinely coming together instead of pulling apart

I remember finding it quite emotional at the time

[jon1959]

Re: Effective Covid Measures Implemented

I wonder how many of them would have obeyed their tellies had they been told to give five minutes of applause at a specific time on different days of the week for heroic binmen, shop workers, postmen, ice cream van drivers and road sweepers.

Taunton Blue Meanie and Jon definitely would have. I'm sure those two would have juggled oranges while wearing hula skirts had they been instructed to.

Definitely did - as I have described in several other threads. It was a way of showing appreciation and concern for NHS and other front line workers, and to bring communities together at the height of the Covid restrictions. The new friendships and community organisations we formed at that time are still going on today - checks on elderly and vulnerable neighbours, food bank collections, an environment group and a community Whatsapp forum that organises loads of local events.

And just to ensure that you don't reinvent history too much - the weekly clap started in southern Europe (mainly Italy and Spain) and was promoted via social media by a Dutch woman living in London - Annemarie Plas. The government and the broadcast media belatedly got behind it after the movement was already underway.

[Tito Fuente]

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There's plenty of info out there detailing how and why it was done. What it revealed was behind the scenes every government of importance were guided by the same hidden hand.

GOVERNMENT CRIMES: They paid doctors and nurses to murder innocent patients. They faked Covid cases and deaths to instill fear in the population. They denied safe early treatments murdering millions of innocent people. They forced ineffective toxic Covid vaccines on the world.… https://t.co/GuGztwpbiY pic.twitter.com/iPWPA4gUhq

— Truth Justice ™ (@SpartaJustice) February 16, 2023

The problem as I see it is:

You can't differentiate between "information" and "evidence".

For Example

There's lots of information on this board that shows Covid was a hoax and that vaccines cause black-eyed zombie babies.

But

There's plenty of evidence that you have proven wrong about your assertions on a daily basis.

[Taunton Blue Genie]

Re: Effective Covid Measures Implemented

Definitely did - as I have described in several other threads. It was a way of showing appreciation and concern for NHS and other front line workers, and to bring communities together at the height of the Covid restrictions. The new friendships and community organisations we formed at that time are still going on today - checks on elderly and vulnerable neighbours, food bank collections, an environment group and a community Whatsapp forum that organises loads of local events.

And just to ensure that you don't reinvent history too much - the weekly clap started in southern Europe (mainly Italy and Spain) and was promoted via social media by a Dutch woman living in London - Annemarie Plas. The government and the broadcast media belatedly got behind it after the movement was already underway.

I got involved with offering NHS staff one of my two parking places on my drive (as I live near to both a hospital and the town centre) and sometimes cleaned their cars for them by way of saying a thank you. I just wasn't into the clapping on the doorstep thing.

[jon1959]

Re: Effective Covid Measures Implemented

I got involved with offering NHS staff one of my two parking places on my drive (as I live near to both a hospital and the town centre) and sometimes cleaned their cars for them by way of saying a thank you. I just wasn't into the clapping on the doorstep thing.

Different ways of taking the same stance. :thumbup:

Some people have also made an issue of the clapping and pan bashing as if it was (and is) a distraction from supporting a pay rise for health staff and putting more resources into the NHS and care system.

As far as I'm concerned it is both - not either/or. I have also been on the local Trades Council rallies, demonstrations, pickets and other actions in support of the pay campaign. Some things are just symbolic, others more practical - but all part of the same story.

[Taunton Blue Genie]

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Does Organ care to look up anything that may disagree with the memes he posts? I think we know the answer.

https://wvutoday.wvu.edu/stories/2021/06/22/death-and-religion-excess-deaths-sweep-through-amish-and-mennonite-communities-during-covid-19-pandemic

[Wales-Bales]

Re: Effective Covid Measures Implemented

Incredible how some can forget how scared people were three years ago

Many people weren't scared, so you must have been getting your information from scary news sources!

[the other bob wilson]

Re: Effective Covid Measures Implemented

Many people weren't scared, so you must have been getting your information from scary news sources!

:facepalm:

[the other bob wilson]

Re: Effective Covid Measures Implemented

Many people weren't scared, so you must have been getting your information from scary news sources!

One in fourteen care home residents died within the first three months of the pandemic, do you think those who were shoved into those properties when there was no known treatment for Covid had a right to be scared?

[Wales-Bales]

Re: Effective Covid Measures Implemented

One in fourteen care home residents died within the first three months of the pandemic, do you think those who were shoved into those properties when there was no known treatment for Covid had a right to be scared?

It's best to ask Matt Hancock about that.

[Tito Fuente]

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It's best to ask Matt Hancock about that.

I just WhatsApped him. He replied:

Matt Hancock
Many people weren't scared, so you must have been getting your information from scary news sources

[Wales-Bales]

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I just WhatsApped him. He replied:

Matt Hancock
Many people weren't scared, so you must have been getting your information from scary news sources

I had the pleasure of getting to know David through his campaigning on assisted dying

He was a kind, brave and truly inspirational man whose spirit will live on through this campaign

My thoughts are with his family and friends at this difficult timehttps://t.co/9NmWhc7ed0

— Matt Hancock (@MattHancock) February 28, 2023

[Tito Fuente]

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I had the pleasure of getting to know David through his campaigning on assisted dying

He was a kind, brave and truly inspirational man whose spirit will live on through this campaign

My thoughts are with his family and friends at this difficult timehttps://t.co/9NmWhc7ed0

— Matt Hancock (@MattHancock) February 28, 2023

[Wales-Bales]

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I just WhatsApped him.

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[Tito Fuente]

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