We really should be grateful for the measures implemented during the Pandemic.
I don’t think there is one measure that I don’t support. Threads like this which appear to mock are tasteless
https://twitter.com/prof_freedom/sta...MiMvMVeTzkYL-g
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We really should be grateful for the measures implemented during the Pandemic.
I don’t think there is one measure that I don’t support. Threads like this which appear to mock are tasteless
https://twitter.com/prof_freedom/sta...MiMvMVeTzkYL-g
My fave is the three Teletubbies in the lift.
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="und" dir="ltr">🤣 <a href="https://t.co/iCsSfn5WKU">pic.twitter.com/iCsSfn5WKU</a></p>— kapitan_ihlo (@IhloKapitan) <a href="https://twitter.com/IhloKapitan/status/1629427069674299393?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 25, 2023</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
There is no need to mock the people who believed all this stuff, and there are some who post on here, so please show some compassion.
Bless all of your cotton socks.
It's ok for you to say that, but not everybody has a GCSE in biology.Quote:
Originally Posted by Tito Fuente
Not everybody has a GCSE in understanding what you're trying to say either. Please elaborate.Quote:
Originally Posted by Wales-Bales
No doubting for me certain restrictions were needed, especially early on when little was known. But when you think back so many were insane and lacking in any common sense. What happens when people get a taste of power.
Security guard chasing the lone runner on an empty beach ffs.
I remember one police force here recording people walking in the middle of nowhere via drone and posting it to twitter.
I think that every single person in the UK will agree that there were certain restrictions/safety measures that appeared to lack forethought and logic. I can think of a few myself.Quote:
Originally Posted by Trigger
Unfortunately, there are a lot of people who also feel that their "personal freedoms" were more important than any precautions to reduce the risk of Covid.
To be fair though, these people also believe that Covid was a hoax and vaccines cause, well, pretty much everything negative.
More faves. The first with the two Amish old boys is a hole in one.
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="zxx" dir="ltr"><a href="https://t.co/W3GDZRrutv">pic.twitter.com/W3GDZRrutv</a></p>— Dr. Eli David (@DrEliDavid) <a href="https://twitter.com/DrEliDavid/status/1630345136201687041?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 27, 2023</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-conversation="none"><p lang="qme" dir="ltr"> <a href="https://t.co/eu9yvKia0j">pic.twitter.com/eu9yvKia0j</a></p>— Erkki (@EVeerkamp) <a href="https://twitter.com/EVeerkamp/status/1629450884936609792?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 25, 2023</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-conversation="none"><p lang="qme" dir="ltr"> <a href="https://t.co/6tTLiH5gXo">pic.twitter.com/6tTLiH5gXo</a></p>— marc friedrich (@marcfriedrich7) <a href="https://twitter.com/marcfriedrich7/status/1629313508746711041?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 25, 2023</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-conversation="none"><p lang="qme" dir="ltr"> <a href="https://t.co/Efl5SR5LgY">pic.twitter.com/Efl5SR5LgY</a></p>— Z0mbieB0y1984 (@b0y478) <a href="https://twitter.com/b0y478/status/1629550685745283072?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 25, 2023</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-conversation="none"><p lang="und" dir="ltr">😂 <a href="https://t.co/z9eVZGjuDY">pic.twitter.com/z9eVZGjuDY</a></p>— TSLATALK (@tslatalk) <a href="https://twitter.com/tslatalk/status/1629561078370689025?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 25, 2023</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
You forgot the bit where they took off their masks to eat on the plane!Quote:
Originally Posted by Organ Morgan.
Incredible how some can forget how scared people were three years ago, when the death toll in the UK reached four figures every day and there weren't any vaccines or treatments for COVID - people on here who made fools of themselves at the time with their Covid denial stories are now taking the piss as if they were right all along. They weren't and no matter how much they try to rewrite history, they'll never be.Quote:
Originally Posted by Trigger
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.Quote:
Originally Posted by the other bob wilson
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">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.… <a href="https://t.co/GuGztwpbiY">https://t.co/GuGztwpbiY</a> <a href="https://t.co/iPWPA4gUhq">pic.twitter.com/iPWPA4gUhq</a></p>— Truth Justice ™ (@SpartaJustice) <a href="https://twitter.com/SpartaJustice/status/1626317570784501760?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 16, 2023</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
I didn't care to as I don't want to be accused of taking the you know what out of our doorstep clapping members.Quote:
Originally Posted by Wales-Bales
Speaking of which, 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.
I didn't clap on the doorstep, old fruit. Unlike your good self, I don't get dragged along with various herds.Quote:
Originally Posted by Organ Morgan.
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 apartQuote:
Originally Posted by the other bob wilson
I remember finding it quite emotional at the time
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.Quote:
Originally Posted by Organ Morgan.
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.
The problem as I see it is:Quote:
Originally Posted by Organ Morgan.
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.
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.Quote:
Originally Posted by jon1959
Different ways of taking the same stance. :thumbup:Quote:
Originally Posted by Taunton Blue Genie
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.
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/202...id-19-pandemic
Many people weren't scared, so you must have been getting your information from scary news sources!Quote:
Originally Posted by the other bob wilson
:facepalm:Quote:
Originally Posted by Wales-Bales
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?Quote:
Originally Posted by Wales-Bales
It's best to ask Matt Hancock about that.Quote:
Originally Posted by the other bob wilson
I just WhatsApped him. He replied:Quote:
Originally Posted by Wales-Bales
Matt Hancock
Many people weren't scared, so you must have been getting your information from scary news sources
Quote:
Originally Posted by Tito Fuente
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">I had the pleasure of getting to know David through his campaigning on assisted dying<br><br>He was a kind, brave and truly inspirational man whose spirit will live on through this campaign<br><br>My thoughts are with his family and friends at this difficult time<a href="https://t.co/9NmWhc7ed0">https://t.co/9NmWhc7ed0</a></p>— Matt Hancock (@MattHancock) <a href="https://twitter.com/MattHancock/status/1630589167578013697?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 28, 2023</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
https://i2-prod.walesonline.co.uk/in..._258440472.jpgQuote:
Originally Posted by Wales-Bales
Attachment 5427Quote:
Originally Posted by Tito Fuente
:sherlock:
:sherlock: :sherlock: :sherlock:Quote:
Originally Posted by Wales-Bales
https://youtu.be/sv0dQfRRrEQ
Think many on here could do with watching this. How Republicans turned against the vaccine.
In short, you're being ****ing morons.
A few folk feel having the Vaccine has adversely effected their overall health , who knows as its early doors , like most new vaccines the story of how it effects ones body will surely be known in the future ..Quote:
Originally Posted by Doucas
Boris clearly was clearly overruled when it came to locking down healthy people as they were not at risk at all. :sherlock:Quote:
Originally Posted by Tito Fuente
They knew it , lots of people knew it , yet they still went ahead with it.
More worryingly ,he can’t even do simple arithmetic.
Many more folk feel having Covid has adversely "effected" (sic) their overall health too funnily enough. Like most new viruses the story of how it "effects" (sic) one's body longer term will surely be known in the future.Quote:
Originally Posted by life on mars
My wife had bronchitis as a child, she still suffers now from itQuote:
Originally Posted by Dorcus
Thank goodness she didn't catch Covid with it.Quote:
Originally Posted by TWGL1
She did , we all did more than once but it didn’t effect us fortunately.Quote:
Originally Posted by Dorcus
No one knew it for sure in March 2020.Quote:
Originally Posted by TWGL1
Oh, hello TWGL. Nice of you to acknowledge me again. I do hope that this isn't a one-off :-)Quote:
Originally Posted by TWGL1
We were all told the risks of mortality for healthy people catching Covid during the start of Covid. That isn't news.
https://www.bbc.com/news/health-51674743
Most of us followed the rules because we wanted to protect the vulnerable in society who were far more at risk than ourselves.
Why is that such a foreign concept to you?
We all know that Boris Johnson is a libertarian and didn't want lockdowns. He said as much when he pushed for herd mentality on national TV and privately said "let the bodies pile high".
Boris Johnson being your moral compass would make sense at this juncture.
I'd also like to add that it's a bit rich of you to point out his numeric faux pas.
You've made simple mistakes when it comes to basic sums when you thought that you had uncovered a Covid conspiracy about the efficacy of masks :sherlock:
I do hope that you call again soon. Don't be a stranger.