Comes in to thread to defend his beloved BorisOriginally Posted by Elwood Blues
Says now isn't about left and right
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Comes in to thread to defend his beloved Boris
Says now isn't about left and right
After you've said this? Maybe people aren't just stupid maybe the shite and unclear guidance that's been given have left people thinking what they are doing is ok.
No didnt say it was.
Well it kinda is, isn't it? If more state funds were devoted to education?
Knowledge does not equal intelligence.
To put it another way, you can know plenty of facts and figures, but habe no common sense - which is what's needed in these trying times.
You're implying "common sense" is innate and cannot be taught?
Intelligence has many facets and only one of them is the retention of "facts and figures".
Surely now is not the time for this right and left wing nonsense!!!!!!!!!!@
I'd quibble with your large percentage but not with your sentiments in general particularly on social media.
Although in contrast there have been at least 170,000 responses to the government's request for volunteers to help the vulnerable.
If you have nothing sensible to say don,'t botherComes in to thread to defend his beloved Boris
Says now isn't about left and right
I was in Phoenix from the 10-17 March working and flew back to Canada then. We were put on immediate lockdown for 14 days.
Work got cancelled on Monday and my wife was with me, so I took a drive to Sedona... I’d never been before. What a stunning place (would’ve been even better if we’d got out of the car but we didn’t)
We were in Scottsdale, Chandler and Phoenix though over the weekend and everywhere was busy....
It doesn’t appear that Arizona has been badly hit yet but it might come based on what I saw...
I do think that NYC is going to end up being the worst hit place on the planet though
Eventually the incidence will be the same everywhere. The difference in the % of deaths will be how the local health system copes with the influx of intensive care cases. The longer the lead (planning) time, the better they should be able to cope. I wish I could say Arizona is learning from NYC, Seattle etc but I fear it's not. People here are just not taking this seriously enough.
Sedona is very pretty. I recommend it to anyone who hasn't been.
I will accept that not all the guidance has been clear.
But many are still acting stupidly.
Anybody who hasn't heard of the 2m guideline must have been living in a cave.
They could still be living in a cave.
The other day I was made aware of this:
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Yesterday I had to go there to collect a prescription and get the medication for my 88 year old father. The surgery had it's door locked and was operating a one in, one out policy. Several of the good people of Ely were patiently waiting outside and were social distancing. Some creature then appeared next me, she looked like she was a bit too familiar with the route to the fridge, and was breathing heavily as she'd just negotiated the three steps to the entrance. Despite the enormous signs on the door, she tried to barge in, then asked me the score whilst panting all over me. I tried discreetly moving away from her, which meant that other people had to shuffle away. I told her to ring the bell, she couldn’t find it, despite it being at the pointy end of a large arrow that said ‘BELL ~ please push with elbow’. She pulled her sleeve down over her hand and pressed the bell, fair enough. No exaggeration, but within 10 SECONDS she had her face up to the glass door, peering in saying 'Where the hell are they'. Usain Bolt couldn't have got to the door in that time. When the door opened, I was handed my prescription and walked to the pharmacy next door. I joined the well-spaced queue on the pavement. After some time, the woman emerges from the doctors, passes everyone in the queue and walks straight into the chemists, only to be told to get out, she was informed there was a queue and that she was at the end of it. She then proceeded to mutter and moan to herself. She had a lanyard with an employee ID on it, so must have been sort of normal. I give up.
She sounds like a catch. Did you get her number?😉
Indeed.
And Croesy Blue who I was responding to said himself in a post regarding the crowds round Columbia Road Flower Market that he can't believe what people are thinking of so he obviously understood what the government are saying
Surely it's time you realise it is!
Alright you've got me there.
Why is now the time for all this right and left wing nonsense?
A left wing government would perhaps have put people’s health first, sorted out the inevitable financial difficulties of the individual rather than this lot’s pushing on with vague promises of monetary aid ensuring people carry on working until the death (literally).
Well for one it's the eternal struggle and two right wing governments are more likely not to take a human crisis like this seriously but put their friends in business first. If this were a left wing government we would have been more likely to have had a virtual total lockdown much earlier and thereby saving more lives and making the NHS response more manageable. This Berk in number 10 is only just behind the clown Trump in his unsuitability to lead a great nation.
Left or right, this government spent about a month and a half ignoring the advice of the WHO and following scientific theory which almost no other country in the world believed was right, they are still not following advice of WHO in terms of testing (perhaps not being able to process this due to lack of staff after 10 years of cuts), are not joining with the EU to mass buys ventilators and are still suggesting Brexit goes ahead as planned which means we're more likely to have no deal after we've withdrawn - more than one clock is running at this time.
Perhaps transition period for Brexit being extended is obvious and doesn't need to be organised currently, perhaps the UK can purchase enough ventilators alone and more quickly, perhaps....we're spending an awful lot of time trying to excuse a government who had chance to know about potential pandemic scenario at end of January and acted outside advice of WHO.
Do the WHO always get it right ? Why should we blindly follow what they say when our own scientists and medical officers are saying something different ? You appear to be letting your political bias dictate your opinions on this matter
Considering the government decided to discard it's science and follow something much closer to the WHO's advice I think in this instance it's a fair shout they were right.
But you have been criticising the Government for not following WHO advice. Now you say they are. Also the chief medical officer has made it quite clear that the Government is following his departments advice. The fact that our situation is considerably better than in Italy, Spain and a number of other countries, indicates to me that by and large they are getting it right. There is no precedent or template for what is happening.
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