Quote Originally Posted by lisvaneblue View Post
I read the Guardian article realising it has a strong left wing history but couldn't comprehend how a journalist could claim that 'wine and cheese costs lives'. I use both and am OK thank you.
However foolish Boris and co were to have refreshment in a private garden at the end of a 'so called' long day, it beggars belief that it costs lives. It's a bad example I admit but that's all.

What I saw today that costs lives are a large number not wearing masks on overcrowded Valleys Line train. Windows closed to stop ventilation. Young adults in McDonalds without masks talking very loudly into their I-phones. People pushing and shoving in some very busy shops paying more attention to the shelves than the need to socially distance.

Let's keep some perspective please.
Eighteen months ago there was plenty of anecdotal evidence of policemen/women being told by people who were breaking Covid laws that if it was okay for Dominic Cummings, it was okay for them following his Barnards Castle jaunt. That was an incident which added greatly to a drip drip effect that was started by the likes of Neil. (?) Ferguson and the doctor advising the Scottish Government that there was one rule for us plebs and another one for the “elite”.

In the last month or so that drip, drip has turned into a steady stream with stories of parties/gatherings/works meetings call them what you like from this time last year showing that the anti Covid rules in place at the time we’re being broken by members of the UK Governments and or staff/civil servants who were working for them. This was then backed up by a very embarrassing video for the Government in which one such “party” was treated as a sort of joke.

As James Wales has told us what seems like thousands of times in this thread, he has no issue with the Guardian photo. I disagree with him because he is treating it as a one off when it needs to be looked at in conjunction with all of the other stuff mentioned above and if cheese and wine at a “works meeting” in May 2020 turns out to be the straw which breaks the camel’s back when it comes to following the rules for some, then cheese and wine may turn out to be a killer.