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Quote Originally Posted by the other bob wilson View Post
I’m sure it had something to with a thread on here,but I wanted to find a figure for the number of Covid deaths and found the figure of 7 million, so there wasn’t much thinking through because from my position I don’t think I needed to.

I like to believe that your average person (including me) are open minded and intelligent enough to twig when they are being conned even if they believed the con at first.

There’s a public enquiry into how the Pandemic was handled going on at the moment and I’m sure it will identify stacks of things that could have been done better. However, I don’t for one moment believe that the gist of the conclusions they arrive at will be formed by a belief that Covid was nothing more than a version of the flu and that the measures introduced to try and control the virus were in fact part of a plan to indoctrinate and subtly persuade the population into meek acceptance of policies aimed at restricting their basic freedoms.

Right from time Covid was detected and then given a name, the gifted and critical thinkers on here were on it like a rash jumping to completely predictable conclusions because that’s what they do. The months that followed saw all sorts of absurd speculation from them and there were cases of some of them taking time of on here and when they returned (or started posting under.a new name in other cases), things had changed, now they had a common set of beliefs to work with and it was just a question of shoehorning any new information into that set of beliefs to try and make it look like they were right all of the time - that process continues to this day.[/QUO


Why are you so obsessed with calling people who saw through the propaganda “gifted” and “smug” etc when in-fact all they were doing was quietly questioning ludicrous government decisions that made absolutely no sense at all.


Ultimately the government were right to make certain decisions, but they were wrong to scare the pants of the majority of people under 55. Looks like you fell for the multi billion pound project hook line and sinker which is understandable when you think about how the paid for media industry reported the virus from the off.

Scotch Egg anyone ?
“Gifted” because it was a word used by one of the “independent” thinkers on here to describe themselves and “smug” because most of you are with your certainty that you are forever being proved right and also the never ending “I told you so” posts - people who are in the nabit of getting things right most of the time do not need to advertise the fact by using that term, because others cotton n to the fact eventually - anyway, it’s only in your heads where you’re always being proved right.

You do it yourself in your latest post with your claim that the Government “scared the pants off anyone under 55”. It’s classic putting the cart before the horse. Within a couple of months of Covid officially arriving in the UK hundreds, and soon thousands, of people a day were dying. The virus hit Italy hard before it really took a hold here and there were stories daily about how hard that country was being hit.

Although there were signs that the virus hit older people more severely, you lot continually fall into the trap of thinking we knew then what we know now, it needed thousands to start dying a day to get definitive proof that Covid was killing so few younger people compared to the elderly. In mid March 2020, the Government were being widely criticised for not introducing the sort of lockdown measures seen in Italy and it was only when they saw modelling intervention that half a million could die without some sort of lockdown that they changed their minds from a policy of herd immunity. Within a fortnight of lockdown being introduced, you were getting hundreds dying a day (even the Prime Minister almost died of it) with the figure occasionally running into four figures, how do you think the country would have reacted if the policy had remained to let the virus tun free?

In time reliable data became available and, from a personal point of view, questions about the effectiveness of lockdowns grew until I was completely against the measures taken by the WAG in enforcing a ban on attending sporting events around Christmas 2021, but that was because of information which had come to light well after the spring of 2020 when such decisions had to be made with very little reliable data to go on - you lot never make any allowance for that, it’s all as if we knew then what we know now.