That might be because there is no evidence that social distancing works and that different countries interpret it in different ways. In Germany, with about 7,000 deaths only social distancing is 1.5 metres. Now we're discovering it is much harder to catch 19 outside than in. Do you think the government thought through the implications of social distancing? Do you think they didn't go all the way into a proper lockdown, because that would have meant organising food deliveries to 67,000,000 people? Taking into account our inability after months to provide face masks to care home staff that we had any capacity to do more than we've done?
The Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland have fared much better during 19 than the rest of the UK. We are told that going ahead with the Cheltenham races was a terrible thing. Now I spent 8 years living 5 minutes from the racecourse and all that time worked opposite it. I went to the races. I KNOW just how many thousands of Irish people go to the meeting. And I know they do not have a healthy lifestyle whilst in Cheltenham. They party, they drink they smoke ……. they celebrate the festival. Why didn't all those people return to Ireland and set alight a hotspot of Covid cases in the their own country if Cheltenham was such a bad thing?
And as they are doing so much better than us, maybe that's why AER Lingus isn't policing flights.
In war we accept people must die in the winning of the battle. We mourn them and grieve. But in this situation we want to make one death and its effect on those who loved that person a tragedy we must all bear. And we pile our collective grief high. Yet under 450 people under the age of 45 have actually died, despite the terrible toll in this country. Some of us are old. I am, or getting that way. Many of us get shoved into care homes, because families, partners and friends are no longer able or willing to deal with us. We are in fact a drain on the rest of the population. Our productive capacity is a function of how much care we need and how much employment and wealth that generates. Our contribution is similar to that of a wall being built or a building demolished. By our passivity we require your action. The value society places on us is shown by the minimum wages paid to those whose employment we create.
Now we could make society different, we could venerate the old, we could cherish them, we could make them a highly prized and thus profitable asset. But we haven't done that, just as we didn't buy mask and gowns, train enough doctors or nurses or have enough spare capacity in hospitals without throwing the old and infected back into care homes. We have done these things, okay governments may have done them on our behalf, but we let it happen. There are 67,000,000 of us. If we wanted to go out could they stop us? If we wanted to make them finance the NHS rather than HS2 how could they stop us? Things happen to us because we let them happen to us. Enough of a rant. The site is having another partial lockdown. I can't review this. I'll post and maybe edit later.
The Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland have fared much better during 19 than the rest of the UK. We are told that going ahead with the Cheltenham races was a terrible thing. Now I spent 8 years living 5 minutes from the racecourse and all that time worked opposite it. I went to the races. I KNOW just how many thousands of Irish people go to the meeting. And I know they do not have a healthy lifestyle whilst in Cheltenham. They party, they drink they smoke ……. they celebrate the festival. Why didn't all those people return to Ireland and set alight a hotspot of Covid cases in the their own country if Cheltenham was such a bad thing?
And as they are doing so much better than us, maybe that's why AER Lingus isn't policing flights.
In war we accept people must die in the winning of the battle. We mourn them and grieve. But in this situation we want to make one death and its effect on those who loved that person a tragedy we must all bear. And we pile our collective grief high. Yet under 450 people under the age of 45 have actually died, despite the terrible toll in this country. Some of us are old. I am, or getting that way. Many of us get shoved into care homes, because families, partners and friends are no longer able or willing to deal with us. We are in fact a drain on the rest of the population. Our productive capacity is a function of how much care we need and how much employment and wealth that generates. Our contribution is similar to that of a wall being built or a building demolished. By our passivity we require your action. The value society places on us is shown by the minimum wages paid to those whose employment we create.
Now we could make society different, we could venerate the old, we could cherish them, we could make them a highly prized and thus profitable asset. But we haven't done that, just as we didn't buy mask and gowns, train enough doctors or nurses or have enough spare capacity in hospitals without throwing the old and infected back into care homes. We have done these things, okay governments may have done them on our behalf, but we let it happen. There are 67,000,000 of us. If we wanted to go out could they stop us? If we wanted to make them finance the NHS rather than HS2 how could they stop us? Things happen to us because we let them happen to us. Enough of a rant. The site is having another partial lockdown. I can't review this. I'll post and maybe edit later.