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Originally Posted by jtown,man
You're not a responsible person. You are mentally weak! Sorry, are we supposed to accept 1 year of lockdowns, if so, why? I've been on a steel prison before, a boat for 8 months. I did just fine, it made sense. These lockdowns don't.
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Originally Posted by photoLith
Take a chill pill man. I guess we’re just supposed to be confined to quarters forever until there is no rona anywhere; which ain’t ever going to happen. If you’re so scared then you can stay in a closet for the rest of time I guess if it makes you feel better.
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Originally Posted by BG918
No kidding, I’m personally sick of the sanctimonious virtue signaling and shaming of anyone who doesn’t want to be confined to their house/apartment. Live your miserable life and let others enjoy theirs - if they want to go to a restaurant, work out in a gym, travel on a plane, etc they have that right.
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Who said anything about one-year lockdowns, staying indoors forever or wanting a miserable existence?
When this threat emerged, the UK, US and countless other countries were complacent, ignorant and slow in treating the unfolding situation with the seriousness that it required. The lack of early effective action gave the virus a beachhead and successive failures have enabled it to spread, and worst of all, facilitated the virus to adapt into variants that have increased levels of transmission.
As I stated previously,
the virus does not have legs, it needs people to proliferate. If we had acted decisively early on, we could have got on top of this crisis and returned to some form of normality, like New Zealand has done. Instead, selfish inconsiderate individuals and incompetent administrations opted for a half-hearted effort that didn’t put out the flames. Therefore, we have the worst of all worlds, hundreds of thousands of deaths, millions of unemployed, busted economies and businesses, and untold mental health damage. This was all completely unnecessary, and it drives me crazy that we are repeating the same mistakes and wondering why we continue to suffer the consequences.
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Originally Posted by 10023
Or maybe I just don’t want to spend a cold and rainy (or snowy) winter locked down in my London flat when I don’t have to?
The fact that so many in the UK (at least the media) are looking to Australia as an example to follow makes me question whether I ever want to go back for more than packing up my stuff.
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Then you are a selfish ignorant fool.
Why wouldn’t we want to be like Australia? The death toll from Covid-19 in Australia is just north of 900; far lower than the daily tallies of many western nations, and new cases are limited to half a dozen a day. Australia got on top of this disaster, and therefore been able to return to a far greater level of normality. The pertinent question we should be asking of our governments and each other is why wouldn’t we want to replicate the actions of Australia to get back to normality!
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Originally Posted by 10023
And yes, the situation in the UK is largely a product of the poor state of the NHS and nursing homes. The reason that elderly people with Covid needed to be discharged to care homes is that “bed-blocking” is a longstanding problem in hospitals, and with the bed shortage exacerbated by Covid, they had to go somewhere. When they get to the care homes, of course, they are often older and smaller facilities that lack the physical ability to separate and isolate infected patients.
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The NHS is far from perfect, but this is not an accurate assessment of what happened. In the early days it was thought that critical care capacity would be overwhelmed, so it was decided to boost that capacity by delivering several thousand critical care beds with the construction of the Nightingale Hospitals. Yet they were never utilised in any meaningful capacity and mothballed. In what proved to be a catastrophic mistake, government guidance stipulated that patients should be discharged to care homes – even if they had tested positive – rather than moved to the Nightingale’s which were vacant. Compounding the problem in care homes was the slow response to limit outside visitor access, access to PPE, testing, etc… It was irrelevant how good care homes were if government policy was enabling the introduction and spread of a lethal virus.
Where government intervention has been limited, and the NHS took the lead – such as with the vaccine rollout – it has been a massive success.