Compo wrote:I am just trying to get what you are advocating here basically people will get pissed off and say fuck it and go out etc in another three weeks time to save economy. Basically saying fuck it to the at risk people and basically increase the death rate.
Ok well if so how do we stop idiots doing this;
- 1 keep a freeze on mortgages etc until another three months
- 2 keep the restrictions in place
- 3 use this time to see how Spain and Italy come out of it
Won’t this present the issues you are saying? Apart from being bored and selfish. I am not calling you this btw
horden wrote:Jesus Christ ! people starting to go stir crazy after a month without Greggs and Wetherspoons, having to endure days and nights sat in front of the tv eating frozen pizzas and drinking copious amounts of Fosters and John Smiths whilst getting paid 80% of their wages.
What the hell happened to us? well actually I could answer that.
What a bunch of self obsessed , soft , drama queen fannies the British have become.
Watching from afar wrote:Sorry. Dont agree. People are going to be very very worried about their own financial futures. Nobody sitting there in a comfortable financial position has the right to call others worried a moron.
People have a right to be angry. Four weeks ago the science told us herd immunity was the way. Two weeks after that a lockdown was the way. The government are hiding behind the science but are now blaming the science.
And yet 15,000 a day fly in unchecked.
To say people getting angry are morons is moronic in itself.
Watching from afar wrote:horden wrote:Jesus Christ ! people starting to go stir crazy after a month without Greggs and Wetherspoons, having to endure days and nights sat in front of the tv eating frozen pizzas and drinking copious amounts of Fosters and John Smiths whilst getting paid 80% of their wages.
What the hell happened to us? well actually I could answer that.
What a bunch of self obsessed , soft , drama queen fannies the British have become.
Again. It's not what's happening today that's the issue.its what's coming down the track for millions of people
I haven't seen or said anyone is going stir crazy just now. But take this another 3 months down the line and see what it's like then. When the 80% stops. And firms just make them alm redundant.
And to be brutally honest anyone well off whose job isn't under threat or anyone already retired shouldn't really comment about those facing financial strife
PJPoolie wrote:The only countries to come out of the other side of this or start to are the ones who that have applied strict lockdown measures.
Your attitude is contradicting yourself and why the UK has got itself into the absolute mess it’s in. In other places the government say stuff and people listen.
horden wrote:Talking of our government, I thought this piece was interesting.
https://bellacaledonia.org.uk/2020/04/1 ... 8m-3-vzq8s
phil wrote:I don't understand why people think going back to work is going to save our economy. Our economy is tied directly to the other major economies in the world, including the USA, European economies likes France, Germany, Spain and Italy, China, India etc. We are just one domino in a line of dozens. Even if we weren't in lockdown or struck by the virus, our economy would collapse with everyone else's anyway.
Even then, whilst a crashed economy is very hard for the average or vulnerable person to deal with, this is largely down to the irresponsible and self-motivated policies of our government. There is plenty Johnson and Sunak could do to protect the vulnerable, the reality is that they don't want to. Just like austerity, the EU and every other policy ever made; the decision to lockdown-ish and the decisions we will take on the economy are not made using evidence, they are made by twisting evidence to fit a ideological decision.
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horden wrote:Talking of our government, I thought this piece was interesting.
https://bellacaledonia.org.uk/2020/04/1 ... 8m-3-vzq8s
Compo wrote:To a scientist like myself I agree they don’t and shouldn’t care about the economic impact. They should care about what charco said how the disease works, testing to contain and saving lives.
Pooly_Imp wrote:Just been watching a video of the lockdown protests in America. Some interesting philosophies there for sure.
Watching from afar wrote:"Will you publish the cygnus report"
"No."
Oh well that's alright then
Montpoolier wrote:It's looking probable that France will overtake Spain in deaths this week and that UK will all but catch up.
That's really not a good place to be and we have to hope for an amazing reversal in the trend, no matter what the reason for it.
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What seriously can be done to get the UK out of this catastrophic situation?
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