What do you think it says about our country?
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I think it was quite obvious after the first few weeks a lot of people didn’t give a shit.
Well the traditional of civil liberties, individual freedoms, protest etc. It’s like herding cats for a certain section of society. But I also think that most people went along with the restrictions in good faith and that’s why the Downing Street stories are such a kick in the teeth for some.
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Are we not all governed by the same laws? What are individual freedoms, that other individuals don’t get?
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Nah just Boris and that lot. Then us peasants.
Are we looking at this as in we could have done better, or something different?
Yes we could of clearly.
But you know we could have done WW2 better / differently.
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I’m not sure what you’re asking but those in government definitely behave as if the rules they make don’t apply to them.
Well it was clearly worse in some other countries so it definitely gives some perspective. But the cost of lockdown hasn’t been truly felt yet in terms of lost schooling days, closed businesses, mental health problems etc.
I did notice that those most in favour of the strictest lockdown measures often had jobs that weren’t affected by the changes. They could just work from home on the same pay. It’s not as straight forward for people who had to quickly adapt to changes such as those running small businesses in retail or hospitality.
Ah right, but they still apply. We’ll have wait and see by how much though when the police report comes out.
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Must be a Bristol thing.
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Nope we don’t. I mean I think most places that were utterly fucked would be shut by now I reckon.
But this is trying to defend a point that hasn’t even happened yet.
I lost my job and probably would have had harder lockdown. I could of chucked something and hit Wycombe hospital window from where I lived before I lost my job there and moved. That place was busy.
Lockdown directly hasn’t caused direct rising cost in energy, food prices, petrol and other socioeconomic effects from the pandemic. Would say that’s more brexit at this point and we haven’t even started paying for Covid.
There were plus sides from it, (I did want to be furloughed) but it mean I spent 5 months with my son every single day all day pretty much between 15-20months. Would never have had that pleasure (most of the time) had lockdown not happened.
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That’s interesting. It’s funny how it gave some people more time to spend with families which they wouldn’t otherwise wouldn’t have had. I just worked straight through lockdown as before covid so I wasn’t as heavily affected as people who were suddenly forced to stay at home. I felt lucky in a way. But yeh I’d rather everyone get back to normal than be in a strange furlough/lockdown state.
Looks like daughter now has covid extending isolation period for the family for another 10 days. This is brutal.
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Nightmare. Hopefully no more after this isolation period.
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Just leave this link here with no real comment to go with it. Really makes you think, hmm interesting, ooof, etc.
Is this part of tackling the waiting list?
It looks like the lab leak hypothesis is looking more likely than it developing as a virus first found in bats.
Early ‘lab-grown’ Covid virus found in sample lends weight to Wuhan theory (telegraph.co.uk)
I wouldn’t be surprised tbh. Wasn’t there a whistleblower doctor who was murdered about it?
The virus started in a place that had a lab working on U.S. funded coronavirus research? It doesn’t take Miss Marple to work out it was more than likely.
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