Only you can prevent forest fires.Originally Posted by Xhaka Can’t
Only you can prevent forest fires.
NOTE: The location of this post has been moved and the thread title (which was previously Wenger is Leaving) has been manipulated by a notorious pro-Wenger moderator. What was previously a message that contained no profanity and made a comment on a real life event has now been manipulated by a deliberately provocative title. An old and crude propaganda and censorship technique.
I think you need boosters every 6 months against WB forever.
Bloody big Pharma!
I canesten him
It's better to burn out, than to fade away.
No my concern has always been the precedent it set, wilfully giving away our freedoms.
Didn’t you spend the last 2 years saying that the lockdowns were permanent?
I was wrong.From October 2021:
Didn't happen.
From Nov 2021:
...it seems to have ended. Currently no restrictions in place even if you test positive you don't have to isolate.
Also Nov 2021:
No lockdowns since this post. From the same post:
Long since rolled back.
So...
But the fact I was wrong may actually be worse, it's still here the vaccines are doing nothing yet we are back to "normal" so we really did waste 2 years for nothing?
It didn’t set a precedent you silly sausage.
We had this conversation multiple times. In War Time it was illegal to open your curtains with the lights on. You could be fined. And you could only by a certain amount of food and other things.
These weren’t some random power grabs and restrictions on our freedom. They were extraordinarily measures designed to deal with an extraordinary situation. The government has always had the power to do this. The wartime restrictions were lifted when the situation allowed - rationing on some things lasted well into the 50s, the effects of the War took a long time to recover from.
Covid was the same. The measures were designed to deal with the situation. We can have a sensible conversation about whether they were the right restrictions at the right time, but it was clear they were a response, not a random power grab. Because the restrictions kept changing as the situation, now we are back to BAU.
The vaccines didn’t “do nothing”, they significantly reduced the severity of Covid for many people. That’s part of why winter 2021 was a lot better than winter 2020. And yes, herd immunity and newer variants being less virulent were factors too.
In brief, we didn’t waste 2 years. There was a situation which demanded a response. I don’t think the response was the right one although they did get some things right (the vaccine rollout and the furlough scheme, IMO). And the government enacting special powers to deal with extreme situations is not unprecedented. They’ve done it before and rolled back those measures when they could, they’ve done the same thing here.
Johnson's definitely a c*** though
I think that’s something we can all agree on
Well, maybe not Ollie…
You are as dull as fuck.
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