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[email protected] · June 18th 20, 03:15 PM posted to uk.transport.london

On Thu, 18 Jun 2020 12:22:10 +0100
Roland Perry wrote:
In message , at 09:00:59 on Thu, 18 Jun
2020, remarked:

This is a wonderful commentary on the ability of the general public to
"act like grown-ups" and make sensible decisions based on the perceived
risks, when they fall at the first fence like this.

Plenty of the general public are making sensible decisions - they're
ignoring
the 2m nonsense and not wearing idiotic masks.

Demonstrating that they are unable to act like grown-ups.

Grown ups understand risks are part of life and get on with it. Pensioners
with health complications are highly likely to die of flu yet you never saw a
flurry of masks and 2m distancing appear every time a flu bug passes through
even though they're highly contagious.

But this isn't seasonal flu (which those pensioners are highly likely to
have been vaccinated against), it's Coronovirus.

It is, a virus that unlike flu produces no symptoms in the vast majority of
people and in the ones that do get symptoms they're usually mild. Excuse me
if I don't panic about it. Sometimes I think that given half a chance the
government and BBC would play the Jaws music in the background whenever they
talked about it, its become that farcically overplayed.