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On 10 Jan 2021 18:29:30 GMT
Marland wrote:
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On Fri, 8 Jan 2021 20:09:07 -0000 (UTC)


I had a cousin in his late 40s who did running competitions. He got cancer
and was dead in 9 months. Perhaps we should all be locked in our homes
in case we get hit by a cosmic ray in the sunshine or breath in some toxic
diesel fumes and also get it?

Life has risks, deal with it.

Cancer isn’t contagious and you are not being asked to limit your movement
just to protect yourself and family.


Most people are dealing with it but in a way you and some others do not
like, it remains to be seen which set of opinions prevail, but at the

I don't care how others deal with it. If they want to wear hazmats suits
when they go to the supermarket and hide under the duvet for the rest of the
day thats entirely up to them - but don't expect me to do the same.

moment the people with the power to make life really uncomfortable for
those who disagree are a government emboldened by a very large majority
because people like you put them there because of a single issue,

Right, because Kier Starmer and Labour would be so much more relaxed with the
Covid restrictions. Oink flap.

Probably not but you are missing the point, a Labour Government or even a
coalition with anyone but the Tories would be unlikely to have a majority
large enough that they could continually ignore the concerns of MP’s who
wish to question what they say are undemocratic decisions such as the one
for this area New Forest West whose somewhat theatrical orations have
become a rallying point for people who share the same concerns as yourself.
You ought to follow his Twitter feed and get some company.

https://twitter.com/DesmondSwayne?re...Ctwgr%5Eauthor



The whole political class are rabbits in headlights because apparently some
full ICU wards in a few hospitals are a "national emergency" because hysterical
medics are constantly talking it up. Sorry, but a national emergency would be
a total collapse of the water or food supply, .


IF enough people go sick in supply chains,utilities and transport we could
well see some of that occur ,
SWR and GWR had to reduce services due to Covid related staff shortages a
few weeks back before the present reduction of services eased the problem
so it has already affected an aspect of transport.

Frankly I'm utterly sick ad tired of NHS staff crying wolf:

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/ErN-sYIW...g&name=900x900


You are not alone in your point of view but if you are confident enough in
the situation is like you say it is are you and your immediately family
willing to knock up and carry something like an organ donor card with a
message on it something like “ Do not resuscitate if facilities are
overloaded ,give my place to someone else” and gamble on never having to
produce it.

till the crisis is over . There are plenty of further steps that could take
place, Boris and Co see the Covid crisis as a war and without the time to
debate nicely about it may soon start to get heavy handed and worry about
the fallout later.

Given the protests that have already happened under the current restrictions
getting more heavy handed I suspect would backfire badly.

You often refer to wartime, people who were likely to take too much time to
deal with such as foreigners who had left Europe to escape the fascists
were still put in interment camps with others
whose intentions may have been less desirable, the fallout was dealt with
later.
The Isle of Man may not be available but a couple of camps could quickly be
established on Salisbury Plain or for people from your area the big army
area in East Anglia which was taken over in WW2 and never given back.
Stanford ISTR, often used for location work on Dads Army.

And whereas the other big political debate that took place recently with
the B word was actually a close run thing which is why it took so long on
this issue people like yourself may think you have a lot of support because
they shout loudest on social media they are probably a far smaller
percentage of the population than they think.


GH