On 29/03/2020 09:01, Someone Somewhere wrote:

Indeed - what very few of the shouty people on the internet or in the
media seem to realise is that

[insert issue here?]

is a little more nuanced than people
realise.

The aim of the current restrictions is not to stop the virus - it's too
virulent and the net effect on the population is not large enough for
the absolute draconian measures that you'd need (get the army out on the
streets,Â* properly separated, and insist everyone stay home for 2 weeks
regardless of stocks of food or other needs and if they leave they can
be shot on sight) that you'd need if this thing had the death rate of
e.g. ebola or similar.


I suspect that many of the shouty people on the internet think the same
whether there is a virus or not. Ban cycling because you might get
knocked off and then nurses will die adds variety to the usual
complaints that they don't pay a tax abolished in the 1930s. The kind of
people who can afford houses near the park complaining that people from
flats might use the park has been an issue since roughly forever.

Anyway, I'm off to organise a widely-spacecd mob to check people's
shopping for chocolate.
--
Arthur Figgis Surrey, UK