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4 minutes ago, Left Back said:

Must have been on a mad one over the weekend to come out with something like that.

The words don’t sound great when viewed in the context of Germany wanting mandatory vaccinations, but he’s right to suggest everybody is getting the Covid at some point in the near to medium future.

People here seem to think they can constantly run away or hide from it forever, and governments have been guilty of perpetuating that particular myth. 

One of the best things that an individual can do (if we’re going down the protect yourself and the NHS) is to lose the weight they’ve been needing to lose, but some of our politicians think it’s better to enforce exclusionary policies than risk offending the overweight.

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24 minutes ago, Elixir said:

The ironic this is, he's not wrong. Everyone is going to get it, probably multiple times over the span of a human lifetime.

As much as some don't want to hear it, that's it. It's not going away and we can't just run away from a respiratory virus forever. Even ever so careful Christina Pagel still managed to get it, after all. 

24 minutes ago, Left Back said:

Must have been on a mad one over the weekend to come out with something like that.

He is right, though. Granted he's just trying to put the shitters up them and justify measures taken, he's delivered a healthy dose of reality alongside it. 

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1 hour ago, Michael W said:

As much as some don't want to hear it, that's it. It's not going away and we can't just run away from a respiratory virus forever. Even ever so careful Christina Pagel still managed to get it, after all. 

He is right, though. Granted he's just trying to put the shitters up them and justify measures taken, he's delivered a healthy dose of reality alongside it. 

 

2 hours ago, anotherchance said:

The words don’t sound great when viewed in the context of Germany wanting mandatory vaccinations, but he’s right to suggest everybody is getting the Covid at some point in the near to medium future.

People here seem to think they can constantly run away or hide from it forever, and governments have been guilty of perpetuating that particular myth. 

One of the best things that an individual can do (if we’re going down the protect yourself and the NHS) is to lose the weight they’ve been needing to lose, but some of our politicians think it’s better to enforce exclusionary policies than risk offending the overweight.

Don’t disagree with any of the points you make.  Still mental to hear a politician come out with something pragmatic though.

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Nicola Sturgeon is to announce whether Scotland's vaccine passport system will be expanded to cover more venues.

The government has said that widening existing restrictions could be the only alternative to a new lockdown if Covid-19 cases rise during the winter period.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-scotland-politics-59373799

They really are a bunch of arseholes. 

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16 hours ago, ddfg said:

Given that we are all going to die at some point is there any logic to devoting so much NHS capacity to one particular illness to the exclusion and detriment of so many others?

Heart attack, stroke, cancer, hit by a bus, Covid...... maybe different routes we're all going to end up  the same and to be honest i'd rather make the most of what's left than sitting about the house waiting for the next round of half baked restrictions to be announced. 

It is a fair point, but heart attacks, strokes, cancers and being hit by a bus aren't infectious. Nor will any of these result in parts of wards or a whole ward and its staff being out of commission. 

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10 hours ago, GTee said:

I've not had flu for a long while. So what makes you so sure I'll catch Covid?

Because it is so infectious and short of becoming a hermit, anyone living a remotely social existence is going to be exposed to it eventually.

Like Covid, a high percentage of people who carry influenza are asymptomatic.

 

2 minutes ago, Salt n Vinegar said:

It is a fair point, but heart attacks, strokes, cancers and being hit by a bus aren't infectious. Nor will any of these result in parts of wards or a whole ward and its staff being out of commission. 

Infectious disease, especially bog standard viruses like SARS-CoV-2, are simply a reality of the human experience.

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11 minutes ago, Salt n Vinegar said:

It is a fair point, but heart attacks, strokes, cancers and being hit by a bus aren't infectious. Nor will any of these result in parts of wards or a whole ward and its staff being out of commission. 

The way to stop a whole ward being taken out of commission is to treat a bog-standard, treatable respiratory illness like any of the other ones. 

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