10-08-2020, 04:38 PM
(10-08-2020, 02:31 PM)PeakBaggie Wrote:(10-08-2020, 01:50 PM)billybassett Wrote:(10-08-2020, 01:02 PM)PeakBaggie Wrote: The truth is that you can torture stats until you reach the facts that best suit your agenda or viewpoint, this
is happening all over social media and beyond. It has almost become an obsession for some.
The real truth is that the virus spreads person to person and in the worst cases can and will kill, in other cases
it will hardly cause a sniffle. This call for herd immunity is really a call to let the virus rip, roll the dice and hope that
you, your loved ones and friends can weather the spread. It is a huge risk. Have we really got to the point where
we dont care about the most vunerable in our society, that pints down the pub are worth putting those on the medical
front line at risk along with our older family members?
What happened to the kindness and love of a few months ago?
It's not a roll of the dice. Do you roll the dice when you get in a car? It's less of a risk than doing that.
Billy - First all of all not everyone drives or wants to drive, but everyone has the need to take in Oxygen.
Of course you roll the dice everytime you drive off in a car, but you can mitigate your risk by any number
of measures, speed, awareness and careful driving and of course if you give up driving completly your
risk will be zero. Giving up breathing is not much of an option for the living.
You can be as careful as you like but it only takes Mr HGV to drop off at the wheel or some fugger to run a red light and it's out of your control. Same as with Covid - someone else is not as hygienically disposed as yourself goes around sniffling and handling stuff all around the supermarket and you can be stuffed. Politicians, having gone through an initial lockdown are now petrified of pressing the release button, so to speak, in case things do go horribly wrong. But then, of course, politics is a short term game and to fugg with not even future generations but those that are still around after the next election.