11-20-2020, 12:45 PM
I know many friends and family under 60 who are working to keep food on their table and their houses over their heads. Covid is the least of their problems after a first lockdown and then a completely unneeded second one. Family who are teachers who can spend their days with 30-40 kids but can't see their elderly parents.
I notice people yet again having a dig at those who say going back to some form of normality is not possible. It absolutely is possible because we manage it every winter flu season when thousands of elderly and vulnerable die of respiratory illnesses.
And I'll say again because this bored seems generally incapable of understanding the question of whether this lockdown and current measures are in the best interests overall for our society in terms of overall health, education, finance, economy, mental heath etc etc. The usual suspects dodge the question I don't understand why. If they can provide a compelling argument for this being in our best interests I'll happily listen to it. It seems that the argument that we can't possibly know is enough to assuage them from having a debate about it and mollify their conscience in the almost certain probability that over the next 3-5 years the overall costs to life and economy will far outweigh the actions we've taken.
I think, this inability to engage on this level and the arguments being made, is in all probability an output of the fact that the demographics of this bored are probably overwhelmingly of a certain type (a hypothesis based on the people posting and what they post). I would probably say that this bored is almost certainly not a good cross-section of the total population of the UK.
I notice people yet again having a dig at those who say going back to some form of normality is not possible. It absolutely is possible because we manage it every winter flu season when thousands of elderly and vulnerable die of respiratory illnesses.
And I'll say again because this bored seems generally incapable of understanding the question of whether this lockdown and current measures are in the best interests overall for our society in terms of overall health, education, finance, economy, mental heath etc etc. The usual suspects dodge the question I don't understand why. If they can provide a compelling argument for this being in our best interests I'll happily listen to it. It seems that the argument that we can't possibly know is enough to assuage them from having a debate about it and mollify their conscience in the almost certain probability that over the next 3-5 years the overall costs to life and economy will far outweigh the actions we've taken.
I think, this inability to engage on this level and the arguments being made, is in all probability an output of the fact that the demographics of this bored are probably overwhelmingly of a certain type (a hypothesis based on the people posting and what they post). I would probably say that this bored is almost certainly not a good cross-section of the total population of the UK.