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Post by dixinormus on Jan 20, 2022 8:34:21 GMT
So it seems that Boris is going to lift all COVID-19 restrictions in the UK imminently? A little premature? Or a cunning way to deflect attention away from Partygate..?!
Cynical, moi?!
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Post by Humph on Jan 20, 2022 8:46:26 GMT
Had my regular trip out last night to the hotel/leisure club I use to have my swim.
I think I was the only person, including staff, who was still wearing a mask while walking through the reception area.
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Post by WDB on Jan 20, 2022 9:17:44 GMT
So it seems that Boris is going to lift all COVID-19 restrictions in the UK imminently? A little premature? Or a cunning way to deflect attention away from Partygate..?! A sop to the Faragists and the Express, of course. And an attempt to get some other news on the front pages. Premature? Probably, but perhaps not by much. Masks in shops and trains are a trivial inconvenience and a courtesy to others, so it would have reasonable to maintain that as a requirement. Pubs and nightclubs are a different matter — nobody has to go to one — and I’ve never been keen on masks in classrooms. The Tories are claiming credit for Johnson ‘holding his nerve’ in December, when all he did (all he ever does) is to do what he wanted and hope to get away with it. What’s helped him is that Omicron is so much milder than Delta. The 300ish daily deaths include people who die from other causes but happen to have collected Covid as well, which is more common now because Omicron is so prevalent. |
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Post by EspadaIII on Jan 20, 2022 20:59:53 GMT
The data today shows no real decline in daily cases but a continuing fall in people on ventilators, which is the real indicator as to how dangerous the current strain of Covid is. So I can see why he did it.
Just walking off the plane in Israel it is obvious how other countries have not been released as early as we have and it feels very restrictive, even compared to the rules we have now and will shortly wave goodbye to.
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Post by dixinormus on Jan 27, 2022 1:42:38 GMT
I see that Denmark will drop all Covid 19 restrictions from 1st February, following in Boris’s footsteps. Here’s hoping that normality is starting to return.
Then again, with inflation widely over 5%, fuel and energy prices escalating rapidly, and mortgage interest rates potentially doubling in 2022 we may have a whole new world of pain ahead?
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Post by Humph on Jan 28, 2022 9:55:08 GMT
Just been for a haircut. Was starting to look like a cross between Catweasel and Michael Heseltine.
Still wearing masks in the barbers, which on balance, I was probably pleased about.
Washed my car and had a haircut in the same week eh? Maybe I am ready to re-enter society after all.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 28, 2022 9:57:23 GMT
Not in a Renegade you won't.
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Post by Humph on Jan 28, 2022 9:58:27 GMT
Phew! Dodged a bullet there then eh?
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Post by WDB on Feb 15, 2022 9:02:36 GMT
His interview today with Amol Rajan makes interesting listening. He’s still mostly wrong about ‘the vaccine’ (there are, of course, multiple vaccines employing different technologies) but it’s a calm, reasoned and extremely articulate account of his side of the process, with some new information about what happened in Australia. I still think he was mistaken in his choices, but his motives are not those of the idiots who’ve adopted him as a figurehead. Worth a listen. |
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Post by Deleted on Feb 15, 2022 9:04:23 GMT
I still can't quite square the "I'm not anti-vax but I'm not taking a vax" argument.
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Post by WDB on Feb 15, 2022 9:16:00 GMT
Nor can I. But his reasoning seems to be ‘I’m an elite athlete and even a small effect might be disproportionately harmful to me’, whereas he’s had covid twice and suffered no lasting effects. That, of course, ignores any effects it’s had on people he’s infected. I don’t think he’s right, but it’s a refreshing change from the megaphone idiocy we tend to get on this issue.
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Post by dixinormus on Feb 16, 2022 6:00:37 GMT
It’s simple. He’s not anti-vax but harbours concerns about the Covid vax; perhaps he’s worried about side effects, doesn’t trust this mrna stuff, recognises that the vax does very little to stymie transmission of Covid to others, or is simply sceptical about the alleged severity of Covid itself.
Loads of people out there just like him. Simplistic labelling as “antivax” suits the antagonists.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 16, 2022 8:51:03 GMT
Who are the antagonsits? People in favour of covid vaccinations?
Sadly for our hero there isn't a single word to describe 'pro-vaccines-but-not-this-specific-vaccine'. Well, there is but it's not very polite. So he gets called anti-vax. Tough.
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Post by dixinormus on Feb 16, 2022 9:08:39 GMT
And therein lies the problem.
It’s like the Brexit debate all over again. Finger pointing and name calling across the divide. Black or white. With us or against us.
I guess Novak must be a Trump supporter too?
Anyway, he got over it. Kicked out of Australia, doesn’t seem too bothered.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 16, 2022 9:57:44 GMT
You used the word "antagonists", which is a bit name cally. Who are the antagonists in your view?
Actually I think there is a word, or expression, for Djokovic and the likes. Performative contrarian. Yep, exactly the sort of behaviour which landed us where we are with Brexit.
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