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Post by Humph on Sept 27, 2024 13:41:12 GMT
That’s the trouble when imagination is lacking though isn’t it. The effects on healthy people were minimal with a very few exceptions. Of course it was right to seek to protect the weak, vulnerable and aged, but the rest of society would have been better employed in keeping things moving along. One size never fits all. Reducing our behaviour to fit the lowest common denominator doesn’t feel like the best strategy to deal with a problem to me.
However, as I said before, I’m happy for you to hold your opinions, and I don’t need any particularly enhanced imagination to accept that. Perhaps you can accept that I and others may hold different views and be so kind as to leave it at that?
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Post by Deleted on Sept 27, 2024 14:00:32 GMT
Sorry Humph, I thought this was a discussion forum. Of course you're more than welcome to your views, and I'm entitled to say I find them baffling, and why that is the case. I thought discussion was something undertaken in order to share thoughts and perhaps change minds, I know I've changed mine as a result of discussing things in the past, when I've heard views and facts I haven't necessarily considered previously.
I don't think anyone can expect to post things and not be challenged if there's disagreement. The point I'm making is that in early 2020 nobody really knew what the impact was going to be, and on whom. So I'm comfortable that a cautious approach was taken. I will now leave it there.
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Post by Humph on Sept 27, 2024 15:00:45 GMT
Jolly good. Thanks.
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Post by Rob on Sept 27, 2024 19:13:44 GMT
Humph being a fit more elderly member of the forum seems to think that those less fit should have been made to work and be put at risk. And similar situations. Even with lockdown the hospitals were initially overwhelmed and if Humph thinks that did not happen he's living in the same world as Trump. Even we didn't have lockdown how the NHS would have coped is obvious - they wouldn't. And a lot more people would have died. It was already crazy to send someone elderly with Covid back to a care home. Or was that the sort of plan Humph had in mind - kill of the weak?
To me this thread has turned into a few seemingly living in an alternate reality and I can see why Al has left.
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Post by Humph on Sept 27, 2024 20:37:43 GMT
What a preposterous post Rob.
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Post by dixinormus on Sept 27, 2024 21:04:10 GMT
Looks like you’ve upset everyone, Humph! 🤣
Best go buy an EV tomorrow and start the road to redemption 😂
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Post by Rob on Sept 27, 2024 21:36:23 GMT
I don't think my post was preposterous. Al posted something (and I mentioned a bit of what was in it) and Humph denied it and thought we'd over-reacted as a country. Tens of thousands died too young. Many are still impacted long term. I still say his view is a bit Trumpian. At least Humph didn't suggest we all drink bleach  |
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Post by WDB on Sept 28, 2024 6:22:22 GMT
How have we managed to fall out over an issue from four years ago? Come on, chaps, cool down. We’re better than this.
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Post by dixinormus on Sept 28, 2024 8:20:51 GMT
I’m sad. There’s not many of us here, and I thought we knew each other well enough not to take offence or fall out over trivia like this 🥺
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Post by bpg on Sept 28, 2024 8:54:53 GMT
Bit like a pub, people air views that not everyone agrees with. Sometimes it'll make you stop and think other times it jars with your own views. You can choose to ignore it or "take it outside" except this is C21 and the internet so you can't. Hopefully Al will reconsider, maybe stick to threads of interest. I was looking forward to reading how the Leaf has evolved from Gen 1 through to the latest incarnation. Not a car i would buy myself but still like to read what others think. P.S. I don't think anyone can be compared to the man-baby. Population of that little piece of the universe is one, with a few million hangers on that must scratch their heads from time to time. Even his wife must have WTF is he on about now days. Still, it must be great to have that level of self belief to know you're wrong and still think you're right. Exhibit A:  |
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Post by WDB on Sept 28, 2024 9:36:15 GMT
Bit like a pub, people air views that not everyone agrees with. Sometimes it'll make you stop and think other times it jars with your own views. There’s nobody here (or temporarily, I hope, not here) that I wouldn’t happily meet in a real pub or even in my home for a chat and bit of entertaining disagreement. We touch on some serious issues here, and we make our cases strongly at times. Nothing wrong with that, but there’s mutual respect too. We may feel the need to condemn others in the outside world but, within this trivial little group, let’s give each other the benefit of the doubt. |
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Post by dixinormus on Sept 28, 2024 11:03:48 GMT
Exactly WDB. I look forward to a pint IRL with Espada in NZ in the new year, and would have enjoyed (trying to arrange) one with you too if I had organised my late-evening Heathrow arrival better last month 🍻
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Post by Rob on Sept 28, 2024 11:44:18 GMT
I was looking forward to finding out more about the Leaf. I was surprised a new one was so cheap in the run out of the model. But his lease plus balloon payment looked good.
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