Weird Granny Slater
- Location: Dover
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Neil Moors wrote:Hancock now trying to claim that lockdown started on the 16 March shows just how comfortably and easily this shower will try and re-write history right before your eyes
I wonder why? I'm sure it has nothing to do with the fact that infections peaked before 'lockdown', and that the government would very much like us to think otherwise.
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Weird Granny Slater- Location: Dover
- Registered: 7 Jun 2017
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Captain Haddock wrote:What I find weird is that the same people who got all jiggy about facial recognition through CCTV are uptight about facial masks?
Yes, how weird. As weird as Bulgakov getting 'all jiggy' about the the banning of his plays and 'uptight' when Stalin gave him a theatre job.
'Pass the cow dung, my dropsy's killing me' - Heraclitus
Weird Granny Slater- Location: Dover
- Registered: 7 Jun 2017
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Er, we're not at war, and we're not sleeping 10 to a bed in damp underground shelters.
Also, given that nearly 18000 people die annually from chronic lower respiratory diseases, a key cause of which is air pollution, I guess all you 'responsible' folks will be abandoning your cars just in case you cause or trigger someone's asthma.
'Pass the cow dung, my dropsy's killing me' - Heraclitus
Jan Higgins
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 5 Jul 2010
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I am beginning to think that we should all go back to 'normal' and infect each other as the 'rules' at the moment are so convoluted that they make virtually no sense at all.
Far too many (especially the young) no longer follow them anyway, they get pissed and fight each other, get close up in supermarkets, together with raves, parties and large crowds on beaches etc.
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ray hutstone- Registered: 1 Apr 2018
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Weird Granny Slater wrote:Er, we're not at war, and we're not sleeping 10 to a bed in damp underground shelters.
Also, given that nearly 18000 people die annually from chronic lower respiratory diseases, a key cause of which is air pollution, I guess all you 'responsible' folks will be abandoning your cars just in case you cause or trigger someone's asthma.
Yes. Isn't progress wonderful? Sometimes it's still worth progressing even if the cost may seem unreasonable to the chronically confused.
Weird Granny Slater- Location: Dover
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While some minds have 'progressed' many others remain wrapped in gullibility tied up with a virtuous ribbon (or covered with a virtuous mask).
'Pass the cow dung, my dropsy's killing me' - Heraclitus
ray hutstone- Registered: 1 Apr 2018
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So many gullible, highly qualified clinicians around that you wonder what confused Trumpian types they might be addressing. But, hey, we're libertarians. No need to take any advice from those half-wits, is there?
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jul/19/coronavirus-senior-doctors-warn-second-wave-could-cripple-nhsWeird Granny Slater- Location: Dover
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'Could'. See also 'might', 'may', 'possibly maybe', 'Neil Ferguson', '500,000 dead', 'worse than a guess', 'XR', 'climate catastrophe', 'we'll all be dead tomorrow', 'eschatology', 'apocalypse', 'panic', 'irrationality', 'The Guardian', and post #832.
'Pass the cow dung, my dropsy's killing me' - Heraclitus
ray hutstone- Registered: 1 Apr 2018
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Oh Weirdo. You just won't catch on, will you? I was wondering what the motivation was. Are you part of the 'monstrous imposition' brigade for whom the very suggestion of taking on a shred of personal responsibility is anathema? Or is it some strange reverse variant of the Dunning-Kruger syndrome where the mask becomes the fixation rather than lemon juice?
Either way it matters not. Come Friday you'll have to wear one if you want to go shopping in person. Please don't throw a tantrum in the first shop. You never know, you might be asymptomatic. It's not impossible..... How good could you feel then?
End of story.
Captain Haddock
- Location: Marlinspike Hall
- Registered: 8 Oct 2012
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Was in London last week. Many on both Tube and bus not wearing.
Friday will be 'interesting'.
Will Tesco (for example) bar entry for those without or will they 'not wish their staff to be confrontational'?
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Weird Granny Slater- Location: Dover
- Registered: 7 Jun 2017
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ray hutstone wrote:Oh Weirdo. You just won't catch on, will you? I was wondering what the motivation was. Are you part of the 'monstrous imposition' brigade for whom the very suggestion of taking on a shred of personal responsibility is anathema? Or is it some strange reverse variant of the Dunning-Kruger syndrome where the mask becomes the fixation rather than lemon juice?
Either way it matters not. Come Friday you'll have to wear one if you want to go shopping in person. Please don't throw a tantrum in the first shop. You never know, you might be asymptomatic. It's not impossible..... How good could you feel then?
End of story.
I expect to see you there, doing what you're keen to do, eagle-eyed, refusenik-spotting, making snarky comments, giving long hard stares, publicly shaming, or running to the police and telling. 'She did it, Officer.' Be careful: one day, like poor dutiful Parsons, your kin may report you for an 'error'.
What's there to 'catch on' to? Do enlighten me. Suggest you do some research, present a case of your own for a change, based on fact rather than linking without comment to an article as if it's the final say, or posting page-long quotes from 'thinkers'. Groupthink's a sedative. Wake up.
btw I've a medical condition that exempts me. But thanks for caring.
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ray hutstone- Registered: 1 Apr 2018
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Weird Granny Slater wrote:I expect to see you there, doing what you're keen to do, eagle-eyed, refusenik-spotting, making snarky comments, giving long hard stares, publicly shaming, or running to the police and telling. 'She did it, Officer.' Be careful: one day, like poor dutiful Parsons, your kin may report you for an 'error'.
What's there to 'catch on' to? Do enlighten me. Suggest you do some research, present a case of your own for a change, based on fact rather than linking without comment to an article as if it's the final say, or posting page-long quotes from 'thinkers'. Groupthink's a sedative. Wake up.
btw I've a medical condition that exempts me. But thanks for caring.
Dear God. Would you need someone to 'present a case' to convince you to wash your hands after you've been to the toilet?
Neil Moors- Registered: 3 Feb 2016
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The wearing (or not) of masks has attracted an astonishing debate in the UK. A consequence of the Brexit debates where people immediately entrench themselves into positions. It really isn't a hardship to wear a mask - even if you don't believe in either the efficacy or the compulsion.
Weird Granny Slater- Location: Dover
- Registered: 7 Jun 2017
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ray hutstone wrote:Dear God. Would you need someone to 'present a case' to convince you to wash your hands after you've been to the toilet?
Well, I thought I'd recently seen a government note that stated: 'It is important to know that the evidence of the benefit of washing your hands after you've been to the toilet is weak and the effect is likely to be small.'
But then I checked again, and it actually said: '
It is important to know that the evidence of the benefit of using a face covering to protect others is weak and the effect is likely to be small.'
https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/5eb96e8e86650c278b077616/working-safely-during-covid-19-restaurants-pubs-bars-takeaway-090720i.pdf
Funny how the mind works, isn't it?.
'Pass the cow dung, my dropsy's killing me' - Heraclitus
Weird Granny Slater- Location: Dover
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Neil Moors wrote:It really isn't a hardship to wear a mask - even if you don't believe in either the efficacy or the compulsion.
Replace 'mask' with 'pink star' and re-check your logic, and your political and moral compasses.
'Pass the cow dung, my dropsy's killing me' - Heraclitus
Reginald Barrington
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Jan Higgins- Location: Dover
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If face covering was so beneficial why was it not introduced right at the start of the epidemic when every shop worker, carer etc was put at risk.
When I eventually venture out shopping I will wear a mask if I have to but definitely not out of choice.
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Weird Granny Slater- Location: Dover
- Registered: 7 Jun 2017
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Reginald Barrington wrote:
Yes, I had to chuckle at that one. Reverse it! If that allows just one of the disappointed to recover his critical faculties it'll be worth doing.
'Pass the cow dung, my dropsy's killing me' - Heraclitus
Button
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- Registered: 22 Jul 2016
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Hands up all those who think that vaccination, when a vaccine is available, should be compulsory.
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Keith Sansum1
- Location: london
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All a bit late the masks
But suppose it will help
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