Brian Dixon- Location: Dover
- Registered: 23 Sep 2008
- Posts: 23,940
the wearing of masks is 4 months to late.
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Button- Location: Dover
- Registered: 22 Jul 2016
- Posts: 2,900
Can't remember the wearing of masks having been forbidden...
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Brian Dixon- Location: Dover
- Registered: 23 Sep 2008
- Posts: 23,940
only if your a bank robber button. lol
Neil Moors- Registered: 3 Feb 2016
- Posts: 1,225
Weird Granny Slater wrote:Replace 'mask' with 'pink star' and re-check your logic, and your political and moral compasses.
We're clearly at opposite ends of the debate on this one.
Weird Granny Slater- Location: Dover
- Registered: 7 Jun 2017
- Posts: 2,840
Button wrote:Hands up all those who think that vaccination, when a vaccine is available, should be compulsory.
The logic of the mask advocates ('It really isn't a hardship to wear a mask - even if you don't believe in either the efficacy or the compulsion') leaves them with nowhere to go on this.
The authoritarian Left and the authoritarian Right are performing a pincer movement on the rest of us under the banner of public health.
'Pass the cow dung, my dropsy's killing me' - Heraclitus
Neil Moors- Registered: 3 Feb 2016
- Posts: 1,225
It's an interesting concept. Will regulations be made to make it compulsory? I don't think so. Currently, any invasive medical intervention not either consented to, or the subject of a court order (extremely rare) risks committing the offence of battery. I suspect most people will want to have it anyway.
Button- Location: Dover
- Registered: 22 Jul 2016
- Posts: 2,900
We could do with some sort of convention on human rights, otherwise the next thing you know is that government will prescribe which side of the road we should all drive on!
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Weird Granny Slater- Location: Dover
- Registered: 7 Jun 2017
- Posts: 2,840
Certainly a ministry of poor analogies would have its work cut out.
'Pass the cow dung, my dropsy's killing me' - Heraclitus
Brian Dixon- Location: Dover
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- Posts: 23,940
Jan Higgins- Location: Dover
- Registered: 5 Jul 2010
- Posts: 13,656
Am I the only one who has little sympathy for those who decided to holiday in Spain and are now going to have to self isolate.
At the moment people who choose to holiday abroad are helping to boost the businesses of foreign countries rather than those in their own many of whom are on the brink of closure.
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Brian Dixon- Location: Dover
- Registered: 23 Sep 2008
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Neil Moors- Registered: 3 Feb 2016
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I have some sympathy for those in Spain - on the basis that this is the only decision that the government has taken with any sense of urgency (rightly), whereas hitherto, such decisions have been made with a built in ten day lag!
Weird Granny Slater- Location: Dover
- Registered: 7 Jun 2017
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Some two weeks after I mentioned it (#817), and a good month since it became clear, a stunned BBC journalist finally discovers that the ONS can tell him something. If he carries on like this he'll lose his show. Oh...
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'Pass the cow dung, my dropsy's killing me' - Heraclitus
Neil Moors- Registered: 3 Feb 2016
- Posts: 1,225
Highest rate of new cases in a single day for more than a month. It’s definitely on the resurgence, but hopefully everyone is better prepared now.
Captain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
- Registered: 8 Oct 2012
- Posts: 7,470
"The spread is largely due to households meeting and not abiding to social distancing," Hancock said.
Make of that what you will.
'If no one went no faster than what I do there'd be a sight less trouble in this world'
Neil Moors- Registered: 3 Feb 2016
- Posts: 1,225
It’s fairly obvious that the latest lockdown in the North and Leicester is to prevent transmission during Eid Al Adha. Not sure why the Government isn’t explicit about this...
ray hutstone- Registered: 1 Apr 2018
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Neil Moors wrote:It’s fairly obvious that the latest lockdown in the North and Leicester is to prevent transmission during Eid Al Adha. Not sure why the Government isn’t explicit about this...
The cynic in me says that's probably why the new rules were announced via a tweet at 9.30 in the evening.
Weird Granny Slater- Location: Dover
- Registered: 7 Jun 2017
- Posts: 2,840
Neil Moors wrote:It’s definitely on the resurgence...
Bung in an application, NM; you're nailed on for the shortlist.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-53568610'Pass the cow dung, my dropsy's killing me' - Heraclitus
Brian Dixon- Location: Dover
- Registered: 23 Sep 2008
- Posts: 23,940
for a yes man/woman scapegoat.
Neil Moors- Registered: 3 Feb 2016
- Posts: 1,225
Weird Granny Slater wrote:
I'd rather stick pins in my eyes, WGS.