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Points: 13740 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 27 2020 at 16:22
Originally posted by Psychedelic Paul Psychedelic Paul wrote:

Regarding the title of this thread, I wonder if everyone's aware that Douglas Murray's book "The Madness of Crowds" was published last year and was unrelated to the current Chinese flu panic-demic. Ermm

Yes, I was aware.

I don’t think Andy was specifically referring to this book when he started the thread, but if he was, then I think the analogy is pretty appropriate.
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Regarding the title of this thread, I wonder if everyone's aware that Douglas Murray's book "The Madness of Crowds" was published last year and was unrelated to the current Chinese flu panic-demic. Ermm
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Originally posted by Psychedelic Paul Psychedelic Paul wrote:

Great news for anyone living in the U.K:- The total number of registered deaths in England for August 2020 was 2,060 less than the five year monthly average and the lowest since regular monthly records of deaths began at the beginning of the 21st century. In addition, Covid-19 has now been downgraded to only the 24th most common cause of death in England, which I believe is good reason for optimism.
The lyrics of the "Three Little Birds" song always spring to mind when I think of the Chinese "panic-demic."
 

Sorry bud, your article was published back in September. Although your numbers went down in the summer, they are now going back up: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8880115/Britain-recording-Covid-19-deaths-million-people-day-US.html

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Originally posted by Easy Money Easy Money wrote:

Yeah, my best friend's mother-in-law has permanent intestine damage due to covid, nothing will ever be alright again for her.

Sorry to hear that.  Lots of people have reported pulmonary fibrosis after recovering from covid.  This is not like malaria, cholera, etc.  The suffering MAY not stop with the acute bout of infection. But yeah, it's just a flu, just a common cold, etc etc.
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Yeah, my best friend's mother-in-law has permanent intestine damage due to covid, nothing will ever be alright again for her.

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Originally posted by chopper chopper wrote:

Originally posted by Psychedelic Paul Psychedelic Paul wrote:


The lyrics of the "Three Little Birds" song always spring to mind when I think of the Chinese "panic-demic."
 


Sadly everything is not going to be alright for a lot of people.
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Originally posted by Psychedelic Paul Psychedelic Paul wrote:

The lyrics of the "Three Little Birds" song always spring to mind when I think of the Chinese "panic-demic."
 


Sadly everything is not going to be alright for a lot of people.
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Great news for anyone living in the U.K:- The total number of registered deaths in England for August 2020 was 2,060 less than the five year monthly average and the lowest since regular monthly records of deaths began at the beginning of the 21st century. In addition, Covid-19 has now been downgraded to only the 24th most common cause of death in England, which I believe is good reason for optimism.
The lyrics of the "Three Little Birds" song always spring to mind when I think of the Chinese "panic-demic."
 


Edited by Psychedelic Paul - October 25 2020 at 12:37
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Well, you could go back alone for that one "forgotten" item, and stay for an hour or so. ;)
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Originally posted by SteveG SteveG wrote:

Well, trolley Marshalls don't seem that far out of reason with this lot.

Well, I seem to recall a God-awful game show on tv some years ago called The Price is Right had “Trolley Dolly’s”. They might be a wee bit more acceptable, although given that I don’t shop without the wife, maybe not, eh?LOL 
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Well, trolley Marshalls don't seem that far out of reason with this lot.
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Originally posted by SteveG SteveG wrote:

I certainly agree with you Steve. This type of polically driven farce is understandbly unexcusible. What are they doing in stores and shops? Roping off the bog rolls from the furniture polish?

Yes. They are placing plastic sheets and condoning off with specially marked danger tape those items deemed to be non-essential.

Rumour has it that there are specially appointed Marshall’s out and about outside supermarkets dissecting the contents of trolleys, but I don’t quite believe that..........
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Edited by SteveG - October 25 2020 at 07:34
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I certainly agree with you Steve. This type of polically driven farce is understandbly unexcusible. What are they doing in stores and shops? Roping off the bog rolls from the furniture polish?
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Originally posted by SteveG SteveG wrote:

Wales has just enacted a two week stay at home mandate. This type of restriction is too akin to a house arrest and must surely weigh heavily on it's citizens at this point.

Yes, they have.

Yes, it is.

Yes, it does.

The biggest political row at large now is an injunction by our glorious government (health in Wales is a devolved matter, so Boris and his chums in Whitehall have little say, as in Scotland & NI) that supermarkets should not sell non-essential goods, because smaller retailers have been instructed to close, so there would be an unfair advantage for the likes of Tesco. Naturally, when you have that level of micromanagement, there are endless debates and rows about what, precisely, constitutes essential and non-essential, and it is descending into a hilarious farce. Besides which, if you really need that non-essential baby grow, you can still get it from those nice people at Amazon, because online shopping and delivery are not covered by the retail closure rules.

I might add that it is, in fact, only a little over a week ago that our glorious First Minister, Mark Drakeford, was explaining to the media and public that it would be an unfair thing to inflict stricter controls on areas such as mine in Wales which have barely any Covid cases as compared with Cardiff and etc. What changed his mind? Well, the call in England by the leader of the opposition, Sir Keir Starmer (they are in the same party, The Labour Party), to Boris and chums to inflict this type of lockdown across England, rather than a regional approach. Boris refused. Thus, we have more politics going on here than “following the science”.

In addition, I might add that Boris’s claims to be taking a localised approach is also rather disingenuous. What the tier system in England is, in fact, a centrally directed instruction to local authorities to close down or restrict movements and freedoms, a rather different thing, of course.
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Wales has just enacted a two week stay at home mandate. This type of restriction is too akin to a house arrest and must surely weigh heavily on it's citizens at this point.

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Originally posted by Cristi Cristi wrote:

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Shutdown: The Virus That Changed the World
 
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^ The video has a clean bill of health and works just fine for me, having just watched it on YouTube. It just takes a few seconds to load up the full 80-minute-long video that's all, once it's finished buffering. Smile

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Shutdown: The Virus That Changed the World
 

why am I glad the video doesn't work? LOL
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