Can you tell that I’m back yet?
Millions of overs 50s could be given orders to stay at home as part of Boris Johnson‘s ‘nuclear plans’ to avoid another national lockdown.
The Prime Minister was forced to announce a slow down of the lockdown easing on Friday, with planned relaxations for the leisure and beauty sectors delayed after a rise in Covid-19 cases.
No. Absolutely not. I have been itching to get back to work and I’m bloody well going back next week, come what may. I’m a law abiding type. I believe passionately in the rule of law, but this is not the rule of law it is diktat and diktat by idiocy. There is no reason, logic or evidence behind it, just as there is no reason evidence of logic behind the insane face-nappy rule.
Well, no, fuck ’em. I will not be gaoled in my own home simply because of my age. Boris can take his dictatorial urges and stick them where the sun don’t shine. I refuse.
Strangely, it seems that the Dutch ‘science’ can find no benefit in face-nappies at all, so not mandatory or even recommended there.
Spooky that, I always thought ‘science’ was supposed to be about facts, the word itself meaning ‘knowledge’.
Someone’s taking the piss.
Yeah, I saw that. I presume they are going with the randomised trials that came to the conclusion that they are pointless at best, counter-productive at worst.
I agree. If anyone was “being led by the science” then all countries would be doing the same thing. Not looking at the science and then performing their own risk assessment. I’ve just come back from South Wales, where masks are not mandatory and hardly worn as far as I could see. Is it somehow a “magic” virus that can identify you as Welsh?
The over 50’s thing is utterly barking. We make up the greatest proportion of the UK demographic, we are also likely to also earn significantly more and hence pay more tax. Is Boris deliberately trying to fuck up the economy?
I’m 53. How do I get food into my house? Or does this have to do with some over 50’s being fat bastards?
As is usual, it hasn’t been thought through. Age is only one factor. That’s assuming that we are talking about a highly virulent killer virus, which we aren’t.
For the elderly, it is pretty nasty. Death rates among over 80s is 10% or something scary.
Yes. I had flu for a month and that was bad enough; slow, choking death by mucus-smothered lungs is something I want to avoid.
However, primarily among those with an underlying co morbidity. Each individual needs to be free to reach their own decision about the level of risk they are prepared to take, not all placed under house arrest based on something as idiotic as a birth date.
However, primarily among those with an underlying co morbidity
By my interpretation of the figures at Hector Drummond’s site, 2/3rds of the deaths are people over 80, and a staggering 95% have one (or more) co-morbidity.
https://hectordrummond.com/2020/07/15/week-26-graphs-from-christopher-bowyer/
I worked hard to become one of those.
You could have left it at the post title. I pretty much guessed the rest from the title alone 🙂
Going to be food riots in the streets then within a couple of days, the first things to vanish will be bread and milk.
If you check out who’s been at work supplying the basic staple foods for the nation without let up from day one you will find most in the food distribution chain are 50+ with many retirees still doing their bit.
How did we end up with such a cabal of bloody clowns in charge.
Network Rail will be stuffed. Care homes will be in the brown and smelly….
We need to move from legislation/diktat to public advice and personal risk assessment.
Precisely. I’ve put up with the increasing authoritrainism and fuckwittery so far, but each of us has a line and this is mine.
Damn I’m not old enough. Could do with a few more months of free money.
Happy to report that locally, the vast majority here don’t mask up.
Heh, followed by years of even more crippling taxes to destroy any benefit from “free money”.
Yeah, was my point really. But given that the lockdown has destroyed my business (I supply schools indirectly), money is welcome in the short term.
Nothing particularly ‘dangerous’ about the Covid for people in their 50’s or 60’s, chances are a good few of us have been exposed to it already without even noticing.
Irony is that, from my experience, the younger generations are more bedwettery than us oldies.
Fuck of johnson, ain’t grounding me.
Probably because we have an understanding of risk. My father (80s) and mother in law (90s) pretty much carried on as normal. Covid ain’t the Luftwaffe after all. We were raised by that generation so picked up a sense of perspective.
Bloody hell, Longy; that was quick!
I had about three days when I felt like shit then fine on the fourth. But then, seeing this piece of utter fuckwittery from the dear leader was enough to drag anyone out of bed in a frenzy of rage.
Sense of perspective, got it in one.
I distinctly recall the mad cow scare, twenty odd years ago (we should all be shuffling zombies by now). I think it was a ban (or attempted) on T bone steaks based on a statistical model that said ONE person would get it in TWENTY years!!!
The mad cows didn’t trash the whole economy but those raising beef cattle got a damned good seeing to.
But what the hell, it’s for the cheeeldren. Unfortunately most of them are over 20
Thats it! The Bedwetters didn’t eat their steaks 20 years ago.
(I stuffed the fridge with finest steak bought at give-away prices and then stuffed myself for a couple of weeks.)