Off Topic Coronavirus - 606 tales from the Inquiry

Ignorance in bucketloads.

 

Been at an open-mike this afternoon- no masks. Going out for a family birthday meal this evening- no masks. I'll take a brief break from lambasting the refuseniks.

 

What a cheery soul

 

Excellent, I knew there must be something good to come out of Omicron.

And it’s O-Mi-cron NOT OM-ee-Cron

 

For pity's sake.

Stick it up your Boris.
We followed the rules last year, while you lot were having a party at No. 10

 

90% of those requiring specialist care are unvaccinated. Cvnts. No wonder the NHS is fvcked.

 

I wonder who they are

 

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There are many members of minority communities who are deeply distrustful for historical reasons.
I have some sympathy with them.
It's a lot to ask of them, to put aside deep feelings and trust.

Then there are a large number of people who seem to think freedom just equals freedom to automatically refuse to cooperate.
That consenting to something is the same as them being forced to do it.
Selfish morons.

Then there are some people who are simply thick.
Pitiable really.

 

Are cheese and wine alright?

 

I think they are - ok as part of your ppe apparently

 

So we've all got to obey the new restrictions because a small minority refuse to get vaccinated. Let's see how mandatory vaccinations go in Austria, and if it works there, follow suit. I heard one refusenik bleating abahrt how she was made to feel guilty. Bloody right too.

 

NHS Covid pass now required to get into the Valley?

I wouldn't be surprised if we're effectively in lockdown again a couple of days after Christmas.
Back to games behind closed doors, or in front of a token few thousand.

 

This latest Government announcement about new restrictions has really brought me down this evening.
Even though I accept the logic of being careful because of Omicron.

A woman at the Downing Street briefing asked if this is just the way it's going to be every winter from now on.
And I thought the answer from the scientists was very unconvincing.

I think this is the way it's going to be.
Christmas celebrations dampened and threatened every year - until people get tired of following the rules.
Every time a new variant pops up, there is more weariness about having to reign in our lives to deal with it.
And our NHS (not to mention the economy) simply cannot go on this way for years and years and years.
There will be a breakdown at some point.

I was not happy about having to wear a face mask to go into the supermarket when that rule came in.
I've been doing that for well over a year now. It's become grim second nature.
I never go into any other shops now except the ones at petrol stations.
And shopping has absolutely no pleasure in it anymore for me. It's a chore to get done as quickly as possible.
Is it really going to be that way forever now?
Will I never again, for the rest of my life, be able to go into a shop, or cinema, without having to wear a mask all the time?

If that's how the world is going to be now, frankly I seriously doubt it is worth living in.
I feel sorry for young people and kids, who will have to live this way for decades and decades.
Something at least I won't have to do.

I know I ought to follow the motto on my own avatar and 'person up'.
Tonight though I just haven't got the will to.

 

This didn't take long to emerge, did it...

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-59588413

Don't worry, your Knighthood is safe Chief Constable
You can roll your trouser leg down now.

I also see The Sun has adroitly read the public mood and decided to savage Boris instead of poo-poo the story and play it down as Westminster chatter.
Have they only just had a 'road to Damascus' conversion?
I don't know, as I don't buy it anymore.

 

Boris is gradually being isolated by his supporters, and it's interesting in a mawkish way. When you remember the complex strategy they used to replace Mrs T with John Major you know we are seeing the early stages of Boris's departure. I was actually in the Question Time audience when Sir Anthony Meyer stood as a stalking horse candidate against Mrs T, and one question was Is this the beginning of the end for Mrs Thatcher? Few of us actually realised that it really was, and Kenneth Baker laughed it off. A friend of mine overheard a Tory MP predict John Major as the winner, and that was while he was still declaring his loyalty to the incumbent, so you can see the military precision of the whole procedure, Heseltine's interest Sir Geoffrey Howe's lethal attack, Major's reluctant late entry, and it's fascinating.