Coronavirus

Thats not strictly true though . We and the rest of Europe may not have taken the threat seriously but they did in Asia due to their experience with Sars & Swine Flu which hit them far harder than here . That experience meant they already had structures like test & trace in place and they did put in strict border controls . This meant they were able to deal with the threat much easier than Europe .

 

So give me your plan then? Hope everyone acts responsibly?

 

Sing happy birthday twice when washing hands was a great plan

But the swim in the village pond will never leave my mind for the rest of my life.........tragically people have listened and adhered to this non logical nonsense.

A tragic comedy indeed

 

You do realise that we’ve actually lived through this don’t you?

The nations who locked down their borders and enforced strict lockdowns had the best results in terms of controlling the virus and thus saving loss of life, to the point where a vaccine arrived.

Herd immunity has never been achieved without a vaccine.

Doing **** all and letting nature do its thing wouldn’t have figured in my plan, but I’m not a sociopath.

 

True.

 

I didn't know none of that tbph. I didn't even know the name until I looked him up, then only remembered him as some guy off the TV the other half use to watch.

 

Pandemic planning is in place in some parts of the world, so it’s not like we were dealing with an unknown quantity.

I mentioned earlier in the thread, but the UK also has experience of dealing with highly infectious diseases that can break out to cause pandemics

TheNational Risk Register of Civil Emergencies (NRR) identifies that emerging infectious diseases could also cause large numbers of people to become ill. The UK has experience of managing cases of high consequence infectious diseases (HCIDs) and in recent years has managed confirmed cases of Lassa fever, Ebola, MERS and monkeypox."

The idea that the Govt should be absolved of any responsibility because it was a novel incident doesn’t wash. There were plenty of examples of how to manage a pandemic

Boris either chose to ignore it all or was simply absent from the decision making process. Either way, it was a complete dereliction of duty

 

So cull the old and the sick then. Sure you don’t want to add in any particular ethnic groups whilst you’re at it ?

 

I wouldn't be doing the culling, I'm leaving it to nature.

 

So floods in Bangladesh, drought in Somalia etc. We just leave nature to kill the people there rather than intervening ?

What about the wildfires in California, just let them burn and hope they reduce the population a bit more ?

I agree that these things probably will kill a lot more people in the coming years due to climate change, but I’m not advocating that we ‘let it rip’ in Order to control population

 

Going to have to disagree here brb. We were the worst performing country and we've never ever closed our borders on this island. Australia eventually managed to do it and New Zealand did it at the start.

Anyway, fortunately, boris is a chancer so we have a vaccine and we're doing slightly better now but who knows how this will play out with the indian variant having a jolly.

 

Project Fear

 

There was meetings in 2016 to discuss the eventuality of a plan to combat a Pandemic.
It was brushed aside and filed under scare stories .
This mistake will never be made again I'm sure

 

What a ******ed argument, since when have we used medicine to fight fires?

 

****ing lol

 

You were talking about letting nature do the culling mate.

I'm just wondering at what point do you decide to intervene when it comes to saving lives.

 

if you want to play your part, maybe stop driving round your planet destroyer of a car

 

Nah I'm with Ern, cull the sick and elderly and let us young bucks drive around in SUVs

 

Young?

 

Compared to Ern