Anti lock down protests

[BoroRover]

Originally Posted by KWIL

Just another version of "rent a crowd".

Hyde Park apart, the whole demonstration kaboosh, was a real non-event.
I have heard that planned " mass gatherings" in Southampton, and Cardiff attracted 12, and 3 protesters.

The local planned mass gathering at the South Gare in Redcar ? All I can say the only protest I saw was a guy complaining the chippy had increased price of a piece of cod by £1 since his last visit. The Revolution the great unwashed keep telling us is coming, is as far away, as ever it was.

[mh007]

Originally Posted by marinabrian

Hmm, no generalisations there, you are either shitscared of dying and stay in the cupboard under the stairs, or so stupid as to think yourself as invincible, and hang out with your mates in the park drinking beer until you fall over, and no in between.

Hospitals are quieter than usual, because people have been frightened into submission by the huge amount of scaremongering perpetuated everywhere, and are petrified of contracting the killer virus.

The greedy corporations that own old age care homes, whining because they have to buy PPE for their staff, when they charge residents £850 per week for their care, and this reduces their profit margins, while the carers and nurses have to deal with the afermath.

People so risk averse, they are afraid to leave their homes?? come on, there is a lot talked about the possible physical results of contracting covid-19, what about the mental and economical costs of continued restrictions?

I am in no way condoning, nor supporting idiots who feel in necessary to demonstrate in this way, but the lockdown was not designed to save lives, it was put in place to prevent the NHS critical care services becoming overwhelmed by critically ill patients.

What you end up with is, unless you cut yourself off completely from society, are the same, or at least a very similar amount of people succumbing to the worst effects of the virus, but spread over a longer period.

Where it becomes difficult is the balance between fear borne of inertia and return to some semblance of normality, and how people view the risk to their lives and that of those around them.

Do nothing and the country dies a death, return to a version of normality where the country survives.

If a vaccine becomes a reality, I've no desire to partake in a mass vaccination programme, nor a mass electronic "track and trace" programme.

I am participating in a study of recovered Covid-19 patients on the 27th, where blood is taken in the form of a standard donation, and a sample tested for antibodies to the virus, the collected plasma used for the possible treatment of people who are experiencing an extremely adverse reaction to Covid-19.

It should be remembered that 98% of infected people will be either asymptomatic, or display only very mild symptoms, and of the 2% adversely affected, 80% will go on to make a full recovery........is that reason enough to bankrupt the country, and ruin the future of so many people?

Life is not a dummy run, and we do not get to choose when we die, so we must make the best of whatever time we have, and that does not hiding until we are told it is safe to come out unless you are genuinely vulnerable.

Brian

I couldn't agree more!