Wuhan Killer Sneeze (thanks Tea)
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- "the delta variant" starring arnold schwarzenegger #braille4bats and dancing!!! biscuits nuts bodies in the streets cool people with bad lungs corpsey = patient zero do you ever look at this thread and wtf get pits done haha protein printer go brrr i'm trapped please help johnson’s technique please boris die public health films for bats rodent trumpet rotting corpses sailing the sea of biscuits slick prick soggy biscuits wash hands or die trying we are the swarm wear a fucking baguette then wubonic plague wuhan got you all in check
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Mr. Tea
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Oh, he's gone waaaay beyond Hitchens. His latest wheeze is "Blair lied about Saddam's WMDs, therefore covid-19 is a hoax by Them to enslave us all." As if the better part of half a million deaths, spread across the entire world, could just be cooked up like that. Or "it's no different from a normal cold or flu", never mind that at one point it more then doubled the death rate in this country.
I honestly would not be at all surprised to see him writing for Spiked in a few years.
mixed_biscuits
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Worse is that the public demanded these measures.
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Tying into the cancel culture phenomenon, public opinion is now so powerful and can be directed so pointedly that government, press and scientific advisors alike will avoid as much risk as possible - while also increasing perceived risk to justify their risk aversion - in order not to be dragged over hot coals further down the line: far better to be accused of excessive caution than recklessness.
mixed_biscuits
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Well, the reason the government are following public opinion is to increase their chances of survival and Cummings' ejection would sink the PM and more besides.
Mr. Tea
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There will come a point where they think his political cost is starting to outweigh his usefulness.
IdleRich
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I'm not sure if that was a reply to me or MB or what... but my point is, I don't think BJ wanted to lock down the country, shut down schools and businesses and so on... he did it eventually cos people were dying all over the shop and every other country had done it and his scientists were advising it and - I think - so was public opinion. Given that he (and I think the government as a whole - they're so spineless anyway, he is the government) was so reluctant to lock down, it requires a kind of cognitive dissonance to see the lock down as some kind of evil plot to get us in inside, control everything we do - and then who knows what? - by that very same government.
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The government were and are spineless and let themselves be swayed by a hysterical and ill-informed public and press rather than building a convincing evidence-based and rational case that takes account of the global effects of the measure; SAGE never recommended anything near as emphatic as lockdown. It's not an evil plot but it will look like one in a few months, once we realise its effects and the carelessness and self-interest that lie behind it.
Re. cases, note that the press shifts their focus at will from deaths to cases to maximise the doom quotient eg. with Sweden, where cases have held steady or risen whilst deaths have continued to fall (themselves describing a curve that is mathematically similar to the UK's). If we experience spikes from the demonstrations, raves or beach parties, they will be of cases - not deaths - with the vast majority of them being asymptomatic or mild (as the people attending are young).
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