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> I'll be in the pub by the end of the year. "The war will be over by Christmas."
by GuiA 6y ago
> I'll be in the pub by the end of the year.
"The war will be over by Christmas."
- SpicyLemonZest 6y agoSee, it's this kind of thing that makes me worry social distancing proponents aren't confronting reality. Many countries are already opening their pubs; do you really think the UK population or any other population will submit to have them closed until 2021?
- esotericn 6y agoI use the phrase 'mild insanity' because I honestly feel that it's some element of cabin fever that's caused a minority of individuals to become paralyzed in this way. At this point we've gone way beyond any semblance of 'flattening the curve' and gotten stuck because there was no plan to unwind the lockdown.
- GuiA 6y agoYou don't know what things will be like by the end of the year. As long as 1) the virus is still around, 2) we do not have a vaccine, 3) we have not reached a certain level of herd immunity, policy making should be based on the day to day data that we have, and about the immediate term. Perhaps the evolution of the situation means that it will be safe to be back in the pub celebrating with your buddies for Christmas. But then again, perhaps not. We don't know. Claiming broad things like "I will be back in the pub by the end of the year" is not about sensible decision making, it's pure emotion and is not what we need right now.
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- SpicyLemonZest 6y agoI don't agree. It would be a complete abdication of responsibility to not have a concrete plan after months of lockdown.
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- netsharc 6y agoHave people always been this petulantly childish, or is this a new thing? (Watch the people thinking "You're not taking our need to socialize seriously!" burn this comment to the ground...)
- Gibbon1 6y agoI see a lot of manifesting reality going on with the deniers. Who also appear to be unable to understand that government policies are front running the economic catastrophe not causing it. The front running is preventing panic and economic damage not causing it. But that's inconvenient for people subscribing to immature and superstitious ideologies.
- SpicyLemonZest 6y agoSurely, now that things are beginning to reopen, the deniers are the ones who believe that it’s not getting safer and we have to stay inside.
- SpicyLemonZest 6y agoYou're not taking their need to socialize seriously! I hesitate to even respond, because the idea that it's childish to have concerns about extreme social distancing for 9+ months is so absurdly disrespectful that you frankly don't deserve my time. Hopefully you'll be able to look back in a bit and reevaluate why you felt the need to be so rude.
- ck425 6y agoThis. I live alone and after 5 weeks my mental health has deteriorated significantly. This is not a situation that can last as is till 2021. We'll have a suicide and mental health crisis.
- iovrthoughtthis 6y agoIronically, something we already had.
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- Trasmatta 6y agoI've seen so many people comparing COVID to war, which I find to be bizarre and misleading. It's such a fundamentally different thing.