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All very good, but I used the phrase 'nutter' for a reason! I'm in the UK and it's shit at the moment. Personally, I believe the financial, and mental health c

All very good, but I used the phrase 'nutter' for a reason! I'm in the UK and it's shit at the moment. Personally, I believe the financial, and mental health cost of the lockdowns has probably exceeded the cost to human lives. It's an awful thing to have written. I think this lockdown will be the last. Vaccine or not, things will have to get back to 'normal' at some point.

graeme 6y ago
It’s all very well and good to say, but without a second lockdown UK hospital capacity would have gotten overwhelmed. And then what do you do? There’s no normal while that’s happening. I think it’s crazy that the UK let themselves get to this position again: this predicament was utterly predictable in spring. But having got into this predicament, what option is there? The sensible thing would be to figure out a sustainable long run policy once the wave has been beaten. Not sure that’s elimination now: it will be much harder to eliminate covid in the Uk over winter than it would have been over spring/summer
- secondcoming 6y ago
  They really need to close borders to everyone except British passport holders. That will be extremely unpopular, and given the multi-national make up of the UK population, citizens travelling to places like Ireland, India, Pakistan, European continent, etc to visit relatives, even that may not help. The general population also needs to give more of a fuck. Blaming the government is a total cop-out. They cannot morally, or possibly even legally, physically stop people from mingling. Young people travelling to Ibiza and the like for their holidays didn't help. Some people have zero sense of civic duty. Personally, I haven't seen my family in person for almost a year. I'm probably going to spend Christmas on my own. It'll be depressing but it has to be done. I can handle it. There are people out there who cannot.

graeme 6y ago

It’s all very well and good to say, but without a second lockdown UK hospital capacity would have gotten overwhelmed. And then what do you do? There’s no normal while that’s happening. I think it’s crazy that the UK let themselves get to this position again: this predicament was utterly predictable in spring. But having got into this predicament, what option is there? The sensible thing would be to figure out a sustainable long run policy once the wave has been beaten. Not sure that’s elimination now: it will be much harder to eliminate covid in the Uk over winter than it would have been over spring/summer

secondcoming 6y ago
They really need to close borders to everyone except British passport holders. That will be extremely unpopular, and given the multi-national make up of the UK population, citizens travelling to places like Ireland, India, Pakistan, European continent, etc to visit relatives, even that may not help. The general population also needs to give more of a fuck. Blaming the government is a total cop-out. They cannot morally, or possibly even legally, physically stop people from mingling. Young people travelling to Ibiza and the like for their holidays didn't help. Some people have zero sense of civic duty. Personally, I haven't seen my family in person for almost a year. I'm probably going to spend Christmas on my own. It'll be depressing but it has to be done. I can handle it. There are people out there who cannot.