UK Policy of tackling covid through herd immunity

Brigadier said:
Yet another strawman, you're on a roll this morning



"A degree" (unspecified ), compared to "much more complete" (again unspecified, but clearly more than the aforementioned degree ")

I went for a meal and drinks last night. Currently permitted by UK government.

If I nor anyone else can do this in future, do you think this will help or hurt the economy?
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Oh the irony

Is that your word of the day? Strawman. Keep using it (y)

Your argument is based on the false premise that social distancing will be more detrimental to the economy.

It's rearranging deckchairs on the titanic. The economy is going to take a hit, either through lowerd internal or external demand.

So tell me the effect of letting 0.5-1m people die in a short period, how much demand you think that will take out of the economy?

Anyway do what you feel is best.
 
Blame the Chinese and other back ward countries for this virus caper

They are all f*** Ed up tbh
 
SirGalahad said:
Oh the irony

Is that your word of the day? Strawman. Keep using it (y)

Your argument is based on the false premise that social distancing will be more detrimental to the economy.

It's rearranging deckchairs on the titanic. The economy is going to take a hit, either through lowerd internal or external demand.

So tell me the effect of letting 0.5-1m people die in a short period, how much demand you think that will take out of the economy?

Anyway do what you feel is best.
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Good time to be in the funeral business :mrgreen:

I have an elderly relative 92 she has donated her body to medical research did it years ago

After they are done they pay for burial :sneaky:;)
 
Brigadier said:
At least a sight more of us can now work from home / over the net, rather than being laid off from factories, mines, and the like.
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I always work from home, someone else's home.
I do wonder if it will reach a point where people start postponing jobs but there's certainly no indication of that yet, if anything, the opposite. My only fear would be that suppliers start closing their doors, or just not have the staff.
 
SirGalahad said:
Your argument is based on the false premise that social distancing will be more detrimental to the economy.
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Please show me how:

Shutting or restricting pubs, restaurants, cinemas, gyms,
Restricting shopping to essentials,
Shutting down sporting events,
Closing factories
Stopping international travel and holidays
Stopping all the decorators, plumbers, plasterers, sparks, chippies etc from going into people's homes (and earning a living)

will be good for the economy.
 
JohnD said:
Brig will be accusing you of Strawman in a moment.
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I don't even know what it means. Nor can I be bothered to look it up. Seems to be the go-to phrase (for certain posters) when one has run out of things to say.
 
fillyboy said:
My only fear would be that suppliers start closing their doors, or just not have the staff.
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Agree, I have kept my finger on the pulse there. I'm aware just how quick these decisions are made too. Frightening to think that one day you can go buy some mat's and then the next - nowt (for weeks?).
 
A straw man (or strawman) is a form of argument and an informal fallacy based on giving the impression of refuting an opponent's argument, while actually refuting an argument that was not presented by that opponent.[1] One who engages in this fallacy is said to be "attacking a straw man".

The typical straw man argument creates the illusion of having completely refuted or defeated an opponent's proposition through the covert replacement of it with a different proposition (i.e., "stand up a straw man") and the subsequent refutation of that false argument ("knock down a straw man") instead of the opponent's proposition.[2][3] Straw man arguments have been used throughout history in polemical debate, particularly regarding highly charged emotional subjects.
 
noseall said:
Agree, I have kept my finger on the pulse there. I'm aware just how quick these decisions are made too. Frightening to think that one day you can go buy some mat's and then the next - nowt (for weeks?).
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I think (hope) we're in a more fortunate position than many people employed by companies in that we have more control, but yeah, if you can't get the materials, what do you do? frightening times.
 
fillyboy said:
A straw man (or strawman) is a form of argument and an informal fallacy based on giving the impression of refuting an opponent's argument, while actually refuting an argument that was not presented by that opponent.[1] One who engages in this fallacy is said to be "attacking a straw man".

The typical straw man argument creates the illusion of having completely refuted or defeated an opponent's proposition through the covert replacement of it with a different proposition (i.e., "stand up a straw man") and the subsequent refutation of that false argument ("knock down a straw man") instead of the opponent's proposition.[2][3] Straw man arguments have been used throughout history in polemical debate, particularly regarding highly charged emotional subjects.
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Kinell! Wish I'd never arksed.

Here's a thing - tell the truth as best you can.(y)
 
noseall said:
I don't even know what it means. Nor can I be bothered to look it up. Seems to be the go-to phrase (for certain posters) when one has run out of things to say.
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I'll help you.
Gal claims I've said something, then knocks it down.
He therefore "wins" an argument with me , that I didn't make in the first place.
 
SirGalahad said:
So tell me the effect of letting 0.5-1m people die in a short period, how much demand you think that will take out of the economy?
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Should be a lot less demand for incontinence pads.
That few of the users ever pay for anyway.
So a big saving for the tax payer and a boost for the environment.
(ie- landfill space free'd up for other purposes. eg.. dead bodies)
Then the companies that make them could start production on face masks.
 
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