What’s your view on the latest coronavirus briefing?

[sodthisforfun]

I didn't. Like I said, I have no idea how it misquoted. I've apologised but you find another fault. Sorry for that too. Anything else I can apologise for or are you done now.

Good grief! You highlighted my post and replied as if I was Notch.
Then, when I asked if you thought I was Notch, you changed the name on top of the quote button to put Notches name, but the main body of text was still mine. Go see for yourself.

It's no biggy but really, do you have to reply so childishly over a silly mistake you made? I don't want an apology, just to make sure you realised I wasn't Notch at the time.

Weird how some people have to be perpetually aggro, esp over nothing.

 

[Brigadier]

I come at this from the opposite direction. I'm just a bit teed off at the constant 'won't anyone think of the poor children'. They have a lifetime to recover a year or even two out now. I have daily contact with a large number of elderly and very elderly people. Many of them led active and fulfilling lives until March. They don't have a year or two. The virus has hit them harder than younger age groups. They don't bounce back. They've lost mobility, confidence, the will to live in some cases. Some of them are shells of their former selves and it's heartbreaking. I can hear compassionate people like Ryler saying they've had their lives, everyone dies. But that generation already gave up 5 years of their lives. I don't count their remaining lifespans as any less important than a year or two for teenagers.

I'm not saying less important, I'm saying different.

How many older people are doing new and exciting things, each year? Some yes, but by no means all.
Also, those older people have been in part formed by the life experiences they had in their formative years. Formative years that the "teenagers" are being deprived of.

(And not all teenagers are "hang around the shops, swigging chemical cider and smoking fags - types")

 

[sodthisforfun]

I made the contrary point to him that, when you get older, one year is very much like the next, so I could realistically put up with this for a year or two without great hardship.

However, taking away two or three years from a teenager would be a huge deal, and life experience missed out on.

Very good point

 

[Ryler]

Refugee policy wise we suck

Probably because we are full up with economic immigrants.

 

[sodthisforfun]

I see it both ways. The elderly are suffering but also my son turned 17 in May. When I look back to my 17th birthday (1988) it just doesn’t compare.
I really feel for the teenagers at the moment (& fear that things won’t return to normality)

One thing teenagers have good though is gadgets. They've cheap/free ways to keep in touch with their friends. If it had happened when I was 17, I think we'd only just got a telephone in the house and all calls had to be short and permission granted before using!

 

[Dangee]

Testing & shaming flat earther mask avoiders

 

[Ryler]

If it had happened when I was 17,

It wouldn't.
Even 30 years ago the scamdemic lock down would never have happened.
The people would just have toughed it out.
You cotton woollers were still in infancy.

 

[Dangee]

Borstal? Sodthis.

 

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[ReganAndCarter]

@andy11 and @ReganAndCarter both advocate killing refugees.

Wouldn't need to despatch too many. You'll find the problem is solved virtually overnight.

And please get it right. They're economic migrants. Genuine refugees usually consist of more then mostly men in their 20s sneaking out of one safe country into another equally safe country on a lilo. They're economic migrants shopping for the best deal.

 

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[Dangee]

Any others on there way would soon turn back!

 

[Ryler]

going on their merry way with scant consideration of the risk

Thats how many of them marched off to war.
It probably wasn't until they reached the trenches or the normandy beaches that they schitt themselves.

 

[sodthisforfun]

Whatever.

As I said, aggro.

 

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