Yup, easier to bury your head in the sand and brand me immature than question why the UK is going against WHO pandemic policy. Doesn't that count as serious? Apparently not by your reckoning.Ihearye wrote:To be perfectly honest with, I stopped reading once you started the old political football thing. This is much to serious for descending to that level of immaturity. You have an agenda, I get it. no more to be saidKing giraffe iii wrote:Stone age? It was the iron age a day or so ago.Ihearye wrote:As I said before, it amazes me how people can make a political football out of anything.
You either stick by a strategy of delay or follow the 'herd'. As and when more information comes in on the virus from other countries. The nuances of the strategy are obviously going to be honed.
It beggars belief that all of a sudden, people have all become experts in virus spread simulations. Are obviously getting the medical data from the likes of Italy and Spain, upon which to base their rantings. Not only that, they know how to interpret that data, but how to make decisions that will impact the spread of the virus.
@ Robin, of course there is a financial aspect. Just as it is financial to not close every workplace. Surely the difference is, the same policy is being applied to all sports. If some have chosen to take one path, then that is their choice. I only hope come July when we haven’t had a penny come into the club, that those who told us to close down last week are going to put their hands in their pockets and provide compensation. As things look at the minute, we could have had most of the season played out before we were told to shut down.
As for the herd immunisation. Is it not possible that a policy of delay and flattening out the curve, will have as a by-product, the wider immunisation of the herd? Without it being the direct policy? People should stop speculating and scrutinising every sentence that is uttered. Either that or maybe, cut themselves off from the rest of civilisation and do not leave your house for a year. Stone age here we come!! These people giving the country advise, are top of their own fields. With teams behind them doing nothing all day but crunch the data coming in from the rest of the world. Then seeing how that can be applied to our current policy. I would suggest, they are in a better place to advise than the hacks who work for our rags. Or Mrs Smith form Weston who has had a cold for a week, but has been refused a ventilator by the NHSI've yet to see the rest of western Europe lose all of its technology. By your own reasoning you seem to have become an expert yourself knowing what's best for everyone. Perhaps you should ask why people such as myself don't trust a government led by an individual who is a proven liar and whose approach seems based on blustering and oafish bumbling.
At the moment we just don't know about the herd immunity. The government are taking a massive gamble here and their lackadaisical approach to testing (and then whipping people out of the community, together with tracing those people who they've been in close contact with) seems at odds with the WHO. I guess the WHO and the rest of the world only employs scientific advisors who are completely unqualified?
They are gambling with lives. Clearly that's acceptable from your perspective. The lack of testing stinks to me of a government that is (a) clueless and/or (b) cooking the figures for its own benefit.
This government - and I would criticise any government following the path Bozo and his crew have taken - is sat on its hands and so far, beyond NHS mobilisation, has done nothing but tell everyone to wash their hands more. Take schools - there seems this idea in government circles that these places somehow run without adult intervention. Who is going to staff them when we've all taken receipt of the children's germs? Never mind those children who pick the virus up at school and then go home to infect their parents. All it needs is one irresponsible family to send their sick child into school. And it will happen. But it doesn't matter because children don't get the virus bad. What about granny or dad who has a lowered immune system because of other illness or therapy?
I could go on but I won't. You get the idea. Stiff upper lip, bluster, inaction and blind faith may be right for you. That's cool. Me, I wouldn't trust Bozo and his cronies as far as I can throw them.
As for Wayne Rooney, what's your point? Given I've no idea what his view is on things I'm guessing you're playing the guilt through a similar idea card.
WHO policy is tried and tested but, clearly, Johnny Foreigner has no idea what is doing. This WHO thing with decades of learning from what has happened with epidemics and pandemics. I guess it's immature to mention their expertise.
Again, I would criticise any government of any colour for following the policy of inaction.
Apart from Shade, who got it spot on !!
