No worries the Neo Liberals don't just spout complete cobblers

[Sheepy]

Neo Liberal - wasn't that a term that was used to describe the new-right, alongside 'neocons'?  Anyway I'm an ordinary 'liberal' with a small L and as people keep saying we're living in different times to normal. We need a strict lockdown now and through December into the new year (crucially including the school and uni holidays).  The sooner we defeat covid-19 completely the sooner we'll be able to get back to normal.

It's important that protests by anti-lockdown crybabies aren't given undue importance as a consequence of people who support the safety restrictions not feeling able to take to the streets en masse in support.

Good point Ducky, just one thing, how will you be defeating Covid when you didn't defeat the common cold or the flu. I will be guessing we will soon find out we can never defeat it and fashion accessories will be law and mixing with others will be a no,no policed by the Covid police. Who will use technology to control it all. Some post Covid grooming must be in order.

[Borg Refinery]

Sure, Swinson isn't a neolib even though she helped unveil a statue of her hero Thatcher, and you just happened to vote LD.

Alternative facts. Kinda like the sunday sport crispyduck n quacker's posts are.

[HDQQ]

Neo Liberal - wasn't that a term that was used to describe the new-right, alongside 'neocons'?  Anyway I'm an ordinary 'liberal' with a small L and as people keep saying we're living in different times to normal. We need a strict lockdown now and through December into the new year (crucially including the school and uni holidays).  The sooner we defeat covid-19 completely the sooner we'll be able to get back to normal.

It's important that protests by anti-lockdown crybabies aren't given undue importance as a consequence of people who support the safety restrictions not feeling able to take to the streets en masse in support.

[Borg Refinery]

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OK Dynamis your comment about HDQQ has been removed, please don't go ott.

[Sheepy]

This virus is the control freak's paradise.
This has to be stopped. Handshakes will return, so will hugging our friends . Just try and stop us!



Article 8 Human Rights Act.

well you can forget them Barry, human rights, you don't have any, these are extraordinary times. Give an inch take a mile.

[Nalaar]

You're not any sort of biologist are you ?

If you were, you would understand the degree to which your body's natural immunity requires exposure to a certain amount of nasty dirt and germs in order to function.

Please inform people whose hands you shake or cash you exchange etc that you are not in favour of regular hand sanitisation.

[johnofgwent]

It will be interesting to see what remains after COVID is not the concern it currently is, normally this time of year due to the number of people I come into contact with I'm suffering from a cold every other week, this year I've yet to have a single one, it'd be a shame if these hygiene practices are dropped asap and the non-COVID befits are lost too.

Things I'd like to see remain -

Continued practice of frequent use hand sanitation gels, larger stores providing cleaning equipment at their trolly bays etc.

You're not any sort of biologist are you ?


If you were, you would understand the degree to which your body's natural immunity requires exposure to a certain amount of nasty dirt and germs in order to function.


At the start of this pox I wrote in several places that the reason the government needs to shield the older generation from the rest of society is that we were the last to have the freedom as children to fall out of trees, to get muddy ... and a dozen other things that a combination of issues means no child born since 1990 has ever done. As a result we are to a far GREATER degree able to survive a degree of assault upon our immune systems that few young'uns can withstand.


And whilst I am sure a certain forum member resident south of the Tamar will be along any moment to rubbish my words, I'm afraid there is a glimmer of truth there. Those who are protected in a sanitised bubble are less able to fight off what comes their way.


I find your expectation that we permanently change how we choose to behave alarming. Back in the 1940's the United States Army had to have its propaganda unit produce training films to educate GI's being sent here them into the ways 'John Briton' - or was it jack Briton, it was years ago that i saw these, at about the same time as I (somewhat illegally, I think) saw Patrick Allen's 4 minute warning films - lived on a crowded island, and was gregarious in their living, shopping and leisure habits. I mourn the fact that this will be the first time for 20 years that I have not been able to spend new year in a crowded, happy pub filled with new year revellers, and I consider that ample excuse to nuke Peking in retaliation for their destruction of our culture. I consider those who would try to continue such control dictators to be taken down by force.

[Nalaar]

It will be interesting to see what remains after COVID is not the concern it currently is, normally this time of year due to the number of people I come into contact with I'm suffering from a cold every other week, this year I've yet to have a single one, it'd be a shame if these hygiene practices are dropped asap and the non-COVID befits are lost too.

Things I'd like to see remain -

Continued practice of frequent use hand sanitation gels, larger stores providing cleaning equipment at their trolly bays etc.
Wearing of masks while ill, if you have a cold and need to got out then wearing a mask to help stop it spreading to others should be the expectation.
Small day to day changes, for example in my work we no longer share pens, again I hope this will remain the expected way.
Maintaining distance, there's little reason for people to squash together in a queue etc, if we've been able to queue at a reasonable fine for months it stands to reason we can continue.

[Barry]

This virus is the control freak's paradise.
This has to be stopped. Handshakes will return, so will hugging our friends . Just try and stop us!



Article 8 Human Rights Act.

[Sheepy]

But hang on, you said we were only doing it to save the NHS, I guess that wasn't enough then. Now we need new fashion accessories and a covid police.

[Sheepy]

https://uk.yahoo.com/news/breathalyser-style-covid-tests-face-153120925.html
Oh no they have a plan, just think how clean the air will be through these.