(Covid) To think these recommendations are bonkers?

[NoCharnce]

So the government commission into how to memorialise the Covid pandemic has recommended the government implement “A UK-wide day of reflection should be established and held annually.”

Other recommendations include national memorials (10 sites already identified!), oral histories and museums plus additional funding for local authorities to set up their own memorials.

I can’t be the only one who thinks this is nuts and hope the government ignores the recommendations? I genuinely cannot believe people get paid to produce this crap.

Butterflies? Have never heard an argument that involved butterflies. There are some arguments that say it was created in a lab. Tbh I haven't kept up with them because I don't care. The fact you willfully spout bollocks say you haven't either.

You don't understand any of them If I'm to take your utter mangling of facts as an example.

Me? I'm on about people having a very low level of understanding of biology pissing me off. That's one thing I took from covid. That's something that pisses me off. It's got nothing to do with anything you have posted.

If you refute the theory of evolution you'd fail gcse Bilogy. You can say its a theory but you belive in Adam and Eve you'd be OK. But to not know about evolution you don't get to talk science on Amy media ever if had my way.

Got a problem with that? How do people who refute mutation handle cancer? More made up BS no doubt

It’s really concerning!

Basic biology is something that people should know and should take an interest in because it literally is the study of life.

I will never understand how people will claim that specialists in their field are completely wrong but Tracy on Facebook is right and they believe some random persons word over an actual expert.

One of the worst things that has come from the internet is the rise in conspiracy theory groups preying on the gullible and vulnerable.

I have a good understanding of biology ta. You obviously don't. I'm not talking about Tracy on facebook you utter twunt. But you the average person died at 20 in the past, those skeletons of older people are all hoaxes.

Some suggestions for it:

A Banksy picture of Hancock groping that woman after looking over his shoulder.

A big renaissance style picture of a Downing St piss up mimicing Christ's last supper with Boris in the middle.

Hancocks Whatsapp conversations where he said he's gonna have to keep millions of kids off school against his own govt advice because Sturgeon is doing it differently and they don't wanna get into an argument with her.

People like that Van Tam fella passing through a revolving door now he's job for Moderna.

A list of all the things they could have done with the almost 1/2 trillion pounds they spent on a futile attempt to restrict an airborne disease.

Come clean and tell us how many people died who didn't have any previous conditions. Answer...... negligible.

Etc......that type of thing.

Getting back to the commission proposals themselves, it's interesting that they don't really engage with the possibility that their day of reflection would be divisive.

Imo it’s better to let people reflect in the way they want

Or forget it all

Basic biology, like nobody is ever immune to anything? We can't live without those live giving mrna vaccines, we will just all die... Sad times.

"It's like a someone who has never seen a car in their life telling Rolls Royce they are building engines wrong. That kind of blind self assertion."

But it's not. It's like if you've driven a car a fair few times, know some basics, then you come across a Rolls Royce and the manufacturer is telling you certain facts about their cars that don't make sense to you then you are allowed to have an opinion and ask questions. Especially if things get ridiculous and they try to tell you that the car needs special rules that all other road users and pedestrians must abide by, no matter what.

The manufacturer shouldn't be able to tell you that you're an anti car extremist and you should never question the expertise of rolls Royce.

Our local council has built a covid memorial/reflection spot near us. It is in a small park which I walk through very often- at least 4 times a day. I have never seen anyone near it at all, never mind sitting there.

I have no objections to some sort of national memorial spot to recall all those who lost their lives and I think it is important historically to record our experiences of the pandemic- from the sad to the horrific to the ridiculous.

That's as far as I'd go.

I'd just like to state: No pan banging ever took place at our house. I never put our post into quarantine. But I did wipe shopping packaging with antiseptic wipes.

@Everanewbie

A statistical anomaly?!

Do you know what not worth my time writing out what happened but I can assure you it was because of wilful, arrogant, selfish people and not because of an anomaly!

I agree many people are not over the trauma.

I don't think enforced silences are going to help this

There could be a secret party room but you have to be a member of parliament to be allowed in.

The stupid thing is that 'Covid' is ongoing.. elderly & chronically unwell people are being admitted to our local ED with Covid now! It hasn't actually just gone.

What is the going rate of bots anyway? I'd do it for a good rate 😂

Why don’t you go and jump off the edge of the Earth.

Oh yeah I forgot because the world isn’t flat 💐

Because it is an endemic virus. Duh.

I will, ta.

This is what I don't get - people accusing each other of being flat earthers or sheeple.
The sad thing is that we're all concerned about what happened during the pandemic, and in our own naive way, we're trying to help everyone else to see things our way so they don't have to suffer any ill effects. Whether that's from the virus or from government overreach and manipulation depends on your own perception of what was going on.

It's not black or white and there's a whole load of grey in there.
No matter what your stance, it's well known that a lot of people made a helluva lot of money and it was in their interest to keep fear levels and compliance high.
It should be us all against them, not against each other.

I can see why people were against lockdown or elements of it, but I can't abide those who deny covids existence at all (thankfully there aren't many).

It's because they are a bot/paid influencer with no frame of reference. They were plenty during the pandemic, reddit is riddled with them. Not allowed to actually discuss something In good faith on reddit, there are always paid monitors to keep anyone from saying anything too out there.

Sounds like a complete waste of money.

People who deny covid have a big overlap with people who deny viruses as a whole. Its pretty idiotic to my mind, pretty much everyone has anecdotal evidence of giving or receiving a virus. Noro, chicken pox the flu. It's akin to flat earth in its idiocy.

Friend of mine who worked on covid wards and was exhausted and not seeing her family said it really kept her going
You do NOT speak for everyone