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Here we go again Woman arrested for sitting on a bench.

394 replies

MercyBooth · 10/01/2021 00:53

www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9130133/Police-told-fine-Covid-rule-breakers-just-ONE-verbal-warning.html

OP posts:
maddiemookins16mum · 10/01/2021 16:59

@TrustTheGeneGenie

Not sure what it is about STAY AT HOME some people don’t get

I don't get what people don't get about the fact exercise is allowed.

It’s the people who use ‘popping out for exercise’ as an excuse to meet their pals for a natter and coffee I have an issue with. You can bet some of them have never gone out for daily exercise in their lives. ‘Daily exercise’ is being used as an excuse to not stay at home.
BritWifeinUSA · 10/01/2021 17:00

@Flaxmeadow

The police have discretionary powers. In other words, it depends on the circumstances
What you mean is the police are abusing their discretionary powers.
hoodathunkit · 10/01/2021 17:00

Smart you aren't ya? Except the part where the virus didn't totally evolve recently it mutated to be able to infect human cells. All any virus is is rogue protein, it's not alive and all any vaccine tries to do is produce an immune response to an inactivated version of it.

Viruses are dead / inert when they are not infecting cells. When they infect cells thay are very much alive.

Thus a virus can exist in an inert form on a passive vector, such as a door handle. Human touches door handle and rubs face. Viral particles enter the eyes or mouth and the virus is suddenly alive and turing the human cells into virus factories.

You might find this very well presented video educational

Professor Vincent Racaniello

In this first lecture of my 2020 Columbia University virology course, we define viruses, discuss their discovery and fundamental properties, including whether or not they are alive, and explain why they are the most awesome biological entities on Earth.

nicky7654 · 10/01/2021 17:00

We will be like China soon!! Never in my wildest dreams would I have thought the Police would act so aggressively to the general Public. Shameful !!!!! And no they can't use the Covid excuse to be so vile.

user1471565182 · 10/01/2021 17:01

MegBusset is Norwich Spice Museum open?

hoodathunkit · 10/01/2021 17:02

completely ridiculous and the police should be careful because people will stop obeying any rules if they conclude that the rules are ridiculous.

Do you believe that the people who believe that the pandemic is a hoax should be allowed to put others at risk by attending conspiracy themed protests during a lockdown?

serious question

BritWifeinUSA · 10/01/2021 17:03

@maddiemookins16mum so only people with a previous history of exercise are allowed out? No one is permitted to take up exercise, the-think their overall health and change their previous habits? How much exercise in the past do you think people should have done in order to qualify for being allowed out once per day?

Have you always been so keen on tyranny?

PinkyParrot · 10/01/2021 17:07

Does no one listen to the news. Police have to tighten rules, 200 pound fine on second telling.
So much whingeing in the media, here on MN, about people breaking rules, then the rules are tightened and everyone whinges that it's tyranny!

Balhammom · 10/01/2021 17:08

Is it just me or does anyone else find the stupidity exhibited on this thread rather depressing (and probably the best explanation for why we’re in this crisis in the first place)?

No, we are not like China. We have some pretty sensible rules to protect public health. We have a very professional and liberal police, who will only take action if you either massively break the rules or are an utter d*ck when they offer you sensible advice. If you are law abiding and do as the authorities reasonably ask, you have nothing to worry about.

hoodathunkit · 10/01/2021 17:08

We will be like China soon!! Never in my wildest dreams would I have thought the Police would act so aggressively to the general Public. Shameful !!!!! And no they can't use the Covid excuse to be so vile.

Are you serious?

Have you read the posts here that demonstrate that the woman was part of an anti-lockdown protest?

What should the police do? Just allow the Qanon, anti-vaxx, plandemic and other conspiracy theorists to run around potentially spreading infection and public disorder?

hoodathunkit · 10/01/2021 17:09

Is it just me or does anyone else find the stupidity exhibited on this thread rather depressing (and probably the best explanation for why we’re in this crisis in the first place)?

not just you at all

nostaples · 10/01/2021 17:09

'Do you believe that the people who believe that the pandemic is a hoax should be allowed to put others at risk by attending conspiracy themed protests during a lockdown?'

Protest is a fundamental right in this country. Whether you personally agree with what they are protesting about is neither here nor there. It is actually a human right.

TonMoulin · 10/01/2021 17:10

@maddiemookins16mum
but meeting up with. ONE papal for exercise (which could be a walk) is allowed!

You might think people shouldn’t. But the law is quite clear on that

Balhammom · 10/01/2021 17:12

Protest, like most other human rights, is a qualified right.

It is allowed if it does not unreasonably infringe on others’ rights, such as their rights to safety and to have their health reasonably protected.

It really isn’t a hard concept to grasp.

amusedtodeath1 · 10/01/2021 17:13

At this point I think Covid deniers/minimizers should be treated like the fools they are. If a person cannot see how serious this situation is by now then I just can't take anything they say seriously. I'm going for no tolerance for that crap anymore.

This woman was not innocently resting on a bench, she had been breaking lockdown and the law and was duly arrested for it. She's a dumbass!

Balhammom · 10/01/2021 17:14

@amusedtodeath1 well said!

hoodathunkit · 10/01/2021 17:16

Protest is a fundamental right in this country. Whether you personally agree with what they are protesting about is neither here nor there. It is actually a human right.

Not being infected with a deadly virus by Piers Corbyn, Davick Icke Belinda Mckenzie, Samantha Baldwyn, Jon Wedger and their not very merry band of protesting fools should be a human right also.

Sometimes one human right conflicts with another.

We are in a perilous situation, unprecidented in our lifetimes.

Many basic rights have to be curtailed for the common good. Thus people''s right to go to pubs and nightclubs is removed temporarily, as are other rights including the right to protest.

The right to protest is not some special right that outweighs the rights of the many to be as safe as possible.

Obviously

nostaples · 10/01/2021 17:17

It suits the government narrative to blame individual behaviour for the problem rather than political decisions, social inequities, problems in healthcare and pure biology.

Can you really not that there are bigger problems - i.e Johnson saying schools are safe one day and literally the next closing them down, Sunak encouraging people to eat out to help out or Cummings saying it was ok for him to drive because he was testing his eyesight - than a woman on a bench, regardless of whether or not she was protesting.

Children have been largely responsible for spreading the virus in recent weeks through no fault of their own. The mutation likewise. Tax drivers, health and care workers, teachers, taxi drivers etc have all been expected and told to work. Compared to these one woman on a park bench in the open air is completely and totally irrelevant.

It's the same political agenda as going after benefit fraud (a tiny proportion of lost revenue) over and above tax avoiders or MPs fiddling their expenses for decades.

And as is evident on this thread, people love a vulnerable scapegoat. It stops them uniting to resist and change structural inequalities and unfairness.

AKissAndASmile · 10/01/2021 17:17

@RickiTarr

The headline is about only one verbal warning being given now, that’s the policy.

The policy is not the women will be arrested for sitting on benches.

The woman was not arrested simply for sitting on a bench. Presumably she was arrested for sitting on a bench despite a verbal warning.

It really isn’t the right year to argue the toss with the police or to expect being middle aged and middle class to protect you from arrest. The black young men of Brixton have been getting this treatment for decades. I’m sure the white fifty somethings of Bournemouth will live to fight another day. 🙄

Absolutely fucking this
RickiTarr · 10/01/2021 17:17

@Balhammom

Is it just me or does anyone else find the stupidity exhibited on this thread rather depressing (and probably the best explanation for why we’re in this crisis in the first place)?

No, we are not like China. We have some pretty sensible rules to protect public health. We have a very professional and liberal police, who will only take action if you either massively break the rules or are an utter d*ck when they offer you sensible advice. If you are law abiding and do as the authorities reasonably ask, you have nothing to worry about.

I was just thinking about all the Public Health research and analysis that is going to follow as the academics & practitioners try to draw conclusions from the public reaction to this pandemic and the government’s instructions.
hoodathunkit · 10/01/2021 17:18

amusedtodeath1

exactly

nostaples · 10/01/2021 17:20

Actually it is a special right.

And one person on a bench is not interfering with anybody else in any way.

The police confronting such people is more dangerous.

As was the case with the two women going for a walk.

Meanwhile Cummings gets away with lies and nonsense.

nostaples · 10/01/2021 17:22

'The black young men of Brixton have been getting this treatment for decades. I’m sure the white fifty somethings of Bournemouth will live to fight another day.'

The most dreadful argument I've seen this year.

Let's get the police to treat everybody with extreme heavy handedness so we get a taste of police brutality against black people. Jesus!

murbblurb · 10/01/2021 17:23

thread reported for misleading title.

Woman is covid denier who travelled to protest and then made an arse of herself and a bloody nuisance. She's manipulating all those who think she was just innocently sitting on a bench.

I'm not quite at the stage of wishing her covid and no treatment. or perhaps I am, but shouldn't say it.