So covid cases are rising and like clockwork, the likes of independent sage are back in the media calling for ‘protections’ like masks, isolation and social distancing to “avoid full lockdown”.
Is it time to reintroduce some measures like the rule of 6, a cap on large events numbers and maybe distancing and early closure for hospitality as independent sage are calling for?
Personally I feel that with vaccines and treatments, we are now in the best position we’re going to get with covid and would be very reluctant to comply with further measures, that themselves cause enormous harm.
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TreeLine6 · 09/10/2022 11:32
Am I being unreasonable?
708 votes. Final results.
POLLPerfectlyPreservedQuagaarWarrior · 20/10/2022 15:16
That's interesting, because a couple of pages back you said that to blame 'mitigations' for job losses was disingenuous, and that it was covid that meant certain venues couldn't open or run at capacity. You also said that restrictions causing closures was made up.
PerfectlyPreservedQuagaarWarrior · 20/10/2022 10:28
Job losses stemming from restrictions, as we've been discussing over the last couple of pages. That's a harm.
PerfectlyPreservedQuagaarWarrior · 20/10/2022 09:46
But you're vehemently against the idea that restrictions caused the one particular harm being discussed, even though it appears you accept they did cause others?
RainStalksMyWashing · 19/10/2022 11:58
Haven't covid AND restrictions in response to covid both led to job losses? There are thousands out of work now due to long covid, along with thousands with reduced hours as needing to care for kid/partner etc with long covid. Some firms/jobs didn't survive lockdowns. Some have the double whammy of being financially impacted firstly by restrictions and then completely screwed by removal of all restrictions.
MeetPi · 19/10/2022 11:30
@GoldenOmber
You have currently argued yourself into a place where you are literally saying that laws mandating shop closures do not cause shops to close. Not “yes they did but it was justified,” not “yes they did but it was the least worst option”, but outright “no, restrictions mandating closures did not cause closures.”
No, I'm saying that the laws for those closures were made because of a pandemic - Covid. They would not have been enacted otherwise. They would not have existed if not for the novel virus. Without Covid, you don't have closures - yes?
MeetPi · 19/10/2022 11:20
@PerfectlyPreservedQuagaarWarrior
including sector closures
You never said "SECTOR closures" before. You just said "closures". These are different things.
MeetPi · 19/10/2022 10:47
@PerfectlyPreservedQuagaarWarrior
Are you quite well?
Quite. Just mildly irritated with inane statements so I thought I'd add one of my own for fun, since it seems we can just make stuff up like "restrictions cause closures, not covid".
MeetPi · 19/10/2022 10:47
@PerfectlyPreservedQuagaarWarrior
Are you quite well?
Quite. Just mildly irritated with inane statements so I thought I'd add one of my own for fun, since it seems we can just make stuff up like "restrictions cause closures, not covid".
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Tessabelle74 · 19/10/2022 10:42
@MeetPi my 35 year old best friend died of covid, as did 19 residents of a care home I used to work at. What is your theory of what ACTUALLY happened to them?
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