Jack E
Well-Known Member
From the 'Daily Telegraph', today, explaining why the mandatory wearing of face masks is expanding relentlessly, when the blunt truth is that almost all those who are critically vulnerable to the disease have already died:
"Mr Hancock suggested that making face coverings mandatory in shops and supermarkets from July 24 was primarily for economic reasons, saying the British Retail Consortium had said they made shoppers 'more confident about returning' . . . "
So, having spent months urging the media on to scare the living daylights out of as many people as possible, and to make people believe that calling an ambulance because you were dangerously ill was tantamount to ensuring that the NHS would be overwhelmed, with people dying in droves lying in hospital corridors, the politicians have finally woken up to the fact that it will take a long time before millions of people will want to go into a public space, even when there's no reason why they shouldn't. Rocket science, eh?
As it turned out, most hospitals were running at 50% capacity, the Nightingale Hospitals counted their patients in a few dozens, and one never opened at all because there was no need for it at all. Meantime, the backlog of vital operations, treatments and diagnostic scans, which the boss of the NHS ordered to be cancelled indefinitely, has built up to over 600,000 and the NHS bosses expect it to run into millions this winter - though it is somewhat reduced by the number of people who have already died of things like cancer, because their treatment was stopped. Did somebody say "Stay Inside. Protect the NHS. Save Lives"?
The latest I've heard from Hancock is that he's considering extending compulsory face masks into all public spaces, and that face masks may be with us until next year. So if I have to wear a mask for the foreseeable future in air-conditioned and well ventilated places like the Victoria and Albert, Science, and Natural History museums - which have cut their capacity limits by 80% - how do you rate my chances of being able to even rehearse with a band again before I drop dead of old age?
But the ones I feel gutted about, and furious about, are the youngsters, whose education has been trashed (for many of them, at the crucial stage of preparing for 'O' Levels, 'A' Levels, and final degree exams) - and whose job prospects have been absolutely hammered. There are currently over 9 million people on furlough; any bets on how many of them will get a P.45 instead of a letter calling them back to work, when the furlough scheme is drastically reduced next month? Let alone when it ends in October. So what are the chances for youngsters hoping to start work next year, let alone this year?
Yet, according to evidence which was in the public domain back in March, 80% of youngsters who pick up the Covid-19 bug develop no symptoms at all - and they stand more chance of being struck by lightning than dying from it. If this utterly spineless shambles of a government has the widespread support they claim for the decisions they've made, I can only say "Not in MY name."
Frankly, the way I feel about the world at the moment, the sooner I'm out of it, the better. Just sick to death of the whole damn thing.
Jack
"Mr Hancock suggested that making face coverings mandatory in shops and supermarkets from July 24 was primarily for economic reasons, saying the British Retail Consortium had said they made shoppers 'more confident about returning' . . . "
So, having spent months urging the media on to scare the living daylights out of as many people as possible, and to make people believe that calling an ambulance because you were dangerously ill was tantamount to ensuring that the NHS would be overwhelmed, with people dying in droves lying in hospital corridors, the politicians have finally woken up to the fact that it will take a long time before millions of people will want to go into a public space, even when there's no reason why they shouldn't. Rocket science, eh?
As it turned out, most hospitals were running at 50% capacity, the Nightingale Hospitals counted their patients in a few dozens, and one never opened at all because there was no need for it at all. Meantime, the backlog of vital operations, treatments and diagnostic scans, which the boss of the NHS ordered to be cancelled indefinitely, has built up to over 600,000 and the NHS bosses expect it to run into millions this winter - though it is somewhat reduced by the number of people who have already died of things like cancer, because their treatment was stopped. Did somebody say "Stay Inside. Protect the NHS. Save Lives"?
The latest I've heard from Hancock is that he's considering extending compulsory face masks into all public spaces, and that face masks may be with us until next year. So if I have to wear a mask for the foreseeable future in air-conditioned and well ventilated places like the Victoria and Albert, Science, and Natural History museums - which have cut their capacity limits by 80% - how do you rate my chances of being able to even rehearse with a band again before I drop dead of old age?
But the ones I feel gutted about, and furious about, are the youngsters, whose education has been trashed (for many of them, at the crucial stage of preparing for 'O' Levels, 'A' Levels, and final degree exams) - and whose job prospects have been absolutely hammered. There are currently over 9 million people on furlough; any bets on how many of them will get a P.45 instead of a letter calling them back to work, when the furlough scheme is drastically reduced next month? Let alone when it ends in October. So what are the chances for youngsters hoping to start work next year, let alone this year?
Yet, according to evidence which was in the public domain back in March, 80% of youngsters who pick up the Covid-19 bug develop no symptoms at all - and they stand more chance of being struck by lightning than dying from it. If this utterly spineless shambles of a government has the widespread support they claim for the decisions they've made, I can only say "Not in MY name."
Frankly, the way I feel about the world at the moment, the sooner I'm out of it, the better. Just sick to death of the whole damn thing.
Jack
