The Coronavirus Thread

[Cunt]

right wing activists.

Guess who thinks you are unconvincing?

All the people who owe their existence to people engaging in risky sexual behaviours during the AIDS pandemic. And me.

[Hermit]

right wing activists.

Guess who thinks you are unconvincing?

All the people who owe their existence to people engaging in risky sexual behaviours during the AIDS pandemic. And me.

Well, that demolishes my point that that less than total compliance is not a valid argument against any restrictions.

Not.

[Cunt]

I wasn't after that argument.

I was suggesting that it is better to call the shot your team can make.

But hey, just follow the government mandates. And whatever you do, don't consider history.

[Hermit]

I wasn't after that argument.

Not that you could.

[JimC]

Posting random shit is not making an argument...

[Cunt]

Double-plus ungood!

[Cunt]

Foul-mouthed old crank reflects on his career. (warning - he suffers fools poorly)
https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/ra ... vaccinator

Hilleman cranked out more than 40 other vaccines over the course of his career, including 8 of the 14 routinely given to children. He arguably saved more lives than any other single person.

[Scot Dutchy]

Considering the condom compliance we saw in the worldwide experiment leading up to this, we should expect poor compliance as the norm.

Compliance is remarkably good in Australia and New Zealand, although not total. Not that less than total compliance is a valid argument against any restrictions. If it were we'd finish up without speed limits and other restrictions that don't provoke widespread opposition among right wing activists.

Ozland and Fernland have to many sheeple.

[Hermit]

Considering the condom compliance we saw in the worldwide experiment leading up to this, we should expect poor compliance as the norm.

Compliance is remarkably good in Australia and New Zealand, although not total. Not that less than total compliance is a valid argument against any restrictions. If it were we'd finish up without speed limits and other restrictions that don't provoke widespread opposition among right wing activists.

Ozland and Fernland have to many sheeple.

Mhhh, sheeple.
Galaxian: 52 posts
Seth: 210 posts

[Scot Dutchy]

A common accepted term for people following the herd. So what is your point?

[Brian Peacock]

What's your point? That accepting the scientific and public health consensus regarding the seriousness of Covid-19 is unwarranted because it ignores the whims of, negates the desires of, or oppresses the choices for action of individual non-conformists? People should be allowed to die from a preventable disease simply so some selfish people can maintain a sense of themselves as a especially unique, autonomous individuals?

East Asia had two novel coronavirus scares before Covid-19 came around, but I guess the relative public health success of countries like Japan, Vietnam, South Korea, China, along with Australis and New Zealand etc has nothing to do with their experience or their response but instead can be glibly dismissed as irrelevant because those populations have demonstrated, by that success, that they're unthinking sheeple who just follow the herd?

The longer you stay out on the mountain alone the more likely it is that the wolves will get you.

[Brian Peacock]

Seems that one's level of wealth and privilege is a factor in the predisposition to think that the rules don't actually apply to you...

Only about a dozen British tourists out of about 420 appear to be left in the Swiss ski resort of Verbier after an undisclosed number fled a mandatory quarantine, many under cover of darkness, risking a 10,000 Swiss franc fine (£8,300) and drawing widespread condemnation on social media.

Asked about the runaway tourists, the Swiss health minister, Alain Berset, said: “We are aware of that. It’s obviously a problem. There was an order to quarantine that has not been respected.”

He added: “One shouldn’t underestimate what an impossible situation it was. We had to decide within hours what to do … That things don’t work perfectly in such a situation, that problems surface is a reality we have to live with.”

While some Swiss officials were sympathetic to the British skiers who quietly escaped rather than comply with Switzerland’s new quarantine rules for citizens from the UK and South Africa, after the discovery of a new highly contagious variant of coronavirus, commentators on Twitter were less kind, focusing on the wealth and entitlement of the skiers...

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/ ... bier-covid

[Hermit]

A common accepted term for people following the herd. So what is your point?

"Sheeple" is a commonly used term by people like Galaxian and Seth. I have not noticed others employing it.

[Scot Dutchy]

A common accepted term for people following the herd. So what is your point?

"Sheeple" is a commonly used term by people like Galaxian and Seth. I have not noticed others employing it.

You obviously dont read many newspaper reports.

Take any dictionary:
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/sheeple

: people who are docile, compliant, or easily influenced : people likened to sheep James Nichols, who ran the family farm here, stamped dollar bills with red ink in protest against currency and told his neighbors that they were "sheeple" for obeying authority like livestock.

[Scot Dutchy]

What's your point? That accepting the scientific and public health consensus regarding the seriousness of Covid-19 is unwarranted because it ignores the whims of, negates the desires of, or oppresses the choices for action of individual non-conformists? People should be allowed to die from a preventable disease simply so some selfish people can maintain a sense of themselves as a especially unique, autonomous individuals?

East Asia had two novel coronavirus scares before Covid-19 came around, but I guess the relative public health success of countries like Japan, Vietnam, South Korea, China, along with Australis and New Zealand etc has nothing to do with their experience or their response but instead can be glibly dismissed as irrelevant because those populations have demonstrated, by that success, that they're unthinking sheeple who just follow the herd?

The longer you stay out on the mountain alone the more likely it is that the wolves will get you.

The trouble is Brian we in the west dont want their type of society. Success? They are still not in control. So what are you chumping at? Bloody Ozland and Fernland are so far away but even they cant control it with the present regimes of lockdown and mask wearing which demands that the population turns into sheeple.