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Anything that shortens your life is to be resisted, just because there are things that have been out there killing us for a long time that we need to fight does not excuse us from trying to fight a new killer Its easy to look at the numbers of deaths so far and think its relatively low level stuff (perhaps even easier if you live in a sparsely populated and little affected country) but this is just the beginning, Winter in Europe is going to be a shit-fest

Its very very good

I'm anti-social and don't get on with crowds so the whole lockdown thing has not brought much mental anguish my way in fact its made things a lot less stressful

"One tragic knock on effect of the coronavirus is the cancelling of the footy" I have this dream that most things get back to Normal after all this...........but not everything:hide:

The business gets to keep its staff on the books, many of which would out of need tried to find alternative jobs, they don't have to re train new staff when things come back online, this is not an insignificant factor for any business and its taxpayers money, I wonder how many business owners with multiple millions in the bank even consider topping up the wages from their own profit margins, its a definate that they wouldn't have kept the people on if it was entirely out of their pockets, so once again its public support for a private business

There are many multi millionaire business owners in the UK who have furloughed their staff and the government is paying them 80% of their wages whilst off work I'm glad the workers are being supported, but its another example of private businesses benefitting from public handouts, I understand why this is a good thing to do, but it should require some payback from the private companies, otherwise its just another example of privatising profit and nationalising debt

Its the same for Taxes, the reason? keeps the money with those that have it. In the UK Rural Landowners get paid for having Land and doing nothing with it..seriously the more land they have the more they get paid from the public purse just to leave it as a field and do nothing It's socialism in reverse the poor subsidise the rich, it's always been this way.

Americans believe a meritocracy enables social mobility the problem being they don't actually have a meritocracy they have just been brainwashed into thinking they do, those with the best start get ahead and it continues through the generations, Trump is a great example he was born with a silver spoon up his arseand I believe that someone sat down and worked out that if he had put the original fortune given to him by his parents into a high interest account he would be worth more now than he is through his so called business success, he is a failure as a human being with little merit yet he is the president of the USA

There are good People in the States, I've enjoyed my time there but its a broken society now. Back to Covid. I'm a bit depressed tbh ........here in the UK the traffic is increasing daily and more and more people are ignoring what was a rather weak lockdown anyway. No police evident in my area for the last month and I get the feeling that people have become blase about it and those who havn't had a personal experience think it was all a storm in a tea cup ...its not we haven't even seen the worst of it yet. It feels like summer in the UK now...............but there are very Dark Days ahead

Worry not St Patrick's Day drinkers ignore calls to avoid pubs over coronavirus

Lets face it, Trump could go shoot an unarmed 12 year old girl in the street and the average republican would come up with some sick reason why it was the kid's fault. He'll get another 4 years...be sure

Dammit SS, see where fooling around gets you?, now get back in that rocking chair........................ I'll fetch yer pipe and slippers :) Just re-read that: Sorry SS...please re-direct my instructions to Mr Atrick

"We shouldn't make fun of the Yanks" Why?