Covid 19 Part XXIV-37,063 ROI (1,801 deaths) 12,886 NI (582 deaths) (02/10) Read OP

hynesie08 wrote: »

You've said yourself, there's no hope of us getting rid of this virus, it's going to kill us all, no vaccine, no future........ Might as well be too drunk to notice........

Had enough? Hope your not planning on flying anywhere, just covid death tubes in the sky.

You can at least show the basic modicum of regard for our frontline workers and the 1802 victims of this ****ing plague and their families and keep it in your trousers for a few months.

hynesie08 wrote: »

But you told me there's no hope, we're all doomed!!!

**** it, CiarraiManc on boards told me I'm going to die, I'm trying heroin........

I've never said everyone was going to die of covid. Please quote me saying that

ArthurDayne wrote: »

Once again, the obsession with categorising laid bare again in the Covid debate. This reductionist view that you can only fall into one of two columns is unhelpful, anti-intellectual and will prevent us from finding balanced ways forward.

It’s a cancer in discourse on current affairs these days — if people disagree with you on a point then you simply content yourself by saying “oh well they’re obviously one of them lot in that other group and therefore must think the exact same way the rest of them do.”

That chart isn’t clever — it’s poison.

It cuts too close to the bone for more than a few on here

ArthurDayne wrote: »

Once again, the obsession with categorising laid bare in the Covid debate. This reductionist view that you can only fall into one of two columns is unhelpful, anti-intellectual and will prevent us from finding balanced ways forward.

It’s a cancer in discourse on current affairs these days — if people disagree with you on a point then you simply content yourself by saying “oh well they’re obviously one of them lot in that other group and therefore must think the exact same way the rest of them do.”

That chart isn’t clever — it’s poison.

I don't think it's supposed to be interpreted as black or white, it's a sliding scale.

I don't think we don't need the vaccine or that it's necessarily an exit strategy. I think it might help us get back to something resembling normality but it's not the panacea it's being touted as.

Until there is concrete, observable evidence of something there's no sense in believing it entirely. The middle ground with an open mind is the most sensible. Let people believe whatever they want tbh, reasonably minded people can try all day to change their opinion and they're wasting their time.

Instead of arguing semantics and hunting down facts to support our already firmly-held beliefs from which we won't be swayed, I'm suggesting we try and come up with solutions to confront the inevitable hard times ahead.