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Doomsday 'Preppers' Poo-Pooing!!!
SiliconWizard:
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--- Quote from: MadScientist on April 18, 2022, 09:24:23 pm ---Covid actually showed us , communities and governments working together can be very successful, there were no food shortages , communities shared and supported the elderly , the frail or the sick. People willingly sacrificed certain personal freedoms and trusted reliable government information sources and medical experts. Huge public buy in , leading to a 98% vaccination take up.
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This is an ironic joke, right? For a moment I thought it was serious :-DD
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:-DD
Halcyon:
--- Quote from: dunkemhigh on April 19, 2022, 05:45:02 pm ---
--- Quote from: MadScientist on April 18, 2022, 09:24:23 pm ---Covid actually showed us , communities and governments working together can be very successful, there were no food shortages , communities shared and supported the elderly , the frail or the sick.
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This is an ironic joke, right? For a moment I thought it was serious :-DD
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I have to admit, this was certainly my experience where I live. The media hyped it up a lot with scenes of people madly rushing for toilet paper, but we certainly didn't go without. I could drive 10 minutes up the road and get everything I needed. It wasn't really a huge drama to be honest. There were a few slow downs in the supply chain but that was quickly sorted, no different to the Christmas rush.
I guess people in other parts of the world weren't so lucky?
BrokenYugo:
--- Quote from: Halcyon on April 19, 2022, 10:30:46 pm ---
--- Quote from: dunkemhigh on April 19, 2022, 05:45:02 pm ---
--- Quote from: MadScientist on April 18, 2022, 09:24:23 pm ---Covid actually showed us , communities and governments working together can be very successful, there were no food shortages , communities shared and supported the elderly , the frail or the sick.
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This is an ironic joke, right? For a moment I thought it was serious :-DD
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I have to admit, this was certainly my experience where I live. The media hyped it up a lot with scenes of people madly rushing for toilet paper, but we certainly didn't go without. I could drive 10 minutes up the road and get everything I needed. It wasn't really a huge drama to be honest. There were a few slow downs in the supply chain but that was quickly sorted, no different to the Christmas rush.
I guess people in other parts of the world weren't so lucky?
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In my neck of the woods it was dejected people staring at bare shelves everywhere you went before the virus had even shown up.
PlainName:
--- Quote ---I guess people in other parts of the world weren't so lucky?
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We had the run on bog roll, then rationing of staples such as pasta, canned tomatoes, etc. Empty shelves (still not fixed that, but the causes have changed). Vaccination rate around 75% and that's after a lot of cajoling and interminable encouragement, and it seems to have stalled now.
The only positive I'd agree with is the support by (some of) the community, but that's mitigated by the government deliberately sending covid-positive patients into care homes.
PlainName:
Just realised you (and perhaps yon MadScientist) are in New Zealand, and as I recall the government response (and public response to that) was quite positive. Up here we have the first ever sitting PM found guilty of breaking his own laws, which he has spent months lying about. In fact, I don't think anyone has ever known him not to lie, even when he didn't need to. Hardly surprising our experiences of a major disaster requiring good government were somewhat different!
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