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| NiHaoMike:
--- Quote from: madires on March 21, 2021, 11:53:25 am ---Plus many idiots ignoring anti-COVID-19 measures and holding superspreader events. :-- --- End quote --- If only there was a way to find out who they are and charge them extra for health insurance since they are raising costs for everyone. Problem is, I can't think of a good way to do that without causing its own problems. |
| Zero999:
--- Quote from: NiHaoMike on March 21, 2021, 01:25:22 pm --- --- Quote from: madires on March 21, 2021, 11:53:25 am ---Plus many idiots ignoring anti-COVID-19 measures and holding superspreader events. :-- --- End quote --- If only there was a way to find out who they are and charge them extra for health insurance since they are raising costs for everyone. Problem is, I can't think of a good way to do that without causing its own problems. --- End quote --- Don't forget, the person you're responding to is in Germany, which has universal health cover, like most developed countries, baring the US. Perhaps the money raised from heavy fines could be diverted to the public health system? The biggest problems we've had in the UK is the police haven't been seen to handle breeches of the COVID-19 restrictions equally and media bias. The police didn't do anything about the BLM riots, which blatantly broke the rules and the media reported them to be peaceful demonstrations, when in reality there was widespread vandalism and destruction. More peaceful, yet also illegal events such as the gatherings on armistice day and women paying their respects to Sarah Everard, who was brutally murdered, allegedly by Wayne Couzens, a police officer, where met with a heavy handed response. This has badly eroded trust in in the authorities, making people less inclined to respect the police, who are seen as cowards for picking easy targets, rather than violent mobs, and follow the rules. |
| JohnnyMalaria:
--- Quote from: Zero999 on March 21, 2021, 01:13:51 pm ---Politics play a huge part. The WHO didn't react quickly enough, recommending everyone suspending flights from China, which many put down to them not wanting to upset the Chinese. I remember Trump being strongly criticised when he stopped flights from China, only for most of the world to follow suit shortly after. --- End quote --- Except his "ban" (which came after 45 other countries had already implemented restrictions) was a joke. 27,000 US citizens still travelled from China to the US after the ban, along with 8,000 Chinese and other non-US nationals. Meanwhile, countless thousands of people were still travelling between the US and Europe in spite of the rising COVID-19 cases in the New York region. Trump failed miserably. They did the stupidest thing imaginable - "evacuate" people from the epicenter of the outbreak to locations on a different continent. They failed to quarantine and test them properly after arrival in the US. What could possibly go wrong? https://www.cnnphilippines.com/world/2020/3/2/Wuhan-evacuee-released-quarantine-Texas-positive-coronavirus-.html |
| Terry Bites:
Astra Zenica, first dose. Do I get chipped on the second dose then? |
| Terry Bites:
Since shown to be total BS invented by bored media people. Aspirin is far more dangerous. |
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