Easing Of Lockdown.

[10ClarionSt]

Ahead of the govt announcemnet today, I give you this quote from The Sunday Times of Feb 14th:

"The deaths from Covid have been, across the year, not much more than double the number of excess winter deaths in a bad flu year. We impose no restrictions on the population for seasonal flu, but close society down entirely for Covid. That makes little logical sense. Still less when you add in the 225,000 operations cancelled as a consequence of lockdown.
By the end of this month, the NHS will be under scarcely any greater pressure than it is normally at the beginning of March, given the decrease in infections. The elderly will have been vaccinated.
So who, exactly, is it that we're protecting? Is the plan to create a country in which people die happily of many things, as they always have, but never, mercifully, of Covid"

No mention either of the billions paid out in fraudulent business claims during lockdown. Money that should have gone to the NHS in the first place.
The figures are as high as they are BECAUSE of the govt and "the science", not IN SPITE of them.
But if everyone is happy to continue in lockdown, then stay in lockdown. If everyone believes all the publicity and propaganda from the govt, then stay with it. You think you know it makes sense. Don't you? Apart from that, everything's fine thanks. :o)

[THECORBYLOON]

You stated, "you have no empathy for those that work in institutions like the NHS"

Since you have no experience of working in institutions like the NHS, how can YOU have empathy for those who do?

[THECORBYLOON]

"were have I judged you? on what comment?"

It was this,

"You not understanding why I take it personally tells me all I need to know about you."

[ToraToraTora]

ah I see the confusion: "you see TCL, you lefties are selfish you see only through your own eyes, you have no empathy for those that work in institutions like the NHS, you see only the slither of one frame of a huge film and judge the whole film by that." - when I say you lefties I was not talking about you alone more a collective group. No doubt some of "you" have more knowledge but it suits your purpose to denigrate our institutions, again this is not "you" per se, it's left wingers and anti British in general.

[ToraToraTora]

TCL 22:51, ah, well that's nothing to do with the NHS, that's just the standard lack of empathy that your types have. Your inability to comprehend why someone not directly connected to something can take its denigration personally is a strong indicator of your character.

[THECORBYLOON]

Nice try but it was my specific comment you were referring to, wasn't it, not folk in general and you said it "tells me all I need to know about you."

[woofgang]

folks TTT has said "end of".....we all have to shut up now

[THECORBYLOON]

Do you understand what empathy means?

[ToraToraTora]

of course I do, do you?

[ToraToraTora]

22:58, see 22:56.

[Chinajan]

Was this you denigrating a British institution - the law - not too long ago Tora?

https://www.theanswerbank.co.uk/News/Question1739201.html

[THECORBYLOON]

What do you think it means?

[ToraToraTora]

well they are in need of some criticism in certain areas.

[ToraToraTora]

TCL, stop pratting about, have a contrarian pill, stop playing you rdamn silly pedantic games I know what it means why do you think I don't? You tell me what YOU think it means.

[ToraToraTora]

google it if you are struggling.

[ToraToraTora]

I have empathy with the apollo 13 crew, doesn't mean I've orbited the moon Einstein.

[THECORBYLOON]

"you have no empathy for those that work in institutions like the NHS," I agree, I have no empathy since I have not worked in an institution like the MGS but then again neither have you.

How can you share the feelings and emotions of someone working in the NHS or a similar institution, when you have not experienced those same feelings and emotions yourself?

[ToraToraTora]

I suggest you look up the word "empathy" again. You don't need to climb Everest to empathise with Hilary.

[ToraToraTora]

this might help: "Emotion researchers generally define empathy as the ability to sense other people's emotions, coupled with the ability to imagine what someone else might be thinking or feeling."

[THECORBYLOON]

The important word, in your case, is "imagine" since you don't know what like it is to work in the NHS or something similar.

[ToraToraTora]

TCL: "How can you share the feelings and emotions of someone working in the NHS or a similar institution, when you have not experienced those same feelings and emotions yourself? " - tell you what gave me a clue, nurses and doctors exhausted at 18 hour shifts, seeing their colleagues die. Standing crying before empty shelves in a supermarket. The at the same times morons denying there is a problem. I can see what they must be going through.