Dont think anyone is saying the handling is a job done good.
I dont think i have denied that the number of deaths are too high and they should be a lot lower.
Nah. Nothing in your post even attempts holds the Tories accountable for their shitshow - accountable even to their own measure.
These people will always exist.
Yep.
I think you'll find the virus caused the deaths and the politicians could have done more to prevent them would be more accurate.
Sorry I'm late...Thanks for your semiregular whinge post
That's technically correct, which as has been pointed out to me might be the best sort of correct. But when your prime responsibility is the protection of the population and the actions you've taken, the choices you've made have lead to world-beating death rates on such a huge scale, then you're responsible for that.
Interestingly though @Raven - this "tsunami of mental health problems" people like @Bodhi keep harping on about in order to justify removing lockdowns don't really appear to be materialising in the way you'd expect when you look at actual long-term data.
Apparently this is because of a (well known and researched) phenomenon that shared trauma creates a shared sense of identity that helps people cope. (Individual trauma, like rape, is devestating).
They go further in the article - to demonstrate where government help should be directed post pandemic. To those with pre-existing mental health conditions, to people who've had the virus and general economic help.
In the meantime, lockdowns have clearly stopped shitloads of "post traumatic stress" being experienced by people who lose family members. Unfortunately, because of the Tories, not enough people have been spared that shitness though
I don't particularly disagree with that sentiment but then at the same time I'm not inclined to think any politicians would have done an especially good job.
Not disagreeing with you there @Raven. You can't really pull me up on this as I'm only reporting what's being published. However - you clearly fit into the "need to do this for my mental health" category - i.e. pre-existing requirements.
You don't have to look far to find ones that did just that.
I should have been clearer, I meant any of our politicians. There's not a single one I can look at and go "they'd get the job done"
I need to have an emotional response to care enough to think about it much.
Have not seen anything from zuby before. It was retweeted by carol decker of t’pau who is a raging anti lockdown devaYep.
The first sentence is bullshit. Pathological means "caused by physical or mental disease" - whereas it's a rational response to a deadly threat.
The second sentence I have some sympathy with. Tyrannical means "exercising power in a cruel or arbitrary way" - and there's no doubt it's cruel to some, but not cruel to a lot of people who's lives, and who's families lives have been saved by the exercising of this power. It's certainly not arbitrary though.
The third sentence - it's back to meaningless drivel and it's quite self-evident why so I'm not going to argue the point.
What's interesting is that @Moriath and @Bodhi have both heard of Zuby. Maybe they picked up on him when Donald Trump retweeted him
Look at the flips and twists you're doing! What utter bullshit! For the Tories!
Just my random thoughts. In my head. Apart from what effects me directly i can be pretty destructive with what i hope happens. Better to live in interesting times than boring ones.
