Shy Talk

They are here indefinitely, despite any genuine threat to people under 75 disappearing. Everything they've imposed has been brought in without an end date. At no point have they thrown us a bone since 'just flatten the curve'. And we all know what happened after that - further tightening of the screw.

WARNING TO PEOPLE TRAVELLING ON THE TUBE IN CENTRAL LONDON (without masks) So, I've been using the mainline from south London since early May to travel into town to see friends (could count on one hand the people who I saw on the trains until about mid-June, even though the govt disingenuously announced the reason for the imposition of masks on trains was ' to protect the workers' - they knew people wouldn't be travelling in because 1 They'd already scared the life out of the vast majority from travelling and, 2 Companies in London are looking to get out of their rental agreements because they know what's coming). Used the tube just once in that time and had no issues. However, today, because it was raining, I headed to Tottenham Court Rd tube (for those unfamiliar it's a busy station at one end of the shopping hell called Oxford St). A few yards from the bottom of the first escalator, someone bellowed 'Why aren't you wearing a mask?' I looked across to see some unmasked Transport For London character sat in a semi-circle of traffic cones (as if they're going to protect him from a deadly virus). 'I'm exempt' I replied/lied, and continued my journey without further interruption. Worrying times that will get worse unless people kick back en masse. I'm not hopeful, because too many are accepting it and/or are afraid of the consequences. The one thing I would recommend is that people carry some kind of exemption form (available on various websites) and pull that out if confronted, because I expect these jobsworths have been told to back down if there's a possible medical issue that could lead to litigation.

The enforcement of masks in shops defies all logic. We are long past the worst of whatever it was, and shop staff and shoppers haven't been dying in their droves, so the obvious policy would be to gradually ease restrictions, and any sane society would. Yet they are imposing something extremely restrictive that wasn't considered necessary for the last four months. It's hard not to conclude that if the majority accept this outrageous impingement unquestioningly, the ptb will have the confidence to go for the jugular when the next flu season comes around in October/November.

https://www.cdc.gov/flu/pastseasons/1415season.htm#deaths If I've read this correctly, even the authorities estimate around 8 million people caught the flu in the US in 2014/15, an admittedly heavy flu season that lasted at least 5 months according to the report. We're about halfway there on infections with the current thing (that's if you're buying it).

Just gone on that Twitter thread. Some clown is trying to compare an obvious fitness fanatic who can run miles in a mask to elderly people whose health issues he knows nothing about. You can't argue with that level of stupidity.

Wouldn't bet against Maxwell being kept on the back burner, ready to be wheeled out in the run-up to the US elections in order to implicate Trump in paedo island and hammer the final nail in his chances for a second term.

I agree. I think this may belong in its own thread, but my mother was in her twenties when the more lethal Hong Kong Flu passed through the UK in 1968. She doesn't remember it (like most people I presume) because there wasn't 24/7 bombardment/brainwashing by media. As an older person who spends most of her time watching the mainstream nowadays, she thinks this concoction is lethal. I can sympathise to some extent, given her age, but there's little excuse for anyone not in the high-risk groups for flu.

The way they've managed to impose this is ridiculous. Back in March, those Downing St pantomime briefings were all about 'flattening the curve, then life would return to normal'. Somehow, they've got away with it and it's not even a sleight of hand. It's absolutely blatant.

First came here in March because everyone I know was buying this crap (most still are) and they thought I was mad! My initial thoughts were that the pandemic was pulled mainly as a last, desperate attempt to stop Trump, who entered the new year cruising to a second term despite having everything bar the kitchen sink thrown at him for four years (it seems to have worked on that front). Also felt it would be used to thwart Brexit (Boris entered the new year on the back of a thumping majority but has been a shadow of himself since he returned from pretending to be ill), distract from the Prince Andy disgrace and save the bankers from taking blame for another recession, that was already looming. I still stand by those thoughts and there's been plenty more collateral added along the way.