Matt
Forum Replies Created
-
Posts
-
I saw the letter that the Concerned Conservative politicians signed and they are condemning the local lockdowns setup by the Senedd, yet they’d have been told to 100% back any local lockdown activity put forth by the Conservatives in England – of which there is many.
It’s pure political point scoring and puts populist egos and careers in the Conservative party before lives.
Who and what now? I doubt anyone was watching. I remember Nick Clegg, he wasn’t the best but the other lead singers for the band after he quit were utterly forgettable.
Tourists also allowed to travel from England through the affected lockdown counties to holiday and have day trips to Gwynedd and Anglesey so they can climb Snowdon etc…
This just tells me that it’s only a matter of time before the large number of visitors concentrated into just 2 counties rather than spread across the whole of North Wales means the infection levels in those areas will start to spiral before long and see them in lockdown too.
Not a good situation.
I have a feeling investing at non-league level would be a passion project rather than looking to make money out of it. I view it as perhaps like the rest of us having a fantasy football team, but when you are really rich you can have your own fully fledged real team. I think long suffering Wrexham fans will be cautious about who comes in to own the club after the large number of crooks over the past few decades. The promise of millions in investment is definitely a plus and there are no assets left to be stripped.
For the time being if the takeover occurs I think people can be cautiously optimistic that it can only be a good thing for the club. At the end of the day, Wrexham’s problem is they’ve never had the money other clubs have had, hence the position they’ve held in non league for the past long time.
What is the difference between someone with a gun doing random shootings and someone who is Covid positive – the end result is likely to be the same some people will die and others will be seriously ill.
There are laws to stop someone owning a deadly gun so why not strict laws for someone spreading a deadly virus?Derek, the difference is someone premeditatively knows that acquiring and then loading up a gun and then pointing it at someone they actively have intention of harming or threatening to harm someone.
Someone could end up Covid positive through no fault of their own as it spreads through the human population – they don’t know who they have acquired it from and they may not even know they have acquired it. There are issues with getting hold of a test, there’s currently a shortage and a backlog.
People in London are being told that their nearest test centre is in Edinburgh. If you can’t get a test and you are feeling under the weather, people are seeking an opinion from a GP. There are stories of people wanting to go back to work and parents going to the GP with their child and being told that symptoms described after being unable to access a local test sounds more like a cold and on balance of proportions it is unlikely to be Covid-19 and they are okay on a doctor’s advice to return to work or school.
Also people who are completely asymptomatic are being told to not seek a test. If you feel well in yourself and others seem you as appearing well then you will not seek to self isolate for 14 days if you’ve not been specifically instructed to do so by a test and trace team.
So therein I’ve described 2 types of people who could be carrying and spreading covid about: 1) Those unable to be tested and misdiagnosed and told they just have a cold by a GP who could be spreading and 2) Asymptomatic Carriers who are told not to seek a test. Via a loophole and failure of the system both these people can argue within the bounds of the law that they were safe to mix with others. A simple availability of tests and a positive/negative result would avoid spread far more than financial and criminal punishment.
These 2 types of Covid Positive people as you describe them and who are being unfairly labelled for catching a virus that infects people like a lottery are being likened to criminals who threaten to shoot and kill people. That is the level of fear and hysteria we are at right now in this country and round the world. The fact of the matter is this Government (and Devolved) needs to be doing better and shoulder the responsibility of the spread and not unfairly paint individuals unfortunate enough to get ill then fall foul of the rules to get blamed for further spread.
I saw an article stating Wuhan was able to test 10m people in 10 days at one point of the outbreak. Until a vaccine is in place – we wouldn’t have the resources to hit any kind of moonshot testing programme, but we ought to be testing everyone who needs it at least.
You find a poignant comment on history distasteful?
Yet you see nothing wrong with this statement you made?
Make them do a shift in the mortuary moving the bodies of the dead victims of Covid!
You want to force people against their will to move dead bodies? Okay then.
People gleefully cheerleading for extreme punitive measures over seemingly minor infractions of the rules coupled with the repeat calls from government ministers to grass on your neighbours is a one way sleepwalk into fascism if you ask me.
We’ve seen this direction in 1930s Germany as well as countless warnings from dystopian fiction. Very rarely do extreme authoritarian governments get in by force they do so by a cowed compliance of the vast majority of the public based upon an atmosphere of fear – in this case Covid.
Now I firmly believe that people should be taking the civic duty of masking up where required and so far this week, I’d say 99% of people are doing their bit and complying.
The social distancing thing and numbers game is a bit more difficult as technically you can still have groupings of 30 outside in Wales – so a group would have to be pretty large to be policed. Likewise who is going to go knocking door to door to check that only 6 people excluding children are there at any one time indoors? We don’t have the police numbers and also who would like that to be a thing?
The fact is not all of society is going to be compliant in any activity – hence the need for jails for criminals. But if we can get most people to play ball by nudge theory and civic duty then the coronavirus infection rates will go down. Then you just focus on heavily penalising the worst/repeat offenders without creating an atmosphere of fear for the rest of us.
I appreciate where people are coming from, it’s very frustrating and angering to be playing by the rules and seeing people blatantly flout it and risk other people’s health and lives. But we’re going to have to face this for potentially a long time so a certain level of give and take and tolerance is required for all of our sanity.
At the end of the day if the current state of play where rules on social interaction aren’t making the R rate go down we will have to go back into a full lockdown.
The UK is rapidly becoming a failed state and it’s inevitable breakup will be the closing chapter of the once great British Empire. Just like the Roman and Ottoman Empires it will be resigned to the history books.
We can’t see it at the moment because we are currently part of unfolding historical events that have been rapidly accelerated by gross mismanagement of the Union. First perhaps in part to Labour’s grand neglect of Scotland but now the Tories 2 fingers to the Good Friday Agreement and unwilling withdrawal of Scotland from the EU.
It’s not a case of IF but WHEN Scotland will leave the UK with overwhelming numbers of young Scots wanting independence and Ireland will never accept a hard border between NI and ROI so it will be impossible for some part of the UK to be outside the EU from a customs perspective unless Ireland reunifies and leaves the UK.
Back to current events – When Boris Johnson said he had an oven ready deal for Brexit he was lying repeatedly to get elected. As it has now been revealed he didn’t. If he’d have been honest we’d still probably be in the political deadlock we were in 12 months ago, but why should any of us care because politicians always lie and just do what they want anyway and go back on election promises.
It is unlikely that the EU will allow the UK to leave with no deal as it is impractical for all concerned so this has just created more delay and uncertainty and is likely to keep this Brexit limbo saga ongoing for years and years to come.
