Coronavirus (COVID-19)

[Wee-Bey]

Thoughts and prayers with the folk who read that dorlomin post.

I was also browsing P&B, could have been me.

[Guest]

1 hour ago, dorlomin said:

The level of emotional repression on this forum is weird. 

Any public displays of empathy, warmth or fear are jumped on with sneering, mocking, contempt and aggressive hostility. 

I know Scottish people have a reputation like many north west Europeans for being stoic or outright emotionally retrograde, but its on another level here given its the 2020s. For example any time a celebrity or famous person dies the forum is chock full of people mocking people expressing public grief, belittling it and going on about Diana syndrome. There is zero tolerance for any expressing of grief  beyond immediate family members. 

Then there is the inevitable mocking and sneering when there is a public tragedy or terrorist outrage. Again any signs of showing solidarity with the victims is attacked, the threads fill up with mocking "I went to empty the bins it could have been me" type posts. Normal humans (i.e. not you lot) will express their anxieties to each other at something as random as a bus crash to fatal terrorist attack; this will include expressing worries that it could have been them or their feelings of empathy with the victims. The emotional cripples here seem to live with the terror someone will expect them to reciprocate and emotionally bond with them. I guess its in part your insecure masculinity. 

Charity events: someone random gets in the news raising money. Its like they are digging up your grandmothers graves! As soon as there is a public outpouring of emotions for someone doing something the bullies are out and trying too belittle anyone support it is, well its a very sad window into your broken souls. (See the old boy whos walk raised money)

And now the clap for carers. Again any display of public emotion and you all explode into belittle, sneering, bullying and hate. 

Which brings me to the only emotions you ever allow yourselves to express, hate, anger, desire for violence, vengeance. Where you do express something resembling sympathy for someone, its usually simply as a pretext for anger and hate. So for example you will say something about the homeless then use that as a jump off point for how much you want to hurt\murder or just hate tories\Scottish Labour\English "gammons" or what ever. 

As a group hurtling towards your 50s at a fair rate of knots, you are for the most part, emotionally still about 13 years old. 

 

You're probably right, that's what happens when you've grown up in the Thatcher era with a sense of hopelessness coupled with anger and a deep routed hatred.

Speaking personally, there's no doubt I'm very cynical and have a chip on my shoulder, however it's not without good reason.

[Mark Connolly]

1 minute ago, Henderson to deliver ..... said:

Thoughts and prayers with the folk who read that dorlomin post.

I was also browsing P&B, could have been me.

[ayrmad]

11 minutes ago, bendan said:

Yes, 9% of 40k is still a big number, but in terms of the overall healthy population under the age of 50 or 60, it wouldn't represent a big risk, or a risk greater than many other illnesses pose to that group.

That's comparing apples and wheelbarrows though. 

[Melanius Mullarkey]

Has Dorlomin got the ‘Rona?

[Suspect Device]

Just watching the commons health committee on the BBC news and I'm strangely more interested in the carefully chosen backdrop the MPs have chosen for their broadcast.

Matt Hancock has chosen a large picture of the Queen. #staunch

Jeremy (C)Hunt likesto show how intelligent and environmentally friendly he is. Lots of books in the background and a cycling helmet hanging up.

Amy Callaghan (SNP) is in her kitchen. Just a boring old clock in the background.

Some bloke I've never heard of has a nice picture ofJohn Lennon.

[The OP]

5 minutes ago, Mark Connolly said:

Clapping to show support? We’ll have none of that on here thanks ya big emotional pansy.

[Jeff Venom]

_{Could of been me, come on now folks.}

[Guest]

3 minutes ago, Suspect Device said:

Just watching the commons health committee on the BBC news and I'm strangely more interested in the carefully chosen backdrop the MPs have chosen for their broadcast.

Matt Hancock has chosen a large picture of the Queen. #staunch

Jeremy (C)Hunt likesto show how intelligent and environmentally friendly he is. Lots of books in the background and a cycling helmet hanging up.

Amy Callaghan (SNP) is in her kitchen. Just a boring old clock in the background.

Some bloke I've never heard of has a nice picture ofJohn Lennon.

I've been noticing this myself, how most seem to have a well stocked bookshelf with some "classics" to the fore and also a few musical instruments propped against the wall seems to be another favourite.

Not that it's staged or all thought out in advance of course, that would just be us being cynical again and no doubt bitter and twisted also.

[eindhovendee]

14 minutes ago, WATTOO said:

You're probably right, that's what happens when you've grown up in the Thatcher era with a sense of hopelessness coupled with anger and a deep routed hatred.

Speaking personally, there's no doubt I'm very cynical and have a chip on my shoulder, however it's not without good reason.

I am quite balanced about the whole thing.

I have a chip on both shoulders.

[Gaz]

On 02/04/2020 at 20:18, Gaz said:

The folk doing the clapping will be the same folk who start wearing poppies in September.

Said exactly this two weeks ago.

Before long we're going to have folk getting vitriolic about why you weren't outside clapping.

[Fullerene]

16 minutes ago, WATTOO said:

I've been noticing this myself, how most seem to have a well stocked bookshelf with some "classics" to the fore and also a few musical instruments propped against the wall seems to be another favourite.

Not that it's staged or all thought out in advance of course, that would just be us being cynical again and no doubt bitter and twisted also.

Missed a trick I would say.  After completing their predictions of doom and gloom, they would grab a musical instrument and perform "Always look on the bright side of Life".

Then they should cut to one of the other people for the next verse.

Bound to be a hit.

[Melanius Mullarkey]

Arse carpet.

Thats a new one on me.

[bendan]

24 minutes ago, ayrmad said:

That's comparing apples and wheelbarrows though. 

I genuinely struggle to understand some of the hysteria around this. Death is obviously a terrible thing for families/friends/acquaintances to experience, but I don't see why as a society we see a given number of covid-19 deaths in a given group of people as being something of far greater concern than other, equally avoidable deaths. 

[Tutankhamen]

6 minutes ago, Snafu said:

Nurse returns from 12-hour shift to find note telling her she is “a disgrace and has been reported”

Posted by

u/hokkuhokku

 

3 days ago

 

 

Being a nurse and some absolute arse carpet in your neighbourhood leaving a note on your windscreen “reporting” you because they think you’re going out for a sight seeing jolly when you’re actually driving to and from your night-shifts.

Yup.

Happened to a colleague of mine.

Fucking disgraceful.

Even made the local papers

 

A dick with issues wrote that.

News from Latin America is medical staff are in mortal danger from the general public.

[Granny Danger]

2 minutes ago, Snafu said:

Westminster Bridge fury as "idiots" ignore 2m rule during NHS Clap For Carers outside hospital

Solicitor Aamer Anwar wrote on Twitter: "We’ve seen officers wrongly applying #COVID19 laws, shouting in faces ‘you’re killing people’, use drones, no yoga or park benches, yet here @metpoliceuk don’t apply laws on #SocialDistancing at WM Bridge as people clap NHS who say #StayHomeStayLives.

"Public gatherings of only 2, some of us haven’t seen our parents in weeks, our children not at schools, nearly 14,000 dead as @metpoliceuk allow this madness on Westminster Bridge."

Another person added: "I actually can’t get over these videos from Westminster Bridge tonight.

"The fact that the POLICE are the ones doing it.

"So, if I was to invite family round for a BBQ, the police could come and break it up, but if I go to Westminster Bridge on a Thursday at 8pm to clap, all good."

The public who gathered on the bridge have been dubbed "idiots"

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/westminster-bridge-fury-idiots-ignore-21881637

 

 

If anything sums up the “Great British Public” it is this event and this photo.  I was going to post a diatribe but what’s the fucking point.

[D.A.F.C]

The level of emotional repression on this forum is weird. 
Any public displays of empathy, warmth or fear are jumped on with sneering, mocking, contempt and aggressive hostility. 
I know Scottish people have a reputation like many north west Europeans for being stoic or outright emotionally retrograde, but its on another level here given its the 2020s. For example any time a celebrity or famous person dies the forum is chock full of people mocking people expressing public grief, belittling it and going on about Diana syndrome. There is zero tolerance for any expressing of grief  beyond immediate family members. 
Then there is the inevitable mocking and sneering when there is a public tragedy or terrorist outrage. Again any signs of showing solidarity with the victims is attacked, the threads fill up with mocking "I went to empty the bins it could have been me" type posts. Normal humans (i.e. not you lot) will express their anxieties to each other at something as random as a bus crash to fatal terrorist attack; this will include expressing worries that it could have been them or their feelings of empathy with the victims. The emotional cripples here seem to live with the terror someone will expect them to reciprocate and emotionally bond with them. I guess its in part your insecure masculinity. 
Charity events: someone random gets in the news raising money. Its like they are digging up your grandmothers graves! As soon as there is a public outpouring of emotions for someone doing something the bullies are out and trying too belittle anyone support it is, well its a very sad window into your broken souls. (See the old boy whos walk raised money)
And now the clap for carers. Again any display of public emotion and you all explode into belittle, sneering, bullying and hate. 
Which brings me to the only emotions you ever allow yourselves to express, hate, anger, desire for violence, vengeance. Where you do express something resembling sympathy for someone, its usually simply as a pretext for anger and hate. So for example you will say something about the homeless then use that as a jump off point for how much you want to hurt\murder or just hate tories\Scottish Labour\English "gammons" or what ever. 
As a group hurtling towards your 50s at a fair rate of knots, you are for the most part, emotionally still about 13 years old. 

 

[Sergeant Wilson]

1 hour ago, dorlomin said:

The level of emotional repression on this forum is weird. 

Any public displays of empathy, warmth or fear are jumped on with sneering, mocking, contempt and aggressive hostility. 

I know Scottish people have a reputation like many north west Europeans for being stoic or outright emotionally retrograde, but its on another level here given its the 2020s. For example any time a celebrity or famous person dies the forum is chock full of people mocking people expressing public grief, belittling it and going on about Diana syndrome. There is zero tolerance for any expressing of grief  beyond immediate family members. 

Then there is the inevitable mocking and sneering when there is a public tragedy or terrorist outrage. Again any signs of showing solidarity with the victims is attacked, the threads fill up with mocking "I went to empty the bins it could have been me" type posts. Normal humans (i.e. not you lot) will express their anxieties to each other at something as random as a bus crash to fatal terrorist attack; this will include expressing worries that it could have been them or their feelings of empathy with the victims. The emotional cripples here seem to live with the terror someone will expect them to reciprocate and emotionally bond with them. I guess its in part your insecure masculinity. 

Charity events: someone random gets in the news raising money. Its like they are digging up your grandmothers graves! As soon as there is a public outpouring of emotions for someone doing something the bullies are out and trying too belittle anyone support it is, well its a very sad window into your broken souls. (See the old boy whos walk raised money)

And now the clap for carers. Again any display of public emotion and you all explode into belittle, sneering, bullying and hate. 

Which brings me to the only emotions you ever allow yourselves to express, hate, anger, desire for violence, vengeance. Where you do express something resembling sympathy for someone, its usually simply as a pretext for anger and hate. So for example you will say something about the homeless then use that as a jump off point for how much you want to hurt\murder or just hate tories\Scottish Labour\English "gammons" or what ever. 

As a group hurtling towards your 50s at a fair rate of knots, you are for the most part, emotionally still about 13 years old. 

 

 Your point being?

"Hurtling towards my 50s...I fucking wish!

[ayrmad]

4 minutes ago, bendan said:

I genuinely struggle to understand some of the hysteria around this. Death is obviously a terrible thing for families/friends/acquaintances to experience, but I don't see why as a society we see a given number of covid-19 deaths in a given group of people as being something of far greater concern than other, equally avoidable deaths. 

I'm certainly not hysterical, your posting in a knowledgeable manner whilst showing as little grasp as VT, don't know if you're coming at this from some sort of political angle or not but it feels like it. 

Where would all these lovely graphs from ONS have been if we didn't encourage social distancing and introduce our lockdown, IMO it's better to overestimate than underestimate with this particular virus. 

[peasy23]

It struck me as fishy that it ran to the bank holiday. There will be a reason for it. 
The lockdown came in on the Monday, not quite sure they waited to yesterday to announce another three weeks. 

16th April was the date specifically mentioned for a review in the emergency legislation that was passed.