vikingTON Posted February 14, 2023 Share Posted February 14, 2023 8 hours ago, Satoshi said: I remembered seeing a poll that said something like 20% of people were in favour of permanent restrictions which is absolutely wild. By all means live your life how you want, but the pandemic did expose an undercurrent who welcome and thrive on extreme government control of themselves and others. I hope that, if I am lucky enough to live to be old and don't want to go out as much, I sure as hell don't try to stop others from doing so. The American liberals are still completely unhinged over masks in a way that UK society moved quickly away from as soon as government compulsion was binned. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
effeffsee_the2nd Posted February 14, 2023 Share Posted February 14, 2023 33 minutes ago, virginton said: The American liberals are still completely unhinged over masks in a way that UK society moved quickly away from as soon as government compulsion was binned. I often wondered if we'd have had a labour government at the time (same with the USA and the democrats), but one who took the exact same approach as what the torries did in our timeline, would the right wing have been absolutely frothing about " wishy washy liberals putting so called freedoms ahead of safety? and calling for " a proper lockdown" with a warden and a curfew - like during the blitz was an all. I'm glad we haven't adopted the mass politicization of masks in the UK. it's very old firm esqu in the states 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scottsdad Posted February 14, 2023 Share Posted February 14, 2023 Tesco in Wales screening off all the non-food aisles because it was unfair on toy shops who had shut. No wonder Amazon absolutely cleaned up during the pandemic. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ICTChris Posted February 14, 2023 Share Posted February 14, 2023 3 hours ago, effeffsee_the2nd said: I often wondered if we'd have had a labour government at the time (same with the USA and the democrats), but one who took the exact same approach as what the torries did in our timeline, would the right wing have been absolutely frothing about " wishy washy liberals putting so called freedoms ahead of safety? and calling for " a proper lockdown" with a warden and a curfew - like during the blitz was an all. I'm glad we haven't adopted the mass politicization of masks in the UK. it's very old firm esqu in the states The big 'what if' is what would've happened if Trump had been President right through the full course of things - the US has seen far, far more vaccine hesitancy than comparable countries and a lot of it has come due to political affiliation. Trump was (and is) very pro-vaccine, mainly as he could take some credit for it. If he'd been pushing it then I think a lot more Americans would have taken the vaccine and subsequently fewer would have died. In the UK, I think that Tory voters had a higher vaccine take up rate than Labour voters, due to the Tory vote having a much higher level of pensioners. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wile E Coyote Posted February 14, 2023 Share Posted February 14, 2023 (edited) Nicola banning us all from going to Manchester. Andy Burnham telling her to go and take a f**k to herself as he was banning nobody from visiting his city Edited February 14, 2023 by Wile E Coyote 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Musketeer Gripweed Posted February 14, 2023 Share Posted February 14, 2023 26 minutes ago, ICTChris said: The big 'what if' is what would've happened if Trump had been President right through the full course of things - the US has seen far, far more vaccine hesitancy than comparable countries and a lot of it has come due to political affiliation. Trump was (and is) very pro-vaccine, mainly as he could take some credit for it. If he'd been pushing it then I think a lot more Americans would have taken the vaccine and subsequently fewer would have died. In the UK, I think that Tory voters had a higher vaccine take up rate than Labour voters, due to the Tory vote having a much higher level of pensioners. That reminds me of another lockdown habit I developed. Watching Seth Myers broadcast on Youtube from his attic, basically taking potshots at Trump every night. Mind all the injecting bleach pish he came out with at one stage, fucking lunatic. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
microdave Posted February 14, 2023 Share Posted February 14, 2023 39 minutes ago, Wile E Coyote said: Nicola banning us all from going to Manchester. Andy Burnham telling her to go and take a f**k to herself as he was banning nobody from visiting his city I vaguely remember that but why were people going to Manchester? Around Christmas 2021? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wile E Coyote Posted February 14, 2023 Share Posted February 14, 2023 13 minutes ago, microdave said: I vaguely remember that but why were people going to Manchester? Around Christmas 2021? They weren't. The Manchester area had a high level of Covid so the SNP asked people not to travel to the area 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
microdave Posted February 14, 2023 Share Posted February 14, 2023 9 minutes ago, Wile E Coyote said: They weren't. The Manchester area had a high level of Covid so the SNP asked people not to travel to the area Cheers for the answer. I'd probably developed my covid news fatigue by that point. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lyle Lanley Posted February 14, 2023 Share Posted February 14, 2023 1 hour ago, Wile E Coyote said: Nicola banning us all from going to Manchester. Andy Burnham telling her to go and take a f**k to herself as he was banning nobody from visiting his city Went to Liverpool a few weeks after that was announced and not one restaurant/bar was asking people to wear masks or use the NHS app to check into places. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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