Nobody in government lost their jobs. They all got paid on-time, every week. — synthesis
Perhaps the question which I would pose for anyone reading this, is how far their experience has led them to question their systems of belief? — Jack Cummins
Ask those who are looking at losing their homes, their businesses, or who have lost a loved one to suicide from the lockdown if it has been worth the cost. Methinks the answer will be very different. — Book273
I remember once saying to a woman I knew, that I had spent time questioning my way through the Catholic beliefs I has been taught. She replied, 'But that would be too much work.' — Jack Cummins
If you want to apportion blame (and emphasize personal responsibility), then the blame lies with the employees who chose to go to work instead of losing their jobs. In the beginning of the pandemic, this is what was happening: if people chose to respect the quarantene, not just a few employers would count that as their vacation time or sick leave, and when those ran out, it was "Go to work or lose your job."This sort of thinking is precisely how the pandemic has become so protracted. A refusal to do it once and do it right because business comes first has killed off many more businesses and people than just accepting the necessary measures to handle the pandemic properly. — Kenosha Kid
So how does a person come to terms with this?Also, asking whether those worst affected by measures of they are in favour of them is rather dishonest. Such measures are statistical, taken for the sake of the whole population in order to minimise, not simply eradicate, harm. Those unfortunate enough to be the worst affected have no right to insist that every person saved by those measures should instead be dead for their sake.
If you want to apportion blame (and emphasize personal responsibility), then the blame lies with the employees who chose to go to work instead of losing their jobs. In the beginning of the pandemic, this is what was happening: if people chose to respect the quarantene, not just a few employers would count that as their vacation time or sick leave, and when those ran out, it was "Go to work or lose your job." — baker
I wear a mask, of course, but I have knocked items over and tripped over a step because I can't see properly as my glasses steam up so much. — Jack Cummins
I sometimes think that life in Britain will never go back to the way it was, and I really hope that I am wrong. — Jack Cummins
I am not sure that the majority of people are going to be able to work from home. — Jack Cummins
Yes, but if life carried on as it is now I would question whether there would be any quality of life at all, because just about every outlet available is closed down. — Jack Cummins
I have moments when I am too great — Jack Cummins
Also, I have to admit that sometimes even when I read this site I get quite worked up by some posts I read. To some extent, emotion and anger do have a motivating effect in enabling us to fight for certain causes. — Jack Cummins
How is anybody sure of anything? — synthesis
Facts are relative to a specific set of circumstances that can only occur one time, so is it really a fact? — synthesis
Is it always painful when you get kicked? What does the ball do if you drop it out in deep space? — synthesis
A long time ago people thought all kinds of crazy things and made it work. The things we believe today will be just as crazy to the folks in the future. — synthesis
It's always been my impression that what we can know happens before our intellect kicks-in. We just know like a bird or wolf or termite just knows. It is our intellect that mostly distorts this knowing into all kinds of gibberish. — synthesis
I would bet that we are well down on the list of animals in terms of weather predicting skills, don't you think? — synthesis
We thought Newton's theories could predict outcomes reliably for the longest time. Turns out they couldn’t and we were making a mistake. — khaled
For instance, we do not want doctors, nurses, grocers, police officers, government officials and other key workers quitting their jobs to self-isolate full stop — Kenosha Kid
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