Taken from today's news headlines. So, loosely translated, the Canadian government is tracking our cell phones....awesome. I feel so safe, with my government tracking my movements. — Book273
Lock down hard and early. — Banno
Ideology is the greatest danger; in this case individualism preventing folk taking personal care and faith in the free market preventing preparation and adequate responses. — Banno
Brisbane locked down hard for three days after one case. Long enough for tracing to be done, End of outbreak. — Banno
Brisbane locked down hard for three days after one case. Long enough for tracing to be done, End of outbreak. — Banno
They did it because they had the benefit of knowledge gained from countries that learned it the hard way, the first one being Italy. — frank
killing 22,000 children a day from poverty and no-one giving a shit — Isaac
How would you handle the virus mitigation going forward in a house with differing opinions about COVID? — ArguingWAristotleTiff
Why don't you do something to help? — frank
But most of the credit should go to the excellent tracing of contacts. — Banno
Why do you assume Isaac isn't? — Banno
I am overcoming a lot of resentment — ArguingWAristotleTiff
I've been working on ways to get inhaled medications to poor kids with asthma. — frank
The few nutjob anti-maskers are not to blame for the overburdening of hospital services (all societies have nutjobs and failing to plan for them is our fault - as non-nutjobs, not theirs) - decades of chronic underfunding is to blame. — Isaac
The pharmaceutical industries are not saviours, in it with the rest of us - they spent billions lobbying to get this exact result with immunity from any responsibility despite not even testing the vaccine properly and stand to make billions out of the roll-out of a — Isaac
So now - really - how do you think people's response to hearing 22,00 children a day die from poverty is going to have changed? — Isaac
Everyone learns where the weaknesses were and what we should have done. — frank
Your attitude toward the vaccine perplexes me. — frank
how do you think people's response to hearing 22,00 children a day die from poverty is going to have changed? — Isaac
Who cares? — frank
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