JeffA:
50 years ago everyone would have worn a mask and just obeyed the restrictions for everyones sake without whining - nowadays after decades of tory rule nobody has any other thought for anyone but themselves. “I want a pint so everyone else can go to hell…but I still expect hospital treatment when my moronic ideas put me in intensive care”.
Imagine them in the blitz - “Turn my lights off? Sit in the dark? Do you really think a bomber is going to see my lights? From 20,000 feet? Its all a hoax. Put your lights on like a christmas tree and dont be afraid. Ive bought floodlights for the garden and Im leaving them on all night. They dont scare me. .”
That is one way of looking at it, but society has changed a lot in those 50 years, in many ways, … good and bad.
People tend to question stuff more nowadays through different sources of news, but mainly through social media.
Many still accept the official line on everything, but those who are a bit less naive and switched on realise there is something not quite right in what we are being told, so they look for the true agenda, or at least a hidden one running alongside a true one.
In the seeking of the truth you get many varying theories from the outlandish to the possibly plausible, with different people having different opinions and views.
I personally believe the condition of Covid to be genuine, but I also believe the governing bodies of the world are also using it as a vehicle for some kind of social experiment to see just how far they can go, with people to see just how far they will bend over by giving up the freedoms that were once taken for granted, starting with wearing these ridiculous masks with little to no effect other than making you look a bit gullible, to interfering with your out of work free time that ithey know is held dear to working people and by Christ are they sucking the juice out of it.
I know that sounds a bit implausible, but just look around, do we have bodies on the streets, are hospitals at breaking point, is it done kind of armageddon scenario out there, or are MOST people who are getting it, and with no real health issues just suffering for a week and moving on, with the odd few getting adverse reactions to it.
Many of us have been on this forum for more than 10 years, if I had came on here then as some kind of Trucknet based ten bob Nostradamus, and said…
‘You know what, enjoy your freedoms of going out, going on holiday, spending festivities with your families , meeting friends that you all take for granted, cos in 10 years time there will be laws passed stopping us doing all of this’
You would have said I was off my ■■■■ head.
As for your blitz analogy…hmm a bit different, the threat (and the evidence thereof) was unarguable, nobody could deny the severity of the danger, where as now the actual severity is questionable deoending on what or how much you believe what you are being told.
) so we need to deal with it both in the context of getting on with it alongside it and generally living with it.
…''It must be right because (fill in the blank who is some kind of authority) said so on an internet link.