Tom Hark Preston Park
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- Jul 6, 2003
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Not at all sure that's the way forward. Even for Austria...
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/world-59343987
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/world-59343987
It will be interesting how they react to thousands of unvaccinated people gathering in large groups to protest during a time of skyrocketing cases.
A right mess from Austria and indeed much of Europe.
They have been mocking our high cases for months... but they can only dream of being in our position now.
Wonder how long before they make you wear your QR code on your sleeve?![]()
Not at all sure that's the way forward. Even for Austria...
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/world-59343987
They are going full nuke option
Fines and jail, if you do that are you really still a democracy?
If they really want to go that route maybe start at making covid related healthcare chargeable for unvaxed.
They've got a new Chancellor just taken office. Pretty soon to be an EX-Chancellor one would think![]()
They are going full nuke option
Fines and jail, if you do that are you really still a democracy?
If they really want to go that route maybe start at making covid related healthcare chargeable for unvaxed.
You can see this is going to get nasty
If you do that why stop at Covid?
Why not smokers, overweight etc.
I guess the argument is you don't make someone else fat by being fat
Anyway, I'm not saying I'd agree with this. You'd just think they'd try something is bit less severe first
Um... you can't seriously be trying to make a comparison between WW2 and the Covid pandemic?
The comparison is about threat to human life and most people would say it was ok to have stringent rules in place to protect life in WW2 yet we seem to have a group of people who are unwilling to accept much less stringent rules for COVID which is a bigger threat to life.
Even with the 'reduced' impact we are experiencing a 1000 DEATHS a week.
If you are unhappy with WW2 then maybe a comparison to seat belt usage. Most people are happy to use seat belts now but some people were upset about that law being introduced and still refuse to use them. At best the estimates would indicate they sav 15000 lives a year.
Those are worldwide estimates for seat belts, I presume? The highest peacetime number of road deaths in the UK was 7,985 in 1966,and that includes pedestrians and cyclists who wouldn't be affected. Have you a source?
Just double checked it and realised I had clicked on a US site rather than a UK one so busted on that....
What I assumed they had done was extrapolate the figures using the extra number of cars , extra mileage and car power performance to increase the number of deaths and then adjusted it down by factoring in how much safer cars are now... The point being is people were forced to do this , it was unpopular and the numbers saved per year are relatively small compared to what is happening with COVID deaths.