Talk about tarts and suddenly I'm in a sweet shop.

Maple, I have some time for you but come on....'The Charge of the Light Brigade' probably pretty much sums up the differences.

Sure...look for complaints in the ranks and you will always find them...but you don't build the pyramids by holding polls....and unfortunately wars are like that....Not everyone in charge is Alexander.

Perhaps you think the boats on the Titanic should have been distributed fifty fifty as well.

I look to a far better world....post modernism can coco.

Edited by Stirlingsays (04 Jan 2022 2.36pm)

'Who are you and how did you get in here? I'm a locksmith. And, I'm a locksmith.' (Leslie Nielsen)

If seemingly we are going to have a different variant every few months we need to just get on with it, making sure the weak & vulnerable are protected whilst the rest of us get on with it.
Something they seem to be doing ok at in Arkansas, Texas & Florida & not so well in Democratic states such as New Jersey, New York & California where they've locked up everything & achieved little in real terms.
It looks like NYCs new mayor is already thinking along these lines as is the (Newish stand in Governor)

Pro USA & Israel

And non mask wearers are snowflakes according DanH who you couldn’t rely on in the world wars. Classic

COYP

While I'd agree with some of that I think my commentary is essentially that there is an overstatement of the problem....which basically feeds into over reaction and why we have over the top absences in the public services.

Sure, you don't have the ill treating the ill, however there is a common sense approach here that hospitals have always dealt with in the past....viruses aren't new and they have always run in the past when we had more more deadlier ones.

The sky isn't falling in for about 99.9 percent of people....society helps the 0.1 percent but it's nuts to do more than that.

Edited by Stirlingsays (04 Jan 2022 2.55pm)

'Who are you and how did you get in here? I'm a locksmith. And, I'm a locksmith.' (Leslie Nielsen)

We will be through it soon I hope.
I think that Boris & Co. made a good call this time around whilst at the same time hacking off the population of Wales and Scotland - happy days!
In an event it does seem that Omicron isn't doing as much damage due to type but more importantly vaccines.
The business with time off within the NHS I totally get - they would not be home sick if they didn't need to be in my opinion.
The rest of the country however - well - there are many of them having an extra weeks holiday right now whilst feeling perfectly well.
They can't do it forever though so by the end of January - hopefully - normal life will pretty much resume for those of us who have vaccinated.
For the remainder then they need to be very careful not to catch it!

I'll admit it is a tricky one. For instance if there was a ward related to surgery for broken bones and the like of younger people then I can't imagine that having covid on top would be the disaster of the century. It's more that there are clearly a decent percentage of people in hospital who could be adversely impact by it, in addition to it undermining the treatment they are already getting. As in you certainly wouldn't want covid ripping through a cancer ward, or a ward full of old people.

I think it's sensible to remove staff if they come down with it, on account that it's basically a week off, accepting that there may be consequences of that too, but that they are likely more short lived. In a couple of months time, things will likely have died right down case number wise, and in theory at least people will have yet more protection making it even less of an issue than it may already be becoming.