If wearing a mask is a "lie" why then does my wife, who is a nurse in our local hospital, wear one at all times when facing patients? Is she wasting her time, and our money? Or is she protecting herself, or her patient, from the possibility of a cough or a sneeze overloading the environment close to her? She knows it isn't perfect, but she and her colleagues all wear them without complaint, and they are all trained medical professionals. Are they fools? What do you know better, and what qualifications do you have that have enabled that knowledge?

If my wife, and those she is in contact with derive benefit, why won't others when in contact with other people? She isn't from a unique species.

For the avoidance of doubt any comments in response to a previous post are directed to its ideas and not at any, or all, posters personally.

What I support is doing things that the consensus of expert opinion suggests is the best at the time. Then holding a thorough, objective investigation afterwards to see what lessons can be learned in preparation for similar events.

What I don't support are self-opinionated know-it-alls claiming that their opposition has been proved right, when then enquiry has yet to be even started. It might be, but that doesn't mean that we made mistakes at the time. We must always do what appears to be best, even if some disagree.

I know there were casualties, and that there are residual impacts. That's inevitable and would have been whatever strategy was adopted. If the anti-lockdown advocates had had their way they would still exist, but they would just be different. Whether better, or worse, cannot be known, because we have no evidence. All we have are the claims of the know-it-alls, who rely on events elsewhere when environments and circumstances don't replicate ours.

For the avoidance of doubt any comments in response to a previous post are directed to its ideas and not at any, or all, posters personally.

While I'm quite well known for being anti getting into wars now....which as a former neo con goes against my former form....it is really quite something just how scot free the Chinese got away with this whole thing.

In terms of criticism I think they are fully deserving of the blame for this whole event yet they escaped pretty much everything....you couldn't even call the virus the normal naming convention because the woke jokes in place at the institutions wanted to virtue signal.

Of course, some could also say that who funds ends up being who runs.

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

All of the above can be summarised with just 2 letters. BS.

That nurses are disciplined doesn't mean they cannot think, and I haven't encountered one yet, and because of my wife I have met many, who doesn't think they are a sensible precaution.

It is just common sense that restricting a heavy viral load being expelled in a concentrated way is better than not doing so.

Whilst the wearing of simple cloth coverings were more to do with reassurance than impact in the early days, those days are behind us.

I would love to see you debate your approach with not only the nurses but the specialist consultants I know. They would tear you to pieces.

For the avoidance of doubt any comments in response to a previous post are directed to its ideas and not at any, or all, posters personally.

All us "Conspiracy theorists" continue to be proved correct with each passing day.

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“War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.”
"Threats to freedom of speech, writing and action, though often trivial in isolation, are cumulative in their effect and, unless checked, lead to a general disrespect for the rights of the citizen."
Orwell could have been writing about the likes of you.

Edited by georgenorman (06 Mar 2023 9.50am)