Interesting comment from someone who has supposedly only been a member here for less than a month

The mistake we made was not protecting the vulnerable. Many died in care homes before restrictions were imposed. It is quite possible that the virus was spread by care workers who worked in multiple homes (not their fault) moved around by their companies.

That mistake should never be repeated, hospitals also had an appalling record in protecting their patients.

If it ever happens again those are the areas we should focus on and tell everyone else to wear a mask until things calm down.

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That was the irony of covid. We protected those who realistically didn't need protetcion.. for years, and unfortunately the vulnerable were the ones who took the hit and were less protected.

I was going to say the ones we let down, but I think how covid panned out was just the nature of how it would again. It takes time to introduce tests which aren't 100%, and vaccines and by that time, due to the nature of care jobs it's often too late. There are lessons to be learned but it's hard to hermetically seal these places and their often low paid workers.

As we see with China, and especially viewing that experience in retrospect and now from the outside, there as a futility to attemtping to fend off the inevitable.

Edited by footythoughts (11 Dec 2022 11.09am)

Superior? No. Careful to use professional help that is. Yes.

I could send you the documentation but I won’t. It’s long and some very personal.

Foreigners can own property in the Phil, but not the land it stands on. They can though lease the land via an “userfruct” agreement, which was new to me but I was planning to use. However there is also a “dummy” law which makes anything illegal that is deliberately constructed to avoid other laws. A catch all. There is also a corrupt justice system to cope with. So a degree of jeopardy lurks whatever you do.

In the event a “ userfruct” agreement proved unnecessary as I had title on the property but there was an unresolved dispute over who previously owned the land so that had not been transferred. I sold the property back to the developers and left the problem with them.

All legal. No bribery or fraud. Lessons learned though.

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.

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Afraid? No.

Just cautious and mindful of both my own and my wife’s right to privacy!

If you were insisting on personal information that caution would be well justified. I

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.

Why has she shut down her charity? Does anyone know anything about it? Is it well run or one of those that takes a lot of money in and doesn't seem to spend much on those it is supposed to help.

I am not buying the she feels threatened reason.

On a separate note to the wine, I see a pub in London is selling a Harry bitter with his face on the logo apparently it's 3.9% so a weak beer.

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