You could blame mental health issues caused by restrictions. This could be being replicated everywhere restrictions are prolonged.

Red and Blue Army!

I would possibly agree, but this will be retired people who are more than likely shielding anyway. It’s like 30 small bubbles together. And their bubbles do t spread out onto more bubbles and people. Old people are effectively the end of the chain. Otherwise I might agree, although immunity or population spread is happening regardless, either behind the illusion of restrictions or just pure incompetence. It’s down to the rate it happens. They’ve probably mixed with very few people like I said. It’s either risky or living the bit of life they have left. Depends on your viewpoint.

COYP

Yes, or you could even blame the individual for threatening to kidnap someone and slash their throat, but then that's just my take.

BJ,

Why do you continue to label people who feel that the Government response to the CV issue is causing far more damage than CV itself as “deniers” and “conspiracy theorists”?

EE

Excellent. t***ter or a proper link?

Systematically dragged down by the lawmakers

That's incorrect. I label people who claim the government wants to vaccinate us to "chip us" or to "ensure conformity" as conspiracy theorists. And from there inaccuracies branch out to an overly simplified idea that (flu) vaccines are 'useless and harmful' by supplying incomplete information on the topic, and being attacked for posting a far more comprehensive and balances view. My overriding take is that people are perfectly able to have a view on government approach, without adopting an unbelievably slanted take across the board that I can only assume they feel absolves them of any responsibility or impact of their own stance.

Whatever decisions are made are going to be worse than the status quo and so there will be no there's destined to be no shortage of blame. It may well be that the eventual impact of lockdowns and measures causes more damage than harm of the virus itself and I've said absolutely nothing that criticises that take. We can of course factor in that initially we didn't know what we were dealing with, whereas now we know more and have better treatments, and so I have sympathy for the views of cities under measures now. Just as I do those concerned that the situation might get worse (though I did highlight that deaths might be less alarmist metric to get behind, rather than case count, which was likely vastly higher than it is now earlier in the year).

But regardless of what people think of the government approach, it pays to have an outlook of the virus itself, treatments and of individual takes that offer a degree of balance and takes on board information from multiple perspectives rather than adopt a skewed conclusion and spends all day hunting for information that supports it. I'm not the one on here wagging my finger at people who shield if they need to or have a degree of social life if they don't. I'm criticising those who ignore anything that is contrary to their comfort blanket. When you start getting people with X-Files like takes on vaccines, or denying numbers only in ways that's convenient to their outlook while ignoring everything else, and mocking vulnerable people holding out hope for vaccines then yes I'll speak up about those things. Doctored images, disinformation, you gain nothing here when you point it out as I have done, because people prefer the comfort of an untruth they agree with.

Edited by BlueJay (17 Oct 2020 9.16pm)