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Tough crowd...

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/jan/23/minister-faces-fury-over-mass-covid-outbreak-at-top-government-agency

Fuck me. Shows how bleak proximate my filter is at the moment. I’ve lost what intuition and humour I may have once had. It’s depressing that I thought it possible that he was actually projecting his vision of science.

Did you even look up who he is? How do you even know he’s a professor? Or in a relevant subject? Or even a real person?

Turns out he is, and it’s a joke, but there are loads of ‘statistics’ and seemingly informed critical viewpoints being posted from twitter on here and who even are a lot of these people?

[insert important sounding name] absolutely SLAMS Boris over [insert event]

Sorry, who? I urge people to check before posting.

Anyone else think the rush to declare the new variant more deadly was just because Ministers had no answer to the 'why do we have the worst death toll" question last week. Expect to see Patel et al inserting this into standard responses from Monday. "No one could have predicted this new more deadly variant".

I think it worked. I watched the Friday press conference and no one asked about Christmas mixing at all. Is there any reporting on that as the cause?

You’re literally responding to my post acknowledging my oversight / readiness to assume the worst with a bollocking asking me to check my oversight.

My point was that things are so bleak the ‘jokes’ are getting buried.

Don’t worry, think someone might not have had their coffee yet

This is the best bit.

Did you even look up who he is? How do you even know he’s a professor? Or in a relevant subject? Or even a real person?

Turns out he is

Yeah, sorry, didn’t mean it to come across like that. Though I still want people to check what they’re posting from twitter because a lot of it is just trash.

I understand your frustration.

It’s how we end up with Q followers sacking the Capitol.

What’s the likelihood of compliance to covid rules by people who regularly take recreational drugs?

I mean one of my Facebook friends who is non chalant about covid also complains about his regular parking tickets and speeding fines...

I think you’d be surprised how prevalent recreational drugs are in responsible citizens. What substances the government has decided is and is not legal and taxable is not the problem.

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Media were almost demanding it. Xmas is important.

Even a snowman can wear a mask properly.

National lockdown fatigue was strong.
The acceptance of the second lockdown would have been worse had there not been a Christmas, if only one day.

That's nice did you make it yourself? :)

I don't think I'd be surprised at the number, just thinking aloud as to how the breaking of rules/laws for 'little' things translates to other rules that are fairly easy to ignore and break, like self isolation, lockdown rules, gatherings.
I don't expect drug dealing is done in a particularly socially distanced manner? Mostly cash based?

If you're regularly snorting coke in a club bathroom, I'd bet that you'd be less inclined to follow bans of raves and social gatherings.
Though maybe there is a disconnect about your personal health, and social responsibility?

I wonder how true this is. I know plenty of people who enjoy drugs who wouldn't even consider endangering people by going to an eyeball licking piss up at the moment.

All those organic fair trade drug takers 🙄

Love it when LFGSS goes Daily Mail.

Goes?
It pretty much is.

Just need some really long rolled up notes.