tavyred
Very well known Exeweb poster
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Not arf.Yes, fair points.
I would like to say, I’m not blasé about how dangerous the virus can be to some people. Or that the NHS would be under more significant pressure than at other times.
I still to this day don’t know how an ‘overwhelmed’ NHS is defined. Even if the overwhelming of the NHS is the biggest trump card that can be played, it doesn’t necessarily justify lockdowns. What about building more capacity in staffing and facilities to cope with its new needs? Easier said than done obviously, but hopefully you see my point.
Do I think it’s an overreaction? Well, truthfully, I don’t know. In the absence of a portal into another timeline in which we didn’t have lockdowns, none of us do.
It’s more the way in which restrictions are implemented and policed which is the problem to me.
There’s little scientific basis for many of the measures put in place, and it makes me uncomfortable for people to be getting harassed by the police for sitting in a park having a picnic. It’s the bureaucracy and safety theatre, the accusations of being a murderer for meeting up with friends and being part of a community. It’s dehumanising.
Ultimately we’re debating on a League Two football club’s forum. Nothing is changing on behalf of what anyone says on here, but it’s something to do in lockdown, innit.
I’m just as hacked as you are after this year of unparalleled upheaval, and maybe because I am naturally more pro-establishment than most people, I just can’t believe that our Government and their experts have wilfully entered into actions with the express intent to deny us our basic right to mix with each other just for the hell of it if you’re being unkind, or if you’re being just a bit better inclined toward them, because they’re not expert enough or perhaps because they are too risk adverse to listen to the libertarians among us.
The vaccines are giving us the space to be cautious and in a year where the people tasked with guiding us through this have all too often appeared like rabbits caught in the headlights, I’m happy for that caution to be our watchword at the moment.