Another Month To Endure.....

[ToraToraTora]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-60482303
Looks like the wee un has decreed that her subjects must face another month of unnecessary restrictions. Is she just being deliberately contrarian?

[Gromit]

Let’s stop testing or treating Cancer.

The result will be:
- less people being diagnosed with it.
- More people getting on with it - until they die
- Industry not being disrupted (by staff dying)

Cancer Feedom Day,
Pretend it is there ignore
Stop people slouching off work because they have died
Get on with it !!!

[royfromaus]

Let’s stop testing or treating Cancer.
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Essentially during the pandemic they did. When you could actually get hold of a GP on the phone he/she would explain away your pancreatic cancer symptoms as something else that would clear up.

[New Judge]

//Let’s stop testing or treating Cancer.//

A ridiculous comparison.

If left undiagnosed cancer will invariably result in a slow and painful death. If left undiagnosed, Covid will invariably not. Cancer only gets worse until the patient needs treatment. The majority of Covid "sufferers" don't even know they have the virus and it leaves them largely untouched. What's happening now is that people who are perfectly well, suffering no symptoms and probably suffering from no disease are routinely testing themselves for a disease that, even if they contract, will almost certainly cause them no problems (provided they are reasonably fit and have been fully vaccinated). In short, Covid is no longer an exceptional threat to the majority of the population and to spend £2bn a month testing people to see if they have it is simply ridiculous..

[Gromit]

NJ
See the post above yours.

[ToraToraTora]

once again gromit demonstrates his lack of grasp on reality or possibly his disappointment that the government has navigated us in through and beyond the worst crisis since WWII. I know you've loved it gromit, I know you want bad things to happen so you can point at how wonderful everywhere else is and how wretched we are are but it's over, we got through the crisis as we always do. So why not rejoice instead of throwing buckets of bile all the time eh?

[ToraToraTora]

Gromit: "NJ
See the post above yours. " - yes the NHS did largely become a one issue organisation to sate the COVID disciples. Now it can get back to doing other stuff, you should be pleased.

[douglas9401]

Christ, make your mind up!

[ToraToraTora]

indeed douggie, gromit does need to make his mind up.

[Gromit]

TTT,
How do you account for Turkey with a similar population, having near half the deaths of the UK, and they didn't spend half a £trillion on PPE (that was shoddy) ?

[douglas9401]

Not gromit, you Tora, don't be coy.

[Gromit]

I have made my mind up.
Boris and his Government have not shaped up during the Corona crisis.
- They were late to react
- They sent tens thousands of old people to their deaths in care homes without PPE.
- They spend £billions on PPE that was not up to spec and had to be thrown away.
- They illegally had a VIP procurement process that gave £million contracts to friends, donors and pub landlords of Conservative MPs.

[ToraToraTora]

who cares? I'm not going to analyse your cherry picked stats. It went differently everywhere, no doubt there'll be a library section of reports and enquiries for the next 50 years on what we all could have done nation by nation all with 20/20 hindsight. The fact is the UK is emerging but the devolved nations are punishing their own people for their chip on their shoulder, that's the point of this post. Why must you always denigrate us?

[ToraToraTora]

23:15 was in reply to 23:09.

[ToraToraTora]

doug: "Christ, make your mind up!" - between what 2 positions?

[New Judge]

//Boris and his Government have not shaped up during the Corona crisis.
- They were late to react...etc.///

I quite agree. Some of the actions (or inactions) taken by the government at the start of the pandemic were shocking. But that isn't what this question is about.

It's two years on and a lot has been learnt. Vaccines and anti-viral drugs have been developed rapidly. The country is now in a position (and in my view has been for some time) where restrictions can be lifted entirely. Covid now presents no big a threat than any other viral respiratory disease. In fact in some respects it is less of a threat because it is quickly diagnosed and specific treatment is readily available. But we don't routinely test people who are perfectly well for those other diseases; we don't insist that people wear ineffective face coverings in a futile effort to control their spread; we don't have laws that confine those with such infections to their homes.

The idea that the spread of Covid can be prevented was always a fairy tale and it continues to be so (as evidenced by the number of daily infections, even now). The continuing measures that the devolved nations now insist on taking are nothing more than an attempt to demonstrate that their virtue and concern for their citizens is greater than that of the UK government.