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Originally Posted by Paul
A year isnt exactly a few minutes. 
I dont see how it would be practical to follow the current "advice" for a year.
Business would collapse, and how would we afford to bail out the owners, the money has to come from taxes, and they are going to take a large hit if people have no jobs anymore etc to pay tax. People will get fed up, then angry, then the riots will start. 
People keep comparing it to the "spirit of the war".
In the war period you still had pubs open, plays, concerts etc, you could still go out. |
But they didn’t go out to where the bombs were dropping, which is the equivalent of going to social gatherings (except this time it wouldn’t be the ones at the bombing sites who were harmed, but those they met afterwards).
Also, there were draconian war-time laws and restrictions on personal liberties, including movement and transportation - often the people (not you) who invoke "the blitz spirit" only remember the working together for a common goal, not the rationing, black-outs, children evacuees, black-market spivs, conscription (on the Home Front, such as the Women’s Land Army, the Bevin Boys), the 60,000 dead and 86,000 seriously injured from the aerial bombing, etc..
To quote from the Imperial War Museum site
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VE Day found Britain exhausted, drab and in poor shape, but justly proud of its unique role in gaining the Allied victory.
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Surely we should learn from that, not just repeat it.