20-03-2020, 16:17
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vox populi vox dei
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Re: Coronavirus
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Originally Posted by Hugh
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
Surely we should learn from that, not just repeat it.
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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
This time around exhausted drab and in poor shape is our starting position.
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