[jfman]

Originally Posted by OLD BOY

You calling me ridiculous takes the biscuit, jfman.

How many people will fall into poverty and die if the economy collapses?

Hang on there Old Boy, you aren't claiming that Universal Credit isn't enough to live on? Or that DWP benefits pay poverty amounts that impact on human health?

The state has the ability to support people and businesses. People pay in for the best part of 50 years Old Boy and we are looking for the state to support them for a meagre three months. The underlying business models are still there - all we need is something to bridge the gap of a solid lockdown.

Our total death toll, including coronavirus deaths, is the highest for just 20 years, it has been reported. Did we take such measures then?

Given the effort taken to reduce Coronavirus deaths the comparison is completely invalid.

Of course not. Somehow, the world's public has been scared into believing that the end is nigh. I wonder who is to blame for that? Everything these days is sensationalised, which would be amusing if it didn't have such devastating consequences.

We need to get this country running again. The sensationalists have had their fun.

This sums it up in your head - "fun". Nobody is laughing Old Boy, there's absolutely nothing entertaining about tens of thousands dead, tens of thousands of bereaved families, an NHS on the brink of collapse and hundreds of thousands of NHS staff putting their very lives at risk every day to keep everyone safe.

It's a damning indictment of where you are in your head that you can use the word "fun" to describe the actions of those trying their best to prevent it. I suppose you view these people as absolute fodder - front line soldiers to go in to inevitably die while the generals (big business in your eyes) watch and await the outcome.

I thought attitudes like those died out in the 20th Century but evidently not.

Now let's get on with getting people back to work, opening the schools and shops and ensuring that our public services are available again. Keep the infected and the vulnerable isolated by all means, but that is all that is required now.

Let's not Old Boy. Let's rely on medical advice and rather than spreadsheets to inform decision making. Especially is analysis of them is as atrocious as yours.