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Originally Posted by Mad Max
Have you actually seen the number of mainly younger people out on the streets at the weekend and outside the bars?? Looked pretty busy to me.
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I try and avoid busy drinking areas. But drinking in pubs and bars has been on the decline for a number of years. There's also more competition for younger people's time especially from computer gaming.
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An interesting article from Vince Cable. This is its conclusion.
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Trump understood that there is a trade-off: death rates versus economic (and re-election) damage. The Covid deaths of 200,000 Americans (under 0.1 per cent of the population, mostly poor, older people in states unlikely to vote Republican) were – for him – a price worth paying. However much we may deplore the president’s lack of moral compass, he understands these judgements.
By contrast, I listen with despair as the British prime minister flails around for solutions, constantly changing tack with the choices the country has to face. Equally baffling are opposition spokespeople who act as if policy should be based on the premise that there must never be a single Covid-19 death. That is a recipe for lockdown forever and everywhere. As a “vulnerable” person in my mid-70s I think I would take my chances in Stockholm.
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https://www.independent.co.uk/voices...n-b514103.html