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Originally Posted by jfman
Red herring. Even Sweden is seeing an economic impact, despite taking no meaningful restrictions for the first 6-9 months.
The idea that there’s a lot of businesses out there that would thrive with people voluntarily shielding, many continuing to work from home for their own safety is mistaken. Businesses are in trouble either way.
Went to two local parks this weekend. One where I grew up had more people in it than I’ve seen in my entire life. The other nearby had about 80 folk it it when I did a quick count. I’m pretty confident anyone spending even half an hour to an hour there would have shared the space with 100 different people.
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Our local mountain rescue were out again yesterday. Not for the first time since the pandemic began, the rescued parties were met by the polis at the foot of the hill and were handed fines for breaching covid rules. I don’t know which is worse, that they thought trying to climb a snow-capped Scottish mountain without the appropriate kit was a clever idea, or that so many months into this they still thought the lockdown rules didn’t apply to them. And no, they weren’t local (nobody local to here would be stupid enough to try to stroll up it in Hi-Tecs and a cagoule in the middle of winter).