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<blockquote data-quote="Max68" data-source="post: 2301752" data-attributes="member: 521172"><p>I'm starting to hear this a lot sadly. Same with me, both Union and GP say under their breath that you should be working from home, blah, blah, blah, but then just say they have to go by government guidelines, which of course if anyone reads the news have been flawed to say the least, and that's putting it politely!</p><p></p><p>Part of me wants to write letters to GP, Government and Union etc to be posted retrospectively saying basically "I told you so" but at then end of the day who really cares bar ourselves?! It really seems to be a case now of, (if I can ridiculously quote Spock from Star Trek to add a touch of black humour!) "the needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few, or the one!" Although I picture Boris as a rather unlikeable Romulan or Klingon instead of Captain Kirk rushing to the rescue!</p><p></p><p>What I find baffling is that all this could have been quite easily avoided. With many people not even wanting to be in lockdown and plenty not even believing in this virus why did the government furlough everyone they did? Surely a targeted furlough of the at most risk would have made more sense and those who wanted "everything to be normal" could have carried on if they wished to. Then the government may have got their "herd immunity" without risking the vulnerable and would have have been able to continue furlough for longer. Wouldn't have helped those of us not on furlough mind!!</p><p></p><p>They say you should learn from your mistakes but I'm not seeing anyone learning from the 1918/19 Spanish Flu. Second wave was worse than the first and Boris seems to be approaching winter in the same way that General Custer approached Little Big Horn!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Max68, post: 2301752, member: 521172"] I'm starting to hear this a lot sadly. Same with me, both Union and GP say under their breath that you should be working from home, blah, blah, blah, but then just say they have to go by government guidelines, which of course if anyone reads the news have been flawed to say the least, and that's putting it politely! Part of me wants to write letters to GP, Government and Union etc to be posted retrospectively saying basically "I told you so" but at then end of the day who really cares bar ourselves?! It really seems to be a case now of, (if I can ridiculously quote Spock from Star Trek to add a touch of black humour!) "the needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few, or the one!" Although I picture Boris as a rather unlikeable Romulan or Klingon instead of Captain Kirk rushing to the rescue! What I find baffling is that all this could have been quite easily avoided. With many people not even wanting to be in lockdown and plenty not even believing in this virus why did the government furlough everyone they did? Surely a targeted furlough of the at most risk would have made more sense and those who wanted "everything to be normal" could have carried on if they wished to. Then the government may have got their "herd immunity" without risking the vulnerable and would have have been able to continue furlough for longer. Wouldn't have helped those of us not on furlough mind!! They say you should learn from your mistakes but I'm not seeing anyone learning from the 1918/19 Spanish Flu. Second wave was worse than the first and Boris seems to be approaching winter in the same way that General Custer approached Little Big Horn! [/QUOTE]
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